DYNAMO Arts Association + DYNAMO Gallery anand Visiting a space suck as DYNAM is important, Pimight even go as far as te say thar it is crucial. Our students after graduation become emerging practicing artists and it is vital for them to see the linking between a positive working studio and gallery space. Gregory Ball, Professor of Visual Art, Malaspina University-College. The DYNAMO Arts Association was in- corporated in August 1996 with a mandate to provide a forum for emerging artists working in the areas of sculpture, installa- tien, and performance art. It fulfills this mandate by providing cighteen publicly rented studio spaces, providing our space as a resource for community groups, and by running a non-profit gallery, which inaintains the mandate already stated. The Association was started by a group of Emily Carr Instinte of Art and Design students and graduates who wanted to create a space offering both critical peer input as well as access to alternative exhi bition and performance space. The first way that DYNAMO fulfils ite mandate is by renting eighteen publicly accessible studio spaces. Each space is 150 sq fit within an open studio format and is rented for $155 a month on six month sub-leases. Members are given access to the facility 24 hours a day, seven days a week plus access to over LOM sq ft of Common work areca, amd a communal woodshop, cone 10 electric kiln, kitchen and bathrooms. April 2001 Left: Mike Haller Merrour installation, Dec Z(H, Photo Dynamo Gallery The second way is by running anon-profit gallery. The 1200 sq ft gallery is run by an internal curatorial committee thal reviews submissions twice a year in September and May. [t is important to note that the gallery is not for the sobe use by the mem- bers, and that members submit proposals the same as anyone else. Since the gallery has opened, it has shown approximately ten exhibitions a year with notable shows, GavOyF featuring works by Adad and Mark Neufeld, Condodt with East Coast sculptor Jason Fitepatnick, and Marrow showing recent work by Mike Haller and Jeremy Hatch, Our next ex hibi- tion is A Garden of Worms featuring Interactive animatronics hy Tamara Stone. Tt opens Friday evening Apmil 6, 20-00 Dynamo Gallery, 142 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, hours: Tues-Sat |2:00- 17-00 daily. Contact Andrew Armour 604.602.9015 or email Middle right: Jacques Gaudet Framework installation, Apr 1998, vinyl tape. Photo: Dyname Gallery Invitation: acids pander of worms, works by Tamara Stone Lower right: Iie Belris Tike Red Koes Mar 201. Piepte: artist Potters Guild of British Columbia