The Cajun Angel Sings LaLaLa Painting

Angela Bonten (Anjy) has been an artist for over 30 years. Angela moved to Canada in her early twenties and presently resides in Kelowna, British Columbia. She received her art education from Grant MacEwan University College Edmonton graduating from both the Fibre Art and Fine Art programs and returned to complete the Arts Adminstration/Museum Management program. She has explored many mediums from papermaking, dying techniques to mixed media acrylics .  "I consider each medium a new addition to my artistic tool box" She is the creator of Musartiqa, a performance art piece combining art, music and dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZnQhUoGy5Y Other solo exhibitions such as "Evolutionary Fugue" challenge self proclaimed non creative people to go witin and find their creative self. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qNYsKGoCgY Angela has been selected  as the feature artist of the "life and arts festival", nominated and shortlisted for the Okanagan Arts Awards and volunteers extensively in the community. In 2011 was commissioned to create a banner for the city of Kelowna to be on permanent display. For many years Angela was a resident artist at the Rotary Centre for the arts.  Exhibitions include juried shows in Alberta, B.C., Nova Scotia and Newfoundland as well as solo shows.  TV appearances include Maritime Breakfast T.V., Okanagan Now, CHBC and Shaw Cable Network.  Articles include a feature in the Globe and Mail, Capital news, Beyond 50 magazine, Madeleine magazine, Edmonton Journal and Saging with Creativity.