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Giving Day Returns: Support Nickle Galleries’ Programs!

Giving Day 2023 Gifts to the Nickle Galleries Exhibitions and Programs Fund will extend further opportunities for students; support the cost of exhibitions; supplement the cost of programs and publications related to exhibitions; and augment acquisitions of visual art, numismatics, and textiles for Nickle collections. Your support will serve both the communities we are so proud to be part of – the University of Calgary and the community that surrounds it.

Governor General award highlights multi-faceted aspect of Métis artist, Windspeaker.com

“Sometimes you want to be among your own. We’re working things out. I call this ‘irreconcilable spaces of Indigeneity’… You’re not always explaining everything. You’re getting on with it.” —David Garneau

University of Calgary champions art and culture through campus museum , UToday

Nickle Galleries’ free programming connects visitors with artists for a transformative learning experience

Calgary club, museum partner for symposium, Canadian Coin News

The University of Calgary’s Nickle Galleries has teamed up with the local Calgary Numismatic Society for a free two-day symposium, “Power, Identity and Alexander the Great.”

After Holbein Turkish carpets woven with fascinating yet ambiguous histories, Galleries West

Renaissance paintings often show grand interiors with lavish furnishings, sometimes including beautifully patterned Turkish carpets. While few carpets survive from that era, historians can study them in paintings by artists like Hans Holbein the Younger. The German-born 16th-century artist popularized the ornate carpets, desirable symbols of wealth and power in Europe. Some styles are even known as “Holbein carpets.”

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000, Selvedge Issue III

Calgary based artist Barbara Sutherland reviews Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernims and the Expanded Frame at Nickle Galleries.

The painter with the pen: UCalgary alum claims Métis space in the art world, UToday

New Nickle Galleries exhibition highlights David Garneau’s remarkable expression of ideas and history

Prairie Interlace: An Exhibition of 20th Century Canadian Textile Art, Digits & Threads

“Some of these works haven’t been seen for decades.” So says Dr. Michele Hardy, curator of Prairie Interlace, an exhibition partnership between Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary and MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina.

Art to See in 2023 A sneak peek at upcoming shows across the country, Galleries West

In a survey exhibition at Calgary’s Nickle Galleries, David Garneau documents his Métis heritage and his struggle to shape a contemporary Métis identity. His paintings, video and works in other media focus on the Métis resistances of 1870 and 1885, which impacted the lives of his great-great-grandparents, Laurent and Eleanor, whose name is reflected in Edmonton’s Garneau district. The exhibition by the Regina-based artist runs from Feb. 2 to April 22.

Nickle Galleries’ fall exhibition features Prairie Interlace and Adrian Stimson, Gauntlet

The university library is home to many resources, including the campus culture essential, the Nickle Galleries.