WATERSHED+ is happy to announce our new artists in residence. The collaborative duo Minty Donald and Nick Millar arrived in Calgary from the UK this past weekend and will be undertaking four weeks of intensive research around Calgary’s watershed. They will return in August for the second phase of their residency to create a new body of work based on their research.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Minty Donald is an artist and lecturer/researcher in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Her practice is context and not medium -specific, though ephemeral media such as performance, projected imagery and sound are frequently used in Minty’s attempts to explore our relationships with the spaces and places we build, shape and inhabit. She regularly works in collaboration with Nick Millar, currently focusing on human/water interaction. Recent projects include High-Slack-Low-Slack-High, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts and time/zones festival, Berlin, 2012; Lifeguard, Govanhill Baths, 2012 and Bridging Part 1, International Network of Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM), 2010.

Nick Millar is an artist with a project-based practice. He works frequently with Minty Donald and with other regular collaborators including Untitled Projects/Stewart Laing and Arika. Working with Minty Donald, his current practice reflects on human/water interrelations. Recent work includes Episodes 1 – 3 and A Survey is a Process of Listening, Arika, (production manager) 2012; Pass the Spoon, Magnetic North (production manager/designer) 2011; The Salon Project, Untitled Projects (production manager) 2011; High-Slack-Low-Slack-High (artist/technical consultant) 2012; Bridging Part 1 (artist/production manager), 2010.

Host Amery Calvelli interviews Tristan Surtees and Charles Blanc on CJSW’s space + place.
space + place is a radio program about architecture, the city, and the visual culture around us.

Listen on cjsw or with iTunes.

We’ll permanently host this interview on our website in the Community section under Links.

Watershed+ presents the first of three talks in Richmond, B.C. 2013 Lulu Series: Art in the City.
With the participation of artists, can urban infrastructure designs be re-imagined to renew the relationship between citizens and their environment?

Lulu Series: Art in the City
Wednesday, January 23
7:00 p.m.
Richmond City Hall, Council Chambers
6911 No. 3 Road

Watershed+  lead artist’s Tristan Surtees and Charles Blanc will be travelling to Lawrence, Kansas.   They will present the Watershed+ program and the Ralph Klein Park residency  in a discussion on global innovative  artist residencies and the potential of incubating arts programming at the Lawrence Arts Center.  

The talk will also include artist Yvonne Mullock, and the Lawrence Art Center’s executive director Susan Tate. 

For further information:
http://www.artsjoco.org/
http://www.facebook.com/events/447577801958062/permalink/447577805291395/

We are delighted to announce the first Watershed+ Artist in residence at Ralph Klein Park began working in the new studio last week. Rachel Duckhouse is undertaking a total of 15 weeks split in two periods, she will be making a new body of work, explore issues relevant to Calgary’s watershed, water management and the Ralph Klein Park environment.

About Rachel Duckhouse:

Rachel is a visual artist living and working in the UK. She studied at Leeds College of Art and Winchester School of Art and has been a practicing artist for 14 years. She now specialises in drawing and printmaking. Her recent etchings, screen prints and drawings are abstract, geometric works, that explore ‘how things fit together’. Rachel has exhibited in the UK and USA and her work has been acquired by various private and public collections including The British Museum.