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“Nothing but an open mouth, or perhaps an eye, an ear: nothing but an open body. Bodies are adoration in all their openings.” 

Julie Beugin will discuss her development and current work, by describing her changing engagement with space and place though a commitment to material process in painting.

What Now: Thinking Through Canada 150

In an era where we are again seeing the dangers of nationalism—something contemporary art has claimed to reject outright, yet unquestionably participates in—it is worthwhile to think carefully, skeptically, and curiously about this anniversary and the charged moment it will afford. Here, a cultural critic explores the problems and opportunities surrounding Canada 150: an event that could, and should, be as much about the future as the past.

Njootli’s lecture focusses on residue, performance, sound and the land. This includes her involvement with ReMatriate Collective, her work as a Cultural Tattoo Practitioner, and as a performance artist.

The University of Lethbridge will be hosting its 50th Anniversary Native Awareness week March 6 - 10th. Join us for a mini pow-wow, food tasting, and other events!

Adrian Cooke is an artist/sculptor with a record of both solo and group exhibitions across Canada. After graduating with honours from the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, Alberta, he pursued post-diploma studies at the New York Studio School in New York City and earned his BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design in. He has also participated in summer sessions at the Banff Centre, Alberta and Emma Lake, Saskatchewan.

Riva Symko is an art historian, writer, curator, and (former) arts administrator living in Edmonton, Alberta.  Her most recent research has been focused the creative practice and theoretical discourse of appropriation in relation to its effects on some of our long-standing institutions, such as copyright – particularly in light of the proliferation of digital reproduction over the past thirty years. Her more general areas of expertise include critical theory, and modern and contemporary art/visual culture.

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.