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Call for Submission
The Galt Museum & Archives invites artists in Southwestern Alberta to submit a 3-dimensional art piece for consideration in the Galt Museum’s Art Walk Sculpture Show Friday, September 17 to Sunday, September 19, 2010. A photograph or conceptual drawing of the piece, along with an artist’s statement (200 words maximum) and label information (title, date, media, artist’s name as it will be printed on the label) must be submitted by Friday, August 27, 2010 to:
Wendy Aitkens, Curator
Galt Museum & Archives
wendy.aitkens at galtmuseum dot com or
502 – 1 St. South
Lethbridge, AB T1J 1Y4
Artwork to be considered will be:
- 3 dimensional
- Multi-media
- Maximum height: 8’
- Maximum width or diameter: 3’
The Galt has a limited supply of plinths of varying heights and sizes. Please indicate whether you will provide your own plinth or will require one, and if so, the ideal size. We will do our best to accommodate your request should your work be selected. The show will run Friday and Saturday from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm and Sunday from 1:00 to 4:30 pm.
Artists will drop off their work at the Galt Museum Monday, September 13 to Wednesday, September 15, between 10 am and 4:30 pm. For large pieces please call Wendy Aitkens (403-320-3907) to make alternative arrangements. Artists will pick up their works on Sunday, September 19 after a private wine and cheese Closing event provided by Rosemary and Gerald Foder which will be held between 3:30 am and 4:30 pm. Art may also be picked up the following week.
ArtWalk 2009 at the Galt Museum
Spring: Ode to Twitter
Mixed media, co-polymer
2009
Technology and nature intertwine in this multimedia collage. Bird-like tree branches flow in one direction and as is the case with most Southern Alberta trees, it leans. Three Twitter-inspired bird icons hang from the branches. Motivated by the wiring of the Burmis Tree, a metal cylinder, an old laser printer part, forms a shortened fourth branch of the tree where a small owl is perched.
artist-made nest, eggs, egg shells, baby birds and parent Robin
The piece features a co-polymer male robin sculpture and an artist-created bird’s nest housing three eggs and two baby robins with their broken shells. (There is no mom.)
tree masque
The birds that hang from the tree, rather than being a part of the tree, I created from porcelain and are inspired from Twitter icons. They are not meant to reflect a real bird; they are tech birds. I guess I’m a tech bird too, but as an introvert, I use the tree as a masque.
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