Louise Vessey wins top spot at national competition

The 2013 National Image Competition Salon of the Professional Photographers of Canada was exhibited recently during Canadian Imaging Conference and Trade Show, the Annual Convention of the PPOC, in Vancouver, BC. Louise Vessey, MPA President, a professional photographer from Charlottetown, PE, was chosen as PPOC’s Wedding Photographer of the Year f

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Culture Days will take place September 27, 28, and 29, 2013. The support program will provide a maximum of $400 to individuals and organizations selected through an adjudication process to offset costs associated with initiating and hosting a Culture Days activity. Examples of eligible costs include the hiring of artists or support staff, the purchase of materials or equipment, or promotions and marketing

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Salon of Joy Ristorante Diem

Salon of Joy features portraits of local people—particularly musicians who will be performing on Victoria Row this summer, local tattoo artists and cultural personalities—interiors, landmarks and city and seascapes. Salon of Joy opens June 1.

Ex-posed The Pearl, North Rustico

The show, an exhibition of nudes, opens June 6 with a reception featuring the culinary creations

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Students and staff of École Saint-Augustin in Rustico, with artist Daniel Cyr and ArtsSmarts PEI, have created “Nos racines communes, la forêt acadienne au Centre acadien Grand-Rustico,” a Parks Canada Through the Arts Project created through an agreement between Parks Canada and ArtsSmarts PEI. Students selected and planted trees along a new trail on the school grounds, working with artist Daniel Cyr a

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Culture PEI has announce the establishment of a pilot mentorship program to support the business and career development goals of PEI’s aspiring artists, artisans, performers and storytellers. It will support 4 mentorship pairings, through which mentors will advise mentees over an 8-month period. Selected mentors will each receive a $2,000 honorarium.

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Senior citizens across Prince Edward Island are putting their creative minds to work with the help of local artists, says Tourism and Culture Minister Robert Henderson. The Department of Tourism and Culture invested $50,000 for this year’s LEAP program which was administered by the Prince Edward Island Senior Citizens’ Federation and featured 20 projects at various seniors’ homes and clubs across the p

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The Joan Auld Scholarship was established in 2001 by the Prince Edward Island Crafts Council in honour of Joan Auld, Craft Development Officer, PEI Business Development, to celebrate her 31 years of dedication and commitment to the Island craft industry.

Holly McGee has been the recipient of the Joan Auld Scholarship for the past two years. Holly was born in Nova Scotia and moved to Prince Edward

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Retrospective by Lionel F. Stevenson concludes this month

PEI photographer and master printer, Lionel Stevenson’s current exhibit, Lionel F. Stevenson: Fifty Years of Photographs (1962-2012), is concluding it’s showing at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery this month.

Stevenson’s exhibit is a career survey focusing on selected thematic groupings and series, including large-scale studies of Peggy's C

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For the month of April, Poetry Month, Charlottetown’s city buses will feature artist’s interpretations of the works of 16 writer and poets. The artists are graphic design students from Holland College.

Ann Thurlow (right) holds Kevin MacLeod’s interpretation of one of her One Great Things:

Cool weather. The perfect time, I think, for some spicy Korean.
We go to Seoul Food and, as we’re coming in the d

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Holland College students compete for photography awards

Students from Holland College’s Photography and Digital Imaging program were recognized at the annual Image competition of the Atlantic Chapter of the Professional Photographers of Canada in Moncton recently. Of the 85 images accepted for the competition, 23 were from Holland College students, in the portraiture, commercial, fine art and fashion c

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