In conjunction with Heather Passmore’s exhibition Gatekeepers, there was a panel discussion with Jen Budney (Associate curator, Mendel Art Gallery), Susan Shantz (Faculty, Art & Art History, University of Saskatchewan), featured artist Heather Passmore and moderated by AKA Director Dagmara Genda. This took place on May 5th, 2012, from 1:30 to 3:30 pm in the AKA […]
Continue readingPead and Smith use reclaimed sporting equipment to address notions of how national, local and personal identities are constructed through sports.
Continue readingMichael Benjamin Brown & Sylvia Matas One night only bookworks exhibit March 20, 2012 Brown and Matas present their newest book works in an international tour that started in Rejkavik, Iceland.
Continue readingRobert Dayton, also known as the Canadian Romantic, made a stop at AKA on a cold winter night, and it was an intimate and enjoyable evening. You can see some of his work here, and we can only hope he passes this way again.
Continue readingDustin Wilson has developed a multidisciplinary approach with a focus on contemporary narrative drawing.
Continue readingArriving at Dustin Wilson’s artist talk at AKA Gallery I was running a little behind schedule. Delicate matters of personal hygiene demanded some attention thus delaying my departure, and so I walked tardily right into the middle of his enchanting lecture. Three seconds in and I was utterly absorbed by an elaborate yet stoic case study, as the artist proceeded to layer text onto the open terrain of the future.
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