Arts in the Park

July 22, 2017 by craftchick

Over the course of the last week I was the visual artist for Arts in the Park.  I lucked out with getting one of the nicest, sunniest weeks of their programming this summer so far.  I spent large chunks of the lunch hour demo slots teaching piles of kids to paint, but I still found a enough time to complete a piece over the five days as well.  It, along with my Celebration of Swans poster piece, are forming the […]

Categories: Artist in Residence, Community, Drawing, Mixed Media, Painting, Press • Tags: Arts in the Park, demo, landscape, wildlife

Wish150 Yukon Mosaic

April 10, 2017 by craftchick

  The Wish150 Yukon Mosaic opened at Arts Underground on Friday night to a jam-packed crowd.  I was really honoured to be one of the artists asked to create work for the mosaic. 14 Yukon artists came together to depict our wishes for Canada in mosaic panels.  The panels were then combined to create the image of a raven, Yukon’s official bird.  The project is national in scope – with each province and territory creating their own mosaic – the […]

Categories: Community, Drawing, Gallery Shows, Mixed Media, Painting, Press • Tags: Canada 150, mosaic, Raven, Wish150, Wish150 Yukon Mosaic, Yukon

Sketching for the Newspaper

May 20, 2014 by craftchick

I was recently asked by  What’s Up Yukon to put together a story about a set of five Yukon women who inspire me for their issue that overlapped Mother’s Day.  They further pitched the idea to me that instead of sending out photographers to take pictures of the five women, that I create a series of sketches to capture them for the paper.  That seemed like a fun challenge and I agreed – the results of which you can see […]

Categories: Community, Drawing, Press, Writing • Tags: inspiring women, sketch, What's Up Yukon, Yukon

Whitehorse Star Covers Faces

October 15, 2013 by craftchick

On Friday the Whitehorse Star put together an article about the Faces exhibit.  I thought I would share it with you here: Faces pushes Whitehorse artist to face her own creative fears Mixed media artist Amber Church, whose show Faces continues in the Yukon Arts Centre’s Community Gallery, hopes it will inspire others to draw. Mixed media artist Amber Church, whose show Faces continues in the Yukon Arts Centre’s Community Gallery, hopes it will inspire others to draw. “The idea […]

Categories: Gallery Shows, Press • Tags: Faces, Whitehorse Star, Yukon Arts Centre

Manipulating Media in the Whitehorse Star

April 13, 2013 by craftchick

The amazing people at Whitehorse Star put together a quick piece to let people know that my show Manipulating Media opened on Thursday.  I’m also very grateful to Dave White at CBC’s Airplay for the wonderful radio interview.  I’ll be posting imagery of the thirty pieces that compose the show later this weekend for those of you who can’t physically make it to Gallery 22.  Here is the Whitehorse Star piece:   Photo by Vince Fedoroff DEMONSTRATING MANIPULATION – Amber […]

Categories: Drawing, Gallery Shows, Mixed Media, Painting, Press • Tags: Gallery 22, Manipulating Media, mixed media, press, Whitehorse Star

Designing a Cover Shot

March 13, 2013 by craftchick

Recently Tyler and I had the intriguing job of creating a cover photo for What’s Up Yukon that paid tribute to Northern Scene (the largest gathering of northern Canadian artists presented outside the region) without using any of the participating artists or any of their work in the image.  We had a few added stipulations that it should be colourful, Yukon-ny, and somehow link to art.  We played around with a few ideas and eventually settled on bringing together a set of […]

Categories: Design, Photos, Press • Tags: art supplies, artistic design, Northern Scene, What's Up Yukon, Yukon

Thank You Whitehorse Star

January 11, 2013 by craftchick

Thank you to the Whitehorse Star for the cover photo in today’s paper.

Categories: Press • Tags: Whitehorse Star, Yukon Ho

I Love the Yukon News

January 11, 2013 by craftchick

We are spoiled in the Yukon with media that are absolutely determined to support the community every way that they can.  For example this week as the opening of my solo art show has approached (it happens in T-minus 1.5 hours) I have been lucky enough to do interviews with Dave White on CBC radio; Al Foster on CKRW news; a photo shoot with Anna Crawford of the Whitehorse Star; and a interview and photo shoot with Jacqueline Ronson and […]

Categories: Community, Gallery Shows, Mixed Media, Press • Tags: interview, photo shoot, press, Yukon Ho, Yukon News

Yukon Ho Press Release

January 4, 2013 by craftchick

January 4. 2013: For Immediate Release Yukon Ho Celebrates the Territory’s Past and Present Mixed media artist, Amber Church, will open her new show “Yukon Ho” on January 11th at Yukon Artists@Work Co-op Gallery (120 Industrial Road, Whitehorse).  The show will run until February 5th with an opening reception sponsored by Yukon Brewing Company taking place on January 11th from 5-8 pm. “The project started after my artwork was featured on the Northwestel phone directory,” says Church, “The piece focused […]

Categories: Drawing, Gallery Shows, Mixed Media, Painting, Press • Tags: art, press release, Yukon, Yukon Artists@Work, Yukon Ho

I’m on the Cover of What’s Up Yukon!

October 11, 2012 by craftchick

I was thrilled today when I picked up my weekly copy of What’s Up Yukon to find myself on the cover.  Peter Jickling wrote an amazing piece about my show Once Upon a Time that was coupled with some fabulous photographs from Rick Massie which I wanted to share with all of you here. Amber Church sits on a bar stool in Rah Rah Gallery, a new art space, café, and baron Sixth Avenue in Whitehorse, and gazes upon the opposite […]

Categories: Community, Drawing, Gallery Shows, Mixed Media, Painting, Press • Tags: Once Upon a Time, press, What's Up Yukon