41 — Wednesday, April 5, 1989 - North Shore News

Renting art is
proving popular

FOR THE past 18 years the North Vancouver Community
Arts Council has brought a colorful world of local artwork
to North Shore residents with an eye for art and an eye on

the budget.

The council's art loan show
takes place every second Thursday
of the month (except July and
August) on the top floor of Pres-
entation House in North Van-
couver.

Said the council’s Norma Sagar:
‘it's a good art show. You don’t
have to rent. You can just come to
look. It’s a non-threatening way to
become familiar with art.”

OVER 200 ORIGINALS

The loan program, with an in-
ventory of more than 200 prints,
oil and watercolor paintings by
Lower Mainland artists, draws in-
terest from families and corpora-
tions looking for original works of
art. The art inventory, selected by
a jury cof professional artists, in-
cludes marine scenes, landscapes,
floral studies and abstracts. All are
framed and ready to hang.

The pieces rent from between $3
and $11 per month. Sagar said the
rental fee represents two per cent
of the artwork’s value.

Most using the service hang up

"NEWS photo Cindy Bellamy
(ORMA SAGAR (r), of the North Vancouver Community Arts Council, and volunteer Gordon Umbach

repare for another North Van Arts Council Art Show and Picture Loan on April 13, at Presentation House.
‘ictures by local artists rent for an affordable $3 to $11 per month.

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and hang on to the art for a
month. About 80 paintings and
prints are currently on loan.
‘People seem to like it. And there
is sorne really good art by some
quite well-known artists like Frank
Townsley, Sam Black and Val
Sewell.”

ART COLLECTION START

Should the renter fall in love
with the artwork, the rental fee
may be applied to the cost of pur-
chase. ‘‘It’s often a good way to
start collecting,’’ Sagar said.

The next North Vancouver Arts
Council Art Show and Picture
Rental takes place Thursday, April
13, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., in the upper
galleries of Presentation House,
which is located at the corner of
4th Street and Chesterfield Avenue
in North Vancouver.

The galleries are open for
browsing. Arts council volunteers,
some who have been with the pro-
gram for more than a decade, are
on hand to answer questions. For
more information contact Sagar at
988-6844.

1877: Marine. Drive, North Vancouver

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984-4101