Education Guide February – June 2021

VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING FOR ALL TYPES OF SCHOOL GROUPS

IN SUPPORT OF OUR EDUCATION PROGRAMS, THE MOOSE JAW MUSEUM & ART GALLERY WOULD LIKE TO THANK:

The City of Moose Jaw, Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Museums Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, Saskatchewan Lotteries and SaskCulture Inc., and Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Separate School Division.

School image photo credit to: Jamie Forrest from Ecole St. Margaret VIRTUAL TOURS AND ACTIVITIES

Clay at Home February 2021 edition – Valentine’s Day

BASIC KIT – 1 hour completion time ADVANCED KIT – up to 3 hours to complete

School group cost: $5.00 per kit and individually packaged kits for each student. Ordering done online with limited contact pick up in art gallery between February 4 – 14. There will be a live Zoom demonstration on February 11 @ 4pm check facebook or our website for more details.

Inside the VALENTINES DAY CLAY AT HOME KIT - you will find:

Basic kit materials – for youngsters and those wanting a simpler project a fired clay heart, paint, glitter glue, wooden sticks, glue, string, sponge, tile pieces.

Advanced kit materials – for older students and adults who enjoy mosaic making a fired clay cut-outs (heart), wooden sticks, glue, string, tile pieces, grout, sponge, plastic spoon, tooth pick

Stay Tuned for more clay at home April – Easter & May – Mother’s Day Exhibitions & Activities from the Gallery

Live Virtual Exhibition tours and hands-on activities

Provided: Teachers will have access to a live in-class session with the Education Coordinator, MJMAG YouTube Channel resources that include prepared videos on a tour of the exhibition, and a printed step by step guide on how to make each art project. Art kits (at a small fee of $3.50 per student) with materials needed to do project for each student. There may be some things not provided but will be outlined under each activity. Packages for the class will need to be picked up and available a week prior to the class.

February 12 – May 2, 2021 Fire in the Belly: SK Women in Art

From the MJM&AG Permanent Collection

Featuring a diverse selection of works from the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery Permanent Collection, including painting, ceramics, beaded works, photography, video and installation art, this exhibition will highlight the strength and compelling nature of the work of women artists in Saskatchewan.

Each month we will feature an artist from the exhibition and focus a hands-on activity for students to do with materials connected and inspiration by that artist.

February Art Theme: Abstract Painting

Meet the artist for the month, Joan Rankin who was a part of the 1950’s abstract expressionism movement in Saskatchewan and part of the current exhibition.

She was a prominent artist not only in our province but nationally. She taught many students at Peacock Collegiate and was the arts consultant for the province that included putting together art programs for teachers.

Joan Rankin was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1927. A year later, her family moved to Regina, Joan Rankin, Deep Purple Field, acrylic on Saskatchewan. As a child, Rankin pursued an canvas, 1965. interest in art through a drawing class at Regina College, the camera club at her high school, and an art course with Augustus Kenderdine during her grade twelve year. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1950, studying under Kenderdine and Nikola Bjelajac. Rankin continued her studies in Regina, studying under Kenneth Lochhead before being hired as the Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee graphic artist in 1954. That same year she was hired as art director for Vision Magazine, a position she held for ten years. In 1959, Rankin became Supervisor of Art for the Moose Jaw Public Schools, a position she held until 1982, when she became an art instructor at A.E. Peacock Collegiate in Moose Jaw. She retired in 1987. Rankin was committed to her own art throughout her time in these positions. She attended Emma Lake artists' workshops, studying with Clement Greenberg (1962), Jules Olitski (1964), John Cage and Lawrence Alloway (1965), and Frank Stella (1967). She took a leave to study in Montreal with Yves Gaucher and Alfred Pinksy, earning her Master of Art in Art Education at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in 1969. Turning from painting, Rankin began to experiment with photography, clay and fiber, and later, stained glass and handmade paper, studying the latter two media at the Pilchuk International Glass School in Washington State (1984) and at the Emily Carr College of Art + Design in Vancouver. Rankin's work has been exhibited in Saskatchewan since 1952 and has also been shown in Manitoba, Quebec, and Ontario. It is represented in several important collections, including the Graduate Collection at Concordia University (Montreal), Saskatchewan Arts Board, Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon), MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina), and the Moose Jaw Museum and National Exhibition Centre. Throughout her career, Rankin has had steady involvement in the arts community, teaching evening and summer art classes and serving on various boards. Her daughter, Susan Rankin, is an artist who works in glass. She passed away in 2014. www.sknac.ca/index.php?page=ArtistDetail&id=335

Other Resources available:

Publications about her by the MJMAG and available through our giftshop.

Joan Rankin: A Persistent Image, publish by French Version: Joan Rankin: une image the MJMAG in 2005. persistante published by the MJMAG in 2005.

February Activity: Abstract painting

Students will have a virtual tour of the exhibition that looks at woman artists from our collection to learn about them and different painting styles.

Following the tour, students will be provided with painting materials to create an abstract painting and learn about key focal points by way of exploring the elements of art.

Materials included: background information, instructions, a variety of acrylic paint, large canvas board painting surface, sponges

NOT included: paint brushes, masking tape, and water containers

This will be a messy art class so make sure the surface has newspapers or a garbage bag under the working area.

March Art Theme: Print Making

Meet the artist of the month, Vaughan Grayson from the current exhibit who was known for sketching outdoors landscapes (en Plein Air) and creating them into paintings, silk-screen and block prints.

You might recognize the last name Grayson from prominent buildings and businessses in our community named after this founding family. Vaughan grew up in Moose Jaw surrounded by art which became her love and she carried throughout her life. Vaughan Grayson, Last Stand Mount Assiniboine Park, AB, Silk-screen print, 1950-60

Vaughan Grayson was born in 1894 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and took painting classes throughout her childhood. After completing high school she travelled throughout Europe, Africa and South America, attending art school in Budapest and England. When she returned to North America, Grayson studied at the Curry School of Expression in Boston, at St. Margaret's College in Toronto, and at Teacher's College at Columbia University in New York.

Grayson's interest in both arts and education led her to teach in Regina and Moose Jaw and to publish two books on art education: Picture Appreciation for Elementary School (1929) and Picture Appreciation for High School (1932). She continued teaching when she moved to British Columbia in 1929, at the University of British Columbia and the Summer School of Fine Arts in Penticton. In 1943, she also taught sketching at the Banff School of Fine Arts.

Canadian landscapes – particularly the mountains and valleys of Alberta and B.C. – are a prominent theme in Grayson's work. She called the Okanagan Valley “a painter's paradise, peaceful and soft.” Her impressionistic paintings and serigraphs have been exhibited in Canada and the United States, including in a group exhibition of the National Serigraph Society in New York City in 1957.

Vaughan Grayson moved back to Moose Jaw in 1961, and she continued to travel and study, taking classes in Victoria, B.C. and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She died in 1995, at the age of 100. www.sknac.ca/index.php?page=ArtistDetail&id=148

Other Resources:

Publications about her from the MJMAG and available through our giftshop

Adventures of an Artist in the Canadian Rockies, by Vaughan Grayson, French version: les adventures d’une artist dans les published through the MJMAG in 2006. Rocheuses canadiennes. Published through the MJMAG in 2006.

Virtual Museum Exhibition: https://www.communitystories.ca/v1/pm_v2.php?id=exhibit_home&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000 422

March Activity: Printmaking

Students will have a virtual tour of the exhibition that looks at woman artists from our collection to learn about the artists and what form of art they work in.

Following the tours, students will be provided with background information, instructions and printmaking materials to create a range of prints to learn important features about printmaking including what is a monoprints, artist proofs and editions.

OPTIONS for this activity:

1) Printing using Tin Foil

Supplies included: acrylic/tempra paints, tin foil sheets, Q- Tips, plastic forks

NOT included: paper, paint brush, water container

2) Printing using foam plates Supplies included: acrylic/tempra paints, foam plates

NOT included: paper, scissors, large paint brushes, water containers, pencil

3) Block Printing - ADVANCED grade 7 and up

Only to be used with older students as tools are sharp and can injure.

Supplies included: Water-based printmaking ink OR high quality acrylic paint, easy blocks, carving tools, brayers, plexiglass to roll ink

NOT included: plastic spoons, photocopy paper (several sheets per student)

Speciality program in March - Elementary school students –up to grade 5

Tuesdays, March 9 – 30 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm CREATEablities art classes for individuals with special needs & learning differences where students will spend time learning online about art concepts in a fun way within their own special capacities.

April Art Theme: Indigenous art

Meet these contemporary indigenous artists of the month, Dana Claxton & Catherine Blackburn.

Dana Claxton is a critically acclaimed artist who works in film, video, photography, single and multi-channel video installation and performance art. Born in 1959 in Yorkton,

Dana Claxton installation of Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux at MJMAG. Saskatchewan, of Hunkpapa Lakota heritage, she grew up in Moose Jaw. Her practice investigates beauty, the body, the socio- political and the spiritual, combining her multi-layered world view with Indigenous issues both past and present.

Her work has been shown internationally at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, Australia) and is held in public, private and corporate collections across Canada, including the Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada. She has received numerous awards, including Best Experimental Film at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival and the Hnatyshyn Award for outstanding achievement. Dana is head and associate professor in the Department of Visual Art, Art History and Theory at the University of British Columbia, where she teaches theory about love, performance art and studio practice. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, on unceded Salish Territory. https://en.ggarts.ca/dana-claxton Catherine Blackburn was born in Patuanak Saskatchewan, of Dene and European ancestry and is a member of the English River First Nation. She is a multidisciplinary artist and jeweller, whose common themes address Canada's colonial past that are often prompted by personal narratives. Her work merges mixed media and fashion to create dialogue between historical art forms and new interpretations of them. Through utilizing beadwork and other historical Catherine Blackburn, Classics Series #9, rabbit fur, beads, tea bag, birch bark, sinew, 2017, 8.5 x 19.5 x 20.5 adornment techniques, she creates cm space to explore Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization and representation. Her work has exhibited in notable national and international exhibitions and fashion runways including; BorderLINE: 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art, Àbadakone: National Gallery of Canada, Santa Fe Haute Couture Fashion Show, and Art Encounters on the Edge, Bonavista Biennale, Newfoundland. She has received numerous grants and awards for her work, including the Saskatchewan RBC Emerging Artist Award, the Melissa Levin Emerging Artist Award, a publication in Vogue online magazine, as well as her inclusion on the 2019 Sobey Art Award longlist. www.catherineblackburn.com

Other Resources available:

Publications about the artists by the MJMAG and available through our giftshop

Dana Claxton: Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux, published Catherine Blackburn: New Age Warrior, through the MJMAG in 2007. published through the MJMAG in 2019.

April Activity: Mixed Media – Looking at Different ways to create Beadwork

Students will have a virtual tour of the current exhibition that celebrates traditional and contemporary indigenous women artists from Saskatchewan. Background information, instructions and materials will be provided to learn about the importance of patterns and symbols to indigenous culture which will be the inspiration for students to create the following activities.

OPTIONS for this activity.

1) Clay Animal Spirit Medallions

Students will learn about pointillism to simplify the beadwork process.

Materials included: Clay medallions, Q-Tips, paint, string

NOT included: Water containers, optional beads to further enhance project as a necklace.

2) Arm bands/bracelets (older grade 6 & up)

Repurposing & reinventing the plastic bottle

Materials included: Nail, needle, beads and thread

NOT included: cleaned plastic bottles (1 per kids), scissors

May Heritage Gallery Theme: Collecting

Meet the collector/Indigenous advocate, Annie Wallace Smith 1883-1954

After the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, some of the Lakota people that followed Sitting Bull eventually settled near Moose Jaw. A young local resident, Annie Wallis, developed close friendships among the Lakota people and received beadwork and other articles as gifts over the years. From them, Annie learned the Lakota language and was eventually adopted by their people. The adoption ceremony took place in Wakamow Valley, south of Moose Jaw. Annie was bestowed with the name Leskawin, which means Interpreter Woman, by the Lakota Chief, Tatanka Sapa. This Chief, who was also known by the name, Black Buffalo Bull, was a nephew of Sitting Bull. Interested in contributing to the history of Moose Jaw, Annie Wallis donated many of the living objects she was gifted, including an impressive collection of beaded works, to the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery.

Artifacts from the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery that share the story of Annie Wallace Smith and her collection

May Activity: The art of collecting

The Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery has been collecting for over 50 years even before it was formed in 1967. What kind of things do we collect? Find out what the gallery collects with a PowerPoint presentation about what’s in our vault. From that students will look at things around their homes that could be considered collections. This fun exploratory activity includes a kit with lots of ideas about collecting that students can use to start taking photos of their personal items and create a catalogue which can be added to our online gallery. Something we would like to feature on our MJMAG website student gallery section.

What is included: a beginner’s booklet that include information on collecting

Not included: pencils, glue, personal items from home that are part of students collection (images taken of their collection which will be used to start a catalogue and used for an online gallery.

May 31 – June 24, 2021

Sylvia Ziemann: Accidental Utopia

This exhibition is a collection of drawings and paintings created from dreams and a fantasy world. When you look up the word Utopia on the Merriam-Webster dictionary site on the internet, it is described as an imaginary and indefinitely remote place. Sylvia Ziemann paints a menagerie of fantastical characters—figures that are playful combinations Sylvia Ziemann, "Care for Each Other," of human, animal, insect, and plant—welcoming us ink on paper, 2017, 11" x 14". into an imaginative realm. In this world, everything and everyone has its place. Todd Gronsdahl: The Saskatchewan Maritime Museum

Saskatoon-based artist Todd Gronsdahl grew up near Clavet and now lives on a farm near Vonda, attributes his sculpture’s origins to a “need to claim his Saskatchewan-ness with the fantasy like Saskatchewan Maritime Museum. It focuses on three mythological stories conspired from the local surrounding waterways (versus the sea). Gronsdahl

Installation shot of Todd Gronsdahl’s proposes specific ahistoricities, chock-full of exhibition Saskatchewan Maritime contradictory evidence suggestive of aquatic Museum at the Art Gallery of Regina adventures. Consequently, it is imbued with skepticism, sarcasm and humour, and ultimately one is left to contemplate the need for the Saskatchewan maritime Museum to even exist.

June Activity: Fantasy collage using a variety of mixed media

This activity is inspired by the surrealism art movement which artists like Max Ernst and Salvador Dali were famous for. This fun activity will help students understand what surrealism is and along with inspiration from Sylvia Ziemann’s exhibition, use it to create artwork outside of the box.

Materials included: Magazines, background information, instructions. Not included: a large sheet of paper to use for background, scissors, glue, black marker, other colouring materials such at pencil crayons. If kids would like to use their own old magazines too they may have more kids themed magazines to recycle.

EXHIBITIONS IN THE GALLERY

February 12 – May 2, 2021

Fire in the Belly: SK Women in Art

From the MJM&AG Permanent Collection

Featured artists : Pat Adams, Heather Benning, Catherine Blackburn, Dana Claxton, Heather Cline, Reta Cowley, Ruth Cuthand, Eva Dennis, Cara Gay Driscoll, Gabriela Garcia-Luna, Vaughan Grayson, Ann Harbuz, Belinda Harrow, Beth Hone, Marsha Kennedy, Dorothy Knowles, Marie Lannoo, Diane Lara, Sandra Ledingham, Molly Lenhardt, Marilyn Levine, Jeannie Mah, Laura Margita, Judy McNaughton, Anne Meggitt, Angelique Merasty, Wynona Mulcaster, Wendy Parsons, Thelma Pepper, Catherine Perehudoff, Joan Rankin, Anita Rocamora, Vera Saltzman, Christy Schweiger, Leesa Streifler, Judy Tryon, Jane Turnbull Evans, Doris Wall Larson, Jane Zednik

May 31 – August 29, 2021

Sylvia Ziemann: Accidental Utopia

A monographic exhibition of new paintings by Treaty 4/Regina-based artist Sylvia Ziemann. Through painting, Ziemann affirms a philosophy of simplicity that is restorative, particularly in a contemporary context of pervasive social media and the often-troubling news on tv. Working with oil and acrylic on wood, canvas, and board. Sylvia Ziemann, "Accidental Utopia," 2017 oil on canvas, 6' x 8' Todd Gronsdahl: Saskatchewan Maritime Museum

Todd Gronsdahl’s interdisciplinary practice challenges truth, fiction and the construction of historical narratives. Saskatchewan Maritime Museum is an immersive installation, employing irony to highlight the randomness of museum and archive logic. By playing, tampering and reconfiguring archival documentation, Gronsdahl intentionally Installation shot of Todd Gronsdahl’s exhibition legitimizes mythologies, loosely Saskatchewan Maritime Museum at the Art Gallery of Regina retracing residual marks of past events.

Saskatchewan Maritime Museum focuses on three mythological stories conspired from the local surrounding waterways (versus the sea). Gronsdahl proposes specific ahistoricities, chock-full of contradictory evidence suggestive of aquatic adventures. Consequently, it is imbued with skepticism, sarcasm and humour, and ultimately one is left to contemplate the need for the Saskatchewan maritime Museum to even exist.

TOUR INFORMATION – TO REGISTER

TOUR TIMES

Monday through Wednesday; 9:30am or 1:00pm and Thursday; 9:30am.

1 hour live in class session with Education Coordinator - includes MJMAG prepared exhibition tour, live hands-on experience (printed copy of step by step instructions), and additional YouTube Channel resources and a virtual 3D gallery tour.

Available from now until June 24, 2021.

COST

No charge to students from Holy Trinity School Division Moose Jaw Elementary Schools and High School Art classes (Vanier and Phoenix Academy), as they provide funding for Educational programming.

$3.50/per student that included all materials for the class (unless specified)

AGES Programs can be tailored to any grade level.

HOW ONLINE PROGRAM WORKS

Either the Education Coordinate can join in on online classroom such as Microsoft Classroom or we can set up a link with zoom for the students to join us, we are comfortable in doing our programs either way.

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MJMAG

For details about the gallery, exhibitions, programs, events, and additional classes at: www.mjmag.ca

TO BOOK A SCHOOL TOUR http://www.mjmag.ca/schools FOR MORE DETAILS

Education Coordinator: Christy Schweiger

Email: [email protected] (currently this is the best form of communication)

OR Call 306-692-4471

COVID-19 RESPONSE TO CREATE A HEALTHY AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL

IN PERSON GALLERY VISITS

The health of our community, visitors, staff, and volunteers is our top priority at MJM&AG, and therefore we are implementing a number of changes to provide a safer environment for everyone:

New hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 1:00 to 4:30 pm.

Capacity: Limited to 20 people at a time, maximum 10 per gallery and a maximum 6 student in Hands-on Room.

Visitors will be asked to sign in at the front desk to undergo a health screen, be informed of new facility procedures, and to facilitate contact tracing.

Closed until further notice - Gift Shop, Discovery Centre, Hands-on Room (over 6 people)

Office also closed to public and we ask that you make an appointment if you wish to meet with someone.

Safety Measures: All visitors and staff are required to wear a mask. If you do not have a mask, we will have complimentary masks available.

We have organized our gallery spaces to facilitate appropriate distancing, and have removed certain touch points, as well as putting in signage to direct visitors around the spaces. Visitors are asked to maintain a distance of two metres from other visitors and staff. Public washrooms are available for hand washing, and sanitizer stations are in place throughout the building. We encourage you to visit only with members of your family and/or social bubble.

Increased Cleaning will be happening throughout the building.