Ontario Community Newspapers

Oakville Beaver, 19 Aug 1994, p. 11

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Apply now for grants All applications must reach the Oakville Arts Council office by Friday, Sept. 30th at 5 p.m. Previous applicants will receive applications and information by mail, while new applicants should contact the OAC at 844â€"7257 for applications and inforâ€" mation concerning eligibility and evalâ€" uation criteria. The OAC manages a peerâ€"review advisory committee for assessing culâ€" tural grant applications and recomâ€" mending funding allocations within an amount preâ€"determined by Town Council. Recommendations from this committee are forwarded to the town‘s budget committee through the treasury department. All grants are subject to final approval by town council. Applications for 1994 Town of Oakville cultural grants are now being accepted. "...Even more interesting is the way the setting of these exhibition spaces seems to prompt a natural reflection on the fit responsibility to locale. Contemporary art has come As for the galleries themselves, he is enthusiastic. "Oakville is one of the Canadian art scene‘s best kept secrets," he says in a press release, speaking of the exhibition space as having no limits to staging It is the wonderful opportunity of working in two different sites that attracted him, as well as working for a gallery that is fast becoming known on the national stage. He points to the different characteristics of Centennial Gallery â€" with its stark, modern confines â€" and Gairloch â€" with its English garden motif â€" as wonderful opportunities to investigate various themes in contemporary art. imaginative space." At the moment, Rhodes is thinkâ€" ing about a Belgian artist working on a project for Gairloch Galleries; a kind of project that operates withâ€" in the landscape without detracting from it in any way. Katherine Jones, daughter of Pat and Graham Jones of Oakville, and Lorne Memory, were married on May 20th in Burlington. The newlyweds reside in Burlington. Understanding the world better _ tue ene through contemporary art drlul Weddings Jonesâ€"MeEemory (Continued from page 10) He repeats: "If we spend some time with contemporary art, maybe we‘ll understand better the way in which the world works." "I have worked with many artists and they are all immensely approachable people," says Rhodes. The Galleries‘ lecture series is just one way of making contemporary art more accessible to people, he notes. And if contemporary art is more easily understood, all the better, says Rhodes. Fret no more. Rhodes has plans to explore not only different themes in contemporary art, but how they relate to the community and the people who choose to live in the communities of today. "...1 see Oakville as a kind of test site," he continues. "It is a conâ€" temporary Our Town that openly shows the discontinuous face of a postâ€"war evolution from small town to Golden Horseshoe bedroom comâ€" munity..." to fret on this score s GQ trqm hcke THE CNE...It‘s exciting, it‘s exhilerating but driving there isn‘t! Busses arrive at the Oakville CO station at 20 minutes past each hour to connect with CNEâ€"bound trains. _ GO train tic‘kets:fohd'fipdSsesfiq\low you to transter to an Oakville bus for only $0.25 (Group passes _ excluded,) L s 2 all 815â€"29 Also located at 4155 Fairview St. Burlington 681â€"WARM 406 Speers Rd., Oakville, wa 0 24HrAnswering FUTURE N

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