Day 186 (July 6, 2010): The Paint Spot Art Exhibit

Today we went to a local paint supply store called "The Paint Spot" http://www.paintspot.ca/ .  They were displaying paintings done by children from Haiti.   Unfortunately we didn't have our camera so I can't show you any of them.  If you live in Edmonton you should really check them out!  The paintings were of a variety of subjects.  A couple of them had the Haiti flag in them.  It is kind of a complicated flag and they did a great job painting it.  Some of them were really abstract.  Some of them clearly showed the story that they were trying to tell.  One in particular showed a bunch of Haitian people lined up in the background watching a scene that was going on in the foreground.  The scene was of a Haitian man chained up and being tortured by caucasian people with the flag of France.  Obviously this was showing scenes from colonization. It was a very emotional painting.  There were also a couple of paintings that seemed to show everyday life in Haiti, grass huts, people carrying baskets on their heads etc.  It was a really cool exhibit.  It was also neat to go to the new Paint Spot location.  It is two blocks from our house and we had no idea that it had moved there.  It used to be further down the street but recently moved.  They have workshops on different types of art mediums every weekend.  We are hoping to get one of those in sometime.