In June of 2013, southern Alberta experienced one of the worst floods in its history. In Calgary, the Bow and Elbow rivers burst their banks and spilled into downtown. In their strange tranquillity, these images capture a space transformed, reclaimed by nature, and ripe with theoretical prospects left unrealized. On the tenth anniversary of the flooding of southern Alberta
“We all live in interior spaces whether it be in an urban or rural environment. We probably spend half of our lives there. We also observe the exterior of other people’s interior environments. These experiences can become metaphors for ourselves whereby we examine our interior spaces.”
The Alberta Society of Artists is excited to present “Home & Migration,” a travelling exhibition of visual artworks from a varied selection of Alberta Artists. Now in Calgary at the Alberta Society of Artists Upper Gallery after its initial run at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton. All presented works were selected from submissions to the Alberta Society of Artists’ call by a blind Jury.
A group exhibition by ASA Juried Members from the Edmonton area in the Walterdale Theatre
“We Are Our Ancestry documents stages in my process, both painful and celebratory, of coming to understand my familial, cultural, and historical ancestral inheritances. What does it mean to be a contemporary Métis woman who is beginning the process of reconnecting to her lost culture?”