Weyburn Arts Council

Organized by the Heritage Rug Hookers of Saskatoon.

November 17 through Dec 28

Together, the 37 works of art depicting grain elevators, illustrate the beauty, variety and originality that can be achieved through traditional rug hooking. This collection contains original works, each unique and fascinating - hooked by artists from Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Colunbia.

Traditionally, rug hooking was a craft of poverty -so rug makers put to use whatever materials were available. Any scrap of cloth that was no longer usable as clothing was cut into narrow strips for rugs, using the burlap from old grain and feed bags as a base.

Today rug hooking (or “mat making” as it is sometimes referred to) has evolved in Canada as a fine art. In recent decades, rug hookers push the limits in exploring new materials and techniques.

January 5-31, 2012

Artists and artisans from the Weyburn-South East Region Region will once again display their artwork in the 29th annual James Weir People’s Choice Exhibition.

This exhibition will run from January 5 - 31, 2012 and will give artists and craftspeople the opportunity to display their original artwork at the Allie Griffin Art Gallery. This exhibition traditionally features a wide variety of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional media– something for everyone!

Gallery visitors are invited to cast their vote for their 3 favorite works of art!
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Entry forms are available at Signal Hill Arts Centre, 424 Tenth Avenue, S., the Allie Griffin Art Gallery, 45 Bison Avenue, W, or by downloading from www.weyburnartscouncil.ca For more information call Weyburn Arts Council at 848-3922 or e-mail weyburnartscouncil@live.ca. Deadline for entry is Wednesday December 211st, 2011.

A Reception & Awards Presentation will be held in the Gallery on Tuesday January 31st, 2012 at 7:00 pm – to meet the artists and celebrate their work, and to acknowledge the artists who received the top number of votes. Everyone is invited!

Sponsored by Weyburn Arts Council, South East Connection, Sask.Lotteries, Saskatchewan Arts Board and Speedy Glass.

February 3 to March 12

William Perehudoff is one of Saskatchewan’s most celebrated artists. Over the course of his long career he produced paintings in a wide range of styles from small representational watercolours to the huge striped canvasses which are perhaps his best known work. While he was an exceptionally prolific artist, executing numerous murals as well as easel paintings, he was also obliged to make a living by working at other jobs: farming near Langham, Saskatchewan, and employed by Fred Mendel’s Intercontinental Packers in the 1940’s - first as a maintenance painter, then as a commissioned muralist.

In 1952 he began a 25 year long career as art director at Modern Press, a company owned by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, and publisher of the weekly Western Producer.

This period, during which Perehudoff produced a steady stream of illustrations for the newspaper, is scarcely mentioned in accounts of his accomplishments. As ‘commercial art’, this body of work apparently ranks too far below the threshold of ‘fine art’ to be admitted to serious exhibitions. Yet the degree of technical mastery and the abundance of his imagination are powerfully exemplified in these evocative illustrations.

This exhibition from the Permanent Collection of Saskatoon’s Mendel Art Gallery, presents illustrations from two serial articles published by the Western Producer in 1955:

“So Soon Forgotten”, a 15 part reminiscence, in pen and ink on paper, of prairie
life during the early part of the century.
“Louis Riel: Patriot and Rebel”, a 22 part history of highly charged scenes
rendered in the unusual medium of scratchboard,

This is an unusual opportunity to view some of the more traditional artistic skills of one of Saskatchewan’s great artists, while experiencing through his vivid imagery some of the formative events of our history as a province.

New artworks from the Weyburn Artists” Workshop and the Hilltop Painters! The artists have recently been exploring exciting uses of a new acrylic gel medium: “lifting” images for the creation of original new works of art.

On view January 4 to 31, 2012

Until February 29

Celebrate the Christmas season with Midale artist Bev Sobush Melby. Her painted Santas on old railway snow fence are available for purchase. On view until December 29.