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Galleria
THE INSIDE STORY OF ART MARKETING
» Thursday 11 December 2008 | 5 pm
» The Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing people and ideas featured in Okanagan ARTS. Join us as Maria Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante of Ashpa Naira Gallery near Fintry, Prima Harris of Tumbleweed Gallery in Penticton and Alissa Woodside of Woodside Gallery in Kelowna take us inside the world of the private gallery owner.
» This is a free event. Refreshments will be available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Gallery Owners Open Doors to Arts Discovery:
The Trials and Triumphs of Private Art Galleries
If you want to discover the artistic heart of a community, step inside a private art gallery. This is the dream home of any art collector - a place where you can find the best of emerging artists. But it's risky business. After all, one person's treasure is another person's trash. It takes guts, commitment, and some inner kind of artistic compass to weather the storms of such a precarious venture.
On Thursday, December 11th at 5pm, the Okanagan Institute Express series hosts Galleria: The Inside Story of Art Marketing. Join us as Maria Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante of Ashpa Naira Gallery near Fintry, Prima Harris of Tumbleweed Gallery in Penticton and Alissa Woodside of Woodside Gallery in Kelowna take us inside the world of the private gallery owner.
 Maria Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante is co-founder and owner of Ashpa Naira Gallery & Studio. She has a degree in Design and many years of experience in Textile and Ceramic Art in South America. As former owner of the Fugitive Gallery in Vernon, she represented more than 20 artists who specialized in contemporary art of various mediums. When the gallery closed in 1995, Maria Carolina continued her commitment to local artists by expanding her home-based studio, where she does her stunning ceramic work, into a warm and inviting gallery that showcases numerous Okanagan artists.
The name Ashpa Naira is taken from the indigenous quechua language of the Incas and means "fired earth", which is exactly the process that transforms raw clay into ceramics. The Gallery is located in Killiney, on the west side of Okanagan Lake near Fintry Park.
 Prema Harris has devoted more than 20 years to building links between artists and collectors as owner of the imaginative, often whimsical, and highly-regarded Tumbleweed Gallery in Penticton..
Over the years her gallery has been open to various incarnations in order to stay aloft. Prema has had to juggle all the challenges of being a small entrepreneur in a small town. She doesn't shy away from the more mundane roles of sidewalk sweeper, graphic designer, copywriter and publicist, to picture framer and picture hanger. Her steadfast devotion and vision has earned her every single strand of grey that now crowns her head, and created a gallery that is now the South Okanagan's home to local artists like Lee Claremont who are firmly on the path to international acclaim.
 Alissa Woodside, in contrast, is a newcomer to the field. An artist herself, with a BFA from UBCOkanagan, she gained her gallery experience working at the Kelowna Public Gallery as a facilitator for the kid's art programs.Just over a year ago, Alissa launched her own entrepreneurial adventure with the opening of A Woodside Design Gallery in Kelowna. The gallery devotes itself to Okanagan artists from a variety of artistic mediums - from felted bags to stone sculpture and contemporary paintings.
Since the beginning, Woodside has made it her mandate to celebrate well-regarded emerging local artists. The benefits are obvious - lower prices and a chance to invest in the artistic future of this visually arresting and inspiring part of the world.
Galleria: The Inside Story of Art Marketing is a free event, and takes place at the Bohemian Café. This marks the 70th event the Okanagan Institute has held since the Express series got underway in July 2007. Since that time, the series has played host to many Okanagan luminaries, including former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International Derek Evans, artists Lee Claremont and Gary Pearson, BC Book Award nominee Don Gayton, CBC Literary prize winner poet Harold Rhenisch, distinguished editor and author Jim Taylor, poet and professor John Lent, animator and filmmaker Jim Cliffe, architect Jim Meiklejohn, broadcaster Marion Barschel and others from a wide range of creative fields.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER ONLINE CLICK HERE
Where Enquiring Minds Gather. Okanagan Institute at the Bohemian Café A hearty feast of lectures, presentations, workshops and showcases celebrating our culture and community. Produced by the Okanagan Institute in association with Wheat King Publishing magazines: Okanagan Arts and Okanagan Home. Express is sponsored in part by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Publishing, UBCO-FCCS, and in support of Project Literacy Kelowna.
The Okanagan Institute is a group of creative professionals that have gathered around the goal of providing events, publications and services of interest to enquiring minds in the Okanagan. We partner with individuals, organizations, institutions and businesses to achieve optimal creative and social impact.
Our mission is to ignite cultural transformation, catalyze collaborative action, build networks and foster sustainable creative enterprises. We invite the participation by all members of the creative community.
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