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From May to October
Visit members of Aspotogan Arts and Crafts every
second Saturday at the Hubbards Barn for beautiful arts and crafts including
greeting cards.
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Members' Exhibition and SaleBlandford Community Centre, Open to the
public May 12-13, 10:00am – 5:00pm
For more details, please see the Events page.
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Peggy's Cove Area Festival of the Arts 2012
To be held from July 12 to 22, 2012. July 21 and 22 will be the Open Studio
Tour weekend where a number of AA&C art studios will be participating including
the Ocean Swells Community Centre in Nth West Cove which will become a gallery
for AA&C artists.
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Jan Shilletto
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Title: Northwest
Cove
Medium: Watercolour |
Title:
Afternoon In The Garden
Medium: Watercolour |
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Title:
Lake On 329
Medium:
Watercolour |
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Bio
Info
Jan Shilletto lives in Northwest Cove where she paints in and around the
community, particularly enjoying the observation process and taking the time to
discover her surroundings. She paints or draws a subject that moves her, or
tells a story, and tries to interpret this in visual 'words'.
Though mainly self-taught, Jan has taken courses through Seneca College, North
York Board of Education, Schneider School of Fine Art and through workshops.
Workshops attended in Nova Scotia have been with Steve Rhude, Ron Hazell, Tom
Ward, Jeannie Hancock, Michael Fernandes, Susan Vitale, Don Pentz, Barbara
McLean, Regina Coupar, Susan Hudson and Kay Stanfield. Others have been with
Carl Schaefer, Alex Sharma and Barry Coombs.
Corporate collections include Petro-Canada, Suncor, Canadian Tire, North York
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Shows in Nova Scotia include: Hub-Arts
summer show, Hubbards 2005, 2006 Solo show, Shaped by Water, Dauphinee Inn 2004
VANS South Shore Gallery Show, Mahone Bay 2001 and 2005 Artography, Mahone Bay
2000 Solo show, Hillside Gallery, Bridgewater 1999 VANS South Shore Fall Show,
Bridgewater 1998, Annually at Aspotogan Arts Gallery Shows, Blandford and Ocean
Swells Summer Art Gallery, Northwest Cove
She has taught art through Chester
Municipality, Ocean Swells Community Centre, and has been Artist in the
Classroom at Shatford Memorial School, Hubbards for the last 8 years.
Jan Shilletto may be reached at covecottage@hotmail.com or 902 228-2059.
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Jan is a founding member of
Aspotogan Arts & Crafts, formed in the spring of 2000 with membership from the
Aspotogan Peninsula and area, and a member of Visual Arts Nova Scotia.
Jan has organized Aspotogan Painting Workshops for the past 8 years, bringing
groups of painters together from across North America for a week's painting
experience on the Aspotogan Peninsula, with a different well-known instructor
each year. She continues to enjoy the energy that results when painters of many
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