UBC’s Public Art Pollinator Pasture Project will be running a series of events at the Kelowna Art Gallery this summer in conjunction with the gallery show, For All is For Yourself. The opening reception for the show is on Saturday, July 9 from 2 -4 PM.
Cameron Cartier installing For All is For Yourself
The Gallery exhibition For All is For Yourself aims to raise interest and awareness of the plight of native pollinators in British Columbia (and across the country). This collaborative artwork was produced with the support of over 100 individuals across Kelowna, Richmond and Vancouver who assisted in creating the hand-made seed paper that was transformed into the 10,000 bumblebees on the gallery walls. Each bee holds the potential to produce a mini “pollinator pasture” and is a poetic representation of two living earthworks that are developing in Richmond and Kelowna. The show will be up in the Front Space of the Kelowna Art Gallery from June 20 – October 9th 2016.
Dr. Cameron Cartiere, the artist and researcher who created For All is For Yourself will be giving an artist talk on Friday, July 8 7 – 8:30 PM. Dr. Cartiere, who is from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, will talk about the development of the installation, the Richmond and Kelowna Bee Pastures, and how these can contribute to helping our wild bee populations. People are invited to pre-register.
All events are free admission and take place at the Kelowna Art Gallery, 1315 Water St, Kelowna.
Other events this summer include:
Thursday, July 21: Claudette and Eian Lamont Talk 7- 8:30PM
Claudette and her husband, Eian, will share their vast knowledge and experience of over 50 years of beekeeping in the Okanagan. She will share photographs, discuss honeybees, the land and the changing climate they have experienced farming on one site for many years together. Please pre-register at: claudettelamont.eventbrite.ca
Sunday, August 21: Bees Live Here- Family Sunday Event at the KAG, 1 – 4 PM
Did you know many bees actually live in the ground? And that healthy garden homes for bees save some special requirements? Let’s make some special signs to mark where we find bee homes in our yards and to let our neighbours and friends know we have Bee Friendly Gardens.
Contact ecoartokanagan@gmail.com for more information or Nancy Holmes at nancy.holmes@ubc.ca .
SPEAKER BIOS:
Dr. Cameron Cartiere is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Culture + Community at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. She is a practitioner, writer and researcher specializing in public art, curatorial practice, urban renewal, sculpture and sculpture parks. She is the author of RE/Placing Public Art, co-editor of The Practice of Public Art, and co-author of the Manifesto of Possibilities: Commissioning Public Art in the Urban Environment. Her current book (with Martin Zebracki, University of Leeds, UK) is The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion. Her new SSHRC-funded research, “Public art pollinator pastures: new models of creative community engagement for sustainable environmental impact” is based in Richmond and Kelowna in conjunction with Nancy Holmes of UBC Okanagan. Richmond city partners include the Sustainability Unit, Public Art and Parks departments. Kelowna city partners include the Public Art and Parks departments. The Richmond Pollinator Pasture is located in Bridgeport Industrial Park. The Kelowna Pollinator Pasture is located in Brent’s Grist Mill.
Claudette and Eain Lamont have been beekeepers for nearly 50 years. With 50 – 60 hives, pollination was their main business; honey came second. Eain came to the Okanagan Mission with his family in 1947. His father, John Lamont, planted the first dwarf apple orchard in the Okanagan. Eain studied insects and science at UBC. While in Germany in 1964, he met the Nobel Prize winner Von Frisch who discovered the waggle dance. The Lamont Apiary is located on Westside Road, just before the Lake Okanagan Resort. Eain and his mother, an artist and first curator of the Kelowna Art Gallery, bought the property in 1957.