Summer is hanging around here in Alberta. Long lazy days of endless sunshine - love it!
August was full of lazy days with every weekend spent at the cabin - the most amazing time this year with no bugs - the mosquitoes are non-existent! At the end of the month my daughter and I went to New York City for a week - more on that later now that I have the pictures downloaded.
Over the summer I have been working on more pieces for the new exhibit in Winnipeg (opening September 18th) based upon the heritage architecture of the Exchange District of that city. I finished two more pieces (for a total of seven) for my deadline of September 8th. I thought this video was apropos!
Deadline Post-It Stop Motion
An amazing amount of work went into this by Bang-Yao Liu of the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Showing posts with label Exchange District. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exchange District. Show all posts
September 11, 2009
May 18, 2009
Urban Textures at McMullen Gallery
Articulation's show on Winnipeg's historical Exchange District has been hanging at the University of Alberta Hospital in the McMullen Gallery since April and several of us living in Calgary have made the drive up to Edmonton every other Thursday to teach workshops as part of their art program. I finally got some photos of the exhibit, but encourage you to go to Lesley Turner's blog as she has been featuring each artist with closeups of their work.
This show moves to Winnipeg and the Mennonite Cultural Centre in September and as it is a much larger space to exhibit in, we are all busy producing more work to hang in the fall.
This show moves to Winnipeg and the Mennonite Cultural Centre in September and as it is a much larger space to exhibit in, we are all busy producing more work to hang in the fall.
November 13, 2008
Urban Textures 6 - Lamp Posts
Turn-of-the-century cast iron metal lamp posts seen in Winnipeg's Exchange District...
November 11, 2008
Urban Textures 5 - Window Coverings
From Winnipeg's Exchange District, one of Canada's National Historic Sites, here are details of metal coverings over windows...
November 09, 2008
Urban Textures 4 - Stone Carvings
More photographs from Winnipeg's Exchange district - this time focusing on STONE CARVINGS...
November 07, 2008
Urban Textures 3 - Doors
The last blog showed Winnipeg's Exchange District and full shots of buildings. Today is about architectural detailing... Starting with DOORS:
November 06, 2008
Urban Textures 2
Winnipeg surprised us all with its lovely old buildings that haven't been torn down for future development like most of Calgary's core. In Calgary there is movement afoot to save the remaining old buildings but it is too late for a great number of them.
Winnipeg however, has the 20 block Exchange District National Historical Site that contains over 100 turn-of-the-century buildings including massive stone and brick warehouses to elegant terra-cotta clad skyscrapers.
The shipping industry up the Red River from the south started Winnipeg's boom in the mid-1800s but that was a mere stepping stone for the development that the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) brought with its railway lines extending across Canada in the late 1800s and the thousands of settlers that passed through Winnipeg on their way west to claim homesteads.
Winnipeg held titles like - 1905 "fastest growing city of its size in North America"; 1911 "one of the largest rail centres in the world"; "agriculture centre of the country" with over half of the world's wheat sales during the 1920s. At this time financial institutes were lining up on Main Street, turning it into Banker's Row and creating an unrivaled architectural showcase of prosperity. This area also became the entertainment capital of western Canada with opulent theatres and cabarets drawing Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers north.
After being named a National Historical Site in 1997 by the Federal Government, the Exchange District has become Winnipeg's hub of arts and culture, home to art galleries, studios, theatres, festivals and museums.
Winnipeg however, has the 20 block Exchange District National Historical Site that contains over 100 turn-of-the-century buildings including massive stone and brick warehouses to elegant terra-cotta clad skyscrapers.
The shipping industry up the Red River from the south started Winnipeg's boom in the mid-1800s but that was a mere stepping stone for the development that the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) brought with its railway lines extending across Canada in the late 1800s and the thousands of settlers that passed through Winnipeg on their way west to claim homesteads.Winnipeg held titles like - 1905 "fastest growing city of its size in North America"; 1911 "one of the largest rail centres in the world"; "agriculture centre of the country" with over half of the world's wheat sales during the 1920s. At this time financial institutes were lining up on Main Street, turning it into Banker's Row and creating an unrivaled architectural showcase of prosperity. This area also became the entertainment capital of western Canada with opulent theatres and cabarets drawing Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers north.
After being named a National Historical Site in 1997 by the Federal Government, the Exchange District has become Winnipeg's hub of arts and culture, home to art galleries, studios, theatres, festivals and museums.
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