This free resource complements the exhibition Munnings – The War Years, providing rich contextual information about Munnings, his art, and his career as a war artist. The site includes links to 9 teacher resources connecting the exhibition with The Alberta Curriculum, especially for visual arts, social studies and language arts grades 10-12. It includes a […]
In 2009 Nickle Galleries (then The Nickle Arts Museum) hosted Reeds and Wool: Patterned Screens of Central Asia, a travelling exhibition organized by the Kaufman Museum at Bethel College in Kansas, USA. The exhibition featured rare examples of Kyrgyz textiles collected by Dr. John Sommers and donated to the Kaufman for the purposes of an […]
Visualising Colonialism: British-Indian Textile Labels in the Collection of Nickle Galleries highlights a unique collection of commercial textile and dye labels used during the British colonisation of India. Displaying a unique chapter in the history of printing technology, global trade, and the Industrial Revolution, this digital exhibition offers insight into artistic, cultural, and commercial developments […]
Drawing on the rich holdings of Nickle Galleries’ numismatic collections, Coinage of the Ancient Greek World traces the early history of coinage from its invention in the 7th century BCE through to coins minted by Alexander the Great. Curated by: Brittany DeMone, PhD and Marina Fischer, MA, Curator of Numismatics, Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary […]