Ruth Scheuing will be giving an artist talk this evening (March 15) at 630 pm in the Boardroom at the Alberta College of Art & Design. All are welcome!
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Fibre Fortnight at ACAD next week
As you may know I am an instructor in the Fibre Program at the Alberta College of Art & Design. Each year we host a two week exhibition of student work along with various events celebrating what we do every day in one of the most dynamic and exciting Fibre Programs anywhere. This year, Fibre Fortnight will be held from March 5 to 16 in the main mall at ACAD. All events associated with Fibre Fortnight are free and open to the public.
Alongside our annual Miniature Show and Silent Auction that supports our visiting artist program, grad class and student-initiated projects (Yes, we are still accepting submissions until the end of the week!), we are hosting a few new and notable events this year that I wanted to share with you.
From March 6 to 8 from 11 am to 2 pm daily we will be Yarn Bombing the Candahar. The Candahar is an installation by Theo Sims that recreates
…a Belfast public house, named for a South Belfast Street. The installation is complete when staffed in collaboration with two Belfast bartenders Chris and Conor Roddy, who act as unscripted performers. The project fuses the authentic with fantasy, spectacle with stage, and at its heart acts as a catalyst for conversation, debate and dialogue – and a pint here and there.
With the permission of Sims and the IKG we will be wrapping the exterior of The Candahar with knitting and crochet. On March 8 from 530 to 730 pm, join us inside The Candahar for a discussion about yarn on International Women’s Day.
If you have been curious to see our new Jacquard loom in action you will definitely want to pop by room 417 on March 12 for a series of Jacquard weaving demonstrations running from 1 to 6 pm.
Ruth Scheuing at the loom
Finally I am very excited to share the news that Vancouver artist Ruth Scheuing will be visiting ACAD March 15 and 16. She will be giving a public artist talk the evening of March 15 from 630 to 8 pm in the ACAD Boardroom. Scheuing’s talk will coincide with the closing of the two week Fibre Fortnight Exhibition and the Miniature Show and SIlent Auction (Bidding closes after the artist talk at 815 pm).
Ruth Scheuing | Sogdian Child's Coat on the Karakoram Highway; 38°56' N 75°25' E, Jacquard weaving, 50 x 60"
Hope to see you sometime over the next few weeks. For a detailed list of Fibre Fortnight events click HERE.
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Papergirl Calgary Call for Volunteers
The Papergirl Calgary Project currently requires additional team leaders to implement the very first edition of the project right here in Calgary for August 2012.
* Are you passionate about art?
* Do you believe art should be an inclusive not exclusive venture?
* Are you a fan of gettin’ on yer bike and cycling the city?
* Would you like to take art out of the galleries and institutions and into the streets?
Then join the Papergirl Calgary Team and discover the “Art of Giving Art”!
Papergirl is an art project from Berlin. It has now grown into an international worldwide art distribution phenomenon.
Art should be accessible to everyone. That is the spirit behind Papergirl: a pedal-powered, volunteer based, community oriented art project. Papergirl redefines “street-art” and questions where the value and meaning lies in art: within the object itself, within its symbolic narrative, its economic prowess, its historical context and so on, and so forth.
What happens in a Papergirl project?
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A call for 2D artworks is made to the local Calgary community where the project is based.
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The artworks are collected and subsequently, every single submitted work is exhibited.
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The works are then rolled up, and delivered by Papergirls to the unsuspecting public a.k.a. the local community.
The Results of Papergirl?
Artists gain the opportunity to exhibit their work in a local gallery, AND have their work also given to a new collector. Papergirls get some great exercise and smiles due to their hard delivery work. Volunteers get the chance to work with fellow artists, and get involved in their local community. Hundreds of Calgarians receive a work of art, and become art collectors.
Papergirl Team Leader Roles Up for Grabs
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OMNISCIENT OWL – Papergirls’ well respected researcherHelp Papergirl locate the right connections and organisations to contact to promote the project.
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TREASURE TROVE TECHIE – Document the Papergirl Submissions ArchiveYou will be responsible for photographing, blogging and noting all Papergirl Submissions
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SOCIAL BUTTERFLY & QUEEN BEE – Community Outreach & Volunteer CoordinatorYou and your Papergirl Minions will go forth and spread the good word to local associations. You will create the buzz in the city on the project.
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DOCUMENTLIST EXTRAORDINAIRE – Document the Project Events & DistributionMake sure that everyone knows how amazing this project is by photographing and taking video of all the Papergirl Workshops and Events. Your handy work will be displayed on Papergirls Facebook, Blog and Youtube channels… but that is just the beginning!
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BIKE BLING LABORATORY SPECIALIST – Workshop assistantYour keen crafting knowledge will be put to the test when you help Papergirl Afficionados create amazing bling and ephemera for their bikes before the Papergirl Distribution Day.
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GRUBSTAKE MAVERICK – Fundraising supportYou will work closely with Sunny-Sunshine to procure “the goods” required for this project.
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GREGARIOUS ENOBLEUR – Public Relations and Marketing specialist
With an affinity to make everything you describe sound like magic, you will convince the public of Calgary, AND THE WORLD, of the many virtues of the Papergirl Mantra (The Art of Giving Art). They will become converted believers in the project, and join in the movement.
Contact us & join the movement!
EMAIL: Project Manager: Sunshine Frère papergirlcalgary@gmail.com
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ACAD Show and Sale
Nov 24th – 3 pm to 9 pm | Nov 25th – 1 pm to 9 pm | Nov 26 – 11 am to 5 pm
Visit ACAD’s website for more.
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Barbara Sutherland’s Aliquot + Hollowing/Burrowing
Barbara Sutherland | aliquot | felt, steel, wood
Barbara Sutherland | aliquot | felt, steel, wood
Barbara Sutherland | hollowing/burrowing | felt, steel
See more of Sutherland’s work HERE.
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CONSTRUCTIONS: Contemporary Norwegian Arts & Crafts
Anne Lene Løvhaug | Little Sister Happy
An exhibition of Norweigan craft at the Triangle Gallery (Upper Gallery) worth checking out before October 12…
Curated by Edith Lundebrekke of the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts in Oslo, Norway, this critical exhibition of contemporary Norwegian applied arts is based on the notion of “construction”: it refers to the act of construction and to the importance that the process of construction has in creating and embodying ideas. …
The exhibition features a broad spectrum of craft/art objects from formal to conceptual expressions, some with strong traditional roots and others that are more experimental, but all with a basis/roots in the centuries of Scandinavian tradition in applied arts. The exhibition addresses several topics, such as “Materials as both object and surface”, “Ornament as repetition and addition”, and “Insoluble fusion between form and idea” in the expressive body of work by 17 renowned contemporary Norwegian artists, designers and artisans.
Marit Helene Akslen | White Dress
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Building a History at the Triangle Gallery
Later this week, I am going to check out Building a History: Highlights of 20th Century Canadian Architecture at the Triangle Museum here in Calgary.
The exhibition features a great diversity of drawings from a period in Canadian history in which Canadian architecture found its own voice, and the subjects cut across many different categorical boundaries. Private residences, urban development schemes, cultural institutions, office towers, monuments, and decorative elements are represented by a variety of plans, elevations, sections, axonometric and aerial perspectives. Drawings represent proposed, existing or theoretical structures demonstrating both the creative struggle, the design process, and the finished work on a variety of artistic media including pencil, ink, wash, watercolour, gouache, on Mylar, tracing paper, vellum, and print.
You can read more about the exhibition in a recent article by Meaghan Baxter for Fast Forward.
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Marie Chouinard | The Golden Mean (Live)
Saw this show at the Showcase Grand Theatre last night and it was incredible. This was my first time seeing the dance company from Quebec. (Thank you Kristofer.) For more information about The Golden Mean and other work visit the Marie Chouinard Company’s website.
The Golden Mean (Live) is the first show in Theatre Junction‘s anniversary season.
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Shelley Ouellet | Johnston Falls
Shelley Ouellet’s new exhibition Johnston Falls…
…is based on a promotional image of the popular tourist destination and is built using more than 80,000 plastic craft beads. The beads, neither precious nor rare, are strung together to create a glittering image of the raging waterfall. Strands of beads spill out of the picture plane and pool onto the gallery floor. Johnston Falls, examines representations of the natural environment in terms of its relationships to local economies, national identities and global consumers. Central to this work is the interface between processes of production, representations of communities, and aesthetic vocabularies.
The exhibition continues at Stride Gallery until October 7, 2011.