“Artists can affect planetary survival.”

– Patricia Johanson

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The Islands Institute Gallery showcases work that offers transforming approaches to nature, culture, and community. All artists are invited to contribute to this Social Network, and to enter a dialogue on these ideas.  

Pam Hall is an interdisciplinary artist based in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. She works across, and sometimes in between, the boundaries of medium and discipline, pioneering engaged art practices in diverse arenas.

eARTh: Five artists respond to the beauty of the natural world, the complexities of the human-nature relationship, and the environmental problems we currently face.

This exhibit expresses the ideas and processes in the work of five Vancouver Island artists: Jan Johnson, Dale Roberts, Alicia LaRue, Claudia Lorenz and curator Arlene Nesbitt. Their sculptures and visual arts are created from found material, detritus and garbage.

These artists invite us to dissolve categories, to crack open packages of definition and stereotype, and to see with open minds. With the spark of energy released in the creative act we can regenerate ourselves, each other and the natural world.
     

Public Dreamer: Paula Jardine

 photo of Paula Jardine by Deddeda Stemler

This retrospective show describes the work of one of Canada's foremost community artists. Jardine creates images and events that integrate artists, performers and the public with ritual, celebration and activism.

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