On Thursday December 10 from 4:30 - 9:00 pm the artists who call ArtsHab home will open up their studios and homes to present an open house and sale for all to enjoy.

ArtsHab is Edmonton's artist live/work residency, which for the past 10 years has been a vital part of Edmonton's downtown core. This dynamic community of artists has helped establish Edmonton as one of Canada's Cultural Capital cities.

ArtsHab houses 14 of some of Edmonton's finest local artists; from award winning writers, and internationally acclaimed professionals and top emerging artists.

Come and talk directly with the artists in their own studios. Along with stimulating conversations and paintings, drawings, works in clay and other art you can enjoy a glass of wine or a cold beverage, and sample some fine food items.

Artists in attendance include visual artists Tessa Nunn, Robert Scott, Harold Pearse, Jeff Collins, Lynn Malin, Arlene Wasylynchuk, Jenna Stanton, Robert Harpin, Aspen Harpin, Roger Garcia, Darren Woluschuk, Erika Ampudia, local filmmaker Ryan Brown, actor, singer and drummer Twilla MacLeod and Edmonton's own Writer in Exile Sheng Xue.

ArtsHab Studio Gallery is located on the 3rd floor at 10217 106St. Edmonton.

Contact: Jeff Collins, 439-9532

The 6th annual Sweaty Ball fundraiser party.
With local bands and performances taking place in individual suites and studios, a drawing extravaganza, great food, a cash bar and good friends.
June 30, 8:00 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Tickets $10 at the door

ArtsHab Studio Gallery is open during The Works Festival of Art and Design
June 19 - July 1, 2009 12 noon - 6 pm daily including Canada Day
Featuring : Still Cookin' New work by ArtsHab artists in residence

Still Cookin' features new works by current ArtsHab renters including a video documentary by Ryan Brown, paintings and drawings by Jeff Collins, Roger Garcia, Gina Shields, Lynn Malin, Tessa Nunn, Harold Pearse, Tim Rechner, Jenna Stanton, and Arlene Wasylynchuk. Darren Woluschuck, and Erika Ampudia.

Lease update: Monday June 22, 2009

There has been a lot of talk lately about this incarnation of ArtsHab, known as ArtsHab Project 1. At the end of May, 2009 all of the renters received eviction notices for September 1, 2009 because lease negotiation had broken down. The renters are very happy to announce today that lease talks are on again and, while a new lease has yet to be signed, it looks very likely that a lease will be agreed to and ArtsHab Project 1 will continue to serve the artistic community of Edmonton in our present location for years to come.

The Arts Habitat Association of Edmonton is pleased to welcome Linda Huffman as the new Arts Habitat General Manager.

Linda will be working out of her temporary office in the Lower Gallery of the Alberta Craft Council at 10186-106 St in Edmonton, AB. She can be reached at Telephone: 780 932-3676 Email: lhuffman@artshab.com

Arts Habitat Association of Edmonton gets support from City Council in the 2009 budget. Read more

ArtsHab Studio Gallery presents two new shows September 25 - October 30, 2008:

MEDIATION
Edmonton Small Press Association's 10th Anniversary Retrospective

and

New Work by ArtsHab Artists in Residence

Viewing times: Sept 25 - Opening Reception: 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 P.M.
October 2 through 30, 2008 : Thursday evenings from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Open daily by appointment
Call Tim Rechner at 423-2966
or Jeff Collins at 439-9532 to make an appointment

The Edmonton Small Press Association (ESPA) includes a network of international artists and activists, represented by over 700 artists and collectives from 33 countries. Mediation is a 10-year retrospective of some of the 'best of' works in ESPA's permanent collection of their visual arts activities. ESPA fosters the awareness and development of independent small press ventures in Canada and beyond.
The ESPA defines 'small press' as almost any independent creative venture that includes the 'documentation' of visual media, literature, photography, web-based/media arts, film/video and musical/performance projects, as viable cultural expressions, and acknowledges the similarities between independently 'publishing' books and independently 'publishing' these other creative ventures.

MEDIATION includes:

• silk screens, lithographs, stencils, digital, woodblock & lino prints
• mail art (artistamps, envelopes, postcards, ATCs) o selected paintings
• some 3-dimensional artworks (zines & artists' books),

Showing alongside Mediation will be new works by ArtsHab Artists in Residence including Jeff Collins, Roger Garcia, Gina Shields, Lynn Malin, Tessa Nunn, Harold Pearse, Tim Rechner, Jenna Stanton, Arlene Wasylynchuk, Darren Woluschuck, Jason Muirhead and Erika Ampudia.

ArtsHab Studio Gallery is a community of contemporary artists living and working in downtown Edmonton. ArtsHab offers a unique opportunity for art lovers to come out and meet these working artists in their homes and studios.

The 2008 edition of the Sweaty Ball is shaping up to be one of the best yet! If you have never attended you won't want to miss this one. This year we are are having the party on the third floor of our ArtsHab space and we will be having entertainment and other activities in many of the studios and residences.

Acts include:

• Locution Revolution
• Tristan McCelland
• Christopher Robot
• Alan Suarez and Friends
• Burro
• poets: Corey Hamilton and Field
• and more are yet to be confirmed

There will be two bars set up with one having a lounge type atmospher and the other will be a big collabarative drawing space.

There are a limited number of tickets available (175) so get yours today (only $10) by contacting:
Tim Rechner at timotimoten@yahoo.ca or 780-423-2966 or
Jeff Collins at jdcollins@compusmart.ab.ca or 780-439-9532

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Now Showing:

May 29 - July 2, 2008 :
Balance with Craig Talbot and Chrissy Cheung

and:

More in the Core New work by ArtsHab Artists in Residence

Special Programming for the exhibitions include:

• Opening reception on Thursday May 29th starting at 7:00 p.m.
• Artist’s talk with Craig Talbot on Canada Day July 1 at 3:00 p.m.
• Sweaty Ball fundraiser party June 30, 7:00 p.m. to late - tickets $10

Viewing times:
May 27 – Opening Reception: 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight
June 5 - June 19: Thursday evenings from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. or by appointment
During During the Works Art & Design Festival June 20 – July 2:
Daily from 12:00 noon until 6:00 p.m.

ArtsHab Studio Gallery is located at 10217 - 106 Street Edmonton on the 3rd floor. Call Tim Rechner at 423-2966 or Jeff Collins at 439-9532 for an appointment outside of gallery hours

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Material Functions: Paintings by Josée Aubin Ouellette and Mandy Espezel

Dates: April 3rd to May 5th 2008

Opening Reception: April 3rd. 7 p.m. to midinght. Artists will be in attendance

Viewing times: Thursday evenings from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. or by appointment
Call Tim Rechner at 423-2966 or Jeff Collins at 439-9532

Josée Aubin Ouellette and Mandy Espezel create literal forms out of formalist ideas. They are interested in creating images that function as a reality of their own as well as playing the literal character of paint. They both work to invest the material form of paint with meaning:

Espezel builds images that represent interactions and responses of individuals to their environments. Her paintings are developed through a process of automatic mark making and formal experimentation. Aubin Ouellette creates imaginary ecological illustrations that function as visual systems. In this series, paint is used in loose reference to the states of oil in the production process, playing with the image's relationship to scientific reality.

Above: Heavy Dance by Mandy Espezel, Oil on board, 24x24'
Below: Reverse Rain Machine by Josée Aubin Ouellette,
acrylic, masking tape, ink and wax on acrylic panel 22 by 46 inches.

and
New Works by ArtsHab Residents

Showing alongside Material Functions will be new works by current ArtsHab studio renters including Jeff Collins, Roger Garcia, Gina Shields, Lynn Malin, Tessa Nunn, Harold Pearse, Tim Rechner, Jenna Stanton, and Arlene Wasylynchuk. ArtsHab is happy to welcome three new artists into the community - Darren Woluschuck, Jason Muirhead and Erika Ampudia.

ArtsHab Studio Gallery is a community of contemporary artists living and working in downtown Edmonton. ArtsHab offers a unique opportunity for art lovers to come out and meet these working artists in their homes and studios.

ArtsHab Studio Gallery is located at 10217 - 106 Street on the 3rd floor.

The Gallery is open every Thursday from 5pm to 8pm, or by appointment.
Contact Tim at 423 - 2966 or Jeff at 439-9532
email: Jeff Collins

November 16 through December 28, 2006
Gallery Hours: Thursdays, 5 - 8 p.m.

Artists in the Exhbition include:

• Bonnie Bigley
• Pauline Brewer
• Geoff Cwiklewich
• Brenda Inglis
• Mary Lister
• Barb Shore
• Janet Stalenhoef
• Cindy Riach
• Anya Tonkongy
• Doug Fraser
• Bonnie Scott

Curated by Tessa Nunn

Also Showing:

New Work - Every 8 weeks the residents of ArtsHab put on a exhibition of new works. Expect to see some of the studios open during the exhibition.

New work by ArtsHab Residents
Gaby Rosende, Rayn Brown, Tim Rechner, Jeff Collins, Greg Swain, Tricia Firmaniuk, Roger Garcia, Tessa Nunn, 3Ten Photo, Arlene Waslynchuk, Harold Pearce, Lyn Malin, and Peter de Vos

ArtsHab Studio Gallery is the home and workspace for 14 Edmonton artists. The gallery is open to the public each Thursday night from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. November 16, 2006 through December 28, 2006. Stay tuned for our next exhibition that will open January 17, 2007

If you would like to visit us outside of regular gallery hours please call 439-9532 or email jdcollins@compusmart.ab.ca to make an appointment.

ArtsHab Studio Gallery Presents:

Creepy
In the Eye of the Beholder

CREEPY is an exhibition of work by 13 visual artists who explore the diversity of "creepiness" through various media.

March 16 through April 27, 2006
Thursday evenings from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday's from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Opening Reception: March 16, 2006
5:00 p.m. to midnight

ArtsHab Studio Gallery Presents:

At ArtsHab Studio Galley 3rd Floor, 10217 - 106 St Edmonton

Opening reception: Thursday January 19th, 2006 from 5 pm - midnight

The show runs January 19th - Febuary 23, 2006

The gallery is open every Thursday evening from 5 - 8 p.m. or by appointment

Call Jeff at 439-9532 or Tim at 423-2966

Edmonton, AB - Neither Here Nor There brings together five Edmonton based representational figurative painters who's work explores personal and cultural histories, memory and loss, sense of play and purpose, and search for identity.

Artists in the show include:

• Carolyn Campbell
• Cynthia Gardiner
• Jana Hargarten
• Kayla Johnson
• Michal Wawrykowicz

New work by the residents of ArtsHab will also be on display

ArtsHab Studio Gallery is open every Thrusday evening in 2006 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm or by appointment by calling Jeff Collins at 780.439.9532

3rd Floor
10217 - 106 ST
Edmonton, AB
email
Tel: 439-9532

 

ArtsHab Studio Gallery Presents:

Beyond Olympia: The Art, it is a Changing
Celebrating diversity in the representation of the female form in art

March 3 - March 31, 2005

At ArtsHab Studio Galley 3rd Floor, 10217 - 106 St Edmonton

Opening reception: Thursday March 3 from 5 - 8 pm

The show runs March 3 - March 31, 2005

The gallery is open every Thursday evening from 5 - 8 p.m. or by appointment

Call Jeff at 439-9532 or Tim at 423-2966

Edmonton, AB - ArtsHab Studio Gallery, in downtown Edmonton, is proud to present its very first guest artists' exhibition: Beyond Olympia: The Art, it is a Changing. Beyond Olympia, curated by local artist Iva Janiga, is an exhibition of paintings and sculptures that celebrates the complexity of women as seen by eleven Edmonton artists. Along with the creative mix of images, the mediums used to create them are just as diverse with works in soapstone, photography, oil paint, watercolour, charcoal, pen and ink.

ArtsHab Studio Gallery is now open every Thrusday evening in 2006 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.

3rd Floor
10217 - 106 ST
Edmonton, AB
email
Tel: 439-9532

Support your local artists!
Come on out and enjoy the art, meet the artists and hang out in some of the studios. Sales of all art work go directly to the artists.

ArtsHab Studio Gallery Open Every Thursday Evening!

ArtsHab Studio Gallery is now open every Thrusday evening in 2006 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.

3rd Floor
10217 - 106 ST
Edmonton, AB
email
Tel: 439-9532

Support your local artists!
Come on out and enjoy the art, meet the artists and hang out in some of the studios. Sales of all art work go directly to the artists.

posted February 9, 2004

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Posted March 20, 2003