Back to school is tough – for grownups just as much as kids. I’ve been getting up really early in the morning and packing lunches for my ever so selective younger girl about town, and desperately trying to adjust to a new schedule. It has most definitely been tougher on me than it has on her, but I am confident I will adapt. Oh, to top it all off, I too officially started school again. Yikes.
So, toughest for me this week? I missed a cool event, held on a school night!
If it weren’t for design school last evening, I might have tried to round up some company for the Ottawa Art Gallery’s House Party. The OAG is a public gallery dedicated to the acquisition and presentation of contemporary art for the benefit of the local arts community. The OAG is marking its 2oth anniversary, and the resident Firestone Collection of Canadian Art is turning 35.
My interest in both art and community seems to be growing, and while my enthusiasm for fun social events has never waned, I was at school last night learning how to draw (aack). How ironic. So, my supplies list is a mile long and truthfully, my nerves are shot. I can certainly appreciate talent in others, but drawing has never been a strength of mine. I haven’t really done much since…well…grade school, so I confess it was seriously intimidating. That old familiar and very uncomfortable feeling that comes with being a beginner was palpable, which is usually a pretty good sign there is learning to be done!
While I may have missed OAG‘s big party, the 80′s music and the cake by The Girl with the Most Cake, I am still keen to see Evidence: The Ottawa City Project. This exhibit explores “one of the most paradoxical places in Canada-a perplexing mix of wealth and poverty, summer heat and winter cold, nationalist and regionalist, poor arts funding and rich cultural heritage” and examines questions about what – if anything – is missing. Evidence: The Ottawa City Project runs from September 4-November 16. I will let you know if I get there.
Anyway, we’ll no doubt be off to Wallack’s for art supplies and to Value Village to stock up on fall fashion. The younger girl about town really likes to create her own ensembles, and is a budding young thrifter. Hmmm… I wonder why?
