By June Ong
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Prof Sam Carter, Director of Asia-Pacific Applied Arts (APAA)
from Vancouver, giving an interested audience in Brunei
a lecture on Canadian Applied Arts yesterday. Pix:
June Ong
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Captive audience listening to Prof Carter at the Art
Gallery of the Brunei Handicraft Centre yesterday
afternoon.
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An audience of more than 90 people, comprising of local artists,
officers from the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports as well
as various departments under the ministry, sat out a lecture on
the History and Development of Canadian Applied Arts by Sam
Carter, the Director of Asia-Pacific Applied Arts (APAA) from
Vancouver, Canada, yesterday.
The lecture which was brought
forth as a collaboration between the Art Museum and the Canadian
High Commission was held at the Art Gallery of the Brunei
Handicraft Centre yesterday afternoon.
The professor spoke on the
similarities between Canada and Brunei, one of which is British
rule in the past. He also explained how Canadian art has evolved
through the years with new technology bringing forth art in
animation as shown on TV.
Professor Carter's aim in the
Sultanate is to meet with students, faculty, design and crafts
professionals. He will gather photo images of 30 examples of
applied arts from Brunei, designed and produced over the past
three years, for the Asia Pacific Applied Arts Forum on the
Internet.
The Asia Pacific Applied Arts
Forum is a non-profit educational project organized by students
and the faculty of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in
Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
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