February 2023 Newsletter

FEBRUARY 2003 NEWSLETTER

Vol 1 Issue 3

ARABELLA's Mission

We started with the goal of supporting and promoting aspiring and achieving creative individuals and organizations that we think might otherwise go unnoticed in the contemporary landscape. We believe there is clear value socially, culturally and economically in advancing the careers of creative individuals and supporting businesses engaged in the arts and creative sectors. We still do.....

But Can We Talk?

After many years of personally investing in this mission we are recognizing that we really can’t do this alone. Perhaps we were overly ambitious, or naïve, or both. We now realize that we were underfunded for such a mission. We've accomplished a lot but to continue we need more resources. We're looking for readers, advertisers, and patrons who share our love of all things art and see value in joining and financially supporting our efforts. Let's talk and see if working together we can continue to achieve the mission.

I hope that you share my love of all things art and you consider joining and working with us in promoting and developing creative talents and businesses.

Wed March 8, 2023

International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The Day provides an important opportunity for groups worldwide to embrace and cultivate an ongoing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

For us at ARABELLA, it starts with our commitment to recognize and do what we can to nurture and develop the creative talents of aspiring & achieving women involved in arts, design and cultural sectors.

For February, our Member Newsletter will highlight some of our past promotional work in this important social and political undertaking. Yes, its just a small start and there's so much more to be done to celebrate women creatives.

EMBRACE EQUITY

Women Artists in Quebec

Parts 1 & 2

This is a two-part story presented in our 2011 Spring and Summer issues. The story could go on for a long time, women artists who live and paint, for the most part, in Quebec. In common is their love of painting, their zest for the world they see around them, creativity and a passion that brings to life the subjects that live on their canvases. Also, in common is that they are women, some friends, and that they share a bond in the galleries they work with, their work itself and their enthusiasm. ARABELLA celebrates their differences and their their achievements.

ARABELLA Spring 2011

ARABELLA Summer 2011

Gallery to Visit - Le Balcon d'art

One of our earliest colleagues in promoting the work of women artists in Quebec, Natalie Beauchamp is now at the helm of this successful Saint-Lambert Gallery. Click or tap the image below to access a

2010 ARABELLA Gallery To Visit article.

INSPIRATIONS - Doris McCarthy

ARABELLA Summer 2010

Before meeting Doris, Georgia O’Keefe was the artist that I aspired to live my life like as she lived with passion until her dying breath. After getting to know Doris, it is now she who inspires my life and urges me on toward my dreams. Doris has lived a very long life indeed, and more than anyone I know, has drank life to the bottom of the cup. (from ARABELLA, Summer 2010). [Click here or tap on the image below to access the full article.]

Female Artists i n History

We just recently discovered this FB Group and want to pass along the link this month. Christa Zaat (FB linked) aims to share and celebrate female artists of the past. "Her curation focuses on giving deceased woman artists a voice, illuminating their artwork through visibility on the Internet" [REWRITING ART HISTORY, CAROLINE B. JULY 27, 2015].

Celebrating the Culinary Arts

Over the years ARABELLA has had the opportunity to meet and profile some exceptionally aspiring, achieving and accomplished creative culinary talents. For the summer of 2010 we featured a rather special article on Summer Burgers [attached here]. We had occasion to revisit it, perhaps as an escape from our current February weather and started wondering where all our chefs were. For this Newsletter, we followed up on Shonah Chalmers and were delighted to see the work she is now doing as Culinary Professor & Program Coordinator at Humber College on food sustainability in Toronto. Clearly an issue of increasing importance. Also, given our first hand experience with staffing issues in the hospitality and tourism sector (e.g. for Brian at Ministers Island), we congratulate her on her commitment to exploring how the whole process of career development for aspiring chefs can be better addressed and supported by those we recognize as accomplished in the industry.[ see article here]