A/P is pleased to present NOTICE ME! by HOT 4 THE MOMENT, as our first exhibition in 2025.
NOTICE ME! will run from January 24 - March 14, 2025.
Join us for the Opening Reception and Artist Talk on January 24 from 7-9pm.
The artists will begin their artist talk at 7pm, followed by the reception until 9pm.
About the exhibition:
Location: A/P Studio
Cost: $135.00
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Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert
Crowsnest Mountain and the Seven Sisters, 1989
oil on paper
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
The holiday season is a wonderful time to reflect with family and friends. At the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, we are forging a deeper understanding of our role and responsibilities as Alberta’s provincial arts funder and principal supporter. We are in a period of renewal as we look forward to new opportunities. Whether it is the performing arts, literary, visual, film or video, the AFA’s job is to help individual artists and organizations explore, practice, create and promote their exceptional work.
We have a profound sense of optimism for the years ahead that is buoyed by the Alberta government’s commitment to increase AFA funding to a record-level $39.1 million by 2027.
We look forward to continuing our work with government for the betterment of Alberta’s arts sector.
Art and Alberta’s artists are at the heart of everything that we do. In that vein, I’m proud to continue the AFA’s tradition of highlighting an artwork from our collection. This year, I’m pleased to feature Crowsnest Mountain and the Seven Sisters by Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert.
This beautiful Indigenous work is representative of the mountain landscape in Southern Alberta. Cardinal-Schubert’s use of color is so appropriate during the holiday season.
On behalf of the AFA Board of Directors and staff, please accept my best wishes for a safe and restful holiday season, Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.
Cynthia P. Moore, Chair
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
A special holiday greeting from AFA Board Chair Cynthia P. Moore.
A special holiday greeting from AFA Board Chair Cynthia P. Moore.
A special holiday greeting from AFA Board Chair Cynthia P. Moore.
Mitchell Art Gallery invites you to our Winter 2025 exhibition, Sydney Frances Pascal: kw7íkwl̓acwmíntsinlhkan | i dream of you. The exhibition runs January 17 - March 29, 2025.
Esther Suzanne Scott's artwork, SPECIAL NEEDS, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
This fibre artwork consists of plastic sequins and polyester thread on fabric.
This artwork is included in the Here & Now exhibition at the Royal Alberta Museum until September 29, 2024. Learn more about the exhibition.
The AFA acquired this artwork through its Art Acquisition by Application program in 2023. This program is designed to acquire contemporary works of art by any eligible Alberta artist.
View this artist's statement as a PDF.
SPECIAL NEEDS was a label I resented as a child with a learning disability. I’ve reimagined this term into a dazzling, shimmering message of acceptance for diversity.
By rescuing words that made me feel alienated for being different, I’ve turned them into a sequin encrusted, packed to the max, full on acknowledgement, that what makes us different, makes us special.
Esther was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on November 20th, 1976.
Esther's Artwork utilizes common and found materials to narrate a metaphorical parallel reflection of her life and of her surroundings. The subjects depicted in her work highlight objects, images, and texts that are most often over looked and considered unimportant. She is known for the great amount of attention and care she gives to each construction.
Esther Suzanne Scott's artwork, SPECIAL NEEDS, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
Esther Suzanne Scott's artwork, SPECIAL NEEDS, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
Nahanni McKay's artwork, Hole 8, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
The artwork consists of a lightbox, a 40 x 40 inch print on backlit film paper, situated it between two pieces of plexiglass. The lightbox is created from salvaged scraps of wood a shop at the Banff Centre, cut to make a 41 x 5 x 41 box. The work is illuminated by LED strip lights located at the back of the photograph.
This artwork is included in the Here & Now exhibition at the Royal Alberta Museum until September 29, 2024. Learn more about the exhibition.
The AFA acquired this artwork through its Art Acquisition by Application program in 2023. This program is designed to acquire contemporary works of art by any eligible Alberta artist.
The following is an excerpt of Nahanni McKay's artist statement. Read the full artist statement.
My work, Hole 8 at the Banff Springs Fairmont Golf Course, represents how the national park system is a colonial structure that prioritizes tourism over sacred Indigenous lands and wildlife of turtle island. Challenging myself in my photography, I used 120mm film for the first time dubious of how the film would turn out. Using the skulls of deer, cougars and bears I positioned these sacred items on the Hole 8 to create an uneasy looking creature.
Nahanni McKay is a Métis artist based in Banff Alberta. Nahanni produces photographic images of objects that take the shape of spirits around her home of Treaty 7 in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta. The work she has produced aims to discuss the need to decolonize the complicated National Park system. Her work is in relation to the human impact of the natural environment by creating an unsettling image to be observed by the viewer. McKay is mesmerized by the beauty of her hometown and how the mountains attract a colonial desire to commercialize and conquer this sacred place.
Since graduating from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2017, Nahanni McKays’ photographic and sculptural work has been exhibited extensively across Canada and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Hole 8 at the European Cultural Centre, (Venice) and Loop 14 was exhibited at the Contemporary Calgary as well as Art Toronto in 2020. McKay has received several awards including the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award in 2022. The artist's work is included in the permanent collection of the Alberta Foundation of the Arts.
Nahanni is an avid skier and has taken part in a film project called Beyond Begbie, being released February 2024.
Nahanni McKay's artwork, Hole 8, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
Nahanni McKay's artwork, Hole 8, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
Lauren Chipeur's artwork, everything it had to swallow to make itself, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
The three vessels made using wild clay collected in Eastend, Saskatchewa. They were fired using a gas kiln schedule developed by the artist that acts like an atmospheric time machine. The atmosphere in the kiln is programmed to follow the path of oxygen from present day to 4.5 billion years ago. (More information about this process included in the artist's statement below.)
This artwork is included in the Here & Now exhibition at the Royal Alberta Museum until September 29, 2024. Learn more about the exhibition.
The AFA acquired this artwork through its Art Acquisition by Application program in 2023. This program is designed to acquire contemporary works of art by any eligible Alberta artist.
The following is an excerpt of Lauren Chipeur's artist statement. Read the full statement.
I make sculpture and site responsive installations that explore the connections between humans, waste, industry, technology and the environment. My current research explores ceramic and everyday materials to reflect on the parallel and opposing belief systems about our shared material realities. In mixing consumer products, plants, waste and geological materials my practice works towards untangling or distilling new ways to know things. The minerals our bodies absorb from the food we eat are the same minerals that make up a ceramic glaze. By tracing material lineages and biographies I try to understand a world that is concealed from view, from the interior of the body or smartphone to industrial resource extraction and production. "everything it had to swallow to make itself" unearths the relationship between the body, geology and deep time.
Lauren Chipeur is an artist born in Edmonton, Canada, on Treaty 6 territory, and based in Calgary, Canada, on Treaty 7 Territory.
She makes material and site-responsive sculpture that engages ceramic processes as a way to untangle or distill new ways to know things.
Lauren Chipeur's artwork, everything it had to swallow to make itself, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
Lauren Chipeur's artwork, everything it had to swallow to make itself, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
Han Sungpil's artworks, Frozen Fire 08 and Frozen Fire 16, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
These large prints capture the aftermath of a 2017 wildfire in Waterton Lakes National Park. (Click arrows above on either side of the image to see each work.)
These artworks are included in the Here & Now exhibition at the Royal Alberta Museum until September 29, 2024. Learn more about the exhibition.
The AFA acquired these two artworks through its Art Acquisition by Application program in 2023. This program is designed to acquire contemporary works of art by any eligible Alberta artist.
The following is an excerpt of Han Sungpil's artist statement. Read the full statement.
I wanted to capture the almighty restoring force of nature at the affected site out to the audiences. While this piece delivers awe of nature to the viewers through artistic expression of the event in 2017, the compelling message that it also carries is the impact of environmental devastation which awakens advocacy for environmental protection for the public.
Han Sungpil practices art mainly by means of photography, video, and installations, covering subjects such as environmental issues, originality and imagine, history, and the relation between the real and the represented. He also enjoys understanding diverse cultures and exploring nature further interpreting our everyday world. Sungpil’s sensibility in his work often includes a sense of humor, while including sublime elements of beauty.
His works have been exhibited and collected at notable museums and biennials around the world, including U.S.A, France, Germany, England, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Russia, Slovakia, Lithuania, U.A.E, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, Mongolia, Japan, China and Korea.
Han Sungpil's artworks, Frozen Fire 08 and Frozen Fire 16, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
Han Sungpil's artworks, Frozen Fire 08 and Frozen Fire 16, is featured in the 2024 AFA exhibition Here & Now at the Royal Alberta Museum.
