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	<description>A Publication for the Visual Artist</description>
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		<title>Coming Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three Peace River Artist Kimberly Boychuk Wildlife and landscape painter Kimberly Boychuk has made it her life’s work to capture moments in time. She views her function as an artist as encouraging others to stop and appreciate the beauty around them. She points out that taking time to appreciate natural beauty, both in nature itself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artofthepeace.ca/issue-14/coming-home</link>
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		<title>Three Portrait Artists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every Picture Tells a Story Janet Enfield There is a lot more to a Janet Enfield portrait than a face represented in two dimensions. Through her series, Wisdom of the Ages, Enfield is painting to express a legacy. No one under age 80 is included in the series, which will show at the Prairie Gallery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artofthepeace.ca/issue-14/three-portrait-artists</link>
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		<title>Larissa Doll &#124; Just Under the Surface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canadian poet Margaret Atwood has a poem called This is a Photograph of Me. In it, she describes a photo of an apparently serene landscape featuring a lake. Then jarringly, the poet/persona continues: (The photograph was taken the day after I drowned. I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artofthepeace.ca/issue-14/larissa-doll-just-under-the-surface</link>
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		<title>The Eyes Have It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Observing the tiny details of light and shade in the eyes will bring the subject to life. Helen South, How To Draw Eyes. There are two sets of eyes in every portrait, the eyes of the subject and the eyes of the artist. The subject’s eyes we could call “the window to the soul”. Through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artofthepeace.ca/editorial/the-eyes-have-it</link>
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		<title>Art of the Peace Juried Art Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Excellent Representation of the Fine Art of the Region by Eileen Coristine The Art of the Peace Visual Arts Association launched the Iskoteo Arts Festival with their first juried art show. In the show, which was displayed at the Glass Gallery in con- junction with the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards, 53 artworks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artofthepeace.ca/issue-13/art-of-the-peace-juried-art-show</link>
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		<title>AOTP ‘09 Symposium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Celebrating Alberta Arts Days by Jody Farrell The Art of the Peace Seventh Annual Symposium promises to be a three day love affair; a coming together of artists and art enthusiasts to celebrate, discuss and view art in its many forms, from that which hangs, or sits, or moves as artistic expression, to the actual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artofthepeace.ca/issue-13/aotp-%e2%80%9809-symposium</link>
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		<title>Artist Statement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art depicting the landscape seems to be the predominant genre in our part of the world. Perhaps because the Peace is so picturesque that its appeal is compelling, or perhaps because the scenery here is uncluttered and precise. Or is it the ever-changing light? Painting or drawing a landscape is one of the most challenging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artofthepeace.ca/editorial/artist-statement</link>
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		<title>Ken HouseGo &#124; Personal Landscapes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To stand before the work of Grande Prairie artist Ken HouseGo is a little bit like contemplating Egyptian hieroglyphs or perhaps pictographs more generally. There is clearly a language here: symbols recurring in different shapes and forms and media. There is a small toy-like blue boat that appears, made out of wood and fastened to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artofthepeace.ca/issue-13/ken-housego-personal-landscapes</link>
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		<title>The New Prairie Art Gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a Living Thing by Jody Farrell Grande Prairie’s Montrose Cultural Centre, located on the site of the former Prairie Art Gallery (PAG), is scheduled to open this June. The modern and airy downtown building is home to both a new gallery and The Grande Prairie Public Library. The PAG will double the former exhibition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artofthepeace.ca/issue-12/the-new-prairie-art-gallery</link>
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		<title>Touching &#8211; a multi dimensional sensation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The essence of three-dimensional art is that it invites us to touch or to imagine what it would feel like to touch the object. We touch it with our eyes in a more complete way than we would a picture. We see the curve of a wing made of carved and polished stone and our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artofthepeace.ca/editorial/touching-a-multi-dimensional-sensation</link>
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