Joe Fafard
A Climate for Change
Woodland School
Kenojuak: From Drawing to Print
Joe Fafard A Climate for Change Woodland School Kenojuak: From Drawing to Print
Joe Fafard
June 28 to September 14, 2008
Curated by Terrence Heath, Joe Fafard's sculptures are revealed together for the first time. Featuring loans from private and public collections, his larger-than-life ceramic, bronze, plaster and steel sculptures, as well as some drawings, display over 40 years of his signature cows, horses and caricature works.
Discover Saskatchewan’s iconic artist Joe Fafard.
Joe Fafard, b.1942
Running Horses , 2007
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Purchased 2008 with the generous support of the Distinguished Patrons of
the National Gallery of Canada Foundation
Photo: Don Hall
A Climate for Change
April 12 to September 1, 2008 Inspired by the Group of Seven and encouraged by an emerging social consciousness surrounding global climate change, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection is pleased to present A Climate for Change, an exhibit that explores environmental issues through art.
Curated by the Education and Programs Department at the McMichael, the show is the first in a series of new educational exhibits. It features 23 works chosen from 150 entries and presents art from the permanent collection alongside work by school age artists in the community. The exhibit explores the phenomenon of climate change from the viewpoint of those who will be most affected by long term environmental issues: our youth.
Pictured Above:
Samantha Cheung, b. 1992
A WHITE CHRISTMAS, 2008
graphite on paper / sur papier
Collection of the Artist / de l'Artiste
Woodland School
May 3, 2008 - ongoingThe Woodland School exhibit examines the vibrant art of Woodland School painters Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Carl Ray, Jackson Beardy, Joseph Sanchez, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Benjamin Chee Chee, Blake Debassige, Saul Williams, Martin Panamick, and Goyce Kakegamic. The Woodland School style of painting was popularized through the work of Norval Morrisseau who caught the attention of the art-buying public with his first exhibition at the Pollock Gallery in Toronto in 1962. Morrisseau, defying cultural restrictions, based his work on traditional Ojibway visual imagery taken from petroglyphs and Midewewin birchbark scrolls, as well as from the myths and legends of his people. The Woodland School has become one of the most recognizable forms of First Nations art.
Pictured Above:
Norval Morrisseau , 1931-2007
Artist's Wife and Daughter, 1975
acrylic on hardboard
101.6 x 81.3 cm
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Purchase 1975
1981.87.1
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Kenojuak: From Drawing to Print
On now until November 30, 2008This exhibit, curated by McMichael’s Assistant Curator, Shawna White and entitled, Kenojuak: From Drawing to Print, examines Kenojuak’s involvement with the Cape Dorset printing program by comparing a selection of Kenojuak’s drawings to their subsequent prints.
Pictured Above:
Kenojuak Ashevak, b.1927
Drawing for print Blue Owl, 1966/1969
felt-tip pen on paper
51.3 x 66.2 cm
Collection of the West Baffin Eskimo
Co-operative Ltd., on loan to the
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
CD.40.662
Reproduced with the permission of the
West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, Cape Dorset, Nunavut
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The Founders' Story |
Don’t miss this display of archival photographs and accompanying texts recounting the history of the McMichael from its early beginnings in the home of Robert and Signe McMichael through the donation to the Province in 1965, until the Founders’ retirement in 1981.
Learn more about our Founders’ passion for collecting and their mutual vision – a vision that enabled the creation of a unique public art gallery, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
To view The Founders’ Story visit the ramp leading from Gallery 1 to the restaurant.
Pictured Above:
Robert McMichael signing the Gift Agreement, with Premier John Robarts
and Signe McMichael, November 18th, 1965
Photo by the Ontario Department of Tourism and Information
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Revisions: Stories from the Collection
Ongoing:
Dialogue and Divergence: Art of the Northwest Coast explores relationships between the First Nations and non-First Nations cultures of British Columbia. The exhibition contrasts moments of dialogue with periods of divergence when the diverse communities of people who reside on the Coast appear to follow their own paths. Perhaps more than any other Canadian province, British Columbia’s history of conflict and cohabitation between First Nations and non-First Nations communities has been played out through the art and material culture of the region.
