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AFFA April workshops with the Polsons!

April 13, 2010

Upcoming April  workshops with the Polson’s, This dynamic pair will share some of their talent with our  community youth with 2 separate workshops. Danny with a small group will explore digital media, ideal for youth interested in creating animation. Heather will be working from a costume world creating a pair of Fairy wings with participants. [...]

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Upcoming Workshop with Gillian McCulloch in Cape Breton

April 1, 2010

Experience a Painting Workshop with Nova Scotia Painter Gillian McCullogh at Cabot Shores, Cape Breton Island
When: May 21-23, 2010
Where: At Cabot Shores Wilderness Resort at Indian Brook, Cape Breton Island
Who: Open to beginning & intermediate level painters
(only 10 accepted)
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Special Upcoming AFFA Workshop

March 19, 2010

“Dreams and Fantasies: Drawing your Imagination”
This workshop, led by local artist Abbey Allen, will be showing how to draw fantasy scenery entirely from the imagination. This particular lesson will be focusing on natures most beautiful place, the forest. With soft pastels and pencil crayons, observers will learn the proper techniques of drawing, shading, and coloring [...]

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Anna Syperek Featured in The Casket

March 2, 2010

Anna Syperek met her husband Peter Murphy in Toronto where Anna was a Fine Arts student at York University and Peter was developing his photographic skills in the big city. They moved to Antigonish, Peter’s home town, in 1971. By the late seventies Anna was ready to resume her art education ; she entered [...]

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Local Synergy: the Alcove & Lyghtesome

February 9, 2010

ART at the ALCOVE
Synergy is perhaps the best words to describe a new, cooperative relationship that has just begun between the Alcove Bistro and Lyghtesome Gallery, two well-known businesses located in downtown Antigonish. These businesses are cooperating on an ongoing show titled “Art at the Alcove” to strengthen our local and regional fabric.
With Lise Roy’s [...]

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Winter Youth workshop series from AFFA

January 25, 2010

 
 
New AFFA workshops to choose from!
 
AFFA  (Artists and Families Fostering the Arts) is proud to present a February line up of workshops to choose from. In this series there is a special opportunity to learn drawing from local living treasure Alice Hoskins. Also presenting workshops are local artists Sarah Avmaat, Nancy Turniawan and Fenn Martin. [...]

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