Island Mountain Arts
ArtsWells Festival Community Meeting
Island Mountain Arts 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, CanadaPlease join us on Tuesday July 2nd, 2019 at the Island Mountain Arts Gallery for our next ArtsWells Festival Community Meeting. We are excited to share with you our updates and news for this years festival since our ArtsWells Festival Community Meeting in April 2019.
Toni Onley Artists’ Project
Island Mountain Arts 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, CanadaThe Toni Onley Artists' Project is an opportunity for emerging and professional artists to step out of their own studio and into IMA’s shared studio space and work in an experimental, exploratory and risk-taking manner. This is a juried program and artists must apply in order to be considered. A scholarship and bursary program is […]
Artist Talk with Diana Thorneycroft
Island Mountain Arts Studios Mildred Ave, WellsJoin us at the IMA School for an artist talk with Diana Thorneycroft, by donation. Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2016 Manitoba Arts […]
Artist Talk with Peter von Tiesenhausen
Island Mountain Arts Studios Mildred Ave, WellsJoin us at the IMA School for an artist talk with Peter von Tiesenhausen, by donation. Peter von Tiesenhausen’s multi-media work deals with concepts of time, life, voyage, death, spirit, nature and humanity. His practice has grown from landscape painting to sculpture, performance and complex media installations. These are often an expression of where he […]
TOAP Open House
Island Mountain Arts Studios Mildred Ave, WellsParticipating artists have spent nine days in Wells working in the IMA studios under the mentorship of senior artists. The project is a intensive studio experience - with less structures time set for activities and more space for participants to develop their own work. You have the opportunity to come to the studios for this […]
Writing Workshop with George Elliott Clarke
Island Mountain Arts 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, CanadaGeorge Elliott Clarke will lead writers in exercises to improve creativity and editing skills. He will also ask volunteers to read back to the workshop their exercises and/or works-in-progress, while feeling free to maintain privacy re: any raw work that seems too personal. Electronics are welcome, of course, but Clarke's instruction will be by organic […]
Reading with Giovanna Riccio
Island Mountain Arts 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, CanadaJoin us at the IMA Gallery for a Reading with Toronto author Giovanna Riccio. Giovanna Riccio will be reading from her newly published book, Plastic’s Republic, an adventurous poem sequence centering on Barbie, the complex cultural icon and feminist bête-noir powered by plasticity. A graduate in philosophy from the University of Toronto, she is the […]
Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk with Sarah Zimmerman
Island Mountain Arts 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, CanadaIsland Mountain Arts is excited to announce an exhibition launch on Friday July 19th, 2019 at 7 pm featuring the work of Sarah Zimmerman (affectionately known by many as Saz), titled “The Fish Project”. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, August 25th, 2019. Sarah has been painting her entire life. Born and raised […]
Reading with George Elliott Clarke
Island Mountain Arts Studios Mildred Ave, WellsJoin us at the IMA School for an artist talk with George Elliott Clarke, by donation. The tiny rural community of Weymouth Falls sits on the banks of the Sissiboo River in a far-flung southwestern corner of Nova Scotia. Best known as the birthplace of world-renowned boxing great Sam Langford, the predominantly African Nova Scotian […]
Humour & Heart in Live Performance Workshop
Island Mountain Arts 2323 Pooley St., Wells, BC, CanadaTheatre games, explorations in physicality, and improvisation techniques, will bring participants to new approaches in their openness and creativity through humour and playfulness, with a focus on bringing greater humanity and vitality to what they share with an audience. Graceful movement with ostrich plumes, power-dynamics of primate behaviour, spaghetti-legged silly-walks, and practical tricks for transcending […]