Stevon & Kayla

Friday, February 16 at 7 pm

Stevon & Kayla

Stevon & Kayla a Husband/Wife, American/Canadian Singer-Songwriter, multi-instrumental Duo! their eclectic musical styles range from Folk, Rock, Reggae, Jazz, Blues, Country & more they are also often joined by their Amazing group of friends who come together to complete their 5 piece band (The Heavenly Band) when things get extra crazy and fun! and sometimes a Marshall gets turned up to 10! - they each also come from Family Bands: Ron Artis Family of Hawaii & The Kimo Family Band of Edmonton.

Socials
Instagram: @stevonkaylamusic @stevonartis @kaylaartis521
Website: https://www.stevonkaylamusic.com/

Postponed to March 1 - Althea Cunningham

Update!

Due to an artist injury, Althea Cunningham's Friday Nite Live performance has been postponed tentatively to March 1st. We wish Althea a speedy recovery and look forward to welcoming her back to our stage next month. Stay tuned for more updates and join us in sending healing vibes her way!

Althea Cunningham

Althea Cunningham, is Canadian born, she is a seasoned performer who's been active in live music for a decade. Popular in Western Canada this emerging artist has played to sold out venues and still maintains a modest, yet positive attitude. A graduate, of the Theatre Arts Program at MacEwan University, the founder of Nappy Roots Productions 2005, and the founder of The Nappy Roots Urban Showcase 2014. She aims to blend: art-forms, process, healing and culture to create sustainability in the arts while also; imprinting knowledge for generations to come. Her stage performance has been described as engaging and powerful.

Website: www.altheacunninghamnrp.wixsite.com/live

Aurah Ariko

Friday, February 9 at 7 pm

Aurah Ariko

Aurah Ariko is an African singer songwriter born in Harare Zimbabwe but now calls Canada home. Aurah has been singing since the age of 13. it has been her life long dream to make a positive impact with her voice.

In Edmonton Aurah has been a beacon of hope in her community through volunteering with local organizations, Shelters and the local churches. Aurah stays strongly connected to the local community through Music, Art and Culture.

Aurah’s musical journey is deeply rooted in story telling and creating stories that people can relate to in their life. Through her music Aurah hopes to make a positive impact to society and inspire the next generation to embrace authenticity, diversity and positive self expression in Music and Performing Arts.

Socials:

https://www.instagram.com/aurahariko/

https://m.facebook.com/AurahAriko

https://m.youtube.com/c/AurahAriko

Althea Cunningham

Friday, February 16 at 7 pm

Althea Cunningham

Althea Cunningham, is Canadian born, she is a seasoned performer who's been active in live music for a decade. Popular in Western Canada this emerging artist has played to sold out venues and still maintains a modest, yet positive attitude. A graduate, of the Theatre Arts Program at MacEwan University, the founder of Nappy Roots Productions 2005, and the founder of The Nappy Roots Urban Showcase 2014. She aims to blend: art-forms, process, healing and culture to create sustainability in the arts while also; imprinting knowledge for generations to come. Her stage performance has been described as engaging and powerful.

Website: www.altheacunninghamnrp.wixsite.com/live

Gibril Bangura - Let Your Imagination Flow: Painting and Collaging

Tuesday, February 20 at 6 pm

Gibril Bangura
Let Your Imagination Flow: Painting and Collaging

Cost: $10.00 *Scholarships available. Call (780)471-1580.

The workshop is about participants allowing their hidden talents to flourish from within them. Participants will explore using acrylic paint and fabric to create an extraordinary collage.

Age 12+// Limited spots available // Register today

Artist Bio
Colour is a language that has no barriers. Colour is a language that unifies the universe. Colour speaks, even without a word.”

My paintings began to have life, and the more I painted [these] colourful paintings, the more I began to experience a kind of break free in my own life. I began to experience peace, happiness,” he said. “The more I paint these things, the more I feel liberated. I first of all saw the healing powers of colours transforming my own life.”

Instagram: @banguragibril 
Tiktok: @gibs710 
Website: https://gibrilbangura.com/

Shaihiem Small - Graphite Portrait Workshop

Tuesday, February 13 at 6 pm

Shaihiem Small
Graphite Portrait

Cost: $10.00 *Scholarships available. Call (780) 471-1580.*

Our lesson will be a portrait focused on light and shadow, as well as the nuance of rhythm and geometry that are fundamental to good composition. Participants will be encouraged to work with a limited palette to focus on the values of their drawing. The goal of this workshop is to get the participants to understand the underlying elements of a strong composition. 

Age 12+// Limited spots available // Register today

Artist Bio
Shaihiem Small is an artist currently based in Edmonton Alberta who primarily works in the mediums of acrylic paint, graphite on paper and tattooing. Shaihiem is a graduate of Macewan's Fine Art program as of 2019 and has participated in various pop-up art shows across Edmonton and the 5 Artist 1 Love show at the Art Gallery of Alberta, twice. This artist is currently interested in the interconnectedness of the varying cultures and the diasporas that have shaped his artistic and personal growth and is creating work exploring this underlying theme.

instagram: @goldenc5ild
Tiktok: @g5ink
Website: Home | Contemporary Art Gallery (goldenc5ildfineart.com)

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation: A Path Towards Healing

This Saturday, September 30th, The Carrot will be acknowledging the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We are committed to recognizing the historical injustices that have impacted Indigenous peoples and dedicated to constructing a future rooted in understanding, healing, and unity. As we take this day to listen, learn, and reflect on the truths of Indigenous experiences, we extend an invitation to the community to join us and partake in free soup and bannock as a symbol of unity and connection.

The Significance of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was established to honour the survivors of the Residential School system and their families, recognizing the enduring trauma they endured. It's a day to remember the thousands of Indigenous children who were forcibly taken from their families and subjected to cultural assimilation, abuse, and neglect.

By observing this day, we can:

1. Acknowledge the Truth. Recognize the painful truths of our history, including the systemic injustices faced by Indigenous peoples.

2. Promote Reconciliation: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is an opportunity to learn, engage, and support reconciliation efforts.

Resources:

For those in Alberta who want to actively participate in truth and reconciliation, there are various resources and initiatives available:

1. Orange Shirt Day Events in and around our neighbourhood:

2. Read and Educate Yourself: Libraries, both physical and digital, are great resources for literature on Indigenous history, culture, and reconciliation.

3. Indigenous Organizations: Connect with Indigenous organizations, such as the Métis Nation of Alberta, the Canadian Native Friendship Centre and various tribal councils.

4. Online Courses: Explore online courses and webinars related to Indigenous history and reconciliation. Many universities and institutions offer free or affordable courses.

5. Support Indigenous Art and Businesses: Purchase artwork and products from Indigenous artists and businesses. Supporting their work contributes to economic reconciliation. Below is a list of businesses and makers to check out near us.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation serves as a vital reminder of our collective responsibility to address the injustices of the past and work towards a more inclusive and equitable future.

Gibril Bangura - Let Your Imagination Flow: Painting and Collaging

Wednesday, February 8 at 6 pm

Gibril Bangura
Let Your Imagination Flow: Painting and Collaging

Cost: $5.00 and includes one free drink. *Scholarships available. Call (780)471-1580.*

Location: Collins Studio Gallery (11741 94 Street)

The workshop is about participants allowing their hidden talents to flourish from within them. Participants will explore using acrylic paint and fabric to create an extraordinary collage.

Artist Bio
Colour is a language that has no barriers. Colour is a language that unifies the universe. Colour speaks, even without a word.”

My paintings began to have life, and the more I painted [these] colourful paintings, the more I began to experience a kind of break free in my own life. I began to experience peace, happiness,” he said. “The more I paint these things, the more I feel liberated. I first of all saw the healing powers of colours transforming my own life.”

Instagram: @banguragibril 
Tiktok: @gibs710 
Website: https://gibrilbangura.com/

Shaihiem J.D Small - Abstract: Drawing Still Life

Wednesday, February 15 at 6 pm

Shaihiem J.D Small
Abstract: Drawing Still Life

Cost: $5.00 and includes one free drink. *Scholarships available. Call (780)471-1580.*

Our lesson will be a still life focused on light and shadow, as well as the nuance of rhythm and geometry that are fundamental to good composition. Participants will be encouraged to work with a limited palette to focus on the values of their painting. The goal of this workshop is to get the participants to understand the underlying elements of a strong composition. 

Artist Bio
Shaihiem Small is an artist currently based in Edmonton Alberta who primarily works in the mediums of acrylic paint, graphite on paper and tattooing. Shaihiem is a graduate of Macewan's Fine Art program as of 2019 and has participated in various pop-up art shows across Edmonton and the 5 Artist 1 Love show at the Art Gallery of Alberta, twice. This artist is currently interested in the interconnectedness of the varying cultures and the diasporas that have shaped his artistic and personal growth and is creating work exploring this underlying theme.

instagram: @goldenc5ild
Tiktok: @g5ink
Website: Home | Contemporary Art Gallery (goldenc5ildfineart.com)

Raneece Buddan

Wednesday, February 22 at 6 pm

Raneece Buddan Workshop
Living in Colour: Painting and Collage Workshop


Cost: $5.00 and includes one free drink. *Scholarships available. Call (780)471-1580.*

This workshop serves as an opportunity to explore the joys of your lives, living freely and unapologetically. Participants will create colourful unique pieces, incorporating textiles, magazine clippings and paint, working with various textures, layers and patterns. Participants may bring items or photos which play a part in their lives and identifies to make their pieces more personal.

Artist Bio
Raneece Buddan is a Jamaican visual artist who resides in Amiswaciwaskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory. She immigrated to Canada in 2015 and completed her BFA in Art and Design with Distinction at the University of Alberta in 2020. In her work, she focuses on her cultural identity as a Jamaican women Afro and Indo-Caribbean ancestry. She shows the beautiful merging of these cultures and the complexities of being multiracial identity in Jamaican society, particularly around hair and skin complexion. This is depicted by replacing her skin tone with fabrics meant to represent each ethnicity, as well as incorporating synthetic hair. Her process is based on material - the wood grains and mounds of clay. Her practice includes oil painting, wood working, clay sculpting, printmaking and weaving.

Instagram: @artbybuddan 
Website: raneecebuddan.com

Melafrique

Friday, February 3 at 7 pm

Melafrique

Melafrique is an Afro-fusion band formed in Edmonton, Canada in 2016. The name Melafrique is a condensed form of the term "Melanin from Africa". They play a variety of genres: Jazz, R&B, Reggae, Neo-soul; in combination with different African styles of music. Melafrique hopes to inspire the world with good music, in every sense of the word, 'good'. Through music, they express their identities as Africans, as musicians, and all the other identities that they each come with. Their band includes members from: Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Angola, Jamaica and Canada. (Associated acts: Riwo Egor, Enoch Attey)

Ru

Friday, February 10 at 7 pm

Ru

Ru is a singer-songwriter out of Canada who looks for inspiration from every aspect of life to bring soulful tones to the stories of her own life and the ones of those around her. Ru’s music takes on inspiration from Indie, Neo-soul, Folk-Pop and R&B music to give her the sound that she has today.

To keep up to date with her next performances and new music you can find her on all social media platforms @rumanyonga!

The Victors & Lise

Friday, February 17 at 7 pm

The Victors & Lise

The Victors
A duo dedicated to making you groove. Victor and Victor have been writing and performing music together for 5 years. They prefer to define their style as undefined, mixing jazz, rock, rnb, and whatever obscure nonsense they can find on Youtube. Pulling inspiration from the past and the present, they aim to create music that makes them feel and in turn they hope will make you feel. 

Lise is a 21 year old singer song-writer born in Edmonton Alberta, Canada. From the young age of 7 she started her singing career in the classical realm of music, and then later made her way into fields such as pop and R&B.

Riwo Egor

Friday, February 24 at 7 pm

Riwo Egor

Riwo is a Nigerian born singer and songwriter. She is the lead vocalist of the band Melafrique. She has been performing since she moved to Edmonton in 2015, and has done so alongside various artists, both local and international. She is very passionate about sharing messages and personal stories through music, and enjoys doing so through the Neo-soul, R&B, Soul and Afro-Jazz styles of music. She believes in the power of music to heal wounds, and cause people to connect with each other on so many levels. One of her biggest goals in life is for her music to bring unity in the diversity of our crazy world. 

On January 13th, Riwo released a collaborative single, Safe Space, and you can find it and her other music on all streaming platforms.

FB: Riwo Egor
IG: @riwoisreps_t

Due to COVID-19 our storefront is on pause, but we're online - please join us!

Hello Friends,

Given the most recent COVID-19 updates, The Carrot hours will be suspending (we’re putting the Carrot on pause).

The power of the arts and community is amazingly strong! We're all in this together. The art revolution continues on 118 Avenue. Please follow us daily for social media for art, laughter, daily news and updates. Our staff is working hard to keep our community connected through our social media! Remember to walk on the sunny side of the street, and join us online.

We are checking messages, so if you need to contact us, you may leave a message at (780) 471 - 1580 or email us at info@artsontheave.org

Take care friends,

Carrot Management

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Gallery: May 2018

Cindy James & Dilys Kulchitsky

Gallery Reception on Friday, May 18th. Details here. 

Cindy James

Cindy James lives in Edmonton, Alberta, and has worked as a court reporter and television closed captioner since 1992. 

In 2010 Cindy participated in an encaustic painting workshop and fell in love with the vibrant colour and versatility of the medium.  She has learned her craft through various encaustic workshops both online and through travel to the United States.  As her encaustic studio has expanded in size and scope, so has her understanding and appreciation of encaustic painting and the numerous opportunities for discovery that the medium affords inquisitive artists. 

Cindy continues to focus on the exploration of the ancient medium of encaustic wax and all that it offers.

Artist Statement

Encaustic medium is a perfect fit for my inquisitive nature and my passion for learning.  I am as enamoured with the glassy smooth surfaces as I am with the textural capabilities of wax, and the ability to transform a painting into something sculptural is a constant source of wonder and delight.

Encaustic painting lends itself well to abstract depictions, and although my paintings often start with that intention, I am most drawn to emotive, sparse, surreal landscapes.  I search out the joy of small things to be found in a melancholy subject, and I seek inspiration through simplicity in a complex and chaotic world. 

I often use my original photography in my work, and I continue to explore the versatility of encaustic painting and the near limitless potential that the medium offers through mixed media.

Check out more of Cindy's work here! 

Dilys Kulchitsky

Born and raised in Edmonton Alberta, Dilys Kulchitsky, a wife, mother, Registered Nurse and Opera Singer didn't start painting until late 2014.

Photography classes in 2014 was Dilys' first foray into visual arts.  She soon took up painting with acrylics and mixed media until the summer of 2015 when she was introduced to Encaustic Medium her current medium of choice.  

With no formal training Dilys paints intuitively and reactively.  Encaustic medium (bees wax and damar resin)  allows Dilys the opportunity to explore, expand and experiment. Because of the versatility of encaustic medium she paints different styles using various techniques from landscapes and mixed media to photo-encaustic and mono-printing!

Artist Statement

Why I paint with bees wax: Bee's wax and tree resin ( aka encaustic medium) are not what initially came to mind when I thought  of painting pictures but I can't think of anything else I'd rather paint with!

An encaustic painting's final outcome is quite unpredictable as the process of transferring the molten wax onto a cool surface hardens the wax immediately.  It isn't a medium that you can manipulate much once it's on the panel.  Fusing each layer of encaustic medium with a blowtorch provides some ability to manipulate but the medium itself decides  it's final outcome and how it will interact with the previous layers and how it will move when reheated. I love this unpredictability and it is the surprise endings that keep me engaged and enthralled with the art of painting with encaustic medium.

I don't have any formal visual arts training so I paint intuitively.  My experiences and inspirations come from many different aspects of my life- an opera I'm singing in, photographs I've taken on my travels, current events, music, my geographic location, the seasons and nature.

My techniques are as varied - sometimes smooth, sometimes textured, sometimes nature inspired and embedded with dried plants, sometimes abstract and geometrical.

My goal is to continue to discover the many opportunities that using encaustic medium provides and to use and manipulate this medium to express and share my many versions of my world!

My goal is to continue to discover the many opportunities that encaustic medium offers and to use and manipulate this medium to express and share my version of my world!

Check out more of Dilys' work here!

Gallery: April 2018

Amy Sallenbach & Dominika Koziak

Be sure to check out the Gallery Reception on Wednesday, April 4th. Details Here.

Amy Sallenbach

Amy Sallenbach is a multidisciplinary artist and pilot who has frequently left the constraints of gravity behind, one way or another. Reflecting on our world and the nature of time through assemblage mobiles, scientific theory utilizing profuse colour, and observational works balanced by gravitational pull, she seeks a panoptic theory clear of language. Her inspiration is found in outer space, movement of air and water currents, antique technology, trees, flying, and the inner voice. Amy is an Alberta based artist, raised in Lethbridge, and received her BFA in Fibre from ACAD in 2001. She is best known for my playful exploration of astronomy and outer space through kinetic sculpture and installation, as well as acrylic paintings that contemplate the inner environment, and its connection to the conscious via colour and form. 

Artist Statement

Interspace seeks to create an engaging visual environment, one that allows the viewer to experience the harmonies between the natural world and those of the theoretical and intangible. To bring forth a visual language that explores scientific theory and the history of those discoveries. To connect with the origins of the Fibonacci sequence, how it intersects with the Spiral Dynamics model. To explore theories surrounding the structure of the multiverse, patterns of thought, and the formation of neural pathways.

Check out more of Amy's work here.

Dominka Koziak

Dominika Koziak is a Canadian artist with a Ukrainian-Polish cultural background. Born in
1991 at Edmonton, Alberta, Dominika completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Alberta in 2013. Dominika then moved to New York City where she attained her Master of Fine Arts degree at the School of Visual Arts. Dominika also received intensive training at the Rome Art Program in Italy where she focused on painting and drawing from classical architecture and art. In New York City she attended
at the Prosopon School of Iconology, where she studied classical techniques and the
style of Icon writing.

Artist Statement

The icons written in the image of BIGBANG go beyond mere “fan paintings.” While inspired by found imagery, through the icons these images are transcended into a new purpose — to enlightened, sacred, and metaphysical objects of pure devotion and spirituality. It is BIGBANG themselves in a state of pure refinement and awareness, existing in a perfect form. As an icon, they exist as windows between the imagined and reality, giving a spiritual link. As a relic, they are a tangible object with a physical link giving the viewer an audience with BIGBANG. Together they grant the viewer with a metaphysical manifestation of the quintessential version of BIGBANG, existing in the realm of enlightenment and eternity one can personally engage with.

Check out more of Dominka's work here!

Special Gallery & Discussion: Ancestors & Elders

Ancestors and Elders: The Creative Journey

Presented by Shumka

Gallery Reception: March 29th, 7:00 - 9:00 pm | FREE
Gallery on Display: March 25th - 30th

Get your tickets here!

Join the creative team and cast members as they provide a glimpse into the
collaboration and creative process of Shumka’s world premiere production, Ancestors and Elders. Ancestors and Elders features a cast of Shumka Dancers and multidisciplinary Indigenous artists. Together they share the story of the first Ukrainian
newcomers to Canada, exploring the shared values and respected differences between these hopeful settlers and the First Nations people they encounter in a new land. The evening will feature visual art by Lana Whiskeyjack and Svitlana Kravchuk and discussion from members of the creative team.

Details on the event here!