NEWS ARCHIVE
Highlights from 2007
Bettina exhibits a retrospective of her work at the Visual Voice Art Gallery titled Double Take from November 29 - December 4, 2007.
Bettina becomes Director of Exhibitions of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA). She curates an exhibition of Mars-themed art to be shown at NASA Ames Research Centre in California.
Bettina exhibits at the Festival Montréal en Arts from June 28 - July 1 and is interviewed by Radio Centre-Ville.
Bettina moves her studio into the Belgo Building and opens her own gallery, the Visual Voice Art Gallery. The gallery opens on May 31, 2008, with a Blue Moon Party. To read a review of the party which appeared in the on-line magazine Le Studio 1, click here.
Bettina hosts another Painted Universe event on International Astronomy Day, April 22, 2007.
Bettina features in an article titled "The New Face of Fundraising" in Fashion Magazine in the April 2007 issue. Click here to read the article.
Bettina attends the IAAA
Workshop in Nicaragua from 14th - 23rd February. Click here to
see sketches, acrylics and photos from the workshop!
The workshop included an art exhibition at the art institute Casa de los Tres Mundos, which was reviewed in the local papers. Click here to read the reviews.
Bettina starts her blog Inside the Artist's Studio, a chronicle of life as an artist in Montreal. Click here to read the blog.
Highlights from 2006
Bettina presents her series We are Stardust in a solo exhibition at Galerie Arts du Feu from November 3, 2007 - January 19, 2008. Click here for more info.
ART WESTMOUNT 2006 Bettina is one of over 40 artists participating in this art event. October 21 and 22, 2006
For more info go to www.westmount.org.
ARTICLE IN THE LA TIMES titled "Space Artists Face Reality - NASA Does It Better" by Jia-Rui Chong published in the LA Times features Bettina's work.
To read an on-line version of the article, click here.
ARTICLE IN STUDIO 1 Read the article titled "L'artiste des étoiles" and see photos of Bettina'a work.
To read an on-line version of the article, click here.
THE PAINTED UNIVERSE Participate in creating a communal work of space art! Sunday, May 7th, 2006 at Atelier Bettina Forget.
Bettina's work is shown at an exhibition of space art at the 25th International Space Development Conference at Los Angeles, USA, from May 4th - 7th. For more info, visit http://isdc.nss.org
The Federation of Galaxy Explorers' lesson plans includes Bettina's work. For more info, visit www.foge.org
The masked event at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Les yeux grands ouverts takes place on Saturday, February 11th, 2006. Bettina Forget and Alexandra MacDougall are co-presidents of this fund-raiser.
For more info, visit www.lesyeuxgrandsouverts.com
Highlights from 2005
Bettina participates in grand opening and silent auction at NEVERMIND - galerie et espace de design on Friday, September 23rd, 2005 at 6:00pm
Bettina's solo show HELIOS reviewed by "Vie
des Arts" magazine
Click here to read the article (French only).
Bettina exhibits at the Festival Montréal en Arts in the Espace d'art moderne et contemporain from June 30 - July 3
Bettina's new Solo Show HELIOS - paintings inspired by the Sun at Galerie Art en Majuscule from May 7 - June 4
Bettina exhibits at the Space Art Exhibition at the Imaginarium, California April 16 - June 19
Bettina attends the IAAA Death Valley 2005
Workshop from
6th
- 13th February. Click here to
see sketches, acrylics and photos from the workshop!
Highlights from 2004
The MINI Show - A small exhibition of small artworks November 29th - December 4th at Atelier Bettina Forget.
Bettina takes part in the Festival de Peinture à Mascouche, 16th Edition October
9th - 11th.
For more info visit the Festival's website
at www.festivalpeinturemascouche.com
Bettina exhibits work in the"Snap to Grid" Art Exhibition at the the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art : September 9th - October 1st. For more info visit www.lacda.com
Bettina took part in the 2004 Village Arts Festival. Click here to read my short review of the Arts Festival 2004.
Bettina has been selected to participate
in the Nano Show!
Friday, May
7th - Monday May 31s
For more info, please visit the Nexus website
at www.nexusphiladelphia.org
Review of
the recent The Painted Universe
event
Friday 23rd April - Sunday 25th April
2004
at the Atelier Bettina Forget
For a review of this event, click here.
Reviews
of the recent Lunar Genesis exhibition:
The Montreal Gazette (Montreal)
Exploring the art side of the moon
click here to
view
Cites Nouvelles (Montreal)
La face cachée des lunes
click here to
view
Bettina's work is now being featured at Arts Québec www.artsquebec.com
and Delicious Demon www.deliciousdemon.com
