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Art of the Book 2013

Karen Kunc, Fractured Terrain
Karen Kunc, Fractured Terrain

November 22, 2013 – March 24, 2014

Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)

Art of the Book 2013 both embodies and defies the traditional definition of what a book can be. The content ranges from calligraphy to blackout poetry, while the books take on imaginative forms such as luggage-style tags or DNA’s double helix. Drawing from ancient techniques, the artists have represented a full history of book making, including the modern e-book. Organized by the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, this 30th anniversary juried exhibit features award winning work from some of the best makers in Canada and the United States.

A companion exhibit of the 31st annual Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada is featured in the adjacent McPherson Library Special Collections Reading Room from October 28 – November 29.

Events:

On November 25, 2013 an opening reception was held to great success. Two local CBBAG members gave a guided tour of the exhibition and Caroline Riedel spoke about the exhibition.

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Symbols of Living In-Between: Re-stor(y)ing Life Within Life-Threatening Illness

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April 13 – June 4, 2012

Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)

Curated Robbyn Gordon Lanning

Explores people living with three life-threatening illnesses (HIV/AIDS, cancer, and chronic kidney disease) and how they represent their experiences through symbols.

Advances in science and healthcare have allowed people with life-threatening illnesses to live longer and healthier lives. But the outcomes of treatment are uncertain and the experience of living in-between a promise of prolonged life, and the possibility of illness reoccurring and progressing, is often misunderstood.

Thirty-two people diagnosed with a life-threatening illness (cancer, chronic kidney disease, and HIV/AIDS) volunteered for an interview. They were asked to identify a symbol that represented their experience with their diagnosed illness. Symbols of living in-between: Re-stor(y)ing life within life-threatening illness is the collective effort from a team of nurse researchers seeking new insights into the experiences of individuals that live with the uncertainty of a serious illness.

This exhibit shares a selection of these important images and stories with the public. Symbols range from personal objects and medical documents to favourite music, clothing, and family photographs. Narratives from the participants and poems produced by the research team accompany the stories of these individuals living with a life-threatening illness.  The symbols and narratives highlight how living with a life-threatening illness is much more than a “medical story.”

Symbols of living in-between: Re-stor(y)ing life within life-threatening illness is a travelling exhibit and will be displayed in multiple spaces from galleries to healthcare facilities. This exhibit is part of a larger study entitled Re-stor(y)ing Life Within Life-Threatening Illness.  The Re-stor(y)ing project has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).  KRESCENT and the Kidney Foundation of Canada has provided additional support.

Art of the Book 2008

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The Lord God Made Them All, Cathy Berg, 2007

October 16, 2010 – January 5, 2011

Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)

Curated by Susan Corrigan and Shelagh Smith

This traveling exhibit, presented by the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, features 78 works by 70 artists from Canada, the United States and Japan. The Art of Book ’08 celebrates the 25th anniversary of the CBBAG and marks their fifth juried exhibition.

The range of work is from the traditional to cutting edge contemporary. The depth of exploration and experimentation of contemporary book arts is amply exemplified. The result makes for a visually interesting, intellectually stimulating, and a very exciting exhibition. The book’s iconic role in society, along with its distinctly material, physical, ‘objectness’, has attracted practitioners from a broad range of disciplines. The cross-fertilization that results is unique.

“A main goal of the Art of the Book exhibitions is to acquaint the public with what the book arts are, how diverse the work is within the book arts, and the high level of work being done – aesthetically, technically, and conceptually,” says co-curator of the exhibition Susan Corrigan.

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Artists at Work

 

Don Yeomans, Ulli Steltzer, 1975

Don Yeomans, Ulli Steltzer, 1975

February 20 – June 1, 2007

Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)

Curated by Caroline Riedel and Kerry Mason

This exhibit showcased a selection of photographs from the book Indian Artist at Work (1977) by Ulli Steltzer. The photos were displayed at both the University of Victoria and the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico. The exhibit showed this photographs as a teaching collection of Dr. Steltzer’s work in the 1970s and offers a glimpse of the inspirational artistic activities and interests of some of the Indigenous people in British Columbia.

About the photographer: Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Ulli Steltzer emigrated to the United States to teach music. Later she was asked by the New Jersey Department of and Industry to document conditions of migrant workers, and thus began her career of photography. After years in Chicago, Atlanta and the southwest United States she moved to Vancouver in 1972. While she captured many Native peoples here in Canada, she has also found time to study the Mayans in Guatemala, the Naxi of Yunnan Province in China, and the New Immigrants of California.

Drawing Resistance: A Travelling Political Art Show

October 20 – November 28, 2003

Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery

Curated by Dr Allan Antliff

Exhibition of two dimensional artwork by contemporary art/activists from across North America. This content-based show speaks to the anti-globalization movement, working class rights, the destruction of the environment, corporate control, police brutality, homelessness gentrification and the Zapatista liberation movement in Mexico.

Like a band on tour, Drawing Resistance is travelling across Canada, the United States and Mexico in a van until 2005. The show has no funding and relies solely on the communities hosting the show to transport it to the next site.

Art of the Book 2003

September 19 – November 2, 2003

Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)

This was the fourth juried members’ exhibit by the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild. Among dozens of books exhibited, there were miniature books, pop-ups, cut-outs, three dimensional architecture, and hand bound books.

Its a convergence of modern art and traditional bookmaking.

-Gayle Garlock, Friends of UVic Libraries

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The Gordon Head Lands: A Photographic History

April 15 – April 24, 2003

May 27 – June 1, 2003

Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPherson Library)

This was the result of an ambitious research project to create a travelling exhibit on the history of the university campus lands. The exhibit is a chronological study of the various occupants and uses of the land before it became a modern university campus in 1963.

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A History of the Gordon Head Campus Land from 11,000 BC to 1970 AD

September 24 – October 29, 1999

Legacy Maltwood (at Mearns Centre – McPerson Library)

The result of an ambitious research project to create a travelling exhibit on the history of the university campus lands. The exhibit is a chronological study of the various occupants and uses of the land before it became a modern university campus in 1963.

The exhibit is composed of a election of maps, historical and contemporary photographs and drawings gathered from private donors and national archives and museums. Beginning with the most recent ice age in B.C., the exhibit examines the area’s natural history, reconstructs the lifestyle of the Songhees people, documents the arrival of the Hudson’s Bay Company and describes the hardships of early settlers through personal accounts and photographs.

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Federation of Canadian Artists: 1998

October 2 – November 2, 1998

McPherson Library Gallery

A biennial exhibition produced by the Lower Vancouver Island Chapter of the Federation of Canadian Artists, including 53 works by 32 local artists and the three jurors. The artists included Nancy Blake, Marian Duke, Mark Nyhof, Winnifred Smith and Marney Ward.

A History of the Gordon Head Campus Land from 11,000 BC to 1970 AD

January 6 – January 26, 1998

McPherson Library Gallery

The result of an ambitious research project by the University of Victoria Archives to create a travelling exhibit on the history of the university campus lands. The exhibit is a chronological study of the various occupants and uses of the land before it became a modern university campus in 1963.

The exhibit is composed of a election of maps, historical and contemporary photographs and drawings gathered from private donors and national archives and museums. Beginning with the most recent ice age in B.C., the exhibit examines the area’s natural history, reconstructs the lifestyle of the Songhees people, documents the arrival of the Hudson’s Bay Company and describes the hardships of early settlers through personal accounts and photographs.

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Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition: Okanagan University/College

September 24 – November 5, 1995

Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery

A travelling exhibition of works by faculty members of the Fine Arts Department of the Okanagan University/College. The works celebrate the strengths, individualism and diversity of the faculty members.

Artists represented are: Robert Belton, Briar Craig, Johann Feught, Murray Johnson, Byron Johnston, Jim Kalnin, Barbara Leidl, Maureen Lisle, Ruth MacLaurin, Mary Smith McCulloch, Gary Pearson, Frank Poll, Bryan Ryley, Richard Suarez, Jim Tanner, and Michael Young,

Zeit/Worte (Words of Their Time)

February 22 – March 4, 1994

McPherson Library Gallery

This exhibition features catchwords from the German past produced by the Goethe Institute (a branch of the German Forces Office, comparable to the British Council).

The exhibition highlighted 11 different phrases, with short and long explanations. Phrases included Die68er – The Generation of ’68; Die Ostpolitik – Eastern Policy; and Eurovision.