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Artistic Family After humble beginnings in a small warehouse studio, a decades-long artistic collaboration will be celebrated at the Nanaimo museum
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No cuts on major BC Ferries routes DARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS
William Good paints a box carved in a local Coast Salish style he helped to revive. [JULIE CHADWICK/DAILY NEWS]
Art exhibit explores variety of working styles
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ew people know that one of Nanaimo’s most prolific art families got their start in a warehouse studio behind Tony the Tailor on Nicol Street. Already established as a painter since her first collection of oil paintings went on tour when she was nine years old, Sandra Moorhouse-Good arrived in the city from Victoria in 1972, looking to make connections. She soon found support in Barry Hardcastle, then-curator of the Nanaimo Museum, who offered her the entire upper floor of the museum to throw an art show. Moorhouse-Good took him up on the offer, and with her space at 61 Nicol St. soon to follow, and became established as one of Nanaimo’s most prominent community artists. By the early 1980s she had joined forces with traditional » Use your smartphone to jump to our website for updates on these stories or the latest
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Coast Salish artist William Good of artwork at night, or it was and the two began an artistic live in a studio and make a living collaboration that spanned more from the studio and raise my than three decades. children. That was how it went,” On May 30, this artistic said Moorhouse-Good of partnership will be celeThe Art Studio. brated with a hallway “It was just a giant exhibit in the Nanaimo warehouse, really. Museum that explores “We had lofts for the their use of methods children.” and media from carving, The space featured painting and textiles two potters’ wheels and to pottery, jewelry and a pottery table, a printclothing. ing table, a painting staThere will also be a tion, a kitchen island, small anniversary collec- Julie an area for carving and tion of garments for sale Chadwick a play area. in the gift shop to celePart of her living was Reporting brate the popular line of earned by offering art Ay Ay Mut clothing for classes to other chilwhich the artists became dren on the weekends. well known. “It was formerly an auction “In order to function as an arthouse. We stepped on nails for ist and raise my children, I had years. You had to wear shoes,” to change my concept of how to remembered their daughter Aunlive. So it was, live in a regular alee Boyd-Good with a laugh. house and get a job and do a bit “The worst was my birthday
parties when my friends would show up in their little dresses and stockings.” In those days of living off art, business could be sporadic, and Boyd-Good remembers being packed and ready to go on a family vacation and having to wait around for a customer to walk through the door and buy a carving or a bowl so they could leave. “Sometimes there would be no carving or pottery sales, somebody would just come off the street and buy a print. It kind of makes your day,” said Good. “It was a matter of the economy to be honest. When pottery didn’t sell, we did something else. “When clothing changed, we changed. It was simply making a living from art,” added Moorhouse-Good. See FAMILY, Page A5
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BC Ferries has discarded plans for $4.9 million in cuts to major ferry routes that connect Vancouver Island to the mainland. That was the plan 18 months ago, when the province ordered the ferry operator to find $54 million in cost reductions, including $14 million on minor routes last year, with plans for another $4.9 million on the major routes later this year. The cuts are to control fare increases but BC Ferries decided it won’t further cut its money-making major routes. BC Ferries has already made cuts on some minor and northern routes and found other savings that have allowed the company to exceed the $54 million target. That means Islanders won’t be effected by service reductions on the major routes that serve terminals in Departure Bay and Duke Point in Nanaimo, and Swarz Bay in Victoria. “We did manage to make that $14 million in reductions on the minor and northern routes,” said Deborah Marshall, BC Ferries spokeswoman. “With the major routes, we have actually been paring back service since 2008.” The Duke Point-Tsawwassen route lost Saturday evening and Sunday morning service, and the final daily round trip was cut on the Departure Bay Mondays through Thursdays over winter. “We also made reductions to the Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay run,” Marshall said. “When we looked at further reductions, it didn’t make sense because you start to lose revenue.” She said the routes contribute 80 per cent of revenues. The company will look for other places to save the $4.9 million, despite reaching its $54-million target, allowing for a 1.9-per cent cap on fare increases during the next five-year term of service, Marshall said “We won’t make any more service cuts,” Marshall said. “We’re going to continue to look for efficiencies in different areas throughout the company.” Darrell.Bellaart @nanaimodailynews.com
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