Kate Ritchie's exhibition Repetition in Rebuilding explores the concept of home as a dynamic space woven from intimacy and affection.
The artists of Connect Four have come together in the spirit of experimentation to create new and exciting works in glass.
Drawn, a Discovery Gallery exhibition of woven works by Mackenzie Kelly-Frère, examines cloth as a contextual object, enmeshing ways of thinking and being in the natural world.
Potluck is an exhibition of works from six artists of the Nina Collective, a group of Edmonton artists working in the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts studios
Edmonton artist AJA Louden shifts his focus from painting to textiles to explore ideas grounded in Afrofuturism that consider the cyclical nature of power, inspired by science fiction and historical paintings.
Celebrating the creativity, innovation and skill of emerging, Canadian Craft artists, Coming Up Next is an exhibition of works selected from a diverse variety of approaches, mediums, and regions.
Through meditative deconstruction, pulling apart canvas thread by thread, Elise Findlay’s exhibition Another Life reflects how small everyday battles can lead to burnout.
A pillar in the Alberta ceramic scene for over five decades, Glorious Mud celebrates potter Sam Uhlick’s notable career.
An exhibition of works by Edmonton craftsman, educator, and gallerist Ralph Reichenbach
The Portage College Native Arts & Culture Program: Legacy of Graduates exhibition celebrates recent graduates from this program showing works that broach contemporary issues in traditional materials and art forms.
Lael Chmelyk is a Calgary based artist and graduate of the Ceramics Department at AUArts. In her exhibition Haptic Rituals she explores ideas of “otherhood” through quilting and functional ceramics.
In her exhibition Converse Subversives, Calgary artist Shona Rae uses narrative, figurative sculptures to engage traditional myths, fairy tales, folklore, ancient artifacts and personal history.
Annette ten Cate’s solo exhibition Wildly Sensitive features hand built, clay sculptures that reflect a deep connection to Alberta’s wildlife.
An exhibition of works in clay by artist Ritchie Velthuis, Making of a Monument chronicles the process of creating SCTV Monument, a public artwork located in downtown Edmonton’s Ice District, and offers a proud reflection of an iconic Edmonton creation.
Artist Heather Shillinglaw, whose family is from the LeGoff Indian Reserve, honours the language of her nohkums and kookums (grandmothers) and weaves oral teachings inspired by the natural world. Shillinglaw incorporates the work of historians, scholars, and elders in her artwork, effectively turning it into cultural sharing, and rediscovering her roots to the land by using the philosophy and languages of her ancestors. Blending concepts of body, mind and spirit that become woven messages through her practice, Shillinglaw’s art evolves in her storytelling and re-telling of familial oral histories. Shillinglaw references aerial photographs of the landscapes depicted and recontoured in this exhibition taking a bird’s eye view: these are places of significance to Shillinglaw’s family history she assembles to “encourage us to remember, remember, remember.”
There was a reception with the artist in attendance on June 3, from 5pm to 7pm.
Read an Alberta Foundation for the Arts article featuring the exhibition.
(re)Form is a solo exhibition of works by Carissa Baktay on display at the Alberta Craft Council’s Discovery Gallery in Edmonton from March 19-April 30, 2022.
The exhibition unfolds over thresholds both physical and imaginary. Baktay’s process-based practice is deeply connected to material and memory in an attempt to understand memories of land (place) and home (body). By collecting, repurposing and transforming materials, she transforms their presence in space and presents a new poetic material understanding that shares the borders between art, craft and design.
Baktay is a multi-media sculptor, sharing her time between Iceland and Alberta. As an experienced glass maker she has earned degrees from Alberta University of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design and Universidade de Nova Lisboa. She uses experimental technologies and mediums combined with time honoured methods to make her work.
