Learning Note: If you want to learn how to do the easy knot I used on the wings of the Dragonfly, visit my Instructable on "How to Make a Trumpeter Swan nest" on Instructables, & watch the videos...

I am so excited! I got this email letter today telling me that...Well, read it yourself:

ChildSight: Scarborough Arts' Annual Juried Art Exhibition

The exhibition will be displayed at the Papermill Gallery @ Todmorden Mills (67 Pottery Road) from March 13 to March 24, 2013.

"There were a great number of submissions this year and the high calibre of work submitted made the selection process extremely competitive.

We would like to congratulate you, as your work Dragonfly has been selected for inclusion in this year’s show." (I'm quoting the Program Director for Scarborough Arts)...

"Please join us for the public reception and awards presentation on Thursday March 21, 2013, from 6:30 - 8:30 pm."

Happy to see you all there!!! (Me, Sari Grove) (Yay!)

Learning Note: If you want to see up close how to make the armature without welding, look at the Daffodil page on our website...

* p.s. What's cool about Dragonfly? Ok so it represents a way to make strong armatures without welding...This was my invention when Joseph (my husband an artist too) said I was not going to be welding...So it's galvanized(they don't rust) threaded steel rods that are bolted together by sticking them through the holes in copper strapping...Copper strapping is a strip of copper with, well, holes in it...Flexible too...So that is the first cool thing...Then when I was going to cover the wings with aluminum screening, Joseph said no again(He didn't like the bits of metal shred when I cut the screening)...So I got some Mason's line, a cord that bricklayers use to make sure their bricks are straight, & comes in bright colours, & knotted it onto the wings using a boat knot I know...So it's like the hardness of metal with the fragility of rope...Plus it all can move-yes it can go on a wall or on the floor & the legs & the wings can move to change positions...Neat eh? This represents a major shift in my artistic practice & possibly a new path...So far people seem to really like Dragonfly...Please come in person to the show at the Papermill Gallery, not just to see me & Dragonfly but to see & celebrate all the other artists who have been juried in...

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Sari Grove

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Todmorden Mills Heritage Site (The PaperMill Gallery is within the fabulous Theatre building!)

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(if you give us your email, we will be able to send you new show announcements like this one, without violating Can-Spam laws...so, without your email address & permission, you don't get an invite...& we really want you to come! (Not 'cause we want your money, just 'cause we want you!)

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(ok, this is not me writing this stuff...)

ChildSight: Scarborough Arts' 28th Annual Juried Show
March 13 – 24, 2013

Public reception on Thursday, March 21, 6:30 – 8:30. Please join us for awards presentations, mingling and drinks!

At the Papermill Gallery, Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery Road, Toronto, ON
W-F 12 – 4:30 pm, S&S 12 – 5 pm

On facebook: Scarborough Arts on facebook the RSVP Page for the ChildSight Event (that includes Sari Grove, yay, happy)...go there to say you are attending...Now...

Juror: Brian Deines
Brian Deines graduated from the Alberta College of Art. He is represented by the St.Laurent+Hill Galerie (Ottawa). He lives in Toronto with his family, where he devotes his time to his fine art practise and to the illustration of children’s picture books (oil on canvas). His picture books include The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell, the Songs of the North Wind Trilogy by Tomson Highway featuring Caribou Song, Dragonfly Kites and Fox on the Ice. He is a recipient of The Chalmers Arts Fellowship among other awards and grants.

Awards courtesy: Rotary Club of Scarborough, AboveGround Art Supplies, The City of Toronto and Scarborough Arts

Featuring:
Art by Peter Adamson | Maria Lucia Amaral | Fatima Andrade | Janice Arnott | Elizabeth Bacon | Jim Blomfield | Susan E. Brown | Sandro Camilli | Wendy Carmichael Bauld | Margaret Chown | Ruth Comfort | Richard Comparey | Karen Dobbs | Maria Drazilov | Pat Dumas-Hudecki | Irit Epstein | Sharon Erlichman | Agnieszka Foltyn | Claudio Ghirardo | Callie Gray | Sari Grove | Monica Gutierrez | Kathryn Harrison | Brendan Hong | Adriana Joshua | Gosia Komorski |Bernadette Leno | Ramune Luminaire | Michelle MacKinnon | Ineke MacNab | Tim Manalo | Douglas Martin | Quin McColgan | Liz Menard | Mehrad Meraji | Maryann Murphy | George Novotny | Liane Odze-Silver | Allan O’Marra | Kelly O’Neill | Jane Orr Novotny | Helena Pravda | Rita RidazLepsi |
Daniel Ross | Lauren Schaffer | Ivan Schneider | Otilia Scriuba | Sio | Patricia Stamp | Nicholas Stirling | Grazyna Stryjek | Sharon Thompson | Florance Tsai | Johanna VanKempen | Marilyn Walsh | Laura Warburton | Janice Ykema | Vitali Zelinski | Fan Zhang

and audio commentary from participants of Kaleidoscope in-school art program.

New Architecture today: A Comment, <-(This was in response to an architect's query about how architects can better address public spaces in their new building...My answer was to look at heritage buildings that the community already loves, & restore them, rather than building new...)

->1)Height...How can a human feel empowered when the building behind is taller always? To feel empowered, build me a mountain that I can sit on top of...With the mountain beneath me, I no longer feel dwarfed... 2)Fashion...Watch a fashion show...Watch the ridiculously skinny women walk in more ridiculous high heels while wearing make-up & hair products & garments that are silly for anything but a runway photography shoot...How can architecture, which springs directly from our current society not also be ridiculous in its worship of form? Until we change the details of our influences, the nature of our philosophies on a small level, the big things cannot change either... 3)God...God creates...God is the best architect of all, especially when it comes to public spaces...I think when we forget that nature is the most beautiful of spaces we drown in our own hubris...What we have been given was already perfect, mostly we have just ruined it...Perhaps, when in doubt, we should just leave things alone...4)By the nature of it, building a building is encroaching upon public space...The very putting up of something that was not there before splices the space into have & have not...The have is for those who go inside...By this conversation, I am to assume that public space means outside? So by putting up anything, one is subtracting from public space...Which leads back to my last point perhaps, that nothing, not building, is better for public space in an elemental way based on just size of space allotted...5)Which brings me back to the question...Why must public space be only outside? or am I wrong & have missed the point? Can the parameters of public space include interiors? What makes a space public? 6) [](http://goo.gl/maps/OQAIO) This is The Todmorden Mills Heritage Site..."Todmorden Mills Heritage Site is made up of the Papermill Theatre and Gallery, the Brewery Gallery, two historic houses and 9.2 hectare wildflower garden..." This site is very successful with the public...Across the street is Fantasy Farm...The theatre has great plays...The Art gallery within the theatre is hugely active within the community...The size of the wildflower garden, is well, you know, really big...Is this a successful site from the parameters of this article? I think so...How much did it cost to build? How much did the architects get paid? To maintain? How much do people love it? (Alot actually)...I guess I am saying that old things are nice...Maybe architects should spend more time on fixing up stuff that is already there rather than making the next new thing.. Restoration...Heritage work...Stuff people care about & use alot...The content of what is inside the buildings there are key...The Arts...The people in the arts...I love that place...<-

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