The Crawl
space
Trap\door
Newsletter Vol. 2 Iss. 5
september &
OCTOBER 2006
Trap\door
is the name of the new artist run centre in Lethbridge, Alberta.
The name was chosen because of its connotations with the hidden, the undiscovered,
the potentialities present but not yet surfaced, the surprise that comes
when you suddenly drop through a previously-solid floor and plummet,
like Alice, to vexation and enlightenment.
Presently we are a centre without a space, so don’t try to find us. We’ll
find you.
The new online version of The Crawl Space contains information that could not
be contained by our print version.
Check out the latest on…
News
Contemporary Art in Lethbridge
Local Exhibition Venues
Regional Exhibitions
& Festivals
Calls for submissions
Jobs
WORKSHOPS
& COURSES
CLASSIFIEDS ...and much more.
Trap\door Membership Forms Now Available Online!
Community
Carol Williams and Scott Rogers spent August in the Crowsnest Pass as part of Trap\door's Collaborative Residency Project at the Gushul Studio. On August 16th, board members visited Carol and Scott and snapped this photo of the two discussing drawings made by Scott during the residency.
Achtung
Trap\door Button Collectors!!!
Keep your eyes open for the trap\door button machine about town in various Lethbridge
business locations.
Contemporary
art in Lethbridge
September 15th & 16th --
City Hall The 2006 Trap\door Members’ Show focuses on themes of public
space, interaction, and censorship.
THE
FINAL FRONTIER
Camille
Turner presents The Final Frontier
explores the coded terrain of Canadian multiculturalism. Camille Turner (aka
Miss Canadiana) delves under the rug, exposing the histories that do not fit
into the mythology of Canada as a benevolent country that welcomes everyone.
This new performance project will be presented as a video installation at the
Womens' Art Resource Centre in Toronto in September 2007. It will be performed
live in Lethbridge, Alberta on September 15, to 17th and will draw on the language
of colonization to stage an occupation by black aliens who land on the moon-like
coulees bearing gifts for the people they encounter and claiming the land for
their far-away empire.
For More Information http://www.misscanadiana.com/presentation
DAGMAR
DAHLE'S "Lost Bird Collection" & DON GILL'S "D’Arcy
Island" -
Opening
Opening
at the SAAG is Saturday September 23 @ 8 pm
Date:
from September 23 - November 12.
CURRENT
- Closing September 10, 2006
Southern Alberta Art Gallery
Current is the exhibition guest curated by Allan Harding MacKay, one of the
founding members of the SAAG. It features 43 artists from Lethbridge and surrounding
area and marks the thirtieth anniversary of the SouthernAlberta Art Gallery
and the Centennial of the City of Lethbridge.
Trap\door
Members-At-Large
Dagmar Dahle's Lost Bird Collection & Don Gill’s
D’Arcy Island exhibitions will be at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery
from September 23 - November 12. The opening at the SAAG is Saturday September
23 @ 8 pm. The two artists will also present a collaborative work entitled Theories
of Drifting.
Mary-Anne McTrowe will be in Banff for the “Future of Idea Art” residency from September to October.
M.
Eileen Murray has an exhibition scheduled at the Medicine Hat College
– Brooks Campus for the month of October. The show has no particular theme
and is made up of new & not so new mixed media works. Also in October, Eileen
has been asked to show a selection of her Artist Books at the Brooks Public
Library Gallery. The exhibition is in recognition of October being Canadian
Book Month.
In September Eileen is traveling with her mom through Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
and chronicling childhood stories with text and photographs about her mother’s
remembered youth on the Miramichi River. This work will be combined with already
existing documentation that was gathered from a similar trip last summer with
my Dad in Southern Saskatchewan. The project(s) is an inquiry into landscape
and the creation of identity. I want to explore how landscape and environment
helped to construct my parent’s identities and how these two particular
identities have influenced me.
Eileen’s commercial photography business is getting very busy –
it’s a great way to pay for my art practice that doesn’t pay so
well! You can check out her website at www.canalhillstudio.ca .
Carol
Williams has two new publications on Canadian art and photography:
"Nation, Identify, Periphery, and Modernity: Synthesizing Canada's Photographic
History," in Image and Inscription: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian
Photography edited by Robert Bean published by Gallery 44 & YYZ Books, Toronto
2006.
AND
"Muscular tongue, strident assertion: the work of Rebecca Burke" catalog
essay for senior Canadian artist Rebecca Burke's survey exhibition at the Owens
Art Gallery (upcoming September 2006).
Before and after the completion of new and old writing projects and hatching
projects with Trap/door residency collaborator, Calgary artist Scott Rogers
(in August) Carol ran the Wyoming Bighorn 50km race (June 17 2006) and the Lethbridge
Lost Soul Ultra 50km (September 9, 2006).
Local
Exhibition Venues
NEW!!
There has also been a new gallery open up in China town. It is connected to
the "Unique Boutique" located at 314 2nd Avenue South (below Jack
& Jills skin and nail clinic, and right beside the Tongue n Groove). This
is a bright new space that attracts a variety of clientele. The gallery is still
looking for local talent to showcase their art. Any inquiries can be made to
Dustin Schmidt at 332.3788 or Sarah Schmidt at 332.3822.
NEW!!
Jamie Eppert has opened up a new restaurant in the Legion (on Mayor Magrath
Drive). It is a seperate entity from the legion and will be providing some space
for local artists to display and sell their work. She will handle all of the
sales and is excited about added some local flair to her new establishment.
If you have any questions please call Jamie at 327.6683(w) or 332.0293 (c)
Bowman
Arts Centre, 811 5th Avenue South, Lethbridge, AB.
(Corner of Stafford Drive South and 5th Avenue South)
Gallery hours:
9 AM to 7 PM, weekdays, July and August
9 AM to 9 PM, weekdays, September through June
10 AM to 4 PM, Saturdays.
Music Room Gallery
Shirley Wyngaard Gallery
Showcase Display
Artists interested in displaying and selling their work should call: (403) 327.2813
Joan Waterfield Gallery
Yates
Memorial Centre
10th Street &
4th Avenue South, Lethbridge, AB. (east of City Hall)
Gallery hours:
10 AM to 4 PM, weekdays, and during theatre events
Note: Exhibitions maybe interrupted to accommodate rentals and events!
Regional
Exhibitions & Festivals
more
info to come..
Kingston
Prize Portrait Competition 2007
The Kingston Arts Council is pleased to announce the Kingston Prize for 1007,
a Canadian Portrait Competition. Canadian artists are invited to submit contemporary
portraits of Canadians. The first prize in the competition will be $3,000, and
prizes will be given for Honourable Mentions and People's Choice. The portraits
may be either paintings or drawings, and must be made from life within the 24
months preceding the closing date of May 1, 2007.
From the entries received the jury will select thirty portraits for the exhibition,
which will be held in October 2007 at the Firehall Theatre in Gananoque, Ontario.
The prizewinners will announced at a Gala Preview, and the People's Choice will
be announced near the closing of the exhibition.
The first Kingston Prize held in 2005, attracted entries from artists across
Canada, and it is hoped that there will be similar response in 2007. Around
the world, contemporary portraiture includes not only the popular traditional
styles, but also abstract, surreal, comic book and other contemporary styles.
For the Kingston Prize Competition, all styles of portrait are welcome.
For additional information: www.kingstonprize.ca
or email: kingstonprize@artskingston.com
Phone: 613.769.7372
The
New Gallery, an artist-run-centre, is a non-profit charitable
society established in 1975. It is committed to providing a forum for a wide
spectrum of critical discourse and multi-disciplinary practices within the contemporary
visual arts. The New Gallery fosters the growth of the arts community, and the
community at large, through the creation of local, national and international
networks of understanding, collaboration and cooperation. Proposals from visual
and performance artists, curators and galleries who deal with contemporary art
forms and issues are accepted. Artists who are emerging, mid-career or established
and who are based within Canada or internationally are invited to apply. The
New Gallery has two exhibition spaces available: the Main Gallery and the +15
Window Project (located in the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, 225 - 8
Avenue SE). Proposals for off-site exhibitions and performative works are also
welcome. The New Gallery meets or exceeds the recommended minimum CARFAC artist
exhibition fee. Travel, accommodation and shipping assistance is contingent
on sufficient funding. Main Gallery exhibitions change on a monthly basis, +15
exhibitions change every two months.
Submission Deadline: October 1. Proposals should be sent to: Programming Committee,
The New Gallery, 516D - 9th Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 1L4 or call (403)
233-2399. Complete submission guidelines can be found at: www.thenewgallery.org
Ongoing calls for submission: Review dates are May 1st, October 1st
Submissions
must include:
- a c.v.
- an artist's statement
- 10-15 slides or digital images with an accompanying list identifying
each work
- and/or VHS or DVD documentation
- a project description including any special technical and/or spatial
requirements
members-at-large
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OUR MANDATE
Trap\door is a non-profit artist run centre founded in 2004. Dedicated to the
promotion of contemporary visual art which is challenging and critical, the
purpose of Trap\door is to encourage experimentation by artists whose work challenges
and explores the peripheries of their discipline. With a focus on emerging artists,
Trap\door offers a space for creative research, development, and exploration.
Through the presentation of innovative regional, national, and international
contemporary art, Trap\door is committed to assessing and servicing the needs
of our membership and, by acting as a forum for the exchange of ideas, contributing
to the cultural richness and diversity of our community.
Contact
Us
If you would like more information on an upcoming event, want to volunteer your
time and/or services or have any comments or suggestions for us, please drop
us a line.
We would love to hear from you!
General inquiries: info@trapdoorarc.com
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Memberships: membership@trapdoorarc.com
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Trap\door Artist Run Centre
c/o 811 5 Avenue South
Lethbridge, AB T1J 0V2