Edmonton: June 24 - July 5, 1994
Victoria: July 15 - August 28, 1994
"Eye to Eye"
In 1994, The Works Festival took the opportunity to present the Festival on two occasions. The Festival was first shown in Edmonton, but then traveled to Victoria, BC for the XV Commonwealth Games. The Alberta Part Art Society, producer of The Works Festival, was commissioned by the Commonwealth Games Arts and Culture Committee to set up 42 sites, representing 423 artists in Victoria during the Games.
Feature Exhibit: Goddesses
Art by Gudrun Klix, Ann Roberts and Michael Flynn.
Australian artist, Gudrun Kilx, through her use of red Australian clays, reflected her connection to the land. Creating from a figurative perspective, Klix marked suggestions of feminity rather than overt representations.
Photo Credit: Gudrun Klix,1993
Photo Credit:Tina Chang,1994
Formolo Dance Association
Performance at Edmonton City Hall
Featuring: Kokoro Dance & Alberta Performance Artists
(Sculptor Sandra Bromley's exhibit, Passages and Transitions can be seen in the background)
Barbara Borget and Jay Hirabayashi, choreographers in the Vancouver based Kokoro Dance Company, created a performance that was a fusion of Japanese Butoh Dance and Modern Ballet. It's name, Formolo was an experimental dance form that emphasized startling visual effects that emerged from expressive bodily movement.
Faces of Family Pride
Images provided by Shirley Shillinglaw and Emerald Aswanne.
Presented by Women of the Metis Nation, this juried exhibit, Faces of Family Pride was curated by Heather Shillinglaw to honour the International Year of the Family. This traveling exhibit was a positive reflection of Native heritage and displayed both the personal and spiritual aspirations of varied First Nations cultures.
Artists: Shirley Shillinglaw and Emerald Aswanne,1994
The Works “Eye to Eye” Featured Artist Exhibits
Alberta College of Art – “Glass of ‘94,” Manulife Place – Holt Renfrew.
Alberta Craft Council – “Re-incarnation (When Recycling meets Fine Craft),” Manulife Place; Alberta Craft Council Presents Gallery.
Alberta Society of Artists – “4 x 4;” “Letters from the Heart;” “Wild Things,” Manulife Place.
Ron Allen Lynxleg, Dale Auger, Emerald Aswanne, Radford Blackrider, Marina Crane, Reagan Dalseide, Marilyn Frasher King, Holly LaRocke, Joseph Lazore, Faith Lewis Adams, Fred McDonald, Art Napoleon, Celina Ritter, Don Robertson, Shirley Shillinglaw and Ernie Whitford, curated by Heather Shillinglaw – “Faces of Family Pride,” Canada Trust Building.
Robert Archembeau, Ryan Cameron, Janet Mansfeild and Chuck Wissinger – “Wood, Salt, and Life,” Commerce Place.
“Arts from the Arctic, A Circumpolar by Contemporary Artists and Craftsmen from Spami (Norway, Sweden, Finland), Russia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland,” Edmonton Centre.
University of Regina, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, curated by Douglas Barfoot and Jesse Bay – “Silk Roads,” Manulife Place.
Eva Bartel, David LaRiviere, Paul Murasko, Jean Nault, Greg Pretty, Christina Saruk Reid, Richard Tosczak and Angus Wyatt – “At the Rath Gallery,” Scotia Place.
Tom Belden, Gary Greenberg and Randall Schmidt – “The 1993 International Invitational Traveling Ashtray Exhibition,” Churchill Square.
Tom Belden – “Mirror-Mirror,” The Coffee Cup.
Kokoro Dance, artists Barbara Borget and Jay Hirabayashi – “Formolo Dance Association/ Celebrating the Environment Through the Arts and Kokoro Dance Present a New Creation with Alberta Performance Artists,” City Hall.
Keyano College, artists Carol Breen, Joanne Friesen and Ken North – “Multiple Originals,” Manulife Place.
Sandra Bromley – “Passages and Transitions,” City Hall.
Annual Canadian Glass Show, artist Carol Jane Campbell – “4th Annual Canadian Glass Show,” Royal LePage; rowles and parham design galleries
Nai Yu Cao and Nadine Stefan – “Form Construction/ Material,” Harcourt House.
Michael Caskenette – “The View From Here: An Unfiltered Look,” Scotia Place.
Ruth Chambers – “Fire Play,” Commerce Place.
Dick Der – “In the Rough,” Panini E. Vini.
Randall Fraser – “Throne of Wisdom,” Churchill Square.
Tom Gale – “Boreal Landscapes,” Café Select.
Gary Greenberg – “Installationette (Generic) 1994,” CHQT Building; “Foil Fired Vessels,” Westin Hotel.
Gary Greenberg and Randall Schmidt – “The 1993 International Invitational Traveling Ashtray Exhibition,” Churchill Square.
Glenn Guillet – “Five New Works,” Manulife Place.
David Hind – “Rhythmic Dissonance,” CHQT Building.
Gudrun Klix – “Terra R’ossa,” Commerce Building.
Adele Knowler – “Life Changes,” Edmonton Centre; “The State of Mind,” Select Restaurant and Bar.
Torbjorn Kvasbo – “Archests,” Hotel MacDonald.
Terry Leonard – “The Yukon,” Café LAGARE.
Ruby J. Mah – “Fire and Ice,” Rigoletto’s Café.
Phillip W. Mann – “Meditations,” Commerce Place.
Dierdre McCleneghan and Christine Wallwein – “Wallwein/McCleneghan Studios,” Phillips Building.
Janet Morton – “Ascension of the Good Businessman,” Manulife Place.
Grant MacEwan Community College, artist Kathy Neiman – “1994 Fine Arts Graduating Students Exhibition: Mixed Media,” Grant MacEwan City Centre Campus.
Alyx Nemeth – “Edged,” Manulife Place.
New Media Forum – “Photography is Dead,” Grant MacEwan City Centre Campus.
Randall Fraser – “Throne of Wisdom,” Churchill Square.
Barbara Pankratz – “Images of Woven Dreams and Stones,” Inn on 7th – A Courtyard Inn.
Public Participation Mural Project – “To Face the Forest,” Edmonton Centre, 102 Avenue & 101 Street.
Grant MacEwan Community College, artist Garth Rankin – “A Selection of Photography by Students at Grant MacEwan Community College,” Manulife Place.
Randall Schmidt – “With My Head in the Clouds and My Feet on the Ground,” The Coffee Cup.
Red Deer College Residency – “Rez ‘94,” Manulife Place.
Red Deer College Students – “Art and Design at Red Deer College,” Hudson’s Bay Centre.
Sculptor’s Association of Alberta – “Capture the Moment,” Manulife Place.
Nadine Stefan – “Form Construction/Material,” Harcourt House.
Mitchell Stuart – “Breathing a Molecular Ocean,” Manulife Place.
James Trevelyan – “Ice Fields,” Citadel Theatre.
Cyndy Warwick – “Nude Studies,” Commerce Place.
Western Canada Wilderness Committee – “Northern Exposure,” Centennial Library; “Springtime in David Thompson Country – An Artists’ Retreat,” City Hall.
Exhibits at Partner Organizations
The Alberta Society of Artists – “Flora Fauna Figures” Manulife Place.
Barbara Ballachey, David Bolduc, Hendrick Bres, Sean Caulfield, Adele Duck, Bill Laing, Barbara Milne, Collete Nilson, and Arnold Shives – “The Open Door,” Giordano Gallery.
Edmonton Art Gallery:
Curators Jeffery Black and Douglas Carlyle – “Architecture in Alberta: Sir Winston Churchill Square (Extension).”
Artists Charles Cousins, Allister McKiven, curated by Jeffery Black – “R.G.B. (Extension).”
Alex Janvier – “The Art of Alex Janvier: The First Thirty Years, 1960-1990.”
University of Lethbridge, curated by Jeffery Spalding – “Return to Paradise: Contemporary Views of the Land by Canadian Artist Selections from the Collections of the University of Lethbridge.”
“Thomas Bewick: 1753-1828.”
Harcourt House Arts Centre – “Naked II,” Harcourt House Arts Centre.
Theresa Marshall – “The Department of Indian Affairs,” Latitude 53.
masQuirx – “masQuirx: The Others,” Manulife Place.
Kent Monkman – “The Museum Show,” Latitude 53.