TREX Exhibition: Mysterious Forest Life

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Mysterious Forest Life

Location : Northern Rockies Museum, Hinton (April 17 - May 14)

Artist : Sharon Krushel 

Featured Artwork : 
Mushrooms on Moss - Russula sp.
Photography:
Collection of the Artist

While exploring what I call the Enchanted Aspen Forest north of the town of Peace River, my daughter, Jessie, and I found this little fairy’s dining room, featuring a mushroom table on moss carpet. Imagine walking on such a soft floor. Jessie has been my best mushroom scout. She also found the fairy’s bathtub on page 10.  p. 9 in Mother Earth

About the Artist:

Sharon delights in collaboration and has been designing greeting cards since 2012, featuring her own images as well as those of other northern artists (DonaBonaCards.com).

Her pandemic project, the Mother Earth book, sprouted wings and took 31 fellow photographers on board. Beyond the 1st and 2nd printings, the Mother Earth project has taken on a life of its own with travelling exhibits, guided hikes, Mother Earth presentations in schools, galleries and libraries, music videos, and live-music slideshows.

Sharon’s favourite new word is BIOPHILIA - a deep desire to connect with other species of living things. This may inspire her to lie on her belly on the edge of a black spruce bog to photograph Big Red Stem moss through a macro lens, or to refrain from photography so she can be lost in the magic of staring into the curious eyes of a Canada Lynx for seven seconds before it shyly retreats from the path.

About TREX

The AFA's Travelling Exhibition (TREX) program strives to ensure every Albertan is provided with an opportunity to enjoy fully developed exhibitions in schools, libraries, health care centres and smaller rural institutions and galleries throughout the province.

The TREX program assists in making both the AFA's extensive art collection and the work of contemporary Alberta artists available to Albertans.

Four regional organizations now coordinate the program for the Foundation:

These partners offer a wide range of exhibitions to communities from High Level in the north, to Milk River in the south, and virtually everywhere in between.

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