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Art NOW series featuring Catherine Ross
Past Present Future?
November 7 | Noon | University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

This talk will feature a selection of past works alongside a discussion of the artist’s current piece and a new work in development. The presentation explores the evolution of Catherine's creative process, particularly when working from one piece to the next. Catherine Ross's exhibition, Flowers, is on view at the Gallery at Casa from November 8, 2025 to January 10, 2026. 

About Catherine Ross

I grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, running wild in the North Saskatchewan River Valley and the neighbouring farm fields, municipal dumps, and gravel pits of Beverly Heights. I received a Diploma from Grant MacEwan Community College in 1983 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from NSCAD in 1985, followed by a year-long residency at the Banff Centre. In 1989, I accepted a position at the University of Lethbridge, where I worked as the Facilities Manager, Art Studios, until 2016. I continue to live and work in Lethbridge, maintaining strong ties to the university and art communities. After 30-plus years, I continue to make art because I can’t stop exclaiming to myself or friends, “Can you imagine …”

This imagining has led me to the conceptualization and completion of numerous installations, sculptures, and public artworks. Notably, Stella Mere and Stella Ripa have received certification as Canadian Cultural Properties through applications submitted by the Glenbow Museum and the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. These were both pivotal pieces in my career. Stella Mere was my first landscape-inspired installation, and Stella Ripa was my first public commission. In 2010, Denton Fredrickson and I won the national competition for the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Public Art Project, with our submission Aeolian Aviary, 2010-11. In 2019, I was commissioned to produce Migratory Paths, a suspended sculpture for the Edmonton Convention Centre in Edmonton.

Currently, I am preparing the installation Flowers for exhibition at the Gallery at Casa, Lethbridge, AB, opening November 8, and I am continuing production of A Portrait of the Eastern Slopes. Both projects have received generous funding from The Canada Council and The Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Image: Catherine Ross, Flowers, work in progress, video still and porcelain flowers on light table, 260 x 142 x 808 cm, 2025.