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Art Publishing in Canada, and its Future

Chris Cran’s Inherent Virtue opens at Southern Alberta Art Gallery on September 26 and runs until November 22, 2015.

Meeka Walsh is an award-winning critic, writer, and curator who has been the editor of Border Crossings magazine since 1993. She has given papers and contributed catalogue essays in New York, Canada, England, and Mexico. Her short fiction has been published in a number of anthologies, including The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Women Writers. Walsh received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Western Magazine Awards in 2003 and in 2007 was given the RCA Gold Medal for her contribution to the arts.

Jeff Thomas is an urban-based Iroquois, self-taught photographer, writer, public speaker and curator, living in Ottawa, Ontario, and has works in major collections in Canada, the United States and Europe

Andrea Korda will speak about the research for her recently published book, Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London: The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869–1891. She will talk about the origins of illustrated journalism in nineteenth-century London and describe how the advent of illustrated news, along with new understandings of objectivity, influenced Victorian artists.  

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Ron Terada lives and works in Vancouver. Recent solo exhibitions include Soundtrack for an Exhibition (2014), Locust Projects, Miami; We Will Not Grow Old Together (2014), Esker Foundation, Calgary; Jack (2014), Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver; Being There (2011), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Who I Think I Am (2010-2011), which travelled among the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.

Tanya Harnett is an artist, a member of the Carry The Kettle First Nations and a faculty member in both in the Department of Art and the Department of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge

Karklin creates photographs of human figures in simulated spaces through a laborious process combining sculpture and digital manipulation. In this series, the vastness of the Alberta landscape is contained and presented as an interior. Confinement and conflict become part of the narrative that unfolds with the figures he situates in these spaces. Influenced by the work of contemporary artists Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall, David Hockney and Eric Fischl among others, Karklin’s works resemble human experiences both familiar and surreal, stemming from his own memories.

Dreaming of a more ruthless culture: ruminations and reflections on past and recent conversations, readings and encounters. Images included—“safety not guaranteed.”