Visual Art: June 2012 Archives

Saturday June 23, 2012

Cartooning Calamities!

Cartooning Calamities! is an exhibition on at The McCord Museum until January 2013. 

The exhibition shows works by 16 editorial cartoonists. 

The "calamities" is a reference to the popular belief that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world or an apocalyptic catostrophe. 

The exhibition covers almost 150 years of current events as seen through the eyes of the cartoonists. 

Jeanette takes a tour with Terry Mosher, aka Aislin. 

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(Image by Terry Mosher, aka Aislin, courtesy of the McCord Museum)

Categories: Visual Art

 

Friday June 8, 2012

New Cree Cultural Institute in Oujé-Bougoumou

It's a weekend of celebration in Oujé-Bougoumou, a Cree community 750 miles north of Montreal. 

A beautiful new Cree Cultural Institute is holding it's grand opening celebrations June 7-9. 

This cultural centre has been a long time coming. Elders and community members have been working to make it a reality for more than a decade. 

Listen to Jeanette's conversation with Director of Programs, Sarah Pashagumskum.

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The concept of the building is modelled after traditional Cree dwellings. It was designed by architect Douglas Cardinal. Cardinal also designed the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, the First Nations University of Canada in Regina Saskatchewan, and many other buildings destined for use by First Nations people.

Listen to Douglas Cardinal's conversation with Jeanette: 

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The cultural centre comes at the right time, according to Matthew Iserhoof. 

He is one half of the Cree rock band CerAmony. (Pakesso Mukash is the other partner in the band.)

Iserhoof says with Jean Charest's Plan Nord, there is an increasing amount of pressure on the traditional culture and way of life of the Cree people. 

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Categories: Spoken Word , Visual Art, architecture

 

• October 2012
  • Tue., 2 – Arts organizations get creative with funding
     
• September 2012
  • Sat., 22 – The controversial history of La Petite Danseuse
     
  • Fri., 21 – Remembering Melvin Charney
     
• June 2012
  • Sat., 23 – Ads put car company under pressure
     
  • Sat., 23 – Cartooning Calamities!
     
  • Fri., 8 – New Cree Cultural Institute in Oujé-Bougoumou
     
  • Mon., 4 – Beyond Pop Art: Tom Wesselman
     
• May 2012
  • Sat., 19 – Are all the artists red?
     
  • Fri., 4 – Quebec City biennial examines man's relationship with machines
     
• April 2012
  • Wed., 25 – Judging Books by their Covers
     
  • Fri., 20 – École de la montagne rouge
     
• March 2012
  • Fri., 30 – Arts students in the protest movement
     
• February 2012
  • Sat., 18 – Gaëtane Verna has the power
     
  • Mon., 13 – Art by women in 2012
     
  • Sat., 4 – Wangechi Mutu at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art
     
• January 2012
  • Sat., 14 – Winter culture in Canadian art
     
• December 2011
  • Fri., 9 – Window Dressing
     
  • Sat., 3 – The Canada Notebook
     
• November 2011
  • Sat., 19 – New energy in the Quebec contemporary art scene
     
  • Sat., 19 – An art lover's dream job
     
  • Sat., 19 – Francois Rochon's private collection
     
  • Sat., 12 – Liberté! Liberté?
     
• October 2011
  • Sat., 29 – Scent Sculptor
     
  • Fri., 28 – Occupy Montreal
     
  • Fri., 21 – Farming on Film
     
  • Sat., 8 – New pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art
     
• September 2011
  • Sat., 24 – Art: What's the Point?
     
  • Sat., 17 – Daytrip to Joliette
     
• June 2011
  • Sat., 18 – Art à la table
     
  • Fri., 10 – SOS Richelieu
     
• May 2011
  • Sat., 28 – Masq'alors
     
• April 2011
  • Sat., 30 – Painting the Royal Couple
     
  • Sat., 16 – Marc Séguin
     
• February 2011
  • Tue., 22 – Corno's Art and Desire