First Thursday Vancouver + Art Waste 2013
Two massive art events collide and explode the already busiest night of the week for Vancouver's visual arts exhibitions
The First Thursday Vancouver Art Walk and Art Waste collided in early June. The fourth day of the work week is traditionally THE night of the week to check out new art in the city – this is when most galleries launch their opening receptions. Chris Bentzen of Hot Art Wet City knows this; he […]
Video Documentation by VANDOCUMENT
To compliment our excellent photographic and written documentation of your art and events, VANDOCUMENT is stoked to soon be adding video to our available services. Please check back soon, or give Ash a shout at 1.778.881.8932 or ash(at)vandocument(dot)com We’d love to hear from you! Thanks from Ash and everyone at the VANDOCUMENT team. Long live […]
Visual Arts Celebration at The Cultch
The DTES Small Arts Grants Exhibition's Opening Reception Celebration
To celebrate the Vancouver Foundation Small Arts Grants program, in partnership with Carnegie Community Centre, a gallery of work was selected by the incredible Sita Kumar, and hosted at The Cultch Gallery. The DTES Small Arts Grants “new initiative seeks to foster individual achievement amongst local artists in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.” Opening night was May […]
Fair In The Square & Chinatown Sundays
A free community event blends into unexpected Chinatown discoveries
Being open to exploration in Vancity takes friend and actor Kelly Metzger and I to Victory Square for a Sunday community gathering, music, and BBQ where we meet dedicated community members and their groups who are working hard to better their neighbourhoods through a variety of support and educational programs and, after walking through Chinatown […]
Background / ThisPlace Artists’ Talk
Artists Emilio Rojas, Igor Santizo, and Guadalupe Martinez close out the series of events that accompany Background / This Place at grunt with an artist talk and potluck
Following the official opening on May 10 2013, as well as various talks and walks to accompany the exhibition, artists Emilio Rojas, Guadalupe Martinez, and Igor Santizo held a talk/panel/Q&A on a Saturday afternoon at grunt gallery. This talk gave the audience an opportunity to hear about, ask about, and begin to understand the density […]
Safe/Guard and Feast: Mystery and Intrigue at the rEvolver Festival
A teasingly mysterious look a pair of original dance/performances by local Vancouver artists as they begin their run at Upintheair Theatre's rEvolver Festival at The Cultch
On an overcast afternoon in May, Hailey McCloskey and Ash Tanasiychuk of VANDOCUMENT headed to the soon-to-be destroyed green house at The Cultch to get a sneak preview of Safe/Guard and Feast. This show, featuring two separate, yet curiously connected, original works, has been notoriously advertised with very little literal explanation. “A Visual Poem & […]
District Dogs In The Window At Bird On A Wire
Main Street shop invites a new creative entrepreneurial business to demo their process and product at this weekly event
As part of a super rad ongoing series highlighting the creators of the work sold at their shop, the owners of Bird On A Wire (2535 Main St) host “Artist In The Window” every Saturday from 11am to 4pm. It pays to get out and talk to shop owners! While on assignment for Vancouver Magazine, […]
You Came Here By Chance at 221A
An evening of photographic work address our idea of space in relation to environment
On a beautiful May evening, a group exhibition of photography opened at Chinatown gallery 221A. Attended by a range of people old and young, the show, curated by Avalon Mott, included something that could appeal to everyone. You Came Here By Chance was defined by being about place. But that’s where the similarities stopped. Although […]
A Beautiful Decay at Positive Negative
Polaroid show features an international array of artists that challenge the limitations of the format
The event description for this show of Polaroids highlighted the international representation of artists: Germany, Sweden, England, Italy, Czech Republic, Australia, Brazil, United States, and Canada. It also poetically described the reason for the title: “‘Beautiful Decay’ sharpens its gaze on disorder and desolation, where memories are forgotten and left behind, and the laws of […]
Mural at Broadway & Main by Ola Volo: Illustration Artist, Future Superstar
Another example of Ola's beautifully flowing work in Vancouver. Mural created May 2013
One of the nicest women you’ll meet, Ola Volo, artist and illustrator, has taken the plunge and is dedicating herself entirely to her art. Thanks to prodding by close friends, Ola quit her day job to pursue her love of telling visual stories through illustrations both big and small. Nature and folklore are Ola’s focus, […]