Six Erin artists featured in 10th annual Headwaters show and sale

Four art experts pored over the works of nearly 100 area artists in June to choose the art that will hang in the annual Headwaters Arts Festival Show and Sale at the SGI Centre here starting next month.

They selected the works of 35, including six from the Erin area. The show will be mounted for the last weekend in September and the first in October.

There were 90  applicants.  The six Erin area artists are: Sonia Bukata, Sandy Bogert, Kate Taylor, Susan Powell, Sonja Mortimer and Paul Morin.

The four jurors who made the selections included a gallery manager, an assistant art professor, an assistant cura­tor and an art historian. 

The jurors’ decisions were based in significant part on technical proficiency and the artist’s ability to handle the medium. They looked for new ideas, art that pushed the limits of the medium, and for some­thing that is more difficult to define.

Juror Judy Daley said, “Pure technique alone is not always enough. The artist needs to go beyond proficiency to [create] something … that is evocative, that speaks to you in a certain way.”

She is Assistant Curator of the Peel Heritage Complex in Brampton.

The other jurors were Martin Pierce, a painter and assistant art professor at the University of Guelph; Robert Achtemichuk, Director of the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery in Waterloo, and Janet Dawson, a freelance Art Historian who is currently Scholar in Residence at Cocinar Mexicano in Tepoztlán where she lectures on the role of food and tradition in Mexican art.

The four jurors will get together one more time just prior to the show’s opening to decide which artists will re­ceive the various juror awards.  

The Headwaters Arts Fes­tival Show and Sale takes place Sept. 26 and 27 and Oct. 4 and 5 at the SGI Canada Centre for Culture and Education on Porterfield Road just north of Alton.

It is one of the highlights of the annual Headwaters Arts Festival that encompasses ven­ues throughout the Headwaters region, hundreds of artists and events for the 17 days from Sept. 25 to Oct. 12.

 

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