Visual arts & new media

Aeris Osborne, the 2022 Alberta Artist-in-Residence will exhibit the Alberta Old Buildings With Augmented Reality Experiences in the City Of Red Deer's Viewpoint Gallery from July 5 to August 30, the opening night and artist talk on July 5 (Fri) from 6 pm to 8 pm.
Discover Alberta Old Buildings paintings series with AR created by Edmonton visual artist, the 2022 Alberta Artist-in-Residence/ Art Ambassador Aeris Osborne in the City Of Red Deer's Viewpoint Gallery. All 20 pieces of artwork combined Arts, heritage, and technology.

Since early 2022, Aeris traveled over 3600km to research and meet up with the 10 Alberta Old Buildings’ owners, directors, curators, staff, and volunteers. Indeed, it allows her to better understand each building’s existing structure, history, and story to enrich the creation.

Therefore, famous buildings included the Red Deer Cronquist House, Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Calgary Lougheed House, Edmonton’s Alberta Government House, Jasper Information Centre, Lake Agnes Tea Houses, other museums, a railway station other heritage sites.

In spring 2023, Aeris accommodated a technology Augmented Reality (AR) into her 20 pieces of artwork, ultimately unveiling her creative process video & research photos by simply scanning with the free downloadable app – Artivive.

Exhibition Date:

July 5 to Aug 30, 2024

Opening Night & Artist Talk:
July 5, 2024 (6 to 8 pm)

Location:

Viewpoint Gallery 5205 48 Ave, Red Deer
Viewpoint Gallery Website:

www.reddeer.ca/recreation-and-culture/arts-and-culture/art-galle...

In 1924 Lauren Harris and AY Jackson traveled to Jasper to paint the Canadian Rocky Mountain landscape.

For 2024 we will revisit the sites they made famous through their artwork with Author & Historian Lisa Christensen, the perfect thing to do for Culture Days!!

Friday, September 13

Jasper Museum
Talk and Film, Where the Universe Sings

Saturday, September 14

Take a boat ride on Maligne Lake with Lisa and see the peaks made famous by Lawren Harris.
5:15 pm
$75 per person (35 tickets available!!)

Sunday, September 15

A Talk and Dinner with Lisa - at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge where Harris and Jackson stayed in 1924!!
Chef is preparing a special menu.
$120 per person

We have also received copies of A HIKER's GUIDE TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ART OF LAWREN HARRIS. You can get a signed copy on the weekend from Lisa! $33

Tickets: jasper-community-habitat-for-the-arts.square

Info: www.travelalberta.com/events/where-the-universe-sings-20824

The image you see is also a gift to those who take in the boat ride and the dinner. Limited edition of 100 8x10 matted prints to celebrate 1924-2024! Prints will sell for $75.00.

Image permission from the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery Kingston Ontario. Lawren Stewart Harris. Athabasca Valley, Jasper Park, oil on masonite. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston. Gift of Agnes M. Benidickson, Chancellor Emeritus, Queen's University, 2011 (56-009).

Photographer: Bernard Clark.

The AFA is supporting a two-year research project conducted by Stone-Olafson on current engagement of arts audiences in Alberta. We are pleased to share the second set of results ("Wave 2").

This work was developed for the arts sector exclusively and is designed to provide specific, relevant, and reliable facts to support the leaders in the arts sector as they seek to understand their audiences and grow attendance.

Key topic areas for Wave 2 include:

• Exploring arts audiences' engagement and general perceptions
• Understanding audiences’ preferences for content, programming, and ticket purchasing
• Understanding opportunities for increasing support and engagement through fund development

Results

Watch the team from Stone-Olafson report on the findings from the first wave of research in the Spotlight on Arts Audiences project

Download the reports:

• Alberta
• Calgary Report
• Edmonton Report
• Regional Alberta

About the project

The AFA has partnered with the Rozsa Foundation, Calgary Arts Development, Calgary Foundation, Edmonton Arts Council, and Edmonton Community Foundation, to support the Spotlight on Arts Audiences research project. The work will survey arts-inclined audiences in Calgary, Edmonton, and across the province to provide data that is useful and timely for arts leaders and organizations three times per year over the next two years.

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Join artist Alex Turgeon for this special hands-on concrete poetry workshop. Visual, phonetic, and kinetic, concrete poetry emphasizes non linguistic elements such as typeface and word placement. Using Letraset style transfer letters, attendees will experiment with analog materials to create their own concrete poems. 

This workshop is $10 to attend or free for Gallery members.

Space is limited so we encourage you to register in advance.

To register, please email hkehoe@saag.ca. You can pay for your spot ahead of time at the desk or on the day of the workshop. 

This program is recommended for participants ages 15+.

If you have any questions please contact Heather Kehoe, Program & Event Coordinator.

Join us at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery on Saturday, July 6 from 7 to 9 pm to celebrate the opening of our newest exhibitions Civic Floor by Sung Tieu, Waste Land by Alex Turgeon, and Soft enough to slip through by Amanda Chwelos, along with new Shop at SAAG feature artist Moon + Maple Handmade by Jessica Colley.

Enjoy the artworks and refreshments, mingle with the community and meet the artists.

The opening reception is free for Gallery Members or with regular admission.

www.saag.ca/events

Join exhibiting artists Sung Tieu, Alex Turgeon, and Amanda Chwelos for an in-person panel discussion about their practices and new exhibitions.

Saturday, July 6, 2 -3 pm

www.saag.ca/events/articulations-with-sung-tieu-alex-turgeon-and-amanda-chwelos

Sung Tieu

Sung Tieu (b.1987, Hai Duong, Vietnam) lives and works in Berlin. She has held solo exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Bonn; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2021); Nottingham Contemporary; and Haus der Kunst, Munich (2020). Her work was included in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo and has been exhibited at Museion, Bolzano; Kunsthalle Basel (2021); Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt; GAMeC Museum, Bergamo; and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2020). Tieu is the recipient of the Frieze Artist Award 2021 and the 2021 ars viva Prize. She also received the audience award for the 2021 Preis der Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

Alex Turgeon

Alex Turgeon (b. Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates formal relationships between poetry and architecture. His overall work focuses on how the structures of language and architecture inform the queer subject as built environment. Turgeon’s practice finds interdisciplinary form through concrete poetry, sculpture, drawing, video, and performance, embodying a radical ethos rooted in the methodologies of printed matter—framed as a distributive tool and political method for making and occupying space. He received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an MFA from Rutgers University. His work has been presented in part at the Tate (Liverpool); Akademie der Künste and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin); Kunsthalle Zürich; Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius); and as part of “Poetry as Practice,” an online exhibition hosted by Rhizome and the New Museum (New York). In 2022-2023 Turgeon received a Junge Akademie Fellowship from the Akademie der Künste, Berlin and has participated as an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, (2011), Rupert (2015), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (2017), Autodesk Technology Center (2019) and is a forthcoming resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2024-2025). His exhibition Waste Land at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery marks the artist’s first institutional exhibition in Canada.

Amanda Chwelos

Amanda Chwelos (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Edmonton-amiskwaciwâskahikan. Her work aims to understand complexities of her own identity and existence through an exploration of themes surrounding introspection, banality, anxiety, and acceptance. Driven by a material-based practice, she works primarily in drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Amanda holds a diploma in Fine Art from MacEwan University (2017) as well as a Bachelor of Fine Art in Art and Design from the University of Alberta (2019). Since graduating, Amanda has remained an active member in both the Edmonton arts community and the broader Albertan artist community. Her work has been subject to many group exhibitions including The Mirror, The Echo, The Panopticon (2023) at The Esplanade Arts & Heritage Center in Medicine Hat, Fully Realized (2022) at Latitude 53 in Edmonton, and Salvage (2022) at Lowlands Project Space in Edmonton. In 2022, Amanda exhibited her first solo exhibition titled Easter Eggs for Conversation at Soft Gallery in Edmonton, AB.