Two New Works Installed in Stanley Park Environmental Art Project

October 9, 2008 (No. 57) - The Vancouver Park Board, the Stanley Park Ecology Society and the Community Arts Council of Vancouver are pleased to announce the installation of two new projects as part of the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project: Xapayay'/Cedar, by the artist team of T'Uy'Tanat Cease Wyss and Davide Pan; and a series of bionet sculptural forms at the former bear pit near the Vancouver Aquarium by Shirley Wiebe.

Shirley is installing her unique forms this Friday, October 10, 2008, beginning at 1pm. Media are invited to watch the artist at work.

Shirley Wiebe's recent work concentrates both on the land and on the interaction of a community with its environment. She has created site works in a number of landscapes and galleries in the Pacific Northwest and completed several public art projects in Vancouver.

After receiving his Studio Art Diploma from Capilano College, Davide Pan returned to Italy to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, where his art work now forms part of the permanent collection of the Venice Museum of Modern Art. T'Uy'Tanat Cease Wyss, a Skwxumesh woman from the village of Sla7an in North Vancouver, has been in dialogue with the landscape in Vancouver for over 20 years through community gardening and public art involving plants and other natural elements. Their piece, Xapayay'/Cedar, is located on the service road behind the totem poles near Brockton Point in Stanley Park.

The Stanley Park Environmental Art Project was developed in reply to the overwhelming public response to the impact of the windstorms of 2006. A program of discussions and hands-on workshops will create opportunities for everyone to engage with nature through art and help explore a new relationship with our natural environment.

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For more information visit www.vancouver.ca/spea or contact Community Arts Programmer, Anna Nobile at anna.nobile@vancouver.ca or 604-257-8479.

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Project Funders:

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian Visual and Expressive Arts Program is made possible through a generous gift from The Ford Foundation

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