<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin:4.95pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">July 16, 2019</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin:4.95pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Public Service
Announcement</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Exploring war trauma through
textile mixed-media art at Vernon’s Caetani House<br>
</span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A pop-up art exhibit at Caetani
Centre by UBCO BFA graduate Mirjana Borovickic</span></i><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“I
was born in Bosnia and immigrated to Canada in 1995 at the age of 12, after
living through a civil war,” </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">shares Kelowna artist Mirjana Borovickic, the Caetani Centre’s inaugural
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">UBCO Faculty
of Creative and Critical Studies (FCSS)/Caetani Artist-in-Residence</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Currently,
she’s working with textiles and acrylic on a large mixed media series titled <i>Resident
Child.</i> In this series she explores her childhood memories and war trauma,
creating images from her past using previously owned garments, mostly from her
own children. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“It’s
been a self-guided therapy session for me. I’ve been able confront my difficult
past and release emotions I had suppressed since childhood.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Throughout
her life Mirjana has always been fascinated with textiles; her love for
textiles was further developed during her teenage years when she opted to take
sewing in high school. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">She
graduated with a BFA in Visual Arts from the University of British Columbia,
Okanagan in 2019. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Come meet
Mirjana and experience her show, <b><i>Resident Child,</i></b> during the opening
reception on </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Monday, July 29th, 7pm - 9pm, as well as
during gallery hours on Tuesday, July 30<sup>th</sup> from 11am-4pm in the
Caetani Cultural Centre Studio Gallery.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This new
partnership between UBC Okanagan and Vernon’s Caetani Cultural Centre is
helping make artistic dreams come true for two UBCO student-artists.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To have a
residency funded by the new UBCO/Caetani partnership removes the barriers of
the very-real financial challenges a number of artists face working full-time
on their art career, explains Bryce Traister, dean of UBCO’s Faculty of
Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS).</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Caetani Centre’s
Artist-in-Residence programs are available to artists working on creative
projects anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months in length. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">The artist stays and creates at
the Caetani Cultural Centre and is invited to share workshops, readings and
exhibitions with the North Okanagan community.
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">For more information
please visit our website <u><a href="https://www.caetani.org">https://www.caetani.org</a></u></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin:0.45pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Or contact the Caetani
Centre at 250-275-1525.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin:0.45pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="m_-4886864408344106043gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin:4.95pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
</p><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" align="center" style="margin:0.45pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">- <span style="top: -0.5pt;">30 –</span></span></p><p class="m_-4886864408344106043gmail-MsoBodyText" align="center" style="margin:0.45pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span><br></span></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4886864408344106043gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Janelle Hardy<div>Artist in Residence Program Coordinator<br>Caetani Cultural Centre</div><div><a href="http://www.caetani.org/creative-residencies" target="_blank">www.caetani.org/creative-residencies</a></div><div>250 275-1525<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>