Our "Colour With a U" Committee met via Zoom on Tuesday. This committee set up the Colour With a U Exhibit and Call for Entry and we thought by now we'd actually get to see the Exhibit in person but as it turns out, the Gallery closed its doors due to Covid-19 just after the show was hung and before its opening. The exhibit was supposed to open during SAQA's (Studio Art Quilts Associates) International Conference here in Toronto this year in March. It now looks like no one will get to see it at this venue. We have been contacting venues right across Canada so that this show could travel for the next few years. At this point we are not sure the show will be able to travel. That will be a huge disappointment.
In response to the Gallery closing, our committee also put together a virtual exhibition of Colour With a U with, yours truly, reading the the artist statements. The virtual exhibition is 1 hour long but the work is beautiful and thought provoking. Here is the link for that show if you are interested.
https://vimeo.com/401994763/228b98385e
If you only have a little time here is the link for a 3 minute video of the exhibit. It doesn't have all the work displayed in it but you will get a feel for it.
https://www.homerwatson.on.ca/exhibitions/virtual-exhibition/
The conference was cancelled but the conference committee quickly set to going virtual by organizing workshops, meetings and talks that could be done over social media. I wasn't able to engage in many of the live programs but since everything was recorded I can access them any time. The comments I heard were that the conference was a success. Our online fundraising Spotlight Auction had record sales.
As you can see, we were handed lemons and so we made lemonade. I think it was pretty good lemonade.
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