What do you get when you mix a passionate curator, 28 artists, 12 types of media, and a public space? An accessible art exhibit that showcases the breadth of artistic talent in Huntsville and Muskoka. And there’s a lot of it \u2013 more than there is space for in this show.<\/p>\n
Armed with only the title of the exhibit \u2013 Out of This World, a theme that is open to interpretation \u2013 artists were asked to submit pieces that they felt would fit. “It’s a broad title. Is it something that’s awesome? Something from this world? Or from outside of it? There aren’t a lot of limitations that way. I approached artists I knew and put out open calls and got an amazing response,” said Kelly Holinshead, local photographer and the exhibit’s curator. “I didn’t expect so many submissions and I wasn\u2019t able to accept all of them.”<\/p>\n
Next came the hard work of deciding which artworks to include, a process Holinshead admits she found difficult. “I wanted to include as many as possible, especially the newer artists. It was hard. I had to sit and decide which ones looked like strong pieces on their own and what I thought would work well to bring them together over all.”<\/p>\n
The result is an interesting and eclectic collection of subject matter and media with more than 28 pieces adorning the walls and spaces in the Canada Summit Centre. The media represented include painting (oil, watercolour, acrylic), charcoal, bronze sculpture, mixed media sculpture, ceramics and pottery, steelwork, glass, fibre art (recycled fibre and hand-dyed loom-woven), egg tempura, photography, wood turning, and linocut print-making from both familiar names and new ones.<\/p>\n\n\t\t