Women X Women - TREX
Women X WomenAlberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
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Women X WomenAlberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition ProgramInterpretive Catalogue and Educators Guide: AFA Travelling Exhibition Program (TREX)Curated by Xanthe Isbister, Esplanade Arts and Heritage CentreCover artwork:Tammy Salzl, Girl in Between , 2014, watercolour on paper, 24 x 17 ⅞ inches, collection of the AFA3
Helen Mackie, Self portrait, 1972, etching on paper, 22 ½ x 16 ½ inches, collection of the AFA4
Table ofContents6About the Esplanade7About the AFA Travelling Exhibition Program9Curatorial Statement11Biography16List of Works21Introduction to Educator’s Guide and Lesson Plans23Lesson1: Portrait Tracing27Lesson 2: Needlepoint31Lesson 3: Block Printing37Acknowledgements5
About theEsplanadeThe Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre is wherethe stories of our great collective culture are toldthrough music and dance, painting and sculpture,plays and concerts, exhibitions and installations,artifacts and art, education programs and privateevents. Featuring a 700- seat main stage balconytheatre which boasts superior technology andstriking design, the Esplanade is where MedicineHat celebrates arts and heritage.A marvel of contemporary Canadian architectureon traditional Blackfoot territory just steps from theSouth Saskatchewan River, the Esplanade occupiesan eminent position on downtown’s historic FirstStreet Southeast. From its rooftop terrace, you cansee Saamis, the dramatic shoreline escarpmentwhich is the setting for the story of how MedicineHat got its name.Inside, visitors discover the vibrant EsplanadeArt Gallery, the prized Esplanade Museum, theEsplanade Studio Theatre across the lobby fromthe Esplanade Main Stage Theatre, the expansiveEsplanade Archives and Reading Room, an arteducation space called the Discovery Centre andthe catering-friendly Cutbanks Room.In the northeast corner of the Esplanade groundsstands the oldest remaining brick home in Alberta,the Ewart-Duggan House. With its gingerbreadtrim and quaint heritage gardens, it now serves asa charming venue for select cultural events and ahome away from home for artists in residence.The Esplanade opened in celebration of Alberta’scentennial in 2005 and ever since, Medicine Hathas welcomed a steady procession of artists andaudiences, storytellers and story-lovers from aroundthe region and around the globe. The celebrationcontinues today.6
About theAFA TravellingExhibitionProgramThe Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) hassupported a provincial travelling exhibitionprogram since 1981. The mandate of the AFATravelling Exhibition Program is to provide everyAlbertan with the opportunity to enjoy visual artexhibitions in their community.Three regional galleries and one arts organizationcoordinate the program for the AFA:Northwest Region: The Art Gallery ofGrande Prairie, Grande Prairie Northeastand North Central Region: The Art Galleryof Alberta, Edmonton Southwest Region:The Alberta Society of Artists, CalgarySoutheast Region: The Esplanade Arts andHeritage Centre, Medicine HatEach year, more than 300,000 Albertans enjoymany exhibitions in communities ranging fromHigh Level in the north to Milk River in thesouth and virtually everywhere in between. TheAFA Travelling Exhibition Program also offerseducational support material to help educatorsintegrate the visual arts into the school curriculum.Exhibitions for the TREX program are curatedfrom a variety of sources, including private andpublic collections. A major part of the programassists in making the AFA’s extensive art collectionavailable to Albertans. This growing art collectionconsists of over 8,000 artworks showcasing thecreative talents of more than 2000 artists. As theonly provincial art collection in Alberta, the AFAcollection reflects the development ofthe vibrant visual arts community in the provinceand has become an important cultural legacy for allAlbertans.7
Marion Nicoll, The Model, 1958, watercolour on paper, 108x 7 ⅞ inches, collection of the AFA
CuratorialStatementThis exhibition features portraits of women by fifteen femaleartists. It showcases works from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts’permanent collection that span several decades—from 1947 to 2015.The motivation behind the female focus came from a 2017 CanadianArt magazine article on gender diversity within Canadian galleriesand museums. Consider the following statistics: women constitute63 percent of living artists in Canada, but in 2012, only 36% ofexhibitions were solo female, compared to 64% solo male. Thisexhibition not only highlights the conceptual strength and facility eachof the works conveys—it also celebrates the vast scope of femininityand the female psyche through the eyes of women.Ruth Syme’s Winnie captures a moment in time when the realitiesof mortality set in; Winnie sits in her wheelchair, her hair greying,a knitted light blue sweater covering her shoulders, a rigid frownexpressing her mood. Her attention is directed to the side, as though sheis preoccupied by someone’s actions. She looks on, disapprovingly. Theartist explains, “I have a fascination with facial features and an intenseinterest in one’s acceptance of their existence and eventual extinction.Every painting is an opportunity to examine another human beingminutely.” And she does so with prodigious technical skills. Throughher facility with watercolour paint, she has expertly personified hersubject.In her book Women, Art, and Society, Whitney Chadwick states, “Duringthe 1970s feminism expressed itself in a generally celebratory attitudetowards the female body and female experience, and an embrace ofpersonal and collaborative approaches to artmaking. Some artists andcritics explored the notion of a ‘female imagery’ as a positive way ofrepresenting the female body, reclaiming it from its passive object ofmale desire.”1 Artist Marion Nicoll was a pioneer in this approach, andhas done just that in her piece The Model, from 1958. Born in Calgary,Marion Nicoll was a prolific artist whose career extends over decades.She was an educator at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art(now the Alberta University of the Arts) for over thirty years. Her workevolved from landscape painting to a distinct genre of abstraction. Thissmall yet assertive watercolour painting emanates a bold femininity. Abalance of light painterly brushstrokes, blocks of dark colour and redhighlights creates a piece on point with postmodern abstraction.Watercolour paintings, etchings, charcoal and pencil drawings, injectprints, sewn plastic, photography, mixed-fibre yarn, and oil on canvasare the various mediums used to create the works featured in thisexhibition. The eighteen works span seventy years of Canadian artmaking, highlighting some of the most influential female artists inCanada. The artists include Helen Mackie, Marion Nicoll, Bev Pike,Ruth Syme, Dana Shukster, Jill Thomson, Maureen Harvey, MeganDickie, Allyson Glenn, Carolyn Campbell, Dana Holst, Petra MaláMiller, Megan Morman, Tammy Salzl, and Allison Tunis.1Whitney Chadwick, Women, Art, and Society (London: Thames & Hudson, 2012).9
BiographiesAllison TunisAllison Tunis has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degreefrom the University of Alberta, and a graduatediploma in Art Therapy from the Vancouver ArtTherapy Institute. She works mainly in crossstitch embroidery, but also explores mixed mediainvolving acrylic painting and gel transfers, andhas self-publishing a body positive colouring bookentitled Body Love: A Fat Activism Colouring Book,which can be found on Amazon in many countries.Tunis is currently developing and facilitatinga Queer Youth Art Club through the AlbertaSex Positive Education & Community Centre(ASPECC), which is a project supported by theEdmonton Arts Council and the EdmontonCommunity Foundation. As well, she is in theprocess of developing a body of work themedaround language, social norms, and the experienceof living as a fat person in our society. Previously,Tunis was the Artist-in-Residence for YouthEmpowerment and Support Services (YESS), ongrant from the Edmonton Arts Council, workingwith high-risk youth in the Edmonton area tocreate art in a therapeutic and activist context, aswell as creating her own body of work focusingon body diversity, feminism, and reducing weightbased and mental illness stigma. Allison's first soloexhibition premiered at the Alberta Craft CouncilDiscovery Gallery in January 2018, and waswell-received. It went on to travel to the Calgarylocation, and Allison has been slated to be a part ofa number of group exhibitions and commissionedprojects in 2019 and beyond.Her pieces question our society’s obsession withaesthetic beauty, restrictive beauty standards,and body conformity, while exploring her ownstruggle with body image and a hunger for morediverse representation. Issues of feminism andintersectionality, diversity in media representation,and social constructions of beauty all influenceAllison's work as an artist.10
Allyson GlennAllyson Glenn graduated with a BFA from theUniversity of Alberta in 1998 and an MFA fromthe University of Calgary in 2000. She has receivedthree Elizabeth Foundation Awards, several grantsfrom the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, BCArts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts,and a President’s SSHRC from the University ofSaskatchewan in 2010. Her work is part of privateand public collections including the University ofCalgary and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts,and she has exhibited in the United States, GreatBritain, Czech Republic, India, Switzerland, andChina. In May 2016 Glenn had the opportunityto participate as the Canadian Artist in Residenceat the Vorres Museum in Athens (Paienia), Greece.She now lives in Saskatoon, Canada where sheteaches full-time as an Associate Professor for theDepartment of Art and Art History, University ofSaskatchewan.Bev PikeBev Pike is a Winnipeg polymath known for largescale performative landform paintings. Sincegraduating from the Alberta College of Art andDesign in Calgary, Pike’s work has exhibited acrossCanada in solo and group exhibitions. She hasreceived senior arts grants from the WinnipegArts Council, Manitoba Arts Council and CanadaCouncil for the Arts.Selected collections include: Canada CouncilArt Bank, the Museum of ContemporaryCanadian Art, the Manitoba Arts Council ArtBank, Winnipeg Art Gallery, MacKenzie ArtGallery, Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery as well asartist-book collections at the Victoria and AlbertMuseum, Tate Modern and numerous other specialcollections in North America and England.Carolyn CampbellCarolyn Campbell received her Master of FineArts degree in painting from the University ofAlberta in 2004. She has exhibited at variousgalleries throughout Alberta, such as HarcourtHouse Artist Run Centre, Peter Robertson Gallery,Triangle Gallery, and Willock and Sax. In 2009she was a finalist in the Kingston Art Council’sNational Portrait Competition. Her work is held incorporate, public, and private collections, includingthe University of Alberta’s collection, the AlbertaFoundation for the Arts’ collection, and privatecollections in Toronto, Calgary, and Lethbridge.Dana HolstDana Holst (b.1972, Canada) is an Edmonton,Alberta based artist who received her B. A. in FineArts from the University of Waterloo in 1995.Working primarily in figurative painting anddrawing, her work is an ongoing investigation intothe human experience, focusing on the feminineself and it’s nebulous place within society. Holstcreates theatrical and speculative narratives aroundthe emotional lives of young women, who aredepicted in the process of building their identities,discovering their sexuality and learning about theworld. Using portraiture as a catalyst, Holst’s girlsare caught in situations of import and fate, wheredark social secrets are explored with ambiguousoutcomes offering further opportunity to navigatefrom a place of innocence to deeper understanding.Noteworthy public exhibits include the soloshow She’s All That (2015) at the Art Gallery ofAlberta, which was curated by Kristy Trinier andaccompanied by a catalogue; Betwixt and Between(2014) a two person show with mixed media artistJude Griebel at The Reach Museum in AbbotsfordBC; and Artefact Artefiction (2013) a group exhibitioncurated by Dawn Owen at The Macdonald StewartArt Gallery (now The Art Gallery of Guelph) inGuelph Ontario. In 2011 Holst was honored tobe selected by Wajdi Mouawad, the director ofthe Théâtre Français of the National Arts Centrein Ottawa, to be Associate Visual Artist for the2011-2012 season titled Nous Ne Sommes PasDangereux. Her work is included in numerouspublic and private collections including the AlbertaFoundation for the Arts, The Agnes EtheringtonArt Centre of Queen’s University, the Art BankCollection, the Colart Collection and theGlenbow Museum.11
Dana ShuksterDana Shukster is a printmaker based in MedicineHat Alberta. She completed her MFA in 2008 atDonau-Universität Krems in Austria. She is pastchairman for the Medicine Hat Cultural Allianceand active participant in the Medicine Hat artcommunity.Shukster’s work has been exhibited across Canadaand in the United States and Europe. It is supportedby grants and awards from the Canada Councilfor the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for theArts and is held in numerous public and privatecollections in Alberta and British Columbia.Helen MackieHelen Mackie received her Bachelor of FineArts Degree from the University of Calgaryin printmaking and drawing in 1973. Thisaccomplishment came after earning a Bachelordegree in Biology and Chemistry from Queen’sUniversity, and a Masters degree in Physiologyand Biochemistry from the University of Toronto.With a background in biological sciences, she “hashad a life-long fascination with prairie culture andthe natural world. Helen makes visible nature’srhythms, and reveals spiritual and symbolic pointsof reference for our own realities. Helen’s strongimages, in conjunction with her use of color,contain high levels of energy and denote hercompassionate nature and keen sense of humor.”(Willcox and Sax Gallery)Jill ThomsonJill Thomson's artwork evokes her personal historyof a small town/prairie childhood, an urbanMontreal young adulthood and a settled life asartist and mother of three in Edmonton. Herrich colourful palette and complex compositionscelebrate a creative life in cities with generous frontporches, cafes, bookstores, bicycle paths, gardensand ravines.She received her BFA from Concordia Universityin Montreal and is represented by Gibson Fine12Art in Calgary and AGA Art Rental and Salesin Edmonton. She has work in the AlbertaFoundation for the Arts provincial collection and ininternational public and private collections.(Heather Hamel, Scott Gallery, Edmonton)Marion NicollMarion Florence Mackay Nicoll, was born inCalgary. She studied at the Ontario College ofArt, 1927-1929, and under A.C. Leighton at theProvincial Institute of Technology and Art (nowAlberta University of the Arts), 1929-1932. Sheaccepted a teaching position in crafts and designat the Institute in 1933 and taught there for nearlythirty years. Through the influence of Leighton,Jock Macdonald, automatic drawing and WillBarnet, her art evolved from landscape painting toa distinct style of classical abstraction. Both Marionand her husband, Jim, exhibited their art duringthe 1960s-1970s. They were involved in a numberof organizations in the community such as AlbertaSociety of Artists, Calgary Allied Arts Council,Calgary Kinsmen, Old Cabin Crafts Society,Bowness Recreation Centre and Bowness LibraryBoard. (Loch Gallery)Maureen HarveyMaureen Harvey received her Bachelor of FineArts from the University of California, Los Angeles,in 1961. She is a prolific painter whose careerspans over forty years, with a focus on commissionworks, murals, and stage design. Harvey’s worksare in numerous collections throughout Alberta,such as the City of St. Albert’s collection, GrandePrairie Hospital’s collection, and Alberta Oil SandsEquity’s collection. She has exhibited at FringeGallery, Bowman Arts Centre, and Harcourt HouseArtist Run Centre, and has participated in theWorks Festival in Edmonton.
Megan DickieMegan Dickie is an artist who works in themediums of sculpture, video and printmaking.Her artistic research focuses on the seductivetension that exists between reason and play. Dickieexplores this concept by subverting systems andstructures with critically deployed humour. MeganDickie’s most recent project uses video games as aplatform to question the competitive structure ofcontemporary art and our enduring fascinationwith watching human struggle. The project iscomprised of sculptures and a video trilogy thattakes inspiration from 1980’s video games. Thevideos have recently been shown at TUFF (Toronto)BIDDU (Reykjavik) and Eastern Edge (St. John’s). Amajor solo presentation of the entire project will bepresented at Open Space (Victoria) in early 2017.Megan Dickie has exhibited her work acrossCanada with exhibitions at Oxygen Art Centre(Nelson), Latitude 53 (Edmonton), Stride(Calgary), Grunt Gallery, (Vancouver) BC, theArt Gallery of Greater Victoria, the KenderdineArt Gallery (Saskatoon), Artcite Inc. (Windsor)and Artspace (Peterborough) to name just a few.Dickie has received numerous grants from theCanada Council for the Arts and the BC ArtsCouncil. She has also been awarded professionaldevelopment funding from the University ofVictoria. Her BFA in printmaking was obtainedfrom the University of Calgary in 1997 and shereceived a MFA in sculpture from the Universityof Saskatchewan in 2002. Her work is in thecollection of the University of Saskatchewan, TheAlberta Foundation for the Arts and the NickleArts Museum. Megan Dickie currently resides inVictoria, BC and teaches sculpture at the Universityof Victoria.Megan MormanOver the past twelve years, Megan Morman’s visualwork has shown in solo exhibitions and festivalsacross Canada, including at the Art Gallery ofAlberta (Edmonton), the Southern Alberta ArtGallery (Lethbridge), Artspace (Peterborough), andGalerie Sans Nom (Moncton). Morman grew upin rural Minnesota; before moving to Lethbridgein 2012, she spent fifteen years in Saskatoonworking in communications and administrationwith arts and community-based nonprofitsincluding AIDS Saskatoon and the Saskatoon PrideFestival. Morman has a B.A. in Sociology from theUniversity of Saskatchewan (2003), and an M.F.A.from the University of Lethbridge in 2016.Petra Malá MillerPetra Malá Miller was born in the Czech Republicand grew up in Blatnice, a village in southernMoravia. Her photographic work explores thepoetics of childhood, of innocence, ageing,memory and loss and raises questions surroundingrepresentation, cultural identity, the individual, thefamily and the community.Petra Malá Miller earned her MFA from theAcademy of Arts, Architecture and Designin Prague (2008). In 2009, she received theESSL Museum Award for ContemporaryArt, Klosterneuburg, Vienna. She receivedAlberta Foundation for the Arts awards for herphotography and is represented in the AFA’s ArtCollection. Her work has been featured in soloand group exhibitions in Europe, the United Statesand in Canada including: The Intimate Circle inContemporary Czech Photography, LandskronaMuseum, Sweden (2015) and at the City Galleryof Prague (2013); The Voice Reached Us Through theFloor, but the Words Themselves Were Lost, HarbourfrontCentre, Toronto (2013), Trianon Gallery,Lethbridge (2012) and Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague(2011); On the Threshold, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Berlin(2011); Inter-view, Nitra Gallery, Nitra (2010); CzechIt, an exhibition of modern and contemporaryCzech photography presented at Space Gallery,Pittsburgh (2009); Frame, Leica Gallery, Prague(2008). The artist is currently preparing Living in theZone, a large-scale project that explores the afterlifeof Chernobyl and its effects on the ch
1 Whitney Chadwick, Women, Art, and Society (London: Thames & Hudson, 2012). 9. Biographies Allison Tunis Allison Tunis has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta, and a graduate diploma in Art Therapy from the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute. She works mainly in cross-
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