Barbara: Paper Box Regina

Dec.1 Barbara: Paper Box Regina


Earlier in November Mrs. Perrey’s class along with many others worked with Barbara on her latest project, an abstract model of Regina using origami boxes with saying about Regina printed on them. When we went to the MacKenzie Art Gallery we saw the finished piece. It was awesome! Although it was great I was expecting the whole model to be made of the boxes. Only about eighty percent was, while the rest was made from cardboard. I give the model a 4/5 By: Tanner Stengler
Edited by: Troy and Jennifer

Bob Boyer: His Life's Work

Dec.1 Bob Boyer: His Life’s Work

Today Mrs. Perrey’s class and Mr. Parisien’s class attended a tour of Bob Boyer’s life work at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. Robert James (Bob) Boyer painted sixty paintings from 1968-2004, when he unfortunately died while dancing at a Pow-Wow. He was born in 1948 in Prince Albert, SK. Bob graduated from the Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan with a Bachelor of Education (art) Degree.

At the start of his career, Bob painted landscapes and later moved into Aboriginal Abstract. One of the main symbols of Bob’s work is the abstract horse; a diamond with two E’s, one at the top and one at the bottom. He also used lots of geometric shapes and figures. Out of the sixty paintings in the gallery my favorite was Trains-N-Boats-N-Plains: The Nina, the Santa Maria and a Pinto, painted in 1991. It’s about the Europeans coming to North America and killing the First Nations with the disease, Smallpox.

During the tour we looked at most of the paintings and at the end we got to make our own abstract art. Bob Boyer is an amazing artist! I give his paintings and the tour a 5/5! If you ever get the chance to see his work, GO! By: Tanner Stengler
Edited by: Jennifer and Troy

above is my favorite painting by Bob Boyer, Trains-N-Boats-N-Plains: The Nina, the Santa Maria and a Pinto