USK EDMONTON
Captures Civic Heritage BY RUSSELL PETCOFF n 17 February this year, Urban Sketchers Edmonton, in Canada, received word that they were now an official Urban Sketchers chapter.
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posium that year in Portland. Yvonne soon met Marlena, and the three scheduled their first sketch crawl in July 2011 at the Taste of Edmonton. Nine sketchers attended.
The group began in 2011 when Yvonne Rezek, Karen Wall, and Marlena Wyman decided to form a sketching group. Yvonne had learned about Urban Sketchers via social media in 2010, and Karen had attended the USk Sym-
USk Edmonton now meets the first Saturday of every month, and between eight and 15 sketchers attend. With seven months of winter, they often sketch indoors. Marlena later blogs about the event on the USk Edmonton website.
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