Local artists entered in the Local Adjudication of Art will have their works on display at the Signal Hill Gallery during October, while the Allie Griffin Art Gallery will feature the photographs of Everett Baker on the history of the Co-operative Movement in Saskatchewan from 1941 to 1964.

Over 100 works of art by local and regional artists will be on display in the Signal Hill Gallery until Nov. 5. This is an annual event to which the Weyburn Arts Council invites visual artists to participate in the adjudication process.

Adjudicators will be Eltje Degenhart and Jack Gravener, both former art teachers at the Weyburn Comprehensive School, and they will be at the gallery on Friday, Nov. 5 to meet with the participating artists to provide a critique of their work.

Artists whose work is chosen at this local level will then advance to the provincial adjudication and artists' development weekend to be held in Weyburn in April of 2005. At the provincial adjudication, works will be chosen to form exhibitions which will tour the province as part of the OSAC's "Art on the Move" program.

A public reception in the gallery will be held on Nov. 5 starting at 7 p.m.

At the Allie Griffin Gallery, located on the lower level of the Weyburn Public Library, the exhibition features 20 colour photos taken by Everett Baker as a record of the development of the Co-operative Movement.

A field man for the Sask. Wheat Pool, he photographed individuals, groups and events in his travels around the province; his collection is currently in the hands of the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society. The exhibition will be on display until Saturday, Oct. 23.

Other displays to check out include the Credit Union gallery, which will feature paintings by Doris Anderson, and the Royal Bank which will have paintings by Hugh Alexander on display; both of these displays will be up until Nov. 30.