<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Lovely art show inspired by wetlands. Check it out!<BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 3/24/10, Len Carter <I><len.carter@sympatico.ca></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Len Carter <len.carter@sympatico.ca><BR>Subject: For Gren Membership - Rotunda Gallery April Exhibition (Judy Major-Girardin)<BR>To: "Louisette Lanteigne" <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><BR>Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 2:21 PM<BR><BR>
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<BR><BR><FONT size=3 face=Arial><STRONG><EM>Len Carter</EM></STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT size=3 face=Arial><STRONG><EM>President</EM></STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT size=3 face=Arial><STRONG><EM>Waterloo Regional Labour Council</EM></STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT size=3 face=Arial><STRONG><EM>130 Highland Road East</EM></STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT size=3 face=Arial><STRONG><EM>Kitchener, Ont.</EM></STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT size=3 face=Arial><STRONG><EM>N2M 3V9</EM></STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT size=3 face=Arial><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG></FONT> <BR><FONT size=3 face=Arial><STRONG><EM>PH (H) 519-748-5880</EM></STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT size=3 face=Arial><STRONG><EM>PH (O) 519-743-8301</EM></STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT size=3 face=Arial><STRONG><EM>PH (C) 519-239-7692</EM></STRONG></FONT><BR><BR><BR><BR> <BR>
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Subject: Rotunda Gallery April Exhibition (Judy Major-Girardin)<BR>Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:41:55 -0400<BR>From: Carrie.Kozlowski@kitchener.ca<BR>To: <BR><BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=center><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#808000><FONT size=2><SPAN class=ecx396002617-15012010><STRONG><SPAN class=ecx719590522-22022010><SPAN class=ecx005492617-04032010>Drop in at </SPAN>the </SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><STRONG>Rotunda Gallery <SPAN class=ecx719590522-22022010><SPAN class=ecx005492617-04032010>in April </SPAN></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<P dir=ltr lang=en-us class=ecxOutlookMessageHeader align=center><SPAN class=ecx313571115-20022009><SPAN class=ecx008471916-21052009><SPAN class=ecx948053713-15062009><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#808000><FONT size=2><STRONG><SPAN class=ecx605034718-14122009> </SPAN> </STRONG><SPAN class=ecx605034718-14122009><STRONG> </STRONG><SPAN class=ecx396002617-15012010> <STRONG><SPAN>J<SPAN class=ecx005492617-04032010>udy Major-Girardin </SPAN></SPAN>exhibits <SPAN class=ecx005492617-04032010><EM>Wetlands</EM></SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<P dir=ltr lang=en-us class=ecxOutlookMessageHeader align=center><FONT color=#008080><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT color=#808000><STRONG>Artist's reception: </STRONG><SPAN><STRONG><SPAN class=ecx719590522-22022010>Thursday, <SPAN class=ecx005492617-04032010>April 15</SPAN> from </SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN class=ecx948053713-15062009>5</SPAN>-</STRONG><SPAN class=ecx396002617-15012010><STRONG><SPAN class=ecx719590522-22022010>7</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><STRONG><FONT color=#808000>pm</FONT> </STRONG><SPAN class=ecx590353015-20022009><STRONG> </STRONG><SPAN class=ecx257292214-21122009> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<P align=center><FONT size=2 face=Arial>April Rotunda Gallery exhibit inspired by marsh and wetlands</FONT></DIV></B></FONT>
<P align=left><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Judy Major-Girardin considers the environment when she creates and produces her art. Her exhibit, <I>Wetlands</I>, is featured at the Rotunda Gallery for the month of April. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Major-Girardin uses print processes that offer a lower negative impact on the environment and on the human body. The imagery represented in this exhibition is based on photographs taken from marsh and wetland areas at Point Pelee National Park in southern Ontario and from a nature reserve at the University of Montevallo in the USA.</FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"Visually, the marsh provides a continually changing source of optical information related to repetition, variation and pattern that connect with my interests in pattern," she says. "The use of pattern sets up expectations of order, stability and regularity, but the rhythms and repetitions are broken, shifted and superimposed in such a way that no visual certainty exists."</FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The images of the wetland also invite associations with sustainability. </FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"Once viewed as inaccessible, unproductive and insect infested areas, we now understand the unique contribution of wetlands as biologically diverse, productive, filtering," says the artist. "A significant portion of wetlands across North America has been converted to urban, agricultural and industrial development making the conservation of wetlands a current topic of concern."</FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Judy Major-Girardin is an artist and associate professor who has taught in the honours art program at McMaster University since 1983. She has recently agreed to join the Enabling Organization Board of Directors for the Waterloo Region Prosperity Council.</FONT></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table>