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August 29, 2019January 20, 2025 joanboxall DrawBridge

DrawBridge: Drawing Alongside My Brother’s Schizophrenia

Caitlin Press, 2019

Stephen A. Corcoran’s art is on display at North Van Arts CityScape Art Rental: https://northvanarts.ca/items/art-rentals/

Art sale proceeds support the Emily Carr University Stephen A. Corcoran Memorial Fund.

Books are available …

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Space and Shape

January 27, 2019January 20, 2025 joanboxall Home

DrawBridge tells the story of my brother Steve (book’s illustrator), and how he communicated through artful elements. Today’s elements are Space and Shape.

The book came out June 1st, 2019. These blogs are an introduction. Non-verbal moments and elements of …

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Art Elements: Line, Texture, Form …Fun Food-tasting

December 31, 2018January 20, 2025 joanboxall Home

Leading up to the publication of DrawBridge: Drawing Alongside My Brother’s Schizophrenia in May of 2019, a braided poem lauds three of the seven Art elements: LINE in poetry and art, TEXTURE and FORM in an artful food-tasting. 

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North Vancouver Public Art

August 15, 2018January 20, 2025 joanboxall Home

North Vancouver Public Art reflects North Vancouver’s  spirit and identity

  • with over 150 pieces in 12 neighbourhoods, North Vancouver Public Art is
  • integrated in parks and plazas, municipal buildings and commercial developments
  • along walkways, greenways, roadways, rockways, laneways
  • in wordplays,
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Ribbon of Snow

March 6, 2018January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

**’Ribbon of Snow’ follows six days of Nordic skiing with 47 Vancouver Skiers in British Columbia’s West Kootenays.  After consecutive ski days in Nature on a ribbon of classic track, we ponder the power of gliding on snow crystals. The …

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Where Were the Ghosts of Allerton Garden?

January 9, 2018January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

The Ghosts of Allerton Garden were there, in the:

  • Spooky Setting:  T’was a full moonlit eve on the Garden Isle of Kauai 2016.  Garden volunteers gathered at dusk.  The lunar globe arose.  The flora began to glow in white and
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West Coast Wilderness Lodge Sea Stars

September 20, 2017January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

West Coast Wilderness Lodge (WCWL) on the Sechelt Peninsula, part of British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast… is a sea star.  This star of the sea has won The Georgia Straight’s ‘Best of Vancouver’ award for the last seven …

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Kayaking to Wallace Island

August 31, 2017January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

Leaving Horseshoe Bay on a crack-of-dawn ferry gets us kayaking on  Wallace Island Marine Provincial Park by noon. Since my last blog-post from Thetis Island, we’ve wanted to kayak-camp on Wallace.

From Nanaimo, it’s an hour’s drive south to Crofton …

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Kayaking Thetis Island

August 5, 2017January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

Kayaking Thetis Island is made easy from  Cedar Beach Ocean Resort , two ferries away from the British Columbia mainland.  We arrive at 120 Clam Bay Road on Thetis Island via Departure Bay ferry terminus.  We drive south less …

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Fore! Kokanee Springs Resort (Without lifting a club)

June 3, 2017January 20, 2025 joanboxall Travelogue

Next golf trip, tag along on the East Shore of Kootenay Lake.  Not a golfer? Need a day off?

“Fore-mi-da-ble,” say French golfeurs.  “Par-fait!”

Go beyond the greens at Kokanee Springs, a Golf-Advisor top-ten destination resort…

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