Contents Bringing Innovation and Creativity to Our Community Two Words: Wins Governor Innovation and Creativity

Alberta College of Art + Design Spring 2009 / Issue No. 1 CATALYST

Faculty Member Contents Bringing Innovation and Creativity to Our Community Two words: Wins Governor Innovation and Creativity. You’ll not only hear them on the ACAD campus – you’ll see them too. page 2

Exhibiting General’s Award Canada’s Most Exciting Emerging Artists A collection of works by Canada’s finest emerging artists and designers opened to the public at the 2009 ACAD Grad Show. page 7

Profile: ACAD Alumni ACAD alumni designs his success here in Calgary.

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Profile: ACAD Faculty Charles Lewton Brain has the kind of career path that is as intricate as one of his very own creations.

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Publication Notes Catalyst is published by the Alberta 1, 2 The Long Haul (2006) College of Art + Design, designed by Performance / installation Combine Design and Communications, 1 PlugIn Institute of and printed in Canada. Articles may Contemporary Art, Winnipeg be reprinted in whole or in part with written permission.

Contact 1407 – 14th Avenue N.W. ACAD artist and The prizes are awarded annually Calgary, Alberta T2N 4R3 to visual and media artists for distinguished faculty member 403.284.7600 career achievement in visual arts, www.acad.ca Rita McKeough architecture, independent film and video, or audio and new media. Each prize awarded the 2009 is valued at $25,000. “It’s a remarkable moment for me to Governor General’s have this kind of support from my peers. 2 It gives me courage to work harder, Award in Visual it makes me feel encouraged to continue and Media Arts. to take risks, it’s a push,” stated McKeough It gives me the courage in an interview. As a faculty member at to work harder, it makes ACAD, and a member of the Calgary arts n March 25, community, McKeough is positive about me feel encouraged O 2009, ACAD all the “amazing young artists right now.” Cultural to continue to take risks. faculty member McKeough’s work has been shown across Leadership Rita McKeough Canada, and her complex and layered 30 years, helping to build Canada’s 2554623 Photography became one of installations and performances touch international reputation in performance Bill Eakin / nine recipients of on issues such as displacement, demolition and installation art, and acting as a mentor Rita McKeough the 2009 Governor of neighbourhoods, domestic violence and a source of inspiration for countless General’s Awards and ecological damage. students and emerging artists. ■ in Visual and Media Arts. The Governor As she has explained, “As soon as General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, you stop the chaos, you experience the are Canada’s foremost distinctions subversive power of silence. Dialogue for excellence in these artistic disciplines. and listening are politically and socially This prestigious award was presented the most powerful tools for change.” by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Her work often draws on chaos, using Michaelle Jean, Governor General, to multi-tracked layers of sound, and physical Ms. McKeough for her work in performance strength. McKeough has exhibited as and installation art at a ceremony in Ottawa. an interdisciplinary artist for the past CATALYST / Page 2 Bringing Innovation and Creativity to Our Community

Crack open any corporate brochure, annual information about their city. The site also as magazine art directors, teachers, curators, serves as an important source of information business owners, film directors, as well report or business publication and right next for people interested in moving to Calgary. as book and clothing designers. ACAD to the words “sustainable” and “synergy” Calgary Economic Development is also graduates are everywhere, impacting the currently working on a project called world of art and design - and business. you’ll see two other words that are incredibly Workshift, which is based on applying And they certainly bring a lot of creativity a different way of thinking to productivity. and innovation with them. hot right now. Innovation and Creativity. “It’s about looking at new ways of getting Having passionate, inspired creative work done,” says Legge. Not only does thinkers like ACAD students naturally While they may be popular buzz words, you’ll the project improve productivity, but helps spark the discussion around innovation not only hear them on the ACAD campus— with fewer people driving to work every and creativity in our community. And day, it also reduces carbon emissions. when other people in the community see you’ll see them too. Lance Carlson can certainly see the innovation and creativity, it inspires them link between education and business when to be more creative in their own work. hile innovation firm has helped develop the Apple mouse, it comes to innovation. While employers But what about today’s economy? W is defined as the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting may still require specific skills and experience Is there a need for innovative and creative Text “creation resulting edge products. It’s through introducing now more than ever they are looking for acts or should they be frozen like bonuses Melanie Woytiuk from study and leaders like Tom Kelley to the community problem solvers who can think laterally. and expense accounts? Though many Photography experimentation,” that ACAD brings to life its commitment In 2007, ACAD introduced author Dan Pink companies may react in fear, cutting back Dwayne Norman creativity is simply to bringing art and business together. to Calgary through the annual ACAD on changes and taking the path of least “the ability to make.” The importance of innovation to our President’s Smart Night. As he explained, resistance, we know from history that now is These two terms community is being recognized not just we need people who consider themselves the time to push for innovation and demand have become somewhat interchangeable, at ACAD, but throughout the city of to be either linear left-brain thinkers change. It’s time to put the thinking cap on, making it hard to know who’s working Calgary. Adam Legge, Vice President and or creative right-brain people. It’s about pull everyone together and do something creatively, who’s being innovative, and Chief Economist at Calgary Economic becoming a problem solver who can think we’ve never done before, even if it means who’s not. And while the definitions remain Development explains that there is some across different disciplines and industries. experimenting along the way. After all, you open-ended, every industry from oil and gray area when it comes to defining To enact real change, companies should can’t be innovative if you don’t even try. ■ gas and education to health care and the terms innovation and creativity, and aim to be innovative as a whole. “It’s not communications need people with these that Calgary’s focus has been on building about hiring a few innovative people, it’s abilities. Perhaps it’s putting a cappuccino innovation by using different tools about creating conditions where everyone machine in the office kitchen, rethinking or technology to solve a problem. Over can become innovative,” says Carlson. your recruitment techniques or updating the years, he has seen several industries He believes that you have to bring people the way you talk about your business. in Calgary working towards innovation from different disciplines together in order Truth is, if you’re not changing anything, and admits that while we’re successful to see fresh thinking. And while collaboration you should not be using the “I” word. in some areas, we certainly lag in others. within an organization is good, collaboration within an entire industry is truly the way to solve Links bigger problems. So where do President’s ACAD businesses go when Smart Night www.acad.ab.ca/smart_night they need big thinkers? Art Schools. ACAD IDEO www.ideo.com may be immediately associated with painting, Calgary Economic Development ceramics, or visual www.calgaryeconomicdevelop- communications design, ment.com but the fact is ACAD Calgarypedia students approach www.calgarypedia.com things in a completely unique way. Whether it’s a financial, marketing or design-based industry, ACAD students understand how to work backwards from the users’ needs and consider how the 1 customers live their 1 Students and faculty participate in a print media demonstration. lives rather than simply looking at existing ACAD President Lance Carlson From what he has seen, Calgary ranks lower services or products. They know how to is seeing these buzz words pop up than other North American cities when ask unique questions and turn the problem everywhere. “Over the past few years, it comes to research and technology, yet on its head, so that they get unexpected we have seen innovation as a major topic we boast some of the best digital media answers. They learn never to take the same in the media, education, science, the arts, companies in the country. With ACAD path over and over. government, and economics,” says graduates going on to work at places like Every year hundreds of creative thinkers Carlson. As a result, he’s ensuring the Critical Mass, Suitcase Interactive and graduate from ACAD and go on to become college doesn’t just talk about innovation Rare Method, ACAD has certainly helped innovative forces in the business and —that they actually foster it by creating raise Calgary’s profile when it comes cultural community. From ceramics, drawing, events and initiatives around the topic. to digital media. fibre, media arts and glass to jewelry, One way ACAD is igniting discussion Aside from forecasting trends for painting, photography, print, sculpture, about innovation is through the annual the city, Calgary Economic Development and visual communications design, students President’s ACAD Smart Night series. also prides itself on some of its own are always looking for fresh ways to create, This years’ speaker, Tom Kelley, is one innovative initiatives. They recently created whether its through rethinking techniques, of the world’s most respected experts on Calgarypedia, a wiki-based website technologies or concepts. Past students managing innovation and design and his that allows Calgarians to find up-to-date have gone to achieve remarkable success Issue No. 1 / Page 3

WE HOPE TO INITIATE works in which we have mapped out three to the innovative problem solvers their Our first master’s key concepts—innovation, play and creative businesses need. process. This research work has impacted As the President of Alberta College degree PROGRAM in the how we understand the creative process, of Art + Design, my job is to look beyond next eighteen months, and has garnered attention both nationally the campus for innovative opportunities and internationally. that will greatly improve art and culture which is an exciting ACAD is continuing to grow and build, in our community. We must engage present first for the college. most notably through the addition of students, prospective students, alumni, 21 new faculty over the past four years. faculty, community artists, government opportunity to impact the world around We look forward to welcoming the last and business and we invite you to join us us, create change and encourage innovation of these new faculty in 2009. We also on our explorations. ■ in fundamental ways. look forward to fulfilling part of our new As a group of problem solvers, College mandate by initiating our Master’s we are constantly looking for ways to degree program within the next eighteen engage the community, whether it’s months, which is an exciting first for through exhibits or lectures from influential the college. Lance Carlson, thinkers. One initiative we’re especially As we continue to raise our profile as a President + CEO proud of is Smart Night – a speaker series catalyst in the community, our biggest Message from that was launched in 2007 as a vehicle priority will be finding a new home. to challenge ideas and stimulate dialogue. Our current campus has certainly served the President This year's Smart Night speaker was us well over the years, however with over Tom Kelley. He is one of the world’s most 1100 students, the current location cannot respected experts on managing innovation accomodate our growth, nor do we have or over 80 years, the Alberta College and design in business and naturally a room to provide the level of programming F of Art + Design has been creating wonderful guest to bring to our community. that we strive to offer. an environment that embraces, supports Our Institute for the Creative Process Designed with both art and function and encourages a student body of artistic is another example of how ACAD is in mind, the new ACAD campus will thinkers. And while, we’ve experienced stepping outside the realm of traditional provide the necessary space for a larger some remarkable successes in the past, post-secondary thinking and creating student services area, better facilities for I’m certain our greatest ones lie ahead. an opportunity to build innovation with exhibitions, lecture theatres, performance While our programming is always those around us. The Institute For Creative art spaces, a large cultural centre as a priority, we are focusing on ways to Process (ICP) addresses the nature well as more diverse public programming. offer our students and our community of creative process and design thinking The larger facility will integrate our much more. As a catalyst for creative through research. Our latest achievement creative programming with to the business and cultural development, ACAD has the through the ICP is a series of research community, who will then have access

and designer education as well as emergent “With this donation Jill Rawlinson cultural fields and the capacity of the staff, has shown significant insight intoACAD ’s Funding faculty, and students to understand and potential on a community-wide scale,” express (as well as contribute to) their said Carlson. “Her generosity will be own place and role within an increasingly celebrated for years to come, as ACAD complex global environment. faculty, students, staff and the community- The Jill Rawlinson Fund is dedicated at-large will benefit from her vision.” ■ Innovation to the support of important original ACAD projects and initiatives that advance the capability of the faculty, staff, and students n January Rawlinson Visiting Faculty Program of ACAD, as well as the institution itself, I of this year, This program will also continue until to reach greater levels of influence and Lance Carlson, 2014, and will fund five visiting faculty distinction in the world. “I wanted to Cultural announced two positions per year at ACAD. Visiting faculty support ACAD initiatives that significantly Leadership new and innovative appointments will each be one year long, contribute to the College’s ability to assert initiatives to be and each visiting faculty member will made possible teach courses and will devote studio time The Rawlinson fund initiatives at ACAD by the to students, colleagues and our community. will significantly contribute Jill Rawlinson Fund: the Rawlinson Faculty By inviting visiting faculty into ACAD, Exchange Program, and the Rawlinson we further our goals of creating a laboratory to the ability of ACAD to assert Visiting Faculty Program. environment of experimentation, and we its standing in the world of ACAD will begin these new initiatives continue to invest in our more important in 2009 as a result of the $1 million gift resource: our people. artist and designer education. by Jill Rawlinson in 2007. These Rawlinson Fund initiatives will further ACAD’s mission to become its standing in the world of artist and Rawlinson Faculty Exchange Program a preeminent institution for cultural designer education because I have been This program will support ACAD faculty development locally, provincially, nationally, inspired by its potential impact on emerging exchanges with faculty from other art and internationally, and will help to establish cultural fields,” stated Ms. Rawlinson upon and design institutions nationally and ACAD’s role as an international leader donating this significant gift to the college. internationally over the next five years. for innovation, research and excellence This gift is a testament to the increasing Two ACAD faculty exchanges will in visual arts, design and emergent cultural recognition of the college as a force for be available per year, encouraging and fields. These innovativeACAD projects and culture, art, and design, and underscores creating greater connections to the larger initiatives will significantly and strategically the important history of the college as external dialogue in the visual arts and contribute to the ability of the institution well as the important work that ACAD design fields. to assert its standing in the world of artist has begun and will continue to undertake.

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ACAD in the Philip Glass Community

ACAD Reaches Out Show + Sale Brings to Drop-In Centre Members Art Lovers to the College

Visits ACAD The Calgary Drop in and This March ACAD students Rehab Centre, situated prepared one of a kind An intimate conversation in the heart of downtown, artwork to raise money for was the site of an afternoon their tuition and expenses with one of the most important workshop of watercolour during the school year. painting hosted by ACAD, The 20th anniversary ACAD artists of our time. and featuring artist Richard Spring Show + Sale (March Boulet. Members of 19, 20 and 21, 2009) was a nternationally the drop in centre were wonderful success, raising I renowned given the opportunity record amounts of money artist Philip Glass to join Richard Boulet and for students. The three day Community joined a full house participants from ACAD event brought in thousands Image courtesy of ACAD faculty, in an exploration of the of community members of philipglass.com staff and students limits of their creativity with to campus, and exposed on January 22, 2009 an afternoon of watercolour emerging artists to Calgary for a fascinating painting on March 6, 2009. ■ collectors and art lovers. ■ artist talk and presentation. Glass shared his thoughts on creativity and collaboration across disciplines. Philip Glass’s visit to ACAD Hosts the Exposure Fridhandler Lecture ACAD was funded by the President’s Circle. 2009 Calgary Banff on Non-Western Art The full audio recording of our discussion Photography Festival with Philip Glass is available for download The Second Annual on our website at www.acad.ca. ■ The spring of 2009 Fridhandler Lecture on brought a record amount Non-Western Art 2009 of events to ACAD, many featured keynote speaker of which were a part of the Marcia Crosby, and was Exposure 2009 Calgary entitled “Self Identifying Banff Photography Festival. as ‘Modern Indian Artists’: This festival provides an 1940–1967”. This annual opportunity for the public lecture was created by 1 1 Philip Glass to look at photography as Ellen and Daryl Fridhandler. a rich art form in its many Ms. Crosby’s lecture focused genres, and this year brought on the work of several many new workshops, Aboriginal artists who had lectures and exhibitions. not been given intellectual President’s ACAD ACAD was pleased to host or cultural value in Western visiting artists, workshops art history, but who were Smart Night and events thoughout the members of vibrant, migrant month of February as a and mobile aboriginal part of this annual event. ■ communities. The 2009 his year’s 2009 President’s ACAD Smart Night Fridhandler Lecture was T was held on April 4, 2009, and was a fascinating held on March 2, 2009. ■ evening of dialogue and discussion. This year’s keynote ACAD presents the 2009 speaker was Tom Kelley, general manager of the Reel Artists Film Festival international design firmIDEO , and author of The Ten ACAD Students Faces of Innovation and The Art of Innovation. Tom Kelley ACAD’s Illingworth Kerr Ignite Social Change is one of the world’s most respected experts on managing Gallery, in conjunction with innovation and design—how to make business more the Canadian Art Foundation, ACAD is pleased to be a creative, not just in its products and services, but also presented the 2009 participant in Design Ignites in its thinking and processes. This year’s President’s Canadian Art Reel Artist Change, an innovative ACAD Smart Night was held at the Hyatt Hotel in Calgary Film Festival this March 29 student program which and was co-chaired by Cynthia Moore, and D’Arcy to March 31, 2009. The channels the power of Levesque. As they explain, “Smart Night is a unique and festival lineup included design thinking to ignite special event in Calgary. It’s a chance to hear the most documentary films that social change. ACAD fascinating ideas about innovation and creativity, focused on in-depth students will join their and to share them with others during an elegant black- profiles of, and interviews counterparts in 17 other tie evening of conversation”. ■ with, artists including universities to create work 1 Alice Neel, Yves Klein that addresses powerful and Antony Gormley. social topics, and to act 1 Guests enjoy a customized menu The festival was very well as mentors to high school of “Smart” food. attended, and was an students. ACAD is the

2 Tom Kelley, exclusive opportunity for only Canadian Post- author of The 10 Calgarians to see many Secondary institution to Faces of Innovation, speaks at the of these great works. ■ be accepted as a member 2009 Smart Night. into this program, and we

Photography look forward to seeing Dwayne Norman the contributions that our students will make. ■

1 Crowds gather at the Reel Artist Film Festival at 2 the Illingworth 1 Kerr Gallery. Issue No. 1 / Page 5

ACAD Funded Research Projects

Completed Visual and Sonic Virtual Research Projects Representation of Human Physiology (2004–2007). Alan Dunning In addition to the continuing The Auratic Body: The Visual development of this work, and Sonic Virtual Representation the project will pursue of Human Physiology two intriguing developments Alan Dunning has a strong arising out of the current history of research and was research, breathing and its the first faculty member relationship to body states 1, 2 Guy Maddin to bring significant external and micro-events at the presents research funding to the College surface of the skin. The research “My Winnipeg” through a three-year SSHRC team will construct a series of to a full house at the Illingworth (Social Sciences and Humanities 1 interactive virtual environments, Kerr Gallery. Research Council) grant performances and installations that ran from 2004–2007. that present novel ways This research project set out to of revealing the complex express the body’s physiological interactions of body and world processes as dynamic sonic and through the subtle interplay visual forms in 3-dimensional, of skin, breath and other virtual and actual environments; biological functions. and to map these constructs Directorial Debut to contemporary cultural work Alex Link & Richard Brown on representation, reality and Rendering Comics Art: ACAD introduces director Guy Maddin to Calgary the body. Alan has been involved Building A Cross-Departmental with a successful SSHRC Comics Curriculum application for renewed support. Alex Link and Richard Brown have been awarded funding n March 5, with dreamlike recollections and Wayne Giles, Darlene Lee from ACAD through the Marion O 2009, The curious histories. Restaging “archetypal and Chris Frey Fund for Innovation in Research Illingworth Kerr episodes from (his) family history”, Community Concept Mapping: Creating and Teaching to produce an Gallery presented Maddin mines the streets of Winnipeg, a concept map for innovation. experimental learning module Photography a full house, striving to both rediscover and escape Wayne Giles, Darlene Lee and to introduce sequential art as Jennifer McVeigh Chris Frey have been funded an area of study in both studio one-night-only, the city’s enchantment. This highly by the Institute for the Creative and academic courses. The performance anticipated event was a first for Calgary, Process. This is a collaborative innovation of this module will of Guy Maddin’s with Guy Maddin performing his highly research project with Dubberly be four-fold: it will be cross- unique cinematic masterpiece, My Winnipeg. personal, melodramatic narration Design to map the concept departmental in structure, 2 In this work, Maddin paints the City of during the film, followed by a Q+A with of “innovation”. it will be cross-departmental in its pedagogy, it will be Winnipeg—his lifelong home and muse— the director. ■ Dick Averns + Alex Link a tentative step toward the How Do Tourette development of a specialist Syndrome and Co-Morbidities area of study, and it will be a Affect Career Choice and unique expansion to currently Achievement in the Workplace offered curriculum by offering Through ACAD support and the intensive study of comics, AACTI (Alberta Association or sequential art. The funding ArtaWEARness IX: of Colleges and Technical will facilitate the projects Institutes) support, this initial two phases, the development one-year project, deployed of the curricular model and A Wearable Art innovative and creative the delivery of the pilot courses qualitative research methods within the ACAD curriculum, base on visual arts, performance, as well as a research paper Extravaganza narrative fiction, and narrative evaluating the success non-fiction to develop new of the outcomes. ultidisciplinary students from the Alberta College health literacy tools with which M to improve the understanding Robert Geyer of Art + Design were pleased to present the of these mental health The Living Glass ninth anniversary of the extremely popular wearable art conditions in relation to History Project runway show, ArtaWEARness on February 27, 2009. vocational aptitude. AACTI Robert Geyer has been This annual catwalk performance fashion show is a has set criteria that strongly awarded funding from the sell-out event every year, and the 2009 evening was encourage leveraging financial Marion Fund for Innovation support from an industry or in Research and Teaching another show stopping evening of wearable art on the community client for funding to support this project. The runway. Some of Calgary’s most exciting emerging artists longitudinal studies and Dick Living Glass History project created avant-garde work, exploring aspects of sculpture, Averns is currently seeking is a pilot course that adopts fibre arts, alternative materials and the human body.■ that support. a new approach to teaching glass students at ACAD the conceptual history of their 2007–2008 medium. Course content will Newly Funded Projects be supplemented by interactive real time video-conferencing Alan Dunning with glass artists who have 1 The Permeable Body lived within/through glass Alan Duning has been awarded history. The idea is to link the 1 Wearable Art, funding from the Marion Fund tradition of oral history with by Lydia Karpenko. for Innovation in Research and new media technology. Using Teaching to support deloads interactive video conferencing, 2 Dee Fontans, ArtaWEARness to enable his involvement in students would be able to organizer. this SSHRC funded research engage in real time dialogue project that is a continuation with glass artists whom have and development of the significantly influenced the previously SSHRC funded studio glass movement since project ‘The Auratic Body: the 1960’s in North America.

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ALBERTA COLLEGE OF ART + D E S I G N

Through ACAD’s Extended Studies you can Each semester, extended studies offers: Extended study visual art, media arts, and design through + Adult credit courses a full year schedule of challenging and creative + Adult credit-free courses + Adult evening + weekend courses, workshops and special events designed personal interest courses Studies to meet your creative learning goals. + Youth weekend courses For more information, contact: [email protected] 403.284.7640 CATALYST / Page 6 This Spring at the IKG

With Stitched and Drawn by Richard Boulet of meaning to the idealized snapshots of birthdays and holidays. A frenetic and New Work by Sarah Anne Johnson, psyzchedelic pattern infiltrates a black Illingworth Kerr Gallery Director/Curator and white portrait of her grandmother. The children are gathered around, ready to Wayne Baerwaldt presented two contrasting, blow out candles, but instead of a birthday cake, a campfire burns in the middle of the multi-layered examinations of the effects kitchen table. In the background, a figure in an apron has the face of a squirrel and of mental health issues. log, tentacle-like branches for fingers. Though her grandmother’s experiences Winnipeg and put them back together again – had been part of her life since childhood, O artist Sarah the pieces won’t fit.” The artist describes Johnson waited until 2008 to attempt Anne Johnson’s the grandmother she grew up with as broken. to deal with the subject. The artist felt it IKG REVIEWS 2 grandmother, This woman is reflected in a series of nine was only at this point in her life and career Text Velma Orlikow, small figures made from bronze. They are that she had developed the critical and psyche with abandon and see what I can Jennifer McVeigh suffered from both touching monuments, and startling, technical skills to do the project justice. pull out by the seat of my pants.” depression after visceral illustrations of the pain, anger and New Work, though unfinished, already With Diagnostic Criteria, a series of large the birth of her confusion that reverberated from her reflects a deft creativity, clarity of thought oil pastel drawings, Boulet explores each daughter, the artist’s mother in the 1950s. grandmother, to her mother, and to the and emotional depth. of a number of personality characteristics She was referred to Dr. Ewen Cameron at artist herself. In Stitched and Drawn, Edmonton- used to diagnose schizophrenia, using the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal, Each figure is cast from the same mould, based Boulet explores issues of mental a photograph of himself on a horse as a where she was treated for three years. an older, overweight woman with close- health through his personal experience of starting point. In Grandiosity, the figure’s Many years later, this treatment was cropped hair. One figure appears ordinary illness, diagnosis, treatment and recovery. head, complete with three horns and an revealed to be a series of brainwashing from the front, but a precise gouge is sliced Fibre materials and techniques have both oversized pack with multicoloured teeth, experiments sponsored by the CIA as part deep into the back of her head. On another, personal and social meaning for the artist. is so out of proportion with its body that of its MK-ULTRA program. Without her perfectly formed legs are placed backwards His grandmother was a prolific sewer, and it threatens to send it toppling off its mount. consent, Orlikow was cruel, and brutal on the body, making any forward movement the artist often created hooked rugs with Somatic Concern, on the other hand, procedures including sensory deprivation, impossible. In Family Tree, the figure’s arms his father as a youth. To Boulet, the bright has the figure reduced to a bucket-like electric shock treatments and doses of LSD. have grown into long wood branches that colours and soft textures of quilting and mask, fitted onto the back of a drooping Orlikow was never the same after her stretch across the plinth. The woman tries embroidery speak of the comforts of home and exhausted animal. time at the Allen Institute. Cameron’s desperately to chew them off. and family – both physical and emotional. This energetic, improvisational technique was to try to erase his patients’ In her second series of works, Johnson In his large fabric banners, Boulet approach to art-making was evident during a memories and replace them with better uses family photographs. Skillfully drawing experiments with graphic fonts, spelling workshop lead by Boulet at the Calgary thoughts, a process Johnson calls “Just and painting into the enlarged prints, out statements such as “Scream like a shot Drop-In and Rehab Centre, where the artist wrong. You can’t take a person apart she adds another, more ambiguous layer deer” – a phrase the artist’s brother used resided for a time during his illness. to describe Boulet’s silent agony on a night In an IKG-organized event, artists who are he was brought to the emergency room homeless got together with representatives during a psychotic episode. Though bold, from Calgary’s art and social justice this lettering is carefully pieced together organizations, including members of ACAD’s using cottons richly patterned with vines diversity committee to talk, share ideas and flowers. Each of these large works also and make art. Participants experimented contains a more intimate text, delicately with watercolour paint, exploring multiple cross-stitched onto a small panel. In this ideas and techniques for several hours. case, a more detailed quotation from the Afterwards, the artists who live at the artist’s brother: “I didn’t know what to say, Drop-In Centre took their guests on a tour what to do. I had anxiety and apprehension. of the Wild Rose Studio where they work, Your behavior was unexplained and sharing portfolios of practices as diverse incomprehensible. I felt lost. I wanted to as soapstone carving, digital photography let you know wherever you were, we would and acrylic painting. Those involved cited look for you… Eventually we had a name the afternoon as an illuminating experience. ■ for it, schizophrenia.” Boulet’s drawings are a contrast to the controlled craftsmanship of his fibre work. Describing the process, he says 1 Sarah Anne Johnson “This is when I mentally let loose. I let my mind slide into the energy of the atavistic 2 Scream Like 1 A Shot Deer, psychological experience. I jump into the Richard Boulet

ACAD Pre-College Program 2009

he ACAD design, the Pre-College Program is their students also benefit from college-level T Pre-College opportunity to become immersed in a full studio experiences under the tutelage Program is an month of intensive studio and liberal arts of professional artists and designers who ON CAMPUS intense three-week experiences at the college level that are also respected ACAD faculty members. Photograhy session of studio will focus your learning on the materials, Social and educational events and Dwayne Norman based, interdisci- skills and knowledge that are relevant to out trips during the Pre-College Program plinary classes in artists and designers today. will open exciting opportunities for students visual arts and Students will spend most of their time to interact with their surroundings as an design, developed for high school students in the studio with their colleagues and artist/designer and to get to know everyone who are interested in pursuing art and instructors, uncovering essential elements in the Program. Students will also be design at the College level. Students are of artistic and design practice. introduced to artists and designers who able to earn college credits while building In addition to their studio work, students have been resourceful and successful in their portfolio for admission to ACAD, and will study and write about visual culture, their careers. ■ become part of a community of talented participate in group discussions and field young artists and designers. This program trips, receive an individual portfolio critique, Sign up by June 22, is unlike any in Canada, and students are and enjoy a free and open dialogue with a for this year’s program. offered the opportunity to work like panel of successful artists and designers professional artists/designers and to be who will speak on how they have made their The 2009 Pre-College mentored by professionals in their field. livings in their fields, doing what they love. Program runs from If you know a talented high school Students will work towards becoming student who is serious about pursuing perceptive observers, critical thinkers and July 6–31, 2009. post-secondary studies in visual art or dedicated artists/designers. Pre-college Issue No. 1 / Page 7 Celebrating Our New Graduates

Exhibiting Canada’s Most Exciting Emerging Artists

1 n Wednesday, May 13, poised to become an O 2009, a collection important part of that of works by Canada’s community – in Calgary finest emerging artists and and beyond. ■ designers opened to the public at the 2009 Alberta College of Art + Design n May 14th, (ACAD) Grad Show. O 2009, over The annual comprehensive 190 graduates of exhibition of work, this year ON CAMPUS ACAD’s Bachelor organized by Wayne Photograhy of Fine Arts and Baerwaldt and the Illingworth Dwayne Norman Bachelor of Design Kerr Gallery curatorial team, programs took to was installed throughout the stage at the ACAD providing public 2 Jubilee Auditorium to receive their degrees, access to classrooms, and to enter into a new and exciting stage workshop spaces, hallways, in their lives. The 2009 graduating class was addressed 1 ACAD 2009 windows, and many other The 2009 ACAD Convocation ceremony by ACADSA President Dan Barnfield, Graduating class. spaces not traditionally was a highly energetic event, filled with President Lance Carlson, and President of 2 ACAD students used to display art or open are welcomed the embodiment of our college values and the ACAD Board of Governors, Jim Peacock. to convocation. to the public. The Grad a joyous recognition of our new graduates. During the ceremony, the 11 recipients of Show premiered with a This year our keynote speaker was Minister the Board of Governors’ Graduating public opening reception of Culture and Community Spirit Lindsay Student Awards were recognized for their on Wednesday, May 13 Blackett. The ACAD Convocation Ceremony outstanding achievement, as was Romy and ran until Saturday is truly a celebration of our graduates, and Straathof, winner of the 2009 Governor May 23, 2009. ACAD of this exciting step they take into their General’s Academic Medal. The convocation is the core of Calgary’s future. This year graduates were brought ceremony was also a chance for ACAD burgeoning art and design into the Jubilee Auditorium by a ceremonial to celebrate the recipient of our Board scene with our graduates drummer, and they were danced out by of Governors’ Alumni Award of Excellence, a traditional Chinese Dragon dance to bring Meg Van Rosendaal, and her contributions them luck in all they do. to the Calgary art community. ■

Marion Nicoll Gallery Schedule

Main Space +15 Window LRT Space

The student-run Marion December 1 – 13 / 08 February 2 – 7 / 09 March 2 – 7 / 09 Epcor Centre for the October 6 – Nicoll Gallery creates a unique Robert Turiff— Roxanne Driediger— Jennifer Toke— Performing Arts December 12 / 08 context for education and Robs Tiki Lounge Lets Play Dressup The Wayfaring Somnambulist 205 8th AVE SE Calgary, AB Lisa Shannahan— experimentation among artists Reception: December 4, 2008 Reception: February 5 / 09 Reception: March 5 / 09 Who are we? attending ACAD. The MNG October 6 – consists of of three programming January 12 – 17 / 09 February 9 – 14 / 09 March 9 – 14 / 09 December 5 / 08 December 15 / 08 – spaces – the main space, Jessica Gowling— Jodie Stevens— Sarah Hermanutz—CatWomen Carisa Hendrix—Private February 7 / 09 a +15 window, and the LRT Imagery meets Narrative Finding ‘normal’ Reception: March 12 / 09 Heather Smith— space – and showcases student Opening Reception: Reception: February 12 / 09 December 8 / 08 – Imaginary Friends work to the public and peers, January 15 / 09 March 30 – April 4 / 09 January 31 / 09 providing emerging artists with February 23 – 28 / 09 Kelly Covert— Block February 9 – experience presenting work January 19 – 24 / 09 ArtaWEARness IX The Pixelated Presence March 14 / 09 in a professional setting. Caitlind R.C Brown— Silent Auction Reception: April 2 / 09 February 2 – Michelle Trudgeon— Love Machine Reception: February 27 / 09 March 28 / 09 Memorize Clouds Reception: January 22 / 09 April 6 – 11 / 09 ACAD Show and Sale Meags Fitzgerald—Creche Design Competition January 26 – 31 / 09 Reception: April 9 / 09 Andrea Lothrop—Delve Reception: January 29 / 09 April 13 – 18 / 09 Pamela Norrish—I Think We Might Be Stuck Here, Maybe. Reception: April 16 / 09 CATALYST / Page 8 ACAD in Action Accomplishments + accolades for our students, alumni, staff and faculty

Niche Award Winners “Fix This” Award Winners Applied Arts Awards Winners ACAD Alumni Illustration Award Winners Louise Chong Katherine Whitt, Sarah Burchell, ACAD Visual Communications Design Congratulations to our award winning Christine Sammon, Andrew Mott, First place in the student category of students recently won a total of thirteen alumni who took recently home awards Richard Ballermann, Connie Carruthers, Tara Jewellery: Fashion at the Niche Awards awards in the annual Applied Arts Magazine from the following publications: Society Griffiths, Susan Menzies, went to ACAD Graduate Louise Chong Awards. The students’ work appears in the of Illustrators 51 (New York), 3x3 Magazine Barb Tipton and Aileen Lublinkhof. for her large scale neckpiece “Inside Out”. September 2008 issue of Applied Arts. Illustration Annual, Applied Arts 2008 Our congratulations go out to Louise for ACAD is pleased to announce the winners This special Awards issue is often used by Illustration Annual, Communication Arts her fine work. of the 2008 FIX THIS awards, given to potential employers to scout out new talent. 48, Spectrum 15, Original Art (Society the top ten suggestions for improvements Winners are also featured on the Applied of Illustrators New York), and the Ignatz to our College by members of the ACAD Arts website in a Students Awards Gallery, Awards (Small Press Comics Awards). community. Awards go to Katherine Whitt, which attracts more than 200,000 unique Carte Blanche 2 Sarah Burchell, Christine Sammon, Andrew visitors annually. Our students, along with Mark Mullin, Chris Cran, Bradley Harms Mott, Richard Ballermann, Connie Carruthers, the other winners, were recognized at Art Educator of the Year Nomination ACAD is pleased to announce a newly Tara Griffiths, Susan Menzies, Barb Tipton a special Award Winners’ Exhibit held in Charles Lewton-Brain published survey of contemporary painting and Aileen Lublinkhof. The full results of the November in Toronto. The thirteen awards in Canada, entitled Carte Blanche 2. FIX THIS Survey, and updates on actions won by the ACAD students are more than Charles Lewton-Brain has been nominated Included in this book are ACAD faculty being taken by the College to make many those won by students at any other design for NICHE magazine’s 2009 Arts Educator Mark Mullin, Chris Cran and ACAD painting of the suggested improvements will be school or college. of the Year Award. This nomination and drawing technician Bradley Harms. available on our website soon. has come from students at ACAD, and this year approximately 200 arts instructors were nominated. ACAD Alumni Win ACAD at the Junos Exhibition: Richard Edwards Lieutenant Govenor Awards Chad vanGalen BLACK RIVER…In Vases Over Me… Robin Arsenault and Chad Van Gaalen April 3 – 25 / 09 Recent ACAD Alumnus Chad VanGalen Two of our ACAD alumni, Robin Arsenault has been nominated for the Juno category The Ruberto/Ostberg Gallery, and Chad Van Gaalen, are recipients of of best alternative album: learn more at the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts www.junoawards.ca/nominees. We will Foundation’s emerging artist’s awards. Each be watching the Junos to cheer for Chad winner receives a cheque for $10,000, with Exhibition: Chris Willard on March 29th! no stipulations as to how they can spend it. It Isn’t What You Think The awards come as a result of the Alberta March 7 – March 28 / 09 Arts Foundation’s desire to create awards Herringer Kiss Gallery that support developing artists, in addition to the distinguished artist’s awards they initiated in 2005.

Extended Studies

ALBERTA COLLEGE OF ART + D E S I G N

July 6 – 31, 2009 20 intense days of full-time studies in visual arts and design for serious art students between 16 – 18 years. Interdisciplinary. Studio-based. College credit. Learn more, and apply at www.acad.ca/extended_studies.html Issue No. 1 / Page 9

SNAP!Stars 09 Winner ACAD Faculty Showcased Exhibition: Mark Mullin Exhibition: Geoffrey Fehr in Exhibition of January 23 – February 28 / 09 Ken Webb + Rick Gorenko Post-Minimalist Artists For Example ACAD photo student Geoffrey Fehr is the This collaborative print exhibition between Neo-Minimalism: Western Canada’s March 27 – March 29 / 09 winner of the Magenta Foundation SNAP! VanDeb Editions and Olive Branch Press Post-Minimal Artists Stars 09 ACAD competition. SNAP!Stars includes work from Mark Mullin’s New York Ken Webb and Rick Gorenko have been January 15 – February 25 / 09 is presented by TD Canada Trust and Suite. This exhibition offers a collaborative working collaboratively on digital projects Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts is open to third and fourth year students survey of selected artists who have devel- for several years. Both continue to pursue Exhibiting artists are: attending Canadian and American art oped influential works with VanDeb Editions collaborative adventures, and For Example David Burdeny (Vancouver), schools. TD Canada Trust presented cash and Olive Branch Press. This exhibit was illustrates their current interests. Catherine Burgess (Edmonton), awards of $1,500; one prize for each of the held at the Ink Shop Printmaking Centre Marjan Eggermont (Calgary), winning student from the participating and Olive Branch Press in New York. Paul Kuhn (Calgary), Eve Leader universities. One photograph, selected by (Vancouver), Tanya Rusnak (Calgary), Book Launch the jury, from each winner was also added Laurel Smith (Calgary), Dick Averns, Postscript / Postscriptum to the SNAP! Live Auction Gala on Sunday, Christopher Willard (Calgary) Experimental Art + Culture March 1, 2009. Work featured in the Live and Tim Zuck (Calgary). January 16 – April 4 / 09 Auction is now being showcased on the The Art Gallery of Calgary SNAP! Website. Neo-Minimalism, an exhibition curated by ACAD Students Harry Kiyooka, a Professor Emeritus of Art Artist Iain Baxter& will be working Take Advertising Prizes and an independent curator, features nine at the AGC for a two week period with Western Canada’s artists whose practice the following ACAD students: Seven ACAD students have been named ACAD Photo and VCD Students centers on redefining the boundaries of Kris Weinmann 2nd Yr BFA, Richelle Bear finalists in the upcoming Anvil Advertising Take Home Prizes at the CAPIC Awards minimal art with a contemporary aesthetic. Hat 3rd Yr BFA, Slavek Pytraczyk 3rd Yr awards. We congratulate them, and look Alexander Henrikson, Inger Marthe Painting, Shiori Saito 4th Yr MADT. forward to the results on April 24, 2009. Skyberg and Douglas Nhung

The prize winners of the firstCAPIC Rodeo Exhibition: Blake Senini Student contest were announced at the We Are All in the Same Air Exhibition: StART Profs Rodeo Awards presentations in Toronto, January 8 – February 14 / 09 March 13 – April 8 / 09 and ACAD students have taken home the second prize in illustration, and third prize We Are All in the Same Air is a collection ACAD Painting program faculty Sue Menzies in both illustration and photography of five new sculptures that expands on and Chris Willard, and ACAD Painting categories. Alexander Henrikson, Inger his interest in the relationships of sculpture alumna Laurel Smith, are featured in the Marthe Skyberg and Douglas Nhung within the physical space it occupies, stART Profs show at Studio 21 in Halifax— have all been recognized by the Canadian by creating a dynamic within the sculpture an exhibition of work by 15 prominent paint- Association of Photographers and between forms. We Are All in the Same Air ing professors from 9 institutions across Illustrators in Communications. is presented at the Skew Gallery. Canada. An important part of being an inspiring and insightful teacher of visual art includes maintaining a vibrant art practice.

War Art Now Exhibition: Dianne Bos Dick Averns Place January 31 – February 28 / 09 Exhibition: Walter Drohan Between Jan 11th and March 23rd, 2009, Towards Perfection Dick Averns was artist-in-residence at the Place is a group exhibition exploring March 20 – May 2 / 09 Calgary Allied Arts Foundation (CAAF) contemporary ideas of space and how it st[art]@art central studio in downtown relates to photography, shown at Newzones. Walt Drohan was a distinguished Alumni Calgary. As part the Department of National This exhibit features the work of: of ACAD, and was both College Dean and Defence Canadian Forces Artists Program, Dianne Bos, James Holroyd, Joshua head of the ceramics program. he was working on a visual art and writing Jenson-Nagle, Sarah Nind, Colleen Philippi project engaging the War on Terror, War and John Folsom. . This research has recently Art Now Exhibition: Chris Cran received support from ACAD’s Marion Fund Diversions for Innovation in Teaching and Research, 1 Exhibition: Nancy Price March 27 – April 25 / 09 with funding directed towards research for Hopeless...Romantic This exhibition is a mini survey of Cran’s 1 Student work in scholarly publications and a photo essay. ACAD’s painting studios. Hopeless...Romantic, shown at the Stride works, including paintings from his earliest Gallery, featured several works which self-portrait series and his latest optically intertwined craft and art revealed mostly engaging abstract works. through the production of wearable pieces.

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he world of Rawlyk when asked about how it felt to get bad and wanted to create a professional ALUMNI T art and design paid to do what he loved. “It was like we had boutique where everything we did had PROFILE was never foreign snuck on to the payroll.” And when it came meaning,” says Rawlyk. Text to Rich Rawlyk. Born to adjusting to the parameters of real The new shop has clearly carved out yet Melanie Woytiuk into a family that ran client-driven projects, Rawlyk never had another new experience for Rich. While each Artwork a print shop, Rich a problem. “We were prepared so well of the partners have their own unique skill Rich Rawlyk was surrounded coming out of ACAD. They treated the set, Rich is getting more involved in brand by people who classroom like a studio which really made development, where he can sink his teeth lived and breathed the world of design. it a seamless transition.” into the research and framework rather than With encouragement and a natural curiosity, Like any successful creative person, just the visuals. Rich started to experiment. He painted. Rawlyk has found some inspiring mentors Still beaming like a new grad, Rawlyk 1 He drew. He even started to build a portfolio. along the way. But while many designers certainly doesn’t seem to be jaded by an 1 Good & Worthy logo But despite his passion, by the time he seek inspiration and guidance from more industry that can sometimes turn designers finished high school he felt like he just experienced designers, Rich is learning the into cynics. When asked what advice he 2 Children Playing, excerpt from book wasn’t quite ready for art school. So Rawlyk ropes from his clients. “I feel very fortunate would offer students at ACAD today Rawlyk illustration. made a deal with his parents. He would to work with great people who constantly says he would tell them to experiment, take take a year off and get a blue-collar job teach me. There’s just so much excitement the chance to fail and embrace the ability to to pay the bills. But before the year was up, that comes out of working intimately play. All good advice coming from someone Rich hung up the hard hat and headed for with the client.” who is well, good and worthy. ■ the place he really belonged – ACAD. As a creative person who has now worked After considering other schools, Rich for large Fortune 500 companies, small decided that ACAD was the right place for him. It was home. It was a place where We were prepared so well he could do what he loves, maybe even coming out of ACAD. They become the “next big landscape guy.” And when Rich entered his first year of treated the classroom like studies, he was hooked. “I became excited a studio, which really made about the challenges that surrounded the visual stuff,” says Rawlyk. And by his fourth it a seamless transition. year the eager designer fully understood and appreciated the depth of what art local companies, start-ups and not-for-profit was really all about. initiatives, Rich Rawlyk is clearly a designer By the time the Fourth Year Portfolio who seeks diverse experiences. And Show came around in 1998, Rich had already now he’s experiencing one of the biggest secured himself a job at Critical Mass. and most exciting challenges a designer The whole job thing was a bit surreal for can face. Rich is now a founding partner the bright-eyed designer; no longer was he of Calgary-based design firm Good working for credit, he was now working in and Worthy. He and his partners realized a real business environment for real clients. that there was a real relationship missing

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Artist Talks + Workshops at ACAD

January 8 – February 6 / 09 February 12 / 09 February 22 / 09 March 11 / 09 April 1 / 09 March 21 / 09 Joe Englander Sarah Anne Johnson About Traditional Dark-Rooms John Avery David R. Harper Sarah Anne Johnson Photography of the Artist Talk Educational Workshop Artist Lecture Artist Talk Environment / Environment January 8 – of Photography February 12 / 09 Feburary 25 / 09 March 11 / 09 April 1 / 09 March 21 / 09 Daniel Young and Marc Digeros Ike Bushman Kyoung-Ha Yoo Richard Boulet February 6 / 09 Christian Giroux Artist’s Presentation Print Media Artist Lecture Artist Talk David Burdeny Artist Talk January 9 / 09 Lecture February 26 / 09 March 18 / 09 April 2 / 09 Graeme Patterson February 13 / 09 Diana Thorneycroft Dagmar Dahle Joanna Staniszkis Artist Talk February 9 / 09 Sound Design and Branding— Artist’s Talk Artist Presentation Artist Talk Boyd Sugiki and Lisa Zerkowitz A public presentation by Group of Seven January 19 / 09 Visiting artist lecture Audio Brain of New York Awkward Moments March 23 / 09 April 13 – 17 / 09 Jill Allan and Raven Skyriver John De Witt Brian Molanphy Visiting Artist Lectures February 10, 12 / 09 February 13 / 09 February 26 / 09 Artist Talk Exhibition and Workshop Dirty Pictures - Thomas Demand Rebecca Belmore Glass Program Visiting Artist January 21 / 09 Ceramics Film Festival Artist Talk Artist Talk April 17 / 09 2:30 PM March 26 / 09 Rhonda Neufeld Jennifer Woodin February 10 / 09 February 13 / 09 March 5 / 09 Mark Koven Artist Talk Artist’s Presentation Dr. Cora Voyageur Dr. Roberta Bondar Richard Boulet Visiting Artist Lecture Artist Presentation Navigating Uncharted Territory Artist Talk April 17 / 09 January 31 / 09 March 26 / 09 Shelley Ouellet Linda Darty February 10 / 09 February 20 / 09 March 5 / 09 Bill Kirby Artist Talk Artist Talk and Workshop Thierry Marceau Special Premiere My Winnipeg Public Lecture: Art + Design Artist Talk screening of “Us Now”, With LIVE dramatic narration Now Lecture Series April 20 / 09 February 3, 10, 24, 26 / 09 by director Ivo Gormley by Guy Maddin Steve Speer What Makes US Click February 11 / 09 Artist Talk Lunch Time Lecture Series Sheila Spence Artist Talk

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1 Cage Series Ring stainless steel, electroformed copper, electroformed 24k gold

2 “Tracks” Bracelet, stainless steel, electroformed copper, electroformed 24k gold, Kananaskis garnets, pearl

3 “Gold Drop” Pendant, stainless steel, electroformed copper, electroformed 24k gold, Kananaskis river pebble 1

Charles Lewton-Brain, thought he was destined for a career the craft community. He is widely published at ACAD have certainly been a professional in Graphic Arts. and has an international following on highlight. “It’s really the students that make Faculty member and It’s difficult to pinpoint inspiration topics ranging from techniques in metal, teaching so wonderful,” says Lewton-Brain. Program Head of in a life so full of adventure. At just 21, and studio safety to research papers on “They constantly probe us which is really Lewton-Brain sailed around the world on historical and technical subjects. Serving on a thrill.” Charles remembers receiving some Jewellery + Metals the SS Universe, a study abroad opportunity numerous industry committees, Charles has harsh critiques during his art school days, introduced to him by his father. And he become a much-needed bridge in the but when it comes to his students, he at ACAD. certainly didn’t waste a second of this world of jewelry and metal. concentrates on looking for places where journey. Finding jewelers in every country, “I have very solid feet in the industry as they can succeed. He sees it more of an e’s worked Charles soaked up cultural norms and well as the art world,” says Lewton-Brain. “art lab” than an art school. “We celebrate Faculty H and studied in conversations, which would eventually He understands the full spectrum of their successes, but always give them room PROFILE Europe and North find their way into his work. the jewelry world and as a result of his to them find their explore who they are.” ■ Text America, lectured Lewton-Brain went on to study at the experience and knowledge can build a Melanie Woytiuk in numerous Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, much needed dialogue within the field. Photography countries, written but became interested in the notion of He has also engaged millions of industry Charles Lewton-Brain and published drawing with metals, a concept that has people through a website he developed numerous books, come to define his style. Charles describes and has maintained since 1996, called the Links contributed significant research, invented his particular design as process oriented Ganoskin Project. With over 4 million new ways of working with materials, created and research based style with Japanese unique visitors a year, the site has become Largerst Resource of the biggest online resource for jewelers, sensibilities. He thinks of decision-making Jewellery Related Information www.ganoksin.com served on several industry affiliations and in metal the same way you work in Charles Lewton-Brain has still finds the time to exhibit between pen and ink. Brain Press had the kind of career path www.brainpress.com/Lewton 10 12 This unique style would eventually and times per year. Charles Lewton- Brain.html Brain has the kind of career path that make him an internationally acclaimed that is as intricate as one Metal Arts Guild is as intricate as one of his own creations. artist that would change the way people of his own creations. www.metalartsguild.ca/profile/ Charles is a Jewelry/Metals instructor thought about jewelry. One of Charles’ CharlesLewtonBrain at ACAD and has been a faculty member biggest accomplishments is Fold-Forming, a the largest source of jewelry related for 23 years. First introduced to jewelry new way of working metal. It’s a conceptual information. It offers more than 600,000 Voices in Metal making in Taos New Mexico, Charles approach to metalsmithing that emphasizes pages of information and 700 pages www.voicesinmetal.com/mc/ clb.htm carefully watched a Native American man following what the metal likes to do. of Charles’ writing, which can now be grinding Turquoise and fabricating silver. A clear revolutionary in the studio, accessed by anyone around the world. This experience left a strong impression it’s Charles’ innovation outside the studio And while Charles certainly loves to on the then 17-year old, who at the time that has made him a household name in write and research, his 23 years of teaching

Illingworth Kerr Gallery Schedule

The Illingworth Kerr Gallery May 13 – 23 / 09 April 9 – 25 / 09 February 26 / 09 February 12 / 09 January 9 / 09 is a large, permanent gallery ACAD Graduating Show ACAD New Faculty Exhibition 7:00 PM 10:30 AM 2:00 PM space within the ACAD Reception: May 13 / 09 Reception: April 9 / 09 Rebecca Belmore Daniel Young and Graeme Patterson campus, dedicated to serving Artist Talk Christian Giroux Artist Talk the College, and the general April 20 – 24 / 09 March 5 / 09 Artist Talk community through exhibiting ACAD Scholarship + 7:00 PM February 13 / 09 January 8 – quality, contemporary Awards Show My Winnipeg 6:00 PM February 11 / 09 March 21 / 09 exhibitions, representing the Main Mall with Live Dramatic Narration Thomas Demand 2:00 PM Sarah Anne Johnson broadest range of art-making by Guy Maddin Artist Talk Sheila Spence Reception: January 8 / 09 possibilities. The IKG is currated April 17 / 09 Artist Talk by internationally renowend Vincent Murakami March 5 / 09 February 12 / 09 January 8 – curator Wayne Baerwaldt. Artist Talk 2:00 PM 2:00 PM February 10 / 09 March 21 / 09 Richard Boulet Sarah Anne Johnson 7:00 PM Richard Boulet Artist Talk Artist Talk Thierry Marceau Reception: January 8 / 09 Artist Talk CATALYST / Page 12

Cont. from page 5 ACAD Funded Research Projects

Mitch Kern and Roger Nason been awarded funding from (Keyano College) the Marion Fund for Innovation Narration and in Teaching and Learning Self-Representation and from AACTI. This project Mitch Kern and Roger Nason is to research the development have been awarded funding of a new, innovative model from the Marion Fund for for student advising that Innovation in Research and comprehensively addresses Teaching, $34,000 from Health and supports the needs Canada, $45,000 from AACTI of studio-based learners (Alberta Association of Colleges and effectively works within and Technical Institutes) and the unique characteristics $20,000 from Keyano College. of an intensive, studio- This is a collaborative project based curriculum. between ACAD and Keyano College, directly focusing on Laurel Johannesson 2 First Nations communications Respiro issues within Alberta aboriginal With funding from the communities, with the potential Marion Fund for Innovation for an enhanced understanding in Research and Teaching, of visual communication issues Laurel Johannesson is engaging with aboriginal communities in studio research to explore on a national level. Aboriginal the use of generative strategies perspectives are integral to and software processes in the creation of the project’s digital art, embracing code tangible product, a documentary as a way of producing new video, and First Nations forms of creative expression. 1 co-investigators from Keyano The resulting installation will College will be involved in be shown at the XI Generative overseeing their application. Art International Conference The critical evaluation of the in Milan, Italy. Laurel will also final documentary video will be presenting the results from be Mitch’s focus where he is her research at one of the 3 proposing to deconstruct the upcoming Faculty Professional Profiling: creative processes utilized by Development and Research the First Nations filmmakers Seminars next semester. involved to see if a discernable and culturally specific pattern of visual narrative structures 2009 Funded Projects can be identified. ACAD Students Dick Averns Mireille Perron War Art Now Medical Tabulae The aim of War Art Now ree Horel made her appreciate life back home, 1 We’re Not Gonna Take it (2008) Mireille Perron has been awarded is to highlight how official war Student B ink and gouache on paper, funding from the Marion Fund art – government or military was one of including the instruction she received four 10” x 10” drawings Profile those really talented at ACAD. “In New York it seemed like for Innovation in Research sponsored programs – can 2 Car Arms Bed Shower (2008) and Teaching as well as funding provide an important benchmark high school students it was all about making it in the art world Text oil pastel on paper, from SSHRC. The project for understanding how art and Melanie Woytiuk who felt like art was versus creating unique work”, says four 9” x 9” drawings is awaiting funding from military activity can re-frame

Photography meant to be just a Horel. She was happy to come back to 3 Childhood Games (2008) Associated Medical Services the War on Terror. This will Bree Horel hobby – not a career. Calgary, where now more than ever she oil pastel on paper, (AMS). This project will utilize include examining official war approx. 22” x 22” So after graduating, is encouraged to find her own voice an issue of Revue d’art Cana- art – government or military dienne/Canadian Art Review sponsored programs – alongside she put her pens and sketch pad on the as an artist. (RACAR), an established peer- projects not necessarily shelf and followed her head all the way to And a voice she certainly has created. reviewed academic journal, commissioned or controlled University. And while other students were While earlier in her time at ACAD Horel’s to assemble selected research by the Forces, including finding themselves, Bree felt like she was drawing was on the more serious side, essays and artist projects propaganda, photo journalism that address the seemingly and personal accounts from getting further away from her purpose. her work now has a more humourous antagonistic fields of art, home and abroad. “I was just kind of floundering,” says Horel. sensibility, which Horel says makes sense medicine, and academic Thinking social work may be the field for when you get to know her personality. research on an equal scholarly Good Medicine: her, Bree eventually met with a student “I recently showed a friend some work footing. The support of this Exploring Health and in the program, hoping this person would and she right away said it looked like project by Associated Medical Wellness in First Nation Services and SSHRC, in Albertan Communities have the answers she needed. And after something I created.” combination with ACAD and In 2008 six aboriginal Canadians just a few minutes, the social work student Influenced by everything from her RACAR provide an added started a dialogue about took one look at her and said, “You should favourite art galleries and America’s dimension of cross-disciplinary the complexities of health go to art school”. Funniest Home Videos to the everyday collaboration that is integral and wellness in their Albertan Bree took the advice to heart and at things we see in life, Bree certainly to the project as a whole. communities. Five short documentaries were produced, the age of 25 enrolled at ACAD. Being Wayne Giles, Walter May, each exploring a specific set the cautious and thoughtful artist she is, Influenced by everything from Justin Waddell and Vera Gartley of issues in a different region Bree took two continuing education credit her favourite art galleries and Concept Mapping: Creating of the province. Production courses so she could get a taste of what concept maps for play took place in the field in the college would be like. She liked it and America’s Funniest Home Videos to and the creative process. Sept/Oct of 2008, and post Wayne Giles, Walter May, production took place at soon after enrolled in the four-year program. the everyday things we see in life. Justin Waddell and Vera Gartley the Banff Centre New Media She was finally following her heart. have been awarded funding Institute in Nov/Dec 2008. Now a fourth year drawing student, seems to be comfortable with where by the Institute for the Creative ACAD Team Members: Horel admits that her ACAD experience she is now. And she loves the opportunity Process. This is a collaborative Mitch Kern, research project with Dubberly Principle Investigator, ACAD has been challenging and rewarding, to collaborate with other students who Design to map the concept Kurtis Lesick, sometimes at the same time. The first year are experiencing the same rewards of “play” and the concept Project Manager, ACAD was a time of experimentation, where she and challenges that she is facing. Now of “the creative process”. Shane Mahar, Research could barely get over the fact that she was approaching the end of her fourth year, Assistant, ACAD Student doing her hobby all day long. Horel hopes that through her connections Claudia Shepherd Lisa Polini, Administrative and Jennifer DeDominicis Support, ACAD Alumni In her third year, Bree earned a mobility + to the small, yet supportive art community Student Advising: A new model Noel Begin, exchange scholarship allowing her to study in Calgary, she will find work in the cultural for studio-based learning. Designer, ACAD Alumni in New York for a semester. While the city sector. No matter where goes in her career, Claudia Shepard and Charles Bell, itself inspired her, allowing her to wander there is one thing she is certain about. Jennifer DeDeminicis have Illustrator, ACAD Faculty the halls of the MET at her leisure, it also It feels good not to flounder. ■ ✁

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