150 Years Later
January 14 to May 16, 2008

This pan-provincial exhibition features work from Vancouver to Vanderhoof created through the Artists in Education residency program. Highlights include a vibrant felt mural from Chetwynd; textile banners reflecting students' rural roots from Nakusp and a 24-foot, 800-lb dugout canoe carved out of a 100-year-old cottonwood tree from a First Nations school in Penticton.
Sponsor: The Province of British Columbia through BC150 Years

Footprints
June 2 to August 29, 2008

Ten Lower Mainland high school classrooms worked with artists to turn a critical eye towards environmental issues. Blending their investigation of the green movement and with an arsenal of new art techniques, students created large-scale 2 and 3-D representations and installations of their ideas. Footprints will also show in the Grand Court at Metropolis at Metrotown from May 12 to 25.
Sponsors: Metropolis at Metrotown, Province of BC, ArtsSmarts

People in our Neighbourhood
September 22 to December 19

This heartwarming exploration of community is revealed through a series of portraits created by young people from Vancouver to Wells using paint, printmaking and clay. Inner city students in Vancouver got to know the people they meet each day through interviews and photography culminating in vivid large acrylic portraits while students in the tiny town of Wells created whimsical silk-screened T-shirts reflecting the local people, flora and fauna. A wall of clay masks, created by students, who studied Canadian personalities, reflects the rich character of the human face.