04-21-2010 05:57 AM
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Rotunda Gallery
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Located on the ground floor of Kitchener City Hall, the Rotunda Gallery features monthly exhibits of the work of regional artists.
The Rotunda Gallery is an open-concept space welcoming visitors seven days a week.
The gallery's hanging wall has a 48' picture rail and 48" of vertical hanging space.
The city advertises an annual call for month-long exhibition opportunities in the gallery.
A jury of arts professionals selects the successful proposals.
2011 Rotunda Gallery artists
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Located on the ground floor of Kitchener City Hall, the Rotunda Gallery features monthly exhibits of the work of regional artists.
The Rotunda Gallery is an open-concept space welcoming visitors seven days a week.
The gallery's hanging wall has a 48' picture rail and 48" of vertical hanging space.
The city advertises an annual call for month-long exhibition opportunities in the gallery.
A jury of arts professionals selects the successful proposals.
2011 Rotunda Gallery artists
| January - Stephanie Vegh | |
| February - Collette Broeders | |
| March - Craig Musselman | |
| April - Shannon Kennedy | |
| May - Kitchener Waterloo Collegiate | |
| June - Irma Osadsa | |
| July - Mark Neufeld | |
| August - Ilia Horsburgh | |
| September - CAFKA | |
| October - Stephen Lavigne | |
| November - Matt Schust | |
| December - Sean Puckett, Artist in Residence |
04-21-2010 11:58 AM
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07-16-2010 03:07 PM
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 | http://www.kitchener.ca/news/MediaDetail.asp?tid=19500
KITCHENER - Contemporary visual artists are invited to submit applications to be considered for the Rotunda Gallery's monthly exhibits for 2011.
Applications must be received by Thursday, Sept. 16 at 4 p.m.
''Since 1996, the work of more than 150 professional artists has been displayed on a monthly basis in the Rotunda Gallery at city hall. The gallery is a special area on the ground floor where the visual arts have a home,'' says Cheryl York, arts and culture co-ordinator for the City of Kitchener. ''Our exhibits never fail to generate discussion and enjoyment.''
The 2011 Call for Entry is now available online with all the application details.
The exhibition program at the Rotunda Gallery supports professional contemporary practice in the visual arts. To promote the local development of visual arts, artists from Waterloo region are given preference.
Selected by a jury of visual arts professionals, applications are reviewed for:
- Quality of past artistic work
- Professional credentials
- Exhibit proposal
Please visit http://www.kitchener.ca/visiting_kit...xhibition.html for details and submission requirements.
09-22-2010 08:56 PM
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September 22, 2010 | http://www.kitchener.ca/en/newslist/...qyZgeQuAleQuAl
 | KITCHENER – Brian Douglas moved to Kitchener-Waterloo and immediately found himself inspired by the old factories and warehouses that shape the downtown Kitchener landscape. Douglas, a photographer, says his exhibit, Forlorn Factories: Found beauty in Kitchener’s industrial landscapes, gives new life to stories of the past and captures the imaginations of viewers. The exhibit opens at the Rotunda Gallery Oct. 1. “So often we walk by old structures or worn down buildings without taking a second glance to absorb their true, honest beauty or to consider the impact they had on the people around them,” he says, adding the collection is connected directly to Kitchener-Waterloo and its ever-growing, ever-shifting landscapes. “It is my hope that these images will inspire the community to see the area in which they live in a new light and can allow those visiting Kitchener-Waterloo to see its raw, yet beautiful surroundings.” Douglas notes some of the buildings appear to sit vacant with stories of productivity long since past, but others have been or are in the process of being revived with new life. “Through the crumbling charm of their exteriors to a scattered assortment of items found around their parameters, I have set out to capture the stories these buildings hold,” he says. An amateur photographer and artist who thrives on finding new, creative forms of visual expression, Douglas’s photographs depict nature and still life in their most raw and honest forms, finding beauty in harsh surroundings, and tranquility in the everyday. Forlorn Factories is an ongoing project for Douglas. To see more from this collection, visit www.bdouglasphotography.com |
09-23-2010 09:03 AM
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10-21-2010 10:24 AM
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October 19, 2010 | Link
 | KITCHENER – A series of paintings on paper that invoke northern landscapes is the subject of the November exhibit at the Rotunda Gallery, featuring Toronto artist Snaige Sileika. The exhibit, called North Shore, reduces the lines of terrain and horizon into essential, almost abstract, gestures, allowing movement and pattern to emerge. “I work in a manner where many of the finished paintings include the initial line-drawings, as recorded in my sketchbook. They show the source of my paintings and are as important to the work as the coloured brushstrokes,” says Sileika. “The northern horizon is my subject matter but revealing my artistic process and the uninterrupted gesture of my hand are part of the final presentation.” Sileika’s approach to painting is strongly influenced by her initial career as a printmaker. Like state proofs in printmaking, this series includes black-and-white under-paintings, Sileika says. The term describes the monochromatic paintings that reveal the visual framework of her landscapes, allowing the viewer to see a different view of the same landscape -- a highly distilled composition of sky and land. Sileika studied at the University of Toronto and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Sileika has had solo exhibitions in Canada, France and Lithuania. In 2003, Michael Glassbourg chose Sileika to be the subject of his documentary, An Artist’s Life, which aired on Bravo! TV. |
11-29-2010 07:32 AM
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November 25, 2010 | Link
 | A year’s worth of work by the City of Kitchener’s artist-in-residence, Stefan Rose, will be on exhibit at the Rotunda Gallery at Kitchener City Hall for the month of December. The exhibition, called Grand River: Grand Conversations, examines Kitchener’s geography and history, residents’ sense of place, and the environment using photographs and poems. Throughout his residency, Rose exhibited his work on Grand River Transit buses, and ran public workshops on photography. Rose will host a public reception on Thursday, December 9 from 5-7 p.m. A Waterloo artist and poet, Rose is interested in creative and documentary art forms, using photography, videography, and poetry. He uses a large-format banquet camera, among others, for his creative work. Born in Leeds, England, he immigrated to Canada in 1977. He has exhibited his photographs in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and has collaborated with other artists across many media. Rose’s collaborative works include Townsend Retraced, 2004 (with Laura Cunningham and Hilary Martin); Death by Chocolate, 2008 (with photographer Andrew Wright), and several video works commissioned by the Penderecki String Quartet, to accompany their performances across Canada and internationally. In 2008 his poetry chapbook, The House That Stands, was published by Anchorage Press, and was awarded first place in the poetry category of the 2008 Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (designer: Andrew Steeves); earlier this year it represented Canada in competition at the World Book Design Awards in Leipzig, Germany. The artist-in-residence for 2011 is Sean Puckett, a Kitchener photographer. Where: City of Kitchener Rotunda Gallery, city hall Artist: Stefan Rose Name of exhibition: Grand River: Grand Conversations Artist’s reception: Thursday, Dec. 9, 5-7 p.m. |
12-21-2010 04:17 PM
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Stephanie Vegh presents Age of Enlightenment
Exhibit begins January 3, 2011
Artist's reception: Thursday, January 6, 5-7pm
12-24-2010 09:26 AM
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Bees invade City Hall
December 24, 2010
December 24, 2010
City Hall is a mere week and a half from an invasion of Bees.
Have no fear though; these are not real bees, but drawings of them. The bees take centre stage in Stephanie Vegh’s exhibit “Age of Enlightenment” which takes center stage at the Rotunda Gallery for the month of January.
Vegh’s drawings build relationships between the Age of Enlightenment when science grew to be the basis of truth and knowledge about the world.
“These drawings insert worker drones – usually associated with craft and knowledge – into illustrations of the 18th century Age of Enlightenment, drawing attention to our struggle today to explain the disappearance of the bees,” says Vegh.
The larger than life bees appear using watercolour pencil on paper, the series of drawings is inspired by the alarming decline of honey bees in our ecosystem, she says.
Vegh is a graduate of McMaster University. She continued her studies at the Glasgow School of Art followed by an appearance at the Repton School in Derbyshire, England where she served as artist-in-residence. She currently lives in Hamilton where she maintains a studio.
The exhibit will be held in the Rotunda Gallery in City Hall for the month of January. An artist’s reception will be held January 6, 5-7 p.m.
01-25-2011 10:37 AM
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Collette Broeders presents Maps of Obsession
Exhibit begins February 1, 2011
Artist's reception: Thursday, Feb. 3, 5-7 p.m.
01-31-2011 09:15 AM
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Maps of Obsession opens in Rotunda
January 31, 2011
January 31, 2011
Collette Broeders will be the newest artist to have their word displayed in Kitchener City Hall’s Rotunda Gallery. Her exhibit, Maps of Obsession, which includes 15 pieces, opens February 1.
Maps of Obsession uses a combination of lines, patterns and colours, to convey a sense of real or imaginary space. Broeders will then eventually arrange individual pieces in a grid pattern giving them a much bigger context.
“In many respects, it is the repetition involved in the creative process itself that motivates my work,” says Broeders. “The very acts of doing, experiencing and producing evoke a ritual consciousness.”
Broeders is a resident of LaSalle, just outside of Windsor. She worked in accounting and database development for several years before completing a BA of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at University of Windsor in 2004.
04-21-2010 05:57 AM
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - http://www.kitchener.ca/news/MediaDetail.asp?tid=18876
KITCHENER - The relationship between Kitchener and Waterloo is highlighted in the Rotunda Gallery's annual student show, an event underlining the importance and celebration of Youth Week May 1-7.
For this year's show, students at Waterloo Collegiate Institute have created a series of 50 sequential images. The gallery becomes a space where visitors experience the artwork differently depending on their entry point into the gallery. The exhibit is entitled ''Coming and Going.''
Two Grade 11 art classes at WCI created two large-scale, deconstructed zoetropes, each 25 images in length. A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.
''Kitchener and Waterloo have such distinct yet enmeshed identities. Our ambiguous borders and shared streets often make it difficult to tell which city one is in,'' says WCI art teacher, Kyle Bishop. ''At other times, the cities have profoundly different identities and cultures. The overlaps, tensions, and harmonies between the cities act as a core metaphor in this project.''
Centred around a sign at the border between Kitchener and Waterloo, the piece is comprised of two sequences: one entering Kitchener (or leaving Waterloo), and one entering Waterloo (or leaving Kitchener).
Staged as a moving landscape, students considered the relationship between the cities, and the ways in which their own identities correlate home and place, Bishop says.
Personal experiences and histories are filled in both by the students and the viewers.
The meet-the-artist reception is scheduled to coordinate with the KYAC awards celebrating the contribution of youth to the community, in the Rotunda on May 6.
Where: City of Kitchener Rotunda Gallery, city hall
Artist: Grade 11 students from Waterloo Collegiate Institute
Name of exhibition: Coming and Going
Artist's reception: Thursday, May 6, 5-7 p.m.
02-28-2011 09:35 AM
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 | Household objects and parts, carefully manipulated, twisted, and transformed, become the artwork of Craig Musselman, whose Adventures in Photoshop: The Art of Craig Musselman is featured at the Rotunda Gallery at Kitchener City Hall for the month of March. Few of the objects started life as what they become in the images in the exhibit, Mussleman says, adding the exhibit is about fascination. “Humans are curious creatures. Our world, even in all its mundane monotony, is sometimes made magnificent through the perception of the mind,” he says. “In most of the images you can begin to play a game of I Spy. If you find the “PINBALL!” picture, you will soon find that no actual pinball machine was involved at all.” Indeed, the picture is constructed from a bathtub drain, a paperclip, Christmas lights and ornaments, a carriage clock, a camping plate, a hot chocolate can lid, plastic hangars, a fabric softener lid, bowls, wires, and even a lasagna pan...among other things. Musselman has training in web design and development, and digital imaging. He is an Adobe Photoshop instructor at The Button Factory in Waterloo, instructing introductory classes in the program. He also compiled the book, Talent Next Door, a collection of art by 150 artists in Kitchener-Waterloo. Where: City of Kitchener Rotunda Gallery, city hall Artist: Craig Musselman Name of exhibition: Adventures in Photoshop: The Art of Craig Musselman Artist’s reception: Thursday, March 3, 6-8 p.m. |
03-01-2011 10:33 AM
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