Roberta is currently an Artist in Residence in Jordan, at Art Dubai’s START Program.  START invited Roberta to stay in the “START House” and volunteer her time in art workshops she has designed for refugee and disadvantaged children in Amman. The idea is to provide the children with creative learning opportunities which uplifts, inspires and promotes their unique expression.

Intrigued? Read more about it here. Follow Roberta’s photo-stream here and her tweets here.

Community Partnership:

This past November, Roberta partnered with Get Your Vote On to be the principle photographer for the campaign to get BC’s youth out to vote! Roberta had fun being the VOTOBooth photographer. The photographic evidence can be seen here and website here.

“The Stillness of Motion: Changing Polar Landscapes” is currently exhibiting in New York City at the Governor’s Island Art Fair from September 2-25, 2011. The artist will be in attendance from September 18th – 25th.

“Studies in Sea Ice” is showing at the Cultch in Vancouver, Canada from August 11 – September 12, 2011.

(Past exhibits are listed under “exhibitions“)

Recent Publications:

“Studies in Sea Ice” has been featured in Super Massive Black Hole‘s Scarred Landscape Issue, Greenland Today Magazine and the Centre for Sustainable Practices in the Art’s Quarterly Issue 5.

Roberta is also featured in the current issue of THIS Magazine.

New Work:

Roberta has recently returned from six months living and working in Morocco. Her new series “Into the Sahara” is now online.

Studies In Sea Ice by Roberta Holden has been featured in the Centre for Sustainable Practices in the Art’s Quarterly Issue 5.

Roberta Holden has been invited to showcase her series Studies In Sea Ice at the Scandinavian Centre in Burnaby, Canada at their annual Art Fair on 26 – 27 February 2011.

Roberta Holden has been accepted to exhibit The Stillness of Motion: Changing Polar Landscapes four times this winter in Vancouver, Canada. Two exhibits will be group shows, the first at The Cultch from 24 January to 13 February and then at Vancouver Darkroom Co-op beginning on 5 February. These exhibits will be followed shortly thereafter by solo exhibits at Performance Works from 15 February to 17 April followed by the Jericho Arts Centre from 17 February to 20 March 2011.

Roberta Holden’s image “Opening Closed Doors I” has been selected for Blue Sky Gallery’s 35th anniversary group exhibit at the Office of Mayor Sam Adams and the lobby of the Newmark Theatre at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts in Portland, Oregon, USA. Both exhibitions will begin the first week of October and run for three months to coincide with Blue Sky‘s 35th anniversary.

An image from Roberta Holden’s Studies In Sea Ice series has resulted in her being shortlisted for CIWEM’s 2010 Environmental Photographer of the Year Award. Winners to be announced in September 2010.

Roberta Holden has been invited to showcase her series Studies In Sea Ice at the Scandinavian Centre in Burnaby, Canada at their annual Art Fair on 26 – 27 February 2011.

Roberta Holden has been accepted to exhibit The Stillness of Motion: Changing Polar Landscapes four times this winter in Vancouver, Canada. Two exhibits will be group shows, the first at The Cultch from 24 January to 13 February and then at Vancouver Darkroom Co-op beginning on 5 February. These exhibits will be followed shortly thereafter by solo exhibits at Performance Works from 15 February to 17 April followed by the Jericho Arts Centre from 17 February to 20 March 2011.

Video footage of No Barriers Photography’s recent symposium “Making Sense of the Slick: British Petroleum’s Unprecedented Combination of Failures” at the Vancouver Maritime Museum can now be viewed on YouTube.