Living Artfully: Reflections from the Far West Coast - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1926780140 ISBN 13: 9781926780146

Publisher: Key Pub House Inc, 2012

Synopsis

The extreme west coast is often characterized as the most "out there" edge of Canada and has become known internationally for artists residing in the region and giving it their own particular flavor. Living Artfully: Reflections from the Far West Coast offers unique perspectives and insights to the interrelationship of creativity and geography through intimate portrayals about the lives of artists. Writers, painters, carvers, and performers reflect on the private spaces of the arts—inner worlds and natural environments—and the public spaces for exhibiting, performing and sharing. Artists delve into their life journeys, the struggles and challenges as well as the joys and rewards of pursuing expression out here. Forty-two emerging and established artists have contributed to this collection, including award-winning First Nations playwright and poet Janet Rogers; painter, writer, and arts advocate Robert Amos; internationally noted artists Avis Rasmussen and Mark Hobson; renowned author Susan Musgrave; award-winning film maker Velcrow Ripper; and from the academy, dancer and educator Celeste Snowber, professor emeritus Bill Zuk and many more voices that shape what it means to live artfully on the far west coast.

About this title

About the Author

A longtime resident of Canada's far west coast, Anita Sinner divides her time between Sooke and Montreal, where she is an assistant professor of art education at Concordia University. Her research interests include community art education, arts methods, relational aesthetics, life, and light writing and digital media. As an artist, researcher, and teacher, she brings interdisciplinary perspectives to social and cultural issues in education. Christine Lowther is co-editor and co-author of Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place (Ronsdale Press) with Anita. She is also the author of Half-Blood Poems: Inspired by the Stories of JK Rowling (Zossima Press), My Nature (Leaf Press), and New Power (Broken Jaw Press). Her work has appeared in anthologies and periodicals including subTerrain, Other Voices, the New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Poetry Is Dead, Walk Myself Home, Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North and on Poetry in Transit.

Review

Living Artfully: Reflections from the Far West Coast is a compelling collection of love stories, full of wisdom and hope. In stories, ruminations, poetry, and art, the authors sing lyrically about their love for the islands they call home. Elemental and evocative, this book maps a complex geography of the heart by writing the earth with sensuous attentiveness.
--Carl Leggo, poet and professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
To slip into Living Artfully: Reflections from the Far West Coast is to get swept away in the Tsunami of creative inspiration as these artists reach down for the wild coast inside of them. It is a vicarious journey into the magic where you'll meet a welcoming committee of wolves and a whale that literally glows with bioluminescence. Feel the longing as Gael Duchene seeks out the night and Libbie Morin confronts the blackening storm. Chuckle as they realize the true bargain of dispensing with "city goggles" as Michael Elcock agrees to help repair a roof and Michael Scott Curnes lures a lover away from mainland comforts. Savour the healing place in stories that bring poets Christine Lowther and Lisa Shatzky back to themselves and allow Keven Drews to take his own measure in his moving Letters to Dad.
--Erin McMullan is editor of One Mush: Jamaica’s Dogsled Team, Sambaa K'e Then and Now

Edition details

• Publisher: Key Pub House Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1926780140
• ISBN 13: 9781926780146
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 242
• Editor: Sinner Anita, Lowther Christine