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KIDS: Snail Mail Art Kits
Dec
13

KIDS: Snail Mail Art Kits

Griffin Art Projects is inviting you to make some snail mail to brighten someone’s day. Here’s how it works: Our hands-on creative Snail Mail kits will be available for pickup at the gallery every Saturday from 12 – 5pm from October 3rd to December 13, 2020.

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Garry Neill Kennedy EIGHTEEN DRAWINGS Virtual Book Launch
Dec
13

Garry Neill Kennedy EIGHTEEN DRAWINGS Virtual Book Launch

Eighteen Drawings is the latest release from micro-publisher As We Try & Sleep Press, edited by Kegan McFadden.

This new artist book of recent drawings by Garry Neill Kennedy is published in a limited edition to celebrate the artist’s 85th birthday. The book reproduces both sides of these drawings in full scale, capturing the movement and gusto with which they are created.

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Open Studio with Kelly Lycan
Nov
29

Open Studio with Kelly Lycan

Join Griffin’s current artist-in-residence, Kelly Lycan, for an artist talk live over zoom to learn more about what she has been up to throughout her time at Griffin Art Projects!

Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist who resides in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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Remembering Harbin Gate with aiya哎呀
Nov
8

Remembering Harbin Gate with aiya哎呀

Edmonton’s 中華門 Harbin Gate was dismantled for LRT construction on November 4, 2017. In response, aiya哎呀, an intergenerational group of Edmonton-based artists and Chinatown community members, invited contributors to share their memories of Edmonton’s Harbin Gate by expressing their thoughts in the form of an art calligraphy banner.

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Posters: November 1965-April 1986, Lawrence Weiner book viewing with Cathy Busby
Nov
5

Posters: November 1965-April 1986, Lawrence Weiner book viewing with Cathy Busby

Join Canadian artist Cathy Busby in the Vancouver home she shares with Garry Neill Kennedy for an intimate look at the hand-drawn artist proof for Lawrence Weiner’s book Posters: November 1965-April 1986, published by NSCAD Press in 1986. Busby was involved in collecting the posters for this book, as the then director of the Anna Leonowens Gallery.

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Live with Martha Wilson
Oct
25

Live with Martha Wilson

Join New York based artist and gallery director Martha Wilson for a live virtual Zoom talk presented in conjunction with Griffin’s upcoming exhibition Now Bulletin: Artworks, Letters and Printed Matter from the Garry Neill Kennedy Collection 1968 - 2019. Wilson will talk about her experiences as a young artist in Halifax in the 1970’s where she become involved with the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design’s revolutionary arts community, spearheaded by college president Garry Neil Kennedy, who was, at the time, in the midst of transforming the institution into a forerunner of art education.

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MOVING THINGS THERE TO HERE Virtual panel
Oct
18

MOVING THINGS THERE TO HERE Virtual panel

A number of students who studied at a small art college in Halifax went on to become teachers and professors at a number of Fine Art Faculties in Universities across Canada. Five artists living in the lower mainland will recall and talk about what they learned from their experience at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) and how their time there influenced their teaching pedagogy and the impact that this may have had on subsequent generations of students and artists.

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Open Studio with Lindsay McIntyre (Online)
Aug
29

Open Studio with Lindsay McIntyre (Online)

Lindsay McIntyre is a film artist with an MFA in Film Production from Concordia and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Alberta. She applies her interest in analogue technologies, film chemistry and structure to make award-winning short 16mm films and expanded cinema performances.

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Open Studio with Taryn Sheppard (Online)
Aug
22

Open Studio with Taryn Sheppard (Online)

Taryn Sheppard is a Vancouver-based artist and architect. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto (Master in Architecture, ‘10) and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (Bachelor of Fine Arts, ‘05). She is a co-founder of Woodford Sheppard Architecture based in her home province of Newfoundland & Labrador, who have completed numerous award winning projects in the coastal Atlantic region and have been published in international magazines including Dezeen and The Globe and Mail Arts.

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Open Studio with Karen Tam
Mar
28

Open Studio with Karen Tam

Join artist Karen Tam in the studio to see what she’s been up to while in residence at Griffin Art Projects.

Karen Tam is a Montreal-based artist whose research focuses on the various forms of constructions and imaginations of cultures and communities, through her installation work in which she recreates spaces of Chinese restaurants, karaoke lounges, opium dens, curio shops and other sites of cultural encounters.

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Karen Tam’s Moveable Feast: A Tasting Tour of North Vancouver’s Most Interesting Chinese Restaurants
Mar
21

Karen Tam’s Moveable Feast: A Tasting Tour of North Vancouver’s Most Interesting Chinese Restaurants

Determined to implement a solution that continues to offer support to Chinese Restaurants in North Vancouver, while also helping those who are facing self-isolation, Griffin Art Project’s has developed a creative response to the situation at hand. We’ll be using our modest event budget to offer a limited number of complementary take-away meals delivered by a local Chinese Restaurant, to individuals in North Vancouver who are feeling particularly challenged by the current situation

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Dr. Peter’s Legacy: film screening and conversation
Mar
14

Dr. Peter’s Legacy: film screening and conversation

Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking afternoon in the gallery as we explore the exhibition’s main themes of activism, care, and HIV / AIDS through the lens of public health. Griffin is pleased to partner with the Dr.Peter AIDS Foundation for a screening of “The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter”.

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Censorship, Sexuality and Resilience: Revisiting Paul Wong’s “Confused Sexual Views”
Mar
7

Censorship, Sexuality and Resilience: Revisiting Paul Wong’s “Confused Sexual Views”

Building on the main themes of sexuality, self-organization and activism presented in Griffin’s current exhibition, Vancouver based artist Paul Wong will revisit the controversy surrounding his 1984 project tiled “Confused: Sexual Views” which was banned by the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the ensuing legal battles that he fought and lost.

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Open Studio with Emilie Crewe
Feb
29

Open Studio with Emilie Crewe

Join artist Emilie Crewe in the studio to see what she’s been up to while in residence at Griffin Art Projects. Her current project, funded by a Canada Council for the Arts Research to Creation grant, consists of a three-channel large scale video installation with surround sound, featuring the prominent Canadian bass trombonist Julia McIntyre. Emilie writes: “With a cache of footage that includes scales, arpeggios, solo music and improvisational melodies, the project will oscillate between experimental documentary and fictional video art.”

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Reading the Contemporary Art and Culture Talks: Emilie Crewe
Feb
28

Reading the Contemporary Art and Culture Talks: Emilie Crewe

Join us for a presentation and discussion with Emilie Crewe, current artist-in-residence and the inaugural recipient of Griffin Art Project’s North Shore Studio Art Residency Award.

Crewe’s current investigations are centered on “musical components and structure, with specific research geared towards the neuroscience of music and how our bodies and emotions respond to rhythm, timbre and contour.”

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Luke Fowler’s Electro-Pythagorus: A Filmic Portrait of Martin Bartlett
Feb
21

Luke Fowler’s Electro-Pythagorus: A Filmic Portrait of Martin Bartlett

Join us at Griffin Art Projects for a screening of Glasgow based artist, filmmaker and musician Luke Fowler’s “Electro-Pythagorus: A Filmic Portrait of Martin Bartlett.” In this work, Fowler pays tribute to the work and musical ideas of Martin Bartlett (1939-93), a proudly gay Canadian composer who during the 1970s and 1980s pioneered the use of the ‘microcomputer.’

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The Rage To Live: The Queer Film Legacies of David Wojnarowicz and Marlon T. Riggs
Jan
30
to Feb 2

The Rage To Live: The Queer Film Legacies of David Wojnarowicz and Marlon T. Riggs

Griffin Art Projects is partnering with the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery and The Cinemateque to host a full weekend of film screenings, lectures and panel discussions dedicated to exploring the context of AIDS and activism through art and film. This program is presented in conjunction with Griffin Art Project’s exhibition The Sodomite Invasion, and the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery’s exhibition David Wojnarowicz: Photography and Film, 1978 -1992.

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Burnt Dust
Jan
10
to Jan 11

Burnt Dust

Griffin Art Projects is delighted to be kicking off the new year with a special two-day exhibition titled Burnt Dust, featuring the works of twenty-four North Vancouver high school students in grades 10 – 12. Through pattern, texture, shadow and meditative mark making, each work in the exhibition inspires quiet reflection and close looking. This exhibition has been organized in collaboration with Artists for Kids Studio Art Program, as part of Griffin Art Project’s newly launched Youth Mentorship Program.

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