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Douglas Scholes will lecture in Art Now
Monday, September 10, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Artistic Orientation Douglas Scholes' interests lie within the exploration of a pragmatic aesthetic, a principle that is concerned with the beauty exemplified in the practical use and presentation of common everyday things and activities. He has used the pragmatic aesthetic to explore the relationships between objects and their environment and how they are cared for. He is...

Douglas Scholes will lecture in Art Now
Monday, September 10, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Artistic Orientation Douglas Scholes' interests lie within the exploration of a pragmatic aesthetic, a principle that is concerned with the beauty exemplified in the practical use and presentation of common everyday things and activities. He has used the pragmatic aesthetic to explore the relationships between objects and their environment and how they are cared for. He is...

Independent curator and consultant Patricia Ainslie will lecture in Art Now
Friday, September 7, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Patricia Ainslie is currently working as an Independent Curator and Consultant and recently wrote, An Introduction to the Art and Artists of Alberta, published by Fifth House Publishers in Calgary. Ainslie worked with Glenbow Museum, Calgary, since 1979 where she was Vice President of Collections and a member of the management and strategy team from 1993 - 2006. As Chief...

Independent curator and consultant Patricia Ainslie will lecture in Art Now
Friday, September 7, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Patricia Ainslie is currently working as an Independent Curator and Consultant and recently wrote, An Introduction to the Art and Artists of Alberta, published by Fifth House Publishers in Calgary. Ainslie worked with Glenbow Museum, Calgary, since 1979 where she was Vice President of Collections and a member of the management and strategy team from 1993 - 2006. As Chief...

Fine Arts Summer Camps -- Register Now
Monday, July 9, 2007 - 3:00am - Friday, August 24, 2007 - 10:00am
Registration: 329-2706 Information: 329-2227 Art Adventures (ages 7 - 10) Explore drawing, painting, maskmaking, printmaking, sculpture and more. No experience necessary!

Karen Tam will lecture in Art Now
Friday, April 13, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Karen Tam examines the issues and associations that many people have with Chinese culture and how it is often linked with Chinese restaurants. This work reflects Tam's childhood experience, similar to that of many children in the Chinese community, of growing up in a restaurant environment. Tam offers a sense of nostalgia, showing honour and respect for the workers who live...

Curator Robert Windrum will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Robert Windrum was born in Calgary, Alberta and raised in Lethbridge and area. He attended the University of Lethbridge where he received his BFA. He also attended the Freie Kunstschule Hamburg, Germany and the Banff Centre School of Fine Art. In 1989 Robert moved to Toronto to work at Mercer Union, one of Canada's leading artist-run centres. This followed his employment of...

Curator Jan Allen will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
"The Future is Invisible" "Jan Allen is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario, where she has developed and overseen numerous exhibitions since 1992. Major projects include: Museopathy (2001), Better Worlds (2002), and Machine Life (2004). Allen's curatorial focus has been on politically charged art, digital media...

Painter Rebecca Anweiler will lecture in Art Now
Monday, April 2, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Rebecca Anweiler is a painter currently teaching a sessional appointment at the University of Lethbridge. Anweiler completed her MFA at Concordia University in Montreal in 2000 where she was awarded the J. W. McConnell Memorial Fellowship, and is an honours graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design. She has taught drawing, painting, and senior studio in three previous...

Filmmaker Nelson Henricks will lecture in Art Now
Friday, March 30, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Nelson Henricks is a musician, writer, curator and artist, best known for his videotapes. He is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art and earned a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal where he currently lives and works. Henricks has taught at Concordia University, McGill University, Universite du Quebec a Montreal and at the University of Toronto. Henricks' work has...

Art Now podcast by Lana Ing Gabor and Kevin Ei-ichi deForest
Monday, March 26, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
To accompany the "Eurasialicious" exhibition held at the Trianon earlier this winter, Lana Ing Gabor and Kevin Ei-ichi deForest will present a podcast that elaborates on themes from the show and documents their collaborative process. "Eurasialicious" brought together these two prairie artists who are a generation apart, but share a mixed Asian and...

Montreal painter Marion Wagschal will lecture in Art Now
Friday, March 23, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
"My interest is in the human figure as a powerful conveyor of meaning. Painting the human figure is a way to express my feelings and thoughts about living in the contemporary world." Wagschal Marion Wagschal has become known for her intimate "everyday" portraits that refuse to adopt the Greek and Renaissance ideal of beauty and the contemporary obsession...

Curator Sarah Quinton will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Sarah Quinton has been the Contemporary Curator at the Textile Museum of Canada since 1994, where she was recently appointed Senior Curator. At the Museum, her curatorial projects focus on studio art practices that explore contemporary and traditional hand made textiles as they inform and intersect with sculpture, photography, painting, new media and site-specific...

Independent curator Linda Sawchyn will lecture in Art Now
Friday, March 16, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Linda Sawchyn graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a double honours in Art and Art History (1992) and from the University of Alberta with a Master of Arts in the History of Art and Design (1997). Since 1992 she has worked in curatorial positions at several Western Canadian art galleries including the Mendel Art Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery...

British artist Steven Pippin will lecture in Art Now
Monday, March 12, 2007 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Steven Pippin, was a nominee for the 1999 Turner Prize and has exhibited internationally. As part of his lecture, Pippin will address a less-widely known area of his practice: drawing. "Since the early 1980s, Pippin's work has been exhibited in shows across Europe and the United States. Between 1982 and 1991 his work involved the conversion of pieces of furniture,...

Colwyn Griffith will lecture in Art Now
Friday, March 9, 2007 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Empire Projects "Based in New York, Ontario artist Colwyn Griffith produces large-scale colour photographs that investigate notions of empire. Whether using candy and other junk foods to construct elaborate reproductions of icons of excess such as Graceland in the USA or the Ministry of Oil in Saudi Arabia, or documenting the changing personas of failed fast-food chains...

Susan Bozic will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 - 5:00am - 6:00am
The Dating Portfolio Vancouver artist, Susan Bozic's work explores set photography and the use of props to recreate seemingly real-life environments and situations. Previously working with taxidermy (birds and animals), her latest series of work involves Carl, a male mannequin who accompanies the artist on a series of romantic adventures. This upscale couple romances on...

Frank Shebageget will lecture in Art Now
Monday, March 5, 2007 - 5:15am - 6:00am
As a sculpture/installation artist Shebageget employs a variety of materials to arrive at a comprehensive presentation of idea and aesthetic. Elements such as wood and copper are used for their formal properties as their historical and cultural implications. In exploring issues of native culture and its representations, works have dealt with the idea of multiples. With...

Mary-Anne McTrowe will lecture in Art Now
Friday, March 2, 2007 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Mary-Anne McTrowe's work has spanned a number of different media, and her practice is presently focused on the question of how things that are familiar to us can be made unfamiliar; how a change in context can render something temporarily strange and perhaps even unrecognizable. Recent bodies of work include the crocheting of cozies for everyday objects, and performance and...

Annie Martin will lecure in Art Now
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - 5:00am - 6:00am
In this Art Now presentation, Annie Martin will discuss her audio installations and other recent projects, with a particular focus on the 2006 collaborative residential installation project Résider II, and its 1995 precedent, Résider. For these projects, Annie worked with Montreal artists Karilee Fuglem, Carmen Ruschiensky and Andrea Szilasi to create works in...

Internationally respected performance artist James Luna in ArtNow
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 5:00am - 6:00am
James Luna's work addresses the mythology of what it means to be "Indian" in contemporary society and exposes the hypocrisy of the dominant society. Luna's art is provocative, often dealing with difficult issues affecting Indian communities, including socio-economic problems, substance abuse, and cultural conflict. He confronts these issues head-on, using humour...

Kamloops ceramic artist Brendan Tang will lecture in Art Now
Monday, February 12, 2007 - 5:00am - 6:00am
My artistic practice embodies the influences, tensions and contradictions that define the postmodern world. At once, my works exhibit the paradoxical tendency to be irreverent, frivolous, and playful, as well as thoroughly engaged in critical reflection. Admittedly, my aesthetic is driven by a hedonistic engagement with visual culture, yet I remain apprehensive about the all-...

Shawn Van Sluys will lecture in Art Now
Friday, February 9, 2007 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Crime and Punishment: Appropriation and Intellectual Property Appropriation, mimicry, quotation, allusion, and sublimated collaboration consist of a kind of sine qua non of the creative act.... Jonathan Lethem, Harper's Magazine (Feb 2007) Influence is not absent in art. Collage and quotation define much contemporary and twentieth-century art, from Cubism and Dadaism to Pop...

Calgary painter Ron Moppett will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Ron Moppett completed his studies at the Alberta College of Art in 1967. Solo shows include a 1982 retrospective of his work at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre; a solo show at the 49th Parallel in New York City in 1988, and Painting Nature with a Mirror 1974-89, an exhibition organized by the Glenbow Museum which toured to The Edmonton Art Gallery and the...

Saskatoon photographer Jennifer Crane will lecture in Art Now
Monday, January 29, 2007 - 5:00am - 8:00am
Jennifer Crane is a lens-based artist originally from Nova Scotia. In a broad sense, her practice explores the relationship between the body and the lens in both historical and contemporary images and old and new technologies. Through the creation of still photography, video installations and fictional photographic archives her work engages with issues of memory, authenticity...