Art Battle is a series of fast-paced events where 12 artists go up against each other in two 20-minute battles to paint an 18 x 24” canvas. The two winners from each round then compete one more time in a third round and a winner is declared.
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The second city Art Battle and Fundraiser coming this Sunday
This event will host artists from Richmond Hill, Barrie, Sudbury, and Bear Island to flex their artistic muscle in this action-packed speed-painting event.
“We are using the funds to help grow our youth arts programming at Nick’s Place for Us and to help complete renovations to the center which is housed in the old Gulliver’s storefront on Main Street. We provide a safe inclusive environment to youth ages 13-30 and their families,” said Karrie Emms, Founder of Nick’s Place for Us and Owner of Gateway to the Arts Gallery which have recently amalgamated into one space to allow for program expansion and a greater focus on renovations to the center.
“At the May 21 event Rana Thomas was our winner with two stunning pieces of art. She received a prize of $150 and half of the auction proceeds from her two completed paintings. Rana is phenomenal to watch compete and while she is not competing at this event, we look forward to welcoming some really talented artists with a wide range of styles,” says Emms.
There are a few spaces left for artists at various events and interested artists can apply through the Art Battle website at www.artbattle.com.
“We are looking forward to an amazing event which will support our youth programming and our mission to keep youth engaged in positive activities and interactions,” said Emms.
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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
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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