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Art gala springs back to St. Mary's College – Sault Star

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Sammi Dechamplain is going big when St. Mary’s College brings back its in-person art gala on Tuesday.

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The Grade 12 student found the biggest canvas she could for a painting based on a sunset she took at her camp north of Sault Ste. Marie.

I had fallen in love with this picture,” said Dechamplain during a recent interview with The Sault Star. She wanted to do something with her photo for years. The “perfect opportunity” came up to paint what she saw at Quintet Lakes.

I’m going all out,” recalled Dechamplain. “I just went to town.”

She was part of the last live gala at St. Mary’s when she was in Grade 9 in 2019. Dechamplain, 17, is looking forward to reactions of attendees when the gala runs in the school’s commons and theatre next week.

That’s how you grow as an artist,” she said. “That’s how you celebrate being an artist is just sharing your work with other people.”

Dechamplain is one of an estimated 120 students who’ll be featured at the gala. Admission is $10. Proceeds benefit Tumaini Afrika.

Art needs an audience,” said Adriano DiCerbo, lead teacher of the arts. “The life cycle in artwork isn’t complete unless it has an audience. We need to share the work.”

About 50 visual arts students will be featuring their drawings, paintings, photos, multi-media works, digital creations, found objects and printmaking from the 2021-2022 school year.

Gala visitors will be hearing lots from Mahaz Syed.

He’ll front a rock band for a performance of Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters, drawn from the American group’s self-titled fifth album released in 1992.

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I feel like it’s more soft rock,” said Syed of his chosen song. “It’s not very hard metal. It’s a slower tune.”

The Grade 12 student will be accompanied by music teacher Kait Tappenden for his mashup of Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and Michael Buble’s Sway.

Syed will also appear for a pair of songs with SMC Singers.

A veteran of SMC Spotlight’s production of We Will Rock You in 2019, Syed is keen to get back in front of an audience.

Super thrilled and excited about it,” he said.

Sydney Czop is captain of the high school’s 20-member dance team. Members are drawn from all grades. They’ll do performances featuring jazz, lyrical, contemporary and hip hop dance. Routines, practised since the school year’s start, will be spread out during the evening.

Czop, a Grade 12 student, says team members have plenty to highlight during their performances.

All the hard work that these girls have done throughout the year and their perseverance throughout COVID, just how great the team is and how much they love their dance,” she said.

Not having a regular gala that drew audiences to the Second Line East secondary school was “definitely hard” on team members, Czop adds.

These girls have persevered and worked hard and they’re looking forward to showing the school and the community what we have done this year,” she said.

Olivia Bernard is working with Sophie Bernardo, Amelia DiCerbo and Nicholas Legacy to create the gala’s pamphlet to share with guests. The leaflet will highlight the different arts programs offered at St. Mary’s and more samples of student works.

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I thought it would be a really great experience,” said Bernard of her decision to get involved. The Grade 12 student is developing an interest in photography based on classes she’s taken during the last two years.

Creating a story with my photos would be the best part about photography for me,” said Bernard.

Samantha Lance graduated from St. Mary’s in 2017, but keeps helping organize the gala. She is a 2021 graduate of Ontario College of Art & Design University. Lance begins her master’s degree in curatorial studies at University of Toronto this fall. She will again help organize art shown at this year’s gala.

I’m already impressed with the work,” said Lance. “It’ll be really interesting to see what the public has to say about them, as well.”

She appreciates the opportunity to stage student art in the school’s commons area.

It’s just such a nice space to work with because there is so much room,” said Lance. “So much opportunity to display the artworks in just a different way.”

She is also evaluating work submitted from students in Grades 6 to 8 from Algoma District. Top three efforts will be featured at the gala and awarded cash prizes of $100, $75 and $50.

They get to see and feel the audience’s reaction and I think that’s important,” said DiCerbo of St. Mary’s students participating in the art gala. “It’s a celebration of what they’ve achieved. That’s a beautiful part of the arts festival, as well, to stop and celebrate and acknowledge what the kids have created.”

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Anyone interested in buying student artwork can speak with DiCerbo at the gala. The night’s theme is Spring Back.

To spring forward to something back,” said DiCerbo.

I think everyone needs it,” said Lance of the gala. “Especially with COVID that had been going on, this is a nice kind of spring back.”

June 10

Trace Adkins with Terri Clark at Kewadin Casino in St. Ignace, Mich. Tickets on sale at tickets.kewadin.com.

June 10-12

Sault Theatre Workshop presents One-Act Festival at Studio Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Plays on June 10 (Two Actresses, The Beggar and the King, Stone’s Throw From the Heart) and June 11 (In One Door! Out the Other!, Bruised Orange, Without Whom). $30 one night, $40 two nights, $45 participant’s pass. Call Harry or Sandra Houston at 705-946-4081.

June 11-12

Studio Dance Arts Live at Sault Community Theatre Centre. Recreational and competitive at 1 p.m. And 4 p.m. Competitive showcase at 7 p.m. Tickets on sale at Community Theatre Box Office or online at www.saultctc.ca

June 18

Fresh Breath at Whisky Barrel;

Basset at Algoma Conservatory of Music’s The Loft. 7 p.m. $25. Tickets on sale at www.algomaconservatory.com;

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony at Kewadin Casino in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 8 p.m. Tickets $25, $35, $45 on sale at tickets.kewadin.com

June 23

Algoma Conservatory of Music student recital at The Loft. 7 p.m. $10. Tickets on sale at www.algomaconservatory.com;

Stories Steeped in Stone presents Tracie Louttit (Spiritual Armour), Theresa Binda (Heartbeat of the Land) and Kristin DeAmorim (Current) at Ermatinger-Clergue National Historic Site. 6:30 p.m. $25. Tickets on sale at venue.

June 25

Darrin Rose’s Drinking in Public at Sault Community Theatre Centre. 8 p.m. Tickets on sale at Community Theatre Box Office or online at www.saultctc.ca

Submit listings to btkelly@postmedia.com by Wednesday noon.

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Art and Ephemera Once Owned by Pioneering Artist Mary Beth Edelson Discarded on the Street in SoHo – artnet News

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This afternoon in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, people walking along Mercer Street were surprised to find a trove of materials that once belonged to the late feminist artist Mary Beth Edelson, all free for the taking.

Outside of Edelson’s old studio at 110 Mercer Street, drawings, prints, and cut-out figures were sitting in cardboard boxes alongside posters from her exhibitions, monographs, and other ephemera. One box included cards that the artist’s children had given her for birthdays and mother’s days. Passersby competed with trash collectors who were loading the items into bags and throwing them into a U-Haul. 

“It’s her last show,” joked her son, Nick Edelson, who had arranged for the junk guys to come and pick up what was on the street. He has been living in her former studio since the artist died in 2021 at the age of 88.

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Naturally, neighbors speculated that he was clearing out his mother’s belongings in order to sell her old loft. “As you can see, we’re just clearing the basement” is all he would say.

Cardboard boxes in the street filled with an artist's book.

Photo by Annie Armstrong.

Some in the crowd criticized the disposal of the material. Alessandra Pohlmann, an artist who works next door at the Judd Foundation, pulled out a drawing from the scraps that she plans to frame. “It’s deeply disrespectful,” she said. “This should not be happening.” A colleague from the foundation who was rifling through a nearby pile said, “We have to save them. If I had more space, I’d take more.” 

Edelson’s estate, which is controlled by her son and represented by New York’s David Lewis Gallery, holds a significant portion of her artwork. “I’m shocked and surprised by the sudden discovery,” Lewis said over the phone. “The gallery has, of course, taken great care to preserve and champion Mary Beth’s legacy for nearly a decade now. We immediately sent a team up there to try to locate the work, but it was gone.”

Sources close to the family said that other artwork remains in storage. Museums such as the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Whitney currently hold her work in their private collections. New York University’s Fales Library has her papers.

Edelson rose to prominence in the 1970s as one of the early voices in the feminist art movement. She is most known for her collaged works, which reimagine famed tableaux to narrate women’s history. For instance, her piece Some Living American Women Artists (1972) appropriates Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper (1494–98) to include the faces of Faith Ringgold, Agnes Martin, Yoko Ono, and Alice Neel, and others as the apostles; Georgia O’Keeffe’s face covers that of Jesus.

Someone on the streets holds paper cut-outs of women.

A lucky passerby collecting a couple of figurative cut-outs by Mary Beth Edelson. Photo by Annie Armstrong.

In all, it took about 45 minutes for the pioneering artist’s material to be removed by the trash collectors and those lucky enough to hear about what was happening.

Dealer Jordan Barse, who runs Theta Gallery, biked by and took a poster from Edelson’s 1977 show at A.I.R. gallery, “Memorials to the 9,000,000 Women Burned as Witches in the Christian Era.” Artist Keely Angel picked up handwritten notes, and said, “They smell like mouse poop. I’m glad someone got these before they did,” gesturing to the men pushing papers into trash bags.

A neighbor told one person who picked up some cut-out pieces, “Those could be worth a fortune. Don’t put it on eBay! Look into her work, and you’ll be into it.”

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