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Towards a Train of Curatorial Thought: The past and future projects by curator, Lindsey Sharman

Outlining several projects both completed and ongoing Lindsey Sharman from the University of Calgary will trace common threads that run through her work. She will present how artworks and artists included in past exhibitions continually inform the way she creates exhibitions going forward in an attempt to work with the static nature of exhibitions.

Megan Morman’s practice-based artistic research takes a playful approach to its examination of the socio-economic conditions of art objects and communities. Her recent work uses game-like images that demand the viewer’s interaction and present a challenge to vision as the sense associated with objectivity. In Art Now, she will discuss Assume the Position, a transdisciplinary body of work developed during the two years of her recent M.F.A. at the University of Lethbridge.

Telling a city's stories and creating a sense of place

Shawn Micallef is the author of The Trouble with Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure (2014), Full Frontal TO (2012) Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto (2010). He’s also a weekly columnist at the Toronto Star, a senior editor and co-founder of Spacing magazine, and teaches at the University of Toronto. His latest book, is Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness (released Feb 2017).

Photo courtesy of the speaker.

I Feel Like an Abstract Line

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.”

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.