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    • Part 1: First Nations of the Peace River Region
    • Part 2: The Fur Trade Era
    • Part 3: Transportation and Communication
    • Part 4: Old Timers and the Price of Land
    • Part 5: Dawson Creek: The Story of the Community
    • Part 6: Mysteries, Adventures and Indian Legends
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    • Part 13: Policing the Peace
    • Part 14: Pouce Coupe, Rolla, and Other South Peace Communities
    • Part 15: Chetwynd and the Fort St. John Area
    • Part 16: The Alberta Peace
    • Part 17: Natural History of the Peace River Region
    • Part 18: Interviews with Old Timers
    • Part 19: Remembering Our Veterans

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BN07-21: Three Weeks Left for Watercolor Show

Recent History – 1999

Oct. 27, 1999

By Charity Wallace, Daily News Staff

There’s still time to visit the Peace Watercolor Art Show, and perhaps buy some Christmas presents in the process. The show at the Dawson Creek Art Gallery contains 46 pieces by 13 artists.

One of the featured artists for the show, Judy Brown, says that she was very pleased with the number of people at the opening of the show, Oct. 17.

“The opening went really well,” she says. “I really couldn’t estimate the amount of people at the opening but it was a great turnout.”

The artists sold six painting during the afternoon and Brown says that that is an incredible amount.

The Peace Watercolor Society is a group of painters from the Peace region, including Dawson Creek, Grande Prairie, Spirit River, Fairview, and one of the founding members lives in Cache Creek. Brown says that the show is a rotation between four places.

“We rotate between Beaverlodge, Grande Prairie, Dawson Creek and Fairview normally,” she says. “And we have gone to Fort St. John and Grande Cache in the past.”

This is the 23rd year the society has been running the semi-annual shows.

Gallery curator, Ellen Corea, says that the show is wonderful for people who enjoy looking, collecting or for someone who is looking for a unique Christmas gift.

“This is really a beautiful show,” Corea says. “Any person who loves art shouldn’t miss it.”

There are currently 13 members in the society which offer a variety of individual perspectives and styles, but to join a person has to go through an initiation of sorts.

“You have to participate as a guest artist in, I think, three shows,” Brown says. “After the shows are done, the members decide whether to vote you into the group.”

Brown has been in the society for almost a decade and says that the gallery in Dawson Creek is her favourite gallery to show in. The show will be on display until Nov. 13.

This article is taken from the Peace River Block Daily News, Dawson Creek, with the permission of the publisher. The Daily News retains all rights relating to this material. The information in this article is intended solely for research or general interest purposes.

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