Baby, It's Cold Out Here!
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Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library 4818 49 Street (lower level), Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1T9
Susan Barker, "I've Been Knitting Up a Storm," 2018
ink, pencil, watercolour
Reception: First Friday Red Deer April 5th from 6pm to 8 pm. Live music with acoustic roots duo Wiklund vs Wiklund! Please note that this particular event is open to Arts Council members, affiliates of our member organizations, media, and invited guests.
You might want to bring a parka to the Kiwanis Gallery’s upcoming show, “Baby, It's Cold Out Here!”
This juried exhibition features visual arts members of the Red Deer Arts Council, giving us their impressions and interpretations of a Canadian winter.
The theme helps to celebrate the Canada Winter Games being held in Red Deer from February 15 to March 3, and reminds us that, as a northern city, we can choose to embrace and participate in our uncomfortable winters. Artists were offered a wide-open theme, to be inspired by how Canadians spend winter, what we think of winter, or what we do in winter. (No flying south allowed!) We selected the work of 21 artists, and the results are frigidly fabulous!
For a laugh and to get everyone thinking about winter, here are some fun quotes!
“Snow in April is abominable,” said Anne. “Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.” —Writer Lucy Maud Montgomery in Anne of Ingleside (1939)
“Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn’t you? Look harder. It’s where someone got axed in the snow.” —Margaret Atwood, in Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature, 1995
“Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.”—Canadian-Argentine writer Alberto Manguel
“Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.”― Mark Leiren-Young, Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: A Rookie Reporter in the Caribou