News and Exhibits

CURRENT NEWS and EVENTS

Kristi Bridgeman's award-winning artwork is regularly featured in exhibits in B.C. and Alberta, and was recently shortlisted for Governor Generals Award as well as several dozen fine arts and book awards.

The following is a selection of articles and features from the artists recent events.

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The 'BREATHE' Travelling Exhibit

2020 Exhibit,  Whyte Museum, Banff.

CBC:  I ndigenous artists
Facebook: BREATHE Group
Globe and Mail:   COVID 19 Masks
Article: APTN
Article: LOCAL NEWS

The artists tiny mask creation will be travelling with a large body of work throughout North America.

For more on Kristi's breathe mask

RECENT and PAST EVENTS

ARRANGEMENTS
August 20 – October 25, 2020

Over a dozen artists delve into the multiple significances held by cut flowers, ornamental gardens and wild plants to reveal how flowers act as surrogates for all kinds of ideas. Drawing on the personal, the political and the cultural meanings of flowers, the artworks in the exhibition go beyond notions of beauty to take an unexpected look at this familiar floral subject matter.

RECENT ARTICLE Forget-Me-Not, Métis Rose: The Far West
https://www.mapleridgenews.com/entertainment/slideshow-artists-give-talk-at-mtis-art-exhibition-in-maple-ridge/

Forget me not, Metis Rose- Recent Exhibits

Forget-Me-Not, Métis Rose, The Far West. 2019 The ACT Arts Centre, Maple Ridge B.C.
https://www.mapleridgenews.com/entertainment/slideshow-artists-give-talk-at-mtis-art-exhibition-in-maple-ridge/

Forget-Me-Not, Métis Rose 2018 at Musée Héritage Museum, St. Albert, Alberta https://www.stalberttoday.ca/entertainment-news/metis-family-stories-design-1298344

Forget-Me-Not, Métis Rose 2017 Jasper Region Museum and Archives, Jasper, Alberta
issuu.com/thejasperlocal/docs/the-jasper-local-issue97-may15-2017/8

The Island Illustrators Society GO-7

GO 7~ Group exhibit paying homage to Group of Seven artists Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald and Frederick Varley.
The Group of Seven had their first show in 1920 using the name Group of Seven. The Group’s Canadian landscape paintings propelled the Canadian wilderness onto the world stage and paved the way for generations of Canadian artists to follow in their footsteps"
TC GO Dec 24 2019

Outlook at twilight, Haro Strait, GO-7. Kristi Bridgeman 8 x 10 Acrylic on canvas

Chaba Imne, Beaver/Maligne Lake, Jasper AB. GO-7. Kristi Bridgeman 8 x 10 Acrylic on Canvas, SOLD

DUE TO COVID-19 ISLAND ILLUSTRATORS SOCIETY, GALLERY EXHIBIT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Check this website for further updates:
https://www.islandillustrators.org/single-post/2019/12/29/We-Are-Blowing-Our-Own-Horn-Because

2008 FOCUS Magazine

Reviews and Interviews

2019 Article featuring Kristi's painting, GO Section, Times Colonist
https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/group-of-seven-inspires-island-illustrators-1.24041505

2018 Feature Article, St. Albert Gazette
www.stalbertgazette.com/article/metis-family-stories-design-20180405

2017 Feature Article, The Jasper Local
https://issuu.com/thejasperlocal/docs/the-jasper-local-issue97-may15-2017/8

2016 Island Parent Magazine, Book Nook with Sara Cassidy
https://islandparent.ca/index.php?kic_article_action=display&kic_article_id=1478

2015 Kirkus Star, "A Carnival of Cats"
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/charles-ghigna/a-carnival-of-cats/

2015 49th Shelf, Kerry Clare, Illustrator Review "A Carnival of Cats"
https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2015/10/29/Illustrator-Gallery-Kristi-Bridgeman-and-A-Carnival-of-Cats

2012 Feature article by Judee Fong, Senior Living Magazine p 31-33
https://issuu.com/barbara.risto/docs/senior_living_may12_web/30

2010, Exhibit V with Efren Quiroz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy5fa0wGJ1

2008 "Painting for Peace and Light" by Poet Linda Rogers, Focus Magazine ( PDF Download here Pgs 18-21 ) 2007 Times Colonist - Book Review by Liz Pogue,

2003 Saanich News, Thomas Winterhoff "Local Artist Draws on the Child Within"

2003 Jenny Manichuck, ‘Artist Studio Interview’ CHEK T.V, Victoria BC ,

2001 Volume 15, Issue 3, The Illustrator: "Flowers, Fairies and Fine Art"

Also features and articles in Baltimore Sun, Faerie Magazine, Midwest Book Review, Children's Book Sense, Independent Publishers book review, Bronze IPPY Award.

PAST EVENTS and PROJECTS

2019 North by Northwest Interview with Sheryl Mackay
(at 1:46:32)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-43-north-by-northwest/clip/15669534-saturday-february-9

Works referred to in the CBC interview: "Meadow Amethyst" & "Tahlequahs Message"

AWARDS in the NEWS

2015 Kirkus Star, "A Carnival of Cats"

2010 Governour Generals Illustration Shortlist for "Uirapuru"

2010 Bolen Books Childrens Book Prize,

C.O.A.T. Award of Excellence,

Monday Magazine Peoples Choice,

Community Arts Coucil of Greater Victoria's '150 Top Women Artists past and present'

Several awards through the Federation of Canadian Artists, Victoria Chapter.