GRAVEN FEATHER MIDNIGHT MARKET

Selling prints, cards and books at this Graven Feather Midnight Market!

Saturday, December 22nd, 12pm - 7pm

906 Queen Street West

Toronto

Halifax Crafters Market and Interview

I will be selling my prints, new cards and a little book at this years Halifax Crafters Market at the Olympic Centre on December 1st & 2nd. The sale is an amazing opportunity to buy local handmade goods.

NEW book!

NEW card designs!

Check out the Crafters Blog for my interview and find out more about my practice and what to expect at Crafters this year!

Halifax Timeraiser Auction

My painting, The Rabbit and the Snake, was auctioned last week in the first Halifax Timeraiser Event

Timeraiser events happen in cities all over Canada where people can bid on artwork with volunteer hours to community organizations, and artists get paid the full value of their work, so everyone wins!

Monster Drawing Contest

I won first place with my drawing of a topiary monster in the Other Gazette Monster Drawing Contest

Thanks to everyone who "liked" it!

Quilts in Show

My Quilts are going to be displayed at the Mahone Bay Quilters Guild Show this weekend during the  Scarecrow Festival and the big Bluenose Launch!

Don't miss this rare chance to see the guild's members beautiful work displayed

Art in Auction

The Lunenburg Art Gallery Foundation is having a Live Auction on September 29th, same day as the launch of the famous Bluenose II, to raise money for the Lunenburg Art Gallery

My piece "Lovers in the Night" will be available for auction

FOR THE LOVE OF ART

Live Auction & Silent Auction

Lunenburg Opera House

290 Lincoln St.

4:00 - 7:00 pm

Saturday, September 29, 2012

$25 per person

Tickets available at the Lunenburg Art Gallery (corner of Pelham and Duke) 

Call 640-4044

Lovers in the Night

Watercolour

2012

Dots & Loops

Dots & Loops Handmade in Lunenburg now carry my archival quality prints

Visit Lunenburg & see what else they have in store!

Art Workshops at the Makery

I am instructing two workshops this fall at the Lunenburg Makery, Drawing and Painting for Kids and Narrative Painting for all! 

Come, learn how to do what I love to do!

Tell your friends!

Night Flea Market

Come on down to the Khyber tonight for the Night Flea Market

I will be launching some new prints of my Cosmic Night Sky series

You don't want to miss this!

Growing Green Art Show

I did the artwork for the Growing Green Art Show poster this year

The show is part of the Sustainability Festival happening this weekend in Bridgewater

I also have three watercolours in the show from my "Woman of the North and Woman of the South" series. Come check them out at the Bridgewater Library from August 25th to September 29th

See you there!

Girl Talk on the News

You might have heard me on national radio yesterday morning talking about Girl Talk, the summer camp I'm running with the Second Story Women's Centre in Lunenburg. It was on CBC World Report, reported by the one and only, Julia Pagel!!

listen to the clip on this link

Girl Talk!!

I am running Girl Talk this summer! 

Girl Talk is a free four-day camp program is offered through SSWC to girls 9-12 years old. The program aims to increase self-esteem and confidence in participants. Our goal is to empower girls in a fun and safe environment where they are able to express their creativity, engage in active games, and voice their opinions on various issues. The program is generously supported by United Way Lunenburg County.

Dates & Locations:

• July 9-12 Bridgewater (St. Paul's Lutheran Church Hall)
• July 16-19 New Germany Elementary School
• July 23-26 Lunenburg (Central United Church Hall)
• July 30-Aug 2 Chester (Forest Heights Community School)
• August 7-10 Liverpool (Queen's Family Resource Centre)

More information:

• Call 640-3044, ext. 19 
• or 543-1315, ext. 19
• Email girltalk@eastlink.ca
• Click here

The Universe and Other Stories: Show in Lunenburg

My show at the Black Duck in Lunenburg turned out beautifully! Thanks to Liam, Dave and my mom for their parts in making the frames, and thanks to Ulo for the vinyl. Also, many thanks to everyone who came out for the opening! 

The show will run until July 20th at the Black Duck Gallery in Lunenburg, NS.

Check it out if you haven't already!

Watercolour Painting at Pentz Elementary

I gave a special Watercolour workshop for grade six students at Pentz Elementary for the Fort Point Historical Society. The students created images inspired by maps designed by the the earliest European settlers of the Lahave region. I showed them how to use salt and oil pastels to achieve interesting effects with the paint.

The paintings turned out beautifully!

Hula Hooping at the West Dublin Market

 Thanks to everyone who came out for the Hooping workshop at the West Dublin Market!

We had lots of fun making hoops and learning new tricks!

Lunenburg Academy Memory Quilt

The students who created the Lunenburg Academy Memory Quilt Project and I were invited to a Genealogy Conference in Lunenburg. We were asked to speak about the process of making the quilt and officially handed over the quilt to the Academy.

The quilt currently hangs at the Bluenose Academy in Lunenburg. Check it out!

Summer Art Camp at the Lunenburg Makery

ART CAMP 

at the Lunenburg Makery

Choose Mornings or Afternoons on Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays all through July and August

For kids 9 and up

Facilitated by Artist and Educator Rebecca Roher

Activities and games such as… sock animals, watercolours, oil pastels, print making, collage, paper pop ups, weaving, hula hooping, egg dying, book making & snow globes!

$160/kid for 8 sessions, all materials included

Register by June 20^th at the Lunenburg Makery

228 Lincoln St. (902) 640 4100

info@lunenburgmakery.ca

www.lunenburgmakeryblog.com

www.rebeccaroherart.blogspot.com

Prints for Purchase

I just opened my etsy shop, also called Rebecca Roher Art, where you can find archival quality prints of my original watercolour paintings.

The prints are bright, beautiful and look shockingly like the originals. Plus, they make great gifts!

Check it out!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/RebeccaRoherArt

GO BIG OR GO HOME: after school art workshops at the Makery

If you're a kid looking for something to do after school in June on Wednesdays or Thursdays, come on down to the Lunenburg Makery and make large scale art projects with me!

HULA HOOPING WORKSHOP

COME MAKE A HOOP& LEARN TO HOOP AT THE WEST DUBLIN MARKET

SATURDAY JUNE 9TH 11 AM- 1PM

$15 INCLUDES ALL MATERIALS TO MAKE AND DECORATE YOUR OWN HOOP

LEARN AND SHARE TRICKS

REGISTER WITH ALEX HICKEY 902 298 1455

OR EMAIL ALEX@ALEXSINGS.CA

Lunenburg Academy Memory Quilt

My amazing crew of seamstresses from the Lunenburg Academy and I have been very busy creating blocks for our memory quilt for the last seven weeks. Yesterday, we had a very productive session and the whole top has finally been pieced together. I am thrilled to present it in its almost-finished state!

Next week we will be stretching it on the frame and begin hand quilting the whole piece, stitching the top, batting and back layers together. Hand-quilting is an old tradition in this part of Nova Scotia, and continues on today with a few groups. I am so impressed by the dedication and creativity I have seen over the last few weeks with my students, and I cant wait to see the quilt complete!

Early on, we made a practice paper quilt to better understand drawing with shapes.

CREATIVE CREATURES!!!

Over March Break, I ran a few sock-animal workshops at the Lunenburg Makery. We made sock-frogs, and a few kids went outside the box and made other animals like a sock-spider and a sock-diva! I was very impressed by how quickly the youngsters of Lunenburg County took up hand sewing.

for the birds

other worlds

I had a wonderful day in the studio creating these psychedelic space paintings

"look"

"the view from blue rocks"

"reach out"

"lovers in the night"

"the top of purple mountain"

"up in the mountains"

"the climb"

"night sky"

the woman of the north, the woman of the south

These are a few paintings from a series I've been working on about two women living in the North and the South. It's been fun thinking about their extreme landscapes, what tools and vessels they might have around, how they collect water and get from place to place.

This is their world

The Woman of the North in her cave

The Woman of the South fetching water

The Woman of the South drinking water