The 47th Annual Prince Albert Winter Festival Art Show & Sale will be officially opening this Friday, February 10th with a gala event at 7 p.m. at the Mann Art Gallery. I have submitted a piece to this year’s show, and look forward to seeing the many submissions from all over Saskatchewan.
From the Mann Art Gallery website:
The Winter Festival Art Show & Sale is the premier community art event of northern Saskatchewan. In this exhibition, hundreds of artworks by emerging and professional artists from across the province are shown at the Mann Art Gallery.
My submission features one of the old tractors from my parents’ farm. There were summers past, spent working around machinery, fetching tools, cultivating, swathing, those seasons I helped out on the farm. Dad is intuitively mechanical, and could always fix just about anything. I regret I didn’t inherit this trait (I think it skipped a generation), but there were lessons learned from the experience nonetheless. Between jobs, I’d sometimes do sketches of the landscape. I remember dad parking the grain truck strategically for me, so I could climb up on the cab with my art board and chalk pastels to do my homework, that September when I first started taking studio classes in Prince Albert. Scent memories persist: dust, diesel fuel, coffee, as I sketch the Minneapolis years later. This old tractor sits in quiet retirement now, but I like to think perhaps it will make someone else smile at their own recollections.
The Winter Festival show will run until Saturday, March 25th, 2023.
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