Art where you are

Convemed by stepahanie mei huang in conversation with Pearl C Hsiung, Maia Ruth Lee, Astria Suparak, Stephanie Syjuco, Hồng-Ân Trương, and Christine Tien Wang, host stephanie mei huang invites all to hear from six Asian women artists on reckoning with a racialized and gendered spectrum of visibility, moving through their practices with and of yellow embodiment, and the possibility of racial (or transgressively, non-racial) alternatives.

Join our current Collider residents on zoom for presentations of their ongoing projects, developed while In-Residence.

Yotam Peled is a Berlin-based freelance performer and choreographer, and current resident in Contemporary Calgary’s 2020 Collider In-Residence Artist Residency. The two-hour hybrid movement lecture and workshop, conducted via Zoom, and held at LAKE studios Berlin is part of Yotam’s residency research into how his interests and creativity are evolving in response to a now necessitated digital space and the ways in which this shapes his physical practice.

GIVEAWAY (comet emoji)—Enter to win a 3x5” cyanotype from Rocio Graham’s “Future Memories” series! Curious to know more about Rocio’s practice or interested in discussing you own artistic methods? The winning recipient will also receive a one-on-one zoom Q&A with the artist. Planetary artist Rocio Graham, invites you to participate in this week’s #FourWordsChallenge. Create an artwork of your own using Rocio’s four words—Universe, Dandelions, Germination, Night—inspired by her artwork FUTURE MEMORIES, on display in our Flanagan Family Gallery.

We challenge you to turn yourself into a sculpture. Draw inspiration from the classics or go contemporary and share your creations with us by adding #CCInstructionChallenge5 on social media.

Planetary artist’s Leah Petrucci and Mirelle Perron challenge you to produce an artwork using four words—clock, shadow, encounter and dream—inspired from their artworks Studies in Artistic Relations (#1 and #2) on display in our Ring Gallery. Use these words to help unleash your creativity and inspire an artwork of your own. Share your creations by tagging @ContemporaryCalgary on instagram using #FourWordsChallenge3.

LIVE! Monday May 4 — Friday May 8—At a time when we have to isolate ourselves, Stories from Here shares a collection of genuine memories from individuals near and far retold as true short stories.

This week we are asking you to create an abstract work of art that portrays your current mood using the medium of your choice! #CCInstructionChallenge4.

For the third edition of our #CCInstructionChallenge, we partnered with Elaine Weryshko from the Canadian Academy of Masked Puppetry and #Planetary artist, Tammy McDonald, who challenge you to make a non-medical mask.

Planetary artist duo Cîpayak ᒌᐸᕀ challenge you to produce an artwork using four words—Portal, Ceremony, Mêmêkwêsiw (one of the sacred little people) and Dream—inspired from their artworks Mêmêkwêsiw | Kahkakiw Nâpesis | Roogaroo (One of the sacred little people | Raven Boy, Trickster | Shapeshifter) on display in our Ring Gallery. Use these words to help unleash your creativity and inspire an artwork of your own. Share your creations by tagging @ContemporaryCalgary on instagram using #FourWordsChallenge2.

This week Contemporary Calgary challenges you to draw a self-portrait of you as an inanimate object. Share your creation by tagging us on instagram @ContemporaryCalgary using the hashtag #CCInstructionChallenge2.

Artist duo DaveandJenn walk you through how to make your own hinged, paper puppet of a praying mantis, teaching you all the steps you need to know to make your own cut paper creations for animation, puppetry or layered collages.

UK-based artist, Luke Jerram, speaks with Chief Curator, Ryan Doherty, about Museum of the Moon and draws parallels to his latest glass microbiological sculpture of the COVID-19 virus.

Planetary artists Cody Cox +Ali Ceaser challenge you to produce an artwork using their four words—Hotdog, Hands, Hold and History—inspired from their artwork Reach on display in our Ring Gallery. Each artist will offer four words to help unleash your creativity and inspire an artwork of your own. Share your creations by tagging @ContemporaryCalgary on instagram #FourWordsChallenge1.

Contemporary Calgary invites you to participate in our Instruction Challenge series. Check out our website and social media channels for a variety of creative instructions which encourage guests to make art during this time of physical distancing. Share your creations by tagging @ContemporaryCalgary on Instagram with #CCInstruction.

In conjunction with our Instruction Challenge we are delighted to partner with artists for our Four Words Challenge. Each artist will offer four words to help unleash your creativity and inspire an artwork of your own. Share your creations by tagging @ContemporaryCalgary with #FourWordsChallenge.