Associates Book Club News
By Laura Dempsey
For our October meeting, we had chosen two books: On the Curve, the life and art of Sybil Andrews by Janet Nicol and Artists in their Studios: where art is born by Robert Amos.
To Talk With Others: A Yukon First Nations Conversation
To Talk With Others responds to the minutes of a meeting in August of 1977 between Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and five Yukon First Nations leaders regarding the then-approved Mackenzie Pipeline.
Show of a Little Tenderness: Tender Works at the AGGV
Video installations by artists Rachel Echenberg, Kerri Flannigan, Farheen HaQ, Elisa Harkins, Lisa Jackson, Tiffany Joseph, Chase Joynt, Amanda Strong and Nicholas Vandergugten, invite us to reflect on the different ways in which we might think about tenderness.
Is Food Art? Lessons from What Artists Bring to the Table
By Regan Shrumm, AGGV Assistant Curator
November marked the end of the artistic food workshops, What Artists Bring to the Table. During this series, a common question that kept on emerging was — how is making food an artistic practice?
Art as Practice: Buddhism’s Relationship with Place
By Nicole Achtymichuk, Curatorial Assistant at Legacy Art Galleries
The micro-exhibition, titled Art as Practice: Buddhism’s Relationship with Place combines historical Buddhist art from Asia with contemporary Buddhist-inspired art from Canada’s West Coast.
Beautiful Trouble: A Conversation Between Friends on Activism, Art and Buddhism
For the Closing Orion Keynote Conversation, we were given privy to an ongoing conversation between longtime friends – artist Suzanne Lacy and activist Jodie Evans. As they hashed out their differences in approach and opinion, lavished each other with praise and admiration, and critiqued their own areas of professional expertise, the engaged audience remained enthralled by two inspirational women, both practising Buddhists and both passionate about their work.
AGGV Collections Team & Travelling Shows
With the recent opening of To Talk With Others, organized by the Yukon Arts Centre, the AGGV Collections team discusses the challenges and processes that go into a travelling exhibition.
Art and Activism: Q&A with Persimmon Blackbridge
Persimmon Blackbridge is an innovative Canadian artist, writer, and activist, who rocked Vancouver in the early 80’s with ground-breaking works exploring lesbian sexual politics, disability culture and mental health.
Banff Centre for the Arts and New Acquisition
Nicole Stanbridge, AGGV Curator of Engagement, visited the Banff Centre for the Arts in October to meet artists participating in the EARTHED residency.
Chinoiserie or Just Plain Chinese?
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer
The popularity of Chinoiserie emerged in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, attributed to the European fascination with the exotic East. The imagined mysticism of China gave birth to an idealized world of idyllic landscapes and a life of luxury and relaxation.