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Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR - To Dec 18
The West has been claimed by settlers for a long time, first by farmers and ranchers, then gold diggers and oil prospectors, now by suburbanites and work-from-homers. And, of course, cultural theorists and curators. This show looks at more than just cowboys and Indians. Forty-eight modern and contemporary artists, o ffering a broader and more inclusive view of this region, try to wrestle the perspective back from the Euro-American historical accounts.
Racism is on trial, naturally, ... Read More
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000
Nickle Galleries, Calgary, AB - To Dec 17
Like ceramics, weaving is an age-old activity associated with the irreducible minimum of food, clothing and shelter. From time immemorial we have shaped clay pots to store our edibles and woven garments and roofs to keep us warm and dry. Automation has not eliminated these handmade activities but returned them to us as art and craft. Yet while interest in modern ceramics has boomed over the past 25 years, weaving, according to the curators of Prairie Interlace, has been ... Read More
New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest: Indie Folk
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA - To Jan 29, 2023
American folk art could be described as the o ffspring of homespun craft and rough-hewn primitivism, its vitality honed by generations of makeshift invention rather than academic tool-grinding. An exhibition at Bellevue Arts Museum celebrates Pacific Northwest “indie folk” art and music, highlighting the character of this region’s “unique artistic ecosystem involving craft traditions, pre-industrial cultures, and Indigenous and settler histories.” Many of the handmade artworks on ... Read More
Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding
Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC - To Jan 8, 2023
Out of Control is an innovative and engaging look at the intersection of skateboarding culture
and contemporary art. Installed across both floors of the Audain Art Museum, this huge exhibition defies the clichés, such as board graphics and graffiti, that the public might expect of “skateboard
art.” Instead, it features challenging works by 19 local, national and international artists and ranges across many forms and media, including video, photography, monumental ... Read More
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