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IMAGES: E. MALZAHN, THE WORKS AND EDMONTON ARTS COUNCIL ARTS EDMONTON AND WORKS THE MALZAHN, E. IMAGES: Cover Image: Dialogue, 1972, Roy Leadbeater Roy 1972, Dialogue, Image: Cover #ARTTOURYEG #YEGDT #ARTTOURYEG ARTTOURYEG SERIES ARTTOURYEG FRIENDS! YOUR WITH SHARE 2 IN THE IN 2 N TOUR O. O. # MCKINNEY TO T A K G L A Y O W U R CHURCHILL - SUSAN POINTE, CURATOR OF ARTTOURYEG OF CURATOR POINTE, SUSAN - AWAY. THREW ALMOST WE SCULPTURE AND FROM PICASSO, ODES TO THE SASKATCHEWAN RIVER, RIVER, SASKATCHEWAN THE TO ODES PICASSO, FROM HEROISM IN THE NORTH. YOU’LL SEE INSPIRATION INSPIRATION SEE YOU’LL NORTH. THE IN HEROISM TRIBUTES TO OVER-THE-TOP PERSONALITIES, AND AND PERSONALITIES, OVER-THE-TOP TO TRIBUTES THE STORIES BEHIND OUR LOVE OF STEEL SCULPTURE, SCULPTURE, STEEL OF LOVE OUR BEHIND STORIES THE LOUISE MCKINNEY RIVERFRONT PARK AND UNCOVER UNCOVER AND PARK RIVERFRONT MCKINNEY LOUISE TAKE THIS SELF-GUIDED WALK FROM CITY HALL TO TO HALL CITY FROM WALK SELF-GUIDED THIS TAKE TOURS TO EXPLORE MORE PUBLIC ART! PUBLIC MORE EXPLORE TO TOURS QUARTERS, OR CAPITAL BOULEVARD BOULEVARD CAPITAL OR QUARTERS, ILL TAKE W 60 TAKE THE JASPER AVE TO ICE DISTRICT, DISTRICT, ICE TO AVE JASPER THE TAKE LK M A I N WALK? W U S T I E ENJOYED THE THE ENJOYED H S T 16 DREAM.BIG 2006 21 INUKSHUK 1993 DONALD MOAR (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) WAYNE MACKENZIE (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) OPEN UP THE Recalling the Dreamland Theatre (situated Inukshuk is dedicated to the heroism of 14-year-old David Kootook, who on this site from 1912 to 1979), and spelling BROCHURE FOR A was aboard a plane that crashed in the NWT approximately 300 km north “DREAM”, the colour of this artwork represents of Yellowknife. David initially survived the crash that killed the two other FULL MAP ammonite, Alberta’s provincial gemstone. passengers. Despite suffering from appendicitis, David kept the injured pilot alive for 23 days before perishing. The pilot was rescued eight days later. 17 THE ALBERTA HOTEL 1983 MEREDITH EVANS (CANADIAN, 1919-1996) 22 DIALOGUE 1972 12 NORTHERN SKY (FREEZE-UP) & SPRING (BREAK-UP) 2013 INTERIOR, PEDWAY LEVEL, NEXT TO ELEVATORS ROY LEADBEATER (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) BRYAN RYLEY (VERNON, BC) Built in 1903, the Alberta Hotel was considered Edmonton’s most fashionable Dialogue was nearly lost in the scrap pile — literally. Many Edmontonians INTERIOR, SUN LIFE PLAZA, ABOVE SECURITY DESK establishment. It included the finest bar and restaurant in the district and remember it as the tall orange sculpture marking the university residence of Edmonton’s first elevator and shower baths. Demolished in 1984, the bricks, College Plaza. In 1992, building managers deemed Dialogue inappropriate, and Ryley’s lyrical tones and richly textured colours are reminiscent of classical sandstone blocks, and other architectural remnants were numbered and stored. had it removed to a scrap yard (while a similar artwork by Leadbeater had just modernism, rooted in Cubist collage and Surrealist-inspired abstraction. Resurrected a half block east, the repurposed building opened in 2012 with sold in Calgary for $100,000). Leadbeater heard about this, and saved it for $25, many historically accurate design finishes. 13 JACOB’S LADDER 1986 one day before it was to be crushed. SANDRA BROMLEY (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) 18 PASKWAMOSTOS 1999 23 FULL HOUSE 1997 9TRIPLE8, NEXT TO SECURITY DESK JOE FAFARD (REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN) PETER HIDE (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) With access to wind-felled timber while residing EXTERIOR, DOWN ESCALATORS, THRU SOUTH EXIT DOORS Commissioned for the opening of the Winspear Centre in 1997, Peter in England, Bromley sought to reveal the life and Renowned for his sculpted caricatures of famous people and life- Hide studied the building’s interior and played on its forms for Full strength of the tree — its character, density and sized bronze cows, pigs and horses, the late Joe Fafard received House. Hide is one of the world’s foremost practitioners of welded-steel colour — with a lyrical response to its original international acclaim and was honoured with a Canada Post stamp sculpture, and has influenced at least two generations of Alberta artists. form. The decisive carved stepped lines refer to series. Paskwamostos is a Cree word for Bison, revealing the influence of Jacob’s Staircase to Heaven, acknowledging nature’s Indigenous cultures and legends on the artist. 24 CALIX 1996 perpetual movement toward the skies. 19 PARTNERSHIP GALLERY PHIL DARRAH (MULHURST BAY, ALBERTA) INTERIOR, MAIN ENTRANCE ON NORTH WALL VARIOUS ARTISTS SMARTPHONE VERSION AND Two stories tall, this massive painting greets visitors as they MORE INFO ON EACH ARTWORK INTERIOR, PEDWAY LEVEL enter or mingle in the lobby. Though he retired from the Committed to community engagement, the Shaw Conference Centre University of Alberta’s Department of Art and Design in 2003, ARTTOURYEG.CA expanded its art program to exhibit artwork on all three levels of the LET US KNOW YOUR EXPERIENCE CLICK THE “FEEDBACK” BUTTON! Darrah continues to actively produce and sell new work. building. With a call to local artists in 2016, fourteen artworks by five artists were selected from over sixty submissions. The Partnership 14 QUARTET 1995 25 POEMS FOR A SMALL PARK 2008 Gallery continues to display artwork by Edmonton students. GLENN GUILLET (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) E. D. BLODGETT (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) Airbrushed line-by-line to create directional fields of 20 THE BRAZEAU/HIGH WATER, ROWAND’S Along the park pathway, 40 light poles host 40 poems by Blodgett colour, Guillet’s artwork conveys subtle psychological FOLLY, BONES TO THE BAY 2007 etched onto steel bands. Select poems were translated into Chinese, Cree, English, French, Michif, and Ukrainian. resonances and evokes moods and states of mind. CLAY ELLIS (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) INTERIOR, PEDWAY LEVEL, HALL D ATRIUM 15 TEMERAIRE 2015 26 TURTLE ROCK EFFIGY 2012 Rowand’s Folly refers to the extravagantly large NICOLE GALELLIS (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) LEAH DORION (PRINCE ALBERT, three story home built by Hudson’s Bay Company SASKATCHEWAN) INTERIOR, ABOVE SOUTH EXIT DOORS Chief Factor John Rowand. Bones to the Bay refers to Designed to combine a First Nations turtle Rowand’s bones that were shipped to England in a Drawing motifs and tools from wherever she finds them, Galellis rock effigy with a Celtic labyrinth, this effigy keg of rum for an HBC memorial service, then delivered captures and re-designs feminine forms from calligraphy, graffiti, tattoos, symbolically represents the joining of First Nations to Quebec for burial. When the keg was opened, the rum and historical floral motifs. She uses household brooms to sweep on and European cultures on the back of Turtle Island had been replaced by water. paint and finishes final layers with sign-painting perfection. (North America). CITY HALL & PLAZA 6 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SQUARE BANNERS 2008 1 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SQUARE M - F 7AM - 10PM, SAT 9AM - 5PM, SUN 11AM - 5PM Designed by Edmonton Architect, Gene Dub, City Hall VARIOUS ARTISTS was planned as a showcase for Alberta artists. New City Hall became the site of one of the larger public art Canada’s International Multiculturalism Day (June 103a AVE acquisition projects in Alberta. Visitors are invited to pick 27th, 2008) is permanently captured through up a self-guided brochure at reception. these banners created by 13 artists from Edmonton’s new immigrant, multicultural, CHURCHILL TO MCKINNEY and Aboriginal communities. The artists contributed 24 images of their artwork to create and celebrate the important ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA 2 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SQUARE milestone. The artists are: Roger Garcia HOURS: T - SU 11AM - 5PM, W 11AM - 9PM (El Salvador); Iryna Karpenko (Ukraine); Appearing wrapped in steel ribbon, architect Emmanuel Layila (Sudan); George Millar (Ireland); 100 ST 1 Randall Stout’s design evokes the North Saskatchewan River, Aurora Borealis and Kathleen Newman (Singapore); Babatope Omotoso Edmonton’s prolific abstract metal sculpture community. The new AGA hosts three floors of (Nigeria); Pedro Rodriguez De Los Santos (Uruguay); Gabriela Rosende (Chile); exhibition space, Zinc restaurant, a gift shop, an Valeriy Semenko (Ukraine); Ash Shumba (Zimbabwe); Will Truchon (Canada - Cree art sales and rental gallery and more. Nation); Erika Vela Namsechi (Peru); and Xin Yu Zheng (China). 2 7 LIGHT VENTURI 2004 102a AVE TERRY FROST (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) 3 102a AVE FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SQUARE Frost uses the natural flow of water M - SA 10AM - 5:30PM as inspiration and subject, directing it 4 Designed by Cohos Evamy and Partners the Winspear is 97 ST 5 world renowned for its acoustic design and flexibility. through various situations to create effects 6 for all seasons. The water flows from late 99 ST May to September. 8 GENESIS 1984 7 23 24 ROY LEADBEATER (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) SIR WINSTON INTERIOR, CITADEL THEATRE, LEE PAVILION CHURCHILL SQUARE 99 ST. & 102A AVE. 100 ST This enormous steel disc rises from vegetation like a UFO split in two. 100 ST Inspired by early exploration of the moon, Einstein’s ideas, and scientific 22 advancement, this is Leadbeater’s artistic re-creation of the Big Bang. 102 AVE 9 DREAMFIRES 1999 CITADEL THEATRE GLENN GUILLET (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) 9 97 ST 9828 - 101A AVENUE M - SU 8AM - 8PM, Banners of colour invite the visitor to look up — way up. This artwork is STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY 8 CLOSED HOLIDAY MONDAYS dedicated to Helen Collinson (1934-1998), daughter of beloved Alberta 7 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SQUARE A lush indoor tropical Architecture I Tkalcic Bengert will garden, the Lee Pavilion is a painter H.G. Glyde. Collinson worked for years as curator at the University provide Edmonton’s Arts District a show-stopper that includes five performance spaces of Alberta, and was a driving force in Edmonton’s cultural community. fresh new feature with a bold re- and a two-story, interior design of the Library’s facade waterfall.