Visual Arts

Yellow helium balloons with an eye symbol are spread out across an open landscape

Postcommodity's "Repellent Fence" Binds Two Fractured Cities Together

This October, a group of Indigenous artists in the southern United States completed their ambitious goal: using massive balloons to tie together two towns split

Don't Believe Anything Kay Burns Tells You

Kay Burns will lie to you. She'll mislead you. And, if you pay close attention, she'll show you the truth. The Newfoundland-based artist talks about mixing fact

Marlene Yuen, No Gold Found on Railroad (pg. 2) (2017).

Post-Residency Award Winner Announced!

Learn about the winner of our inaugural Post-Residency Award!

A set of tarot cards made by a workshop participant

Turning the Library Into a Tarot Card Parlour

Have you ever wanted to know more about tarot cards and how to use them? The idea of using the tarot as a jumping off point for creative expression inspired the

Many Ways to Be Lost

An essay by Walter Phillips Gallery curator, Peta Rake, included in our 2015 Walter Phillips Gallery Fall exhibitions publication.

Tyler Los-Jones, detail view of "held above our heads in stone" (2015). Fiberglass, foam, paint, glitter, dimensions var

held above our heads in stone: An Interview Between Tyler Los-Jones and Benedict Fullalove

Calgary-based artist Tyler Los-Jones discusses levitation, land art and artifice with Alberta College of Art and Design professor and art historian Benedict J.

Hiroaki Umeda performs Holistic Strata for Convergence at Banff Centre

Photos: When Art and Technology Collide

Over 300 guests, artists, and presenters packed Banff Centre for Convergence, an international summit on art + technology.

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