Since October 2012, Rachel Duckhouse has been working as an artist in residence through The City of Calgary’s Watershed+ program; this has allowed her to work closely with City’s Water Resources’ Water Services’ and Parks’ staff, sharing research, data and knowledge. 

The resulting works freeze the movement of water in time and space; her drawings are studies of the way particles move through landscape, eliciting questions around the architecture of our watershed.

DATE: Thursday, October 24

TIME: 6:00-8:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Kasian Gallery, Room 2145 – Professional Faculties Building A, University of Calgary

To hear more about Rachel’s work click here.

Rachel’s residency is supported by The City of Calgary’s Public Art Program, The City of Calgary’s Utilities and Environmental Protection Department, The City of Calgary’s Parks Department and has been hosted by Ralph Klein Park and Telus Spark.

You can visit the BOW FLOW Exhibition on display in the EVDS Kasian Gallery, October 7-25, 2013. Gallery hours are 8:30-4:30 pm, Monday through Friday.

We are very pleased to welcome Kevin Robert Perry from Urban Rain|Design for his first public presentation in Calgary. Kevin will present his approach to green infrastructure visioning and planning developed through his experience at the City of Portland’s Sustainable Stormwater Program.

His innovative techniques to retrofit the urban fabric with sustainable stormwater management uses the landscape to not only manage stormwater, but to also create highly successful urban spaces.

DATE: Friday 25th October
TIME: Coffee and pastries from 7.30, talk from 8 till 8.45 AM
LOCATION: Bow Room the Water Centre – 625 25 Ave SE, Calgary

Please RSVP to charles.blanc@calgary.ca 

Minty Donald and Nick Millar, artists in residence with The City of Calgary Watershed+ program during April, August and September 2013, will share some of their work-in-progress at an open studio event.

Minty and Nick have devised a series of participatory studies or actions intended to invite reflection on the essential liveliness and wilfulness of water and on the interdependency of every life form with ‘the universal solvent’. While not addressing directly the forceful display of water’s liveliness and wilfulness witnessed in Southern Alberta in June 2013, they hope that the actions/studies might resonate in relatively quiet but thought-provoking ways with some of the feelings and issues raised by the vitality of water

DATE
Saturday, September 28th
TIME: 11am – 4pm
LOCATION:
Glenmore Water Treatment Plant

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Walter Phillips Gallery presents a free drop-in workshop in the Bison Courtyard on the occasion of Alberta Culture Days.

Facilitated by artist Rachel Duckhouse the event invites visitors to combine various drawing and printmaking techniques to explore our relationship to elements of the natural world. Stemming from her research as an artist in residence with The City of Calgary WATERSHED+ program. Rachel’s work is inspired by the movement of water: a complex, multi-layered system quietly underpinning urban and rural landscapes.

Drop in from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Bison Courtyard, 211 Bear Street in Banff.

To hear more about Rachel’s work click here.

Our friends within the City of Calgary metal fabrication shop; graciously co-hosted the first CSIF/ WATERSHED+ screening. Staff was given a firsthand tour of the facility followed by a great night of films.

The films were a sampling from the Water Works film series coming up this weekend.