494: Collected Reflections

Exhibition Dates: February 3 - March 28, 2025

First Friday, March 7, 2025

Artist Talk and Performance at 6 p.m.
Gallery hours 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Reception 6 - 8 p.m.                                                                                                                      

About the Exhibition:                     

Celebrate the space and place of 10 women artists and their unique perspectives shown through a variety of artistic mediums. Having been shaped by - and in reflection of - their own stages in which they find themselves, these artists collectively bring 494 years of life experience and offer a rich tapestry of work that spans generations through a diverse use of media and ways of working including painting, drawing and mixed media, ceramics and sculpture. This exhibit highlights the strength of experience that each life stage brings while providing opportunity for community and connection through collected reflections.

Artists:

• Erin Boake
• Alysse Bowd
• Dawn Candy
• Dawn Detarando
• Teena Dickerson
• Carol Lynn Gilchrist
• Emma Guido
• Sheena McNiff-Wolfe
• Ruth Llewellyn Handford 
• Jen Pankratz 

About the Gallery:

The Viewpoint Gallery showcases original works of art by individual artists and collectives, and curated exhibitions. The gallery is in the lobby of the City of Red Deer Culture Services facility.  Visit our Viewpoint Gallery page for more information.

Address: 
5205 48 Ave (in the old intermediate school building)

Hours:
Monday to Friday: 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
First Fridays: 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
*Facility closed:  December 25, 2024 - January 1, 2025

Questions:
The City of Red Deer, Community Development
403-406-8820
culturemailbox@reddeer.ca 

Photo Credit:  Kaleidoscope #2: So Many Keys, 2025
Media: Altered photographs on photoluster paper

Glynis Wilson Boultbee

March 5 - April 30, 2025

First Fridays:

Gallery is open until 5 p.m. on Fridays.

First Friday Reception:     March 7, 2025 3 - 5 p.m.

Artist Statement:

This exhibit was created as I reflected on the experience (over several years) of sorting and packing up objects that my parents left behind after they died. This can be a challenging and sometimes mysterious endeavour. There are so many decisions about what to keep and what to discard and how. Some of these choices were straightforward. Some not so much. Why was it relatively easy to find new homes for things that others might value more than I did, while the prospect of throwing away a cache of bobby pins felt next to impossible? I am intrigued about what I found that I valued and why. In conversations with others, I have come to realize that this is a life experience shared by many.

I chose to honour these objects by photographing them and turning them into art. The first time I created a “kaleidoscope”, I used a photo of a pair of my father’s glasses. Since then, I have worked with a wide variety of other objects. Writing poems about them has helped me to process a time of grieving, while also allowing me to make meaning and find patterns in the experience of loss.

About the Artist:

Glynis has built her life and her work around creativity, the arts, and community. For years, she wrote poetry in response to the work of visual artists. Her poetry was also adapted in a play that she wrote and directed in 2010. In 2006 (at about the same time that she began training in the Expressive Arts), Glynis’ visual artwork began appearing in group shows and in collaborative exhibits with other artists. She entered the Visual Art Program at Red Deer College in the fall of 2013, graduating with a diploma in June of 2019. She is now taking independent study courses. Glynis is enchanted when she works in the sculpture studio. She enjoys creating mixed media installations that marry her writing with her visual art.

Glynis has a Master of Arts in English from University of Toronto. When she first came to Alberta, she taught at Red Deer College for seventeen years. For the next fifteen years, she travelled throughout North America as a consultant, while also teaching at colleges and universities and doing community development work in Red Deer. Glynis is happily married to Paul who is also an artist.

About the Gallery:

The Corridor Community Gallery is hosted by the City of Red Deer Community Development. This space, adjacent to our clay studio spaces, provides a public venue for local artists and allows us to share in the talents of fellow community members.

Address:

4501 47A Ave, downtown Red Deer (in the lower level of the Recreation Centre)

Facility Hours:

Monday - Thursday: 5:30 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday: 5:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sundays: 12 - 5 p.m.

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Questions:

For information on visual arts classes and programs offered by the City of Red Deer or to enquire about showing your artwork in the Corridor Community Gallery, please contact:

The City of Red Deer, Community Development
403-406-8820
culturemailbox@reddeer.ca