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Media Mondays
The pick of the pics - St. Albert Gazette
Arts council releases calls for public art in Edmonton arena district - Metro News
The medium and the message: Art Spiegelman on the future of comics and why graphic novels are often a bad idea - VueWeekly
ArtBeat: November 16-22 - CKUA
Weekend Pick: Opening Receptions at Latitude 53
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Tonight at 7pm, two new shows are opening at Latitude 53: "Classroom on Culture Reflection: Confucius City Edmonton Project" by Jing Yuan Huang, and "Rhythms Humanitarian" by Madhi Neamah.
Both shows run until January 17, and more information can be found on the Facebook event here.
Media Mondays
Blanchet returns to CAVA - St. Albert Gazette
Sound artists fill gallery - Edmonton Examiner
Michael Hingston: There's nothing about ink Ted Bishop doesn't know - Edmonton Journal
Street camera gang fights the good fight - Gig City
PS Notes Issue 1: "Communitas: Artistic explorations through intermedia" by Brad Necyk
Haylee Fortin. "Close Encounters film still."
Edmonton is emerging onto the international stage as a large city that is generally known for its robust economic presence. However, distinct strides have been made by the city and province to also establish Edmonton as a city with strong research and post-secondary infrastructure, a budding cultural sphere, and a growing sense of community amongst the urban sprawl. I am aware that this prior statement has many avenues of contention, but those are not the points I wish to discuss As a Sessional Instructor at the University of Alberta for senior level courses in Drawing and Intermedia, I believe that this program has created space for young creative practitioners to take risks and think critically about their contemporary condition, whether locally or globally, and to ask questions through their work. The Drawing and Intermedia student artists discussed in this article are all diverse in their approach, something very important within the Intermedia program, but have all remained consistent in engaging notions of community and how to create through-lines between their local conditions and desire for further connection...
To read the rest of Brad's essay, click through to Issue 1 of PrairieSeen Notes!
Weekend Pick: Tête Jaune - Edmonton's Industrial Design Show
The opening party is tonight, but this industrial design show (the first to be hosted by Bushel) is on all weekend at Iconoclast Koffiehuis.
Come out, see the show (for free!) and check out the wares for sale on Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 am - 6:00 pm. A panel discussion will take place on Saturday at 2:00 pm - bring your curiosity and questions for the designers!
More information can be found on the Tête Jaune Facebook event here.
For Hire
If you're looking for a job, have we got the post for you! Plenty of arty job postings have been put up recently, and we couldn't wait to share them. Polish off that resume/cover letter, put your best foot forward, and happy hunting!
Communications Officer - Edmonton Arts Council (Deadline November 7)
Programs Assistant - Latitude 53 (Deadline November 10)
Communications Coordinator - Latitude 53 (Deadline November 13)
Curatorial Assistant - University of Alberta Museums and Collections Services (Deadline November 14)
Museum Collections Manager - University of Alberta Museums and Collections Services (Review of applications commences November 17)
Public Programs and Outreach Coordinator - Art Gallery of Alberta (Deadline November 20)
Collections Assistant - Dentistry Museum - University of Alberta Museums and Collections Services (Deadline December 1)
Media Mondays
Happy November, everyone! We hope you all had a fantastically spooky Halloween weekend filled with fun and way too much candy.
While you're kicking back with your daily Pumpkin Spice Latte, why not take this time to go over last week's art news?
A howling accomplishment at imagineNATIVE (St. Albert Gazette)
Fallen soldiers' humanity restored through portrait collection (St. Albert Gazette)
Social Seen: The Barber of Seville and Nocturne at the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton Journal)
On Board with Patrick Mahon (CuriousArts Blog)
PS Notes Issue 1: Review: Richard Boulet "Early Recovery" by Justine Hartlieb-Power
Richard Boulet, Untitled, drawing/ mixed media, 1994-2000. Image by Nika Blasser for dc3 Art Projects
Early Recovery is a testament to the complicated relationship we have with mental or physical illness: as the title suggests, there is a vast amount of hopefulness in the act of recovering, yet the very concept of recovery dialectically draws upon a number of concerns: if there was recovery, surely there was a period in which the subject was under a great deal of distress? How does one define ‘early,’ and does not an early recovery hint at the possibility of a breakdown in the future? It is precisely this period of conscious recovery and dis-ease that Richard Boulet addresses with his collection of nearly 100 drawings at dc3 Art Projects, spanning the years 1994 to 2000 and displayed according to size and paper type.
It is difficult not to feel some level of discomfort while looking through Boulet’s images, specifically because his work embodies various and conflicting states of mental anguish and hopeful playfulness—states of being that most can identify with whether or not they are comfortable with such facts. Yet Boulet stresses that the works are ultimately imbued with ‘positive life energy,’ and should therefore be understood as a form of controlled artistic release. The drawings themselves are an affirmation of this: taken as a whole, they are characterized by a naïve or child-like elegance, albeit one coupled with contorted, deformed bodies and frenetic mark making. Their feverish beauty contrasts heavily with the gallery-white walls and their logical, symmetrical pairings, making them appear contained - but only barely so.
To read more of this review, check out PrairieSeen Notes Issue 1!
