Art NOW series featuring Mackenzie Kelly-Frère
October 6 | Noon | University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome
Join us in the University Recital Hall and learn about the artist's recent projects and ongoing research focused on cloth as a sensual and textual object that enmeshes social histories and ways of thinking and being.
Mackenzie Kelly-Frère is an artist and educator. He is currently Director and Associate Professor in the School of Craft & Emerging Media at the Alberta University of the Arts. Mackenzie received his MFA in 2005 from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University and his BFA in 1998 from Alberta College of Art & Design. He has exhibited his work internationally, and participated in residencies at the Icelandic Textile Centre in Blönduós and the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland Oregon. His writing includes texts for Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture and VAV Magazine. Mackenzie lives in Mohkinstsis (Calgary), Canada with husband Kristofer and daughter Elizabeth.
Images: (left) Folding vernacular (towel), 2025; (right) Shelter/In plain sight, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
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