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an opportunity," says Feil, who charged into council to champion the idea. Eventually Fox was able to offer below grade space in lieu of parking. Then the North Vancouver Arts Council and the Arts and Culture Commission of North Vancouver had to get used to the idea of sharing the space and deciding just how to do that. Choosing an architect was another challenge with the collaborators settling finally on Peter Cardew who already had experience designing galleries. Only 10 days before the opening, frustrations soared as major changes were made to the entrance ramp and washrooms. Finally was born. "Since then we haven't looked back," Feil happily sighs, reflecting on the posters on display that speak to each of the young gallery's events. Puppets in the Attic celebrated the work of local but internationally renowned puppet maker Arlyn Coad. A showing of textile arts featured woven cedar baskets created long ago by First Nations women and modern counterparts. The Game, an exhibit of work about sports, drew a very different but equally enthusiastic crowd. Gardens became the theme of Summer Bloom, one of Feil's favorite shows, featuring real plantings donated by local garden shops, blended in with artistic renderings. The exhibit was one of the stops on the North Shore Gardens Tour. A racy display of seductive pieces in Sensuous Vienna, a travelling exhibit, had visitors' eyes wide open. Some of them took advantage of transportation up to Centennial Theatre to entertain another one of the five senses with a fortuitous performance of Viennese music. Partnering with the Chilean Embassy, the gallery presented a colorful showing of abstract and surrealist Chilean work entitled Cinco for the five participating artists. Some big sales resulted from this event, one to a New Yorker who happened to give the Seabus a try and stumbled into Cityscape where he heard the Chilean music pulsing out of the door at the opening. Feil enjoys presenting an exotic show of international merit on one occasion and then offering something exclusively and proudly local such as Between the Narrows and Five Square Miles, which featured only North Vancouver City artists. Larger Than Life focussed on oversize pieces. As the interactive component the gallery invited two groups to come in and decorate two huge blank canvasses. One was a gaggle of gifted students whose hardest hurdle was to choose a theme and the other included some cancer patients who chose to paint their favorite memories. The latter piece now hangs at Lions Gate Hospital. Seconds was a nifty collection of work made from second hand materials, with astonishing results. An interior designer by trade, Linda Feil has been in her current position with the Arts Council for three years but was involved before that in many other capacities with the Council and the North Shore Arts Commission. She coordinated the annual FANS arts funding event for four years and co-chaired the Visions of the North Shore project. Feil's goal with CityScape was to create a community gallery that was professionally run, yet a warm and relaxed environment for art and artists. In that and so much more, she has succeeded. M a r c h A p r i l CityScape