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Kyrgyz Textiles: Chiy, June Cashmere (blog)

A guest blog post written by Michele Hardy, PhD, curator of a current exhibit on Kyrgyz textiles at Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary. In this post, Michele introduces us to Kyrgyz chiy, reed screens created for many uses in nomadic living.

HARRY MITSUO KIYOOKA – ARTIST. EDUCATOR. ACTIVIST, Preview Magazine

While surveying some seven decades of the art of Harry Kiyooka – from the lively, hard-edge abstractions for which he is best known to his segues into portraiture and landscape-based abstraction – this exhibition also recognizes his educational accomplishments and cultural advocacy. The former include his 27 years of teaching at the University of Calgary while the latter encompasses his role in co-founding the Calgary Contemporary Arts Society and opening the Triangle Gallery of Visual Art.

Kiyooka honoured for 70 years of trailblazing in art, Calgary Public Art

One of the city’s most significant contributors to the growth of Calgary’s contemporary art scene is currently being honoured through an exhibition at the Nickle Galleries.

Nickle Galleries launches winter season with 1st comprehensive survey of the work of Harry Kiyooka, UToday

Celebrated painter and printmaker was known for building community within Calgary’s art scene

RCNA numismatic collection available at Nickle Galleries, Canadian Coin News

For decades, University of Calgary’s Nickle Galleries has had the largest and most important academic coin collection in Canada, the Nickle Numismatic Collection.

Canadian curator featured speaker at California forum, Canadian Coin News

Marina Fischer, curator of Numismatics at the Nickle Galleries on the campus of the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta. presented a PowerPoint on the Imperial Roman Coinage of Augustus Caesar, and its influences on coinage thereafter.

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame. CBC Radio Calgary

We look at a new book diving into the history of textiles on the Prairies, with the curator of Nickle Galleries at the U of C.

UCalgary acquires extensive library once held by Royal Canadian Numismatic Association, UToday

Collection enhances Nickle Galleries holdings of 23,000 artifacts of coins and paper money

CBC interviews curator about new King effigy, Canadian Coin News

Marina Fischer, curator of the Numismatic Collection of the Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary, was recently interviewed by CBC Radio.

King Charles on Canadian coins coming soon, CBC Radio

The Story From Here (from 8 min) Marina Fischer on the new King Charles coins.