THE EXPRESS May 29, 1996 Page 7 Jo's Jewelry Arts&Culture • Make your ideas real with Jo's CUSTOM WORK, in silver and gold • Handmade jewelry • Jewelry repair • Crystals and rocks • Support your local Artists ► Formerly at "Made In The Kootenays". Explosive eventslated N -can be found at Country Fair Antiques. Parking availa le. 601 Front St. 852-5336 nder the Volcano" is the al and perfonning artists. One is Fiddler's Green Friday, May 3 I U explosive name given to this in Nelson May 30 at 7:30 p.m. at and June 21 , and are in Procter al ASSISTED JOB SEARCH (AJS) if you're summer's Kootenay Music the Garage and the second is in the Schoolhouse Cafe on Even on the n'ght track, you 'IIget run ()Verif you just sit there. the S locan Valley at the Threads Saturday, June 15. Cooper has - Will Rogers ,----,,.,,..,..,.=,,..,.. Festival, set for the Guild Hall on June I from 4-6 been singing since she was 14 AJS is a one-week training program for Youth 18 to 24 and Adults 40 to 60 years, who have been receiving Youth Works Allowance or Income Assistance weekend of p.m. Around the world, and and is a former lead vocalist with for seven months prior to January 1, 1996. The training program offers comput- July 13-14. around the world entertainment-- a number of bands. er based Career Exploration, Resum~ Preparation, Creative Job Search & Two intro- what better way to spend a sum- Rain or Shine is an apt name Intetview Skills Workshops and will assist you to identify Career Goals and du ct or y mer weekend in the Kootenays? for anyone playing outdoor develop an Action Plan. Upon successful completion of the training program you will receive a $25 training allowance. To register for the AJS training program meetings Venue to be announced soon. music in Nel~on these days-- contact Career Development Services, at 354•3888 and ask for Alana. take place Visiting from San Francisco catch them at the Tree of Life Funded by the Ministry of Education, Skills and Training ~-----~ soon for Bay for the next few months is marketplace on Saturday at 9.30 Music& young peo- ple interest- Suzanne Cooper, who plays pop, jazz and rhythm and blues a.m. With a mix of folk, blues, Celtic and roots music, they by Mary Crowe ed in volun- locally with Cliff Maddix of should appeal to all, whether Thelanguageof painting teering help, as well as for literary, visu- to Selkirk College's Professional Music Program. They play you're dodging the raindrops or soaking up the sun. _I ~-~-~-~_1_@ I 'JItf/tl$I In Ille wag II tf donetllat ties istorically, great painters shadow. Spartan mountain land- esting. Sheila Lockhart consis- H have practised, religiously, scapes, they play with those large tently impresses with assem- tile wlwte flifference betweencommc11pln(·e the meticulous art of drawing- colour planes and interesting tex- blages of rusty metal industrial gardening an.tigardening that may rigllt/!f as a study for a larger work, or tural subtleties he admires. jetsam that contrast effectively just to keep the eye and hand Cepella finds his inspiration in with sculpted clay figures, and claim to rank as fine an·· GcrtmaeJeh:yt alert and sensitive. the outdoors, both at work as a Chris Brown's Water Offering "It's a tra- botanical surveyor and at play, and Petal Nordic combine grace dition as old fishing and camping. and primitive asymmetry in as Goya, Illustrations, often for newspa- welded and forged steel. Other Picasso or pers and magazines, are executed pieces in the show include works Daumier," to deadline in an occupation that in clay, paintings, and political says Rick takes up 60 per cent of his work- commentary and experiments in Cepella. ing life. Paintings are "squeaked mixed media. Cepclla in" the remaining hours, and has had plen- offer opportuni- Perhaps an unintentional cen- ty of time to ty for a new freedom of ArtAlert sharpen skills and expression. by Anne DeGrace pencils both: Each medium He's been has a positive drawing almost full time for a affect upon the decade, and last year won the other. and Duncan MacPherson Memorial Cepella sees award for excellence. in newspa- both as neces- per illustration. As an editorial sary to keeping cartoonist and illustrator, things fresh. Cepclla's work has found its way "Drawing into a large number of Canadian and painting are newspapers and earned recogni- different lan- tion abroad through competitions guages," he in Japan and Turkey. says, explaining Anne DeGrace photo Other artists are a major influ- that after a lot AT THE DRAWING BOARD: Rick Cepella ence in Cepella's work, drawing of drawing "I ._ __________________ _. and painting alike. Painters like have to re-acquaint myself with trepiece to the show, however, Visit this display drawn from our collection American Richard Diebenkorn, the language of painting." Riley Berhard's Genie Grinch of Rhododendrons and Azaleas, dwarf & who works in large, textural "Ttie Language of Painting" full size Conifers, Ornamental Grasses colour fields or B.C. artist would be an apt title for this demands immediate attention and Gordon Smith, whose big, loose show of deceptively articulate is a respite to the more serious and spring/summer blooming Heathers landscapes "knocked out" paintings. Cepella's work may be stuff. Flashing Christmas lights, Cepella at a recent exhibition. seen at the Book Garden Cafe angel hair, and a Christmas tree Perennials of the week • But if Cepella's drawings hold through June. fill the genie's "lamp"; the genie Astilbe and Hardy Pink Geraniums both painstaking control and At the Nelson Museum this himself is none other than the implied looseness, his painl- month is a multimedia exhibition Grinch Who Stole Christmas, i ngs-large, undetai led land- by Kootenay School of the Arts scapes-speak of painstaking created with plaster and insulat- second year graduates. It's a looseness and implied control. more sombre exhibition than the ing foam, replete with flashing The effect is taut but unrestrained Yeti/Sasquatch show at the amber eyes and seasonal back- within the hard edge of light and Langham, but nonetheless inter- ground music. Thanks, Riley. DESK Inn, at 352-7573. be greatly appreciated, and pick- up can be arranged. Giant garage Items for sale include lots of Continued from page 5 sale coming building materials, tools, garden- The festival needs a logo, and Nelson Gyro Club ing equipment, antiques, furni- submissions will be accepted until Sunday, June 23 at 6 p.m. Upgrading the Gyro Park pool is a huge project, and the Gyro Club will present a gigantic ture and household items. The garage sale takes place Sunday, June 2 at Cottonwood \\\VJ[JUD\\\VOOJD Anyone interested in volun- GARDEN CENTRE teering or submitting a logo for garage sale to help fund the Falls Park (behind Whitewater consideration should call Brooke work. Donations of items for sale Ford and Star Transfer) from 9 PRT HarropN,vury 229-4500ToUFreeJ-8Q0-557-2817 Leatherman at the Dancing Bear from citizens and businesses will a.m. to 2 p.m ..