ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION: Lots of pumpkins, frights at Prairie Gardens
Every kid gets the same idea at this time of year – let’s go to Prairie Gardens! And every parent has the same thought: Oy, vey, I thought we were done blowing all our dough on festivals. Please, please, please and OK, damn it, just one more. And so this Halloween-slash-Harvest theme park located just […]
Comedy Cares, iHuman land arts grants
You don’t get a much better example of art helping heal in Edmonton than the work of the iHuman Society, and the Street Performers’ Festival’s Comedy Cares Program. Yesterday, that record of reaching out landed each a $5,000 grant from the Professional Arts Coalition of Edmonton, as part of proceeds of the Mayor’s Celebration of […]
Edmonton Arts Council creates $10,000 film prize
More good news for local filmmakers: The Edmonton Arts Council is kicking in $10,000 a year to support the local film industry, it was announced Wednesday, on the heels of the $5 million City of Edmonton Filmed Entertainment Fund that City Council approved weeks ago. The 10 large isn’t a grant of funds to be […]
ART: EBC peddles some of its best work
Big events are usually held annually, but the last art auction Edmonton Bicycle Commuters held in February was so popular they’ve decided to have another one just seven months later. The last time around, EBC was celebrating its 30th birthday with a bash at a community hall, and a portion of the proceeds from the […]
New AGA exhibits go big or go home
It’s a busy day over at the Art Gallery of Alberta, where a pair of exhibits open that offer us both a global and a local perspective on society. The AGA has put together a couple of short blurbs outlining the shows quite ably: 19th Century French Photographs Paris. Jan. 6, 1839. The first public […]
Winter Lights kickoff party goes Oct. 15
It’s a little taste of winter before the snow actually falls. Now, there are two ways to look at such a proposition: you either dread winter generally, in which case it sounds nuts, or you find ways to dread winter a little less, in which case it sounds like fun. Let’s go with the latter, […]
Local artist scores $5,000 commission from AGA
Dara Humniski is going to be covered in acrylic paint for an entire week – and you get to watch. The 29-year-old Edmonton artist has been awarded a $5,000 commission to paint two giant blank walls inside the Art Gallery of Alberta, a total of nearly 700 square feet on the West and North walls […]
Graffiti fight a font of problems for Edmonton businessman
These days, Otto Weltzien wishes he’d never called the police about the graffiti outside his business. If he’d thought about that at the beginning, he might still have his interesting wall, he’d have his art … and he’d still have $16,500. Weltzien, 78, spent part of 2010 fighting an order by the city issued the […]
AGA contest wants your wildest wild life
We’ve all got a story about being cold. You can’t live in Canada for any length of time and NOT have a story about being cold. Let’s face it, “the north” is a culture unto itself; and the Art Gallery of Alberta is working with the theme in its latest contest. The AGA wants to […]
ART: Does this look like $350-million worth of museum?
All right, someone has to say publicly what plenty of us are thinking: the proposed design for the Royal Alberta Museum looks like a high school. Even the distance perspective drawing looks, at best, like the front of a mid-sized city airport. This? This is what we’re getting for $350-million in taxes? Keep in mind […]
