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Biggar Museum & Gallery
105 - 3rd Ave. West
P.O. Box 400
Biggar, Sask S0K 0M0
Ph:: 1.306.948.3451
Fax: 1.306.948.3478
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Art Exhibits
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Plants and Machines
Apr 1 to Apr 23, 2012
Organized by Evan Tyler. Toured by OSAC through its Arts on the Move Program(Chad Arie, Ryan Arnott, Nathan Binns, Chris Bridge, Erin Gee, Jesse
Goddad, Mariel Harvey, Marsha Kennedy, Aaron Kyle, Adam Lark, Lisa Loewen, Kristen Smith, Melanie-Monique Rose and Evan Tyler).
This exhibition features a diverse selection of works by Saskatchewan artists adressing the themes of technology and organics. In our modern world
the borders of the 'natural' and the 'mechanical' are being blurred, negotiated and hybridized. These artworks explore the relationship of human to
instrument, and the duality that exists between perceived notions of organic and artificial. -- Evan Tyler
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Embodied Presence: Michael Boutin & Holy Fay
May 1, 2012 to May 23, 2012
Created by Jennifer McRorie. Organized and toured by OSAC through its Arts on the Move Program.
Embodied Presence presents the work of two contemporary Saskatchewan painters that insert new voices into the dialogue surrounding landscape painting and
provide new perspectives on personal and collective connections with place.
The work of French Canadien Métis artist Michel Boutin responds to the overwhelming
influence of the Kenderdine School on landscape painting, particularly in Prince Albert, where landscape has been used as an armature for abstraction. Presenting
an indigenous voice and perspective, through overlaying symbols, sigils and markings over abstracted landscape imagery, Boutin’s works reflect humanity’s trace
in the natural world and attempt to capture a sense of spirituality in terms of a human presence within the landscape.
Holly Fay is interested in the fact that we are surrounded by “place” that we exist within it, move through and internalize it as part of ourselves. Her work
does not seek to represent nature as traditionally observed or documented through pictorial conventions of receding space, but rather deals with our lived-bodily
presence in the world. Fay explores the way memory and history embodies place/ environment/ landscape and how sensory experience creates meaning. This interest
has led her to explore our connections to biological and botanical environments, using biomorphic shapes and abstracted imagery of cellular forms to draw parallels
between plant and human forms, reflecting on how both impact the natural environment and our relationship to place.
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| Adjudicated Art Show & Art Workshop |
| Adjudicator and Instructor: Alexander Gaspar |
| June 12 and 13, 2012 |
Throughout the province of Saskatchewan, adjudications are hosted and funded
partly by arts councils, and by the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC) through Saskatchewan
Lotteries and the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
These programs promote the growth of culture by providing opportunities for emerging visual artists and
craftspeople to exhibit their work, participate in informational and hands-on workshops and develop critical
skills through participating in group and individual critiques with adjudicators. Adjudicators are selected
by the arts councils from OSAC’s Visual Arts Resource Manual, a document that lists professional artists,
arts educators and curators that are available to offer programming.
Individuals that are noted to be accomplished emerging artists at the adjudication by the adjudicator/s
will be invited to submit exhibition proposals to OSAC to be considered for a touring exhibition. Artists
will be provided with information on how to develop a proposal by OSAC.
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| Artist Trading Cards: No Story too Small to Trade |
| July, 2012 |
Humans tell stories to make sense of the universe around us. Our libraries, galleries and museums collect
thin information for future generations. We tell stories to connect; on a very personal level, we swap our
experiences over coffee, through photo albums, while sharing a task.
This exhibition celebrates the connections
we share in telling our memories, fictions and truths; it celebrates the places where we connect: in our
libraries, schools, galleries and museums. The exhibition consists of 4 main areas: Stories submitted from
around the world, Stories our collections tell, Stories from our travels and Share your story. It will
incorporate an open studio workshop site for drop in and scheduled trading card workshops!
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| Annual Used Book Sale |
This popular event has proved to be inspiration to many in addition to a popular fundraiser to our museum.
For a minimal charge books are exchanged enabling others to enjoy. Biggar Museum welcomes your book
donations for this event.
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| McKenzie Outreach Program |
| September 2012 |
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| Sask Culture Days |
| September-October 2012 |
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| Christmas Magic |
| Nov 7 to Dec 10, 2012 |
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| Dreaming Ourselves as Each Other: |
| Carl Beam and the Columbus Suite |
| January 2013 |
This exhibition presents the work of well-know Canadian artist Carl Beam. The Columbus Suite is a series
of 12 prints that were completed in 1990 in response to the ‘celebration’ of the 500th anniversary of
the European ‘dicovery’ of the Americas.
In these images, Beam uses historic figures juxtaposed with
numerous historical references and symbols, to make art work that represents a contrasting, yet balanced,
assembly of heroes from different cultures. As Beam writes, “My worksare like little puzzles, interesting
little games. I play a game of dreaming ourselves as each other. In this we find out that we’re all
basically human.”
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