This art map celebrates the important contributions that artist-run centres, commercial galleries, creative spaces, and institutions are making to the cultural life of Calgary. This self-guided tour, designed for both visitors and locals, provides a comprehensive overview of Calgary’s diverse and vibrant contemporary art community and invites you to experience it firsthand.
» Contemporary Art Map, Calgary‘Timely and compelling work by Indigenous artists from the North reflects on language, sovereignty and the land’ by Dick Averns
“It won’t always be the case that art from the uppermost hemisphere makes you feel on top of the world, but it’s hard not to leave this show without feelings of solicitude. Come for the art and stay for the journey: it’ll take you outside of yourself and positively transport you to places you need to care about.”
» Link to article: Galleries WestView and download the Esker Foundation spring/summer exhibitions brochure.
» Spring/Summer Exhibitions and Programs BrochureTammi Campbell by Maeve Hanna , Border Crossing Magazine, Crossovers, Issue 149, March 2019.
» Border CrossingsIndigenous artist laments loss of land to ring road with art installation.
» CBC news“The land that I grew up on is gone, it has been totally flattened… and gone. Alot of what I feel is for the land, for the animals, for the plants, and birds. Everything that is a huge part of who I am, and what my family lived there with.” – Glenna Cardinal.
Glenna Cardinal interview on CBC – The Homestretch
Aired: March 14, 2019 07:31
‘Tsuut’ina Nation artist Glenna Cardinal has created a new art installation that explores her loss of home. The land she grew up on is now being developed as part of the SW ring road. Her installation is called “mourning home” and is on display at the Esker Foundation in partnership with TRUCK Contemporary Art.’
“What from a distance look like loose sketches and doodles were actually tightly controlled, richly textured surfaces – Torma’s revolt, in her skill, of modernist dogma around medium-specificity and of a view to the historically discrete and hierarchical categories of art and craft.”
– Erin Silver, P141, Winter 2019. Canadian Art Magazine.
» Canadian ArtView and download the Esker Foundation winter exhibitions brochure.
» Winter Exhibitions and Programs BrochureThank you for visiting Esker Foundation and engaging with our exhibitions. Esker Foundation encourages personal-use photography…