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Nickle Galleries celebrates the work of Calgary artist Mark Mullin

September 27, 2019

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

Mark Mullin

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

September 23, 2019

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

Red Man/Black Cartoon, 1990, from Stripe Paintings, oil and enamel on plywood. Collection of the artist

How ancient stones worked like cryptocurrency

September 14, 2019

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

Dave Brown, LCR Photo Services

New exhibition in Nickle Galleries plays with science, photography, and history of craft in Alberta

February 15, 2019

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Dave Brown, LCR Photo Services

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

February 14, 2019

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.

Taygan Crapo

CBC EyeOpener’s Elizabeth Withey interviews Lyndal Osborne

November 15, 2018

Elizabeth Withey, CBC Radio, October 29, 2018.

Dave Brown, LCR Photo Services

CANOPY: A writing project and public reading

April 5, 2018

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

April 4, 2018

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

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

March 21, 2018

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

Walter May: Look Again

February 13, 2018

A review by Lissa Robinson, Galleries West, published February 11, 2018.