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Spatially Aligned, Spatially Allied: Textiles and the Built Environment

Elizabeth Diggon is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies Program at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her dissertation examines the mobilization of art as a means of cultural diplomacy in the Canadian context from the mid-to-late twentieth century. She also currently holds the research position at the Esker Foundation in Calgary.

Lorenzo Fusi (b. 1968) is the Visiting Academic Curator at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at ACAD (Alberta College of Art + Design) in Calgary. He is also the Artistic Director of PIAC (Prix International d'Art Contemporain) at the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco.

“I'm interested in the idea of Landscape and the role it plays in the ability or inability of people to move freely, how landscape and physical features such as islands, rivers, mountains, deserts, borders, wilderness areas etc., facilitate or interrupt free movement. I’ve been looking at and photographing sites of incarceration refuge, or asylum for more than twenty years.”

Furniture by Artists 

Nick Wade taught sculpture, printmaking and foundation studies at U of L from 1994-2011. He has also taught at The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Queen’s University, Tyler School of Art and David Thompson University Centre.  In his sculptural work he has often sought a relationship between typography, furniture and architecture with the understanding that, just as we inhabit spaces/places , those  spaces have a way of inhabiting us.

Marianne Gerlinger has exhibited in the past at Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta, and The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Her works are represented in many corporate and private collections in Canada, China, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, and USA, including the Canada Council Art Bank, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and University of Lethbridge.

She is represented in Canada through Jarvis Hall Gallery (Calgary, Alberta).

Robin Metcalfe has been Director/Curator of Saint Mary's University Art Gallery in Halifax, since 2004, and was previously Curator of Contemporary Art at Museum London. Widely published as a writer, he has a particular interest in diasporic, post-colonial and Queer identities; in gender and the body.

Ursula Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist from Nova Scotia with Mi’kmaw ancestry. She graduated with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Her art draws upon performance, installation and sculpture, often incorporating traditional Mi’kmaw basketry. Johnson explores the impact of colonialism on Indigenous material and linguistic culture, and challenges the museological and ethnographic frame imposed upon it. She has been a finalist for the Salt Spring National Art Prize and twice long-listed for the Sobey Art Award.

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