May 2013
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We're ready!
We’re putting the finishing touches on our Main Space show by Megan Dickie right now—hanging some signage, clearing out all of our install hardware.
Join us from 7 for our artist talk and first ever opening reception in the new space!
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Expanding Horizons – VUE Weekly →
Vue Weekly’s Agnieszka Matejko talked to our Executive Director Todd Janes about our big move:
TJ: It’s taken a lot of work to get into this space. It’s been empowering to have the support of the community and volunteers. It shows that we are an important artistic and cultural fixture in the city, that we’ve done good work. In some ways we are being rewarded for that work...
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Akimbo - Hit List - Megan Dickie, Artist →
Megan Dickie foreshadows her artist talk tomorrow at 7 in her Hit List for Akimbo.
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Our first events!
It’s incredibly exciting to be at work in the new building—every day we are closer to the incredible gallery spaces being fully realised.
We hope that you’ll join us for our first events. This weekend we have a performance by Boston artist Marilyn Arsem on Sunday from 2–6. We’re really proud to be working with the KULE Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Alberta...
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Alberta Primetime - Art, Ethics, and Bad Taste →
Our executive director Todd Janes joined Natalie Loveless from the University of Alberta (who helped organize the performance by Marilyn Arsem this sunday at the gallery) on Alberta Primetime this week—discussing the scandal at ACAD over Gord Ferguson and one of his students.
An ACAD student’s performance art piece in which a live chicken was beheaded sparked outrage and disgust across...
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2o13.o5.14 ~ long live the new flesh | Edmonton... →
Opening tomorrow night at SNAP and Saturday at dc3, here’s a preview of “Encoding Identities” from the University of Alberta Art and Design Graduate Student Association, by the Edmonton Journal’s Fish Griwkowsky. The shows are part of the ADGSA’s annual symposium—last year we hosted the exhibition component, Unstable Natures—and includes artists from the U of A and...
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WHY ILLUSTRATE?
I asked some of my students at GURU to stop working for a moment and ask themselves why they were pursuing illustration now that they’ve been in the thick of it for a few months. Tough question. Why illustrate? What’s the point in doing this? Who am I? Why? Huh?
Above, we can see the result of the their brainstorming. We can also see that being an illustrator does not guarantee...
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CONTEMPORARY ACADEMIA: FEMINIST FIGURE GIRL AND... →
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Although it was included in yesterday’s Media Mondays, I would like to share (again) my most recent article for The Wanderer.
PrairieSeen’s Tori McNish’s latest article for The Wanderer is about local Art Historian and performative researcher Lianne McTavish.
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Build Latitude 53's New Patio →
Thanks to your amazing generosity, we’ve already passed our initial goal for our patio-construction funding drive—and we’re working on an update to let you know exactly how our plans are going. Thanks for continuing to donate, and we’re looking forward to seeing you all for the first patio in June!
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Mile Zero Dance presents Endangered Species →
This week our friends at Mile Zero Dance are presenting a very anticipated new work by Gerry Morita with a host of collaborators. Find out more on the Facebook event.
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Hardcopy Particpating Artists →
Hardcopy—Edmonton’s artist book and zine fair, taking place in our Community Gallery June 8 and 9, has announced their list of artist-author-vendors. It includes some familiar faces and some new projects—see the list on the Hardcopy blog
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Work for us this summer →
Latitude 53 is looking for summer staff! With the support of the Canada Summer Jobs program we are looking for applicants under 30 who will be attending postsecondary education in the fall for three positions: Events Assistant, Programs Assistant, and pending funding a Community Engagement Assistant.
Summer is almost here so deadlines are tight—find the details on our website and send us an...
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Edmonton musician Mark Templeton challenges... →
Progress. Some musicians tend to shun such a concept, preferring to write the same song over and over again to get more than a nickel or two back. Others, such as local ambient composer/visual artist Mark Templeton, strive to challenge themselves, working with new instruments, mediums and collaborators.
The Edmonton Journal previews Mark Templeton’s new record. We’re looking forward...
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Wolf + Buffalo at The Royal Bison
Another vendor at The Royal Bison that we’re excited about this year is Wolf + Buffalo. Maegan Rose Mehler creates a variety of small objects—including the cards, pillows, and custom portraits you see on her website. She’s also active as a painter and interdisciplinary artist, and a curator, including projects like Easy Street which she organized in the then-empty storefront...
April 2013
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TAX
It’s that time of year again: tax season. Well, really, that time of year is almost over. The deadline to push the big tax button is today!
As usual, I rummaged through all of my invoices and bills and write-offs and you-name-its until late last night, only to barely beat the deadline for the season and submit everything on time. And, being that I haven’t been a student in quite a few...
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Percolate – Brewing Ideas with Aaron Paquette →
Local artist Aaron Paquette is speaking at this week’s installment of Percolate. Here’s how he describes his talk on its Facebook event:
What is the role of the artist in a modern, connected society? Does art reflect the culture, or shape it?
And what about sustainability? Do the old forms still work, or is there a new movement rising?
Independent, untrained artists are...
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Moving Weekend
It’s happening—we’ve spent the week packing up most of the gallery and we’re setting up next door over the weekend. Check back next week for some big updates!
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FUSE Magazine – Close Readings – Alex Janvier at... →
Mentioned in Leah Sandals’ report from the Atlantic Symposium, Richard William Hill’s new “Close Readings” column for Fuse looks at Alex Janvier’s 2012 retrospective in Edmonton. He goes deep into the show, and his examination of the legacy of modernism and the ways that we judge Indigenous artists’ work echoes Blair Brennan’s comments on the show here on...
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The Atlantic Symposium: Art Crit as Nowhere… or... →
This week Canadian Art online published Leah Sandals reflections on The Atlantic Symposium: New Directions for Art Writing.
In the interests of sharing some of the symposium’s insights with a wider public, this post intends to provide a recap of some of the themes that have stayed with me in the days following the event. Some of my language likely reflects the difficulty of assessing an entire...
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Bingroids!
Last night I was a volunteer at Latitude 53’s somewhat regular bingo night at Fort Road Bingo. If you’re not in the know, this is a regular source of income for the non-profit organization that would not be available if were not for all of the volunteers willing to donate their time to help out. If you haven’t volunteered a bingo night before, I recommend you give it a shot. It’s really good...
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Royal Bison preview: Matt Prins of Instant Books...
The Royal Bison happens in under two weeks—we talked to vendor Matt Prins, who recently appeared at our Winter Salons, about how creating Instant Books, vending at the fair, and writing all fit together for him.
You describe the genesis of Instant Books on the site as having to do with “a failed attempt at being a NYC writer”. Can you maybe say a few words about the way that...
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Watchprairieseen:
We’re excited to debut our artist feature for April in the form of a video interview! Borys Tarasenko agreed to chat with us about finishing up art school, making art in Edmonton, and embarking on new mediums and techniques.
Please have a look and don’t forget to let us know what you think on Twitter and Facebook.
Special thanks to Giulliano Palladino for lending his videography...
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Harcourt House: Art Market In the House - call for... →
Harcourt House is planning a craft-fair style gallery/sales event—which you can apply for space at until the 20th.
The Harcourt House Art Market is a table-based gallery, open to individual and collaborative artists to display and sell their most current works to the public. We encourage all professional/ emerging/ experimental artists to submit. We are open to all varieties of mediums...
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Tax Workshop for Freelance Artists →
The Graduate Drama Students’ Society is hosting a tax workshop for freelance artists tomorrow at noon, in FAB 3-121 at the University of Alberta. It’s led by Ron Burrow—and is $5 to participate. To find out more or register check out the Facebook event.
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VOLUNTEARS
It’s moving time and Latitude 53 is looking for some friendly volunteers to help them haul goods into their shiny new space over the weekend of April 27th and 28th.
Can’t be there for the day? Donate some boxes!
Want to help earlier? Swing by on the 25th and 26th and get packing.
Do it!
Interested? Send them an e-mail.
Little doodle in the sketchbook, made with Copic Pigment...
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“The idea of urbanism in the Prairies is not well known to many Canadians or even...”
– Editor’s Note: Framing Spacing Edmonton | Spacing Edmonton
The first edition of Spacing Edmonton launches today—we’re looking forward to more insights about our city.
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This week in Edmonton
Another busy springtime week—here’s some of what we’re looking forward to:
The U of A’s Bachelor of Design grad show is up at FAB gallery and will be having an opening reception tomorrow evening
Also Thursday night is the launch party for Spacing Edmonton. Although tickets for the launch event proper are gone it’s followed by the usual kind of party at The Common from...
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