SUMMIT 2016

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The Allied Arts Council and the City of Lethbridge welcome APAN Summit 2016 delegates to our city.

It is our hope that you experience our cultural landscape and feel welcomed in Southern Alberta. The

resonant themes of Opportunities, Challenges and Trends will be expressed throughout the Summit

sessions and will allow us to all gain insight into our own current collections and acquisition programs.

It is our hope that there are many takeaways from the summit that you are able to utilise in your own

communities but also that you have enjoyed visiting Lethbridge. We look forward to learning more from

all the attendees and contributing to the cultural fabric of our province.

WELCOME TO LETHBRIDGE!

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As the Minister of Culture and Tourism, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2016 Alberta Public Art Network Summit. We are fortunate in Alberta to have vibrant communities and accomplished artists who help tell Alberta’s story in creative and engaging ways. Public art, in all of its forms, demonstrates the character of our communities and contributes to the strength of local economies. From sculptures that transform our landscapes to events that inspire our imaginations, public art is an expression that encourages us to interact with space, ideas, and each other.

The artists and administrators who make public art possible contribute to the quality of life in our communities across

the province. I hope that this year’s summit inspires you to continue working together in creating opportunities and overcoming challenges. By employing the same innovation and creativity that have become the hallmarks of Alberta’s arts community, we can continue to grow the success of the sector well into the future.

On behalf of the Government of Alberta, thank you to the Alberta Public Art Network for supporting this important initiative. Thank you as well to the Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge and the City of Lethbridge for hosting and making this year’s event possible.

Ricardo MirandaMinister

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On behalf of the City of Lethbridge, I am pleased to welcome everyone gathered for the Alberta Public Art Network Summit 2016 - Opportunities, Challenges and Trends.

We are delighted that the Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge was chosen to host this event, and especially excited to showcase our success in creating spaces for public art throughout the city.

Lethbridge has always been an enthusiastic supporter of the arts and we consider public art to be a vital ingredient in the cultural fabric of Lethbridge. It plays a role in creating a visually rich environment and establishes a distinct and vibrant legacy for our citizens. Our public arts policy ensures an ongoing effort to maintain and grow our public art program into the future. We’re looking forward to continued growth as a culturally informed community!

We hope you enjoy the Summit and take time to explore all that Lethbridge has to offer. The planned walking tours will give you a great chance to get to know our downtown core as well as the Papokan Sculpture Park at the University of Lethbridge and I’m sure you’ll find our citizens friendly and welcoming wherever you go.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all organizers and volunteers who have contributed to the success of the Summit, especially the Board of Directors and staff of the Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge for their tireless work in leading arts initiatives in our community. We’ve come a long way in advancing the arts and although so much has been accomplished, in many ways we have only just begun.

Chris Spearman Mayor

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(Included in delegate registration – extra tickets are $10)

Our first session is designed to get everyone up to speed on the basics of public art. Think public art is just statues of famous ancestors? Think again! Learn about this broad and engaging topic with presenter jil weaving.

jil weaving is currently working as the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation’s Coordinator of Arts and Culture and has a BFA and an Interdisciplinary MA in the Humanities. weaving worked with the Canada Council for the Arts as a researcher during their pilot program supporting artists working with communities. She was also a member of the BC Arts Council Community Arts Advisory Committee during the creation of the provincial Arts Based Community Development Funding Program. weaving has exhibited her own work and lectured in Canada and the US. She was a member of Non Commercial, an arts collective that employed interventionist strategies in public places, sat on the board for Artspeak, an artist-run centre and was selected as Artist-in-Residence in a multi-cultural neighbourhood in Vancouver.

In her current position, she manages the donation of public art, monuments and memorials; oversees a Neighbourhood Matching

Fund that supports community members in the creation of unique cultural and environmental physical elements on public land; has worked on the development of the Artist Studio Program for under-utilized spaces in park field houses; works with temporary exhibitions of public art such as the Vancouver Biennale; was responsible for drafting the Board’s response to the TRC Calls to Action including the creation of a new indigenous/non-indigenous arts fund; is working on new park planning strategies partnering with the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh; and liaises with the civic public art commissioning program. She has developed many partnership programs and projects for the Vancouver Park Board including the “Arts, Health and Seniors Project” in conjunction with researchers at UBC and the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority; and the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project in collaboration with the Stanley Park Ecology Society and the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.

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ABC, 123 – PUBLIC ART BASICSThursday, May 5, 3:30 – 5:00 pm The Galt Museum & Archives SESSION

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(Included in your delegate registration – extra tickets are $20) Watch the sun set stunningly over the coulees with appetizers and cocktails, while meeting your fellow delegates. Our summit will be blessed by Elder Raymond Many Bears followed by a performance piece The Sacred Hoop by Sandra Lamouche. Our keynote speaker, Peter Morin will then address the summit topics and contemporary public art practice in his opening remarks.

Peter Morin is a Tahltan Nation artist, curator and writer who recently relocated from British Columbia to Manitoba where he joined the Visual and Aboriginal Arts Faculty at Brandon University. Morin studied art at Emily Carr University of Art+Design and completed his MFA at University of British Columbia Okanagan in 2011. In both his artistic practice as well as his curatorial work, Morin’s practice-based research investigates the impact between indigenous cultural-based practices and western settler colonialism. This work, defined by Tahltan Nation epistemological production, often takes on the form of performance interventions and also includes object and picture making.

Morin has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions including Team Diversity Bannock and the World’s Largest Bannock attempt (2005), A return to the place where God outstretched his hand (2007); performative works at the Royal Ontario Museum,

Toronto; 12 Making Objects AKA First Nations DADA (12 Indigenous Interventions) (2009) at Open Space, Victoria; Peter Morin’s Museum (2011) at Satellite Gallery, Vancouver; and Circle (2011) Urban Shaman, Winnipeg.

In addition to his art making and performance-based practice, Morin has curated exhibitions at the Museum of Anthropology, Western Front, Bill Reid Gallery and Burnaby Art Gallery.

Peter Morin

MIX & MINGLE KEYNOTE RECEPTIONThursday, May 5, 7:00 – 9:30 pm The Galt Museum & Archives SESSION

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Show of Indigenous Contemporary Dance and the Hoop Dance which includes a performance of “Sagowsko” which means ‘bush woman’ in Cree. Choreographed by Sandra Lamouche, Dancers Sandra Lamouche, Maria Livingstone and Julie Lamouche.

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Currently serving as the Arts and Events Coordinator for the Town of Canmore, Saunders Dahl has also curated, organized and participated in numerous exhibitions since 1995. She served as the Director of Programs and Marketing at The Works Art & Design Festival in Edmonton from 2007 to 2012 and then as a Public Art Officer at the Edmonton Arts Council until November of 2015. She holds a BFA in painting and ceramics from the Alberta College of Art and Design.

Saunders Dahl’s current artistic practice includes photography, portrait painting, and compiling sound interview/video work into an installation that will create discussion and awareness around issues of farming, community, identity and culture. She is intrigued by genealogy, and understanding why people chose to live where they do. Her Prairie Circus, Farm and Ranch Women and All My Grandparents series of artworks document the fleeting nature of personal and collective history.

The scope of public art is more than ‘monuments for posterity’. Presenters Dawn Saunders Dahl and jil weaving (see bio pg. 3) will discuss the Opportunities, Challenges and Trends inherent in this growing area of public art.

Dawn Saunders Dahl

HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: TEMPORARY, EPHEMERAL & PERFORMANCE PROJECTSFriday, May 6, 10:05 – 11:20 am ATB Financial Community Room, Casa

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FRIDAY SCHEDULE

9:00 – 10:00 am Welcome Breakfast ................................................................................................................................................Casa

10:05– 11:20 am Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Temporary, Ephemeral & Performance Projects ...........Casa

11:20 – 11:30 am Public Art Pop Up & Comfort Break ............................................................................................................Casa

11:30– 1:00 am Delegate Lunch & Casa Tour ............................................................................................................................Casa

1:05 – 2:20 pm Great Bedfellows: Corporate/Civic Public Art Partnerships ........................................................Casa

2:20 – 2:30 pm Public Art Pop Up ...................................................................................................................................................Casa

2:30 – 2:45 pm Comfort Break ...........................................................................................................................................................Casa

2:45 – 4:45 pm University of Lethbridge Papokan Sculpture Park Tour .................................................................West Casa Entrance

2:45 – 4:45 pm Art of the City Walking Tour ............................................................................................................................East Casa Entrance

6:00 – 7:00 pm Gallery Stroll & Progressive Dinner – Appetizers .................................................................................Trianon Gallery

7:00 – 8:30 pm Gallery Stroll & Progressive Dinner – Main ...............................................................................................Casa

8:30 – 9:30 pm Gallery Stroll & Progressive Dinner - Dessert .........................................................................................SAAG

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8:00 – 9:30 am Self-Guided Public Art Tour (Map included in delegate package) .................Downtown

9:00 – 10:00 am Delegate Breakfast ..............................................................................................................Casa

9:30 – 9:45 am Public Art Pop Up ................................................................................................................Casa

10:05 – 11:20 am When the Lights Go Out: Media & Technology-based Projects ............Casa

11:15 – 11:30 am Public Art Pop Up & Comfort Break ........................................................................Casa

11:30 – 12:45 pm Lunch ..........................................................................................................................................Casa

12: 45 – 1:00 pm Public Art Pop Up & Comfort Break ........................................................................Casa

1:05 – 3:00 pm Planning for the Future: Formalizing APAN Organization ........................Casa

3:00 – 3:15 pm Wrap Up .....................................................................................................................................Casa

3:15 – 5:00 pm Jane’s Walk Public Art Tour ..........................................................................................East Casa Entrance

9:00 – 10:00 am Welcome Breakfast ................................................................................................................................................Casa

10:05– 11:20 am Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Temporary, Ephemeral & Performance Projects ...........Casa

11:20 – 11:30 am Public Art Pop Up & Comfort Break ............................................................................................................Casa

11:30– 1:00 am Delegate Lunch & Casa Tour ............................................................................................................................Casa

1:05 – 2:20 pm Great Bedfellows: Corporate/Civic Public Art Partnerships ........................................................Casa

2:20 – 2:30 pm Public Art Pop Up ...................................................................................................................................................Casa

2:30 – 2:45 pm Comfort Break ...........................................................................................................................................................Casa

2:45 – 4:45 pm University of Lethbridge Papokan Sculpture Park Tour .................................................................West Casa Entrance

2:45 – 4:45 pm Art of the City Walking Tour ............................................................................................................................East Casa Entrance

6:00 – 7:00 pm Gallery Stroll & Progressive Dinner – Appetizers .................................................................................Trianon Gallery

7:00 – 8:30 pm Gallery Stroll & Progressive Dinner – Main ...............................................................................................Casa

8:30 – 9:30 pm Gallery Stroll & Progressive Dinner - Dessert .........................................................................................SAAG

Partnerships between corporations and civic governments certainly fall under the themes of the summit; Opportunities, Challenges and Trends. Our presenters, Jane Ferabee and Christine Sowiak, will share their planning work in this area and will give us all something to consider when we return to our communities.

Jane Ferrabee has been an architect for over 30 years, with 25 of them in private practice. The balance of her professional time has been spent on the University of Calgary campus as University Architect coordinating dreams and reality. Messy cultural, community and institutional projects have been Ferrabee’s passion throughout her career.

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GREAT BEDFELLOWS: CORPORATE/CIVIC PUBLIC ART PARTNERSHIPSFriday, May 6, 1:05 – 2:20 pm ATB Financial Community Room, Casa

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Christine Sowiak has been the Curator of Art at Nickle Galleries, part of Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary, since 1998. In that time, her practice has grown from the collection and exhibition mandates of the Nickle - concentrating on collaborations with artists based in Alberta and expanding the role that public galleries play in the development of artists’ work through exhibiting, collecting, publishing and creating public dialogue.

Sowiak has developed retrospective exhibitions for senior artists such as John Will, but has concentrated on group shows such as About Time, That Still Place ... That Place Still and Roadmap in order to connect ideas of storytelling, place and identity through thematic approaches. Sowiak has written and lectured extensively on the work of Alberta and Saskatchewan artists, both for Nickle Galleries and in collaboration with artist run and public galleries in those provinces. Sowiak also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art, University of Calgary where she teaches both art history and studio courses. She studied at the University of Regina, earning her BFA and a BA - Art History. She received her MFA in Calgary.

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University of Lethbridge, Papokan Sculpture ParkDeparts 2:45pm, Casa West Entrance, includes a bus to the west side of Lethbridge

The Papokan Sculpture Park encompasses the entire campus of the University of Lethbridge and was officially opened on the occasion of the University’s 25th Anniversary in September 1992. Located on the banks of the Oldman River, Papokan contributes to the diverse and rapidly expanding cultural mileu of southern Alberta. Please wear appropri-ate footwear as there is some hill and coulee trekking as part of this tour. This tour will also briefly stop at Royal View Memorial Cemetery. Your tour guide is Michelle Sylvestre.

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Departs 2:45pm, Casa East Entrance

Lethbridge has a diverse and growing collection of public art, much of which is accessible by foot in the downtown core. Since 2009, the City of Lethbridge has grown their collection using a fund that allocates 1% of community services capital budgets for the purchase of public art. Explore the kinetic works, murals and sculptures that help define the cultural mood of the city. Your tour guide is George Kuhl, Downtown Revitalization Manager.

PUBLIC ART TOURS

A ticket for the tour you selected when you registered is included in your delegate package.

Media-based public art projects have the ability to create magical moments for audiences as well as headaches for curators and conservators. Our presenters Liane Davison, David Turnbull, and Jackson 2Bears will use the summit themes, Opportunities, Challenges and Trends, to look at this engaging area of public art.

Liane Davison has curated over 100 exhibitions on contemporary art practice from digital media through to lawn ornaments. Her writing has been published in over 30 catalogues and her work supporting digital art has been recognized internationally. In 1998, she initiated the Surrey Art Gallery’s TechLab, a unique venue dedicated to supporting the production and presentation of digital art forms, including artist’s residencies and exhibitions featuring ceramics, fibre and technology. In 2010, she established Surrey’s outdoor non-commercial projection venue UrbanScreen for interactive digital art. She is currently the Director of the Surrey Art Gallery as well as the City of Surrey’s Manager of Visual and Community Art. Davison directs the city’s public art program and contributes to the city’s community and cultural development.

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WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT: MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY-BASED PROJECTSSaturday, May 7, 10:05 – 2:20 pm ATB Financial Community Room, Casa

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GALLERY STROLL & PROGRESSIVE DINNERFriday, May 6, 6:00 – 9:30 pm Trianon, Casa and Southern Alberta Art Gallery

(Included in your delegate registration – extra tickets are $50) Our magical stroll, escorted by Circo de Nefelibata, begins at the Trianon Gallery for an amuse-bouche, followed by our main course at Casa and dessert at the SAAG.

Jackson 2bears is a kanien’kehaka (mohawk) multimedia installation/performance artist and cultural theorist from Six Nations who is currently based in Lethbridge.

2bears has exhibited his work extensively across Canada in public galleries, museums and artist-run centres, as well as internationally in festivals and group exhibitions. 2bears holds a BA in Art & Art History from the University of Toronto. He received his MFA from the University of Victoria during which time he produced digital media installation and performance artworks that variously explored

themes of Indigenous heritage, resistance and cultural renewal. In 2012, 2bears completed his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Victoria. His doctoral work took a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary approach to questions of contemporary Indigenous identity, technology and interactive/performance art. His dissertation, entitled Mythologies of an [Un]dead Indian, explores the aesthetics of contemporary Indigenous identity—its various manifestations, transformations, simulations and hybridizations—within the context of our hyper-mediated, technologically saturated culture.

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David Turnbull has been the Public Art Conservator with the Edmonton Arts Council since 2009. Turnbull has worked hard to support the local visual arts community by acting as a conservation resource and is one of a few dedicated public art conservators in North America. He manages the care of Edmonton’s current 230+ public artworks. As well, Turnbull is also involved with all the new and upcoming public art projects that the EAC coordinates; through the stages of site selection, proposal, design, fabrication, installation and maintenance.

Turnbull holds a Masters in Art Conservation from Queens University and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Prior

to relocating back to Edmonton, Turnbull was the Conservator of Paintings, and Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Denver Art Museum for five years. During his tenure at DAM, he became interested in the preservation of large outdoor sculptures, installations, and light based artworks and has presented his research in Denver, Los Angeles, and Seattle. He is active with the Canadian Association for Conservation and co-chaired and presented at its annual conference in Edmonton in 2015. When he’s not thinking Art Conservation, Turnbull enjoys reading about the history of pencils and screws, riding his Vespa, and watching paint dry.

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With years of experience as a CEO/President and a strong financial CFO background, Bruce Thurston has had the opportunity to develop extensive knowledge and expertise in strategy, finance, HR, and governance, and is a go to advisor for many organizations in Southern Alberta.

Professionally, Thurston has taught for the Faculty of Management for 18 years and currently coaches management students for case competitions. As a national Fellow of the Society of Management Accountants, Thurston has been Chair of the Alberta CMA’s, President of the Alberta’s CMA’s and Alberta’s representative at the

CMA National Board, as well as a moderator, and judge in the CMA Program.

Locally, Thurston has been active with the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce on committees, the executive, and the board since 1991. Other past contributions include: past board member of the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, past board member and Vice Chair of City Council’s Standing Committee on Community and Social Development and past business advisory member for Lethbridge College.

What are the next steps for the Alberta Public Art Network? What are the benefits of formalizing APAN, is this the direction we want to go and if so how do we proceed? Our guide, Bruce Thurston, will help us set the groundwork for the future by leading a Nonprofit Business Model process that evaluates APAN’s potential social value and stakeholders.

Information on the process was provided to delegates via email in advance of the summit.

R. Bruce Thurston

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE:FORMALIZING THE APAN ORGANIZATIONSaturday, May 7, 1:05 – 2:20 pm ATB Financial Community Room, Casa

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Cheryl BaxterJillian BrackenSusan Burrows-JohnsonChristina Cuthbertson Kelaine DevineRick GillisGeorge KuhlDawn LeiteSuzanne LintMuffy McKayJosephine MillsJon Oxley

Jackson 2bearsLiane DavisonJane FerabeeRaymond Many BearsPeter MorinDawn Saunders DahlChristine SowiakBruce ThurstonDavid Turnbulljil p weaving

Michelle CôtéAmy DodicTweela HoutekamerKarina MakMegan MormonNicole RiedmuellerDon ReevesMichelle Sylvestre

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED CONTRIBUTE TO THE SUCCESS OF THE APAN SUMMIT 2016 IN LETHBRIDGE!

Thank you to the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Casa and the City of Lethbridge for providing items for our delegate packages.

Thank you to John Savill of the Trianon Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, the Galt Museum & Archives, and the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery for their participation.

PLANNING COMMITTEE:PRESENTERS:

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Sacred Hoop: Julie Lamouche, Sandra Lamouche, Maria LivingstonCirco de Nefelibata: Gerardo Balderas, Michael Bartz, Jenna Lencucha,Katherine Odland, Landon Waters

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