Eastside Culture Crawl

Oh my gosh... I try to make it to one day of the Eastside Culture Crawl every three or four years and this year I was invited to join two well-school women in the world of art and literature.  Well read and with strong ideas of art and things new, not to say movies as well.  I was thrilled because I was the fly on the wall.  My favourite trek for the ECC is the home studios of which we landed in a couple and then headed to William Clark Studios that is floor upon floor of studios often two or three artists in one space.  What I love about this Crawl is that you get to see the artist AND a rare chance to see in their work space and art.  Here were some of my faves.

Jill Pilon - Mixed Media Artist
Jill had a real nice modern touch.  Would go great in any high end minimalist setting.  Loved it!  She was super too.  After posing without her glasses we asked her to put them on. They suit her so nicely.

Jill Pilon - She had a piano in her studio as well!

Famous Empty Sky - Mixed Media, Drawing, Printing, Collage, Photography, Painting
FES was great telling us various stages of a well developed process that is all her own. You certainly can tell that she has worked at perfecting this method.

We not only talked with Famous ES, we also were delighted to meet her daughter and granddaughter
Everyone fully vested in her venture and of course, delving in their own mediums.  Such a treat.

Afuwa - Printmaking, Painting

 

We loved hearing Afuwa's point of view.  Unique, honest, complex.  We probably could have brought a good bottle of wine and spent a chunk of time with her just hearing her point of view.  An amazing treat!

Afuwa - we were invited to decode the binary on the plexiglas screen.
This was one of my expert companion's favourites! 
Can you see the code?

Colin Johnson - sculpture

 

Colin was so fun to talk with.  He had been working on this through the night to complete.  After my co-crawl walker teased and cajoled information out of him, we saw the rest of his work.  Absolutely delightful.

 

Colin Johnson - the centre doors hide a liquor cabinet with mirrors and another secret storage to the right.

 



Colin makes wooden puppets and a whole lot of other neat stuff

There were more but either my pix didn't turn out or I could not find their links.  Darn!

This type of  'Crawling' works up an appetite so off to Havana on Commercial with my art buddies.

Yes... here they are talking about books, book clubs, and a little later they announced that they were going to their 'church' in the morning.  The Vancouver Sun Sunday Film Series.  aka Breakfast and a movie

They are all over the culture of Vancouver.  So fun!  Such a great day!  Lucky me.

THE VANCOUVER SUN SUNDAY FILM SERIESpresents
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK 10am Sunday Nov 18
at The Park Theatre



Join us for a
free breakfast at 9:30am.
Guest speaker
Katherine Monk
Post media film critic.