The mammoth art museum experience is like an all-inclusive resort for the mind: there’s so much coming at you the brain binges ’til it can’t party anymore.  Unless you’re an art history major,…

My daily work corner is one-third of a shared 800-square-foot studio of a mouldering building in the shadow of numerous condo-tower cranes in Mount Pleasant, with a combined rent of more than $1,000…

With the same anticipation as a root canal I plopped down in a chair at the accountant’s office. Then gasped and pointed, then tried not to point at the adjacent bookcase stuffed with client files. …

How we’re feeling about our place in an uncertain world is evident on art school walls. This is where the next generation of emerging artists grapples with the shape-shifting natural and built…

I have this vague, hippie-era-soaked memory of my brother and I hanging with my father as he painted a wall alongside some other artists. Forty years later I suggested to my brother that he swing by…

Sarah Gee Miller says she’s pretty handy.  That’s the understatement of the evening. Her paper ‘paintings’ are not only visually stunning and conceptually rich but they resonate with the dedication…

I am tormented by the plastic bits of toys , discards from the kiddies in my life, that I have been unable to toss (the toys, not the kiddies). There is no practical excuse for holding onto all those…

After three months of sewing one donated button after another into a giant QR code , the big moment arrived this week: time to stand back and scan that baby with a reader app, translating this…

This week marks the unveiling of  Golden Tree , Douglas Coupland ‘s latest public artwork, to be installed next year at the southern gateway to Vancouver, at Cambie and Marine Drive. The…

When finally — yet suddenly — I graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, I was done, done, done, exhausted after four intense years of input. Now I needed space for four more years…