Exhibitions and Events
Installation view of A Few of Our Favourite Things: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Photo by Geoffrey Webster.
A Few of Our Favourite Things: Selections from the Permanent Collection
This exhibition departs from the Dalhousie Art Gallery's usual format of curating a selection of work from the permanent collection based on thematic, media and/or specific artist(s); instead, this display presents choices by the six members of the Gallery's team, who work in various roles. Collecting galleries and museums contain objects that, for one reason or another, become highlights of the collection in the eyes of its visitors. Similarly, the people who spend their working lives in the art gallery sector also form attachments to the objects in their care.
Installation view of 68th Annual Student, Staff, Faculty and Alumni Exhibition. Also pictured is Marlene Creates' Fire and Water, Nova Scotia (1985) on display as part of A Few of Our Favourite Things: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Photo by Geoffrey Webster.
68th Student, Staff, Faculty, and Alumni Exhibition
Our annual celebration of the creativity of the students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College! This exhibition is a unique opportunity to share your passion for the arts, foster, creativity, and acknowledge that the arts continue to be an important part of the University, its community as well as its history.
Kim Morgan, RBC1 (2015) and White Blood Cell (2022). Photo: Steve Farmer.
Kim Morgan Artist Talk
Kim Morgan, Blood Galaxy, detail, 2017
Kim Morgan: Blood and Breath, Skin and Dust
Kim Morgan: Blood and Breath, Skin and Dust focuses on eight years of interdisciplinary artist Kim Morgan’s research and artistic production employing electron microscopy. Immersive installations, sculptural objects, and sound and video works reflect this artist’s interest in using advanced technologies to explore materiality and the body. Informed by the experience of vibrant matter at the microscopic level these intriguing works offer encounters in human-scaled space and time, and an opportunity to bridge the gap between science, medicine, and art.
Steve Higgins, A few unwanted species, 2021-22, mixed media. Photo: Steve Farmer
Auction: Unwanted Species by Steve Higgins
Unwanted Species is an online auction organized by artist Steve Higgins in support of the Indigenous Butterfly and Pollinator Garden located on the Dalhousie University campus. The auction will be held from June 27th to July 17th and all proceeds will be donated to fund the Garden.
The auction items include all 90 installation artworks of A few unwanted species by Steve Higgins, from the exhibition Plant Kingdom curated by Frances Dorsey at Dalhousie Art Gallery until July 10th, 2022.
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.
