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NMC Presents: Rock the Nation
Back by popular demand! National Music Centre will host matinee performances of Rock the Nation, a rousing musical revue produced by Annerin Productions, every Saturday and Sunday at Studio Bell. Rock the Nation is a celebration of over 50 years of Canadian music.
Lucia Hierro: Corotos y Ajuares
Corotos y Ajuares brings together a series of soft sculptures and a site-specific mural that focus on everyday items like disposable takeout containers, a paper menu, and a pair of aprons, reflecting Hierro’s experiences as an artist within the Dominican diaspora in Manhattan and the Bronx.
Juan Ortiz-Apuy: Tropicana
This exhibition by Juan Ortiz-Apuy is specially designed for kids and teenagers aged 6 – 14. It casts a critical eye on modern consumer society and advertising aimed at children, which often features animals, colours, sounds and shapes.
Leonard Suryajaya: Parting Gift for Quarantine Blues
Parting Gift for Quarantine Blues is a site-specific installation that cumulatively reflects on Suryajaya’s past, present and future relations. The installation weaves together images from his two most recent bodies of work: Quarantine Blues and Parting Gift.
Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky: Edelweiss
Edelweiss is an immersive and evolving exhibition that invites audiences into a dream-like reflection on memory, home and the passage of time. This installation continues Weppler and Mahovsky’s investigation of mimicry, alternative economies, communities and relationships that can form around familiar objects.
Glory, Blood and Power: Money and War through the Ages
An exhibition examining the interplay between money, power, and the capacity to wage war, starting in the ancient era and progressing through to the present, it shows the crucial importance of economic power, as the basic underpinning of all strategic considerations and strategies.
Harry Mitsuo Kiyooka: Artist. Educator. Activist (1926 – 2022).
Kiyooka’s hard-edge abstract period is his best known nationally and is a major feature of this retrospective. Nearly 70 years of art are celebrated and will cover other lesser-known subjects such as his portraiture, earlier work and his life-long preoccupation with Italy and especially La Serenissima: Venice.
BUMP Mural Tours
Planning a trip to Calgary or looking to rediscover the city? Explore Calgary’s open air street art gallery with an official guided mural tour led by the BUMP Festival. Learn insights from the artists and stories behind their works! Every Saturday and Sunday.
Cathy Daley: Gestures
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art presents Gestures, a solo exhibition of work created by acclaimed Canadian figurative artist, Cathy Daley, marking the two-year anniversary of her passing. The exhibition showcases iconic images of billowing black dresses, tutus, and high-heels. Check it out!
Urban Nature
Urban Nature can be understood as areas in urban environments that are home to plants and non-human animals. The Alberta Society of Artists presents the group exhibition Urban Nature featuring the work of Contextural, a community of textile artists.
SpEATchless
The Alberta Society of Artists presents the exhibition SpEATchless featuring the work of Alberta artist Kimberly Jones. SpEATchlessis combines diorama and miniature artistry with food themes to create surreal scenes and vignettes to provoke introspection about scale and size as well as our relationship with food and waste.
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.
Dark Paint Night (Neon painting)
This weekly event by Y Not Today promises to be a fun time in an environment where you can unleash your creativity and share laughs with new connections. Be sure to sign up!
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.
Selma Burke
Few know of Selma Burke, the Black American sculptor who played a major role in the Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1920s and 30s. Burke’s rarely-told story is brought to life in this world premiere by Calgary playwrights Maria Crooks and Caroline Russell-King.
PDD Fiber Art Collective Show
The show is a collaborative group exhibition that combines the work of the embroidery and rug hooking programs run within Prospect’s Persons with Development Disabilities (PDD) services. This body of work represents the spirit of collective fiber skill building and making brought together by two amazing groups of artists.
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Questions?
Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 118 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.
