William Garrett-Petts
Artist’s Talk

Tuesday May 20, at 6 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building 204
Free

With reference to his own work as a writer, curator, and critic, Garrett-Petts explore notions of Making Artistic Inquiry Visible.

Simon Jones
Artist’s Talk

Thursday, June 5, at 6 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

Dr. Simon Jones is a writer and scholar. Using his own practice with the performance company Bodies in Flight as a case-study, he will discuss collaboration and the relationship between research questions and dynamic arts practices.

Andrew Hunter
Artist’s Talk

Thursday, June 12, at 6 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

Independent artist, writer, and curator Andrew Hunter presents Neither Brain Surgery nor Rocket Science.

Visual Arts
Open Studios

Friday June 13, 3–6 p.m.
Glyde Hall Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

Delve into the world of visual art as artists, writers, and curators showcase work created during the Making Artistic Inquiry Visible Thematic Residency program.

Jan Verwoert
Public Lecture

The Community of the Jealous Lovers of Solitude
Tuesday, July 22, at 8 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

Jan Verwoert is an art critic based in Berlin. A member of the advisory board of the Munich Kunstverein and a guest professor of contemporary art and theory at the Academy of Umeå, Sweden, as well as the Royal College of Art, London, Verwoert is fascinated by art that is hedonist, romantic, personal, emotional, melodramatic or humorous.

Rousseau, Thoreau, and many writers and artists after them have celebrated the nature retreat as a place where, outside society, the principles of the social could be reinvented. Somewhat discredited by the ill-fated experiments of modern drop-out cultures and the doctrinaire teachings of self-styled messianic outsiders, the romantic dream of re-inventing the social in solitude still has not lost its fascination. How can we today think through the pitfalls and potentials of the romantic dream of activating the collectivity within and inaugurating a different social order?

Johanne Sloan
Artist’s Talk

Thursday, July 24, at 7 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

Art historian and associate professor, department of art history, Concordia University, presents A Stroll through the Televisual Plein-air. Pleinairism may have faded from the discourse of modern art, but the urge to represent natural environments has persisted and mutated in contemporary visual culture.

Visual Arts
Open House
with Paul Butler

Friday August 15, 1 –6 p.m.
Walter Phillips Gallery, Glyde Hall,
and Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

Join artist Paul Butler, Visual Arts staff, and artists in the “Figure in a Mountain Landscape” residency for an afternoon of experiments and demonstrations. Refreshments provided.

1 – 2 p.m. Paul Butler’s tour. Meeting place: Walter Phillips Gallery lobby
1 – 5 p.m. Replicate yourself. Body casting with Matt Walker. Sculpture Shop, Glyde Hall
1 – 5 p.m. Witness the world upside down with Sarah Ciurysek’s camera obscura. Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building Room 213
1 – 5 p.m. A Sundae Afternoon: Ice Cream Landscapes for young and old. Glyde Hall
1 – 6 p.m. Open Studios, Figure in a Mountain Landscape residency artists. Glyde Hall and Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
2 – 3 p.m. Tour the 75th anniversary show, Bureau de change. Meeting place: Walter Phillips Gallery lobby
3 – 5 p.m. Wendy Tokaryk turns garbage into gold. Print Studio, Glyde Hall
4 – 5 p.m. Paul Butler’s tour. Meeting place: Walter Phillips Gallery lobby
4 – 5 p.m. Ed Bamiling heats up the Raku Lab. Ceramics Deck, Glyde Hall