Online Resources

Prairie Interlace: The Website

Prairie Interlace: The Website Launching in early September 2022, Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000, is a rich website that complements and extends the exhibition. It features short essays introducing the exhibition’s …

Vitual – Money Zoo: Fantastic Beasts in the History of Money

Vitual – Money Zoo: Fantastic Beasts in the History of Money The significance of animals in the ancient and the modern world is evident on our money. This intricate relationship and sacred connection between humans and animals is explored in the Money Zoo: …

Possible Worlds: A Talk by Alexander Nagel is now available!

Nickle Gallerie’s YouTube channel Talks, symposia and more available free and online. Highlights include: Possible Worlds: A Talk by Alexander Nagel Black Wholes: Nura Ali Godfre Leung – Hong Kong Is a Loaded Term: Rewriting Vancouver Art History, 1989–199 …

VIRTUAL – Coins of Jesus: Money and Religion in the Ancient World

Coins of Jesus is a virtual exhibition that highlights Judeo-Christian coinage in the Numismatics Collection of Nickle Galleries, covering a unique geographic area and a historic period of cultural and ideological diversity. Beginning with Persian Imperial …

Nickle Pick: Ottoman Cairene Border Fragment

Unlike artifacts of metal, clay, glass or bone, few textiles older than a couple hundred years survive.  Susceptible to wear and tear, light, damp or insects, those that have come down to us are particularly precious. This elegant carpet represents the cre …

Nickle New: Marigold Santos

Nickle Galleries is very proud to add a strong selection of works by Calgary artist (and UCalgary Alumni) Marigold Santos to the collection of art. The 2020 painting shroud envisioning (ananas comosus in strata) (2020) has been acquired, together with a se …

Nickle New: Pontius Pilate Coin

Did you know Nickle Galleries’ Numismatic Collection comprises of 23,000 artifacts?  These include coins, paper currency, tokens, medals, shells, tea and other forms of early currency.  This modest yet intriguing bronze coin, called a prutah, was recently …

Nickle New: Robin Arseneault

Hairy Drawing #2, 2019 Digital Ink and pastel NG.2020.004.000 Photo: Courtesy Jarvis Hall Gallery Acquiring art works by Robin Arseneault has been on the Nickle’s “wish list” following from her 2016 Nickle Galleries exhibition, Onlookers. Hairy Drawing #2 …

Nickle Pick:  Trevor Stark, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, UCalgary

This etching in Nickle Galleries collections is taken from Francisco Goya’s Disparates, or Follies, a series of prints executed in 1816-19 and published posthumously, which skewered the irrationalities and obscenities of his day. Moving in his career from …