<div dir="ltr">hi there - my apologies for sending this correction - if you haven't already shared/published this press release, please use the following material and re-attached poster + Press Release doc. <div><br><div>Photos remain the same as previously submitted.<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";text-align:center"></span><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">November 04, 2019</span></p>
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<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>
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<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">Mushrooms creating their own art
prints. Mycophilia, Volume II:</span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An artshow of mushroom spore prints by Victoria artist Roberta Pyx
Sutherland.</span></i></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“I
contracted a fascination and love of mushrooms in the final days of my first
residency in 2017,” confesses Sutherland. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From her first solo show at the Victoria
Art Gallery in the 1980’s, her work has focused on the environment and the
interconnectivity of all life forms. </span></p>
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<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"> “If you saw any of the
work at my exhibition last year at Caetani you realized I had a severe case
with fully blown symptoms!</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I’m inspired by the relationships of
cosmic patterning and divine intelligence</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><i>,” </i>Sutherland
explains.</span><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 lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This
artshow deepens an exploration of mushroom spore printing she started last
year, as an artist-in-residence at the Caetani Centre, but the weather in
October 2018 was very different than the weather in October 2019. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;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="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“Despite the early frost, Caetani House and this
beautiful season in Vernon have offered the opportunity to further research the
hidden possibilities of inter-species collaborations.” </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 lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The mushrooms were harder to find, yet she
pulled it off.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Roberta Pyx Sutherland is a contemporary
Canadian artist who works from Victoria and Hornby Island.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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">Her work
is represented in a number of public collections including the Canada Council
for the Arts, Burnaby Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Toronto
Public Library, University of British Columbia, Concordia University Library,
and the Bibliothèque de Genève</span></p>
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<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 Roberta
and experience her mycophilic art during the opening reception, on </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Friday, November 8<sup>th</sup>, 7pm - 9pm, as well as
during gallery hours Saturday & Sunday November 9<sup>th</sup> & 10<sup>th</sup>
from 11am-3pm and Monday November 11<sup>th</sup> from 1-3pm 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="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">She’ll be offering a brief
exhibition introduction on Friday November 8</span><sup style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">th</sup><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> at 7:30pm, and a demonstration
of soft-pastel making on Sunday November 10</span><sup style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">th</sup><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> at 1pm.</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,30,33)">Sutherland
is the Caetani Cultural Centre’s self-directed </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Artist-in-Residence.
The </span><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><span 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;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><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<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 </span><a href="https://www.caetani.org" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://www.caetani.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> or contact the Caetani Centre at
250-275-1525.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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