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TRANSFORMATIONS

The barren landscape of A.Y. Jackson’s A Copse Evening bears a motif often found in the artist’s war-inspired art – the broken limbs of the skeletal trees populating the scene represent soldiers killed or wounded on the battlefield.

Otto Dix, too, established a recurring iconography within his war-torn landscapes, with trenches and fissures in the earth signifying wounds and death, but also places of birth or rebirth.

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FROM OUR COLLECTIONS

Perhaps one of the most readily recognizable symbols of Canada’s wartime experience, the memorial poppy has been proudly worn on lapels ever since the immediate aftermath of the First World War. The poppy featured in the From Our Collections exhibition comes from the Haig Fund, which was

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Front cover: A.Y. Jackson, Lake Rouvière, 1961. © Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa/The City of Ottawa/The Ottawa Art Gallery

Above: A.Y. Jackson, A Copse Evening, 1918, Beaverbrook Collection of War Art Canadian War Museum

set up in Scotland in 1921 to support veterans through the sale of these poppies.

In Canada, disabled war veterans made cloth poppies through a government-sponsored program. Now managed by the Royal Canadian Legion, the poppy appeal continues to honour those who have fallen in war.

Above: Poppy, Haig Fund, ca 1920, Collection of Glenbow Museum

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8 shop Beautiful buys exclusive to the Glenbow Museum Shop

9 LAuNCh pARty The best art party in town

10 CALENDAR oF EvENts Your complete guide to Glenbow Museum for FALL 2013/14

MADE IN CALGARY: THE 1980S

In Great Moments in Sports V – It’s A Mighty Hard Job, John Will depicts a young curator (Jeffrey Spalding) as a net minder, set in the crease defending the honour of team Glenbow! Apparently, according to Will, the curator’s job was to keep as much art out of the net as possible.

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12 tALks & touRs Learn more about the art and the artists

14 spECiAL EvENts Programming inspired by our feature exhibitions

15 sChMANCy Our signature fundraiser

16 FAMiLy pRogRAMs Fun hands-on activities for all ages

18 FRoM thE pREsiDENt Donna Livingstone, President and CEO

19 NEw ACquisitioNs Recent acquisitions to our collection

20 upCoMiNg ExhibitioNs Exciting exhibitions coming this winter

WEEKEND AT THE MUSEUM

Our next installment of Weekend at the Museum will have your feet moving to the beat of the street with break dancing demonstrations and instruction provided by Dance with France Studios. Although break dancing is largely associated with the 1980s thanks to period films like Breakin’, the art form actually dates back to the early 70s when it was developed by African-American and Puerto Rican-American teenagers in the Bronx.

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Above: John Will, Great Moments in Sport V – It’s A Mighty Hard Job, 1980, Collection of the Glenbow Museum

Above: Ice Breakers break dancers at the Scotia Fashion Centre, 1984, Collection of Glenbow Archives

An exhibition produced by the Canadian War Museum, with the generous support of the National Gallery of Canada.

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feature exhibitionTransformations – A.Y. Jackson and Otto Dix explores how the First World War experiences of two well-known twentieth century artists shaped their landscape art and their concepts of national identity.

for his life’s endeavour to be a painter of Canada and a nation builder through art.

Not only was he an official First World War artist but he lobbied ceaselessly for the existence of a Second World War artist program and, as a Canadian War Records artist and committee member, largely selected the artists appointed. During the second conflict he founded a scheme to distribute tens of thousands of reproductions of Canadian art, examples of his own work included, to remind troops of what they were fighting for, while simultaneously contributing his talents to wartime poster design.

Like Jackson, Otto Dix’s artistic direction was shaped by his experiences as a soldier in the mud and trenches of First World War battlefields. Probably the best known twentieth century German artist overseas and in his own country, his artistic direction was influenced by movements including Expressionism, Futurism and Dadaism. Dix often turned to landscape

Drawing on rich historical and art resources, including works drawn from public and private collections in Canada, the United States and Germany, this groundbreaking exhibition of war-influenced paintings, drawings and prints reveals how this tumultuous period shaped the artistic output of both men. This resulted in very different, and often powerful, expressions of Canadian and German national identity.

The exhibition features nationally important artwork by Group of Seven member A.Y. Jackson and significant works (some never before seen in Canada) by famed German artist Otto Dix. The exhibition shows how war engendered strong nationalist feelings and attitudes to world conflict in the two artists, which they expressed in landscape paintings until the end of their lives.

As a soldier, A.Y. Jackson experienced Canada’s First World War successes and tragedies firsthand, which marked his emergence as a Canadian nationalist, providing the foundation

Left: Otto Dix Bahndamm, 1911. ©Estate of Otto Dix/SODRAC (2013)/Otto Dix Foundation, Vaduz

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painting to express his feelings about German identity, to depict war’s destructive impact on nature and humanity, and to mourn what he viewed as perversion of German nationalism during the rise of the National Socialist Party.

In 1937, Dix’s work featured prominently in the Nazi exhibition, Degenerate Art, and much of his artwork was subsequently destroyed. In 1939, he was briefly jailed and, in 1945, he was conscripted into the German army but was captured shortly afterwards. In the aftermath of the Second World War Dix continued

to return to the theme of war’s destructive impact on nature and humanity in his art.

Transformations explains how the brutal destruction Jackson and Dix witnessed as soldiers in the First World War influenced their landscape paintings, and explores how ideas about the birth, death and rebirth of nations in wartime contributed to their art.

Above: A.Y. Jackson, Vimy Ridge from Souchez Valley, 1918, Beaverbrook Collection of War Art Canadian War Museum

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Above clockwise: Gas mask hood, ca. 1916, Collection of Glenbow Museum; Poppy, Haig Fund, ca 1920, Collection of Glenbow Museum; Biscuit tin, 1917, Collection of Glenbow Museum

FROM OUR COLLECTIONS: WAR IN THE TRENCHES

sEptEMbER 7, 2013–JANuARy 12, 2014War in the Trenches echoes the themes of Transformations – A.Y. Jackson and Otto Dix by bringing together rarely or never-before exhibited artifacts and stories relating to several people and units that served in the First World War.

The landscape of the Western Front deeply affected those who encountered it. A member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, war artist A.Y. Jackson was one of over 600,000 Canadians who fought in the muddy trenches of France and Belgium, and were forever changed by the First World War. The objects from Glenbow’s collections

featured in this small but meaningful exhibition offer glimpses of that experience as shared by local men and women.

Like Transformations, War in the Trenches explores the war effort from perspectives before, during and after the trench experience in the form of recruitment posters, shells and mortars, flags, uniforms and one of the earliest memorial poppies made by Canadian soldiers.

War in the Trenches provides a glimpse of the material in our military history collection and provides complimentary insight into the ideas explored in Transformations: A.Y. Jackson and Otto Dix.


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Organized by Glenbow Museum; Curated by Jeffrey Spalding

The 1980s


understand the significance of the upheaval that marked the 1980s. In the 60s and 70s, the local art scene followed a steady evolution based on a kind of master-apprentice model with key instructors in the city imparting their vision to the next generation.

Meanwhile, a more rigid hierarchy was at play on the international stage with leaders of the modernist-reductivist school setting the criteria for what art should be – formal, austere and minimalist.

By the late 70s, though, artists began to question, and actively reject, the paradigms governing what was considered high art and began defining criteria for themselves.

“People start to embrace all kinds of different ideas about art that have seemingly nothing to do with what the main storyline is and they just break with it,” says Spalding. “It’s not a small jailbreak … it’s massive.”

The results, whether in ceramics, painting, sculpture and so on, were adventurous, expressive and singularly Calgarian.

“Calgary went from being a place that was very peripheral to a place that said ‘we might as well be leaders – we might as well do something new,’” says Spalding.

As Calgary soared to economic power in the 1980s, a maverick new energy in the visual arts also arose in the city.

“Calgary became truer to itself in the 80s – artists created things moulded in the Calgary spirit,” says Jeffrey Spalding, curator of Made in Calgary: The 1980s.

In discovering that spirit, Calgary artists found themselves reevaluating their conceptions of art, and, in many cases, reinventing their entire approach to the creative process.

A survey of just some of the individuals whose work is featured in the exhibition reveals how pervasive was this climate of change and exploration. In ceramics, for instance, important sculptors such as Mary Shannon Will and Gisele Amantea abruptly reversed course, with the former leaving behind the organic tradition that had defined her work for a more geometric approach, while Amantea took a 180 degree turn from representational work and produced pieces that were an onslaught of colour, pattern and stimuli.

Meanwhile, Chris Cran began to embrace what Spalding describes as “zany narratives” – as evidenced by his Self Portrait Watching a Man About to Shoot Himself in the Foot. John Will, the definitive master printmaker, stopped making prints in 1980 to allow himself the freedom to explore other avenues of art making.

Spalding says that one must look at both regional and international developments in the art world in the preceding decades to

Facing page: Chris Cran, Self-Portrait Watching a Man about to Shoot Himself in the Foot, 1985, Collection of Glenbow Museum

September 7, 2013–January 5, 2014

Made in Calgary is a five-part exhibition series that explores the character of Calgary’s artistic community from 1960 to 2010. Each exhibition will reflect the contributions of individual artists in the context of the social and cultural factors that influenced their work.

TALKS & TOURS

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DESIGNING WOMAN

MAkiNg thE MovE to CALgARy iN thE 1980s

If it’s one-of-a-kind jewellery you’re after, look no further than the Glenbow Museum Shop. We take great pride in offering unique, local pieces, like the work of Calgary artist and designer Louise P. Chong.

When Chong moved to Calgary from Vancouver in 1988, the talk of the town was the Winter Olympics, but beyond the bubbling excitement surrounding Calgary’s moment on the international stage, Chong observed that the local arts scene was also on the verge of big changes.

“The 80s were a time when the scene was being set for artists to flourish. You no longer were confined to your studio or an institution, but rather you could do your own thing,” says Chong.

Community participation in art was peaking when sculpture student Bart Habermiller moved into Graceland, a junkyard which covered three city blocks and existed as a place for artists to make and show work and stage collaborative performances.

“I was shocked I could work alongside these kinds of high caliber artists,” Chong recalls, saying that this era of an intimate arts community and its strong work ethic continues to inspire her.

Her Metro Calgary Cuff, for example, which is part of her larger Metro Cuff series, has the LRT line imprinted onto the chrome front of the bracelet, while on the back is Calgary’s signature white cowboy hat. The series takes the history of a city, as represented by its transit system, and imprints it onto metal. “This is not just about lines in the metal, it’s about history. Even then there’s that deep connection,” she says.

The Metro Cuff series, along with the bold Read My Lips series by Louise P. Chong are available exclusively at the Glenbow Museum Shop.

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Holiday SaleNovember 15 & 16


launch party

sAtuRDAy, sEptEMbER 14Join us for the best art party in town, this time with an awesome 80s/Weird Science vibe. Celebrate the opening of our latest exhibitions, Transformations – A.Y. Jackson and Otto Dix and, of course, Made in Calgary: The 1980s.

Partnering with Beakerhead’s Beakernight, you’ll see mechanical wonders on Stephen Avenue Mall in front of the Museum. Inside, local band The Mannequin Depressives will rock the house and Calgary-based noise musician Smoth will manipulate sounds, lights and even people with various forms of electricity before manning the DJ decks for a set of crucial 80s sounds. And don’t forget to wear your raddest 80s outfit so you can strike a pose in our portrait studio.

Plus: more musical guests and other surprises to be announced. Be there or be, like, totally square.

7:00 – 10:00pm Pay-what-you-can at the door, cash bar Please RSVP by September 13 to [email protected] or 403.268.4110

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SEPTEMBER S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

OCTOBER S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

NOVEMBER S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

DECEMBER S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

JANUARY S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Sept 7 FALL EXHIBITIONS OPEN Transformations – A.Y. Jackson and Otto Dix Made in Calgary: The 1980s

Sept 11 SPECIAL EVENT Science of Sound: an Exploratory Art Walk 7:00pm

Oct 10 TALKS & TOURS Out for Lunch: Made in Calgary: The 1980s 12:00pm

Oct 24 TALKS & TOURS Out for Lunch: Made in Calgary: The 1980s 12:00pm @ MOCA Gallery

Nov 1 SPECIAL EVENT The 80s on Film 7:30pm

Nov 2 WEEKEND AT THE MUSEUM Totally Tubular 9:00am

Jan 5 EXHIBITION CLOSES Made in Calgary: The 1980s

Jan 12 EXHIBITION CLOSES Transformations- A.Y. Jackson and Otto Dix

Visit www.glenbow.org for full details on this season’s events

Sept 14 LAUNCH PARTY Celebrate opening of our fall exhibitions

Sept 19 TALKS & TOURS Out for Lunch: Made in Calgary: The 1980s 12:00pm

Nov 3 WEEKEND AT THE MUSEUM Totally Tubular 9:00am


Oct 24 TALKS & TOURS In Conversation Panel Discussion Made in Calgary: The 1980s 7:00pm

for more information visit www.glenbow.org


MuSeuM HOurSMonday: Closed (September–May)Tuesday–Thursday: 9:00am–5:00pm Friday: 11:30am–7:30pm Saturday: 9:00am–5:00pm Sunday: 12:00–5:00pm

Library aNd arcHiveS HOurS

Tuesday–Thursday: 10:00am–4:30pm

reviSed SHOP HOurSMonday–Saturday: 10:00am–5:30pmSunday: 12:00–5:30pm

eveNt ticketS aNd bOOkiNGSPlease call 403.268.4110 or email: [email protected]

Nov 9 SPECIAL EVENT A Tour of Baroque Italy: Music & Art 2:00pm



Nov 28 SPECIAL EVENT Art for the Senses: Modern Art Cakes 7:00pm


Think Glenbow,it's Friday

Open Fridays until 7:30pm

talks & tours


SCIENCE OF SOUND: AN ExpLORATORY ART WALK

wEDNEsDAy, sEptEMbER 11Glenbow Museum partners with the Beakerhead Festival for an evening of art, science and engineering at multiple downtown locations. Science of Sound kicks off at the EPCOR Centre at 7pm for a discussion about the soundscape in their +15. The tour then visits the Art Gallery of Calgary and TRUCK Gallery for talks on their respective sound installations. The program culminates at Glenbow with a presentation by Gary Bunio on the use of sound in industry, followed by a performance from the National Music Centre’s Synth Jam, featuring vintage electronic instruments. Refreshments will also be available.

7:00–9:30pm For more information call 403.268.4110 or visit: www.beakerhead.org

OUT FOR LUNCH TOURS

Satisfy your appetite for knowledge with our special noon-hour programming. Join guest exhibition curator Jeffrey Spalding for three distinct talks about Made in Calgary: The 1980s.

12:00pm Members Free/General $5

MADE IN CALGARY: THE 1980S – THREE TENDENCIES FROM CALGARY

thuRsDAy, sEptEMbER 19 (sECoND FLooR Lobby) A survey of three art tendencies that predominated the art scene in Calgary in the 1980s.

MADE IN CALGARY: THE 1980S – FROM pOST-MODERN TO pASTA-MODERN: CALGARY STYLE

thuRsDAy, oCtobER 10 (FouRth FLooR Lobby) A discussion of the unique response of Calgary’s artists to the international wave of Post-Modernist style.

MADE IN CALGARY: THE 1980S – pApER CHASE

thuRsDAy, oCtobER 24 (MoCA)In the 1980s, artists aspired to spread awareness of their work by creating multiples: editioned prints and sculptures that could be shared with a larger number of people. Jeffrey Spalding discusses topics and approaches that arose in the field during this time. above: Harold Feist, Soft Array, 1985, Collection of the

Glenbow Museum; Ronald Moppett, Screen, 1988, Collection of the Glenbow Museum


IN CONVERSATION: pANEL DISCUSSION

MADE iN CALgARy: thE 1980s

thuRsDAy, oCtobER 24Guest curator Jeffrey Spalding and a panel of Calgary artists active in the 1980s discuss how local art-making was shaped by that transformative decade which saw expanding academic programs at the University of Calgary’s Department of Art and at the Alberta College of Art forming the backbone that sustained a burgeoning new art community.

The 80s also witnessed the embrace of pluralism in the Calgary art scene, with both established and emerging artists rethinking established conventions and art world hierarchies, and embarking in a multitude of divergent creative directions.

We’ll start the conversation in the Conoco Phillips Theatre before moving up to the second and fourth floor galleries to see the works in question.

Doors and bar service at 6:30pm Panel Discussion 7:00–9:00pm ConocoPhillips Theatre, Glenbow Museum Members $10/General $12 Call 403.268.4110 to purchase tickets.

BOOK LAUNCHES

Explore ideas from these newly released historical books and hear an excerpt read by the authors. Presented by Glenbow’s Library and Archives.

• Ranching in ‘God’s Country’: The Waldron Grazing Co-op by Doug Nelson

• Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park: Grass, Hills and History by Fred Stenson

• Development Derailed: Calgary and the CPR, 1962-1964 by Max Foran

Dates TBA Sixth floor, Glenbow Museum Check our website for more details: www.glenbow.org

Made in Calgary: The 1970s panel discussion


GLENBOW MUSEUM pRESENTS: THE 80S ON FILM

FRiDAy, NovEMbER 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29In the spirit of Made in Calgary: The 1980s, we’re screening definitive films of that decade every Friday night in November. So dig out those shoulder pads, tease that hair way up and come on down for fun movies and other surprises. Check www.glenbow.org for forthcoming details.

Doors and bar service at 7:00pm Film at 7:30pm ConocoPhillips Theatre, Glenbow Museum Members $10/General $12 Call 403.268.4110 to purchase tickets.

A TOUR OF BAROQUE ITALY: MUSIC & ART

sAtuRDAy, NovEMbER 9Embark on a rich cultural tour of Baroque Italy with authentic Baroque music by Phil’s Café – a four musician ensemble featuring the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra’s principal cellist, Phillip Hansen, two violins and lute. Guest speaker Tony Luppino, executive director of the Leighton Art Centre, provides added context with a discussion of the era’s vibrant music and art history.

Presented by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra as part of Festival Italiano, in partnership with Glenbow Museum, Phil’s Café and Leighton Art Centre.

2:00pm ConocoPhillips Theatre, Glenbow Museum Tickets $45 Visit cpo-live.com or call 403.571.0849 to purchase tickets.

ART FOR THE SENSES MODERN ART CAKES

thuRsDAy, NovEMbER 28Celebrated pastry chefs from the Blue Bottle Café at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art visit Glenbow to discuss their famous art-inspired treats. Plus wine pairings, tastings and much more.

7:00pm Second floor lobby Tickets $40 Call 403.268.4110 to purchase tickets.

special events

above: Mondrian Cake (vanilla and red velvet cake with chocolate ganache); Photo: Charles Villyard


schmancy

Support Glenbow at a night of art and culture and look fabulously posh doing it

SCHMANCY 2014The must-attend,

sure-to-sell-out event of the year

Tickets are $250 each and include one Glenbow Adult or Gift Membership

Limited number of 30-and-under tickets available for $95

Members exclusive pre-sale tickets available OCTOBER 3

General tickets available NOVEMBER 1

Visit www.glenbow.org/schmancy for more event details as they become available.

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family programs

ARC DISCOVERY ROOM

The ARC Discovery Room is the perfect place for visitors of all ages to enjoy hands-on activities and explore the ideas featured in Glenbow exhibitions.

The ARC Discovery Room is open daily during museum hours, but may be reserved for private groups and school bookings on weekdays. Please ask at the admission desk or call ahead for information.

The activities below will be available from September 7 to January 12.

LANDSCApE SCULpTURES

In a twist on the Transformations exhibition, make your own 3-D mini-landscape using pliable wire and plastic clay. Whether you opt for a colourful, Group of Seven-style tableau or a starker scene, in the style of Otto Dix, the end result will be all your own.

pOp ART pATTERNS

Brighten your day – and your walls. Using neon-coloured card stock, make simple but snappy pictures inspired by the work of 80s graffiti art icons such as Keith Haring and Frank Stella.

GRAFFITI COLOURING

We’ll provide a “tag” template; you add the juice in the form of a veritable rainbow of coloured markers.

ExpLORATIONS IN ART

There’s a lot to discover in the Made in Calgary: The 1980s exhibition, and our exploration guide offers amazing facts about Calgary and artists working in the city during the 1980s. Pick up an activity sheet in the Discovery Room and, once it’s completed, turn it in to compete for a prize. A great activity for the whole family.

The ARC Discovery Room is supported by:


Weekend at the Museum supported by

$32Family admission (Includes 2 adults & up to 4 youth) Free for members

WEEKEND AT THE MUSEUM

totALLy tubuLARNovEMbER 2–3Lock and pop to an 80s beat with break dancers from Dance with France, Calgary’s number one performance-oriented dance school. Their crew will wow you with their moves – and show you how to bust a few of your own! You’re going to want to look “fly” while doing so, and we’ll have denim patches on hand for you to bling out with glitter, gemstones and puffy paint.

Plus, an interactive performance by Calgary-based musician Smoth who will show you how to produce 80s-inspired music by manipulating light and sound.

All activities, workshops and supplies are included with admission or membership. 9:00am-5:00pm $32 Family admission (Includes two adults and up to four youth) Free for members Please visit www.glenbow.org for details

from the president


There is a sense of renewal as we move into a new season after the difficulties our city and neighbouring communities across southern Alberta faced this summer.

For us, as an institution, this summer provided the opportunity to truly exercise our purpose. We were pleased to offer meaningful experiences, a sense of place and a brief reprieve from difficult and wearisome times. Our staff, board and volunteers provided art and artifact preservation and salvage assistance to our neighbours, as well as lending a strong back, an extra set of hands and sometimes just an ear.

Most importantly, the summer’s experiences reminded us of the preciousness of the history and stories that are contained within our collections.

Our new fall season is all about sharing stories. Made in Calgary:The 1980s, curated by Jeffrey Spalding, reflects on a tremendously exciting period in Calgary’s cultural growth. The best part of the Made in Calgary series has been the conversations it is generating among several generations of artists, instructors, collectors, gallery owners, writers and students.

The parallel stories of how the First World War shaped the careers of Canadian artist A.Y. Jackson and German artist Otto Dix are explored in Transformations - A.Y. Jackson and Otto Dix, organized by the Canadian War Museum.

Our stories – your stories – extend beyond these great new exhibitions. Drop by the Library and Archives and discover the history of your house, your neighbourhood or your family. We are initiating a new program that invites older adults to explore the richness of our Archives and to write an article for publication on our website. We’ll help!

Glenbow continues to develop dynamic community partnerships that culminate in incredibly creative projects. This season we are excited to host events with Beakerhead, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and High Performance Rodeo.

Challenging events such as this summer’s flood break down barriers and remind us that we have a shared sense of place and who we are. Glenbow has been many things to many people over the years, but the events of the past summer reminded us that our greatest role is the repository of the community’s stories. Thank you so much for your support with this important job.

Donna Livingstone President and CEO

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

At Glenbow, we show things worth seeing and tell stories worth hearing. Glenbow supporters play a vital role in these stories. The impact of private contributions is significant as we raise 65% of our funding from people like you. Your support helps create unique arts and culture experiences through engaging exhibitions and programs, along with captivating educational encounters for over 50,000 school children each year. Every fall we encourage supporters to consider a financial contribution to help Glenbow make a difference.

new acquisitions


RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Following the successful Winter 2013 exhibition Fred Herzog: Street Photography Glenbow has acquired six Herzog photographs for our permanent collection.

The pieces, which date from 1958 to 1975, reflect a broad range of Herzog’s work, including: a Western store front in A1 Western 2, a street scene in Orange Cars, Powell, and anonymous subjects lost in their own world in the classic Herzog image, Man with Bandage.

Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1930, Fred Herzog immigrated to Canada in 1952, moving permanently to Vancouver shortly after, in 1953. He became interested in photography while still in Germany and he pursued that interest following his arrival in Canada. In 1957 he obtained a position as a Above: Fred Herzog, U.R. Next, 1959, Collection of

Glenbow Museum

medical photographer while at the same time developing his skills as a street photographer, focusing on the streets of Vancouver.

Herzog was one of the first photographers in Canada to use colour slide film, which at the time was associated with advertising and was not considered appropriate for art photography. It was only with the advent of recent technology that he was able to recreate in prints the intense dynamic colours visible in his transparencies.

These six photographs by Herzog are an important addition to Glenbow’s growing collection of contemporary and documentary photography.

upcoming exhibitions


WORN TO BE WILD: THE BLACK LEATHER JACKET

FEbRuARy 8 – MAy 4, 2014One of pop culture’s hottest symbols, the black leather jacket reads as cultural shorthand for cool. The exhibition, Worn to Be Wild: The Black Leather Jacket, showcases the history of the black leather jacket for the first time. Visitors will discover the different facets that have led to the iconic garment becoming a main staple in popular culture.

Jackets on display will range from historic garments and haute couture to those worn by superstars past and present. Movie memorabilia, advertising, original art and vintage motorcycles—including Elvis Presley’s 1956 K Model Harley-Davidson—provide a historical context in which to consider the rebel’s most defining piece of apparel.

Highlights include early 1930s–1940s jackets from the Harley-Davidson Museum® archives; Second World War-era painted military flight jackets; mid-century jackets from Schott Perfecto; personalized punk jackets from the 1970s–1980s; the leather jacket worn by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2; and leather jackets designed by legendary haute couture designers Jean Paul Gaultier and Versace.

Worn to be Wild: The Black Leather Jacket Organized by Harley-Davidson Museum©, in partnership with EMP Museum

Above: Punk Jacket, ca. late 1970s-early 1980s; Private Collection.

MADE IN CALGARY: THE 1990S

FEbRuARy 8 – MAy 4, 2014Guest curator Nancy Tousley brings the twentieth century to a close in the fourth installment of Glenbow’s five-part Made in Calgary series.

Tousley was the Calgary Herald’s Senior Art Writer from 1978–2010 and the Critic in Residence at the Alberta College of Art and Design from 2010–12. An independent curator as well, Tousley’s most recent major exhibition before Made in Calgary was The News From Here: The 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Alberta Gallery of Art in Edmonton.

The Made in Calgary exhibition series explores the character of Calgary’s artistic community from 1960–2010. Each exhibition reflects the contributions of individual artists in the context of the social and cultural factors that influenced their work.

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