Crawling for Art: The Eastside Cultural Crawl

Vancouver’s Eastside Cultural Crawl takes place each fall with hundreds of artists opening their studios to the public. At last night’s opening event I took in just a few of the participating studios. Just a few still adds up to an overwhelming amount of art with everything from jewelry and furniture to paintings and sculptures, and yes some textiles were in the mix. As much as I’d love to give you detailed information on my top favorites it feels fitting to give you an overwhelming list of memorable artists. To find out more about the artists click on their images or find them in the list of links at the bottom. There is no particular order to the list.

Robyn Drage

Jen Hong

David Robinson

Arleigh Wood

 

Fiona Ackerman

 

Lisa Ochowycz

Claire Madill, Heyday Design

Jim Park

Laura McKibbon, Cul de Sac Design

Ann Thinghuus

Tanis Saxby

 

Crawling artists on the web

• Robyn Drage (Robyn’s not officially part of the Crawl but she had an open studio yesterday and was my first stop of the evening)
• Jen Hong
• Arleigh Wood
• Fiona Ackerman (I know and work with this artist)
• Lisa Ochowycz
• Claire Madill, Heyday Design (great jewellery too)
• Jim Park
• Laura McKibbon, Cul de Sac Design
• Ann Thinghuus
• Tanis Saxby

More Crawl

• Christina Norberg (she has some whimsical textile & mixed media creations, I just couldn’t pillage any images)
• Dina Gonzalez Mascaro, jewellery, paintings, sculpture
• Denna Erickson
• Mary Anne Tateishi
• Patricia Atchinson
• Michelle Nelson & Bridget Cathpole, Votum Jewelry (check out the double femur, it is on my Christmas wish list!)
• Ken Claude Lambert, jewelry design
• Kyla Bourgh, Borgi Borga