Art at Council
Each Port Moody Regular Council meeting begins with a featured art presentation. Local performers and artists can request to showcase their art through the Art at Council program. This gives artists an opportunity to share their work with the public and educates Council on the cultural projects taking place throughout our city. Previous presentations have included paintings, sculptures, photography, film, music, sketches, artifacts, dance, and a variety of other forms of artistic expression.
Schedule
January 12, 2025Valerie Pugh | House Red Line |
We are pleased to have Valerie Pugh with us this evening for Art at Council. Valerie, an artist and arts educator, resides in the Tri-Cities. She has exhibited her artwork in group and solo exhibitions at The Vancouver Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and POMO Arts Centre.
The artwork in her exhibition explores themes of memory, home, imagination and dreams. Inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s (pronounced BA-SCHE-LARD’S) book, The Poetics of Space, Valerie negotiates the distortion and formation of memory and explores how a lived experience is pieced back through the imagination. Memories, which are often abstract in form, are represented as gestural swaths of vivid colour and generous layers of mark making. These abstractions are then constructed into recognizable architectural forms. The Council video archive can be viewed here. Art at Council begins at the 4 minute 25 second mark.
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January 28, 2025Yasuo Araki | Peace in Port MoodyMarin Charlton | Honeysuckle |
Tonight’s Art at Council is a celebration of our StreetArts Banner Program. Thirty community banners were painted two weekends ago and are currently on display in the Galleria until tomorrow, Wednesday, January 29.
This year’s design theme is Planting our Garden. Gardens are a wonderful metaphor for growing a community and we care for gardens in much the same way that we care for each other. We plant seeds, tend to young shoots, feed them, nurture them while enjoying their flourishing blossoms. This year we are showcasing two banners created by Port Moody residents. The first one is by Yasuo Araki, who will be turning 86 in April. Yasuo has had a long career supporting the arts and artists as he owned the Araki Gallery International at the Pan Pacific Hotel for over 30 years. The second design is by Marin Charlton who is nine years old. She has waited patiently for the banner program to come back and was excited that she is old enough to paint a banner by herself. Her inspiration was the visiting hummingbirds in her garden that love the planted honeysuckle. In addition to the thirty banners, fourteen duplicate short banners were painted by community volunteers and this past fall sixty banners were painted by Port Moody Secondary and Heritage Woods students. We look forward to seeing the banners adorning Port Moody streets in April. The Council video archive can be viewed here. Art at Council begins at the 17 minute 50 second mark. |
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Past Schedule
In 2024 there were a total of 21 Art at Council presentations an d can be viewed here.
In 2023, there were a total of 21 Art at Council presentations and can be viewed here.
In 2022, there were a total of 17 Art at Council presentations and can be viewed here.
In 2021, there were a total of 18 Art at Council presentations and can be viewed here.
In 2020, there were a total of 17 Art at Council presentations and can be viewed here.