Finished artwork will be exhibited at the Grand Forks Art Gallery in fall 2027, and will include sound composition and field recording, analogue film, narrative graphic comic strips, poetry, installation, large-scale immersive drawing and more.
‘The Art of Safe Keeping,’ it occurs to me, is not only safekeeping possessions, people, memories, but in a broader sense the stories of a community.
Families travel to the event from throughout the region, with 4,500 people in attendance at Rotary Park in 2025.
In both small and larger ways, helping others and responding to community needs is a key aspect of Doukhobor history and culture.
As a visual artist, Deb works primarily in pastels, capturing landscapes as they shift and change. Her work in disaster recovery focuses on supporting small, rural and remote communities as they rebuild—a project that became immensely personal after her community of Argenta was severely threatened by fire last summer.
On Thursday, June 19, filmmaker Carlo Alcos stood on stage at Nelson’s Capitol Theatre, humbly basking in the audience’s vibrant, joyous response to his first documentary film. The theatre held over 250 people – friends, family and strangers – celebrating the story he had just shared with us and his courage to tell it.
In 2022, the Cranbrook Arts 1401 Gallery hosted a groundbreaking exhibit entitled “I Quilt.” This exhibit not only celebrated the unique and innovative quilting techniques of the Cranbrook Quilters Guild (CQG) members but also left the audience intrigued and inspired by their exceptional creativity and skill.