Mission
Portside Studios is the home of 901 Artists Cooperative, a non profit group of visual artists with a mission to provide affordable working studio space for artists in Vancouver.
Portside Studios is a thriving community of artists in a beautiful and functional light-filled space on the waterfront. It hosts thousands of visitors during the Eastside Culture Crawl and is a vibrant hub in the cultural scene of Vancouver.
Portside Studios is the home of 901 Artists Cooperative, a non profit group of visual artists with a mission to provide affordable working studio space for artists in Vancouver.
Portside Studios is a thriving community of artists in a beautiful and functional light-filled space on the waterfront. It hosts thousands of visitors during the Eastside Culture Crawl and is a vibrant hub in the cultural scene of Vancouver.
Board of Directors
The current Board of directors includes Ann Robson, Eva Wideman, Camille Sleeman, Dick Stout, and Andrea Elvidge.
Eri Ishii is Portside's Studio Director.
The current Board of directors includes Ann Robson, Eva Wideman, Camille Sleeman, Dick Stout, and Andrea Elvidge.
Eri Ishii is Portside's Studio Director.
Eva Wideman
A nurse by profession, she retired from a position as a community health nurse to pursue a career as an artist. From early childhood she loved to draw, especially faces and figures. She received a BA in Fine Arts with an art major from Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, USA. As well as painting for her own pleasure, she has completed several commissions. Her work is in private collections in British Columbia, Alberta, Ottawa, the USA and Sweden.
Andrea Elvidge
Andrea Elvidge is Executive Director at Specialists of BC fka Society of Specialist Physicians and Surgeons of BC. As a long-standing visitor to and fan of Portside, Andrea was delighted to be asked to join the Board as a non-artist member.
Eri Ishii
Eri Ishii is a Vancouver artist working mostly in oil painting. Covered with layers of delicately applied paint, her work emanates a dreamy and atmospheric quality, filled with visual depth and a sense of mystery. Eri has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group shows across Canada and internationally including Halde Galerie in Switzerland, Taiwan National Art Education Museum in Taiwan, and Centre A in Vancouver. She is currently represented by Ian Tan Gallery in Vancouver.
Ann Robson
Ann is an emerging artist working in drawing and painting media. After completing an undergraduate art degree in the US, she maintained an art practice both before and after moving to Canada (1976). An interest in the psychology of drawing development and creativity led to graduate study and work as a child psychologist for several years. Since moving to Vancouver (2003), travel abroad and throughout beautiful British Columbia has provided an abundance of inspiration and opportunity for art-making.
Camille Sleeman
Born in Vancouver, BC, Camille studied Landscape Architecture at U.B.C. and Painting at Emily Carr
University. Her work has been shown at the Eastside Culture Crawl, CityScape Gallery, and Federation of
Canadian Artists.
Dick Stout
Dick Stout has been an architect and painter for over 3 decades. Working in oils and in series, the past few years have resulted in a series titled ' The Fauve Ponies', 'The Secrets of Summer,' 'The Linears', ' Monochromes', 'Willows', and the mural sized series 'The Lives of Trees'. The paintings are as much about what is not shown as what is shown, with rich colour typically favoured. Dick has been painting most of his adult life both in the U.S. and Canada and has placed paintings in private homes and offices in Vancouver, Toronto, and the United States.
A nurse by profession, she retired from a position as a community health nurse to pursue a career as an artist. From early childhood she loved to draw, especially faces and figures. She received a BA in Fine Arts with an art major from Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, USA. As well as painting for her own pleasure, she has completed several commissions. Her work is in private collections in British Columbia, Alberta, Ottawa, the USA and Sweden.
Andrea Elvidge
Andrea Elvidge is Executive Director at Specialists of BC fka Society of Specialist Physicians and Surgeons of BC. As a long-standing visitor to and fan of Portside, Andrea was delighted to be asked to join the Board as a non-artist member.
Eri Ishii
Eri Ishii is a Vancouver artist working mostly in oil painting. Covered with layers of delicately applied paint, her work emanates a dreamy and atmospheric quality, filled with visual depth and a sense of mystery. Eri has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group shows across Canada and internationally including Halde Galerie in Switzerland, Taiwan National Art Education Museum in Taiwan, and Centre A in Vancouver. She is currently represented by Ian Tan Gallery in Vancouver.
Ann Robson
Ann is an emerging artist working in drawing and painting media. After completing an undergraduate art degree in the US, she maintained an art practice both before and after moving to Canada (1976). An interest in the psychology of drawing development and creativity led to graduate study and work as a child psychologist for several years. Since moving to Vancouver (2003), travel abroad and throughout beautiful British Columbia has provided an abundance of inspiration and opportunity for art-making.
Camille Sleeman
Born in Vancouver, BC, Camille studied Landscape Architecture at U.B.C. and Painting at Emily Carr
University. Her work has been shown at the Eastside Culture Crawl, CityScape Gallery, and Federation of
Canadian Artists.
Dick Stout
Dick Stout has been an architect and painter for over 3 decades. Working in oils and in series, the past few years have resulted in a series titled ' The Fauve Ponies', 'The Secrets of Summer,' 'The Linears', ' Monochromes', 'Willows', and the mural sized series 'The Lives of Trees'. The paintings are as much about what is not shown as what is shown, with rich colour typically favoured. Dick has been painting most of his adult life both in the U.S. and Canada and has placed paintings in private homes and offices in Vancouver, Toronto, and the United States.