Cameron Cartiere + The chART Collective | For All is For Yourself
For All Is For Yourself explores the issue of declining bee populations, and serves to both educate and inspire community action.
Associate Professor Cameron Cartiere and the chART Collective explore increasing sustainable habitats for bees that counter recent decreasing bee numbers largely due to disease, parasites, pesticide use and loss of habitat. Cartiere's socially engaged practice includes her working with various Richmond communities to produce handmade seed paper (from recycled office paper) that is then laser cut into 10,000 "bees" that form the Gallery installation.
On December 10 the public will be invited to return to the Gallery to take some of the bees away to plant in their own gardens – to create new bee friendly habitats while facilitating the hive to "swarm" out of the gallery. The remaining bees will re-appear in an exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery in 2016.
Richmond Art Gallery
September 12, 2015 - January 3, 2016
Opening Reception | September 18, 7 - 9:30pm
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