Events
68th SSFA: Opening Reception
Join us for the opening reception of two new exhibitions!
Bring your family and friends along to view the 68th Student, Staff, Faculty, and Alumni Exhibition. This annual exhibition features works of art in a variety of media and showcases the creative talents of our Dalhousie and King's College communities.
Kim Morgan, RBC1 (2015) and White Blood Cell (2022). Photo: Steve Farmer.
Kim Morgan Artist Talk
Steve Higgins, A few unwanted species, 2021-22, mixed media. Photo: Steve Farmer
Auction: Unwanted Species by Steve Higgins
Unwanted Species is an online auction organized by artist Steve Higgins in support of the Indigenous Butterfly and Pollinator Garden located on the Dalhousie University campus. The auction will be held from June 27th to July 17th and all proceeds will be donated to fund the Garden.
The auction items include all 90 installation artworks of A few unwanted species by Steve Higgins, from the exhibition Plant Kingdom curated by Frances Dorsey at Dalhousie Art Gallery until July 10th, 2022.
Photo: Indigenous Butterfly and Pollinator Garden, Dalhousie University campus, September 2022. Photo by Camille-Zoe Valcourt-Synnott.
Performance: (de)composition with Ursula Johnson and Lisa Myers
(De)composition is a performance about longing for contact, using the existence of underground networks of mycelia as a metaphor. Their performance will consider ideas of connectivity that are explored within the Gallery, in the garden, and through other forms of plant life growing on the Dalhousie campus.
Apple tree in bloom, Indigenous Butterfly and Pollinator Garden, June 2022
Plant Kingdom: Curator Tours with Frances Dorsey
TUESDAY, JUNE 21 AT 11:00 AM *Gallery + Garden tour*
THURSDAY, JUNE 23 AT 6:00 PM *Gallery tour only*
Kallis demonstrated her weaving to DAG staff.
Upcoming Series: Online Weaving with artist Sharon Kallis
Free skillshare with a practising textile artist!
Kallis demonstrating her weaving to DAG staff.
Artist Talk with Sharon Kallis and the Legion of Flying Monkeys
Sharon Kallis will give an informal talk about her multi-year journey getting from seed to wearable garment, and her current bi-coastal weave-along, featuring East coast and West coast nettles and linens.
This event will be concurrently streamed via Zoom.
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SltAZ0oJSzemUPebTn7hRw
After the talk, Plant Kingdom artist David Gowman and his band The Legion of Flying Monkeys will be doing a short set in the gallery!
A variety of materials used in Kallis' artistic practise. Photo courtesy of Sharon Kallis.
Performance: Nettle Spinning Circle
Come enjoy the new exhibition Plant Kingdom and join us in the Sculpture Court (Arts Centre, floor 2) to observe a nettle spinning learning circle hosted by artist Sharon Kallis. She will be sharing fibre processing and spinning techniques with the volunteers who aided in her project by harvesting and processing stinging nettle from TapRoot farms in the Autumn of 2021.
