Exhibitions
Coins of Jesus: Money and Religion in the Ancient World
March 3, 2017 – September 7, 2017
Coins of Jesus highlights the Judeo-Christian coinage in the Numismatics Collection of Nickle Galleries, covering a unique geographic area and a historic period of cultural and ideological diversity. Beginning with Persian Imperial coins and Phoenici…
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SPEAKING NOTES: Nickle Galleries’ Recent Acquisitions
June 18, 2017 – August 18, 2017
Organized from the collection of Nickle Galleries, curated by Michele Hardy with assistance from Yara Saegh Since opening its doors to the public in 1979, Nickle Galleries has benefited from the generosity of countless individuals who have donated pr…
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PRESSED: Four Decades of Prints by D. Helen Mackie, RCA
June 18, 2017 – July 28, 2017
University of Calgary Alumna, member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Artists, and well-known and admired printmaker Helen Mackie has gifted Nickle Galleries an outstanding legacy. In 2017, Mackie donated one of every print series she created over he…
Read MoreMIND THE GAP
April 20, 2017 – May 19, 2017
MIND THE GAP is the 2017 Department of Art graduating exhibition organized and curated by students participating in the Honors Program. It presents a variety of artistic works that these students have produced over the course of the year. The curricu…
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John Hall: Travelling Light A forty-five-year survey of paintings
January 26, 2017 – April 29, 2017
John Hall is renowned as a painter of detailed, highly realistic works that reflect his travel, relationships and stuff of life. Born in Edmonton in 1943, Hall spent much of his career in Calgary, moving to Kelowna in 1999. He studied at the Alberta…
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HOME ECONOMICS 150 years of Canadian Hooked Rugs
January 26, 2017 – April 8, 2017
HOME ECONOMICS: 150 years of Canadian Hooked Rugs explores the evolution, creative and social dimensions of hooked rugs, a uniquely Canadian folk art. For over 150 years, as long as Canada is old, the craft and commerce of rug hooking has been an in…
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GENERATIONS: 50 YEARS OF ART AT THE UNIVERSITY AND BEYOND
September 23, 2016 – December 17, 2016
It was a radical idea – but more than fifty years ago when it was proposed that Calgary’s new university train and graduate artists, the reaction was disbelief. Nevertheless, the city’s creative life was about to get a lot more interesting. In 1966-6…
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DaveandJenn: A Natural History of Islands
October 14, 2016 – December 17, 2016
DaveandJenn: A Natural History of Islands presents recent sculpture, a way of working that departs from their earlier landscape paintings. Their sculpture mixes fact with fiction, mythology with history, science with speculation just as readily as th…
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Robin Arseneault: ONLOOKERS
October 14, 2016 – December 17, 2016
Robin Arseneault’s visual language takes many forms. With ONLOOKERS, she explores found material, fabricates objects and constructs images. She pays close attention to material qualities and formal aspects, with drawing always at the heart of the pro…
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Money Through the Ages
August 26, 2016 – November 22, 2016
Money has a long history. Its development took thousands of years across the world. It has taken many different forms, from natural objects, to scarce metals and paper to virtual money. This exhibition explores the origins of money, cultural interact…
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