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Archive photo exhibit captures Indigenous strength, connections in difficult times – CBC News

A new Nickle Galleries exhibit, Turning the Lens: Indigenous Archive Project, is a sampling of the work of Rosemary Gilliat Eaton and Arnold Lupson. The writer, journalist and cultural activist who pulled them all together says he walked away with a deeper understanding as well.

Exhibition on Indigenous Archival Project on display at Nickle Galleries – UCalgary News

Turning the Lens: Indigenous Archive Project is the third exhibition in the fall series at Nickle Galleries, opened on Oct. 3. The exhibition’s goals are manifold — this is a photography and history exhibition, a naming project, a social media campaign and an opportunity to contemplate the role and importance of galleries, museums and archives across Canada.

Chris Cran empties his vault — mostly — for new career-spanning exhibition at Nickle Galleries

After working as an artist for nearly 50 years, your storage gets pretty tight.

Nickle Galleries celebrates the work of Calgary artist Mark Mullin

New exhibition explores the question of art as an essential means of communication

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.