The Vieux Forgeron Art Gallery Summer Season
The Vieux Forgeron Art Gallery, a former blacksmith shop nestled along the banks of the Tomifobia River in Stanstead (240a Dufferin St.) has opened its 2018 Summer Season (June 14 – September 2) with an exhibition of painting ‘Rêveries’ by three Montreal artists – Shirley Katz, Julia C. Pomeroy, and Kathryn Kroo - and photography from the Alaya Foundation which works to rebuild communities devastated by the two recent earthquakes in this Himalayan country. Founder Martine Breuillaud will be screening her documentary film (Saturday June 30, 7 pm at the gallery) ‘Women of the Mountains’ about the role the foundation plays in empowering rural women. By donation, all proceeds go towards the construction of a new community center in the Pokhara Valley. This first exhibition runs from June 14 – July 1.
The program this summer is very diverse: July 5 – 22, Margrethe Ulvik (tapestry weaving and painting), Jean Marc Péladeau (drawing), and Benoit Héguy (mixed media and watercolor) look at ‘Line as Object to Play With’ and the patterns we find around us that reflect our experience in life.
July 26 – August 12 there will be a Sculpture Group Show featuring the work of Jesse Power, George Foster, Jacques Racine, Gladys-hann O’neil, Debbie Everett, Geneviève Gallant, Shirley Berk Simon, and Ingrid Nicolai, as well as an installation by Antonia Mitchell. Watercolor artist Tamlin George will show her botanical sketches.
The Social Justice room will once more be a platform for the voices of refugees in Greece to be heard. ‘Prospect and Echoes of Visions’, the poetry and painting of Fatima and Majed Ebraheem and their children, originally from Syria who are currently settled in Greece, and ‘I Still Have a Glimmer of Hope’, painting and writing by René Jean Amba from Cameroon, will inform us visually and through the power of words of their experiences and struggles, and importance of connection. This exhibition will run from July 26 – September 2.
Finally, our fourth and last exhibition (Paul Carignan, Tom Montgomery, and Jeffrey Packard) focuses on the thriving First Nations communities who lived here before colonization: ‘Twelve Thousand Years of Native Presence’, the Ogden area: ‘Ogden Then and Now’, the stunning contrast of old black and white photographs from the Ogden Historical Society archives and the same scene taken today, and the most recent works by Allyna Harris, ‘Enchanted Forest’, painting on bark and canvas. We hope to see you at the gallery this summer!
Gallery hours: Thurs-sun, 11-6 pm.
Further information and vernissage dates can be found at www.levieuxforgeron.com