Insight to Mood Disorders and Bipolar

Artist Brad Necyk, PhD, MFA
Curator Dick Averns, MFA
Dr Scott Patten, PhD, specialist in mood disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary

This free event accompanies our fall exhibition, Perspectives From Within, exploring mental health from the perspective of lived experience.

Join artist Brad Necyk for a screening of his autobiographical film Alberta #3, and learn more about his artwork and research spanning psychiatry and art. This event will be of interest to anyone wishing to learn more about how mental health is impacted by mood disorders, particularly Bipolar Affective Disorders, and how art can give a better understanding of these conditions.

The evening will be hosted by curator Dick Averns, commencing with an overview to the artworks in Perspectives From Within, and concluding with a question and answer session featuring Dr Scott Patten, a specialist in mood disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary. All persons are welcome including those seeking help, family members, artists and anyone practising in related fields.

This is an in-person program. Masks are mandatory, and physical distancing will be maintained in seating arrangements. Contemporary Calgary requires visitors ages 12 and older to provide proof of vaccination, documentation of medical exemption, or a negative PCR or rapid test within the last 72 hours in order to enter the gallery.

Speaking on his work Brad says Alberta #3 is a meditation on family, heredity, madness, and time. The story is a first-person, non-linear account of a manic episode I lived in 2017 and the events surrounding it. I wrote this as part of my healing journey: a journey I am still on. I wrote it for my family, my caregivers, and I wrote it for the manic patients I healed with at the Centre for Addiction Health in Toronto.

I am also looking forward to meeting all the people just beginning their journey with bipolar or other mental health conditions, to let them know they are not alone. I believe art creates space to experience others' perspectives, and that is what I would like to share.”

About the Artist, Brad Necyk (he/him)

Brad Necyk is a Canadian visual artist, filmmaker, and writer with a Ph.D. in Psychiatry whose practice focuses on mental illness, empathy, consciousness, and flourishing. His doctoral research was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal and will be published as a book of narrative poetry. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow in York University's Cinema & Media Arts department and a Research Associate in the Film & Digital Media department at the University of California Santa Cruz. His current research is creating virtual reality films on addiction, organ transplantation, and medical assistance in dying.

WATCH: ARTIST TALK | Adrian A Stimson on Yoko Ono’s WATER EVENT 

Wednesday November 18, 7PM MST

Adrian A Stimson discusses his work We’ve made our Water Bed..., a water sculpture made in response to Yoko Ono’s invitation to produce a container that held water. The work is one of six water sculptures produced for Ono’s ongoing collaborative work, WATER EVENT (1971/ 2020), part of Ono’s exhibition GROWING FREEDOM at Contemporary Calgary.

Stimson offers the waterbed to Premier Jason Kenney UCP, Alberta, who has been cited in a number of studies as being one of Canada’s biggest polluters of water, owed primarily to the industries of oil and agriculture in Alberta. Jason Kenney comes from a long list of politicians in Alberta and Canada who enact legislation that often are detrimental to the environment, specifically the water we all rely on. 

The waterbed is at once a comment on the tongue-in-cheek expression, ‘You made your bed, now lie in it’ and also a nod to Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s historic BED-IN FOR PEACE. The bed is a place of protest and love.

BOON ONG ARTIST TALK
February 8, 2PM
Grotto Gallery

Join us at Contemporary Calgary in the Grotto and learn more about Boon Ong’s exhibition, Our Closets, and hear about his photographic practice since winning the Exposure Emerging Photographers Showcase Photographer of the Year award in 2019.

FREE, mature content

Stephen Broomer's, Tondal's Vision (2018)
16mm to Video | Sound | 65 minutes

Contemporary Calgary is pleased to partner with MONOGRAPH and to present Stephen Broomer’s 2018 feature film Tondal’s Vision, with Toronto based filmmaker Stephen Broomer in attendance. MONOGRAPH would like to thank EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society for their generous support, providing equipment for this presentation. Stephen will also give a free artist talk, hosted by the University of Calgary’s Department of Communications Media and Film, on November 12th at 1 PM in SS203 (CMF theatre) at the University of Calgary.

A fable and immram, sifted from the cloak and rubble of the Comedy, a vision before Dante. The soul of the Knight Tondal, stricken by the excesses of his flesh, quits his body to tour the next world. He is guided by an angel through heaven, hell and limbo. What lessons await him here? To every pleasure there is a cost, for poetry is a kind of poison, and even your angels will get you lost. Angel, tell me, for how long was I dead?

Be it true or be it false, it is as the copy was.

Filmmaker in Attendance
Admission is by donation (pay what you can).

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Stephen Broomer is a filmmaker and film historian. He is the author of Hamilton Babylon: a history of the McMaster Film Board and Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian avant-garde film. His films have screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the San Francisco Cinematheque and the Anthology Film Archives (NYC).

Invitation to Community Consultation Sessions
for Alberta Best Practices for Craft, Media and Visual Artists

CARFAC and Contemporary Calgary would like to invite you to attend one of CARFAC’s upcoming Best Practice Community Consultation Sessions. These events will give you an opportunity to provide feedback on seven draft documents, to learn more about what these new industry standards entail, and why our community needs them. The seven new Best Practices cover the following areas:

• Negotiations, Agreements and Contracts

• Exhibiting in a Commercial Gallery

• Exhibiting in a Public Gallery

• Public Art Commissions

• Community Art

• Use of Artists Work for Fundraising

• Organizing Juried Group Exhibitions

If you are unfamiliar with or have not had an opportunity to examine and study the newly-drafted Alberta Best Practices for craft and visual artists, we invite you to read or download the documents from the CARFAC Alberta website. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.

More about CARFAC’s initiative from Executive Director, Chris W. Carson:

Our goal is to seek widespread endorsement and adoption of these Best Practices by Alberta’s craft, media and visual arts communities by the end of February 2020. To reach this goal we need your help in reading, freely sharing, and engaging your community in discussions about Best Practices. Please send your feedback and comments to chris@carfacalberta.com before November 23, 2019.

To give you some information about the Alberta Best Practices Project, these are professional guidelines for interactions between artists and those individuals and organizations that work with constituents in a wide range of capacities. We believe that Alberta craft, media, and visual artists will benefit from having these guidelines endorsed and widely adopted. We also believe that these protocols provide individuals and organizations with clear parameters for engaging Alberta’s artists fairly and professionally, now and into the future.

The Alberta Best Practices Project commenced in 2017, based on documents developed by CARFAC Saskatchewan, and are endorsed by both CARFAC Alberta and the Alberta Crafts Council. The project is contextualized for use within Alberta’s arts ecology and is being undertaken to meet a clear need in Alberta for the establishment for more equitable practices, to further professionalize and support our sector.

Please join with us in refining and establishing these professional guidelines to benefit Alberta’s artists and the sector as a whole, and also consider lending your endorsement. Your involvement will make Best Practices for Alberta’s craft, media, and visual artists the best that they can be. If you are unable to attend one of these events please email chris@carfacalberta.com.

Sincerely,

Chris W. Carson,
Executive Director

Collider artist-in-residence Dan Cardinal McCartney will showcase a mixed media collage which stretches wall to wall of his Collider studio. He will touch on themes of intuitive art-making, his own relationship to Indigenous diaspora, and the intrinsic danger of living in Alberta as a two-spirit, transmasculine person. Scavenged materials such as problematic Western novels, tobacco ads, alcohol packaging, and apple boxes are scratched out and mounted onto the studio wall. This artist talk provides an experience for visitors to view the work up close with flashlights provided by the artist.

Dan Cardinal McCartney is a Calgary-based interdisciplinary artist and emerging curator. His maternal bloodlines are a proud mix of Mikisew Cree, Suline Dene, and Métis from Fort Chipewyan. As a two-spirit, transmasculine person, Dan sifts through questions of blood memory and intergenerational trauma. His focus is on mixed media collage, performance, and video. Gender dysphoria which intertwines with cultural diaspora leaves gashes to either remain open or to be scabbed over in time. Cardinal McCartney is the Curatorial Resident at Stride Gallery, and actively showing across Canada. He graduated from AUArts (formerly known as the Alberta College of Art + Design) in 2016 with a degree in Drawing. Recently, his work was featured in Fix your hearts or die at the Alberta Gallery of Art; let’s talk about sex, bb at Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, and Off-Centre: Queer Contemporary Art in the Prairies at the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina.

Stop by Contemporary Calgary for an Artist Talk with DE Lab artist Tim Knowles and take in the DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT exhibit. Through his work with the lab, Knowles has been working closely with the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary and the people who have been working to restore and rehabilitate the natural habitats damaged by the 2013 flood. He will be speaking about how this relationship has helped form his art work and how he has been able to work as an artist on design elements for the upcoming Inglewood Bird Sanctuary Reconstruction Project.

Embedding artists in a hidden, yet integral City system has provoked new ideas and dialogues, changing how Public Art is created and perceived in our City. Join WATERSHED+ Lead Artists, Sans façon, along with all five DE Lab artists; Steve Gurysh, Tim Knowles, Becky Shaw, Stokley Towles, Peter Von Tiesenhausen, for an intimate and illuminating discussion, delving into the history and creation of the project, and the artists’ experiences working within the City of Calgary. Moderated by amery Calvelli, this discussion intends to showcase the success and challenges of The Dynamic Environment Lab as part of WATERSHED+, and how the program has affected the direction of public art in Calgary.  

Following the discussion, please join the panelists for an opening reception of the exhibit DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT. A selection of works from the DE Lab artists, on view until January 2020, speaks to the vast scope of the Utilities and Environmental Protection Department, the employees who maintain our crucial infrastructure, and the intimate connections art can create between Citizen and City.

6PM - Panel Discussion
7PM - Reception with the Artists

Join us Thursday, August 15 from 6PM for an Artist Talk “Laughter Increases the Pain Threshold” with Collider Artist, Ashley Bedet. In conjunction with the Collider Artist Residency, Bedet will discuss the recurring facet of failure as a theme in her process as well as her artist practice as a whole.

6.00PM - Artist Talk
6:30PM - Reception with the Artist

To persist you must start, and to persist thereafter you must adjust. The first stage of persistence is to fail and it’s what you do after that counts. However, Bedet has been pretty focused on this initial failure, as it has been a recurring facet in her practice since 2017. Bedet has been focused on making a mobile that charts this first initial failure, the first idea a person has is often the hardest one to surrender. Using the metaphor of celestial formation to diagram this instant in time when space as we know it was created -- it’s nothing short of cathexis. Time and space were made in mere instances while this project creaks and croaks along for years.

The age-old definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Another popular psychological tick that arises in this project of crashing a celestial body (a moon) on an identical path is the popular subgenre of the fail. Why is it so funny to see a diver mount the board, have a perfect form in the follow-through and then belly flop? Is it an involuntary schadenfreude that indicates how close most of us are to ranking high on a psychopathy test? Turns out not necessarily. When you laugh at a situation that isn’t horribly dire - there are no broken bones or serious injuries - but was indeed an ‘epic fail’ you are assisting in moving something from being embarrassing, humiliating or demoralizing to just funny.  It's a coping mechanism. That’s the actual job of the banana peel, to slip from something disastrous into something funny that is a social behavioural exchange that builds on camaraderie. When you go to a stand-up comedy show, you’re laughing because it seems like a conversation with the comedian ‘getting you’, it may not just be relatable but a signal of acceptance. Out of mutual acceptance, from the slippery ‘oh no’ to the ‘yeah that was dumb, that failed’. It's a social behaviour that allows us to deal with stress because laughter helps keeps the stress at bay enough to cope with our emotions. Laughter, in this case, regulates our moods and allows us to acknowledge and regulate our emotions in any social interaction better equips us all to know how to deal with the shit hitting the fan.

Join us for Contemporary Calgary’s second installment of Open House. Open Conversation.

KPMB Design Architect, Bruce Kuwabara returns with d.Talks Design Advocate, amery Calvelli, Berlin-based artist and architect, Clemens Gritl, and the City of Calgary’s Chief Urban Designer, David Down, 
for a panel discussion examining the enduring significance of Brutalist architecture and how it might shape our future. Following the panel guests are invited to learn more about the history of the Centennial Planetarium through a visual display of archival images in Brutal Visions. Also featured will be a selection of works by Clemens Gritl in his exhibition titled A Future City from the Past.

#OpenHouseCC

May 30, 2019

Centennial Planetarium, 701 11 Street SW

5.30 - 9.00pm - Open House + Reception

6.00pm - Panel Discussion (seating is available on a first come, first serve basis)

Wednesday, February 6

2pm-7pm - Symposium @ Stanford Perrot Lecture Theatre, Alberta University of the Arts

7pm-9pm Reception and Extended Gallery Hours @ Illingworth Kerr Gallery

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Before Digital: Post 1970 Photography in Alberta, this symposium will feature presentations and panel discussions with artists participating in the exhibition as well as regional artists utilizing photography in their practice.

2pm-3:35pm

Continuity and Change within Photography

moderated by Mitch Kern

Panellists: Shane Arsenault and Natalia Barberis, M.N. Hutchinson, Dona Schwartz

Over two centuries the medium of photography has endured continuous change. You could say that when it comes to photography, continuity is change. At the same time, some things about photography have remained the same. This panel explores the territory between continuity and change within photography. In particular, what is the impact of recent change upon contemporary photography practice? Has social media and 24/7 connectivity significantly altered what it means to be a photographer in the early 21st century? What about the near future? Are we on the doorstep of something new? In the midst of a revolution? A crisis?

3:50pm – 5:10pm 

Capturing Subjects, Exposing Community

moderated by Ashley Scarlett

Panellists: Douglas Curran, Elmer Ghostkeeper, Leah Hennel, George Webber

In her canonical text, On Photography, Susan Sontag asserts that “photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we’re shown a photograph of it” (1973:3). While Sontag concerns herself primarily with photography’s indexical documentation of the visible world, photographic images also have the capacity to render the invisible intelligible, lending photographic certainty to the seemingly uncertain. This panel will explore photography’s capacity to expose, envision, construct and concretize the otherwise invisible parameters of community. Specifically, it will ask: What role does photography play in capturing, documenting and attesting to community? How might the photographic medium lend itself to exposing and framing community in particular ways? What are the ethical responsibilities of the photographer within this context? And, can photographs solicit meaningful social engagement and change?

5:30pm – 6:50pm 

Not Boring – Landscapes, Places and Identities

moderated by Benedict Fullalove

Panellists: Diane Colwell, Tanya Harnett, Dan Hudson, Tyler Los-Jones

In his contribution to the important 1994 collection, Landscape and Power, WJT Mitchell proposes a series of theses on the genre, including the mischievous claim that “Landscape is boring. We must not say so.” This panel asks its participants to eschew silence and respond to Mitchell’s provocation. Specifically, the panel seeks to explore the complex relationships formed around and between landscapes, places and identities. What links landscape to place? How do they differ? In what sense do both intersect with broader questions of subjectivity and identity, not least in the contexts of Indigenous and Settler histories? And why is all of this (potentially!) not really boring at all?

All programs are free and open to the public, registration encouraged.

Public programming is presented in partnership with Exposure Photography Festival

Photos courtesy of Jeremy Pavka, audio courtesy of AUArts.

Lecture // STEPHEN AVENUE LOCATION

Join Guest Curator, Noa Bronstein, and artists Kotama Bouabane, Maria Litwin, and Babak Golkar while they discuss the role of monuments and concepts around monumentality in constructing cities, nations and ideologies.
 
Registration recommended.

Image Credit: Isabelle Hayeur, Monument aux hommes des carrières 02, 2008-2009, inkjet print,
24 x 36 in.

Event // OFFSITE

VSVSVS / at the same time
Curated by Nate McLeod

ARTIST TALK / Friday, November 18, 6 PM | FREE
Alberta College of Art + Design (ACAD) / Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre, 
1407 14 Avenue NW, Calgary, Canada

Contemporary Calgary and the Illingworth Kerr Gallery are proud to present an artist talk by the Toronto-based collective VSVSVS, presented in conjunction with their exhibition at the same time, curated by Nate McLeod, on view at Contemporary Calgary from November 24, 2016 to February 12, 2017.
 
VSVSVS (pronounced VERSUS VERSUS VERSUS) is a six-person collective and artist-run centre based out of a warehouse in the Portlands of Toronto, Ontario. Members include Wallis Cheung, Ryan Clayton, Anthony Cooper, James Gardner, Stephen McLeod, and Miles Stemp.
 
Formed in 2010, their activities encompass collective art making, a residency program, a formal exhibition space, and individual studio practices. Their collective work focuses on the collaborative production of multiples, drawings, video work, sculpture, installations, and performance. An open framework allows each member to play to their own interests and ends, while contributing to a common goal. Working with six heads is an experiment in being together too much and making things constantly.

Image courtesy of VSVSVS.

Lecture // OFFSITE

Roula Partheniou / Inventory
Curated byh Ivan Jurakic
Organized by Nate McLeod

ARTIST TALK / Friday, February 5, 2 PM | FREE
@ Alberta College of Art + Design (ACAD) / Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre, 1407 14 Avenue NW, Calgary, Canada

Please join us at the Alberta College of Art + Design, Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre for an artist talk by exhibiting artist Roula Partheniou as she discusses her artistic practice and upcoming solo exhibition at Contemp orary Calgary titled Inventory. Examining her process of creating sculptural replicas based on domestic items, construction materials and office supplies, Partheniou will challenge us to consider how familiarity can also be deceptive.

Artist talk is free to attend and open to the general public. Seating is first come, first serve. 

Image credit: Roula Partheniou, Packed Boxes with Clutter, 2015. Courtesy of MKG127. Photo credit Jesse Boles.

Lecture // C2 - CITY HALL LOCATION

NEXT2015 / Quartet in Transit (Q.i.T)
Thursday, December 10, 7:00 PM | FREE
@ C2 / Suite 104 – 800 Macleod Trail SE

Please join us on Thursday, December 10th as Quartet in Transit's NEXT2015 residency comes to an end. Doors open at 7:00 PM. 

STATEMENT / We wish to understand whether one needs be “there” in order to experience art. What if what you remember is not what is actually? If we preserve it, does it retain the same memories for the viewer? Things change but we want to keep things as they are right now because it somehow feels necessary now, but to what end?

Even if you’re not here with us physically, you can witness our progress online atRECOVER-ONLY-MEMORIES.NET.  

ARTIST BIO / Quartet in Transit (Q.i.T.) is an exercise in collaborative differing methodologies. Q.i.T. has been in transit since 2013, evolving alongside the artistic practices of Jack Michielsen and Teresa Tam. While Q.i.T. was born on the Internet, its physical counterparts are based in Calgary, AB. Jack Michielsen engages in technology as an equal, exploring opportunities to enrich our understanding of each other. Teresa is enveloped in the existential entropy of our relationship with technology, attempting to develop a different understanding of our current claustrophobic conditions. As Quartet in Transit we examine the effects of digital interfaces with human bodies, and explore the excess of deception of these experiences with digital technology.

NEXT2015 / Sponsored by RBC Emerging Artists Project, NEXT2015 is the inaugural iteration of a new annual residency series at Contemporary Calgary. Four artists have been invited to work independently in the upper level of the gallery of a one-month period to produce temporary, site-specific works as part of a continuously evolving group exhibition on the main level, responding to and building upon the work and ideas of previous artists using the space. 

In conjunction with NEXT2015. Exhibition continues until January 17, 2016.

Lecture // C2 - CITY HALL LOCATION

NEXT2015 / Tia Halliday
Thursday, November 12, 6:30 PM | FREE
@ C2 / Suite 104 – 800 Macleod Trail SE

Please join us on Thursday, November 12th as Tia Halliday's NEXT2015 residency comes to an end - featuring a series of performative, living sculptures produced and choreographed by Halliday over the duration of her residency, and an informal talk by the artist in the gallery space. Doors open at 6:30 PM, followed by a talk at 7:00 PM, and a second performance thereafter. 

ARTIST BIO / Tia Halliday is a multi-disciplinary artist from Calgary, Aberta. As painter, performer, and choreographer her work investigates the sybiotic relationship of dance and performance to drawing, painting, and photography. Halliday holds a B.F.A. with Distinction from the Alberta College of Art and Design and an M.F.A. in Drawing and Painting from Concordia University. Halliday also attended both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ontario College of Art and Design. She has professionally exhibited her work and participated in various projects across Canada and Europe. Her work has been noted in such publications as the Washington Post and Canadian Art Online. Tia is currently represented by Herringer Kiss Gallery in Calgary and teaches at the Alberta College of Art and Design.

NEXT2015 / Sponsored by RBC Emerging Artists Project, NEXT2015 is the inaugural iteration of a new annual residency series at Contemporary Calgary. Four artists have been invited to work independently in the upper level of the gallery of a one-month period to produce temporary, site-specific works as part of a continuously evolving group exhibition on the main level, responding to and building upon the work and ideas of previous artists using the space. 

UPCOMING RESIDENCIES
Quartet in Transit / November 14 to December 10, 2015

In conjunction with NEXT2015. Exhibition continues until January 17, 2015.

Lecture // C2 - CITY HALL LOCATION

NEXT2015 / Dana Buzzee
Thursday, October 15, 7:00 PM | FREE
@ C2 / Suite 104 – 800 Macleod Trail SE

Please join us on Thursday, October 15th as artist Dana Buzzee presents an artist lecture, touching on her influences, recent work, and her experience in hte NEXT2015 residency project. Doors open at 7:00 PM and presentation will begin at 7:30 PM. 

ARTIST BIO / Dana Buzzee holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2012). She completed her study at the Alberta College of Art and Design, the New York Studio Residency Program, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Since concluding her undergraduate degree, Buzzee has enjoyed a nomadic studio practice with exhibition and residencies in Canada, Finland, Iceland and the United States.

NEXT2015 / Sponsored by RBC Emerging Artists Project, NEXT2015 is the inaugural iteration of a new annual residency series at Contemporary Calgary. Four artists have been invited to work independently in the upper level of the gallery of a one-month period to produce temporary, site-specific works as part of a continuously evolving group exhibition on the main level, responding to and building upon the work and ideas of previous artists using the space. 

UPCOMING RESIDENCIES

Tia Halliday / October 17 to November 12, 2015
Quartet in Transit / November 14 to December 10, 2015

In conjunction with NEXT2015. Exhibition continues until January 17, 2015.

Lecture // OFFSITE

IN DISCUSSION / Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins with Ciara McKeown

Friday, September 18, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM | FREE

@ University of Calgary, Arts Building, Room AB 672

Presented in partnership with the University of Calgary’s Department of Art: Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, Contemporary Calgary is pleased to announce a free discussion between Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins with Ciara McKeown, on September 18th at the University of Calgary. 

Why Can’t Minimal, an exhibition of humorous minimalism curated by John G. Hampton is currently on display at Contemporary Calgary, and features work by Marman & Borins. The exhibition continues until October 18th at 117 8th Avenue SW. For further information please visit http://www.contemporarycalgary.com/whats-on/why-cant-minimal


JENNIFER MARMAN & DANIEL BORINS have been making large-format sculpture, mixed media, installation, and electronic art since 2000. Marman is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario. Borins is a graduate of McGill University. Both artists also graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2001 – where they first began collaborating together.

Marman and Borins’ work exists in both the museum and public settings. In the fall of 2008 they participated in a group sculpture show at the National Gallery of Canada entitled *Caught in the Act*. In 2009, Marman and Borins completed a commission for a large-scale interactive work for the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Business. Amongst their recent public art projects is a newly installed commission for the Pan Am Village in Toronto for 2015. With regard to their exhibition record, in the fall of 2013, Marman and Borins had their first New York solo show at Cristin Tierney Gallery. From 2013 on, their solo exhibition “The Collaborationists” has been on tour; most recently in Canada at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona.

CIARA MCKEOWN has worked in multiple arts organizations for over ten years in cities across Canada and the United States, as a commissioner, director, and project manager. Currently, McKeown works as Studio Project Manager with artists Sans façon, and was recently selected as an Advisor with the Creative City Network of Canada, working to establish a national public art network. Previously, she spent time as the Interim Public Art Program Manager with Waterfront Toronto, as a Curator with Hamilton’s multi-disciplinary arts festival Supercrawl, and ran an annual public art round-table forum for critical discussions and knowledge sharing with colleagues across the country. Educated at McGill University and New York University, McKeown also spent time working in museum exhibition development and non-profit management in New York. She has written for Stephen Magazine, Public Art Review, Americans for the Arts blog and was the Public Art writer with the Hamilton Arts Council’s LivingArts Program.

Lecture // C2 - CITY HALL LOCATION

NEXT2015 / Jake Klein-Waller
Thursday, September 17, 7:30PM | FREE
@ C2 / Suite 104 – 800 Macleod Trail SE

Please join us on Thursday, September 17th as artist Jake Klein-Waller presents a selection of readings, and discusses his practice on the final day of his NEXT2015 residency at Contemporary Calgary. Doors open at 7:30 PM and presentation will begin at 8:00 PM. 

ARTIST BIO / Jake Klein-Waller is an emerging artist who recently graduated from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2014. Engaging in a multi-disciplinary practice, Jake creates work dealing with the landscape, phenomenon, and invisibility. Jake lives and works in Calgary, where he has participated in several exhibitions such as Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival 7 and Could It Be, We've Surpassed Material Expectations at Stride Gallery. 

NEXT2015 / Sponsored by RBC Emerging Artists Project, NEXT2015 is the inaugural iteration of a new annual residency series at Contemporary Calgary. Four artists have been invited to work independently in the upper level of the gallery of a one-month period to produce temporary, site-specific works as part of a continuously evolving group exhibition on the main level, responding to and building upon the work and ideas of previous artists using the space. 

UPCOMING RESIDENCIES

Dana Buzzee / September 19 to October 15, 2015
Tia Halliday / October 17 to November 12, 2015
Quartet in Transit / November 14 to December 10, 2015

In conjunction with NEXT2015. Exhibition continues until January 17, 2016.

Lecture // OFFSITE