Gallery 6500 seeks children’s art – The Sudbury Star

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April 19, 2020

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Gallery 6500 is seeking children’s pieces of art to be displayed on the Gallery 6500 Virtual Gallery wall.

“During these uncertain times with concerns about COVID 19, children often turn to art to express what’s inside,” the gallery said in a release.

“They may have ideas about what they look forward to, what they miss, what they’ll remember or what they fear.”

With the help of parents or guardians, “children can use art to communicate these feelings,” the gallery said.

It might be helpful, the organization suggests, to ask a child such questions as:

• What does COVID 19 look like?

• What can we do to stay safe?

• What can we do to fight the virus?

• What do you miss about not going to school?

• What will you do when the quarantine is over?

• What do you like doing during this time at home?

Children should be encouraged to use whatever medium they wish to express their feelings: pencil, clay, paint, crayons, mixed-medium, play-dough, etc.

Artists should be between the ages of six and 13. The age and first name only of the artist should be submitted with the piece.

All submissions will be displayed on the Gallery 6500 Wall and on Instagram. Digital images should be sent to Jo-Anne Marshall at jo.mac@eastlink.ca.

Gallery 6500 was launched in 2015 by the Sudbury Arts Council and is located in the local 6500 Steelworkers Hall and Conference Centre at 66 Brady Street.

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40 Random Bits of Trivia About Artists and the Artsy Art That They Articulate – Cracked.com

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John Little, whose paintings showed the raw side of Montreal, dies at 96 – CBC.ca

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A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last

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September 26, 2024

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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.

More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.

The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.

They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.

“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”

It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.

Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”

Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.

“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.

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