KLAC NEWS
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Kawartha Lakes Arts Council Releases First Greeting Card Collection
A collection of five member works is featured on the first-ever greeting card collection produced by the Kawartha Lakes Arts Council (KLAC).
Request for Submissions — KLAC Greeting Card collection
The Kawartha Lakes Arts Council (KLAC) will feature jury-selected member art on greeting cards to be sold in sets of five. Each package will include one of each of five chosen art images. Members are invited to submit one (1) original image for inclusion in the inaugural Greeting Card Collection. A jury will choose the five (5) images to be featured in the collection. The image title and artist name will be included on the back of the card along with the KLAC logo and KLAC contact information.
Selling Your ARt on Marketplace
“Buy Local”! KLAC Members who are painters, sculptors, photographers, woodworkers, authors, and artisans of all stripes can sell their creative works on our new e-commerce platform, Marketplace. It is an easy system facilitated by the Kawartha Lakes Arts Council’s new website. First, you join KLAC as an Artist Member for an annual fee of $40.00. This entitles you to create your Member Page in our gallery, with up to 10 images of your work, three paragraphs of text and a link to your website, if you have one. These images are sent to KLAC’s email account: kawarthalakesartscouncil@gmail.com. Our digital provider, Barton Creative Co., creates the Member Page usually within 2-3 days of submission.
Kawartha Lakes Arts Council launches new way to support arts community
As a result of COVID-19, the Board of Kawartha Lakes Arts Council was forced to cancel the 4th annual two-day Made in Kawartha Lakes Art Show & Sale (MIKL) held in November. The annual show was missed by many who benefited from the exposure, sales and collaboration. As reflected by James Lukow of Your Dreams in Wood, “The show was missed for many reasons. I always look forward to checking in with fellow artisans and Arts & Heritage Trail members. Having attended for the last number of years I've noticed that people have specifically looked for me.”
Arts Achievement Award Winners Recognized
In October 2020 the first ever Kawartha Lakes Youth Awards were presented including two Arts Achievement Awards in partnership with the Kawartha Lakes Arts Council. The winners have received an honourary one year artist membership and we are pleased to profile them.
KLAC Member Benefits Expand
The year 2020 posed challenges for all members of our community – in particular, across Canada, the arts and cultural sector has been hard hit by the pandemic. For KLAC, we had to figure out how a grassroots, volunteer-run arts council could invest in new ways to deliver benefits to our Members, and help sustain our local creative community.
Penni Holdham, Artist, Designer, Muralist
Starting out in fashion, selling children’s apparel and driving a taxi, in 1976 Penni Holdham enrolled at Ontario College of Art, where she explored jewellery making, photography, sculpture and painting. Following graduation and a short stint as a ski bum, she worked for a Singles Dating Club in 1980. Social planning for singles led her to special events design and production. Here, she found a challenging career path offering a new creative opportunity every day.
GETTING TO KNOW RAY MARSHALL
A recent interview with Ray Marshall after he joined us on the Kawartha Lakes Arts Council.
Our Interview with Lesley Drummond
Lesley Drummond is an artist, educator and curator who has been actively involved in the Arts Community of the Kawartha Lakes for close to 30 years. Lesley majored in painting (with drawing, printmaking, sculpture and a fair bit of Art History rounding out her experience) at Queen’s University in Kingston.
Get To Know Board Member Dianne Lister
Compassion, community, connection, creativity. They’re the qualities that have defined Dianne Lister’s career, and the reasons she has become so involved with Kawartha Lakes Arts Council (KLAC). She brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise from her experience as a lawyer, charitable-sector leader, and executive coach, as well as a passion for the arts, as evidenced in her own photography and her extensive volunteer work in the field.