Art Schooling in Orléans

If you're in Orléans, the east end of Ottawa outside the Greenbelt, you might mistakenly believe that there's not much in the way of art-skills learning in this borough. The good news is that "mistakenly" adverb choice is on-target.

The Apartment 613 arts and culture weblog has a profile on the Ottawa School of Art's Orléans Campus at the Shenkman Arts Centre.

An additional thought: in recent years, the photography equipment retail chain Henry's and the Ottawa-headquartered art supply store Wallack's retreated from Orléans for financial reasons. I would argue that putting their stores at the corner of Innes and Tenth Line - at the opposite side of the borough from "the Shenkman" - was a mistake. As was the later retreat. The Orléans Town Centre Mall, clustered around the Cinestarz Orléans cinema and right across the street from "the Shenkman" and ten minutes away from Place d'Orléans Mall, might have been a better venue for both retail operations. There was enough empty space in the Town Centre to serve them both.

Now? Not so much. The empty space seems to be more available at Place d'Orléans nowadays. If Henry's and Wallack's were to return to the east end...

Debates in Other Places

I've got the Democratic Debates on NBC on the TV at the moment. I want Canada to have a sane US president to deal with again. Most of these candidates will fit that requirement, whatever their specific policy palettes.