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Da Vinci The Exhibition
Da Vinci The Exhibition is a hands-on exploration of Leonardo da Vinci’s life, research, and art, developed by Aurea Exhibitions and produced by Imagine Exhibitions, Inc. Guests can go beyond the canvas, exploring over 65 life-size inventions, more than 20 fine art studies, and captivating displays.
Through this window is a home
In an assemblage of images, colours and scents, Harvey Nichol and Michaela Bridgemohan examine the Peacock Chair as a source of conceptual inspiration. “Through this window is a home” takes notice of the ways in which colonialism shrouds non-European cultures as mythic and/or non-existent.
Pilot Astronauts
Between the 1970s and 1990s, the term astronaut families referred to family arrangements in Asia where the fathers remained in their home country to work while the mothers migrated to the west. Pilot Astronauts by Raeann Kit-Yee Cheung celebrates the early astronaut mothers, their strength, and their humanity.
Anton Ginzburg: Surface
Anton Ginzburg: Surface is a reflection on the use of technology as it relates to cultural labour, data aesthetics and machine learning. The three bodies of work deliberate on surfaces that range from the architectural to the digital screen and beyond, and are relevant to conversations around AI.
Shibboleth
In Shibboleth, Pedro Barbáchano reframes the collections of institutional museums in order to question the absence of nonconformist bodies and histories within them. Through his use of sculpture and photographic mediation, Barbáchano imagines how communities that have been historically persecuted can emerge and maintain their voices.
22nd Annual Members Exhibition
Leighton Art Centre celebrates the incredible talent and creativity of their member artists. This year’s exhibition is a virtual ‘square foot show’, featuring over 100 works that are small in size and big on artistry! Most works featured in this exhibition are available for online purchase.
Spotlight: Linda Duthie
Join the Alberta Craft Calgary Gallery for their newest Spotlight exhibition by Linda Duthie. Through form and function Linda Duthie creates a pottery driven by the tactile experience. Feel the weight of the cup, the grip of the unglazed clay. Her earthy designs reveal her deep love of the natural world.
Nonsuch
Nonsuch by Morgan Melenka employs commercially printed materials — mesh banners and Formica — to discuss the logic of North American built environments, history and imagined histories. Check it out at Leighton Art Centre! Exhibition Reception on April 13, 2024, 1 – 4pm.
Kewanee Street
This exhibition explores the affinities and connections between the hilltop artistic communities of Kewanee Street and Leighton Art Centre. It is a two person show featuring Malcolm Mooney and Doyle Lane who were neighbours in the ’80s and both lived on Kewanee Street in Los Angeles.
Children’s Art Show
Children aged 6 and up have the opportunity to display their art work in public at this exhibition hosted at cSPACE Marda Loop. 100% of sale profits go directly to the artists. Head down and support young up-and-coming artists!
Building Black Civilizations
In this exhibition, artist Ekow Nimako explores what might have been when ruler Abu Bakr II chose to abdicate his throne and set out across the Atlantic. Using LEGO® to recreate epic possibilities, Nimako creates a narrative of Black civilizations and imagines liberated futures.
Curious Nature
Curious Nature expands on the intersectionality of the feminine form within landscapes, both real and imagined. The exhibition features Truong’s characteristic dioramas alongside new sculptural forms, stop-motion animations and a site-specific ephemeral wall installation.
Diana Zasadny: Summer’s Edge
Diana Zasadny paints who she is—bringing her appreciation of nature born of her love of the prairie and the sky—to all her compositions. Zasadny blends the boundaries of impressionist interpretation and contemporary abstraction into a glimpse of that elusive realm of life between reality and imagination. Opening reception April 13, 2024 from 2 – 5pm.
The Ballad of Georges Boivin
After the loss of his wife, Georges Boivin decides that life must continue. With his three friends, he sets out on a cross-country road trip, in search of his first love. This poetic and playful script is a tour de force for the solo actor who plays all four friends.
Lodestone
Lodestone exhibits our complex encounters with medicine in way that is inviting, wonderous, and enchanting. Lodestones are naturally occurring magnets, a near-magical phenomenon that was eventually harnessed within biomedical imaging technologies like MRI machines.
HSCA Flea Market
The HSCA Flea Market has been a community program since 1985, running year-round. Bring the family and browse the flea market with over 100 vendors, featuring crafts, furniture, antiques, books, household items, and more! Plus an art sale taking place once a month.
Buy Me A Drink, Joe
Since premiering, Forte Musical Theatre has produced 29 shows, won 25 awards, and entertained tens of thousands of patrons. Join them for a new musical celebrating 15 years of his songs that tell the story of how a guy from Calgary fell in love with musical theatre.
Party Time
This over-the-top performance choreographed by Kimberley Cooper features a live band. This piece is a surreal look at a house party, a deep dive into the psyche of the guests, and promises wildness, hilarity and incredible dancing and music. Get your tickets!
Lorna MacLachlan Jazz Trio
Lorna MacLachlan, Richard Harding and Johnny Summers come together to play Lorna’s music. With piano/vocals, sax and trumpet, the trio paints beautiful pictures of Lorna’s original music in a style somewhere between jazz, folk and classical.
Outside Mullingar
A poetic romance set in rural Ireland about neighbours stuck in a land feud. Anthony and Rosemary grew up on adjacent farms and are now on the brink of catastrophe as they fight back despair and stubborn follies to unearth the magic of finding their hearts’ true home.
May Exhibitions
Don’t miss out on all the new visual art exhibitions around the city this May! Each month, we spotlight a... Read More
Free This Week
Start off your May with an arts outing you’ll love! From a celebration of artists and creatives currently featured at... Read More
Free This Week
Round out your April with free events like The Passionate Painters’ Spring Show & Sale, a multicultural festival hosted by... Read More
Free This Week
From an Esker exhibition tour with babies in mind, to a Nickle Galleries talk discussing author H.G. Wells, to CUFF’s... Read More
Questions?
Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 118 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.
