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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

HARMONY ARTS Festival organizers including (left to sight) Sara Warsbrough, “Colleen Reed, Cathy
Matheson and Morrie Baillie have a lot to smite about after the succee of this summer's festivai.

Arts in harmony

m NCE AGAIN, we saw the main thoroughfares of

B Ambleside and Dundarave transformed into a sun-
ea” lit, open-air art gallery thanks to the efforts of Cathy

", Matheson, Colleen Reed and Sarah Wansbrough who, with

the generous assistance of countless committees, volun-
_. teers, businesses and sponsors, worked tirelessly to make
‘ West Vancouver's Second Annual Harmony Arts Festival a

“reality, °° ~

But of course, the Art Beat Win-
dow dispiay was only part of the
venue. :
In addition to the diverse array
of activities and entertainment
-centra! to this summer's arts ex-
travaganzz,.there was also the
juried exhibit at the Ferry Building

«Gallery that kicked off the festival

: “and the Sunday afternoon art auc-
. “Hon ih Ambleside. Park that wrap-
ped it-up. °

_-: Itwould be a pointless and in-
-" "appropriate exercise to offer crit-

“ical evaluation of individual works

: represented in this week-long
‘event.

~ To'do so would obviously be

* ‘contrary to the spirit of the festival.
“Its real purpose, after all, was sim-
~ ply to celebrate and promote the

.. arts at every level and for every

-ogensibility in as upbeat and joyful a
* hmanner as possible.
“In short, to inject a creative burst
‘of festive frivolity into West Van-
- couver’s summer, Clearly none
“would deny its success in this
‘endeavor. >

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ART REVIEW .

In the most populist accumula-
tior of art imaginable, we
witnessed the democratic jux-
taposition of works by profes-
sional, emerging, and recreational
artists.

From Ron Woodall’s acutely
detailed documentation of
vanishing barns and homesteads
to Blair Drawson’s “naive’’
deco-Modigliani flapper, from
Graham Gilmore’s pseudo-didac-
tic “Pop’’-schooner to Robert
Clothier’s Picasso-esque metal
sculpture, we were provided an

admittedly all-too-diminutive

smattering of works by well-known
North Shore artists.

From the bold nudes of Bevil
Conway, a young artist just begin-
ning his studies, to the technically
accomplished tryptic of Lisa
Klepak, a third-year Emily Carr
student with studies at Cap Col-
lege under her belt, we were given
ample evidence of the emergence
of fresh blood.

As for the representation of
works by recreational artists and
amateurs... well, to paraphrase
Will Rogers, you couldn't throw a
stone blindfolded without knock-
ing one down.

The juried exhibit at the Ferry
Building was personally disap-
pointing, not so much because of
any inherent deficiency in the
works themselves — some of
which were superlative — as
because the range of works
selected proved somewhat narrow
and unimaginative. ,

Sad to say, it is doubtful that a
reluctance on the part of the ad-
judicator to stray from the hallow-
ed realms of the conventional will
be seen as the cause of this cir-
cumstance.

In any case, and with regard to
the future direction of the festival
as a whole, one would hope that
the general public wiil have had its

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