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Behind the scenes at the Art Gallery

trevor.kenney — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:40:46 +0000

Drop by and get a glimpse of all the work that goes on behind the scenes at the U of L Art Gallery as they host an Open House, Oct. 13-16.

"We invite everyone to come and see what we do to care for artworks in the collection. Gallery staff can answer your questions, you can find out about our latest conservation project and try out our new website and research database," says Dr. Josephine Mills, director/curator. "We'll also launch the new publication Snap, Crackle, Pop."

If you've ever wondered why you are not supposed to touch artwork, this is your opportunity to find out.

"We'll have stations set up with several options for looking at works, materials and images of the conservation process. It'll give people a sense of the scope of the assessment and treatment for conservation as well as our general gallery operations," says Mills. "It will also help people understand how the Art Gallery supports Art History/Museum Studies students."

Gallery preparator, Jane Edmundson, looks forward to showing visitors the processes used in the Gallery's conservation project.

"Many works in the collection, such as watercolours, drawings and prints are done on paper," she says. "Our job involves repairing and stabilizing the works using the most up-do-date techniques. These methods often change or evolve over time. For example, we now have a new framing procedure. Many of the works in the U of L collection are very old and we do our best to preserve them by integrating new conservation processes."

The new digital collection database provides students, researchers and the curious with a means to learn about all the work in the collection.

"The complete art collection is now viewable online. The database has more than 13,000 catalogued works, making it one of the most impressive in Canada," says Edmundson.

Times for the Art Gallery Open House are: Oct. 13, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Oct. 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Oct. 15, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Oct. 16, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Visit the Art Gallery website at www.uleth.ca/artgallery

Art Gallery Open House

trevor.kenney — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:59:12 +0000

Drop by and get a glimpse of all the work that goes on behind the scenes at the U of L Art Gallery as they host an Open House, Oct. 13-16.

If you've ever wondered why you are not supposed to touch artwork, this is your opportunity to find out.

"We'll have stations set up with several options for looking at works, materials and images of the conservation process. It'll give people a sense of the scope of the assessment and treatment for conservation as well as our general gallery operations," says Mills. "It will also help people understand the how the Art Gallery supports Art History/Museum Studies students."

Gallery preparator, Jane Edmundson, looks forward to showing visitors the processes used in the Gallery's conservation project.

The new digital collection database provides students, researchers and the curious with a means to learn about all the work in the collection.

"The complete art collection is now viewable online. The database has more than 13,000 catalogued works, making it one of the most impressive in Canada," says Edmundson.

Times for the Art Gallery Open House are: Oct. 13, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Oct. 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Oct. 15, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Oct. 16, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Visit the Art Gallery website at www.uleth.ca/artgallery

U of L Gallery plays its part in Artwalk

trevor.kenney — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:10:31 +0000

Culture, community and creativity abound at the annual Artwalk event, to be held throughout the city, Sept. 17 to 18. And, no art festival in southern Alberta is complete without the participation of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge.

"The U of L Art Gallery is one of the few venues outside the downtown core during Artwalk," says Jane Edmundson, curatorial assistant. "We participate to encourage visitors to come enjoy our exhibitions and activities, and to provide yet another good reason to cross the river and see what the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ has to offer."

A map of all the venues participating in Artwalk is available at the U of L Art Gallery, which joins in the festivities on Sept. 18 with an exhibition entitled, Jamelie Hassan's At The Far Edge of Words, and a hands-on Culture Vulture activity for the whole family. The Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

In addition to viewing the exhibition, art enthusiasts of all ages are invited to participate in creating a project of epic proportions that allows visitors to respond to the larger ideas that Hassan explores in her work.

"We are creating a mandala, to cover the entire floor of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Hall Atrium in the Centre for the Arts," says Rosalind Jeffrey, Culture Vulture program co-ordinator. Using archival photos from Lethbridge's past, text and other materials, Jeffrey anticipates the mandala's colour and size will be awe-inspiring.

"Mandalas are used in multiple cultures and may be familiar to people in Lethbridge because the Buddhist monks made a sand mandala a few years ago at the Lethbridge Centre," she says.

The U of L Art Gallery project is inspired by the work of Hassan, who uses cultural symbolism to speak about place.

"Helping to create the mandala is a creative way for everyone to engage with the overlap of different cultures and explore a time honoured, non-permanent art practice," she says.

Instead of creating an individual artwork to take home and keep, participants help make a collective project that will be swept up and then disappear at the end of the day.

"What stays with people is their memory and experience of having helped create a piece of art that reflects Lethbridge's past and its significance in our world, rather than a physical object," says Jeffrey.

Collage aux folles in Christou Gallery

trevor.kenney — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:59:29 +0000

The Helen Christou Gallery exposes compelling layers of the U of L Art Collection with Collage aux folles, on display from June 11 to Aug. 28 in the Helen Christou Gallery.

The exhibition explores collage as a formative creative process and elevated fine art technique using enticing selections from both Canadian and American artists.

"The collage process embodies the ideas of postmodernism more perfectly than perhaps any other in contemporary art making," says exhibition curator Jane Edmundson. "Though the technique is as ancient as paper itself, collage rose to fine art status in the early 20th century when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque employed it in their Cubist compositions to heighten the visual collision between media and the surface plane of the canvas."

"The technique continued to be popular with Dada artists, who created the first photomontages that have since become ubiquitous in the current digital age of Photoshop pastiche," she says. "Collage's sustained popularity with conceptual artists has not been limited to visual media; cinematic montage and the samples and remixes of popular music also demonstrate how this process of appropriated layering is prevalent in our daily lives."

Featuring works by Ron Kitai, Deborah Shackleton, Takao Tanabe, Tony Urquhart and Kim Kozzi of Fast Wurms, this exhibition showcases a wide example of collage styles and forms.

"The artwork I chose ranges from quick sketches to fully realized objects, demonstrating how collage has been utilized as both a formative creative process and elevated fine art technique," says Edmundson. "While some make use of found objects or re-appropriated print images, others focus on overlapping texture, colour and shape to arrive at a more abstract final product."

To learn more visit: www.uleth.ca/artgallery

Culture Vulture celebrates the heart

trevor.kenney — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:28:39 +0000

Families, students and art enthusiasts are invited to swoop in to the U of L Art Gallery for Culture Vulture Saturday on Feb. 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

"This Culture Vulture Saturday is presented in conjunction with our current exhibit, Snap, Crackle, Pop," says Jane Edmundson, preparator and curatorial assistant for the Art Gallery. "It also corresponds nicely with Valentine's Day, with lots of red and pink materials – it's going to be fun!"

Creative possibilities are endless for printmaking and collages, which are the projects for the day.

"It's free to attend," Edmundson says. "The Gallery provides all the supplies and there will be refreshments and projects in the Atrium. The gallery is also open so visitors can explore the exhibition, and we'll have staff on hand to answer all your questions."

What a perfect way to spend a Saturday at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Art Gallery, where admission is always free.

At the Gallery

trevor.kenney — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:04:14 +0000

Walking through the Helen Christou Gallery you come face-to-face with unique portraiture, which is the focus of Head Shots, an exhibition on now through Oct. 23.

"Portraiture is the recurring theme of the U of L Art Collection," says exhibition curator, Jane Edmundson. "As long as artists have been making art, portraits have continued to be relevant."

From traditional to eccentric, the exhibit showcases a wide interpretation of faces.

"People are naturally drawn to pictures of people, from celebrities to strangers, and sometimes portraits of strangers can be more interesting to look at," Edmundson says.

Head Shots also features a local celebrity, prominently displayed and impossible to miss: The Milk Maid.

"The Milk Maid is a retro commercial sign, rescued from obscurity and loaned by a private collector," Edmundson adds. "She's an authentic 1950's advertisement, which has been displayed at the Trianon Gallery and at the Tongue 'n Groove."

Keep an eye out for this intriguing exhibition.

Lasting Images - Head Shots

trevor.kenney — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:35:41 +0000

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself."

- Oscar Wilde

When combing through an archive as diverse and eclectic as the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Art Collection, connections and patterns between multiple artworks often rise to the surface. Artists working in various time periods, with a wide range of media and from distinct aesthetic backgrounds, are still regularly drawn to depicting similar subject matter. The theme of portraiture is one of these recurring ideas; our contemporary digital snapshots of friends and family are akin to the allegorical figures in Renaissance paintings, or Caesar's profile on an ancient Roman coin. Artistic renderings of people evoke feelings of familiarity in the most basic human-to-human activity: eye contact and facial recognition. Whether the person depicted is well known or a stranger, the viewer is drawn in by the comfortable symmetry of eyes, nose and mouth and can feel a kinship with the subject without knowing them in the flesh.

A selection of portraits from the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Art Collection will be featured in the exhibition Head Shots, on display in the Helen Christou Gallery from Sept. 11 to Oct. 23, 2009.

Jane Edmundson, ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Art Gallery

Culture Vulture

trevor.kenney — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:29:58 +0000

Culture Vulture Saturdays at the U of L Art Gallery return for another art-inspired year.

This hands-on program gives art-lovers of all ages the opportunity to create personalized projects and connect with the exhibitions at the Gallery.

"Our first Culture Vulture program is set for Saturday, Sept. 19," Jane Edmundson, the Gallery's preparator and curatorial assistant, says. "We'll be preparing a sasquatch-themed activity in conjunction with our Ladies Sasquatch exhibition and the Allied Art Council's city-wide Art Walk festival."

She adds that everyone is invited to become a Culture Vulture, from young children to adults.

Culture Vulture Saturdays are scheduled one Saturday every month between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Projects from past years have included printmaking, button making and collages. All materials are provided and admission to the gallery is always free.

Events Calendar

trevor.kenney — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:58:16 +0000

Lectures

June 16
Monthly Lunch and Learn
How is your financial health? Budgeting and financial planning in these challenging economic times.
Money mentor Connie-Marie Riedlhuber discusses budgeting and developing a spending plan in today's economy.
12:05-12:55 p.m., L1050

Performances

June 19
For the Love of Music
A concert of opera, flamenco and piano music presented by the Flying Doctors of Canada and Doctors of Tomorrow.
8-10 p.m., Southminster United Church

Miscellaneous

Vascular Screening Assessment
The Wellness area, along with the U of L Health Centre, and the Health Sciences faculty will be reviving the Vascular Screening Assessment program in the fall.

The previous VRA pilot project was held in the spring of 2008 and was very successful in helping employees involved assess their current health status as well as possibly reveal hidden risks.

The project team is currently in the planning stages and will be assessing program capacity in the next month. Our goal is to continue the program on an ongoing basis. We will be extending the invitation to those involved in the prior screening pilot for follow up assessments and will have the capacity for a number of new applicants as well. For more information, contact Suzanne McIntosh, Wellness Coordinator at 5217 or via e-mail at: suzanne.mcintosh@uleth.ca

Gallery News
For most of June the U of L Main Gallery is closed for a bit of a 'face-lift,' which includes new flooring, new lighting and refinished walls.

The gallery reopens on June 26 with The Body Multiple – Figurative Photographs from the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Art Collection.

"This exhibition examines the human body as captured by the camera lens, and disseminated by the replicated nature of photographic prints," says Jane Edmundson, curator of the exhibition. "A parallel can be drawn between the multiplicity of film-based photographic processes and the subjective perspective of each individual viewer."

The Body Multiple features works by artists including David Buchan, Sorel Cohen, Don Corman, and Eldon Garnet.

Gallery News

trevor.kenney — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:12:52 +0000

Annual Juried Student Exhibition

Each year a prominent Canadian arts professional is invited to jury an exhibition of undergraduate student work. This year it will take juror Jen Budney a long week of studio visits and talks with students to select the work that will fill the U of L Main Gallery from Mar. 13 – Apr. 9. The exhibition opens on Mar. 13 at 8 p.m. with a reception and the presentation of the Visual Arts Awards presentation.

"This is a great opportunity for students to gain the professional experience of having their work judged by someone new to their work and having it presented in an exhibition," says Josephine Mills, director/curator.

This year's juror is Jen Budney, the associate curator at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Sask. She has held previous positions as curator at the Kamloops Art Gallery, program officer in the Visual Arts at the Canada Council, artistic director of Gallery 101 (Ottawa), and news editor of Flash Art magazine. Budney has a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MA in Anthropology from Carleton ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ, where her thesis focused on racial attitudes and access/participation in Brazilian contemporary art.

Serendipity

Serendipity is the theme of the annual exhibition of work by the U of L Dept. of Art faculty and staff and the U of L Art Gallery staff. The exhibition is in the Trianon Gallery from Mar. 7 – Apr. 18 and the gallery is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibition provides the opportunity to show the range of work produced by the artists who work and teach at the
U of L.

First Faculty Work Featured

First Faculty is the next exhibition in the Helen Christou Gallery, Mar. 20 – May 29. Curated by Jane Edmundson, First Faculty presents the contribution to the development of Lethbridge's art community made by the founding and early faculty in the Art Department.

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