Visual Arts Newsletter

We are asking all art lovers to help join with the arts community in protest of the funding cuts to the arts in British Columbia. This is your chance to make your voices heard.

How can you help?

Dear Friends & Colleagues

Your Alliance for Arts and Culture in Vancouver, BC is launching a Creativity Counts: Restore Arts Funding Now campaign as our contribution to the groundswell of arts community protest against the devastating cuts in provincial arts funding this past fall.

There are six simple requests:...Read more

The Lifeskills Centre is a unique and groundbreaking resource centre providing opportunities to enter capacity building programs and classes, as well as basic services such as laundry, food, and showers, to Canada’s most vulnerable population....Read more

As a volunteer at the BC Schizophrenia Society (BCSS) Victoria branch, I found others in recovery from a mental illness, and their family members, who are artists and poets but who have difficulty exhibiting their work or feel awkward reading their poetry in a public sphere. I was impressed by the high standards of their creative and expressive work....Read more

We spread the word and you delivered beyond anything we could have ever imagined. It is your wonderful support which allows these art organizations to keep on making art. Thank you for your generosity as each dollar donated was matched by Opus. ...Read more

In total we raised over $35,950.00

We are very excited to announce our new digital printing on canvas service, available now at Opus Art & Design Media in Downtown Vancouver....Read more

At Opus, we want to make sure that your shopping experience is the best that it can be....Read more

MOMENTUM, an exhibition of works by donor artists of the Coast Art Trust Society, will take place during the 2010 Olympic Games in the vicinity of the Athletes’ Village in Vancouver. The title of the exhibition reflects the ongoing eclectic creativity of established artists over a span of 3 to 5 decades....Read more

The Port Moody Arts Centre presents their annual Wearable Art Awards event which encourages local, Canadian and international artists of all mediums to submit evocative, imaginative and thought provoking creations for the human body....Read more

Coast Mental Health presents CONNECT: our community, our art, our show, from February 5th until March 20th at The Gathering Place Community Centre at 609 Helmcken Street. CONNECT is an art show featuring artists who use social services and live, work or consider the Downtown South of Vancouver home....Read more