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October 17th and 18th 2015
Sunday, May 1, 2016
New Website and Blog!
As of May 1, 2016 the Whitchurch-Stouffville Studio Tour blog will be featured on the NEW Studio Tour website: www.WSStudioTour.com
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Thursday, January 28, 2016
2016 Applications are now available!
If you'd like to join the 2016 Whitchurch-Stouffville Studio Tour, now is your chance to apply!
Participants must be 19 years of age or older and deadline for submission is February 15, 2016. A member of the tour will contact you to arrange for a group of jurors to view both your location and your work. More details on page 2 of the application; click the link below!
WSStudioTour2016 Application
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Not to worry
If you have been trying to visit our website this past week you would be getting messages such as "cannot locate"
Not to worry we are not disappearing just updating our website.
We should be up and running with our new look in the next few days.
In the meantime check out Facebook or look at some of our older Blog posts
And we will let you know when our website is available!
Not to worry we are not disappearing just updating our website.
We should be up and running with our new look in the next few days.
In the meantime check out Facebook or look at some of our older Blog posts
And we will let you know when our website is available!
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Remembrance
Art is a valuable resource to study history and historians have long looked to paintings for clues about the past when no photographs were available. Sometimes, photographs aren't enough; when taken by a non-artist, they add a distance that doesn't truly convey the gravity of the event...
Canada's first war art program was was established by Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere under the Canadian War Records Office of the Canadian Army during World War I. Known as the Canadian War Memorials Fund, the program employed more than 60 artists to travel to the battlefields of the Western Front and produce canvases that would document the conflict.
At the end of the war a large portion of the art was exhibited in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, London and New York. With works such as F. H. Varley's For What? it was clear the artists had seen the underside of the war.
Thanks to the precedent of the Canadian War Memorials Fund, Canadian artists were once again pressed into service during World War II. However, the war art program was not officially created until 1943, thanks to the efforts of Vincent Masses and H.O.McCurry the director of the National Gallery of Canada. It was then that the Canadian War Art Program fell under the jurisdiction of the Department of National Defense.
With more than 1,000 works, the art from the Second World War focused less on a scarred landscape and more on the people and machinery involved. Lawren Harris's Tank Convoy demonstrated the power of man-made machinery, and Alex Coville's Tragic Landscape serves to contrast war with nature.
The importance of this art cannot be understated; as noted by the Canadian War Museum "The works of war art are a unique legacy for all Canadians. Not only are the vivid depictions of military events inspired by personal experience, but they are also important elements in our nation's art history. They constitute nothing less than a reflection of our national heritage."
The Canadian War Museum has an online exhibit entitled "Art and War". Today, take time to remember the war artists; the people who risked their lives to document our history.
References
The Canadian Encyclopedia, "War Artists" (Access November 9, 2015)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/war-artists/
Canadian War Museum, "Canada's War Art" (Accessed November 10, 2015)
http://www.warmuseum.ca/education/online-educational-resources/dispatches/canadas-war-art/
Canada's first war art program was was established by Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere under the Canadian War Records Office of the Canadian Army during World War I. Known as the Canadian War Memorials Fund, the program employed more than 60 artists to travel to the battlefields of the Western Front and produce canvases that would document the conflict.
At the end of the war a large portion of the art was exhibited in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, London and New York. With works such as F. H. Varley's For What? it was clear the artists had seen the underside of the war.
Thanks to the precedent of the Canadian War Memorials Fund, Canadian artists were once again pressed into service during World War II. However, the war art program was not officially created until 1943, thanks to the efforts of Vincent Masses and H.O.McCurry the director of the National Gallery of Canada. It was then that the Canadian War Art Program fell under the jurisdiction of the Department of National Defense.
With more than 1,000 works, the art from the Second World War focused less on a scarred landscape and more on the people and machinery involved. Lawren Harris's Tank Convoy demonstrated the power of man-made machinery, and Alex Coville's Tragic Landscape serves to contrast war with nature.
The importance of this art cannot be understated; as noted by the Canadian War Museum "The works of war art are a unique legacy for all Canadians. Not only are the vivid depictions of military events inspired by personal experience, but they are also important elements in our nation's art history. They constitute nothing less than a reflection of our national heritage."
The Canadian War Museum has an online exhibit entitled "Art and War". Today, take time to remember the war artists; the people who risked their lives to document our history.
References
The Canadian Encyclopedia, "War Artists" (Access November 9, 2015)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/war-artists/
Canadian War Museum, "Canada's War Art" (Accessed November 10, 2015)
http://www.warmuseum.ca/education/online-educational-resources/dispatches/canadas-war-art/
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Thank You
The Stouffville Studio Tour artists wish to thank everyone
who came to the Tour this year.
By all accounts it was another fantastic weekend!
We are grateful for your continued support
Please watch out for our artists displaying their work at
The Love of Jo Coffee Shoppe
Downtown Stouffville
a new artist every month
We would also like to thank all of our sponsors
We hope you will support them
Thank you to our local newspapers
The Stouffville Free Press
The Stouffville Review
and
The Stouffville Sun Tribune
They are great!
And of course The Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville
who have really helped us in so many ways to make our Tour the best!
Looking forward to next year
Please keep checking back ... we will be posting all year long
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We had a lot of fun meeting you.
Hope you enjoyed the experience also.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you
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