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Valentine advocates - don't buy another boring flower to show your love. Buy the gift of art to reveal your heart! Heart by: Alison Smith-Welsh, Ottawa, Canada

Once this lockdown is over - hope you can catch this show at the Ottawa Art Gallery celebrating the brilliant Ottawa artist Russell Yuristy. Cube is proud to represent this lion of the art world. Go to our virtual gallery to see works large and small available today. cubegallery.ca

This holiday season we wanted to update you all on what the artists of WEST have been up to (or one very special thing, specifically)! Spearheaded by (and the ...big credit goes to) Wendy Feldberg Artist, dozens of art kits were developed and donated to the Parkdale Food Centre for distribution to their families as a special surprise. Here are just some of the pictures, and an outline of details. Thank you to all who helped make this huge effort such an amazing success! ___________________________________ From Wendy: My project idea was for us at WEST was for us to peer into the depths our art supply stashes and liberate as many art materials as we could bear to part with! I approached WEST first with the idea then asked members of other art associations to donate from their stashes also. ( see below). My goal was to make up art kits and donate them to the Parkdale Food Centre. The kits would go out to client families along with their food boxes. The Director at PFC sees an ongoing need for the children of these needy families to have more options for healthy recreation. I made up 36 kits ( see pics!) from the donated supplies. People who did not have suitable stuff went out and bought new items The kits were delivered tonight by my daughter and her son who had been volunteering regularly at PFC until COVID closed down that option. Also, we know that because of COVID, the artists did not have the option of meeting as a group to work on putting the kits together - so Sarah and Dylan helped there, also. There will be another batch of kits to follow this one - we received a lot of donations! So these will be assembled into packages also. In fact, the PFC Director says she sees an ongoing benefit throughout the year to having art kits available to send out with the food packages - kid birthdays, special celebrations, welcomes etc. One of the other art associations that donated says they feel they would like to try something similar since their members are famous for their bottomless-pit stashes. I documented the project ( Nov 30 - Dec 15) on Instagram to let the artists know how things were going but without mentioning individuals. And mostly in the fervent hope that other folks would see the need and the WIN-WIN benefits to artists and kids ( and their families) of sharing creativity. Participating donors -West End Studio Tour -Out of the Box Guild of Fibre Artists - Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artist Guild - Ottawa Valley Chapter -Calligraphy Society of Ottawa Kit Contents - papers ( plain, coloured and decorated) - pens, pencils, markers, crayons - eraser, sharpener, ruler - stamps -stencils -watercolour and acrylic paints and brushes -stickers -scissors -glue stick - paper palette - original art: samples of artist-decorated papers - a little surprise thingy in each paper box that contained small items

New works added as Great BIG smalls XVI continues! We never expected to have such a huge response to our new online Great BIG smalls show this year. Thank you for your enthusiastic patronage. We know some of you narrowly missed the opportunity to buy something by your favourite artists, but we have great news: we have managed to replenish our inventory of works by artists such as Russell Yuristy, Jennifer Gibbs and others. We have also had the good fortune in our second week ...of the show to add other artists to the roster including Reid McLachlan, John Jarrett, Juliana McDonald and Nathalie Freniere. Just a reminder that this year’s show is exclusively online, so pour a festive beverage and shop in the comfort of your home until December 31/20. You can safely pick up your purchase at our Ottawa location (weekday mornings), or we can arrange to have it delivered to your door in person or by Canada Post. You can also purchase a Cube gift card. Contact us for details. Find a unique gift for everyone on your list - at a price for every pocketbook. Visit the show by clicking here: https://cubegallery.ca/collections/great-big-smalls

Sold the Running Bunny by Russ Yuristy today and Cottontail and his Crow yesterday. However, good news Yuristy fans, I called Russ and we have replacements. So they are back to being available. Don't delay! https://cubegallery.ca/collections/great-big-smalls

Ottawa Artist Hawa Kaba now at Cube Projects Ottawa Artists Oag Gao National Gallery of Canada

16 new little 10X10 in pieces I am framing today for this weekends West End Studio Tour ! Hope to see you here at 201 Cowley Ave 11-5pm. last two weekends of September. Outdoor show!

It’s a hell of a walk from Ottawa to Renfrew. But it is a pretty scenic stroll. It was done all the time not so long ago. Ken Ryan’s painting of his son captures the mood dramatically. #fineart #portraiture #representational