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Subject: 	Island Mountain Arts raises $14,000 to start an endowment
Date: 	Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:29:49 -0700
From: 	Julie Fowler <media@imarts.com>
To: 	bcma-l-admin@museumsassn.bc.ca



*NEWS RELEASE*

For Immediate Release

 

*Contact:* Julie Fowler

Toll Free: 1-800-442-ARTS (2787)

Tel: 250-994-3466   Fax: 250-994-3433

Email: media@imarts.com <ailto:media@imarts.com%22>

 

*ISLAND MOUNTAIN ARTS RAISES $14,000 TO START AN ENDOWMENT FUND THROUGH 
ITS 30**TH** ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION AND AUCTION*

WELLS, BC, September 15, 2007….Island Mountain Arts in Wells, BC 
exceeded all expectations by raising $14,000 with its 30th Anniversary 
Exhibition and Auction called the /30 x 30 /which ran July 20 to August 
13, 2007.

 

Thirty-eight artists from across the country were involved in the /30 x 
30/,/ /donating a work roughly 30” x 30” in size, which was exhibited at 
the Island Mountain Arts Gallery and then auctioned off in order to 
raise money to start an endowment fund to provide ongoing scholarships 
to IMA programs.

 

“Our goal was to raise at least $10,000 so that we could apply to the BC 
Renaissance Fund, which will match monies raised to start endowments. 
Thanks to the generosity of the artists who participated and from the 
people who bid on the works we were able to well exceed our goal,” says 
Dennis Bogle, President of IMA.

 

Works from artists such as Robert Bateman, Paula Scott, Marie Nagel, 
Richard Reid, Ken Flett and a host of others were exhibited in the 
gallery and online at Levis Fine Art Auctions in Calgary, with final 
bids being placed at the end of the exhibition.

 

The exhibition and auction was one success among a number, which took 
place this year for Island Mountain Arts in its 30th year of operations. 
The award-winning ArtsWells Festival, which ran during the August Long 
Weekend, brought record numbers of people and artists to town in its 
fourth year.

 

Also in 2007 the Wells Artists’ Project was re-named to the Toni Onley 
Artists’ Project, in order to honour the renown BC painter and to 
signify the launching of the future project of the Toni Onley School, 
which plans to run eight month residencies in Wells for professional and 
emerging visual artists.

 

IMA also began working with the estate of beloved Cariboo painter and 
Cowboy Hall of Famer, Sonia Cornwall (1919 – 2006) and has created an 
annual scholarship in her name to provide one emerging Cariboo artist 
with the full tuition to attend the Toni Onley Artists’ Project. Watch 
for an exhibition of Sonia Cornwall’s work next summer in the IMA Gallery.

 

With a very successful 30th year under its belt the multi-facetted 
Island Mountain Arts is looking ahead to another great 30 years, 
continuing to build and promote arts and culture in Wells, the Cariboo 
region and the province of British Columbia.

 

For more information about how you can get involved with any of the 
programs or projects of Island Mountain Arts, or to be kept up to date 
through its e-newsletter or mailing list, please contact info@imarts.com 
<ailto:info@imarts.com%22> or phone 1-800-442-2787 or visit 
www.imarts.com <ttp://www.imarts.com%22>.

 

– 30 –


2007 IMA Staff [L - R] Director of Finance, Lindsay Read; Artswells 
Festival Coordinators, Tyler Doerksen and Shelley Eckstein (in front); 
Artistic Director and Curator, Julie Fowler; School Liason, Brendan 
Rahman; Gallery Manager, Hannah MacDonald and Festival Director, Ruthie 
Sumiko Tabata

For high res photo please email media@imarts.com <ailto:media@imarts.com%22>


Julie Fowler
media@imarts.com <ailto:media@imarts.com%22>
Artistic Director, Island Mountain Arts & the ArtsWells Festival of All 
Things Art, Aug 3 - 6, 2007
www.imarts.com
www.myspace.com/artswells
Box 65, Wells, BC, V0K 2R0
Toll Free: 1-800-442-2787
Locally: 250-994-3466
Fax: 250-994-3433