The Citizen, 2003-06-25, Page 36BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2003. PAGE 11.
Festival Gallery a busy place with five shows
theatre administration is housed,
then to the loading dock area of the
theatre, now the Blyth Library.
It wasn’t until 1990 that the
gallery moved to its permanent
home in the newly-constructed
connecting link between the
administration offices and Memorial
Hall. It was rededicated as The
Bainton Gallery the following year.
Still today a visit to the gallery is
made simple as it is right beside the
Memorial Hall box office.
The Blyth Festival Gallery is the
only non-profit public gallery in
Huron County. You can visit the
Bainton Gallery during the Festival
season any time the box office is
open by entering the box office of
Memorial Hall.
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On display
The Blyth Festival Art Gallery has been showing the work of professional artists as well as
local artists and students for more than 25 years.
One of the busiest part of Blyth
Memorial Hall this summer is the
Bainton Gallery, home of the Blyth
Festival Art Gallery shows.
There will be five shows in the
gallery this summer, two of which
have already taken place. An
exhibition of art created by students
of schools in the Avon Maitland
District School Board and Huron-
Perth Catholic School Board filled
the gallery from May 10-31. The
Gallery’s annual Community Show
featuring artists from throughout the
region followed from June 7-20.
Moving into the Gallery for the
official opening of the Festival’s
season will be Maurice Stubbs:
Colour Dynamics. Stubbs makes
imaginative use of intensive colour
in large format water colours. He
brings an exciting new approach to
contemporary landscape painting in
Canada. His work will be on display
from June 27 to July 19.
Hooks, Pins and Shuttles is the
mid-summer show on display from
July 22 to August 9. The show brings
a collection of the work of local
weavers, quilters and rug hookers.
The final show is Northern
Fragments: The Paintings of Joel
Masewich. The exhibition
continuation of Masewich’s
is a
new
Orchestra commited to play
music, educate and entertain
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round out the sound.
Most of the members do music in
their spare time and some have had
to take leave of the orchestra on
occasion as other priorities dictate.
However, says Bokhout, “we are
committed to play music, to educate,
to entertain and to assist in worship,
and we hope to continue to do so for
years to come.”
Noting that new members
always welcome, he adds, “Our hope
is that over the years, we will
develop a certain presence and
become part of the established
musical resources in this part of the
province, participating and
collaborating with others in a variety
of settings and occasions.
are
work which was inspired by Kluane
National Park in the Yukon Territory.
Painted primarily in acrylic, the
pieces are large-scale collages
incorporating laser-cut stainless
steel, exposing abstract patterns
through a multi-layered technique.
The Blyth Festival Art Gallery
committee which mounts the shows
in the Bainton Gallery is a separate
committee of the Blyth Centre for
the Arts comprised of art lovers from
across the region — people like Ron
and Bev Walker of the Blyth area,
who were there at the beginning and
moved with the gallery over more
than a quarter century as it grew.
Back in 1975 the Blyth Festival had
barely been formed when Festival
founding artistic director James Roy
approached the Walkers one spring
day.
Based on that request, the first
exhibit was prepared fbr showing in
the basement of Memorial Hall in
1975.
The gallery eventually moved to
the former Stewart’s grocery store,
once in the building where the
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