Just in time for Bike Month, “Saddle Up!” is a group show featuring one-of-a-kind art on bicycle saddles. Local artists apply their work to a bike seat. Artists include Gina Mackay, Karin Vengshoel, Clem Chen, Ash Tanasiychuk, Brent Clowater, Andrea Hooge, Stephen Wimbush, Tierney Milne, Ali Bruce, Fred Chevalier, Shary Contrary, Blake Lipnicki, Alison Keenan, Jenn Brisson, Indy, Erin Gibbs, and Jaymie Johnson. Invite your friends on Facebook >

All saddles will be sold for $100/ea with 10% of sales donated to PEDAL. Special thanks to PEDAL (Our Community Bikes & Pedal Depot) for generously donating the saddles. A portion of sales of the saddles will be donated back to PEDAL at the end of the show.

Interested in being in the show? If you’re a Vancouver-based artist, ride down to Hot Art Wet City to pick up a seat (during gallery hours). The deadline to submit completed saddles is Saturday June 1 at 4pm. HAWC will take a reduced commission on sales of saddles.

Hey hoser, check out this art show, eh? Bob and Doug McKenzie, SCTV, mustaches, stubby bottles, Bryan Adams, Degrassi, hockey without helmets, the CBC, Mr. Dressup, David Suzuki, Corey Hart, The Beachcombers, Expo 86… the list goes on. “Great White North” features art inspired by Canadian pop-culture from the 1980s. So put on your toque, fry up some back bacon, and check out some art at Hot Art Wet City, just in time for Canada Day. Artists include: Andrea Hooge, Brent Clowater, DEDOS, Edward Juan, Sharon Piekarski, and more TBA – call for submissions below.

The show also features a mini show-within-a-show called “Stubbies” featuring the art of 12 local artists on retro stubby beer bottles. Each bottle is only $80. Artists include: Dacosta!, Frazer Adams, Matt Bowen, Jenn Brisson, Ali Bruce, Erin Gibbs, Christyn M Hall, Andrea Hooge, Sean Karemaker, Colin Moore, Peter Ricq, and Alison Woodward.

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Special thanks to Cariboo Brewing for their support.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Hot Art Wet City wants your art for “Great White North: a group art show tribute to 80s Canadiana.” The rules are simple: your work must directly reference Canadian pop culture from the 1980s. Be prepared to defend your reference! HAWC welcomes all 2D and 3D media and techniques, including sculpture, painting, photography, prints and drawings. To be added to the list of participating artists here on the site (and potentially on printed materials), email a JPG of your piece (finished or in-progress) to info@hotartwetcity.com or drop off your art whenever the gallery is open. The gallery takes a standard 50% commission on all works sold. Some work may be made available for online sale. Submission deadline: Friday June 14 at 4pm.

“Hey Loser!” is a collaborative mixed media exhibition exploring the work of artists who are inspired by the lame and unsophisticated; who celebrate the crafty and un-cool. Featuring art and illustration from local Vancouver artists Alison Bruce, Brandon Cotter, Hamish Olding, Daniel Tatteron, Tylor Macmillan, and Victoria Siecska.

Sara Bynoe hosts an art show of embarrassing art by adults made when they were teenagers. Inspired by Teen Angst Night and her book Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry, this show features pieces of art (sketches, paintings, sculpture, etc) created between the ages of 10-18. The show highlights the stories behind the work and the angst that went into them. Teenage Wasteland includes an audio tour with background interviews with the artists and live performances related to the work throughout the week.

Call for Submissions
We want your angsty and embarrassing art for “Teenage Wasteland.” We’re not interested in your photo-realist painting of a swan, we’re looking for angsty and expressive teenage art.

• The work must have been created by you when you were a teenager (aged 10-18) and you must be over 21 years old to submit
• You should be embarrassed of the work now
• You must be willing (and available) to talk about your piece in July for audio tour recording and potentially in front of a live audience at the show in August

Please email a JPG of your piece to teenagewasteland@hotartwetcity.com along with some background information about the piece: why do you still have it, how old were you when you created it, how do you feel about it now, what’s the story behind the work, etc. This is a juried show. Artists selected to participate will be notified after the deadline. Submission deadline: Wednesday July 4, 2013 at 12pm

An exhibition of local independent comic creators and their [artistic/production] processes, demonstrating a variety of approaches to taking a story from initial concept to finished artwork. Features Tony Cliff, Rebecca Dart, and others TBA. More info soon.