Exhibition opening: A collection of somewhat random specimens by Denis Russel

Photographic exhibition by Denis Roussel, titled " A collection of somewhat random specimens", will be presented in Out In The Sticks Art Gallery from June 8 to July 21st, 2013. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, June 8th at 7 pm.

Denis Roussel comes from France, but currently he lives and works in  Colorado, USA. He works with traditional photographic techniques, like wet plate collodion process. The series he will present in our gallery features various random natural objects, which he found in his backyard or during hikes in the area where he lives. Here you may find his Artist Statement and here his biography. You may also visit Denis Roussel's website.

The Gallery is open by chance or by appointment (call 613 877 4532 to find out if we gonna be here). Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

World-wide Pinhole Photography Day - April 28

Like every year, the Out In The Sticks will participate in World-wide Pinhole Photography Day.
On Sunday, April 28th, 2013, from 1 pm to 1:45 pm there will be Mini-Workshop on Pinhole Photography, with photographer Andrzej Maciejewski. Then from 2 to 4 pm every participant may go and take some pinhole photographs, either using cameras provided by us, or their own cameras. These pinhole photographs will be developed right away in Andrzej Maciejewski's portable darkroom. Then you may easily scan them and upload them on the website of the World-Wide Pinhole Photography Day:
http://www.pinholeday.org/
Participants are asked for $ 20 donation towards materials. (Please do not be late for the Workshop part at 1 pm, it is hard to explain everything ten times to all those who come late.)

"Simple Life", exhibition of paintings by Meghan Marshall.

Absolutely stunning selection of paintings by young artist Meghan Marshall will be exhibited in Out In The Sticks Cultural Centre and Art Gallery from April 20th to May 27th 2013. The exhibition title is Simple Life. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, April 20th, at 6pm. As usually, the admission is free, but we welcome donations.

Meghan Marshall lives on Wolfe Island. As she says about herself, she is a chemical engineer by trade and an artist by nature. Her work often explores rural themes. With love and passion she portrays numerous elements of a simple everyday country life; cows in the pasture, chickens in the yard, tractors, barns and fields. You may see few samples of her work below and explore more, visiting her website: http://paintingsbymeghan.blogspot.ca/

You may also download Meghan's bio and artist statement here.

New season starting!

I am very excited to announce that soon we are opening a new season of Out In The Sticks cultural activities. Within next few days I will post here the details of our upcoming events and I will try to update some other things on our blog.

Poetry evening in Out In The Sticks

We are pleased to invite everyone to the great event which will take place on Friday, August 10th, starting at 8 pm. Gary Rasberry will present the poems coming from his freshly published new book. There will be also other attractions. Please find the details below.

Publications about current show

We have got nice response from local media to our current show, "Eclectic Roots" by Tim de Rose. There was a nice story by Meghan Balogh, published both in the Napanee Guide and Kingston This Week and a very interesting review by Kamille Parkinson in Kingston Whig Standard.

Exhibition ""Eclectic Roots" by Tim De Rose opens on July 21st

A beautiful exhibition of paintings by Tim De Rose will be on display in Out In The Sticks Art Gallery from July 20th to August 12th 2012. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, July 21st, at 7 pm. Everybody is welcome! Admission by free will donations.

Tim De Rose is well known local artist and co-owner of  Wilton Pottery. His paintings and his ceramic works have been widely exhibited. Tim is represented by Gallery Raymond in Kingston. "Eclectic Roots" is a retrospective exhibition, featuring works from three different series, inspired by Tim's extensive travels (i.e. to Africa and to Newfoundland).

Tim De Rose: Night Views; Poplars

Tim De Rose: Helen's Mountain, Kenya, East Africa

Tim De Rose: White Pines

New exhibition opens on May 25th!

With great pleasure we announce that we will start this year's season with an exhibition by young Kingston artist Heather Gabriel Smith . The exhibition of her beautiful prints is titled "Into the woods". It will be presented in our gallery from May 25th to July 15th 2012.

The opening reception: Friday, May 25th at 7 pm. Everybody welcome! Admission free!

* The Gallery is open by chance or by appointment. Basically - we are here most of the time, especially between 10 am and 5 pm - just ring the bell at the door and someone will let you in. If you prefer to be sure that we'll be here when you come, just drop an e-mail to office@outinthesticks.ca or call Anna at 613 8774532.

Changes to the website

We decided to simplify our website, because we didn't have enough time for updating it. Now it will be entirely blog-based, which should make updates much easier. We haven't yet managed to move all the content so some info missing, but we are working on it.

New season starts at Out In The Sticks Cultural Centre.

We are happy to announce that our new season of events and activities starts soon. We have been very busy with our work, so it was not so easy to organize something, but we made it. The details will be posted soon.

Current show - SIDELINES, ROUGHLINES AND CONFESSION ROADS - exhibition by Victor Gad.

Please, visit our current show: SIDELINES, ROUGHLINES AND CONFESSION ROADS - exhibition by Victor Gad.
Below you will find few photos from hanging the show. More photographs available at:
http://4enr.com/_fotosy/11_0723-gad_in_the_sticks/

Victor Gad hanging his exhibition in Out In The Sticks/ photos by A. Maciejewski

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Animation workshop is fully booked.

We only had 12 places for our summer animation workshop - Exploring Motion Image and all of them are booked now. We are sorry but we cannot accept new applications.



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Exploring Motion Image - Summer Animation Workshop in Out In The Sticks Cultural Centre

We are very excited to announce that we have received the Canada Council for the Arts grant for the animation workshop for youth this summer. Our workshop instructor will be talented young film-maker James Greatrex.

The workshop will run from August 16th to September 4th: three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, from 10 am to 3:30 pm with half an hour lunch break. It's designed for the ages 7 to 17, but if you think that your 5-year old is bright enough to participate, or if you are 18 and you really would love to take part, we may talk about it.

Participation is by donation  (minimum donation is $ 35, but please feel free to donate more).

Please register early, because the number of places available is limited. You may download the Registration Form and the Schedule right here.

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Pinhole photographs from Yarker

Author:Micky Absil

Author:Alina Opyd

Author:Alina Opyd

Author: Antek Maciejewski

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The Pinhole event in Out In The Sticks - photographs

This year for the second time Out In The Sticks Cultural Centre participated in the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. Actually this year it should have been called Pinhole Photography Week - the organizers extended the dates when you can take pinhole photographs to be uploaded on their website, because of Easter falling on the regular date of the event (which is normally last Sunday of April).
We had 7 participants this year and we had a lot of great fun.
Photographs coming soon.




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Pinhole event today at 1 pm

Learn how to use a Pinhole Camera, make your own or borrow one from us, take pinhole pictures and post them to this international event website (www.pinholeday.org). Participation $ 20 (cost of materials).

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Photographs from the opening of the Shipwreck Dreaming exhibition last weekend

Here are some photographs from the opening of our first exhibition this season.

Wendy Cain at the opening of her exhibition Shipwreck Dreaming in Out In The Sticks Gallery in Yarker

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Out In THe Sticks and Wendy Cain's exhibition featured in the Napanee Guide

We were very pleased to read a nice story about our first exhibition opening this season in the Napanee Guide.

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Start of a new season in OSCA

The winter is almost over, time to wake up and OSCA is waking up as well. Please check our Program for upcoming events. First exhibition opens at April 9th!
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We got the charitable number!

We have got our charitable number finally, so now you can get a tax receipt when you donate money/items to OSCA. Keep it in mind :)

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