Robsart Art Works

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Robsart Art Works

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Robsart Art Works Gallery.
Location Robsart, Saskatchewan, Canada
Coordinates 49°13′48″N109°10′13″W / 49.2300°N 109.1703°W / 49.2300; -109.1703
Type Art museum

Robsart Art Works (RAW) was an art studio and museum featuring local and regional artist from Southwest Saskatchewan and region.

Studio artist’s or photographer’s workshop

A studio is an artist or worker's workroom. This can be for the purpose of acting, architecture, painting, pottery (ceramics), sculpture, origami, woodworking, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, industrial design, radio or television production broadcasting or the making of music. The term is also used for the workroom of dancers, often specified to dance studio.

Saskatchewan Province of Canada

Saskatchewan is a prairie and boreal province in western Canada, the only province without natural borders. It has an area of 651,900 square kilometres (251,700 sq mi), nearly 10 percent of which is fresh water, composed mostly of rivers, reservoirs, and the province's 100,000 lakes.

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Purpose

The Robsart Art Works gallery was located in the historic 1913 Revelstoke Lumber yard office building, the gallery was started as a venue for performing artists to help with the revival of Robsart.

Lumber yard

A lumber yard is a location where lumber and wood-related products used in construction and/or home improvement projects are processed or stored. Some lumber yards offer retail sales to consumers, and some of these may also provide services such as the use of planers, saws and other large machines.

Located on Railway Avenue in the hamlet of Robsart, Saskatchewan, Robsart Art Works was a part of the Southwest Quest For Saskatchewan Art & History , [1] which is a self-guided tour of historic sites and artists' studios in SW Saskatchewan including Maple Creek, Eastend, Shaunavon, Gull Lake and Val Marie

Robsart, Saskatchewan Unincorporated hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada

Robsart is an unincorporated hamlet within the rural municipality of Reno No. 51, in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Robsart had a population of 20 at the 2016 Canada Census. Robsart previously incorporated an independent village since 1912 until it was dissolved into an unincorporated community on January 1, 2002 under the jurisdiction of the rural municipality of Reno No. 51. Robsart is located 48 km southwest of the town of Eastend at the junction of Highway 18 and Highway 13 approximately 170 km south-east of Medicine Hat, Alberta, 68 km south of the Town of Maple Creek.

Artworks

The building, as of August 2014, is a studio for Robsart Art Retreats.


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