Exhibitions August 2017
Beat the heat and take in a show or two
Although August is typically a quiet month here in Calgary, there’s still a ton of great visual arts to check out. Take your pick with amazing offerings from the Esker Foundation, Glenbow, and many more. There’s even a stellar summer art party at Arts Commons.
Free First Thursday Nights
August 3, 2017, 5:00 – 9:00pm
Glenbow (130 9th Ave. SE)
Free
Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience has been the talk of Canada’s visual arts community and here’s your chance to check it out for free. It’s also the last free night before The Arctic Photographs of Geraldine and Douglas Moodie closes on August 27.
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Bring The Baby Art Tour
August 4, 2017, 12:00 – 12:30pm
Esker Foundation (1011 9th Ave. SE)
Free, registration recommended
Bring your baby to Esker Foundation for this tot-friendly discussion and relaxed, social tour.
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CAMPER In Situ: 110
August 5, 2017, 7:00 – 10:00pm
Stanley Park (Between 4th St. SW & the Stanley Park Lawn Bowling Club)
Free
Join TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary for in-situ CAMPER installation 110 by Megan Gnanasihamany. An exploration into the meeting points of memory, filmic fiction, and bodily experience within a stationary road trip, the work invites participatory viewership to explore familiar backroads and highways.
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Out for Lunch Tour
August 10, 2017, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Glenbow (130 9th Ave. SE)
$5, free for members
Thanks to popular demand, Glenbow has added two more Out for Lunch Tours this August. For the first, join art curator Sarah Todd for an in depth look at the many art historical references present in Kent Monkman’s exhibition Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.
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Close Your Eyes: Exhibition Tour with Naomi Potter
August 10, 2017, 7:00 – 8:00pm
Esker Foundation (1011 9th Ave. SE)
Free, registration recommended
An exhibition tour led by Esker Foundation Director Naomi Potter, discover the various ways in which Jason de Haan attempts to reverse, adjust, and interrupt the course of time through small gestures that resonate with poetry, impossibility, and magic.
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Art in the Garden
August 12 & 13, 2017, 10:00am – 4:00pm
Art in the Garden (3443 Kerry Park Rd. SW)
Free
Enjoy a day in the garden with this eighth annual event featuring framed and unframed paintings in many mediums and styles, art cards, matted prints, and stained glass. Artists in attendance include Rosemary Bennett, Rex Beanland, Susan Fogg, Linda Lalonde, and Shelagh Tranter. Donations for the Calgary Food Bank will be gratefully accepted.
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Transformations
August 12 – September 24, 2017
Leighton Art Centre (282027 144 St. West, Foothills)
Admission by donation
Artist Rachelle LeBlanc presents this hooked sculpture exhibition that takes what is traditionally perceived as 2D tapestries and re-introduces the medium as modern and contemporary figurative 3D forms.
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Miniature
August 14 – 31, 2017
Calgary Jewish Community Centre (1607 90th Ave. SW)
Free
Presented by Betzalel Arts, this group exhibition is the result of a challenge to artists to create work within a one square foot area. Works showcase the artists’ unique individual interests including paintings, drawings, metal work, delicate filigree jewelry, landscape, still life, and expressionistic abstraction. An opening reception is scheduled for 6:00 to 9:00pm on August 16.
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Out for Lunch Tour
August 17, 2017, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Glenbow (130 9th Ave. SE)
$5, free for members
Join Blackfoot Educator Blaire Russell, for a deep dive into the history and ideas behind Kent Monkman’s exhibition Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.
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Summer Artists Residency Exhibition
August 17 – 28, 2017
Main Mall, Alberta College of Art + Design (1407 14th Ave. NW)
Free
Providing artists, of various disciplines, space and time to engage in independent/self-directed study, see the culmination of the residents’ work that will be on display for the month of August. An opening reception is scheduled for 6:00 to 8:00pm on August 17.
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Happenings #9
August 18, 2017, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Arts Commons (205 8th Ave. SE)
Free
Celebrate all the great creations at the next Happenings—an art party that is free and open to all ages. Head to Arts Commons for a Friday night of hands on activities, live performances, and so much more. The theme this go around is Canadian heritage, multiculturalism, identity, and celebration.
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TRUCK’s Tailgate Karaoke
August 19, 2017, 4:00pm – Late
TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary (2009 10th Ave. SW)
Entry by donation, $2 hotdogs & song selections
Join the TRUCK crew for this BBQ fundraiser. Kicking off at 4:00pm, head by for hotdogs and a special batch of refreshing lemonade courtesy of Lowell Smith. Then, once the sun sets, it’s time to fire up the microphones for all your karaoke desires.
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Syndicate Gallery Art Show
August 19, 2017, 7:00 – 10:00pm
Lux Laundromat (2, 1211 14th St. SW)
Free
Showcasing and supporting Canadian artists, check out more than 40 pieces in a variety of styles and mediums including pop, resin, street, abstract, portrait, and more.
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Master Class for Families
August 20, 2017, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Esker Foundation (1011 9th Ave. SE)
Free, registration required
Join the Esker Foundation for an afternoon of family fun and delve into new mediums with art projects that relate to the current exhibitions. This is an educational, energetic, hands-on program for kids aged five to 10 years old. An adult is required to stay for the duration of the workshop. All materials will be provided.
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Good Earth Art Show
August 20, 2017, 6:30pm
Good Earth Coffeehouse – 11th Street (1502 11th St. SW)
Free
Head to the 11th Street Good Earth to check out local artists and their work—some will be available for purchase.
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Paydirt
August 20, 2017, 2:00 – 4:00pm
Stride Gallery (1006 Macleod Trail SE)
Free
Raising funds for the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society, Maggie Flynn hosts this findings report and Q+A as the culmination of her month-long performance Paydirt. This event is free, participatory, and open to the public. Donations will be accepted at the event.
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Summer Film Series Double Bill
August 25, 2017, 7:00 – 8:15pm
Esker Foundation (1011 9th Ave. SE)
Free, registration recommended
A film about time and art, Time and Time and Again is based on the life and work of Icelandic artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson and merges reality with fiction. Presented in Icelandic with English subtitles, it’s followed by a screening of Nina Yuen’s Raymond.
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Field Station
August 26 – 28 & September 15 – 19, 2017
Tuscany, Rocky Ridge, & Royal Oak
Free, registration required
This series of arts-based community events are built around the Tuscany LRT Station Community Cultural Development Public Art Project. Both educational and creative, Field Station includes individual and collective opportunities to celebrate the local community and explore the final destination point on the Red Line and its surrounding neighbourhoods. Space is limited due to the nature of the creative activities.
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Out for Lunch Tour
August 31, 2017, 1:00 – 2:00pm
Glenbow (130 9th Ave. SE)
$5, free for members
Join Glenbow Indigenous studies curator Joanne Schmidt for an in-depth look at artifacts from the Glenbow’s collection featured in Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.
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Ten Voices 2017: Photographic and Digital Works in Calgary
August 31 – October 15, 2017
Alcove Gallery, Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium (1415 14th Ave. NW)
Free
Visual Arts Alberta ~ CARFAC, in partnership with the Friends of the Jubilee Auditoria Society present this Alberta-wide juried exhibition of artwork by 10 Alberta artists. Featuring photographic and digitally manipulated imagery, the exhibition focuses on the different ways artists respond to the world around, and within, them.
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Ongoing Exhibitions
Other Histories
Until August 5, 2017
The New Gallery (208 Centre St. SE)
Free
Amin Rehman is known for work that engages with and comments on the current effects of neo-colonialism and globalization. Encompassing multiple artistic mediums such as installation, painting, video, and neon, Other Histories plays with the meaning and intentionality of their words.
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Art for Food
Until August 12, 2017
Herringer Kiss Gallery (709A 11th Ave. SW)
Free
Support the Calgary Food Bank through the ninth annual Art for Food Group Show and Sale. For the duration of the exhibition, the Herringer Kiss Gallery will donate funds to the Calgary Food Bank. For each $500 of art sold, the gallery will purchase an emergency food hamper which will supply a family of four with the required food necessities for one entire week.
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Speaking Notes: Nickle Galleries’ Recent Acquisitions
Until August 18, 2017
Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary (410 University Ct. NW)
Free
Organized from the collection of Nickle Galleries and curated by Michele Hardy, Speaking Notes introduces a selection of recent donations and purchases, and promises of stories to come.
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Phantom Form
Until August 18, 2017
Marion Nicoll Gallery Main Space (1407 14th Ave. NW)
Free
Anna Semenoff’s video-based sculptural installation exposes two spaces, and identifies them to be seen as one by physically responding to its tangible surroundings, while functioning in isolation, separate from its immediate environment. Presented in partnership with the Marion Nicoll Gallery and Sled Island Music & Art Festival.
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Coins of Jesus: Money and Religion in the Ancient World
Until August 18, 2017
Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary (410 University Ct. NW)
Free
Coins of Jesus highlights the Judeo-Christian coinage in the Numismatics Collection of Nickle Galleries. Covering a unique geographic area and a historic period of cultural and ideological diversity, the exhibition presents Jewish, Judeo-Roman, Roman Christian and Byzantine coinage, concluding with Islamic and Medieval money.
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CHROMA
Until August 19, 2017
Christine Klassen Gallery (200, 321 50th Ave. SE)
Free
Christine Klassen Gallery’s annual group show celebrates colour and the diversity from hard edge abstraction to ethereal landscapes, printmaking to sculpture and everything in between.
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Hand Pic’d
Until August 26, 2017
VivianeArt (1114 11th St. SW)
Free
Hand Pic’d 2017 presents a two-person exhibition with artists Jocelyn Reid and Dylan Cameron who challenge traditional notions of craft through their critical art practices.
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WILD: Fabricating a Frontier
Until August 26, 2017
Multiple locations
Free
Exploring interspecies relations, the intersectionality of the frontier, and feminist and Indigenous discourses, this exhibition presented by Contemporary Calgary continues through August across three separate venues.
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Sunscreen
Until August 26, 2017
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art (730 11th Ave. SW)
Free
This exhibition is like a carousel—constantly rotating! So make sure you swing by Newzones as it showcases various types of artwork including paintings, photographs, and sculpture. Exhibition artists include Yehouda Chaki, Vicky Christou, Kristofir Dean, Franco DeFrancescsa, Jonathan Forrest, Emily Filler, Bradley Harms, Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Marie Lannoo, Sarah Nind, Rana Rochat, Pat Service, and Donald Sultan.
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Oh for eyes! At night we dream of eyes!
Until August 27, 2017
Esker Foundation (1011 9th Ave. SE)
Free
Calgary-based artist Jason de Haan has an interest in proposing and undertaking projects where environments, natural conditions, and massive time scales complete, animate, and determine his multidisciplinary practice.
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The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun
Until August 27, 2017
Esker Foundation (1011 9th Ave. SE)
Free
The second film of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism looks at the solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist, Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky was imprisoned and later exiled, the film introduces research into the impact of solar emissions on human sociology, psychology, politics, and economics.
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Her Potential For Corruption
Until September 1, 2017
Marion Nicoll Gallery LRT (1407 14th Ave. NW)
Free
Multidisciplinary artist Haley Craw’s Her Potential For Corruption presents the relics of the fallen woman—lingerie holds the memory of the body, an insistent absence marked with desire. Presented in partnership with the Marion Nicoll Gallery and Sled Island Music & Art Festival.
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Canadianisms: A Half Decade Inspired by Canada
Until September 2, 2017
Okotoks Art Gallery (53 North Railway St., Okotoks)
Free
An exhibit by Brandy Saturley, Canadianisms brings the two worlds of Canadian popular culture and Canadian iconography together. From a goalie mask on a Canadian flag, Saturley began a journey to marry the influences of Canadian pop culture with compositions of well-known, historical paintings. Go for a drive and check out this nearby exhibition.
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Weird Woman
Until September 9, 2017
Jarvis Hall Gallery (333B 36th Ave. SE)
Free
Visit Jarvis Hall to check out this group show curated by artist Sondra Meszaros and featuring works by Karen Azoulay, Claire Greenshaw, Jenine Marsh, Mary Morgan, and Carmen Winant.
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Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience
Until September 10, 2017
Glenbow (130 9th Ave. SE)
With admission
Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience was created as a response to Canada 150 sesquicentennial celebrations. Featuring Monkman’s gender bending, time travelling alter-ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle is the guide on a journey through Canada’s history. As both artist and curator of the exhibition, Monkman places his own paintings, drawings and sculptural works in dialogue with historical artifacts and artworks borrowed from museum and private collections from across the country.
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North of Ordinary: The Arctic Photographs of Geraldine and Douglas Moodie
Until September 10, 2017
Glenbow (130 9th Ave. SE)
With admission
Presented in conjunction with the Exposure Photography Festival, this exhibition celebrates the remarkable creative partnership of Geraldine Moodie, Western Canada’s first professional female photographer, and her husband Douglas, a senior officer of the North-West Mounted Police.
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#ideasforawall Exhibition
Until September 16, 2017
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design (1407 14th Ave. NW)
Free
In response to the recent solicitation issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office Customs and Border Protection, the Illingworth Kerr Gallery is inviting artists to imagine a prototype wall structure to be placed “in the vicinity of the United States border with Mexico.” Over 20 artists were asked to reflect on the meaning and implications of this solicitation, and imagine possible alternative scenarios for the future of this wall, but the call was opened to any artist who is interested in submitting their idea. You can even explore the exhibition online at undoingwalls.net.
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Citizens of Craft
Until September 23, 2017
Alberta Craft Gallery – Calgary, cSPACE King Edward (280, 1721 29th Ave. SW)
Free
Featuring exceptional work by 15 Alberta Craft Council professional members participating on the Citizens of Craft website, see pieces from this community of makers, appreciators, admirers, and shoppers.
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Under the cave of winds
Until September 23, 2017
Untitled Art Society (343 11th Ave. SW)
Free
Initiated through a residency at CCA Glasgow, Maryse Larivière’s Under the cave of winds functions like a portal, wherein art, ecology, and politics collide. Including a new 16mm film and suite of sculptural works, the exhibition is accompanied by Larivière’s forthcoming epistolary novel, and an original sound work by Cosima Friesen.
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I Am Western
Until October 1, 2017
cSPACE King Edward (1721 29th Ave. SW)
Free
In celebration of cSPACE’s newly opened creative hub, installations from 14 contemporary artists fill the expansive hallways of the King Edward School. A postmodern interpretation of the cowboy and western genre, see pieces from Chris Cran, Adrian Stimson, Lyndal Osborne, Terrance Houle, John Freeman, Heather Benning, Kris Weinmann, Tim Moore, Mitch Kern, Sherri Chaba, Pascale Ouellet, Billie Rae Busby, Rosanna Marmont, and Kelly Johner, curated by Melissa E. Cole and organized by Off Limits Arts.
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Treasure Sales at Northland Village
Until October 7, 2017
Northland Village Mall (5111 Northland Dr. NW)
Free entry
A new form of weekly market, this parking lot adventure combines a farmers market, artisans market, and community sale. Find a wide range of unique offerings and promotions happening every Saturday throughout the summer. And the best part? It’s unique each week.
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Making Treaty 7: Finding Common Ground
Until October 22, 2017
Project Space, Esker Foundation (1011 9th Ave. SE)
Free
A rotating exhibition of works produced in response to Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society’s Common Ground Dinner Series, see works including jewelry, glass, ceramics, photography, poetry, painting, drawing, and installation art.
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True Colours
Until October 25, 2017
ATB Stephen Avenue (102 8th Ave. SW)
Free
As the lead supporter of the Calgary Pride Festival, ATB believes in love and inclusivity for all Albertans. So to celebrate, its summer visual arts exhibition embraces the ideas of acceptance, belonging, and community. Featuring art from selected Alberta College of Art + Design students and alumni, make sure you swing by and check it out.
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Cultivating the Landscape: A Social History of Gardening in Calgary
Until November 5, 2017
Lougheed House (707 13th Ave. SW)
With admission
A new exhibit about Calgarians’ relationship to their gardens, Cultivating the Landscape shows how, through urban beautification movements, the imperative to grow vegetables for our community has shaped (and been shaped by) the land. The exhibit includes historic and contemporary photographs, gardening tools, archival material, and gardening ephemera, primarily from the 1890s to 1960s.
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