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Artist Talk with Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24th – 6 PM

Join us In Person for ‘What’s Held’ Artist Talk with Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet as she shares the stories behind her work and provides insight to her curatorial practice.
Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet (she/her) is a mixed Cree, Métis, and Dutch artist coming from scrip land, and descending from Michel First Nation. Kiona is currently practicing in amiskwaciwâskahikan, where she primarily works in painting and printmaking while exploring stories of grief and tenderness.
Her practice uses a non-linear telling of memories through narrative work as a form of personal archiving. It draws from feelings of loss, displacement, and enfranchisement, but also from moments of deep belly laughter.
Paired with her studio practice, Kiona has also been working alongside other artists in initiatives of community care, co-organizing Making Space in partnership with Sanaa Humayun. Making Space is a visual-arts focused BIPOC peer mentorship group prioritizing collaboration through workshops, artist visits, studio hangouts, and a shared love of gossip, support, and privacy.
Learn More About What’s Held

ALBERTA CULTURE DAYS EVENTS AT THE GALLERY

Alberta Culture Days is an opportunity for Albertans to discover, experience and celebrate arts and culture through local events and activities across the province. This event is part of National Culture Days, which includes more than 800 communities from coast to coast, to increase awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities.

LIVE EVENTS

SKETCH PARTY

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2022 AT 
1:30-4:00PM

We’re having a sketch party and you’re invited to draw the artworks in our current exhibitions! The Art Gallery is also featuring art activities in the Carlstrom Family Green Space, our interactive gallery, including a community art project where every visitor may contribute. This event is free and all materials are provided. *while quantities last. Everyone welcome!

ONGOING EVENTS

TAKE HOME ART ACTIVITIES:
Free Creativity Kit

September 1 to 30, 2022 at The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie

We have created FREE take home creativity kits for you to explore your creativity and enjoy art-making your way! Glue, stick, twist and tie, build and have fun! Feel free to mix and match the materials provided how it makes sense to you! Pick up your FREE Creativity Kit at the gallery during our regular hours. Kits are for all ages. Limit 1 of each kit per person. *while quantities last.

If you are an organization or group wanting a larger order of any art kits, please contact garry@aggp.ca or call 780-357-7480.

Call to Members – Featured Member Wall 2023

Are you a Member of the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie? Are you also an Artist? We’d love to work with you!

The Featured Member Wall is an opportunity that’s offered as a membership benefit. We know many who support the Gallery through membership are also artists. As part of our commitment to showcasing local artwork, and to celebrate our dedicated members, we have released our latest Call for Submissions for 2D or 3D artwork to be featured in the Gallery’s reception area. This is a great opportunity for emerging artists looking to display their artwork, as thousands of visitors interested in the Arts will see this work.

 

Submission Deadline: Monday, October 3, 2022
(Now extended to May 1st, 2023)

Artist Fee($): Honorarium is paid to artists based on the length of term

Submission Criteria:

  • Please send a JPEG image of your work.
  • Submissions must be no larger than 40 inches wide. Artwork doesn’t have to meet the maximum size, but it can’t exceed it. As an example, an artist could submit two drawings that are each 11×14 and that would be ok to display together too.
  • Framing isn’t a requirement, but artwork does need to be ready to be displayed. That may mean a matted/framed photograph, or a stretched canvas with wire hangers, or a wooden sculpture we can display on a plinth.
  • Submissions must include the name of the artwork, date, medium, size.
  • Please send a short artist statement or a description of the individual artwork.
  • Please send a short biography of the artist to help us get to know you.

 

Apply: Please apply and send questions by email to melanie@aggp.ca

We encourage submissions from emerging artists of all ages and from those with little to no exhibition history.

Successful submissions will be featured in the Gallery’s reception area for up to 3 months.

Memberships: Memberships may be purchased online or at the Front Reception desk.

Purchase a membership online

 

Image: Current Featured Member display
Dian Ezzeddine. “Taking Flight” 2021. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

 

Artwork: Pam Wilcox. Done For The Day. May 2020, Printed and Framed Photograph, 36 inches × 24 inches (Fall 2021)

 

Artwork: Heide Enzmann. Pandemonium, 2020. Alcohol Ink and Paint Marker on Canvas. 36 inches x 36 inches (Summer 2020)

 

Artwork: Patrick Evans. A Little Landscape, 2021. Oil paint on canvas (Spring 2022)

 

UPCOMING EXHIBITION!

Next week we will begin installing Sock Monkey Scenarios.

In Sock Monkey Scenarios, Vancouver-based artist Thomas Anfield explores in his paintings the labyrinth-like and tangled conditions of being human through the symbol of the beloved Sock Monkey. Inviting us into his carefully choreographed scenes, Anfield’s Sock Monkeys look curiously familiar as we encounter them in universal human spheres by themselves, or in relationship with each other evoking both, immediate self-reflection as well as imagined realities. In their theatrical and anthropomorphic quality, each painting shines light on the complexity of being human and the constant shape shifting we experience in the Theatre of Life.

The opening reception for Sock Monkey Scenarios will be June 16th, from 6pm – 8pm at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie.

Check out the exhibition page for updates here.

This exhibition was curated by Sabine Schneider, Curator, Learning.

This exhibition was sponsored by Crouse’s Cleaners.

Featured artwork: Portrait Sitting, Thomas Anfield, acrylic on canvas, 36″ x 20″, 2020

 

2022/2023 TREX Booking Catalogue Launch!!

This year we are excited to offer three new exhibitions curated by Robin Lynch (previous Curator/Manager, TREX Northwest) that will feature several Peace Region-based artists, as well as 8 additional exhibitions to choose from.

The exhibitions developed by the AGGP will be accompanied by free online videos featuring artists from the exhibitions, in addition to the free educational packages we always provide with each travelling exhibition.

TREX programs are available for booking by schools, libraries, galleries, community centres, health centres, museums, archives, tourism centres, and other publicly accessible venues across the Northwest region in Alberta.

The full booking catalogue and request forms are available on our website here:
We look forward to bringing art to your community!

UPCOMING EXHIBITION!

 

Next week we will begin installing  ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios.

The exhibition presents the story of a group of Inuit artists and printmakers who produced a collection of graphic textiles in Kinngait, (Cape Dorset, Nunavut) in the 1950s and 60s. The Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios includes over 60 printed textiles artworks from different Inuit artists and printmakers, and it depicts legends, stories, and traditional ways of life of Inuit community.

This exhibition will open on May 26, 2022.
Check the exhibition page for updates here.

Curatorial Lead: Roxane Shaughnessy
Project Partner: West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative
Project Advisor: West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative Art Committee and Dr. heather IgIoliorte.

Organized and circulated by the Textile Museum of Canada with the support of the Museum Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage. Reproduced with the permission of Dorset Fine Arts.

Artist Open Call – Jazz Music + Art

Submission Deadline
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 8:00 pm MST

EXHIBITION
Jazz Music + Art
(A group exhibition of paintings, conceptual sound installation, and music)

Exhibition Theme
Jazz Music + Art will be a multidisciplinary group exhibition that will explore the relationship between jazz music and visual art through their interaction and influences on each other. The artworks should showcase rhythm and movement as artists create engaging experiences for the audience through various methods of emulating music techniques, such as colour, repetition, and layering in visual art and contemporary interactive installations. The installations should present the influence of sound in the creation of art and exemplify how music has inspired the artworks as well as the art-making process.

The goal would be to create an engaging exhibition that addresses the interdisciplinary nature of visual art and music, while highlighting historical aspects of the jazz movement, and the artists that engage with new medias and musical concepts. The artworks featured in this exhibition would be selected for their use of bold colours, shapes, and interactive sound art that reflects music in contemporary visual art. The exhibition aims to feature a multitude of diverse contemporary artists from visual artists to conceptual installation artists, to sound artists and musicians.

Through the open call, we hope to feature artists who are inspired and/or influenced by jazz music or any musical influences within their visual practice or musical practice.

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie (AGGP) welcomes proposals from artists in all media for the upcoming exhibition that reflects on the proposed theme.

The AGGP pays fees to artists and curators in accord with CARFAC/CARCC standards.

Submission Requirements:

  • Artist’s curriculum vitae
  • Artist Statement
  • Up to 10 jpgs* with corresponding image list (Title, Medium, Size, Year | optional – paragraph describing image)
  • A written project proposal of work to be submitted for theme

*For digital images submit only .jpg files in RGB format at a resolution of 150 dpi, with a maximum size of 4 MB and a maximum of 2000 pixels on the longest side.

 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 8:00 pm MST

To apply
Please email your submissions to: manar@aggp.ca

 

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Northern Alberta Artist in Residence

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Deadline: 8pm MST, Tuesday, March 15, 2022

SNAP (The Society of Northern Alberta-Print-Artists) and Travelling Exhibitions Northwest (TREX NW) invite applications from artists with a printmaking practice who wish to work in the SNAP Printshop for a 5-week period to develop a new body of work. This body of work will go towards an exhibition with TREX NW for the Fall of 2023. This visiting artist program is open to artists based in Northern Alberta who live outside of major centres such as Edmonton. The residency will take place between the months of July and August 2022 (unless otherwise negotiated).

SNAP is a Non-profit Artist-Run Centre in Edmonton, Alberta dedicated to the production, presentation and dissemination of Fine Art Printmaking and Contemporary Print Media. For more information about SNAP, visit their About section.

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) has supported a provincial travelling exhibitions (TREX) program since 1981 to provide as many communities as possible across Alberta with the opportunity to see visual art exhibitions, and to share the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts with the public. A provincially run program, TREX programs highlight the work of Alberta-based artists, helping to promote and encourage artistic careers in the province. The TREX program is hosted by four different organizations across Alberta, who each manage the program for different region. TREX NW is hosted by the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie. For more information, visit our TREX NW webpage.

The Northern Alberta visiting artist residency will be selected by jury with representatives from both SNAP & the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie.

Visiting Artist Residency Program Includes:

  • 24/7 access to the Printshop for a maximum 5 week consecutive period.
  • A $5000.00 CAD artist fee (paid by TREX NW) upon completion of the residency)
  • A $500.00 CAD materials stipend (materials purchased must be used during residency & will be administered by SNAP staff)
  • A maximum contribution of $2000.00 CAD accommodation support
  • Contribution towards travel to and from Edmonton for the residency.
  • A future TREX NW show using some of the works/techniques developed during the residency.
  • Potential delivery by the artist of a public demonstration, lecture or workshop
  • The opportunity for broad public engagement with the artist’s project and studio work

Submission Requirements:

  • Artist’s curriculum vitae
  • 10-20 jpegs with corresponding image list
  • A written project proposal of work to be completed during residency
  • An exhibition idea for a travelling exhibition that would result in part out of the work done during the residency.

 

Conditions

Visiting Artists at SNAP are expected to engage regularly with our community of studio renters, artists and SNAP patrons through attendance at events, informal critiques with emerging artists and others, attendance at exhibition openings and other events happening throughout the artist’s stay. Furthermore, Visiting Artists will be expected to become members of the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists covering the duration of their residency term and sign the standard SNAP Printshop rental agreement outlining terms of use and liability as well as adhere to all health and safety protocols in place during the time of residency. All artists working in the SNAP printshop are required to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

One print or artist proof from each edition printed during the residency must be provided to SNAP for retention in the print archive. The work produced during this residency must go towards the future TREX NW exhibition.

Submissions close at 8pm MST on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. 

To apply please email your submissions to: robin@aggp.ca

For more information about this program, contact Curator/Manager Travelling Exhibitions Northwest, Robin Lynch: robin@aggp.ca, 780-357-7483

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Upcoming Exhibition – Fantastic Worlds

Next week we will begin installing Fantastic Worlds, a group exhibition from 16 artists, with 20 works from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Fantastic Worlds asks us: how do we imagine the future? What other kinds of realities are possible? What would happen if time and space could bend, stop, or fast-forward?

Each of the works is a playful invitation to imagine and build worlds, new experiences, and ways of seeing. This generative and exploratory aspect of the fantastic is why historically, especially during challenging times of economic crisis and war, these artistic strategies have often surged to grapple with uncertainty, change, and the large, complicated question of the future. By offering an outlet of creative investigation that does not conform to the boundaries of our surroundings, the works in Fantastic Worlds express both the desire and potential to construct new pathways forward and challenge existing assumptions or barriers.

Check the exhibition page for updates here.

This exhibition was curated by Robin Lynch, Curator/Manager of Travelling Exhibitions Northwest

Featured artwork: Inflow, Alice Mansell, pencil on paper, 1978. From the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

 

The Travelling Exhibitions Program Northwest is sponsored by KMSC Law LLP

Fantastic Worlds was sponsored by Canadian Tire, Grande Prairie

 

Grande Northern Winter Festival : January 14-16, 2022

The festival hosts an array of activities throughout the downtown core including Bonnetts Energy Centre, Montrose Cultural Centre, and Muskoseepi Park. It aims to create a unique experience centered around ice and snow, to embrace the northern winters, provide residents an event to look forward to during this season, and encourage community connection. Click HERE for all the details.

Happening at the Montrose Cultural Centre:

Free Art Activities at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie

January 14-16

Free

Inviting the community to an Interactive Community Art Experience in the gallery space! Scratch & Shape Community Mural and Illuminate & Glow Community Art Installation are two interactive activity spaces you will be able to experience on the second level of the Art Gallery.

 

Skating Oval

January 14-16 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Free

Grande Prairie DownTown Association will bring back the skating oval at Montrose Cultural Centre. Grab your skates and helmets and enjoy this classic outdoor activity. While you’re there join in the nostalgia of warming up beside one of the fire pits!

 

Crokicurl

January 14 -16 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Free

If you’ve never heard of Crokicurl, you are going to want to bring the family down to try this game out! It is a combination of crokinole and curling, curling rocks will be provided just be sure to bundle up for this outdoor activity.

 

Ice Slide

January 14 -16 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Free

Enjoy this fun and frosty activity as a part of the Grande North Winter Festival.There will be a glowing ice slide for you to experience this winter, come try it out.

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Wednesday: 10 am – 6 pm
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Holidays: Closed

 

 

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