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works created in Havana, Nicaragua,middle-America and Vancouver; Nov10-Dec 4 Rimi Yang, paintings fusingcosmopolitan and cultural experiencesto boldly reinterpret EuropeanMasters; Dec 8-Jan 8 BillAnderson, photography.VERNONAshpa Naira Gallery & Studio9492 Houghton Rd ✆250-549-4249www.ashpanairagallery.comopen May 1-Oct 15 fri-sun 10am-6pmor by appt. Located in Vernon, B.C. onthe west side of Okanagan Lake, thiscontemporary art gallery and studio,owned by artist Carolina Sanchez deBustamante features original art in ahome and garden setting. Discover adiverse group of emerging and establishedOkanagan and Canadian artistsin painting, textiles, sculptures, ceramicsand functional art.Vernon Public Art Gallery3228 31st Ave ✆250-545-3173www.vernonpublicartgallery.common-fri 10am-5pm sat 11am-4pm.Opens Nov 10 Gallery Members’Annual Exhibition, “Visual Vernacular”;Thru Dec 21 Fern Helfand,“About Looking”, examines the relationshipof people and taxidermiedanimals in the museums of naturalhistory; Wayne LaRiviere, “ShadowSeeker”, paintings and sculptural elementsbased on traditional iconographyof Canada’s First Nations by Vernon,B.C.-based Cree/Métis artist;Sookinchoot Centre for AboriginalYouth, “Made From Memory”, artworkcreated by Aboriginal youthfrom Vernon, B.C., features 2- and 3-D artwork, photography, video worksand a contemporary interpretation oftraditional crafts; Jan 5-Mar 22 RhondaNeufeld and Rodney Konopaki,“Drawn Passages”, collaborativeprints and drawings; Stephen LeeScott, “Beauty and Other Forms ofViolence”, drawings; Ben Hannya,“While You Were Sleeping”, indoorgraffiti installation; UBCO AdvancedPrintmaking, “Proof Positive II”, aselection of prints by studentsenrolled in printmaking courses.VICTORIAAlcheringa Gallery665 Fort St ✆250-383-8224www.alcheringa-gallery.common-sat 9:30am-5:30pm sun 12-5pm. Nov 19-Dec 31 Chasing Form:New Directions in Repoussé, arecent workshop by internationallyrenowned metalsmith Valentin Yotkovhas culminated in a group exhibitionon the use of repoussé and chasingtechniques in Northwest Coast art;Jan 6-Feb 10 Pacific Prints 2012,annual exhibition of innovative printmakingfrom the Pacific.★ Art Gallery ofGreater Victoria1040 Moss St ✆250-384-4171www.aggv.catues-sat 10am-5pm thurs 10am-9pmsun 12-5pm. Thru Nov 20 Indian andPersian Miniatures, classic Indianand Persian miniature paintings andcalligraphy from the AGGV and theMaltwood Art Museum & Gallery collections;Thru Nov 27 The ModernEye, Craft and Design in Canada,1940-1980, explores the modernistviewpoints held by Canada’s mostprominent designers and craft artistsworking in this period featuring over150 pieces of furniture, ceramics andhousehold items; Thru Jan 2 AsianCeramics from Ancient Shipwrecks,Thai and Vietnamese ceramics andChinese porcelain recovered from anumber of famous wrecks, from theAGGV’s collection; Thru Jan 8 CollectedResonance: Shelly Bahl,Sarindar Dhaliwal & Farheen HaQ,three South Asian Canadian womenartists gather and create narrativesinformed by the mythologies and ideologiesof their Sikh, Muslin and Punjabiheritages; Thru Jan 15 AlisonMacTaggart: Promising Objects,conceptually-inspired installationbridges the disciplines of sculpture,drawing and writing, MacTaggartdraws parallels between languageand art; Opens Dec 9 The EnduringArts of China, the finest Chinese art inthe AGGV collection will feature paintings,ceramics, bronzes, jades andvarious other decorative arts, focusART WALK Victoria BC Nov 24, 3-8pmInfo: 250-388-000962 PREVIEW ■ NOVEMBER/DECEMBER/JANUARY 2011/12 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS