Date: February 27, 2025 | 5:30 pm
Location: Royal Alberta Museum
Tickets: $21 (includes RAM admission and all materials) This workshop is free for Indigenous Peoples.
Do you have a pair of moccasins you no longer wear but keep for sentimental reasons? Preserving them with proper storage will allow you to carry the memory of not only the places they have been, but of the people who wore them.
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
Get Started with Letterpress printing and try our Vandercook press, Platen press, and Nolan press!
Looking for a quick and beautiful way to do relief printing? Using printing presses will give you the speed and flexibility to take your art to the next level. Compatible with Linocut printing, Polymer plates and Woodcuts, this class gives you the knowledge to lock these things up with lead type or on their own in their two user friendly presses!
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.
