Notebook

After a year of experience and feedback with the current Opus website, we’ve identified some areas where improvements can be made, and have been hard at work behind the scenes attempting to make them come alive for you. The first of those improvements is imminent – expect a distinctly new and brighter look to the Opus website in the middle of May 2010....Read more

We are asking all art lovers to help join with the arts community in protest of the funding cuts to the arts in British Columbia. This is your chance to make your voices heard.

How can you help?

Sign or circulate the petition, details below. Please note that all Opus stores have copies of the petition available to sign.

The Petition in Support of the Arts will be presented to the Legislature Feb 10 or 11. The petition is a comprehensive 3 year vision for arts funding in BC. This is the last few weeks to have our say before the budget is presented. Over 2800 signatures have been collected as of Jan. 20th. A huge thanks to all the individuals and groups involved....Read more

Cardmaking: Printmaking & Collage with the Burnaby Art Gallery (Burnaby)
Birding with Digital Camera with Mark Habdas (Vancouver)...Read more

This is amazing, chemists at Oregon State University made a NEW blue pigment by mistake. Click here to read the full article.

As I was sitting in the laundromat a few weeks ago and biding my time until the dryer was finished, I picked up a pretty recent copy of a fashion magazine that was just laying about for people to read. I was sitting outside since it was still sunny and warm at this point and a small little blurb in the magazine caught my eye....Read more

I was having coffee with a friend of mine the other day, and as I was sipping my foam from my Americano Misto, he blurted out, so who would you consider to be your favourite artist?

I responded “of all time or within the last few years?”

He said again “who wold you consider to be your favourite artist?”...Read more