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Nickle Galleries launches fall season with Calgary’s celebrated artist Chris Cran

Exhibition focuses on a new way of visual storytelling of artist’s work

How ancient stones worked like cryptocurrency

Rare Yap stone money donated to Nickle Galleries; come learn about it Sept. 19

Mireille Perron’s “Glass Menagerie” explores decorative glass, museology, and the natural world.

Mireille Perron's new exhibition, "The Anatomy of a Glass Menagerie: Altaglass" curated by the University of Calgary's Christine Sowiak, is playful in its celebration of decorative glass figures, but there is no shortage of conceptual inquiry into the territory of art history and museology.

The Anatomy of a Glass Menagerie: Altaglass, UCalgary News

New exhibition in Nickle Galleries plays with science, photography, and history of craft in Alberta. Mireille Perron is a Calgary-based visual artist, writer and scholar. Her practice and research projects (typically under the auspices of the Laboratory of Feminist Pataphysics, which she founded) are conceived at the crossroads of scientific, sensual/sensorial material, social, personal and collective imaginaries.

CBC EyeOpener’s Elizabeth Withey interviews Lyndal Osborne

Elizabeth Withey, CBC Radio, October 29, 2018.

CANOPY: A writing project and public reading

All the works read at CANOPY will be inspired by two exhibitions currently open at Nickle Galleries: EACH PAINTED DOCUMENT – Mark Dicey, and Walter May: Look Again. This will be a roaming reading, with each work read beside the piece of art that inspired it.

Your guide to navigating Indigenous art on campus

Nicola Waugh, University Relations, UToday, April 4, 2018

University of Calgary mourns passing of Calgary artist, alumna, friend and donor

Jennifer Sowa, Libraries and Cultural Resources, UToday, March 21, 2018

Walter May: Look Again, Galleries West

Calgary artist Walter May’s retrospective, Look Again, invites visitors to do just that with a rare glimpse of some 50 individual works and series from his quirky and prolific practice. The University of Calgary’s Nickle Galleries has mounted a wide-ranging show that includes sculptures, drawings and photographs from the 1970s onward by May, a longtime instructor at the Alberta College of Art and Design.

Nickle Galleries finds new home, Gauntlet News

After two years of construction and relocation, the Nickle Galleries reopened in the Taylor Family Digital Library on October 5.