The be-jewelled cape in
this photo is a symbolic replacement for the mountain goat’s hair, used in
traditional Coast Salish weaving.*
I signed up for an
on-line art blogging workshop called Creative Content Camp with ArtBiz coach
Alyson B. Stanfield at the last minute and hit the ground running (in confused
little circles) on June 17, just in time to download Lesson 1.
Upon studying the
schedule I realized that I was going to miss the Lesson 1 Q&A session as
I’d be AFK from 7am June 21 to 7pm June 23 on an Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria expedition to a Picasso show at the Vancouver Art Gallery and a tour of the new Audain Art Museum and the Squamish/Lil’wat Cultural Centre in Whistler.
Fortunately this
interruption tied in nicely with Activity 2 of Lesson 1, which was to ‘research what’s going on in your local art scene - if you are within
driving distance of a major metropolitan area or know you’ll be visiting one in
the near future, research the museums in that city‘ in preparation for Challenge 1: Mind-mapping
content categories.
*The mountain goat hair used by the Coast Salish weavers was gathered
from trees the animals rubbed against to help shed their winter coats, should you be wondering how they obtained it – I know I certainly
was.
