Life and art: Two distinct artists explore melting points in Dawson City
Two exhibitions by artists who see life and art as intertwined are currently on display in Dawson City. Eyes, Water, Fire presents Tomoyo Ihaya’s work at the ODD Gallery, while Tamika Knutson’s Boreal Reverie: Coming Home is up at the Yukon School of Visual Art (SOVA).
A new stretch for Dawson yogis
Meg Walker Special to the News Fitness options in Dawson City have long included yoga classes, but as of this month, the town has its first yoga-dedicated space.
Message from a forest
On a walk on her parents' farmland in rural Ontario, Guelph artist Annie Dunning came across a log that had been thoroughly pecked by a yellow-bellied sapsucker.
Finding the loners before they break
Toronto writer Emily Pohl-Weary is this summer's Pierre Berton writer-in-residence, and in that role she joined a panel discussion about the future of books, held at the Dawson City Print and Publishing Symposium in August.
Navigating the idea of northernness
Whitehorse artist Joyce Majiski spent 14 years as a wilderness guide, so she's skilled at helping people know where they are and where they are headed.
Painting wasted dreams
Strange fascinations can lead to evocative art works. Andrea Kastner’s painting exhibition The Waste Land, currently showing at the ODD Gallery in Dawson City, is a strong example of how powerful work can emerge.
Video artist melts Klondike horizons
The video installation the space between here and there (the yukon river) is the work of an artist hungry for the outdoors after 10 productive years of making short film and video work in Toronto.
Dawson’s art students put imaginations on display
Each spring, the graduation show by the Yukon School of Visual Arts students offers an intriguing sampling of how imaginations have been stirred up at the corner of Queen and Third in Dawson City for the past eight months.
Shaping icons for private selves
Stones made of paper, baby clothes sewn from vintage curtains, and roses cast in porcelain are some of the surprising moments in the three solo shows at the Yukon Arts Centre.
Taking the ‘Highway of Tears’ to the stage
Hearing Ojibwe spoken, loving aboriginal dance culture and knowing what a friendship centre is - these are some advantages Keith Barker counts as benefits to growing up in a small Northern Ontario town.
T.J. Dawe brings mind bending Medicine
"I always thought that hallucinogens would either reveal powerful things about me, or that I would lose my mind completely," says T.J. Dawe in a conversation about Medicine, his upcoming theatre show.
Two Piano Tornado sets toes tapping
There'll be no sitting still when Annie Avery and Grant Simpson bring their two pianos into three venues this week to launch their long-awaited CD Two Piano Tornado.
Artists away from the noise
Artists, like everyone else, work better when they're well-fed. So say Jane Isakson and Jennifer Walden, two painters with solo exhibitions at the Yukon Arts Centre.
