• PUBLISHED on October 30, 2012

Latest news: AKA Members are welcome to attend at the CARFAC member rate of $10!   CARFAC Saskatchewan is hosting its biennial symposium in Saskatoon on November 17th at Prairieland Park. The symposium “Artful Dialogue” will include artist presentations on the Art of Mentorship by Iris Hauser and Sylvia Ziemann, a panel discussion “Contemporary Artists & […]

• PUBLISHED on October 10, 2012

Cathy Busby talks to CKOM about her billboard project at AKA and PAVED arts, and you can listen to that here. The interview is the first segment on the show.

• PUBLISHED on October 09, 2012

AKA and Paved (with Holophon) had an amazing response and turnout for our Sounds Like…Audio Art Festival II this year, and part of that is due to interested parties and sound artists from near and far coming to Saskatoon for that three night event. In that spirit, Send + Receive A Festival of Sound v14 […]

• PUBLISHED on October 03, 2012

Passing on an exciting initiative that comes to us from Kristen Holfeur, whom you may remember from SKIT SKIT performances and also from her one person show For The You in the last Saskatoon Fringe Festival, this past summer of 2012. “I’m writing to let you know about The Art Card, a new arts community […]

• PUBLISHED on October 03, 2012

CFCR 90.5, Saskatoon’s Community Radio Station, is doing the Artists for Alternative Radio Community Radio’s 10th Annual Art Auction and this is something I encourage all AKA members and beyond to consider submitting work for, as CFCR is a station committed to local coverage of the cultural scene in many ways and in many forms. I’ve included […]

• PUBLISHED on October 02, 2012

Proof 20 | Call for Submissions New! | Emerging Canadian Curators | Deadline Nov. 1 (extended) Emerging Canadian Artists | Deadline Nov. 1 Proof is Gallery 44’s annual exhibition of photo-based work by Canadian emerging artists reflecting a range of current concerns and practices in contemporary photography from across the country. Proof is often one of the first exhibitions […]

• PUBLISHED on September 25, 2012

…to Cathy Busby’s Budget Cuts that is currently on display on the shared AKA / PAVED billboard. You can see an article on this work here, at APTN, and here at CKOM. There’s also been some coverage from CBC Radio out of Regina, and if anyone comes across any other news coverage, feel free to pass […]

• PUBLISHED on September 21, 2012

This is the latest listing for submission calls and other opportunities from AGAVF. From now on, with the new AKA site, I’ll be posting this kind of information here rather than in mass emails.

• PUBLISHED on September 19, 2012

  I realized that I’d been posting this all over the web, on a variety of Facebook groups, but hadn’t put an image of Cathy Busby’s billboard project, titled Budget Cuts, up on the AKA site yet. It will be on display, according to my information, for the rest of the fall. More of Cathy’s work […]

• PUBLISHED on September 11, 2012

Here are some images from two of the three Members’ Space Exhibitions that happened in August of 2012. The first set is from Jinzhe Cui‘s exhibition Inner Voice, and the second is from Evgenia Mikhaylova‘s Russia Gone Wild.                      You can see more of their works at their respective websites, […]