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Money Zoo is a MUST-SEE Exhibition – Alberta Review

Money Zoo: Fantastic Beasts in the History of Money Nickle Galleries, Calgary, until July 29 Elephants, lions and octopi-animals adorn ancient coins in this exhibition from Nickle Galleries' Numismatic Collection. Examining the special relationship between humans and animals through the lens of currency, Money Zoo discusses how the use of animals as trade items or imagery on currency reveal their cultural significance and value to a society-for example, beaver pelts were a highly valued item during the fur trade and were later adopted for use on Canadian coinage.

Gallery tours and public programming recognize the power and impact of museums – UToday

Libraries and Cultural Resources celebrates International Museum Day May 18 at Founders’ and Nickle Galleries

Nickle Galleries offers rare hands-on experiences and experiential learning through unique programming – UToday

The Nickle serves students, staff and the community to bring art, culture and history to life

Sandra Sawatzky and The Age of Uncertainty – Calgary Arts Development/ Living a Creative Life

This city is bursting with creativity! Each month, Adora Nwofor sits down with some amazing Calgary creatives and gets a behind-the-scenes look at their process. In this week's episode, an old school art form gets an update. An artist finds herself in her paintings and then reviving a theatre collective to feed souls. Calgary Arts Development | Living a Creative Life Series (ep. 26)

On Art: Money Zoo at the Nickle Galleries – CKUA

CKUA’s Lisa Wilton recently spoke with Marina Fischer about the exhibition. Image: Ancient Greek octopus coin on Canadian beaver fur. From the Collections of Nickle Galleries. Photo: Brittany DeMone.

Sandra Sawatzky Artist hand-stitches a 12-part compendium of contemporary anxieties – Galleries West

Although her practice consists of long days of slow, meticulous toil with output measured in years, even near-decades, Calgary artist Sandra Sawatzky is ultimately most concerned with the effects of acceleration. Image: Sandra Sawatzky, “Debt” (detail), 2021, embroidery, wool and silk on linen (photo by John Dean)

Brian Flynn – Alberta Vignette – Galleries West

BRIAN FLYNN: NO PHOTOS… NO RECORDINGS… NO NOTES… Nickle Galleries, Calgary. To Apr 9 The sombre mood of Brian Flynn’s recent paintings expresses his partial and puzzled witness, as a child, to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. As an artist in middle age, he has expanded his understanding through research into his family history and guarded interviews with members of the resistance. Flynn employs oil paint and photo transfers in figurative works that obscure the identities of his subjects while suggesting the roles they may have played in the heavily occupied border town of Forkhill, County Armagh.

The thread of uncertainty: Calgary artist addresses perils of the modern world with new exhibit – Calgary Herald

Eric Volmers of the Calgary Herald talks with artist Sandra Sawatzky about her new embroidered art work exploring “the stories that keep us awake at night.”

The Age of Uncertainty – CBC Homestretch

CBC Allison Dempster interviews Sandra Sawatzky about her new exhibition, The Age of Uncertainty. Image: Sandra Sawatzky, Climate Change (detail), 2021. Photo: John Dean.

The Age of Uncertainty – Artists and Climate Change

The Age of Uncertainty asks multiple unthinkable questions simultaneously: about money, war, corruption, over-consumption, climate change, exploitation of natural resources, artificial intelligence, and electronic surveillance.