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Feature Gallery - Edmonton
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Feature Gallery
The Alberta Craft Council operates the only public galleries in the province dedicated to exhibiting Craft and is Edmonton’s second largest public gallery. The Feature Gallery hosts 3+ exhibitions per year.
10186 - 106 Street
Free Parking & Admission

Discovery Gallery
The Discovery Gallery is dedicated to showing new work by established and emerging fine craft artists as well as small group exhibitions.  The Discovery Gallery features 7+ exhibitions per year.
10186 - 106 Street
Free Parking & Admission

Calgary Gallery
The Alberta Craft Gallery - Calgary is located in cSPACE King Edward.  The gallery showcases both Feature and Discovery Gallery exhibitions and is on an 8-week rotation. 
1721 - 29 Avenue SW
Street Parking & Free Admission

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In the Red: creation from deficit

Paul Boultbee (Red Deer, AB)

Janson’s History of Art is considered by many to be the definitive text on the evolution of Western art. Its several editions have been used for decades as a text in any number of history of art courses. Cutting the images from this text highlights the losses we suffer when art and the funding that helps support it is cut from our lives and our livelihoods. Not all the images have been totally excised from this volume. Some partial images are still visible because sometimes arts funding isn’t completely cut. Sometimes partial funding remains. And what good does that do us? “At least you’ve got something,” we are told. “Something’s better than nothing!” Sometimes ‘something’ just shows us what we’re missing. Sometimes ‘something’ just isn’t good enough. The holes left after the images have been cut are there to remind us of the holes that funding cuts have left in our communities – the galleries that close, the art stores that suffer, the artists who despair.

Cuts to the Arts
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Photo Credit: L. O'Connor