Seniors (65+) are welcome at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for a free guided tour, art activity, and refreshments. In this week’s workshop, guest artist Laurel Scott will demonstrate how to create ink and dye from locally foraged and cultivated plants. Explore methods of painting with these natural materials and unleash your creativity!

Laurel Scott (she/her) was born and raised in Mohkinstsis (Calgary) on the traditional lands of the Niitsítapi, Tsuut’ina, and Iyarhe Nakoda. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with great distinction majoring in Art Studio at the University of Lethbridge in Sikokotoki (Lethbridge). Upon completing her degree, Scott moved to the west coast where she also completed the Documentary Filmmaking Program at Capilano University, within the unceded territories of the Xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔt (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Upon moving back to southern Alberta, she has been working at Áísínai’pi/ Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park & UNESCO World Heritage Site, while focusing her practice to make art with the land and what it provides.

For more information, contact Bariyaa Ipaa, Outreach Coordinator, at bipaa@saag.ca.

Looking for a fun and family-friendly activity on a Saturday afternoon? Visit the Gallery for Crafternoon, a self-directed art activity in our Creativity Centre. This month we’ve partnered with Trap\door Artist Run Centre for a cyanotype workshop! This project is inspired by Tania Willard’s exhibition Practices of Suffusion in our Upper Gallery. This program is free with admission. All supplies are provided.

Trap\door is a non-profit artist-run centre founded in 2004. Dedicated to the promotion of contemporary visual art which is challenging and critical, the purpose of Trap\door is to encourage experimentation by artists whose work explores creative production outside of an institutional framework. https://trapdoorarc.org/

The Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin invites you to join us for an artist statement writing workshop led by acclaimed writer and art historian Aruna D’Souza. Participants will learn the essentials of artist statements and writing about their work. Participants are encouraged to bring their own writing for review and edits. This tour is free for members. For non-members regular admission applies. If program cost presents a barrier, please contact Heather Kehoe, Program & Events Coordinator, hkehoe@saag.ca 

There are a limited number of seats available for this workshop. We encourage you to register in advance to reserve your spot.

Aruna D'Souza writes about modern and contemporary art, intersectional feminisms, and diasporic aesthetics.  Her work appears regularly in 4Columns, The New York Times, and in numerous artist’s monographs and exhibition catalogues. Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. Recent editorial projects include Linda Nochlin’s Making It Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now and Lorraine O’Grady’s Writing in Space 1973-2018; she co-curated the retrospective “Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And” at the Brooklyn Museum in 2021. She is the recipient of the 2021 Rabkin Prize for art journalism and a 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant. She was appointed the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery of Art in 2022, and the W.W. Corcoran Professor of Social Engagement at the Corcoran School of Art, George Washington University, in 2022-2023. Her most recent book, Imperfect Solidarities was published in 2024.

Join Associate Curator Adam Whitford for a tour of the Gallery’s current exhibitions  Incidental Omens by Dana Buzzee, Practices of Suffusion by Tania Willard, and Hole Tech by Migueltzina Solís. This tour is free for members. For non-members regular admission applies. 

Seniors (65+) are welcome at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for a free guided tour, art activity, and refreshments.

For more information, contact Bariyaa Ipaa, Outreach Coordinator, at bipaa@saag.ca.

If you’re a high-school-aged youth  (14-18) looking to explore your artistic side in a warm and welcoming environment, join us at the Gallery for our drop-in Youth Art Club program.

This month’s Art Club features special guest artist Eric Dyck.

Bring your own art to work on or make something here while also taking in a tour of the current exhibitions.  Supplies are provided and snacks and refreshments will be available.

For more information, contact Bariyaa Ipaa, Outreach Coordinator, at bipaa@saag.ca.

Eligibility: High School age students (14-18)

Seniors (65+) are welcome at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for a free guided tour, art activity, and refreshments.

For more information, contact Bariyaa Ipaa, Outreach Coordinator, at bipaa@saag.ca.

SAAG 2024 HOLIDAY MARKET
November 15, 5 - 9 PM
November 16, 10 AM - 5 PM

The Southern Alberta Art Gallery’s annual Holiday Market will take place on Friday Nov. 15 from 5 - 9 PM and Saturday Nov. 16 from 10 AM - 5 PM. Our Holiday Market features a variety of talented local and regional artists. This is the perfect place to shop local this holiday season. Find something for your friends, your family, or yourself!

Featuring work from:

• Corrogamy Studio

• Cozy cat lady creations

• Crowsnext Lake Bible Camp with WInterborne Alpaca

• Fable Fabrications

• Howl Candle Co. 

• JEM Originals 

• Keas Kreations

• Knothole Photography

• Lirayastudio

• Melanie Barnett Ceramics

• Mish Mash Art Studio

• Modest Masterpeace

• Moon + Maple

• Mother Daughter Candle Co.

• Nature Girl - Lauren Kurmey

• Rainbow Bazaar Art Collective

• Sewing and Ceramics & Bob's Scroll Saw Art

• Spark of Sugar Confectionary

• Starforged Pottery

• Tarryn Louise Art

SAAG 2024 HOLIDAY MARKET
November 15, 5 - 9 PM
November 16, 10 AM - 5 PM

The Southern Alberta Art Gallery’s annual Holiday Market will take place on Friday Nov. 15 from 5 - 9 PM and Saturday Nov. 16 from 10 AM - 5 PM. Our Holiday Market features a variety of talented local and regional artists. This is the perfect place to shop local this holiday season. Find something for your friends, your family, or yourself!

Featuring work from:

• Corrogamy Studio

• Cozy cat lady creations

• Crowsnext Lake Bible Camp with WInterborne Alpaca

• Fable Fabrications

• Howl Candle Co. 

• JEM Originals 

• Keas Kreations

• Knothole Photography

• Lirayastudio

• Melanie Barnett Ceramics

• Mish Mash Art Studio

• Modest Masterpeace

• Moon + Maple

• Mother Daughter Candle Co.

• Nature Girl - Lauren Kurmey

• Rainbow Bazaar Art Collective

• Sewing and Ceramics & Bob's Scroll Saw Art

• Spark of Sugar Confectionary

• Starforged Pottery

• Tarryn Louise Art

Join us for Bletcher Hour, the Gallery’s monthly critical reading group. Readings explore key themes of the exhibitions and current events, with the intent to deepen our understanding of the artworks and their context within our community. 

This month we will be reading the introduction and first chapter of As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. In this book, Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. She makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. Instead, she calls for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state, including heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation. This book was recommended by artist Tania Willard, who's exhibition Practices of Suffusion is on display in our Upstairs Gallery until January 11th, 2025. 

This program is free to attend. Please contact Heather Kehoe, Program & Event Coordinator, to register. Readings are sent as PDFs in advance of the event. If you cannot make it in person, online attendance options are available.

Get ready to engage with a panel of healthcare experts, academics, and community organizers who are passionate about supporting you navigate the healthcare system with confidence. We’ll explore critical thinking and self-advocacy, while also learning about the political systems around us and how our experiences are inter-connected.

Presented in partnership with ProChoice YQL and ScienceUpFirst.

Come visit the Southern Alberta Art Gallery to see multidisciplinary Artist Jared Tailfeathers (Sikomh Kokomii - Calling Crane) from Kainai Nation read and share a few selections from his new book “The Art Of Making: Rediscovering the Blackfoot Legacy”, show some of his art, music, research photos, share copies of the book and talk about Blackfoot art history in the territory.

"A journey of growth and rediscovery. A chance as a colonized Blackfoot person to get to know who I am culturally, historically, and literally within the boundaries of my traditional territory. I want to help connect old names and practices to old places. Exploration of the evidence of art and methods of making that are still on the land as part of my cultural connection, and contextualizing those methods into my contemporary practice.

I focused this desire into a multi-year project that included contemporary art and research that became the book "The Art of Making: Rediscovering the Blackfoot Legacy Vol 1", the research is framed as a narrative of personal discovery and community connection. The book also documents the creation of contemporary multidisciplinary art (music, luthiery, sculpture, painting, toolmaking and instrument making), and resources found at important sites based on traditional land use. Timelines that flesh out the story of Canada from pre-contact to the present day. Relationships with the animals, resources, and with neighboring Indigenous Nations and settler communities. How all of these events and relationships influenced the methods of making pre-contact to the present day."

This event is free for Gallery members, with regular admission, and for attendees that self-identify as Indigenous. Please check in at the Gallery’s front desk when you arrive.

Jared will be hosting a book launch event at Analog Books on Friday November 8, 6:30 - 8:30 PM. To register or to purchase a copy of “The Art of Making” for yourself visit https://www.analogbooks.net/events/1235120241108.

Seniors (65+) are welcome at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for a free guided tour, art activity, and refreshments.

For more information, contact Bariyaa Ipaa, Outreach Coordinator, at bipaa@saag.ca.

Get in the spooky spirit at our special Halloween Crafternoon! Trade your carving knives for brushes as we paint pumpkins together. This program is free for members. For non-members regular admission applies. Costumes are welcome! All supplies are provided but we will be purchasing a limited number of pumpkins. To reserve your pumpkin please call the Gallery or email Program & Event Coordinator Heather Kehoe hkehoe@saag.ca before Oct. 23, 2024.

Seniors (65+) are welcome at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for a free guided tour, art activity, and refreshments.

For more information, contact Bariyaa Ipaa, Outreach Coordinator, at bipaa@saag.ca.

If you’re a high-school-aged youth  (14-18) looking to explore your artistic side in a warm and welcoming environment, join us at the Gallery for our drop-in Youth Art Club program this summer .

Bring your own art to work on or make something here while also taking in a tour of the current exhibitions.  Supplies are provided and snacks and refreshments will be available.

For more information, contact Bariyaa Ipaa, Outreach Coordinator, at bipaa@saag.ca.

Eligibility: High School age students (14-18)

Join us at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery on Saturday, October 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. to celebrate the opening of our newest exhibitions featuring Tania Willard, Dana Buzzee, and Migueltzinta Solís, along with new Shop at SAAG feature artist Anton Golosov. Enjoy the artworks and refreshments, mingle with the community and meet the artists. The opening reception is free for Gallery Members or with regular admission.

Join us for a special Articulations featuring social worker and instructor Heidi HeavyShield, who will speak to themes explored in our Lower Gallery exhibition Civic Floor by Sung Tieu. Heidi will draw on her expertise as the Indigenous Programs Coordinator in the Alberta provincial correctional system to discuss power, space, and privilege in public and institutional spaces. This program is free to attend. 

Heidi HeavyShield is a Niitsitapiaki of the Kainai Nation (Blood Tribe), Blackfoot Confederacy in Treaty 7. She is a clinical social worker who works within the provincial correctional system serving incarcerated populations as an Indigenous Programs Coordinator for over 17 years. Working from a social justice and Indigenous human rights framework, she integrates Indigenous cultural and healing methodologies and ceremonies with clinical practices. She is particularly active in the areas of incarceration of Indigenous people, restorative justice principles and practices, missing and murdered Indigenous womxn and girls, as well as areas regarding intergenerational trauma and colonial policies. Heidi is an instructor with University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work focusing her teaching philosophies on challenging oppression and confronting privilege. She seeks to honour her family, ancestors and home community of Kainaiwa in her work by recognizing those who have come before her.

The Articulations series offers presentations from contemporary practicing artists and arts professionals. Local and international artists, curators, critics, art historians, theorists, and filmmakers share their practice and engage with the audience in open, critical discussion.

Seniors (65+) are welcome at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin on select Tuesdays this summer from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for a free guided tour, art activity, and refreshments.

For more information, contact Bariyaa Ipaa, Outreach Coordinator, at bipaa@saag.ca.

Have you ever wanted to make your own book? Join us for this hands-on workshop to have the chance to make your own book. Participants will learn how to use the equipment in our Tiny Press Studio, and will make their own handmade book. 

Participants will have the chance to make a blank notebook or bind their own printed materials. If you want to bind your own writing or art, please bring two printed copies to the workshop. 

This workshop is free to attend thanks to the support of the Alberta Culture Days Celebration Site grant. This workshop is open to ages 16+. Limited space is available. Please email hkehoe@saag.ca to register. 

The majority of the bookbinding process requires standing. Accommodations can be made. If you have any questions about the printing process, how to print your materials, or more please contact Heather Kehoe, Program & Event Coordinator.

Seniors (65+) are welcome at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin on select Tuesdays this summer from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for a free guided tour, art activity, and refreshments.

For more information, contact Bariyaa Ipaa, Outreach Coordinator, at bipaa@saag.ca.

Join us to celebrate the launch of Culture Days with this special social event. Check out our exhibitions, connect with other artists and arts professionals, enjoy refreshments, or make some art! This event is free to attend. 

This event is made possible by the Alberta Culture Days Celebration Site grant. We thank the Government of Alberta for supporting this program.

Join us for Bletcher Hour, the Gallery’s monthly critical reading group. Readings explore key themes of the exhibitions and current events, with the intent to deepen our understanding of the artworks and their context within our community. 

This program is free to attend. Please contact Heather Kehoe, Program & Event Coordinator, to register. Readings are sent as PDFs in advance of the event. If you cannot make it in person, online attendance options are available.

Seniors (65+) are welcome at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin on select Tuesdays this summer from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for a free guided tour, art activity, and refreshments.

For more information, contact Bariyaa Ipaa, Outreach Coordinator, at bipaa@saag.ca.

Looking for a fun and family-friendly activity on a Saturday afternoon? Visit the Gallery for Crafternoon, a self-directed art activity in our Creativity Centre. This month we will be making paintings and drawings inspired by Amanda Chwelos’s exhibition Soft enough to slip through, on display in the Gallery’s Art Library. This program is free with admission. All supplies are provided.

Join us for guided tours of our Summer exhibitions. Learn more about the art and inspiration for the exhibitions through walking tours of the Galleries. Tours will run every Saturday from 1-2 P.M. from July until August. These tours are included with admission or free for members. No advance booking is required.