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Art NOW Speaker Series: Ernie Kroeger
12 pm, September 14, 2016
University Recital Hall
Ernie Kroeger holds a B.F.A. from the University of Manitoba and an M.F.A. from the University of Calgary. He is an interdisciplinary artist utilizing photography and writing. His artwork has been exhibited widely across Canada and in Europe, and is included in various public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin, Italy. Kroeger’s monograph The Great Divide, a collaboration with Alberto Manguel, was published in 2001. My Morning Walk was published in 2009. He has taught at the University of Manitoba, University of Calgary, Alberta College of Art & Design, and the Banff Centre, and has lectured on his work across Canada as well as in Mexico. Recent exhibitions include Midnight Sun Camera Obscura at the Kamloops Art Gallery and Landscapes Reconstructed at the Whyte Museum in Banff, Alberta.
Over the last ten years Kroeger has been investigating the relationship between art and walking. These experiments have broadened his art practice to include teaching special topics courses, leading the 2007 Banff Centre Visual Arts Residency Walking + Art, co-founding an interdisciplinary research group called the Walking Lab in 2009, giving conference presentations, publishing, and leading guided walks. He has been an art educator for over twenty years and is currently Associate Professor in Visual Arts at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC.
View Kroeger’s work in the group exhibition The Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Project, at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery until October 20, 2016. Opening reception is September 15, 4 – 6 pm, Main Gallery.
Photo credit: Devon Lindsay. Aqueous Humour, Ernie Kroeger, 2015.
FREE Admission, everyone welcome.
Contact:
finearts | finearts@uleth.ca