ABOUT THE PAINTED UNIVERSE
Artist Bettina Forget is organizing an art event to take place at the Visual Voice Art Gallery to celebrate International Astronomy Day.
On Saturday, May 2, 2009 she invites the general public to come to the gallery and participate in the creation of a 16' x 8' artwork depicting various night sky objects.
This is a free event.

HOW DOES IT WORK?
Each participant will be given a 12" x 12" piece of paper (or carton, canvas, tracing paper,...) and a range of art materials to choose from. Bettina Forget also provides source material such as images of planets, galaxies, globular clusters and the like. Once the participant has finished his/her artwork it will be added to the 16' x 8' grid. During the day the grid will slowly fill up, creating a mosaic of night sky images - a painted universe. At the end of the event Bettina will take a photo of the finished collaborative artwork before taking it down on Monday, 4th May. The participants can then come by her studio to pick up their painting along with a copy of the photo of the final "mural".

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bettina Forget is a visual artist living and working in Montreal, Quebec. Born in Germany, she has studied art at Central St-Martins School of Art in London, England and at Curtin University in Perth, Australia and Singapore.
Bettina is Director of Exhibitions of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA) and Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) Montreal Centre.

Saturday, May 2, 2009, 12noon - 6pm
at the
Visual Voice Art Gallery
The Belgo Building
372, Ste-Catherine Street West
space 421
Montreal

FOR MORE INFO
please visit this webpage for photos from previous years' installations.