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SUNDAY MARCH 27
Artists in the house!

4PM

A show and tell with current KIAC Artists in Residence.
Gail Noonan and Sam DEcoste will show selections of their work
and open the floor for a casual and intercative discussion.

Gail Noonan is a visual artist and filmmaker with a strong
interest in music. Originally from the east coast, she made
a slow westward migration with a sojourn in the middle to
go to art school in Winnipeg where she lived for a number
of years as a printmaker. A move to Vancouver prompted
her to make a lateral transfer to film animation after a
compressed two years of study at the Emily Carr Institute.
She abandoned the city a number of years ago to live on
Mayne Island which has allowed her to focus on making
her films. “Sourdough Starter” is the latest of nine animated
films produced so far. Currently she is exploring how to
combine her interest in songwriting with animating unusual
materials including her own aging flesh.
Sam Decoste is an artist based in Halifax. In 2015 she
graduated from NSCAD University with an MFA in Media
Arts: Animation. Her short animated documentary Mary &
Myself (prod: Annette Clarke, NFB) was nominated for a
Screen Award in 2014. She is currently animating stories of
artists living in Paris in the 1930s in a film called Salon.

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