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Ian Johnson: Refuse Culture
Refuse Culture: Archaeology of Consumption uses multiple installations, and installations of multiples, to consider the remnants and debris of human activity littering the planet’s surface. Each installation revolves around an object, or fragment of an object, taken from daily life. Cell phones, plastic bags, car bumper covers, compact fluorescent light bulbs; these everyday objects are seldom disposed of with the same degree of order, reverence or celebration with which they were created and acquired. By collecting these objects together, the works amplify a contemporary narrative of consumption. Cast in porcelain, the objects mimic the archaeological evidence left to us from preceding generations and ask the viewer to question how the future might interpret our culture through these collections of fragments
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Kootenay School of Arts at Selkirk College Graduation Exhibition
This exhibit features the work of graduating students from the Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College. Student work from each of the four studios: Clay, Fibre, Jewellery & Small Object Design and Metal will be displayed. KSA’s programs place emphasis on the skills necessary to become a successful and professional arts practitioner. Hands-on studio work combined with the study of design, drawing, history, and professional practices leads to an in-depth understanding and refined ability to apply the essential elements for success in the industry
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Stanley Triggs: Changes Upstream
Stanley G. Triggs: Changes Upstream: Before and after the Libby Dam, 1969-72, is an exhibition of selected black and white photographs from the Shawn Lamb Archives by Nelson-born photographer Stanley G. Triggs. Stanely is a retired Curator of the McCord Museum of Photography at McGill University. The exhibition documents the dramatic changes in the East Kootenay communities spread along the Kootenay River just north of the International Border between 1969 and 1972.
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Arthur Lakes: Geologist, Artist, Minister and Teacher
From the permanent collection of Touchstones Nelson comes an exhibit of watercolour paintings by the multi-talented Arthur Lakes (1844-1917), a notable geologist, artist, writer, teacher and minister. Originally from England, he moved to the West Kootenays in 1912 from Colorado to be with his two sons who were working as mining engineers. Lakes produced a number of paintings during this time, depicting some of what he saw in and around the mines and countryside.
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Snow and Ice
In celebration of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, Snow and Ice: History of Winter Sports in Nelson will highlight notable Nelson sports figures both past and present. The exhibit feature sports artifacts from the permanent collection plus other items on special loan, including Nancy Greene’ s Olympic coat, an Everest Base Camp display from Tim Rippel, snowboarding footage and snowboard from legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly. A playful look at Olympic Mascots will be an interactive display in the exhibition, where viewers can try their luck at matching the mascot with its respective country. Touchstones Nelson will also be serving as a “live site” during this time, providing a public venue where visitors can watch the Olympic coverage. Join us on Torch Relay Day in Nelson to celebrate the opening of Snow and Ice: A History of Winter Sports in Nelson.
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In Our Community
Set to coincide with the Nelson and District Credit Union’s 60th anniversary in 2010, this exhibit will feature photos taken by well known local photographer Fred Rosenberg, originally commissioned by the Credit Union and subsequently donated to our collection by the artist. Included in the adjacent display space will also be a selection of diverse and at times humorous artifacts from the Credit Union’s past, as well as interesting information about their history in the community.
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25 Years at the Nelson Museum with Shawn Lamb
This exhibition in Gallery B celebrates and gives thanks to Shawn Lamb’s exceptional work for the Society. Set to coincide with Her retirement as Touchstones Nelson Archivists and Collections Manager this coming January, this exhibition is a selection of photographs, paintings and artifacts from the permanent collection chosen by Shawn to illustrate some of the stories and highlights of Shawn ‘s memories from the past 25 years
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Natasha Smith: Joining Worlds
How fashionable it is to be journeying down the infamous rabbit hole of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland only to be caught between neither this realm nor that, but in the imaginal zone where visual language takes the literal for a spin. It is to this imaginal zone that artist Natasha Smith is leading us with her installation, Joining Worlds. Smith, fascinated with her son’s drawings, perceived them as runes or symbols from a hidden language and in this exhibit has used these markings to create a series of relief panels from which to create multiple images. The runes then became a catalyst for the development of a series of collaged drawings on doors that make up the focal point of the exhibition. In Joining Worlds, Smith seeks to find a meeting place from which the secret world of her son can be accessed and amplified.
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Rachel Yoder: Consanguinity
Consanguinity, Rachel Yoder’s newest body of work is a visual embodiment of the painter’s thinking and experience with regard to her artistic practice. The artist’s journey in creating the composite paintings of Consanguinity has been a reductive one, consisting largely of sorting through the multiple formal elements that are the vocabulary of a painter in order to coalesce the elements essential to fashioning a unique visual language of her own. In creating Consanguinity Yoder has set limitations for herself such as the size of the canvas, the choice of colours used and the grid like structure of the imagery, limitations much like those that might structure a form of union such as a marriage. It is within these agreed upon limitations that the artist has found a freedom to ponder the subtle and dynamic nuances of consanguinity or relatedness.
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ROW
ROW: Reflections on Water is a thematic exhibition juxtaposing artifacts from the Touchstones Nelson permanent collection with works of art from contemporary artists in the region. Through a variety of media, ROW creates narratives that investigate the symbolic, mythic and conceptual metaphors we associate with water.
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