May 2010
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Volunteering at Latitude 53 →
We just updated our Volunteer Opportunities on our website, including some great opportunities for our summer events as well as positions on our board and special events committee. Go have a look!
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Getting Meaning in the Bag: Why we need artists to...
This post is written by Latitude 53’s Writer In Residence, Carolyn Jervis. She will be writing critically about Latitude 53 programming, the community and more on a regular basis over a six month term. Read more about the Writer In Residence program.
Last Wednesday I had the great pleasure of working out in the brain gym with Patrick Higgins, the artist behind the exhibition, Prevalent...
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More on our summer shows
This week we’ll be sending invitations and newsletters to all of our members about our upcoming summer programming, but you can already see a few details on National Portrait Gallery, the Summer Members’ Series, the Rooftop Patio and Not Another Fucking Landscape over on our website.
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Something to Stew Over: The Meaty Question of Who...
This post is written by Latitude 53’s Writer In Residence, Carolyn Jervis. She will be writing critically about Latitude 53 programming, the community and more on a regular basis over a six month term. Read more about the Writer In Residence program.
Last Thursday night I sat, vibrating with concern, frustration, and interest, and listened to some problematic assertions made about the visual...
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Art and Foul Fowl →
Fish Griwkowsky went to the Banff Centre this past week for CARFAC’s National Conference for Visual Artists, where our very own Todd Janes was honoured with an award. He writes in SEE this week about the position of Artist-Run Centres like Latitude 53 in today’s national landscape.
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National Portrait Gallery in the Edmonton Journal... →
The Edmonton Journal’s Paula Simons writes about our upcoming National Portrait Gallery show which opens June 11th.
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Some Help From Inert Friends
This post is written by Latitude 53’s Writer In Residence, Carolyn Jervis. She will be writing critically about Latitude 53 programming, the community and more on a regular basis over a six month term. Read more about the Writer In Residence program.
Being an image-conscious child created some very particular struggles for my family. In the nineties we were just making it in our middle class...
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Amy Fung reviews Jody MacDonald →
In this week’s Vue Weekly, Amy Fung takes on Jody MacDonald’s Will The Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?, on display in the Main Gallery until 29 May.
Oddball humorous and morbidly crafty, MacDonald riffs off everything from twisting jargon like “Fishing For Compliments” to Jungian archetypes of self formation. Most of the individual pieces reveal this grappling of ideas...
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Brenda Draney reviewed in Galleries West →
In the Summer issue of Galleries West, Amy Fung writes about Brenda Draney’s recent show at Latitude 53. Read it on their site.
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2nd Edmonton Timeraiser call for submissions →
Last year, Latitude 53 was a proud participant in Edmonton’s first Timeraiser auction, an event that raises volunteer hours for local non-profits (like us) with the help of artists who are paid for their work.
This year, the second Edmonton Timeraiser is set to take place October 16th. Timeraiser is currently seeking artists, especially emerging or mid-career artists, who will be paid a...
