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Art of Resilience
The result of four art workshops held at Glenbow for children and families served by Kainaiwa Children’s Services Corporation Prevention and Support, explore their work in this unique showcase curated by Joanne Schmidt. Don’t miss this look at self-awareness, self-expression, group cohesion, and self-confidence
Body Worlds: Animal Inside Out
See the world’s most spectacular animals like never before! This rarely seen perspective guides visitors through skeletons, muscles, organs, and circulatory systems of a variety of animals.
Images of Rapture
Molly Caldwell explores the ecstatic in vapid and all that is ostentatious yet somehow joyful for it. It channels the sticky sweetness of hair stuck in lip gloss as you flip through a glossy magazine and rub the perfume ads on your wrist.
Dialogue with a Bone Teacup
The result of Elijah Wells’ research into Blackfoot story archives such as winter counts and story robes, this investigation is also an exploration discovery of Blackfoot visual language. An artist reception takes place from 5:30 to 8:30pm on February 28.
Interstices
Come visit Arts Commons and experience the new Broadcast Lab featuring Kyle Whitehead’s piece, Interstices. Composed of two contrasting films shot over top of one another on Super 8 film with no prior knowledge, the piece results in latent collisions of discreet perspectives.
Window Galleries
Arts Commons’ Window Galleries features four varied artists this season, each working in the mediums of photography, paint, illustration, and wire sculpture. The work explores the themes of divergent viewpoints, fantasy, female empowerment, and community.
Collider: Land
The second year of the Collider open studio artist residency adopts a new thematic lens. Exploring the theme of land, incoming artists are asked to reflect on the complex relationships our communities have with the environment and the diverse ecosystems that shape our lives.
Olivier Du Tre: New Works
This exhibit brings together a collection of 11 new photographs chosen from three folios completed in the past two years during Olivier Du Tre’s travels to Saskatchewan, Tofino, and Yukon. Check out the reception on February 8.
Concentration Patterns
Concentration Patterns is a unique, meditative piece which seeks to envelope the listener in tactile and immersive sound. Inspired by technological deep-listening, Colin Gillespie’s meditative soundscape combines layered elements to create an organic whole.
Between the Salt of the Sun and the Light of the Sea
This solo exhibition from Samuel de Lange asks what could be revealed by taking the histories of salt and photography into mutual consideration. An opening reception takes place January 10 at 7:00pm.
Telling Stories Otherwise
Brad Necyk is a multimedia artist and writer in Canada whose practice engages with issues of medicine, mental health, and precarious populations and subjects. His works include drawings and paintings, still and motion film, sculpture, 3D imaging and printing, virtual reality, and performance.
Made-Up Orchard
Lightbox Studio in Arts Commons features Avril Lopez whose work is inspired by whimsical creations designed to evoke a child-like state of imaginative worldview. Be sure to swing by as she works on creating an experimental environment that explores the use of creativity as a healing process.
Ready Player 2
Brendan Lee Satish Tang and Sonny Assu combine elements from science fiction, comic books, and gaming to consider how these forms affect racial boundaries in youth culture. Check out the show’s opening reception on January 16.
Reliant Objects
This group exhibition of interdisciplinary craft work challenges notions of form, function, and the future of domestic objects. The works rely upon a viewer’s recognition of their sameness and difference.
Hopping for Hope
Ahreum Lee explores both the freedoms and limitations presented by globalization and digital technologies by using playful game elements and Korean pseudoscience to address her research on Google’s mapping methodology. An opening reception takes place January 17 at 8:00pm.
The Sowers
Laura St. Pierre’s new series of photographs depicts interventions in the urban landscape that are comprised of small gardens that thrive in unlikely places, such as parkades or pool decks, devoid of life other than what the sowers have introduced. Don’t miss it.
I’m Only Going to Show You Once, Now You Try
Alyssa Duck Chief explores deep traumas of a ruptured family circle in the hopes of healing themselves through the medium of photography, text, and storytelling. Check out the opening reception from 7:00 to 10:00pm on January 17.
The discipline of constructing
Jolie Bird’s exhibition collates weavings, textile installation, in-gallery performances, and idea and skill sharing with the community. You can even see Bird working in a representational artist’s studio. Check out the opening reception on January 17.
Pitched Perfect Golden Girls
The ladies of the Maple Oaks seniors home may have missed out on their college years, but thanks to a loophole in a singing contest it may not be too late! Watch these Golden Girls show the college chicks how it’s done with Jubilations Dinner Theatre.
Cultivate|Instigate
Highlighting the influential creatives at the forefront of post-secondary craft education in the province, these instructors bridge Alberta’s rich craft legacy with contemporary craft culture through the exceptional work they create.
Questions?
Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 211 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.