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Sunday, June 04, 2023

Hi, Art!

Sunday, June 04, 2023

Hi, art lovers!

 
Screen shot of CBC Arts interactive feature 22 Artists Who Salvaged 2022. Cartoon style illustration of 22 portraits of artists on a yellow background.

Natalie Very B

 
I’m writing you this email from THE PAST. Friday morning, to be exact — several hours before the winners of the 2023 Digital Publishing Awards were revealed. CBC earned 15 nominations this year, and a few of those nods went to the team here at CBC Arts. Win or lose, we’re proud to be among those honoured — so proud that I’m going to open this newsletter with a bunch of links to our nominated projects.

Links of peer-acknowledged excellence: From our video series, “Poetic License,” watch Arrival. The short film — which features Edmonton’s ninth poet laureate, Titilope Sonuga — was produced for Black on the Prairies: Place Edition, a CBC News interactive project that happens to be nominated for best digital editorial package alongside CBC Arts’ year-in-review extravaganza, 22 Artists Who Salvaged 2022. (Come to think of it, one of Edmonton’s former poet laureates, Cadence Weapon, is the focus of another nominated piece. Read The Prairies Got Something to Say, which is in the running for best digital design.)

Remember when Instagram changed, but the artists using it didn’t? No? Well, read this article that’s nominated for best short feature and maybe it’ll come back to you. Then, check out everything Alicia Elliott’s published in the last 12 months; “Shelfies” is up for best column of the year.
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo of Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a little girl. She is surrounded by a crowd of people, including a young girl who has been hoisted up so she can reach out to touch the puppet's hand. Both girl and giant puppet appear in profile at a seaside location.

Igor Emerich/Luminato

Luminato kicks off in Toronto later this week, and one of this year’s projects (Walk with Amal Toronto) will be hard to miss. Little Amal (pictured) is a giant puppet of a small girl — a 10-year-old Syrian refugee who’s searching for a home. Between June 7 and 11, she’ll be on the move in neighbourhoods around the city, and the public’s invited to join her on parade. Find more info, including where and when to find her, over here.
 
Expressive colour illustration of a female figure in green wearing a yellow sunhat, watering plants that grow wildly out of a vessel shaped like a giant Classical bust. Butterflies and hummingbirds flit around the sky. A large green cartoon frog sits with crossed legs below the planter. Water splashes on its head.

Samantha Chiusolo

Some weekend gardening vibes care of Peterborough, Ont., illustrator Samantha Chiusolo.
 
Watercolour painting of a giant buffalo resting on the grass. A tiny woman in a colourful skirt with dark hair so long it's twice her height, rests serenely on the buffalo's head.

Aly McKnight

This month’s logo designer, Chelysa (Chief) Owens-Cyr, is a big fan of this artist: Aly McKnight. (Curious about Chelysa’s logo? Keep scrolling! There’s a feature at the bottom of this email.)
 
Surreal drawing in shades of electric blue and teal. Suggests a staircase to an ethereal arched portal, surrounded by cloud-like forms resembling loopy cartoon like hands.

Lauren Clay

Teal Passage by Lauren Clay.
 
Digital render of a building shaped like a three-tier pastel wedding cake, but made of ceramic tile. It is surrounded by trees, and a couple embraces in front of the structure.

Joana Vasconcelos

I’m not sure what I want more right now: a vacation or dessert. Whatever the answer, this thing sure is speaking to me. It’s a mock-up of an immersive sculpture called Wedding Cake, and those piles of pastel buttercream are going to be made of ceramic. The structure serves as a sort of pavilion, one that towers 12 metres high, and it was designed by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. Later this month, it will open to the public at Waddesdon Manor, a historic house in southeast England. (Wall-licking is discouraged, I presume.)
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
A performer wearing a costume made of clear plastic bottles extends their arms as if dancing. They stand under the concrete arches of Toronto's Gardiner Expressway.
Brandon Ferguson

The thing that devoured Fort York!

 
Inspired by classic sci-fi and built from discarded plastic, art by Leeroy New kicked off the Bentway’s summer season in Toronto.
 
detail of the cover art for book Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth. It is a composite image of pulp novel-style illustratin. At left, a detail of a woman's face, in shades of green. She appears to be clutching her face in fear, or perhaps someone else has grabbed her face in their manicured hand. At right, a silhouette of a hand, in mauve, against a pale pink background. A giant ring is on its ring finger.
Vintage Anchor Books

A mother’s love is supposed to be unconditional …

 
So what happens when it’s not? Columnist Alicia Elliott reflects on Motherthing, the new novel by Ainslie Hogarth.
 
Still from digi-Art episode 6. Five young people sit on bean bag chairs under the canopy of a geodesic dome being used as a projector screen. They all smile and raise their hands.

CBC Arts

 

What is photogrammetry?

 
On the new episode of digi-Art, meet artists who use the technology to recreate places in the real world.
 

Follow this artist

 
 
 
Instagram

Chelysa (Chief) Owens-Cyr

@chief_leese
A version of the CBC Arts gem logo rendered as a flat digital illustration. The rainbow colours of the Pride flag are visible through the shapes that comprise the gem, as are graphic icons of tipis, buffalo and geometric floral designs (rendered in white).

Chelysa (Chief) Owens-Cyr

National Indigenous History Month meets Pride in our new June logo, created by Chelysa (Chief) Owens-Cyr. Read more about her and the concept behind the design.
 

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