Glenbow, Calgary, AB Videos

ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios
On now at Glenbow at The Edison! Discover captivating, rarely seen mid-century printed textiles from Kinngait, Nunavut. ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios presents the little-known story of a group of artists and printmakers who produced a collection of graphic textiles in Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset), Nunavut in the 1950s and ’60s—a period of social change that disrupted traditional language and relationships to the land. Reserve free tickets: https://bit.ly/47MRmLG Organized and circulated by the Textile Museum of Canada with the support of the Museums Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage. Free admission to Glenbow at The Edison provided by Calgary Foundation.

Globally Renowned Artist Maya Lin Revealed as Designer of Glenbow’s Rooftop Terrace
Glenbow is ecstatic to announce that internationally recognized artist Maya Lin will design the rooftop terrace in the museum’s new home at the JR Shaw Centre for Arts & Culture. The 13,000-square-foot terrace will be a transformational addition to Glenbow and to downtown Calgary, offering a public amenity that further establishes the city as a global arts and culture destination. The space overlooks downtown Calgary, with western views of Stephen Avenue and iconic surrounding buildings like the Calgary Tower, TELUS Sky and The Bow. The terrace will include an all-season pavilion, event spaces, sculpture and gardens, along with a skylight and oculus to filter natural light into the museum. As a leader across these fields, Lin is uniquely qualified to plan this space. This will be her first project in Canada. Learn more about Maya Lin and Glenbow’s rooftop terrace: https://bit.ly/476D6NA

#GlenbowFromHome: Porchraits Virtual Tour with Neil Zeller

#GlenbowFromHome: Blackfoot Syllabics
Blackfoot Elder and Glenbow educator Sheldon First Rider recorded this video pre-pandemic to demonstrate the use of the syllabic alphabet in teaching the Blackfoot language. We are so grateful to Sheldon for giving us permission to share this video for our #GlenbowFromHome series during Aboriginal Awareness Week Calgary #AAWC Since 2018, First Rider has spearheaded a Blackfoot Language program at Glenbow which is offered as part of the larger Indigenous Studies school program. In his eight years as an educator at Glenbow, he estimates that Indigenous programming has collectively reached approximately 150,000 students, 12 – 15,000 of those in the more recently introduced Blackfoot Language program. To learn more about Sheldon's story and the Blackfoot Language Revival app, check out this story on our blog https://glenbow.blog/the-blackfoot-language-revival/

#GlenbowFromHome: Virtual Tour of One New Work: Do You Remember/Snow & Stars with Ron Moppett
Ron Moppett’s latest painting, Do You Remember/Snow & Stars went on view at Glenbow in February 2020 as part of Glenbow’s ongoing One New Work series, curated by Nancy Tousley. The new painting ended up inspiring Moppett and Tousley to transform the whole gallery space into a floor-to-ceiling art experience. They created a new combination (or montage) of Moppett’s older paintings that have never been hung together in this way before. Each panel (or “fragment”) has become part of a “collage” of paintings that now creates one large, long complete painting. Today for #GlenbowFromHome, Ron Moppett himself gives us a virtual tour of his exhibition at Glenbow. He throws in some great stories about where his inspiration comes from and gives us a clue to figure out what that upside-down Lassie dog is all about. Moppett often refers to his large-scale paintings as “walk-in paintings.” the term originally comes from the artist Jim Rosenquist, an American Pop artist. The idea is that the painting is big enough that you feel like you’re enveloped and you feel like you can actually go into the picture. There are a lot of symbols, shapes and almost hidden images that you can spot in this gallery, but Moppett doesn’t want you to worry about figuring out what it all means. He wants you to delight in the colour and how it makes you feel (Here’s a gallery guide if you’re curious to learn more about what the images represent). Curator Nancy Tousley says “Time passes and circumstances change. Self and world are in a constant state of becoming. The sign of this becoming is alternately the fragment (the medium), painting-as-collage (the method) and montage (the method/form). In structure and content, Moppett’s work is all of a piece. The genius of his method lies in the medium which becomes the mechanism for producing new work, a vehicle for Moppett’s boundless imaginative capacity for invention. The medium is the message.” To see the Gallery Guide for One New Work: Ron Moppett:

#GlenbowFromHome: Colours, Lines & Shapes
Today's #GlenbowFromHome is for our younger school-aged kids (K-Gr 1) as we experience an explosion of colours, shapes and lines in Ron Moppett's new work, Do You Remember/ Snow & Stars. Look at how many different shades of yellow you can find in this painting. And all the different kinds of lines the artist incorporates into this work. There are straight lines, curved lines, zigzags and everyone's favourite, crazy lines. Can you see the glove? What about the ladder? Then join us as we use all the different colours, lines & shapes we learned about to create our own artwork! Head to https://glenbow.blog/glenbow-from-home/ for extended resources, more information and all of our #GlenbowFromHome content.

#GlenbowFromHome: Vivian Maier & A Street Photography Challenge
Today's #GlenbowFromHome is for all the kids who are interested in photography. We’ll take you on a short virtual tour of the photography of Vivian Maier. She had a fascinating life and a unique point of view, and we hope you’ll get inspired by the way she looked at the world through her camera lens. After learning all about Vivian Maier, we invite you to join us on a photography challenge that you can do while maintaining physical distance. Show us how you see the world! Check out https://glenbow.blog/glenbow-from-home/ for all of our #GlenbowFromHome content and for additional resources on Vivian Maier, photography composition and worksheets!

#GlenbowFromHome: Fur Trade & Artifact Handling
Welcome to today's #GlenbowFromHome for kids! Today we will be heading into our Exploration & Fur Trade gallery and then will look closely at some artifacts related to the fur trade. (Special note: This will be particularly interesting to kids in Grades 4/5 as it is connected to their curriculum) We will virtually take you into our Fur Trade gallery, learn a brief history of the fur trade and its impact on the people and focus on one of the most important players of this story ... the beaver. Then, have a closer look at some artifacts related to the fur trade. How did these objects and these new relationships change the way people lived? How did the introduction of new materials change things? Are there pros and cons to these new materials? Check this link for additional resources and all of our other #GlenbowFromHome content: https://glenbow.blog/glenbow-from-home/ This video is part of our #GlenbowFromHome series. #GlenbowFromHome is Glenbow's way of continuing to provide a regular infusion of art and culture into your daily lives even while we are closed and all doing our part to slow the spread of COVID-19.