Arts Commons Exhibiitions and Artist Reception

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Hali Heavy Shield, "Nato’yi’kina’soyi (Holy Light that Shines Bright)," 2019

mixed media

Join us for the artist reception of the current gallery exhibitions at Arts Commons!

You’ll be able to meet and mingle with local artists, curators and art lovers alike. This is a chance to celebrate our current visual and media artists and a chance to have a deeper conversation about contemporary art.

Artist Reception located in the Artists Learning Centre (Located on the main level, south of the Cravings café in Arts Commons) from 5:30PM-8:30PM on Friday November 29th, 2019.

We will be celebrating the following exhibitions:

Lightbox Studio: Nicholas Tufts “You pressed me to your chest and I was no longer at war” and Ryland Fortie “Witches Window”

Window Galleries: The SPARK Disability Art Festival “Changemakers” Amber Harriman, Daniel May, Eva Hontela, Macarena Ruidiaz, Penny Gunderson and Shawn Belanger.

Ledge Gallery: Mabel Tan “Let's go to the Clayground”

Broadcast Lab: Vicki Chau “Pulled Strings” Ryland Fortie “Roadtrip Montage” Greg Marshall “bearing”

+15 Soundscape: Jonathan Kawchuk “I-Thou”

+15 Community Galleries: “20,900 flowers for your morning tea,” led by emerging artist Rocio Graham in collaboration with the Women Centre of Calgary. As well as, Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society’s “2nd Annual Indigenous Art Exhibition” featuring Autumn Whiteway, Stephanie One Spot, Rick Wolcott, Mackenzie Brown, Michelle Wiebe, Jackson Eiteneier , Keegan Starlight, Candace Gladue - Áísínai'pi , Nathan Meguinis, Hali Heavy Shield, Tania Big Plume, Sheila Toderian, Michelle Soto, Tamara Eaker, Priscilla Boulay, Theresa Beebe, and Christopher Big Plume.

Hali Heavy Shield is a member of the Blood Tribe of Southern Alberta. Hali Heavy Shield is interested in various representations of literacy and language, specifically those that blend traditional Blackfoot teachings and contemporary methods of art making. Experimenting with mixed media art, poetry, and photography, she navigates the often difficult and personal understandings of intergenerational trauma and social injustices that many Indigenous communities experience, but particularly in Blackfoot country. Heavy Shield draws upon concepts of home, family, and laughter to seek balance and re/learn Blackfoot language, history, and philosophy as a means of honouring life, her Blackfoot ancestry, and Indigenous women.

This event takes place on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprising the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.