STORIES
Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
Artist uses tobacco to explore concepts of land, property and history at the Museum of Modern Art. Read more
Jul 23, 2021
Marcy Friesen
Exquisite beaded clothing becomes bewitching soft sculpture laden with personal narrative. Read more
Jul 22, 2021
Norm Dallin
Saskatoon artist’s paintings of domestic interiors celebrate the ordinary. Read more
Jul 21, 2021
Auction Report Spring 2021
Records continue to break at Canadian online art auctions. Read more
Jul 20, 2021
Making History Visible
Artists use multimedia technologies to consider difficult history of Japanese Canadian internment. Read more
Jul 15, 2021
Black Every Day
A group show in Edmonton highlights diverse works by 15 Black artists. Read more
Jul 12, 2021
Older Stories
Mary Shannon Will
Obsessive surface patterning marks veteran Calgary artist’s work. Read more
Jul 12, 2021
Words of Wisdom
Ten leading artists offer emerging artists thoughts on art, life and success – and how to keep making art even when things get tough. Read more
Jul 12, 2021
Walter Ostrom
New book looks at a brilliant and mercurial innovator in ceramics. Read more
Jul 12, 2021
Minimalist or Maximalist?
Ceramic artists mine two sides of clay's materiality – the expressive and the serene. Read more
Jul 12, 2021
Walter Ostrom
New book looks at a brilliant and mercurial innovator in ceramics. Read more
Jul 1, 2021
Mentorship as Social Sculpture
Mentoring – which takes many forms across Western Canada – can help emerging artists overcome barriers. Read more
Jun 28, 2021
The Mothership of Mentorship
Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art has helped hundreds of emerging creatives in Winnipeg gain a foothold in the art world. Read more
Jun 28, 2021
Overburden
Exhibition in B.C.’s mining country looks at geology and resource extraction at a chaotic time. Read more
Jun 28, 2021
Louise Bourgeois
While the Paris-born artist is best known for monumental sculptures of spiders, a Calgary show highlights her print, textile and holographic works. Read more
Jun 28, 2021
Bruno Bobak and Molly Lamb Bobak
A new biography details the troubled marriage of two of Canada's war artists. Read more
Jun 28, 2021
An Unnatural Collection
Whitney Lewis-Smith builds sets for her photographs to spread environmental message. Read more
Jun 28, 2021
Maud Lewis
A crowd-pleasing show – complete with gaily painted cats, flowers and oxen – wends its way to Calgary. Read more
Jun 14, 2021
Disorientations and Echo
The Vancouver Art Gallery takes a more inclusive look at contemporary art in the region. Read more
Jun 14, 2021
Charmian Johnson
Exploring beauty via two distinct practices – ceramic pots and botanical drawings. Read more
Jun 14, 2021
Saskatoon Moves Art Outdoors
Installations by José Luis Torres and Shellie Zhang encourage creative engagement with the urban landscape. Read more
Jun 14, 2021
ESSAY: The Zeitgeist of Instagram
Why does looking at these little squares of art, one after another, provide such satisfaction? Read more
Jun 14, 2021
Ericka Walker
Using the words of oppressors to consider the mythologies of empire. Read more
Jun 14, 2021
