In the region we now know as Ghana, gold has been found in alluvial sands and shallow mines for many centuries. During the Roman period gold-hungry traders looked south of the Sarah Desert for sources of gold and found it in Ghana. In the early Middle Ages Islamic merchants traded for gold with the local cultural group of people known as the Akan. By the fifteenth century European traders discovered this source of gold, and referred to the region as the Gold Coast.
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HEART LAB: ANITA LEVESQUE & BRADLEY SMITH 
RESONANCE 
 

Please note that Heart Lab will be doing a performative install for the first few days of their exhibition, so get to the window early to see their process in action.

 
Reception will be held Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Refreshments to follow at the Auburn Saloon - 163, 115 - 9 Ave SE

 This work represents a new chapter in our ongoing exploration of the relationship between text and image. We like to think of our work as installation narratives, with ourselves, the artists, as main characters. As our setting changes, so does our focus. Resonance has been created in response and in relation to the surrounding simplicity of the foothills and prairies. This simplicity has inspired us to playfully represent the essence of words as sound, and image as space by creating a 3-dimensional diorama utilizing drawing, stamping, and sculptural methods.
 
Heart Lab is a collaboration between Anita Levesque and Bradley Smith. Both artists attended ACAD in Calgary, Alberta. They have been exploring apartments together for the past fifteen years; their travels seeing them coast to coast.  Currently they live in Nelson, BC, where they continue their on-going effort to bring art into life, life into art.

Opening Friday March 5, 5-9 pm

"No Explanation!" New work by Jacqulynn Mulyk and Simon Aitchison in the Main and Red Gallery.

"Texture and Color." Paintings by Maria P. Scott in the Upstairs Gallery.

ARTPOINT is open Thursday & Friday from 1 to 5 pm, and Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm

 The third annual installment of TNG’s educational initiative providing “real world” curatorial experience to senior art students in the city, this year’s exhibition will feature work by Billie Rae Busby, Dana Bush and Joshua Fraser, selected by Jenna Swift, a student from the University of Calgary’s Art History program. The exhibition title is a variation on the mood disorder clinically known as Seasonal Affective Disorder. The onset of this condition conventionally occurs in winter, as the temperature drops and days grow shorter. This exhibition explores the effect of environmental factors on the internal weather of the psychological condition. The tyranny of winter manifests itself in subtle and insidious ways, causing us to withdraw from the world outside.  Seasonal Affective seeks to reveal the mental processes which follow this retreat. 

Tuesday through Friday 11 AM to 5 PM & Saturdays noon to 6 PM.

Opening reception Friday February 19, 2010 at 7 PM