WATCH: I Remember the Flood: Calgarians Respond
A roundtable discussion with Deeter Schurig, President and CEO of cSpace, Patti Pon, President and CEO of CADA, Sandra Vida, Artist and former Contract Administrator with Elephant Artist Relief Society, Larissa Tiggelers, Artist and Former Director of Stride Art Gallery, Frank Frigo, Leader, Watershed Analysis, Water Resources, City of Calgary, and artists and community leaders, Eveline Kolijn and Mandy Stobo.
Moderated by Katherine Ylitalo.
The roundtable is part of a series titled I Remember the Flood organized by Contemporary Calgary to explore the devastating impact of the 2013 Calgary flood on art and artists, as well as our community at large. Considered one of the worst and costliest natural disasters in Canadian history, we revisit the herculean efforts of local leaders and organizations in the art community. The series is dedicated to individuals, who in the midst of chaos, through sheer determination and ingenuity effectively contained the damage and loss to artworks.
The series is a public program of the two-part exhibition Everywhere We Are, that comprises several artworks damaged during the flood. The exhibition is co-curated by Contemporary Calgary and the University of Calgary Nickle Galleries.
MODERATOR
Katherine Ylitalo
Katherine Ylitalo was born in the settlement known as anaquashatanik to the Nacotchtanks of the area and grew up in various places in the world thanks to the diplomatic life of her parents. In 1986, she came to Calgary where she continues to work as a curator, writer, educator, garden historian and gardener. She experienced the flood and the time that followed directly as an instructor in the art department at the University of Calgary, the curator of the Bow Valley College collection, the wife of an artist whose work was in basement storage in the most severely impacted area of downtown, and a member of the arts Calgary community.
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