Calgary Youth Art Exhibition

Thanks to all our youth artists, friends, family, and guest speakers Chris Willard, Tia Halliday and Laurel Smith for coming out to the Artists Opening Night yesterday! We hope to see you all again at next year's CYAE.

Artists Opening Night at the exhibition is kicking off in an hour! While you hangout and freely chat away, we'll also be exchanging opinions in: modern art's merits, public funding for personal art preferences, favorite artists, and more!

...And the exhibition becomes reality! Our passionate, talented artists now have their works up at the café. We would like to extend a warm thank you to all the artists who participated in this year's art exhibition. They are the driving force of CYAE; they are the ones willing to get up at 6 in the morning, drive nails into walls, and excitedly fuss over the straightness of each others' works. We would also like to thank all our supporters, who made this much for special for the artists.
The exhibition runs August 1-22. Stop by and check it out!

"...If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!"

"Blue"
Vicky X.
Digital Art

"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he comes to see."
Cheers to Emily X. for these engaging photographs!

Our minds of the day are Christopher Willard and Tia Halliday.
Christopher and Tia are faculty members at the Alberta College of Art and Design, and are active artists within Calgary and abroad.
Come out to our opening gallery night to speak with these two incredible individuals!

Hey everyone! Our exhibition is only 2 days away. We would like to invite you to our opening night, where you'll be able to meet with all our youth artists, and speak with two amazing artists - Chris Willard and Tia Halliday about their experiences. Join us for a fun night at the Higher Ground Cafe this Friday August 1, 6-9 PM, even if you're just stopping by for a bite to eat!

"Art and Metamorphosis"-Tracy L.
Acrylic on Board.
Mark your calendars! The exhibition's opening event is only four days away!

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious"-Albert Einstein.
Cheers to Sherry M. for submitting these eye-popping pieces. "Ballerina"; "Lipstick and Gloss"

Hey art lovers, just a reminder that our submission deadline is in two days, at the end of the day-Wednesday July 23. We're accepting all mediums: acrylic, oil, watercolour, photography, digital art, pen and ink, pencil sketches, chalk... anything artsy that can be hung on a wall can be hung in our gallery! If you have any questions, feel free to send us a message or email [email protected].

What impeccable precision went towards etching this piece! Thanks to Esther C. for submitting a beautiful eagle on scratchboard.

"Piercing Eyes"
Esther C.
Scratchboard

Our featured mind of the day is Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), a Mexican painter, political activist, and feminist icon best known for her self portraits. Her art is described by Surrealist André Breton as "a ribbon around a bomb". Kahlo lived a short, eccentric life, shaped by her string of love affairs (of which included Leon Trotsky, the exiled Russian Marxist revolutionary), tumultuous marriage, and ill health.Through her portraits, Kahlo reveals her innermost thoughts through careful, poetic evocation of emotion, and added elements of powerful personal symbolism.
“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”