Author Archives: DCAG Staff
The Semiotics of a Picket Fence I: Show Me the Meaning
By Haley Bassett, October 8th 2020 Dear reader, don’t let the title scare you off. This week I decided to share a helpful nugget I learned about in art school that has had a major impact on my artistic process and outlook on life: semiotics. This article will serve as a very brief introduction […]
Reframing Our Relationship to the Land with kit fast
“Winter was well fed this year. She licked the sky dry to store its energy in crystalline layers, like a bear stripping cranberries from branches.”
—kit fast, standing waves: the making of each moment
The Northern Arts Review on Mina Ambrose
Ambrose epitomizes the phrase “Never too late”. She completed her first novel as a great grandmother in her 70s, a project that began over twenty years ago.
Thoughts on the Universe, Mortality and the Bones of Consciousness from Donna Kane
By Haley Bassett, August 26th 2020 “whatever grounds me, draws from a great distance” – Donna Kane, ‘Oh Be a Fine Girl, Kiss Me’ For this week’s edition, I was able to speak with celebrated local writer Donna Kane, author of two poetry collections, Somewhere, a Fire and Erratic, as well as the memoir Summer […]
On Poetry and Art with Donna Kane
By Haley Bassett, August 21st 2020 This week, I had the privilege of sitting down with visual artist turned writer Donna Kane. Our discussion ranged from the inspiration of her latest book to the concepts of art and poetry. Tune in next week for my article on Kane’s upcoming book of poems, Orrery. As a […]
No Solace – The Northern Arts Review on Barbara Swail
By Haley Bassett, August 13th 2020 No Solace: Barbara Swail on the Emotional Toll of Environmental Change Entire mountainsides rusting with ghostly pine trees. Acres of forest and whole communities devastated by wildfire. Saturated land and shrinking growing seasons that challenge livelihood and sustenance. Mining effluent desecrating waterways and habitats. Have you felt disquieted by […]
meandering with mottishaw
By Haley Bassett, August 5th 2020 For this week’s column, I was fortunate enough to sit down with local mainstay of the arts community mary mottishaw, whose exhibition meander opens alongside Karl Mattson’s Thoughts of Love, Meditations of Violence and Barbara Swail’s Solistalgia at the Dawson Creek Art Gallery on Friday, August 7th. The opening […]
Karl Mattson’s Thoughts of Love, Meditations of Violence
By Haley Bassett, July 31st 2020 Hello, dear reader, and welcome the the Northern Arts Review! My name is Haley Bassett and I will be your local arts columnist for the foreseeable future. The NAR will be a weekly arts column covering regional art news as well as news from the BC, Canadian and global […]
