2012 2013 Yukon Arts Centre Gallery

Exhibition Guide & School Tours

Louise Hardy Pilgramige: The Lust of Greif Felt 2011

Education at Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery

The Yukon Arts Centre Public Gallery brings learning to life by deepening young peoples understanding of their environment, history, and culture thus impacting their own personal development. We aim to nurture the next generation of artists by introducing tools to foster visual literacy, encouraging students to find pleasure and meaning in art and to think critically about the array of visual images that surround them.

Free Family Art Classes—Kids Kreate Get messy, have fun, and learn about art at our monthly Kids Kreate art classes. Every Kids Kreate activity is specially tailored to respond to the materials and methods featured in our current exhibition. This family friendly event runs one Sunday per month between September and April from 1pm-4pm. Funding for Kids

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Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery Table of Contents

Exhibitions

September 6—November 3, 2012 3

November 15, 2012 - January 25, 3012 4

February 7 – May 4, 2013 5

May 16—August 31, 2013 6

Volunteer Opportunities 7

Learning Resources 8

Guided Tours & Curriculum Links 9-10

Booking a Tour & Guidelines for Teachers 11

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September 6 – November 3, 2012 Janelle Hardy hearts are meant to be broken Curated by Trousseau Society

Taking the concept of internal migrations within Canada as a launching point, Hardy uses miniature self-portraiture, photography, dance on film and a family tree mobile to explore concepts of self, home, loss, let-ting go, peeling back layers and the birth and death processes as ways of finding and discovering oneself. Of particular inspira-tion are fairytales, specifically Sealskin as explored by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and the poem One Art by Elizabeth Bishop.

Louise Hardy Pilgrimage: The Lust of Grief Curated by Trousseau Society

This series of felts began as a response to Hardy’s dreams during the last months of her husband's life and through the following eighteen months after his death. She was compelled to collect old wool blankets, mostly from the Salvation Army. These cloths became her "salvation's blankets' and represent ―renewal of the worn and weary‖ which is at the heart of the desire for pilgrimage. Salvaging discarded blankets, the shelter closest to our body, gave her comfort and ―a sense of recreating my tattered life.‖ She continues, ―Blankets are on the beds we make love in, the beds we dream in, so it would follow that lust would awaken me from the slumber of my grief.‖

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Mike Yuhasz Scenic City Sponsored by Great North Development Group Curated by Earl Miller

Mike Yuhasz relocated to Owen Sound, Ontario, in 2008, following 13 years in Dawson City, Yukon . Scenic City consists of a large series of digital photographs shot in and around the Owen Sound area. ―Scenic City‖ explores the town’s dystopic side: a disappearing manufacturing sector, economic decay, along with soulless monster home developments for the fortunate minority. There is a sense of nostalgia for indus-trial and even agrarian eras communicated through the rusted relics, peeling paint, and hints of pastoral calm. Though the images are from a specific locale, the scenarios they depict are playing themselves out all across small town North America.

November 15, 2012 — January 25, 2013 Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge The Elements Curated by Earl Miller

The Elements takes a number of artistic conventions and images and reimagines them in terms of contemporary concerns. The exhibition of the work of Condé + Beveridge brings together a series of projects that address issues of the environment, economics and politics.

Included in the exhibition are works on the four elements: The Fall of Water (the global politics of water based on a painting by Bruegel), Salt of the Earth (a black and white series produced in collaboration with migrant farm workers), UnderFire (a studio portrait of Greenpeace activists) and AIRwave (a 7.5 minute video based on Michael Snow's Wavelength) and a work on economics: The Plague (a portrait of the 2008 financial crisis).

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February 7 — May 4, 2013 Louis Couturier and Jacky Georges Lafargue Resolute Bay: The Daytime Journey in the Night Curated by Picardy Museum (France), Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art

―Resolute Bay‖ is a series of multimedia installations created in collaboration with residents of the second northernmost community in Nunavut. Facilitated by the artistic duo of Montreal-based Jacky Georges Lafargue and Paris-based Louis Couturier, the show investigates the psychic effects of physical displacement and emphasizes the creative potential of community groups living in isolated and sometimes harsh physical environments.

Don Weir An Ephemeral Light Curated by Mary Bradshaw

Solo exhibition of paintings by Atlin artist Don Weir. The minimalist canvasses in this exhibition are an exploration of the emotional experience that Light evokes in the human spirit in its purest form. Weir’s journey as an artist has been exploring and distilling the aesthetics of the visual experience down to its most basic form. Here he attempts to understand how beauty and the intensity of the visual experience give depth and meaning to our lives.

May 16 - August 31, 2012

Visual Arts Selection from Northern Scene

Curated by Mary Bradshaw A selection of artwork from Northern Scene will be on display for summer 2013. Artists and exhibition title to be determined. Northern Scene, presented by Canada’s National Arts Centre , is the sixth in a series of national Scene festivals celebrating and showcasing our country’s finest established and emerging artists. Northern Scene will invite more than 200 artists from Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik, and Nunatsiavut to take over the nation’s capital.

Northern Scene will present a vast living portrait of this unique region – combining traditional and contemporary, shaking

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Do you know of any high school students who might be interested in:

Careers in the arts (theatre technician, curator, educator etc.)? Meeting other members of the community with similar interests? Learning by doing?

The Yukon Arts Centre is more than just a place with art on the walls! There are several different ways volunteers can get involved at the Yukon Arts Centre. Volunteers are needed to help usher theatre shows, assist with gallery exhibition set up and take down, help out with our monthly family art classes and so much more. Volunteers will be given complementary tickets to use at the theatre productions of their choice. Interested? Contact Matt Poushinsky, Volunteer Coordinator, for more information matt.poushinsky@yac.ca or 667-8699

Volunteer Opportunities

Learning Resources There are many different ways to access educational activities at the Yukon Arts Centre in addition to guided tours. Youth Gallery The Youth Gallery displays the works of young Yukon throughout artists in a professional setting. Exhibitions are open to individuals, groups or classes. Please book in advance.

Art Library The Yukon Arts Centre Gallery Library contains catalogues, reference books and videos on local, national and international contemporary art. The Yukon Arts Centre and Arts Underground/Yukon Art Society have partnered and YAC has donated their art library to the resource room at Arts Underground. The art library can be accessed at the resource room in Arts Underground, 305 Wood Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2E7 or online http://www.librarything.com/catalog/YAC

Podcasts The Yukon Arts Centre Podcast Series brings you behind the scenes with artist interviews, public talks, studio tours, and all the latest news related to upcoming shows. Please check out our blog for current and archived podcasts http://yukonartscentre.com/

Virtual Tour of the Permanent Art Collection The Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery has a diverse collection that rarely gets seen. Unfortunately, our facility does not have a permanent space for display of the collection, and the art works spend most of their time hidden away from public view. To make these artworks more accessible to the public, the Yukon Arts Centre has created a online digital exhibition! www.collectionx.museum/en/exhibition/11042/2.html Explore the collection, curate an online exhibition and download lesson plans and activities.

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Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery Tour Summary

Comprehensive Tours These tours are designed to examine a broad range of concepts, regardless of what is currently on exhibit, while developing students’ critical thinking and discussion skills. Curriculum Links for Gallery Tours

Visual Arts Language Career Development Society and Culture

The Art of Discovery 45 minutes – 1 hour View all of our art work in one tour! Students will visit not only the current exhibition in the main Gallery, but will also visit the Community Gallery, Youth Galery and Sculpture Garden (weather permitting). This tour can also be combined with a visit to the Art Vault and Theatre. The Elements of Art 30 – 45 minutes Discover how artists use the basic elements of line, shape, color, light and texture to create works of art. This tour is a great introduction to the Gallery and to visual art. Yukon Artists 30 – 45 minutes Every exhibition features at least one Yukon artist. Students can find out how our local landscape, climate and traditions have influenced Yukon artists work as compared to the work of southern artists. Social Statement 45mintues - 1hour The visual arts define our culture and many artists choose to create work that comments on their surrounding world. This tour is geared towards social studies and language art classes and uses the exhibition as a stepping – off point for discussing contemporary issues.

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Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery Tour Summary

Fantastic Fox Art Gallery Tours 20 minutes Interactive fun in the art gallery for your K-4 group. See if your group can outfox Art Fox as he tells you everything he knows about Art. Sometimes he needs to be corrected--can you listen closely and help him get it just right? The White Glove Tour 45 minutes – 1 hour The Yukon Arts Centre houses not only its own growing permanent art collection, but the Yukon Government collection too. Students are invited into the Art Vault to see and discuss selected pieces in our collection and to discover what makes them so important in our community. Discussions may reflect on the conceptual, historical, and technical elements and how they comment on contemporary culture. This tour is specifically for older students or specialized art classes. Art Careers/Behind the Scenes 45 minutes-1 hour Gain knowledge about the variety of art careers that are available. We will take a behind the scenes look at how an art exhibition comes together, including the types of careers that are available to artists and those working in the visual arts/culture sector.

This tour can also be combined with a tour of the theatre. The theatre tour is given by the Technical Director and it allows the students to experience the theatre’s back stage environment – all the unseen but necessary elements which make a performance work. Students visit the sound and light booths, see the fly system, workshop, dressing rooms, green room as well as having general theatre terminology explained to them.

Please be advised that all tours are dependent on the season schedule and may not always be during available. It is recommended to book in advance.

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Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery Guidelines for Teachers

Please review with students Gallery etiquette.

We ask that you please: - Do not bring food or drinks in the Gallery - Leave school bags outside the Gallery - Do not run inside the Arts Centre - Do not touch any parts of the exhibitions - Turn off your cell phones - Respect the space and people within it. - Discussion and constructive criticism of the art work is one of the most fundamental elements in their Gallery experience, but students must respect each other’s opinions.

Book A Tour To book a tour or for more information about gallery activities please contact: Jessica Vellenga, Community Engagement—Visual Arts (867) 393-7109 or gallery@yac.ca Bus funding may be available for gallery tours. Transportation scheduling are the responsibilities of the school.

Visit us online at www.yukonartscentre.com