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Resources for artists during COVID-19

Apr 6, 2020 – There is an overwhelming amount of information “out there” about what you need to know about working and living during COVID-19. To help deal with the burden of inform… Read more

QAC Statement Re: COVID-19

Mar 16, 2020 – With the rapidly changing events related to COVID-19, and out of caution for the health and safety of all, many arts events are being postponed or cancelled. From live theatre to … Read more

Remembering Peter Davis

Mar 15, 2020 – By Carol Bauer On December 21, 2019, the arts community lost a dear friend, colleague and talented artist. Peter Davis passed away peacefully at home, at the age of 82, after a lo… Read more

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Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
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Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
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While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice, we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Kaya Pereira: “From a long line of visual artists, I have always been immersed in the fine arts. Painting is viewed as a lifestyle and not a hobby in my family. My view of the world was groomed through the magical, detailed-oriented eye of my predecessors. My heart lies in nature, the diverse landscape we call Ontario holds the energy that I attempt to capture.”
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Image 1: Crisp County Dawn
Ink & watercolour
$75
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To purchase art, please email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Celebrating emerging artist Daniel Presley-Spinks.

Celebrating emerging artist Daniel Presley-Spinks. Cultivating Creativity in the Quinte Area.

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
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Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
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While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice, we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Dawn Morin: “A woman slowly rises from the depths up to the light. Scattered on the ocean floor are her reproductive parts and the cancer that was threatening to consume her. Threads that bound her to a painful death have been cut.”
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Image: Up from the Depths
Acrylic on canvas and thread
$250
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To purchase art, please email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
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Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
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While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice, we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Rosanne Duke: “I have been an active artist in the Belleville/Quinte area since 1983. At present my artistic expression is through relief printmaking. Most often my inspiration and imagery reflects my own experiences, outlook and emotional state, which is a woman’s view. The artworks I have chosen to submit vary in personal subject matter, and are from various years. It is my hope, as an artist, that individuals will react from their personal place, finding something in the work which resonates with them.”
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Image 1: The Backyard Tree on Albert
Influence: Georgia O’Keefe
Linocut, three-colour reduction block, Relief print on rice paper, 2017
$150 framed
Image 2: Free-flying Girlhood Memory
Linocut relief print 2014
$145 framed

Image 3: After the Dance
Linocut relief print 2007
$115 framed

Image 4: Winter Wind Warning
Linocut relief print 2017
$145
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To purchase art, please email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
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Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
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While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice, we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Katrina Houston: “I am a Canadian-born artist. I have practiced art since I was three years old. I really enjoy cartoon and animation art. I have high functioning autism and art has always been my way of expressing myself.”
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Image 1: Eeyore’s birthday surprise
Acrylic paint
NFS

Image 2: Character named “Brad”
Animation marker
NFS

Image 3: Colour Rapture
Abstract watercolour
NFS
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To purchase art, please email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
.
Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
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While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice, we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Marg Simms: “As a child I loved to draw and paint. I put all of that on hold for many years while family and growing children were my priority, but with age and fewer responsibilities I’ve been indulging myself. I love to share how I feel about the beauty of the world around us through the medium of paint.”
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Image 1:
Promises of Spring
Acrylic on canvas
$150

Image 2:
Potter’s Creek
Acrylic on canvas $150 framed .
To purchase art, please email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
.
Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
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While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice, we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Evelyn Van Hoekelen: “Oils are my medium and I do life painting, still life and landscape, and enjoying all three. My main interest is to find peace in art and in my mind, or else, chaos is my constant companion. I paint in my studio and in Kawartha Artist Gallery and plein air. I have painted around Algonquin, east and west, north and south, Bark Lake, Magnetawan, Bridgewater and more.”
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Image:
Time, Work, Pieces of Life
Oil $600
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To purchase art, please email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
.
Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
.
While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice, we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. .
Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Sarah Winn: “I have been creating art since birth. I have had some academic background. I am mostly self taught. I am inspired by the world around us, the colours, textures and shapes. I work with bright colours and bold imagery.”
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Image : Day Dreaming
Acrylic on canvas $250 .
To purchase art, please email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
.
Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
.
While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice, we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Adey Singer: “Adey is an artist from Belleville, Ont. She has self-published two comic books and is currently attending Bayside Secondary School.”
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Image 1: Album of the Year
Oil on canvas
NFS

Image 2: Diana
Oil on canvas
NFS
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To purchase art, email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

Although our office remains closed, the QAC team i

Although our office remains closed, the QAC team is working hard to keep up with the daily changes and demands due to Covid-19. We understand this pandemic has caused challenges for artists, arts groups, organizations and the community at large, so please do reach out. You are not alone.
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Stay safe, stay creative.
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#qac #cultivatingcreativity #stayathome #bellevilleontario #artmatters #artcouncil #bayofquinte
@downtownbelleville @bayofquinte

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
.
Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
.
While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice, we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Susan Moshynski: “This piece is actually called RISE. I painted it last year after a particularly stressful and non-productive period in my working career. It is an abstract in acrylic depicting a rising of hope in a movement of colour.”
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Image: Rise
25” x 33”
Acrylic $725
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To purchase art, please email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
.
Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
.
While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice, we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Lise Lindenberg: “As a high school art teacher, Lise likes to explore a wide variety of artistic media including two and three-dimensional works. Lately she has been spending more time using recycled wool to make rugs. Each rug is an experiment in pattern, colour and style that leans on the traditions of the arts and crafts movement.”
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Image 1: Tulip
18” x 28”
Wool fibre and linen backing
$275 “Lise designed her first shoe catalogue when she was 12 or 13. It was full of impossible-looking shoes that you probably wouldn’t want to wear. The “patent leather” ceramic shoe has been created in that spirit, but as seen through the eyes is an adult female in a society that has crazy expectations.” Image 2: Shoe Slope
Stoneware clay
$175
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To purchase art, please email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

Body art pushes against the boundaries of conventi

Body art pushes against the boundaries of conventional art. This cutting-edge portraiture uses the human face and body as the canvas, creating mind-blowing illusions. It is provocative, bold and at times rebellious. Both thought-provoking and conceptual, one artist often uses herself as a canvas with the tag ‘Art by Her, on Her’ – meet Melissa Brant.

Repost - @kinsipspirits Peeps, it is not often tha

Repost - @kinsipspirits Peeps, it is not often that a craft distiller like us gets called upon in times of emergency but this time around we are in a unique position. Due to the nature of what we do we have a lot of alcohol and we are working on making some much needed hand sanitizer. Test batch 1 is ready and we have sourced commercial quantities of the other ingredients needed. We will be releasing this as soon as it is ready - free to anyone in our community who is in essential services and interacts with the public like nurses, doctors, police and grocery store folks. Whatever is left we will ship out free with any orders or curb side pick ups from our store. Stay safe, stay healthy.

#doingourpart

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
.
Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
.
While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice due to COVID-19 we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Shani Doucet: “Throughout her life, Shani Doucet has always been fascinated by different artists and how the world is represented through their eyes. She continues to further develop her interests, skills and talents by visiting and talking to artists when she travels. She has taken various art courses at St Lawrence College in Brockville, Loyalist College in Belleville, the Tett Centre in Kingston, and different workshops from local artists in the area. Shani lives with her partner Jeff and her stepson Max.
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Image 1: Goodbye
Acrylic on canvas $75

Image 2: Blue
Acrylic on canvas $75
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To purchase art, please email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

The Spring 2020 issue of Umbrella magazine is in!

The Spring 2020 issue of Umbrella magazine is in!
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While the QAC Gallery remains closed until further notice, members will be receiving their copies in the mail. This not-to-be missed issue will also be available at select grocery stores.
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Umbrella shines a light on the best in arts and culture in the Quinte Region, and we could all use a little brightness right now.
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#qac #cultivatingcreativity #artsmatters #umbrellamagazine #bellevilleontario #bayofquinte #artsmagazine

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, ami

Uncertainly around the trajectory of COVID-19, amidst announcements of closings and cancellations, is creating a lot of anxiety for many people.
.
Art helps soothe the soul at the best of the times, and is even more potent at times like these.
.
While the QAC Gallery is closed until further notice, we are moving our current show RISE : Because We Are Equal online. Here we will celebrate the aesthetics and voices of women’s voices in the Quinte Region. .
Presenting Lola Reid Allin: “Since I became addicted to Slow Travel in 1993, I’ve done multi-day camel safaris in Tanzania & Morocco and earned my Dog Mushers certificate (Yukon). I’ve trekked the Inca Trail, Navarre-Region (Spain), the Guatemalan jungle to the ancient Maya site of El Mirador, Torres del Paine Nat’l Park (Chile) and the Akshayuk Pass (Canada).”
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Image 1: Young Tzotzil Maya Girl learning her sums (Chiapas, Mexico 2016)
Framed $175

Image 2: Ola Rae in front of her restaurant (Belize 2015)
Framed $175
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To purchase art, email the QAC.
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#qac #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artgallery #virtualart #bellevilleontario #eachforequal #womenartists
@bayofquinte @downtownbelleville

QAC STATEMENT RE: COVID-19 . With the rapidly chan

QAC STATEMENT RE: COVID-19
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With the rapidly changing events related to COVID-19, and out of caution for the health and safety for all, many arts events are being postponed or cancelled. From live theatre to concerts, gallery openings to museums, the most moving of arts experiences involve being in a crowd.
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At this time, social isolation is encouraged by Health Canada to slow the spread of this pandemic.
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As of Monday March 16th, the QAC will be closed to the public until further notice. The QAC team will be working remotely and will be available by email. Should you wish to make an appointment, please contact the QAC to do so. .
We will be using this time to develop programming and professional development workshops we have planned for later in the year.
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#qac1967 #artmatters #cultivatingcreativity #artcouncil #bellevilleontario #bayofquinte #covid_19 @bayofquinte @downtownbelleville