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Dr. Leah Clark: Understanding early modern art as a transcultural, sensorial experience, Gauntlet

On Feb. 5, 2026, the Nickle Galleries in the Taylor Family Digital Library hosted a presentation by Dr. Leah Clarke titled, “Collecting in the Early Modern World: Approaches, Methodologies, and Future Directions.” This presentation raised these and other thought-provoking questions about collecting, artistic practices, accessibility and intercultural connection.

Nickle Galleries patches an exhibit together with Heather Leier’s: Practice Pinny, Gauntlet

The University of Calgary’s in-house art gallery, Nickle Galleries, recently opened two new exhibits in early February. Visitors can see Yvonne Mullock’s Why don’t you… and Heather Leier’s self titled Heather Leier: Practice Pinny beginning Feb. 5.

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, (book review), RACAR 50.2

For much of the twentieth century, textiles remained at the margins of art history, regarded as craft rather than modernist innovation. In recent years, however, scholar-ship and exhibitions have begun to reframe weaving and fibre practices as central to stories of modernism and cultural production. Both the exhibition Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960–2000 and its substantial catalogue help to crystallize this shift.

Heather Leier: Practice Pinny, Preview

Heather Leier's exhibition centres on printmaking as an embodied practice informed by physical gestures, tools and studio rituals.

Art That Misbehaves, The Scene

Yvonne Mullock’s art loves to misbehave. Whether she’s transforming underwear into ceramic sculptures, collaborating on a printmaking project with a horse, or orchestrating an oversized game of Pick Up Sticks with a loose assembly of dogs, Mullock approaches art with mischief, intent, and an eye for the absurd.

Reed Screens in the House of Light, Ornamentum (Online Content)

The Story of one Persian reed screen's journey from Iran to Canada A recent exhibition at Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary, Canada featured some of the oldest, largest and most intriguing carpets and textiles from our permanent collection. Prominently displayed in the Nickle was a Kurdish reed screen or chikh, recently donated and publicly exhibited for the first time. This magnificent work was gifted by the children of Violette Dehghani and Mehdi Ebrahimian, in loving memory of their parents.

Oil paintings on the Western Front: Munnings — The War Years, The Gauntlet

The War Years is a part of a travelling exhibition developed by the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, in partnership with the Munnings Art Museum and The Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation.

Munnings: The War Years, CBC The Homestretch

The role of horses in the First World War is on display now, at a travelling exhibition at the University of Calgary. "Munnings: The War Years" features the work of Sir Alfred Munnings He was a renowned horse painter and war artist, and in 1918 he spent time with the Canadian Cavalry Brigade - and the Canadian Forestry Corps. Dick Averns is the managing curator of the Founders' Gallery at the Military Museums, and helped put this show together.

New exhibit at Nickle Galleries explores wartime art, CTV News

A new exhibition featuring the work of Sir Alfred Munnings opens at Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary Thursday afternoon.

The art of money, Calgary Journal

When it comes to money, it’s a matter of livelihood. And it’s hard to connect art and money as a medium of artistic expression rather than an economic one, especially when squeezing pennies is the new normal. Who can afford to admire the new artwork in bills?