Po lar Exhibit

Patricia Gonzalez

Po lar Exhibit

Nieves Santos

Po lar Exhibit

Sarah Jane Conklin

When No Birds Sang
8x10 mixed media piece. The oil painted image is that of a weakened and silent forest.
Attached is a poem of hope written on a piece of fallen birch bark.
The poem is written from a futuristic point of view. It refers to a time when global
warming had adversely affected our Canadian landscape and wildlife. It comments on
how our Canadian Government had let us down (the Maple Leaf wilts) by its inaction on
this global catastrophe.
A definitive indication on how global warming has had a negative impact on our forests,
is in the silencing of our tiniest and most vulnerable wildlife, including our birds.
However, there is hope. It was through the pain and devastation that people made a
conscience effort to save the planet. The voices of hope returned as the birds sang
again.

When No birds Sang, Came Voices of Hope
Look back to our future,
Our maple leaf wilts,
The woodlands would hang,
Time when no birds sang,
In Canada.
In shadows of darkness,
Were voices of hope.
From life’s and limb’s pang,
Came time when birds sang,
In Canada.

Polar Exhibit

Juan 8 x 8 acrylic

Laurel Rath

Po lar Exhibit

How Many More? Andrea Pottyondy 8 x 8 mixed media

World Environment Day, commemorated each year on June 5th, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.

I incorporated the years and themes for World Environment Day featured since 1974 into the art work by printing data on vellum and by applying it over a fractured earth with a thick layer of acrylic gel medium. This process achieved a wrinkled effect to symbolize the eventual ice age that will result from global warming!

The artworks aim is to ask myself and the viewer what will it take to apply action instead of words (since we seem to know what the problems are) to save earth from the ravages of global warming and the inevitability of our own extinction.

Po lar Exhibit

Greenburg - Maxine Hannaby - 8 x 8 oil

Greenburg is an exploration of the diversity of Mother Nature's capacity to morph with environmental conditions. Where there was once an iceberg, may become a greenscape and provide warmth. Where there was once tundra, trees grow.


CORRIDOR GALLERY Members' Show po-lar Climate change is having an increasing impact worldwide. The polar regions of our planet are important indicators of climate change because they both reflect and compel changes throughout the globe. Come see this fantastic group exhibition of 28 works which respond to this theme. June 7th - August 29th, 2008.

Artspa and VANS members featured: Becky Thompson, Sarah Jane Conklin, Andrea Pottyondy, Maxine Hannaby, Nieves Santos, Laurel Christine Rath, Jacqueline Steudler and Patricia Gonzalez Rivero.