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Discovery '99: The End. The Butt-er End by Teresa Waciawik Josef Holy's sculpture for the awards of Merit. The various themes for these Discovery exhibitions have been provocative not only for the artists but also for the guest speakers.This year's theme will prompt thoughtful insights from well-regarded lecturer and teacher G o r d o n Finlay, whose talk "Clearing the Slate: In Pursuit of Making N e w Beginnings" will take place Wednesday, February 2, at I Oam. D i s C O V E r y 2000:The Alpha, is on exhibit January 22 - February 27. Opening reception January 25, 7- 9 pm. The Seymour Art Gallery, a not-for-profit community gallery, is located in Deep Cove. Carole Badgley is curator of the Seymour Art Gallery Discovery '97.The Darker Side was juried by W e s t Vancouver painter Stuart Slind and C o n t e m p o r a r y Gallery curator Keith Wallace. According to one viewer, this challenging exhibition was "very high-quality...but very disturbing and depressing." A r t Historian T.Justin Newell gave an excellent talk and slide presentation entitled "Humanism and God." Awards of Merit, pi'ovided through the BC Arts Council, were made to encaustic painter Erica Grimm-Vance and to photographer Ashley Vincent. The theme for 1998's Discovery exhibition A Singular Face again encouraged a record number of entrants. Bruce Perry, a provocative figurative painter, and A n n Rosenberg, an independent curator, presented awards of Merit to painter Joseph Cash and metalwork artist Michelle Machias.This exhibition was particularly well attended; a tourist visiting Deep C o v e noted,"I walked in by accident - what a wonderful surprise!" The theme The End, for the Discovery '99 exhibition, was expected to offer a wide variety of artistic interpretations and, indeed, it did.Teresa Waclawik's winning painting was one of the lighter-hearted approaches. O n e visitor to the gallery remarked,"Our family enjoyed the exhibit immensely! Beautiful w o r k very inspiring. Even the children, as young as they are, loved seeing it." Professor Toby Smith presented a discussion for artists entitled "Purities and Pragmatics: The Artist's Struggle for Financial Survival." Jurors Brock Craig, an internationally known glass artist, and curator Ann Rosenberg selected Lisa Klepak's painting and O'ani g i v e t o t h e Fund for the Arts on the North Shore The arts are vital and integral to the well-being of a community. They help to create the very fabric of society. The Fund for the Arts on the North Shore needs your help to build our community's permanent cultural legacy. For m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n o n h o w to give, contact the N o r t h Shore Arts C o m m i s s i o n at 9 8 0 - 3 5 5 9 . Your tax deductible donation will give forever. The interest earned from the fund will be used to assist North Shore artists.