trap\door news + events
TRAP\DOOR'S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS WISHBOOK SILENT AUCTION IS COMING!
Right now we are looking for donations, both ephemeral and tangible, from all and sundry. Please let us know if you have something for our auction before Friday, November 16. After that, look forward to bidding on a wonderful array of artistic goodies at www.trapdoorarc.com/wishbook.
TRAP\DOOR ARTIST RUN CENTRE'S GUSHUL RESIDENCY & COLLABORATIVE PROJECT 2007
This October Trap\door sent two emerging visual artists from Alberta to the Gushul Studio in the Crowsnest Pass for the second annual Trap\door Artist Run Centre’s Gushul Residency & Collaborative Project 2007.
Hye-Seung Jung is a Calgary-based artist who received her M.F.A. from the University of Calgary in 2004. Hye-Seung is currently doing an International Artists Studio Program at Goyang Studio, South Korea. She has received two Visual Arts Project Grants from the AFA and has been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions including dwelling along (with Evan Broens),TRUCK (2007), Two Balloons, Untitled Artist Society +15 Window Gallery, Calgary (2006), and Project_House, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary (2004).
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Shanell Papp is a Lethbridge-based artist who received her B.F.A. from the University of Lethbridge in 2006. Shanell has participated in several group exhibitions including Current, Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2006), Farmhouse at an abandoned farmhouse outside of Brooks (2005), and Cacophony, le petite trianon (2005). Look forward to seeing Shanell’s customization of Ted Stilson’s Moody in Moody Idols: the Urban Vinyl Toy Movement, University of Lethbridge (November 2 – January 11, 2007).
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member news
TED STILSON'S MOODY IDOLS
Ted Stilson has other projects on the horizon for the Moody platform: Ten graffiti artists will be customizing Moody platforms for the “Say Whaaat” show taking place in Washington, D.C. from December 13-16. This is the first designer vinyl art toy exhibition to take place in that area of the United States. After the event, the customs will be sold via an auction with proceeds going to local food banks and homeless shelters. The participating artists include local graffiti writers and artists from various artistic disciplines. As well, thirty artists from Calgary and area will be customizing Moody platforms for next summer's Sled Island Festival.
Check out www.bovinyl.ca for all the latest Moody customs.
contemporary art in lethbridge
local exhibitions + events
JEAN-DENIS BOUDREAU'S _instructions
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Trap\door Artist Run Centre presents Sobey Award nominee Jean-Denis Boudreau’s _instructions at le petit trianon, (downstairs) 104 – 5 Street South, Lethbridge.
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Jean-Denis Boudreau earned a diploma in animation and graphic design from the New Brunswick Community College in 1999 and a BFA in visual arts form the Université de Moncton in 2002. Boudreau works as a sculptor, printmaker and touche-á- tout. His individual and collective works have been shown in the artist-run circuit as well as at large. His most recent work focuses on public intervention. He is currently working as a technician and lecturer at the University of Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick. His work has been presented at the Third Space Gallery, St John and at the Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton. Boudreau has an upcoming solo exhibition scheduled at the Khyber Gallery (2008) Halifax, Nova Scotia. Boudreau has also participated in group exhibitions at the Galerie Sans Nom, Galerie Reuben, Moncton; Viger Square, Montreal; and the 34th Interceltique Festival of Lorient, France.
Boudreau is a member of L’atelier d’estampe Imago, Inc.
JOHN HARTMAN, CITIES
John Hartman's exhibition Cities opens Saturday, November 24 at 8pm and runs until January 20, 2008. This is a nationally touring exhibition organized and circulated by Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound. Curated by Stuart Reid. Presenting Sponsor: Scotiabank Group.
Southern Alberta Art Gallery
601 Third Avenue South
Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 0H4
(403) 327-8770
AGAINST THE GRAIN: JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ART COLLECTION
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Main Gallery
November 9, 2007 – January 18, 2008
Reception: Friday, November 9, 4 – 6 pm
Printmaking for children and adults: Saturday, November 17, 10am – 6 pm
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Hamano masago makie no takashima (A Scene from Goemon at Takashima), from the series, New Plays of the Meiji-za, 1897 |
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Exhibition of historical and contemporary woodblock prints from the University of Alberta Art Collection which houses one of the finest print collections in Canada. Curated by Jim Corrigan, the exhibition outlines the aesthetic, cultural and technical developments of Japanese woodblock printing from the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603 – 1868) to present day, including the development of Ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) leading into the 20th century developments of Shin Hanga (new prints)and Sosaku Hanga (creative prints).
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
4401 University Drive
Lethbridge AB, T1K 3M4
403.329.2666
www.uleth.ca/artgallery
U Of L Main Gallery
W600 Centre for the Arts
New Hours:
10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Monday – Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am – 8:30 pm Thursday
Closed on statutory holidays
For times and full list of activities visit ~ www.uleth.ca/artgallery
MOODY IDOLS: THE URBAN VINYL TOY MOVEMENT
Helen Christou Gallery
November 2, 2007 – January 11, 2008
Reception Friday, November 9, 4 – 6 pm
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Vinyl toys from the collection of Ted Stilson |
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Moody Idols: the urban vinyl toy movement explores this new popular contemporary art form. Lethbridge artist Ted Stilson has commissioned the production of an urban vinyl toy – essentially a blank, 3D “canvas” to which artists add their own design. Stilson’s form, called a “Moody,” represents a stylised cow and the exhibition consists of “Moody” forms painted by local and international artists as well as other urban vinyl toys from Stilson’s collection.
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
4401 University Drive
Lethbridge AB, T1K 3M4
403.329.2666
www.uleth.ca/artgallery
Helen Christou Gallery
9th Level, LINC, U of L
8:00 am – 9:00 pm Everyday
For times and full list of activities visit ~ www.uleth.ca/artgallery
SHADOW SONGS
Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows Performing Shadow Songs
Friday, November 2 at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery
Performance at 8 PM | Doors open at 7 PM
Tickets available at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery $10 in advance $15 at the door ($8 and $13 for SAAG members)
regional exhibitions + festivals
ALBERTA BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART: LIVING UTOPIA AND DISASTER
October 27, 2007 - January 6, 2008.
Curated by Catherine Crowston and Sylvie Gilbert
Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, featuring 22 Alberta artists: Sarah Adams-Bacon, Robin Arseneault, Richard Boulet, Jennifer Bowes, Ken Buera, Kay Burns, Chris Flodberg, Julian Forrest, Paul Freeman, Anu Guha-Thakurta, Terrance Houle/Jarusha Brown, Geoffrey Hunter, David Janzen, Jonathan Kaiser, Mary Kavanagh (Trap\door member), Linh Ly, Annie Martin (Trap\door member), Mark Mullin, Paul Robert, Laurel Smith, and Kristy Trinier.
Walter Phillips Gallery
The Banff Centre
Glyde Hall, St. Julien Way
Banff, Alberta
Phone: 403.762.6281
Email: walter_phillipsgallery@banffcentre.ca
www.banffcentre.ca/wpg
Bison Courtyard Satellite, Place 106
211 Bear Street
Banff, Alberta
LEILA ARMSTRONG, MELODY TIME RANCH
Leila Armstrong’s flat, colourful paintings transform found images in order to gently satirise the conservative gender roles and exaggerated machismo found in classic Western iconography. Drawing from illustrations in a Whitman Big Little Book published in 1968, she explores an alternative relationship between The Lone Ranger and his side-kick Tonto. In small dioramas, narrative fragments are transformed into 3 dimensional playgrounds where guns point outward at imaginary enemies and cowboys have private conversations at the rodeo. Comic strip-style voice bubbles are augmented by longer texts drawn from sources such as Zane Grey’s “Amber’s Mirage” (1929), calling into question the simplistic romanticism of the genre and suggesting more complex relationships between characters. The title Melody Time Ranch is drawn from the name of Gene Autry’s legendary Melody Ranch and Disney’s animated film Melody Time (1948), referencing both the golden age of Westerns and the whimsical, cartoon-like quality of Armstrong’s work.
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calls for submission
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
COMOX VALLEY ART GALLERY
Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC, in partnership with Cultural Capitals Two Month Residency (8 weeks): Feb, Mar. 2008
Artists may apply if they are resident in British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon Territories or Northwest Territories.
We provide: Studio, accommodation, travel expenses to and from the artist’s residence, an honorarium and purchase prize. Artist selected provides: One piece of artwork completed in three months that will belong to the community and placed in a prominent public venue. The artist must be accessible at certain hours to the public in the studio. Two art talks. Two workshops, min 6, max 10 students in each workshop. A fee to the student will be charged for this to compensate the gallery and the artist in residence.
Deadline for show of interest November 3rd. 2007. Email only for your submission package: curator@comoxvalleyartgallery.com
GALERIE SAW GALLERY – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Exhibition: Leaving Deep Water,
Curator: Minh Nguyen
Deadline: November 30, 2007.
In“The Site of Memory,”an essay written by the African American writer Toni Morrison, water, as “flooding,” is linked to the flow of cultural memory contained by images or pictures. Viscerally, water is also considered a purifier in most religions around the world, and is often believed to have spiritual powers. Colourless, tasteless and odourless, this essential substance of all forms of life is both an economic commodity and the source of many sociopolitical contentions throughout historical ages. To explore the expansive metaphorical nature of water, Galerie SAW Gallery invites submissions from artists in Canada and the US, emerging or established, and from culturally diverse communities.The submitted works must demonstrate a strong intention in exploring the nature of water as a metaphorical element, a medium, a material, a site, or combination thereof. Works in drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, mixed media, installation, media art and Internet-based art will be considered. Proposals from performance artists are also welcome. The exhibition is scheduled to take place in the spring of 2008. All selected artists will receive an exhibition fee.
Please include: up to 10 images of your work (digital files, slides or prints), an image list, a CV (max. 3 pages), an artist statement (max. 300 words) and a self-addressed stamped envelope (if applicable). Please do not send original artwork. Submissions can be sent through regular mail or electronically. For digital images, please submit jpg files only, at a resolution of 72 dpi and 500 KB maximum. Title each file (image) with a number, your initials, the year and title of your work (for example: 01MN2007LeavingWater.jpg). Please send submissions to: Minh Nguyen, Curatorial Resident Galerie SAW Gallery 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa ON Canada K1N 7B9 sawresident@artengine.ca
For more information on Galerie SAW Gallery, please consult our website www.galeriesawgallery.com. This project is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
NEW $6 MILLION ARTS GRANT PROGRAM NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS!
First grant deadline for Alberta Creative Development Initiative is December 1
Calgary, September 27, 2007 – Alberta artists and arts organizations have until December 1 to apply for the first round of funding under the Alberta Creative Development Initiative (ACDI), a new $6 million fund that will support further development of the arts in Alberta over the next three years.
The Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) are jointly responsible for the new granting program in cooperation with the Calgary Arts Development Authority and the Edmonton Arts Council.
“We’re really excited about this opportunity to reach out to the arts community in Alberta, a province where the arts scene is vibrant and dynamic,” said Canada Council Director Robert Sirman. “We hope that this important partnership with Alberta arts funders will create additional opportunities for the work of Alberta artists to be seen and enjoyed by audiences in the province, across the country and internationally.”
Under the ACDI, arts organizations and individual artists, including professional artists, arts administrators and collectives can apply for project specific grants. Arts organizations can apply for a maximum of $30,000 per year or up to $75,000 for multi-year projects. Individual artists can apply for a maximum of $20,000 per year.
“I’m very pleased that the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Canada Council are working together to support Alberta artists and arts organizations,” said Hector Goudreau, Minister of Alberta Tourism, Parks, Recreation and Culture. “A healthy arts and cultural infrastructure, that includes partnerships between funding bodies and different levels of government is critical to Alberta’s continued prosperity, and will help to further strengthen our arts sector.”
The Canada Council and the AFA are each contributing $1 million per year for three years to the program. The AFA is the Government of Alberta’s principal arts funding agency.
“This new opportunity is available to artists and organizations throughout our province,” said Audrey Luft, Chair of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. “I know it will be put to good use by our creative and resourceful artistic community.”
Arts organizations that do not currently receive operating support from the Canada Council can apply for funding to support research, creation, production and/or dissemination, as well as administrative projects that build the capacity of the organization. They can also apply for audience development projects that increase an organization’s public impact and/or profile. Organizations currently receiving operating support from the Canada Council can apply to the ACDI for administrative and audience development grants only.
ACDI grants for individual artists will support research, creation, production and/or dissemination, as well as professional development, including residencies. The grant includes a maximum subsistence allowance of $2,000 per month, as well as expenses directly related to the project.
To assist in the administration of the ACDI, and to ensure Alberta artists and arts organizations are informed about Canada Council programs, the Council has hired Stephen Williams as program officer for western Canada. He is based in Edmonton and can be reached at 780-288-2558.
REMEMBER...
Trap\door’s next call for submissions is May 1st, 2008.
Submissions must include:
- a curriculum vitae
- 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
Please send your submission package to:
Trap\door Artist Run Centre
c/o 811 5 Ave S
Lethbridge, AB, Canada
T1J 0V2
info@trapdoorarc.com
www.trapdoorarc.com
View the Submissions page for further details.
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