Archived Art Now


Joy Charbonneau speaks in Art Now, 12 noon Oct. 17, Recital Hall
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 12:00am - 12:50pm
  

Leo Kamen speaks in Art Now at 12 noon, Oct 14 in the Recital Hall
Friday, October 14, 2011 - 12:00am - 12:50pm

Photographer Don Gill speaks in Art Now, 12 noon, Oct 7, Recital Hall
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 12:00am - 12:50pm
  Mapping a Prairie City The Artist as Artist / The Artist as Curator.  Mapping a Prairie City: Lethbridge and its Suburbs.Don Gill teaches Photo-Arts in the Department of Art. He also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor in the Graduate M.A. program of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Aboriginal Studies at Trent University.

MFA candidate Collin Zipp speaks in Art Now, 12 noon on Oct 5 in the Recital Hall
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 12:00am - 12:50pm
A multidisciplinary artist from Winnipeg MB, Collin Zipp obtained his BFA from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art in 2005 and his MFA from the University of Lethbridge in 2011. His work explores notions of viewer experience and expectation. Interested in trickery and deception, Zipp’s work challenges viewers to assess their perceptions of what they think art is or...

MFA candidate Mandy Espezel speaks in Art Now at 12 noon, Oct 3 in the Recital Hall
Monday, October 3, 2011 - 12:00am - 12:50pm
 

Michael Campbell will speak in Art Now on Sept 30 in the Recital Hall at 12:00 noon
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 12:00am - 12:50am
Michael Campbell is interested in obsolete technologies, remote landscapes, purposeless inventions, suburban boredom, bad sci-fi films, utopic schemes, adolescent fantasy sketchbooks and handmade tools. 

Curator Kegan McFadden speaks in Art Now, 12 noon, Sept 28 in the Recital Hall
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 12:00am - 12:50pm

Denton Fredrickson speaks in Art Now, 12 noon Sept. 26, 2011 in the Recital Hall
Monday, September 26, 2011 - 12:00am - 12:50pm
Denton Fredrickson completed a multi-disciplinary B.F.A. from the University of Lethbridge (2001), an M.F.A. from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2003) and he currently teaches in the Art Department of the University of Lethbridge. He has exhibited throughout Canada, in the U.S., The Netherlands, France and Japan. 

Robyn Moody speaks in Art Now, Sept 23 at 12 noon,Recital Hall
Friday, September 23, 2011 - 12:00am - 12:50am

Markus Andresson & Chen Tamir speak in Art Now at 12 noon on Sept 21 in the Recital Halll
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 12:00am - Friday, September 23, 2011 - 12:50pm
Emotional Blackmail curated by Markus Per Andresson & Chen Tamir. SAAG opening reception September 24, 2011.  Everybody welcome 

Lyndal Osborne speaks in Art Now and has work at U of L Art Gallery
Friday, September 16, 2011 - 12:00am - 12:50pm
Lyndal Osborne was born in Newcastle, Australia. She studied at the National Art School in Sydney and received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Since 1971, Osborne has been based in Edmonton, and is a Professor Emeritus in Department of Art and Design, University of Alberta.

Nick Wade speaks in Art Now, April 6/11, Recital Hall at 12 noon
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 12:00am - 1:00pm
 Public Art continued

cancel Ken Allan speaks in Art Now April 4,Recital Hall at 12 noon
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 12:00pm - 12:45pm
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Taras Polataiko speaks in Art Now, 12 noon, Recital Hall on April 1/11
Friday, April 1, 2011 - 12:00am - 1:00pm

Nick Wade will speak in Art Now on March 30 in the Recital Hall at 12:00 noon
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  Nick Wade has been documenting art in the public realm since his time in undergraduate studies at York University in the 1970's. Since that time his understanding of the motivations which produce objects of expression in the public realm has come to include works of transport authority, roadside attractions, advertising and eccentric gestures in many materials.

Jim Ellis speaks in Art Now March 28 Recital Hall,12 noon
Monday, March 28, 2011 - 12:00pm - 12:45pm
"The Studio, the Canvas and the Screen in the Work of Derek Jarman."

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Jessica Bradley speaks in Art Now Mar 25, Recital Hall at 12 noon
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 12:00pm - 12:45pm

Chai Duncan speaks in Art Now on March 23 at 12:00 noon in the Recital Hall
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
 Chai Duncan is an artist and educator currently residing in Lethbridge, AB. He received a BFA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. He has exhibited in galleries across Canada both alone and as part of collaborative art duo 12 Point Buck (with Leila Armstrong).  

Chris Cran speaks in Art Now March 18 at 12 noon,in Recital Hall
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
 

DodoLab speaks in Art Now Mar 16, 2011 in the Recital Hall at 12 nooon
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
 

Vince Varga,Executive Director and CEO of the Mendel Art Gallery, speaks in Architecture & Design Now March 14 at 6 pm, Rm C610
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Vince Varga, Executive Director and CEO of the Mendel Art Gallery, speaks in Art Now, March 14 at 12 noon, Recital Hall
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 12:00pm - 12:45pm
Varga’s talk will present an overview of the transformation that the Mendel Art Gallery is undergoing. The Gallery sees the new facility not as an end, but a means to re-imagine the way the Gallery relates to it community as well as address internal program functions – collection development, exhibition and public programs.

Emily Falvey speaks in Art Now March 11 in the Recital Hall, 12 noon
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Originally from Nova Scotia, Emily Falvey is now a Montreal-based independent curator and art critic. In 2009 the Canada Council for the Arts awarded her the Joan Yvonne Lowndes Award for critical and curatorial writing, and in 2006 she received the Curatorial Writing Award (Contemporary Essay) from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.

Billy McCarroll will speak in Art Now on March 9 at 12:00 noon in the Recital Hall
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
 

Reece Terris speaks in Art Now, March 7, Recital Hall, 12 noon
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
“The primary focus of my artistic practice examines the relationship between constructed architectural spaces and our common experiences and encounters within them. I am interested in exploring how repetitive patterns in planning and design ultimately become subconscious cues for social conduct.”  - Reece Terris on his installation American Standard, 2004.