Collingwood Colours
CCI Student Artwork - Georgian Frame Gallery
CCI Students Host Art Show at Georgian Frame Gallery. Margot Nicholson (pictured above) shows a painting by CCI Art Teacher William Vancise highlighting the Collingwood Elvis Festival. The painting was sold at a silent auction with proceeds going back to CCI. Collingwood Mayor Chris Carrier and Deputy Mayor Sandra Cooper (pictured below) joined CCI Art Teacher William Vancise at the official art show opening on Friday, March 26th.
CCI Student Art Captures
Scenes Of Our Home Town
The artwork on display represented individual interpretation of scenes of Collingwood, as seen through the eyes of CCI art students.
The paintings were framed by Georgian Frame Gallery and sold for $50.00 each, with all proceeds returned to Collingwood Collegiate. Margot Nicholson said that the exhibition sold a total of 27 student works at $50 each and William Vancises "Collingwood Elvis Festival" piece auctioned for $180. "in a day and a half we raised $1530 for the visual arts program at CCI."
Admiral Collingwood School (pictured above) is remembered on canvass thanks to a contribution by Vanessa Stubbs. Lindsay Ventzka captured a scene featuring friends at Collingwood's waterfront watching the sunset.
Kaytlin Robitaille provided her creative depiction of the former Tremont Hotel. (pictured below)
Hanna Marshall's outstanding painting of a snowboarder was a part of the "Collingwood Colours" exhibition at the Georgian Frame Gallery.
Elizabeth Dawson provided a painting of one of Collingwood's historic homes while Miranda Brown captured a downtown mural on canvas that remembers the Collingwood Shipyards
