Exhibitions
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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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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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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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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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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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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2016 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions
August 8, 2016 – August 26, 2016
MFA Thesis Exhibitions of Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, Anne Procter, Vince Allen Kogut, Blake Chorley.
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Being There: Mentors and Memories
June 24, 2016 – July 29, 2016
One of the earliest art works to be donated to the University of Calgary is a delicate wood cut print by Walter J. Phillips, Venus and the Priest (1930). It was accessioned in 1968—eleven years before The Nickle Arts Museum existed. Since opening in…
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Trans Trans
May 27, 2016 – June 10, 2016
Trans Trans: Transgender Histories Between Germany and the United States, 1882-1966 Trans Trans explores a network of individuals in Germany and the United States from the turn of the twentieth century into the 1950s who profoundly shaped transgender…
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