Stanley Park Environmental Art Project-Launch
August 5, 2009
Entwined, Tania Willard, cedar bark, hemlock, red alder and madder hand dyed wool dimensions variable. 2009
Entwined, explores the interconnectedness of Stanley Park’s ecology, and how the different uses, experiences and perspectives of both indigenous and non-indigenous people, plants and materials are interwoven. Referencing native-plant and material usage in the plaiting of cedar and in the dyes created from hemlock and red alder barks as well as the oyster shell buttons, this work is a meditation on the Cedar as a tree of life and asks this cedar to share it’s story.
Please join us on Sunday, August 9 as we premiere the semi-permanent artworks of the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project.
Walking tours to the works will begin at the Lost Lagoon Nature House.
The artists, Shirley Wiebe, Tania Willard, John Hemsworth, and T’Uy’Tanat Cease Wyss and Davide Pan, will be on-site to talk about their works and their environmental art practice.
Walking tours: 1-3pm, begin at the Lost Lagoon Nature House. Everyone welcome.
Please visit the project website for more information: www.vancouver.ca/spea
