1. Liberal leader Stephane Dion says he would restore $22.8 million in cuts made to programs linking arts promotion to diplomacy and that he would support international tours by Canadian artists and their work, in an article published in the London Free Press.

Read the full article HERE

2. Working Back at the Belkin Satellite gallery, Vancouver September 1 — 30, 2007

Gareth Moore · Kerri Reid · Kara Uzelman

Opening reception:
31 August, 8 —10 p.m.

Drawing from archeology, anthropology, and traditional craft, artists Gareth Moore, Kerri Reid, and Kara Uzelman manipulate found objects, turning once discarded things into sculpture.

KARA UZELMAN’s excavation of her Strathcona backyard resulted in a series of sculptures made from her findings, which she sold at a garage sale. Since then she has been using the unearthed objects as source material. In Working Back she will present a re-formed installation based around this project.

Toronto-based artist KERRI REID makes multiples of damaged utilitarian objects that she has discovered abandoned in her neighbourhood, before fixing them up and exhibiting them all together.

GARETH MOORE’s photographs of sculptures made from rubbish will become part of sculptural forms that draw attention to the images as archive.

Kerri Reid, Custom Cover, 2006. Cover, tarp, 3 photographs. Image: orgallery.org