Exhibitions and Events
Photo: Indigenous Butterfly and Pollinator Garden, Dalhousie University campus, September 2022. Photo by Camille-Zoe Valcourt-Synnott.
Performance: (de)composition with Ursula Johnson and Lisa Myers
(De)composition is a performance about longing for contact, using the existence of underground networks of mycelia as a metaphor. Their performance will consider ideas of connectivity that are explored within the Gallery, in the garden, and through other forms of plant life growing on the Dalhousie campus.
Apple tree in bloom, Indigenous Butterfly and Pollinator Garden, June 2022
Plant Kingdom: Curator Tours with Frances Dorsey
TUESDAY, JUNE 21 AT 11:00 AM *Gallery + Garden tour*
THURSDAY, JUNE 23 AT 6:00 PM *Gallery tour only*
Kallis demonstrated her weaving to DAG staff.
Upcoming Series: Online Weaving with artist Sharon Kallis
Free skillshare with a practising textile artist!
Kallis demonstrating her weaving to DAG staff.
Artist Talk with Sharon Kallis and the Legion of Flying Monkeys
Sharon Kallis will give an informal talk about her multi-year journey getting from seed to wearable garment, and her current bi-coastal weave-along, featuring East coast and West coast nettles and linens.
This event will be concurrently streamed via Zoom.
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SltAZ0oJSzemUPebTn7hRw
After the talk, Plant Kingdom artist David Gowman and his band The Legion of Flying Monkeys will be doing a short set in the gallery!
A variety of materials used in Kallis' artistic practise. Photo courtesy of Sharon Kallis.
Performance: Nettle Spinning Circle
Come enjoy the new exhibition Plant Kingdom and join us in the Sculpture Court (Arts Centre, floor 2) to observe a nettle spinning learning circle hosted by artist Sharon Kallis. She will be sharing fibre processing and spinning techniques with the volunteers who aided in her project by harvesting and processing stinging nettle from TapRoot farms in the Autumn of 2021.
Frances Dorsey, Macro Plant Observations (detail), 2022. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Plant Kingdom
Cecil Day, Frances Dorsey, David Gowman, Anna Heywood-Jones, Steve Higgins, Ursula Johnson and Lisa Myers, and Sharon Kallis
Ole Hammarlund and David Bergmark studying the Ark systems model, Solsearch Architects, summer 1975. This model was used in meetings with government officials, the technical review panel, and the engineering review consultants. Credit: Solsearch Architects. Photographer: Fausta Hammarlund.
PANEL DISCUSSION: "Lessons from the Ark for the 21st Century" with Curator Steven Mannell and Architects Ole Hammarlund
and David Bergmark
Sunday, April 3rd 2022 from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | FREE ADMISSION
The play structure to the west of the Ark, Fall 1976. From left, Nancy Willis pushing Meredith Willis on the swing; Shira Hammarlund climbing the pole; Nooni Hammarlund in the low swing; Carla MacDonald in the high swing. Credit: Nancy Willis. Photographer unknown. Image courtesy of the Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Living Lightly on the Earth: Building an Ark for Prince Edward Island, 1974-76
Organized and circulated by the Confederation Centre Art Gallery
The Ark: an early exploration in weaving together the sun, wind, biology and architecture for the benefit of humanity.
– Ark dedication, September 1976
