About Canadian Art Junkie:
I’m a Canadian and I’m a junkie for the visual arts.
The site has been online since 2011, featuring painting, photography, illustration and other visual arts from Canada, and from around the world.
The painting on this page, by Emily Carr, a favourite, is the quintessential example of art that many Canadians grew up with. Today, the selection goes well beyond Canada’s still-beloved Group of Seven.
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About Me: I’m a journalist, traveler and art & music lover. I grew up in Canada, trained in Chicago, lived/worked in the Toronto area and now live half-time in Collingwood, the beautiful centre of south Georgian Bay.
I have curated visual arts here on Canadian Art Junkie since 2011 and post occasionally to my personal blog Colder by the Lake. I am an accredited facilitator for Amherst Writers and Artists, and for the Writers Collective of Canada, which run not-for-profit writing workshops.
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*Re Emily Carr’s painting, originally titled Indian Church (above).
In May, 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario, which holds the piece, re-hung the painting with a new name because the word “Indian” causes pain, the AGO said.
The new name Church at Yuquot Village references the British Columbia Indigenous community where the church was located.
A CBC piece about the name change is here.
Image credit: Emily Carr, Church In Yuquot Village, 1929. Oil on Canvas. Bequest of Charles S. Band, Toronto 1970, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Copyright Art Gallery of Ontario 2007
Hi there, just stumbled on your blog – Well done!
Thought you might like to take a gander too at my work over at htpp://canadadaPHOTOGRAPHY.blogspot.com
You’ll see I too have been at it for a while … 🙂
Award-winning, multi-disciplined, self-taught, mid-career, publicly & privately exhibited, eight book titles, 14 years of Canadian fine furniture design, 30 odd years of oil painting, a typeface design, and 15 years of photography including pinhole camera making, etc.
Enjoy!
Keep at it!
Thank you for the tip. Enjoyed your RBG orchids!
Hello again. Just wondered if you might be interested in reviewing/viewing some earlier work of this year, my ‘White Out’ project. If so, can send you a sample with links. Thanks. Also, are you aware of Arabella? (http://www.arabelladesign.com/) It’s quite a different kind of promoter of Canadian art with a bit more of a ‘glossy’ feel 😉 Overall, I prefer your efforts – LOVE your selections. Very best, mlh
Very nice content and layout. I’ve added to my blogroll (www.OCanadaBlog.com).
Happened to be here as you posted and went straight to your blog. Love it. And thank you for your comment and inclusion on the blogroll. I’m following you now.
I have nominated you for the Shine On award! Find out why I think your blog is outstanding and claim your award on my website: http://christiestratos.com/blog-awards/
Hi Mrs Walters,
Is it possible to contact you by email to give you information about a project I think you would be interested in? You can contact me at vp [@] codmorse.com.
Thank you very much!
Just sent you an email, feel free.
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hey boomeron
just wanted to update you on the apples & art studio tour that was held this weekend in our area. we had a great turnout at OBO Studio where i exhibited. i’ve posted some pics on my blog. hope you get a chance to visit again!
hope all the other fall studio tours, coming up & gone by have as inspiring outcomes as ours did!
http://michellecfecit.wordpress.com/
Thanks for the update. Went and had a look. OBO looks terrific and I love that poetry mirror.
thanks for taking the time boomeron! OBO Studio is a great space. any endeavour that tracy-lynn & emily take on seems to take wings!
thanks for the comment on the mirror. the poem is applied on the surface with vinyl lettering like what is used on vehicles for business logos so there’s weeding involved. i had to weed away the excess vinyl from around each letter. when the letters are so small & with such large serifs, it’s a more involved task. the mirror was originally gilded & used to hang in my mother’s living room. she loved that mirror & so do i but i always wanted to wash the gilded look out! so everytime i hit a snag (literally!) in the weeding process i figured it was my mom sending a sign that she was not happy with this project!
http://michellecfecit.wordpress.com/
I imagine the weeding is a great deal of work, but great results. (That’s a nice connection to your mother.)
Saw something about this artist today – maybe you already are aware of her? Just in case you aren’t, I thought I’d pass it on. Fascinating! http://www.annagillespie.co.uk/current_work.html
Thanks so much. No, I had not heard of her, and this is one of the best things about blogging – getting referred to great artists you’re not familiar with. Appreciated.
http://canadianartjunkie.com/
Has been nominated for a “Thought Provoking Blog Award”
by MacKENZIE’s Dragonsnest
Go to the following link to see what you have been awarded
http://mackenziesdragonsnest.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/a-thought-provoking-blog-award/
http://christophrm.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/visit-to-cockatoo-island/
Gorgeous shots, thanks for the link.
Dear Boomerontario, I had this insane Blog Awards Night thing on my post. http://resamcconaghy.com/2012/07/02/red-carpet-blues/ I saw you had a Blog Award on your side roll, so I thought what the heck and added you as a nominee. Your post is so serious compared to mine. Well, you might not like the Blog Award thing, and I respect that. So…accept or not, I’m easy-peasy and will always follow.
I’m truly honored. And you deserve all those recognitions. And by the way, the reason my post is serious (true) is because I don’t have your panache! I love your awards post, and am going on over to your blog to say so.
Thank you! Hey, talk about art, I can’t believe what an amazing artistic job I did of touching-up the photo of me arriving at the awards event. xo
ALL your dozens of commenters love that post. You should put an image from it on your sidebar and link it back to the post so everyone stopping by can go there. It really is fabulous.
Thank you, and what a great idea it is about the sidebar thing. I’m on an MOW right now, and time is slipping away from me as we approach camera. Hopefully I can get that together this weekend, which will be my last 2 day weekend for awhile. What an exhausting career film is. For crying out loud, I still can’t figure out how to do a Blogroll. Argh!
Hello! Thank so much for your inspirational blog. I’m sure you have had it before, but I am nominating you for the reader appreciation award: http://searchingtosee.com/2012/07/01/thank-you/
Thank you for this, very much appreciated. I also enjoyed your list of nominees, with quite a few blogs that I’d likely never have had the opportunity to see without a visit to your page.
Been following your blog for a while now.. Your posts are extremely inspiring 🙂
A great compilation of things that make you smile each time.
Thank you so much for taking the time to say so. I’m so glad when someone gets something out of this collection.
I see you are nominated lots for blog awards, but I have also nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award! You are definitely doing something right! Check it out here: http://lindacotestudio.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/award-nomination-for-my-blog
I have nominated the Canadian Art Junkie now for an award – The Versatile Blogger! =D You can see the post here: http://lexiejrunge.com/2012/06/05/the-versatile-blogger-award/
Great art & inspirations on your blog. Thanks for the recent visit. Come by anytime~
I nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award: http://maribelskidneystory.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/one-lovely-blog-award/
Thank you so much Maribel. I’m honored that you selected the Canadian Art Junkie.
great blog – thanks for making them
http://manoftheword.com/2012/05/31/first-award-acknowledgment/
Thank you for liking my post! I enjoy your blog so much. I’ll make sure to catch your upcoming posts! adjö
Hi – Your blog is such a great combination of things, always so interesting. Thanks for your comment.