Notice Board

At the University of Lethbridge, we enjoy promoting the projects and achievements of our very active students, staff, faculty, and alumni.  August and September saw our Art and Drama departments gain national attention, and the New Media brought a unique project to the public.

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ART

• Shanell Papp (BFA Art, ’06) was featured on George Stromboloupoulos on CBC!  Check out Shanell on CBC as Canada's Artist of the week.

• A stunning photograph by former UofL fine arts instructor David Miller and his students is featured in “Grab a Hunk of Lightning”, the new PBS Documentary on Dorothea Lange.  “Migrant Mother: After Dorothea Lange”, a stunning photograph by former UofL fine art instructor David Miller and his students (Chandra Dyck (BFA Art ’10), Kazumi Marthiensen (BFA Art ’11), Madison Reamsbottom (BFA Art ’11), Shalee Sran (BA Math/Art ’09), Lin Tao (BFA New Media ’08), Andrew Ulmer, Tegan Vacheresse (BA Art/B.Ed. ‘11), aka “The Group of 8 AM”), is featured in “Grab a Hunk of Lightning”, the new documentary film about the photographer Dorothea Lange, directed by her granddaughter Dyanna Taylor. The film was broadcast last week on American television, and released by PBS American Masters Series. The photograph, the result of a collaborative effort, is used in a montage to show how Lange's original photo has been interpreted in various ways to illustrate the American family.  Ms. Taylor is quoted as giving the following praise: “You should be proud of your students - this version of “Migrant Mother” is the most effective we have seen and really expresses the universal appeal and message of her iconic photo.”

•  Maria Madacky’s (BFA Art ’04) installation “White Labyrinth (finding the thread of the hero-path)” will be at the Casa gallery September 6 – October 25.

• Denton Fredrickson’s (Art) exhibition “Prairie Folk and Other Speculative Fictions” opens in the main space of the Stride Gallery in Calgary Friday, Sept. 5 and runs until October 17.  Find out more about the exhibition here.  Denton also participated as a panelist at the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre, in collaboration with Intersite Visual Arts Festival to present an evening of buoyant criticism around the topic of bad art. Two teams of artists, critics and bon vivant panelists demonstrated their critical athleticism armed only with their own taste, wit and capacity to blag. 

• Dagmar Dahle's (Art) work is the subject of an article by Stephen Horne in the current issue of Border Crossings. Titled "Painting Places Painting: Dagmar Dahle and Chris Kline", the article addresses several of Dagmar's recent projects including "Weaving van Gogh" as well as work initiated and developed in Berlin ("Brandenburg Gates" and "Prussian Blue") during a 2012 study leave. Dagmar's Berlin-based work will be shown in a group exhibition at the Trianon Gallery in Lethbridge from November 23, 2014 - January 2015 along with works by Mary Kavanagh, Annie Martin and David Miller.  Border Crossings has been recognized as Canada's most significant arts magazine. Stephen Horne is an independent Canadian art critic and curator living in France.

• Tanya Harnett’s (Art & NAS) article Sugar and Grit: Sonny Assu’s Complex Mix of Cultures appears in the Fall 2014 issue of Canadian Art.

• Corinne Thiessen (BFA Art ’09; MFA Art’14) has an exhibition at Petit Trianon.

Liar Liar! – Participatory Performance & Drawings by Corinne Thiessen and Amy Modahl

September 27 – November 15, 2014 at the Petit Trianon  104 – 5th St. S., Lethbridge, AB

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DRAMA

• Christopher Cinnamon’s (BA Dramatic Arts ‘94) short film, The Sound of Willie Nelson's Guitar, which won the 2013 Director's Guild of Canada Best Short Film, screened in Los Angeles at the end of August, along with three other films.  By having this screening in LA, all these short films are eligible and submitted for consideration to the 2015 Oscar Awards.  The trailer for the film Christopher directed and produced is available here.

-          The Fall 2014 issue of All Stages magazine is out, with some familiar faces filling the pages:

• Col Cseke (BFA Dramatic Arts, ’07) wrote the article “Produce to Promote” starting on pg 4, where he shares his experience as Co-Artistic Director of Verb Theatre and their challenges and achievements with creative marketing and audience engagement techniques.
• Excerpts from two soon-to-be-famous playwrights James Wade (BFA Multidisciplinary, ’11) and Ryan Reese (BFA Dramatic Arts ’13) are featured on pg. 8 and 9 respectively. James and Ryan are both previous winners of multiple playwriting awards including the U of L’s Plays & Prose PlayRight Prize, in 2010, 2011 (James) and 2013 (Ryan).

• Jay Whitehead (Theatre and Dramatic Arts) and Theatre Outré (operated by Whitehead, faculty member Richie Wilcox and Fine Arts staff Aaron Collier) are the subjects of a short documentary that is part of a larger series produced in Alberta called “Mavericks.”   The documentary was produced by Vancouver’s Salazar Films for Telus Optik TV and is currently available to view on Telus Optik Television on demand in the documentaries category.

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NEW MEDIA

• Brendan Matkin (New Media ’13) has been in the media lately as he premiered his “Drive In Arcade” at Beakerhead in Calgary. His Drive-In Arcade is a 1991 Toyota Previa that he has adapted to be a two-player video game that is controlled by the steering wheel and joystick of the vehicle, has a roller coaster of wires that drops cans of pop into the front seats after discovering them in the game, and even includes a popcorn popper and candy-carrying tube system.  Read more about his one-of-a-kind exhibit here and here.

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If you know of any U of L alumni, student, staff, or faculty member with research, creative works, or achievements that deserve recognition, please forward any article or release to Katherine Wasiak at katherine.wasiak@uleth.ca