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Fox Sparrow flies to Calgary |
Local creative duo team up to provide
Calgary’s ladies with key value vintage pieces |
by Kimberley Jev |
In Calgary, the quest for that one-of-a-kind item is what brought Heather Saitz and Lindsay Sutton together.
They have chosen not just Calgary but the entire world to show off exactly how to find those “I have to have that!” items with their new online-only vintage boutique Fox Sparrow.
“For me the initial concept came about because number one I love vintage and I also love eBay! So when I want to buy vintage I will typically go to eBay because you can find things that are uber original,” Saitz says, “I first bought a jacket from eBay… it’s a vintage
piece but it’s a ‘key’ vintage piece.”
Sutton, a Fine Arts degree major from the Alberta College of Art and Design, first showed her talent for attention to detail with the label Loyal Loot Clothing in 2004, which she worked on with furniture designer Doha Chebib. |
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1111 pushes art to the next level |
| Grandiose show helps solidify community |
by Kimberley Jev |
The art scene had been waiting.
After the drama with the Art Gallery of Calgary in November, the 1111 show was finally happening.
It was something that the arts community was buzzing about. We were all talking, all worrying, all speculating, all wondering what the space would look like. Are there that many artists in Calgary? Will this event even happen?
I mean just imagine, go back in time. Imagine, it is 11/01/09 and 1,111 artists, 1,111 pieces, 1,111 views, 1,111 ideas and 1,111 minds have come together at 11:11 a.m. in one space to ultimately
show Calgary that the local
art scene is more than alive.
“I wasn’t sure what to expect, it could have gone either way,” said James Wyper, a well-established
self-taught contemporary organic painter from Vancouver who moved to the city in 2001. “It could have gone so many ways, it could have been they were just throwing a whole group of people together.
“I was here for the setup and everybody just found their niche and put their art on the wall. There was lots of cooperation, I knew it would be packed so I just tried to get my paintings as high as I could.” |
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