Red Deer Arts Council
110, 4818 50 Avenue T4N 4A3 Red Deer, AB, Canada

Our holiday Virtual Art Maket continues! There's still time to submit! Susan Delaney SusanDelaney.com Susan Delaney... My recent landscape work explores the idea that the particular landscape experience is a textured and layered one, which mingles association and memory with complex and shifting visual perceptions. The layering of washes, intuitive brushwork and paint manipulation are a creative response to varying viewpoints and to shifting ‘takes’ on form and light, and are a physical expression of the experience. Check out more of Susan's works on her website and Facebook!

Huge shout out to Volunteer Central for this lovely article about the Arts Council and what we do! Even bigger shout out to the dozens of volunteers who help us make our community thrive throughout each and every year. We are deeply grateful to everyone who shares their creativity with us!

The Friends of the Library are having a Gift Bag Sale! Folks - here is your moment to sort out your gift buying for the "Significant HER" on your shopping list! And it can even be DELIVERED!!!!! Email [email protected] to buy yours!

Cowboy Kicks will debut in May 5, 2021 at Westerner Park in Red Deer has a new call for artists! At the event, the CK committee will be auctioning off the painted boots for business, corporations or individuals to purchase to display and help generate excitement for the Canadian Finals Rodeo in Red Deer. It will be part of fun evening of entertainment and community support for both Westerner Park and charity. Please take a look at the below and contact the committee if you'd like to submit! (We understand from the organizers that those who'd submitted in the spring for the postponed inaugural event are still participating, this call is to bring in more artists! No need to re-submit if you've already been in contact with them.)

The Final Week of the Glass Front Gallery Scavenger Hunt is wrapped and we're excited to announce the 3 winners for this week's prizes! Thanks to the City of Red Deer, we managed to gather 6 prizes (1st, 2nd, 3rd) to share with participants who completed the scavenger hunt and answered all questions correctly! Today's winners are: Kim Verrier - 1st Place Russell Hodgkinson - 2nd Place Sharon Donovan - 3rd Place!... Thank you to everyone who participated, we hope you had fun! The Lights the Night Glass Front Gallery continues until January 8th! Full storefront art gallery details on our website: https://www.reddeerartscouncil.ca//lights-night-glass-fron

TWO DAYS LEFT! Register your team of 5 and be a part of the fun! We start pulling names on December 17th!!!! (Still taking partial teams and singles for matching up with others, too!) Who doesn't want to have free gas & groceries for the holiday season? You can do it all online at:... https://www.reddeerartscouncil.ca/news/fundraising See more

Congratulations to Mieko Ouchi on this awesome appointment! She has been working with Tree House Youth Theatre recently, mentoring participants! We've got some amazing talent in our local theatre community (even if they drive down from Edmonton once in a while!)

Friends, we're going to be working from home for the next few weeks as much as possible. The phone is forwarded, the laptop is with us, so we continue to be here to help if you need us by email, phone or video. On that note, we'd like to let you know about a Zoom-like website that offers private rooms with no time limits that requires no downloads or otherwise. It's called goteam.video and it's super helpful. Our Room is available at https://goteam.video/rdartscouncil, so if you need to chat while seeing a mask-free smiling face, please get in touch and we'll meet there. If you need to meet in person, we can make that happen too. We will get through this together. Take care and be well. We want to see your creativity continue!

A great fundraiser from the Friends of the Library: A Christmas Gift for Her Pick up a little gift for your mother, daughter, sister, or any special woman in your life. Just $25. Only 50 to be sold. ... Each gift contains a pair of cozy Christmas themed Reading Socks (poly with some spandex, fits most women), a small journal and pen, Corazon chocolates, a coffee coupon, and a bit more all packed in a seasonal bag. The gifts must be ordered in advance by email to [email protected]. Pick up is Sunday, December 6, 11 am to 1:30 pm, at the south doors of the downtown library, 4818 49 street, curb side 15 min parking. Cash only. Home/office delivery can be arranged for Monday, December 7, 2-6 pm with e-transfer prepayment using [email protected]. Please provide a Red Deer address in your email. The gift will be left at the door with a follow up email confirming delivery. Red Deer Public Library See more

These folks. Where do they find this ad idea?!?! Get your tickets (Suzanne has a book for sale too!)

We will have some additional artists selling beautiful works in the lobby space decorated with a reindeer! Come down and see different artists and works available each day of the DBA's Market! Thursday, November 26, 3:00 6:00pm painters Brian Downes and Philip Gauthier Friday, Nov. 27, 3:00 6:00pm silk artist Darcy Gusse Edinga and wet-felted wool artist Margaret Hall... Saturday, Nov. 28, 11:00am 3:00pm raku ceramic artist Pat Matheson and painter/bead-maker Wendy Meeres #shoplocal #SupportLocal #localartist #shoplocalthischristmas

Fundraising for our friends at the Library!

BIG NEWS! We were approved for an extension of our Gas & Grocery Raffle! Now, sales close on DECEMBER 16th and final draw date is December 21st! If you thought you missed your chance to put together a team, this is GREAT NEWS! ... Visit our JotForm and register your team of five today! (Partial teams can also be signed up and we'll match you with others!) https://www.reddeerartscouncil.ca/news/fundraising

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Alberta Society of Artists Call for Submissions: The Artist's Lens 2021 Street (urban) photographs are not always only about buildings and roads. They are about density of population and unpredictable interaction between geometry and life. ... All work submitted has to be authenticated with edition number, title and signature. Digital prints on canvas will not be accepted. Honorariums will be given to each artist. Please read section 8 (Exhibition Fees) for more information. Deadline: November 24, 2020 To Apply: https://www.albertasocietyofartists.com/inside-the-artists/