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Harcourt House Artist In Residence

Harcourt House is taking submissions for their Artist In Residence program until May 31st:

The program’s goals are to provide the selected artist with a stable studio environment to continue developing their practice. This program allows for the Artist in Residence to engage and interact with the local visual arts community, encouraging shared ideas, expression and discourse.

This program provides innovative, interactive opportunities for artists and other members of the vibrant visual arts community in Edmonton. Please contact the gallery with your ideas and interest.

Applicants will be selected by the quality of work submitted, their demonstration of commitment to serious practice and evidence that they are at a crucial juncture in the development of their practice.

This one-year residency includes a studio space, access to our art education courses and facilities, teaching opportunities and a $150 monthly art supply stipend. The AIR will be given a solo exhibition in the centre’s Main Gallery at the end of the one-year term to conclude their residency. The AIR will receive CAR/FAC fees for the presentation of this final exhibition.

Find the full details on their website.

Draw: it’s almost here!

We’re setting up today for tomorrow’s sixth annual Draw—and it’s going to be a great one.

With a vinyl collage wall, drawing games and a late-night party, it’s going to an awesome Saturday at Latitude 53, Harcourt House and SNAP.

On the roster of events:

So yes—it’s going to be a wonderful day celebrating art and community. As our program assistant Chelsea Boida stated in a recent interview about Draw in Vue Magazine :

“It really changes how you think about drawing: often it’s a private activity, you don’t feel that same sort of risk when you’re doing it in front of people. But here, I think it helps, because a lot of people are taking risks together, and hopefully it ends up working out collaboratively, and whether that’s a low level of collaboration—having a haphazard drawing next to somebody else’s—or if the drawings actually end up interacting.”

Hope to see you there!

Sherri Chaba lecture at Grant MacEwan this Friday

Grant MacEwan University, in partnership with Harcourt House, presents a lecture by local artist, Sherri Chaba, this coming Friday.

Friday, January 14th at 1:00 pm, Room 203 at MacEwan Centre for the Arts and Communications, 10045-156 Street, Edmonton.

Chabba’s exhibition, Life-Line, runs at Harcourt House until February 12th. These sculptural installations focus primarily on the impact of industry on northern Alberta’s landscape.

Sparked by a bitumen pipeline from Fort McMurray that was driven though family land, Chaba’s work responds to first hand accounts of breaches in environmental stewardship and the exploitation of land and landowner. This exhibition maintains an overarching theme that looks at the undervalued consequences of progress in the twenty-first century.

For more information about the lecture, contact Kathy Neiman at neimank@macewan.ca or call 497-4354.

And don’t forget to come to our opening reception for Gary James Joynes/Clinker and Brandon A. Dalmer later that day, from 7 – 10 PM!

Harcourt House's new blog

Harcourt House arts centre—one of Edmonton’s other Artist Run Centres, who we recently collaborated with for DRAW—recently launched a new blog, so you can follow their activites and programming as closely as you do ours.

And, if you love hearing about what’s going on here at Latitude 53 and follow us on Tumblr, we’d love it if you recommended us.

The Community Building Pep Talk

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.

This post comes to you after having numerous conversations over the past month about Edmonton’s arts community. So the following is a reflection on why I think it’s important to grow and nurture relationships in this scene, not just for the evolution of your own development, but for the good and betterment of the visual arts where we live. It’s hard to talk about the importance of community without falling into one of two types of platitudes:

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Our summer intern Annalise Prodor is practicing her collage skills and getting excited for Draw. We’ve been running a 12-hour drawing party for a few years now, but this year it’s going city-wide with events in the afternoon at SNAP and Harcourt House where you can take part in printmaking and life-drawing sessions. In the evening the party comes home to Latitude 53 and we’ll have all of the classic components: collage materials, empty walls to hang your work, a FAVA scratch-animation workshop, CJSR DJs as well as snacks and a bar. Get the complete details over at our website.

Our summer intern Annalise Prodor is practicing her collage skills and getting excited for Draw.

We’ve been running a 12-hour drawing party for a few years now, but this year it’s going city-wide with events in the afternoon at SNAP and Harcourt House where you can take part in printmaking and life-drawing sessions. In the evening the party comes home to Latitude 53 and we’ll have all of the classic components: collage materials, empty walls to hang your work, a FAVA scratch-animation workshop, CJSR DJs as well as snacks and a bar.

Get the complete details over at our website.