Budding young artists work with professional artists!
These certificate programs are aimed at developing students’ technical skills and art knowledge. Students progress from Level 1 to Level 3. Students will work in a small group setting with a professional artist to learn drawing fundamentals and techniques using a variety of media and…
September 17 – 19, 2010
Grande Prairie is one of five featured celebration sites in Alberta and the Prairie Art Gallery will partner with other community organizations, including the Centre for Creative Arts, to present exciting activities throughout the Arts Days weekend.
What an Amazing Weekend!
To learn more about the amazing events happening in Grande Prairie…
August 28, 2010
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Montrose Cultural Centre
Visit the Prairie Art Gallery during the event to learn more about the restoration project. Visitors can also view art exhibitions including The Wild Side of Art and AutoPark.
The fall issue of Community Connections is available at most City facilities on August 25 and in that day’s Daily Herald…
A true renaissance for Heimdal
Josephine Lim – Daily Herald-Tribune staff
It’s been a long three years but local mural painter Tim Heimdal is finally showing a children’s summer interactive display in the Prairie Art Gallery.
Before the gallery’s snow-load roof collapse in 2007, Heimdal’s work was to be featured, said Lynn LeCorre-Dallaire, the…
We’re looking for artists to share their talents and inspire students with art! The Prairie Art Gallery is currently seeking local art instructors for its Artist in the Classroom program. As the name implies, the program brings professional artists into school classrooms to offer memorable experiences to students. The program…
This is the final week to view the art exhibition Le Jardin du sommeil. We hope you will be one of almost 4,000 people to experience the exhibition from artist Spring Hurlbut at the Prairie Art Gallery. The final day to see the collection of about 100 antique cribs and cradles is Sunday, August 22, 2010. …
Grow your own art
Darrell Winwood – Herald-Tribune staff
The next time you drive past the Montrose Cultural Centre, don’t despair, that’s not a broken down piece of junk car parked in front of the city’s premier cultural space like an washing machine on a redneck’s lawn.
Take a closer look because the vehicles…
A Year In Review: Since the collapse of the gallery in 2007, we have been without adequate facilities in the gallery to offer hands on activities to school classes, so we have taken those activities to the students’ own classrooms. Between April 2009 and March 2010, we visited 115 classrooms…
We’ve started the construction phase of the restoration project on the Prairie Art Gallery’s previous home in the historic 1929 Grande Prairie High School building (103 Ave & 99 Street) and we’d like to show you what the building will look like when it’s completed in 2011.
Click on images to…
If you haven’t picked up your copy at the Prairie Art Gallery yet, you can view our ARTimage newsletter online. Learn more about the gallery’s upcoming phase of construction, events held during the Street Performers Festival in July, Art Insight Tours and summer art exhibitions.