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Frances Thomas: Natural Abstraction
by Terrence Heath, Canadian Art online
Seldom does a viewer see what a painter sees. Writers about art often turn to other artists and schools to categorize the art they are looking at,or second-guess what they perceive to be emotional or psychological messages subliminally secreted in the works, or draw...
Art should evoke a feeling, and Frances Thomas aims to do just that with her new exhibit but wait, on now at the MacLaren Art Centre. “I think it’s key that people understand that art is a felt responseand that it’s important that people try to open themselves up to the actual experience of looking at the work,” she said. “You can’t make anyone...
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Sandra Fraser, Curator
Carolyn Bell Farrell, Executive Director MacLaren Art Centre
The MacLarenArtCentre in Barrie is Simcoe County’s public art gallery and draws 40,000 visitors annually — including 16,000 children and youth — for its exhibitions, classes, lectures, tours and special events. Located in downtown...
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The MacLaren Art Centre is combining its past with its present for a new festival.
The Carnegie Days Festival focuses on the MacLaren building’s origins as a Carnegie Public Library, and explores the role of language in contemporary art.
“We are very excited about this,” said Carolyn Bell Farrell, executive director of the MacLaren...
A new event brings together art, books, video, history and architecture in a celebration of family fun that could only happen in Barrie.
Carnegie Days, hosted by the MacLaren Art Centre, is named for the Mulcaster Street building that was the city's public library long before it became a gallery. The new annual art...
Wednesday September 9, 2009
Sean-William Dawson has made art his life's work.
But he's never made art out of his life -- until now.
The Beeton resident recently created first-person pieces for an inaugural event he hopes will stir up more excitement about art in Barrie.
"I like anything that puts art out into the public so it becomes...
The MacLarenArtCentre announced today a vibrant 20th anniversary communications campaign that reflects its history while reaching toward the future. The new campaign honours Maurice MacLaren, the gallery’s namesake and legendary community figure who bequeathed his home and his art collection in 1989 to create a public art gallery for Barrie. His impact on the quality of life in this community...