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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 …

Nickle Picks: Michele Hardy, Curator, Nickle Galleries

I do not have a favourite textile artifact in the Nickle’s collections—I have many. Some were gifted by Dr. Lloyd Erikson, some from other generous donors—some, I had the privilege of selecting and purchasing. I acquired this beautiful textile for the Nick …

Nickle Pick: Nurgül Rodriguez, MFA, 2017, University of Calgary

Nickle Galleries has nine ceramic works by John Chalke (1940-2014) including examples of his multifired, multiglazed and wood-fired works. My favorite of these is The First Horses Came Late but Stepped into the Province on a Wet Day, 2012, a clay slab with …

Nickle Picks: Doug MColl, Preparator, Nickle Galleries

To paraphrase DeForrest Kelley (Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy): “I’m a Preparator, Jim, not a Curator”… Dunning takes what is essentially a 2-D image of the moon and gives it depth and a sculptural quality. The work is intricate and lacy but also robust, and s …

Nickle Pick: Mackenzie Kelly-Frère, Nickle Galleries Collections Committee Member

Bill Morton “Turbulence,” 1994 plant dyes & mordants on silk, 30.5 x 125 cm Photo:  Dave Brown, LCR Photo Services NG.1994.013.000 Bill Morton’s “Turbulence” is one of a series of hanging dyed works produced in the early 1990’s when I was his student. …

Nickle Pick: Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy, Department of Classics and Religion, UCalgary

This coin produced by the moneyer Q. Cassius Longinus (a relative of the Cassius who assassinated Julius Caesar) features symbols that emphasize the links between the Romans and their gods. On the obverse we have the head of the Genius Populi Romani, the c …

Nickle Picks: Dick Averns, Curatorial Coordinator, Founders’ Gallery at The Military Museums

These seventy-two digital prints depict aeroplanes united by appearance, purpose, and an absence of airline identification markings. The pictures were photographed by plane spotters at airports worldwide, then gleaned from the internet by Canadian artist G …