<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">- PRESS RELEASE -</span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"></p><div style="text-align:left"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><img src="cid:ii_i59yzgjc0_14b184c4ff8705d7" width="454" height="296"></span></b></div><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black">Gleaners</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black">January 24 – April 11, 2014</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black">Nanaimo Art Gallery</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black">150 Commercial Street</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black">Nanaimo, BC, V9R 5G6</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black">Opening: Friday, January 23 7:00pm</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></p><p style="margin:11.25pt 0in;line-height:14.85pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><b>Artists: Sean Alward, Mary Atkinson, Joost Conijn, Randy Lee Cutler, Steven Davies, Michael Drebert, Joar Nango, Kara Uzelman and Agnes Varda</b></span></p><p style="margin:11.25pt 0in;line-height:14.85pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><b>Curated by Jesse Birch</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.85pt"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black">Nanaimo Art Gallery presents <i>Gleaners.</i> </span><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">This exhibition
takes its name from Jean Francois Millet’s painting <i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">The Gleaners</span></i> (1857), which depicts three peasant
women hunched down picking the remainders of a harvest. The traditional
practice of gleaning involves gathering and sharing forgotten or ignored food
crops, but gleaning occurs whenever things or ideas that were once cast aside
are given new value. In this exhibition Canadian and international
artists <i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">glean for stories</span></i>.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.85pt"><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Storytellers acquire their tales through travel to distant
places, slow engagement with a single place or idea, or a combination of the
two. In <i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Gleaners</span></i>, the process of collecting stories is
integrated within the narratives themselves. These tales are shared through a
range of media including photography, video, sculpture, music, and word of
mouth.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11.25pt 0in;line-height:14.85pt"><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The exhibition will be accompanied by information about
Nanaimo’s organized food gleaning programs courtesy of Nanaimo Foodshare.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11.25pt 0in;line-height:14.85pt"><b><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Free events and public programming:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11.25pt 0in;line-height:14.85pt"><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">A talk and tour on the relationship between collecting and
storytelling with artist Kara Uzelman and curator Jesse Birch on Saturday,
January 24, 2pm.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.85pt"><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Screenings of Agnes Varda’s<i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> The Gleaners and I</span></i> will
be held at 7pm on Friday February 13, Friday March 13, and Friday April 10,
Nanaimo Art Gallery’s Art Lab</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11.25pt 0in;line-height:14.85pt"><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Gleaners: Salt Walk<br>
Saturday April 19, 2pm<br>
A Salt Walk with Randy Lee Cutler. Join artist Randy Lee Cutler for a walk
through downtown Nanaimo exploring the enduring relationship that civilizations
have had with salt, from its importance in food preservation and healing to
more aesthetic and philosophical implications.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black">For information on programs related to the
exhibition, including art-based activities for children and adults, visit our
website at </span><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif"><a href="http://www.nanaimoartgallery.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">www.nanaimoartgallery.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black">. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11.25pt 0in;line-height:14.85pt"><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Image: Joost Conijn,</span><em style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.7999992370605px"> Hout Auto/Wood Car, 2002, production still </em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:black">Thank you to our sponsors: British
Columbia Arts Council, City of Nanaimo, Vancouver Island University. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17)">We acknowledge the financial assistance of the Province of British
Columbia.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.85pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:'Univers 45 Light',sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17)">For more information please contact Chris Kuderle, (250)
740.6350</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><div><div><img width="420" height="153" src="http://i1032.photobucket.com/albums/a407/chris_westcoast1/emailsigck-2_zps398f1dea.jpg"></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>
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