Archived Art Now


Lethbridge sculptor, Carl Granzow, will lecture in Art Now
Friday, February 29, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Function, Proposition, Distraction, a lecture by Carl Granzow, professor of Art, University of Lethbridge.

Graffiti artist, Patrick Thompson, will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Patrick Thompson is a Canadian born artist who has exhibited internationally and worked on walls under the pseudonym "Evoke" throughout North and Central America, Europe and Asia. Thompson has been involved in Canadian graffiti since 1994 and is highly esteemed for pushing the boundaries of street art by his peers. Often put into the "Canadian School" of...

Interdisciplinary artist, Adrian Stimson, will lecture in Art Now
Friday, February 15, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Adrian Stimson is a member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in southern Alberta. He is an interdisciplinary artist with a BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art & Design and MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. Stimson is currently Associate curator at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon. At the Mendel he also completed both the aboriginal curator and...

Winnipeg artist, Cliff Eyland, will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Cliff Eyland is an Associate Professor and Director of Gallery One One One at the University of Manitoba, School of Art, in Winnipeg. He is a painter, writer and a curator. He studied at Holland College, Mount Allison University, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Since 1981, he has made paintings, drawings, and notes in an index card format--3"x5" (7....

Tricia Wasney, will lecture in Art Now
Monday, February 11, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Tricia Wasney is manager of public art for the Winnipeg Arts Council. Wasney has worked in Winnipeg's art community for many years in various roles of program co-ordinator, project manager, board member, juror and artist/writer. In former positions at the Winnipeg Art Gallery she developed programming in film, literature and music and managed the creation of two virtual...

Winnipeg photographer, Diana Thorneycroft, will lecture in Art Now
Friday, February 8, 2008 - 12:00am - Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 4:28am
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. Her work has been the subject of Canadian national radio documentaries and a CBC national documentary for television. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an Assistance to Visual Arts Long-term...

Vancouver installation artist, Antonia Hirsch, will lecture in Art Now
Saturday, February 2, 2008 - 5:15am - 6:15am
ìVancouver multimedia artist Antonia Hirsch incorporates ideas of political freedom, social transaction, and individual expression into works of art. In 1998, she produced a video and slide installation, Empire Line, which depicted a woman wearing a dress composed of some 900 tea bags, walking into a body of crystal-clear water and staining it with her garments. It...

Alfred Young Man will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Segregation of Native Art by Ethnicity: Is It Self-imposed or Superimposed?

Dr. Shelley Gruendler will lecture in Art Now
Monday, January 28, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Learning from Leftovers: culture through design ephemera' Dr Shelley Gruendler is a typographer, designer, and educator. She holds a Doctorate and a Masters in Typography and Graphic Communication from the University of Reading, England, and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from North Carolina State University College of Design.

Derek Sullivan will lecture in Art Now
Friday, January 25, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Derek Sullivan uses drawing and sculpture, in addition to producing various ephemeral conceptual projects, to explore his interest in reinterpreting familiar forms in order to open up new areas of inquiry. Sullivanís work was featured in The News at Five at the 2004 Toronto International Art Fair and most recently in the international exhibition Dedicated to you, but...

Montreal artist, David Spriggs, will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Montreal artist David Spriggsí work presents an engaging and original investigation of three-dimensional space. He has developed a unique method of layering transparent drawings to create the illusion of a third dimension. Although his mechanisms are simple and not hidden from the viewer, his work retains an aura of mystery and evokes a sense of wonder. The forms he...

Susan Schelle & Mark Gomes will lecture in Art Now
Monday, October 1, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Public Art - Collaborative Projects Susan Schelle and Mark Gomes Mark Gomes and Susan Schelle have collaborated on numerous Public Art Commissions most recently GTAA, Greeters Hall, New Terminal Building, Pearson International Airport, Toronto; Richmond Adelaide Centre, Oxford Development, Toronto; Minto Yorkville. The Prince Arthur, Artwork and collaborative Project,...

Susan Schelle & Mark Gomes will lecture in Art Now
Monday, October 1, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Public Art - Collaborative Projects Susan Schelle and Mark Gomes Mark Gomes and Susan Schelle have collaborated on numerous Public Art Commissions most recently GTAA, Greeters Hall, New Terminal Building, Pearson International Airport, Toronto; Richmond Adelaide Centre, Oxford Development, Toronto; Minto Yorkville. The Prince Arthur, Artwork and collaborative Project,...

Jin Me Yoon will lecture in Art Now
Friday, September 28, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Jin-me Yoon's most recent body of work continues to explore the relationship between identity and place in its examination of the temporal and spatial pluralities of diasporic peoples.

Jin Me Yoon will lecture in Art Now
Friday, September 28, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Jin-me Yoon's most recent body of work continues to explore the relationship between identity and place in its examination of the temporal and spatial pluralities of diasporic peoples.

Writer and Curator Peter White will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Out There is Somewhere: The Arctic in Pictures Studies of arctic imagery have traditionally focused on the work of individual artists, types of media, and particular categories of representation - exploration art, art related to scientific inquiry, romantic or nationalist art, indigenous art, landscape, etc. Following modernist disciplinary distinctions, these approaches...

Writer and Curator Peter White will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Out There is Somewhere: The Arctic in Pictures Studies of arctic imagery have traditionally focused on the work of individual artists, types of media, and particular categories of representation - exploration art, art related to scientific inquiry, romantic or nationalist art, indigenous art, landscape, etc. Following modernist disciplinary distinctions, these approaches...

J D Boudreau, Atlantic Sobey Award nominee to speak in Art Now
Monday, September 24, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
"Motivated by the need to make contemporary Art more accessible to the public, my work tends to weave itself into the fabric of society while patching its holes with humour and sarcasm. Paradigms and social behaviours are chopped up, deboned and skinned, then condensed into packages ready for mass consumption.

J D Boudreau, Atlantic Sobey Award nominee to speak in Art Now
Monday, September 24, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
"Motivated by the need to make contemporary Art more accessible to the public, my work tends to weave itself into the fabric of society while patching its holes with humour and sarcasm. Paradigms and social behaviours are chopped up, deboned and skinned, then condensed into packages ready for mass consumption.

Alberta Writer Mary Beth Laviolette will lecture in Art Now
Monday, September 17, 2007 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Feminist Artists in Alberta Mary-Beth Laviolette was born in Edmonton. She completed a degree in journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, and spent ten years in the province specializing in arts journalism. She covered the visual arts for Arts National on CBC national radio, then returned to Alberta in 1982, where she wrote articles for a variety of newspapers and gallery...

Alberta Writer Mary Beth Laviolette will lecture in Art Now
Monday, September 17, 2007 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Feminist Artists in Alberta Mary-Beth Laviolette was born in Edmonton. She completed a degree in journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, and spent ten years in the province specializing in arts journalism. She covered the visual arts for Arts National on CBC national radio, then returned to Alberta in 1982, where she wrote articles for a variety of newspapers and gallery...

Nancy Thownshend will lecture in Art Now
Friday, September 14, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Nancy Townshend is author of A History of Art in Alberta 1905 - 1970, (Calgary: Bayeux Arts, 2005) which was short-listed for the Dwyer Award in 2006, and Maxwell Bates: Canada's Premier Expressionist of the 20th Century, His Art, Life and Prisoner of War Notebook (Calgary: Snyder Hedlin Fine Arts, 2005) to which the Calgary Board of Education gave CORE status.

Nancy Thownshend will lecture in Art Now
Friday, September 14, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Nancy Townshend is author of A History of Art in Alberta 1905 - 1970, (Calgary: Bayeux Arts, 2005) which was short-listed for the Dwyer Award in 2006, and Maxwell Bates: Canada's Premier Expressionist of the 20th Century, His Art, Life and Prisoner of War Notebook (Calgary: Snyder Hedlin Fine Arts, 2005) to which the Calgary Board of Education gave CORE status.

Curator Gordon Snyder will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Drawn from the Past: the portraits and practice of Nicholas de Grandmaison Canadian artist, writer and curator Gordon Snyder was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1951. He studied at the University of Alberta, Alberta College of Art & Design, Emma Lake Art Workshops and the University of Lethbridge. Snyder is an authority on western Canadian art and has owned and operated...

Curator Gordon Snyder will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Drawn from the Past: the portraits and practice of Nicholas de Grandmaison Canadian artist, writer and curator Gordon Snyder was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1951. He studied at the University of Alberta, Alberta College of Art & Design, Emma Lake Art Workshops and the University of Lethbridge. Snyder is an authority on western Canadian art and has owned and operated...