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Gallery Hop
1. K
 IAC Members’ Exhibit at the
SOVA Gallery
Present / Past
Opening reception: Thursday, Aug 17 @7pm
Showcasing the talent and skill of Dawson’s art
community in a variety of mediums. 8. Old Youth Centre Graffiti Mural
This year the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in youth center
finds itself boarded up and the youth in
temporary spaces. With the promise of a new
facility in 2018, this project bids farewell to the
old and extends a warm welcome to the new.
2. Fortymile Gold
You are welcome to stop by my open studio
during the Gallery Hop to see original art
by more than 20 Yukon Artists, including my
handmade 20K gold jewellery. Leslie 9. Ruby’s Place
Beyond – Summer by Sierra Megas. Light slips
and fades. We move towards, we move away,
we move through. A video installation with
choreographed hand movements set against the
Yukon sky.
3. CKS
Screenprinting by Mo.
4. This n’ That Shoppe/ Studio
This n’ That showcases various local artists and
crafters. Jacqueline Clancy, wildcrafter and
teacher extraordinaire will be on hand to share
her knowledge and passion regarding ethically
wildcrafted herbals.
5. Dancing Moose
The Dancing Moose is a gift shop located on
Front Street open year round. Dancing Moose
focuses on locally made products including
Yukon art, hand crafted jewellery, and Yukon
made goods.
Priska Wettstein is a Dawson City based
artist. Priska’s images are based on her own
photography. Priska then uses photoshop to
transform the photos into what she calls photo-
paintings. It is said that she is a painter at heart
and that her images seem to be doorways to
something profound and quiet.
6. Camera Obscura
Like storms, forest fires and seasons, emotions
ebb and flow with a cycle of their own. Sol
Suarez presents a mix-matched collection of
poems, some written on her first summer in the
Yukon and some this year. Eight years have
gone by, but the same elements and themes
repeat, making the past and present seem
interchangeable.
Playing in a loop, Odd Weather Patterns aims
to entrance the public with a narrative both
universal and extremely personal. A story with
ends and beginnings that blur into each other,
as the landscape slowly forms before our eyes,
inside Front Street’s Camera Obscura.
7. Jelly Bean
Bonanza Jellybean’s DIY is a DIY caravan/
gallery space selling Yukon-made goods n’
wearables by over twenty different Dawson
City artists. Featured in the Globe and Mail
and Broken Pencil Magazine, this curated art
shop has lots to offer in the way of unique Yukon
gems.
10. ODD Gallery
A collaborative, theatrical research project
using tall tales of animal encounters
collected from the community. Tall Tales for
Short Nights and Warm Planets consists of
drawings, photographs and performance
created by Lisa Hirmer and Leila Armstrong over
the course of a 6-week residency in Dawson
City.
11. Alchemy Café “Café Talk”
Do you know the secret of the philosophers
stone? Do you know where to find the holy
grail? How does one make gold? Those secret
processes were the highest purpose of the
Alchemical discipline and they were built into
the very structure of the Alchemy cafe. Come
discover them.
12. Bombay Peggy’s
A series of watercolour paintings inspired by
artists of the Romantic period to develop a
personal mythology based around life in the
Yukon.
13. Fire Pit (10 pm)
Tall Tales for Campfires: N&M artists Lisa Hirmer
and Leila Armstrong will be telling tall tales
around the campfire at the First Av enue fire pit
(at the foot of Princess Street) at 10 pm. Hear
some stories loosely based on local animal
encounters and perhaps share some of your own
yarns. (Weather permitting. BYO lawn chairs or
blankets for seating.)
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