art that Barks opens in Vancouver

The Heaventree Gallery at 661 East 15th Avenue (near Fraser and Kingsway), Vancouver's foremost animal-friendly exhibition space, is hosting the first animal-rights art-show in BC.   Gallery owner Aline Beth Marshall believes that the show titled 'art that Barks' gives artists a forum in which to explore their animal-welfare concerns.  "By bringing to creative life those creatures so often regarded merely as commodities or raw materials," she says, "the artists' works offer to the public a light on the reality of the lives that many animals lead in our human landscape."

Participating artists include the popular Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail cartoonist Graham Harrop, 'Pooch Cafe's Paul Gilligan,  famed BC painter and former Buzzer cartoonist Robert Banks, along with an impressive array of cutting-edge younger artists from Emily Carr grads to the self-taught 18 year-old prodigy Evan McGraw.

Shown with strength, humour and compassion, their show of art is sure to be stimulating and thought-provoking.