Art college show offers variety of images
Frances Baskerville’s “Between Times,” a portrait of her daughter relaxing between dances, is among those on display at University Canada West.
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Alumni exhibit displays quality of graduates’ work
Having produced more than 1,000 graduates, the Victoria College of Art had plenty of art to choose from to stage an alumni showing.
For “VCA Alumni – Celebrating 35 Years of Art,” which winds up Saturday (Sept. 26) at University Canada West, organizers did their best to gather a representative sampling of the various forms and styles created by former students.
“Many of the graduates are full-time artists or working in the field somewhere,” said Frances Baskerville, class of ’99 and alumni organizing committee chair. “We were able to gather 60 for this show.”
The exhibition includes more than 150 works by such well-known artists as Donna Eichel, Nancy Slaght, Ken Gerberick, Chris Broadbent and Mary-Ellen Threadkell. The show is dedicated to the memory of three artists who passed on this year – alumna Alice McLeod-Smith and teachers Glenn Howarth and Flemming Jorgenson.
The college has always been based out of the former Bank Street elementary in Victoria and has expanded its programs from painting and drawing to printmaking, photography, sculpture, design and art history.
It’ll likely be the last showing at UCW, which bought the college in 2008 then was purchased itself by Vancouver-based Eminata Group. Eminata recently sold the college to brothers Lionel and Peter Such, thus ending a chapter in the life of the school filled with uncertainty over its future (see Friday’s edition for a feature on the college).
University Canada West is located at 950 Kings Rd. in the former Blanshard elementary school. The show is open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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