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SUMMARY:Artist Talk & Closing Reception with Mohammad Tabesh
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Closing Reception to celebrate The Book of Fading Memories by Mohammad Tabesh\n  \nMohammad will be joining via a Zoom live-stream\, and light refreshments will be provided. \nIn person attendance is encouraged\, and folks may also join online if they are unable to attend. \nThe Artist Talk will begin shortly after 7pm\, followed by the reception until 9pm. \n  \nAttending online? Register your attendance HERE. \n  \nThis event is FREE and all are welcome. \n\nAbout the Exhibition:\nGrowing up in Iran\, the highly political atmosphere of society and the constant turmoil in the region manifested themselves in Mohammad Tabesh’s memories. He remembers the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88\, including mass arrests of political activists\, widespread imprisonments and executions with no fair trial. The Orwellian censorship imposed on his generation and the continuous religious propaganda experienced throughout his early education have made him a vigilant observer of the intimate moments between horror and humour. As a storyteller\, he strives to find a common language to share the stories of resistance and perseverance. \nIn this work\, The Book of Fading Memories\, Tabesh collects some of his memories of war\, violence and censorship into a hand-printed\, limited-edition artist’s book. Each story is told from two parallel viewpoints. While a poem portrays how he sees the event today\, an image illustrates his perspective as a child on the opposite page. Tabesh’s approach to writing poetry is brief and honest. By abandoning description and providing the essential elements\, he invites readers to envisage these memories through their own eyes. Broken verses encourage them to live the experience instead of merely reading the stories. Tabesh has developed a narrative visual language through tracing\, line drawing\, and a bande dessinée or graphic novel approach. \nMohammad Tabesh (he/him) is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose work delves into the complexities of the human experience\, resistance\, and social change. Across various media\, including writing\, printmaking\, multimedia\, and sculpture\, Tabesh strives to convey profoundly human and universal stories. As an artist\, Tabesh is committed to using his work as a vehicle for social change\, encouraging viewers to engage with his pieces personally and creatively. With a unique ability to blend the personal and political\, his work offers a powerful commentary on the human condition. \nTabesh’s work has been recognized with several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, the Toronto Arts Council\, and the Access Copyright Foundation. An engineer-turned-artist\, he earned his BFA from OCAD University and was honoured as the recipient of the university’s Sculpture and Installation Medal in 2020. He has been an Artist-in-Residence for ceramics at Harbourfront Centre since 2022. \n\nVisitor Information:\nNew to the A/P space? Welcome! \nHere’s a helpful guide to visiting the A/P Gallery\, Studio\, and Events \n  \nHours and Location: \nA/P Main Gallery Hours: Wednesday from 10am – 5pm; Thursday – Saturday from 10am – 5pm (closed Sunday\, Monday\, and Tuesday) \n  \nAccessibility:  \nA/P is located near the 39th Ave. C-Train Station and has free parking stalls located in front of the building\, as well as street parking nearby.  \nThere is an access ramp at the east end of the building (near the Hitch Shop)\, and A/P is equipped with an accessible gender neutral washroom. \nWe do our best to accommodate the needs of our visitors whenever possible. \nWe welcome your questions and are committed to working with our members and guests to have a great visit when you are here! \n\n  \nInclusivity and code of conduct: \nA/P’s cultivates an inclusive and collaborative environment to learn about printmaking\, to create printed works\, and to pursue exciting artistic opportunities. \nA/P operates by a code of conduct with an expectation of promoting dignity and respect to all\, and we prioritize individual and community safety.  Any form discriminatory behaviour\, intimidation\, bullying\, harassment or victimization is not tolerated. 
URL:https://albertaprintmakers.com/event/artist-talk-closing-reception-with-mohammad-tabesh/
LOCATION:A/P Gallery and Studio\, 460 42 Avenue SE\, Calgary\, Alberta\, T2G 1Y5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk & Closing Reception with Mohammad Tabesh
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Closing Reception to celebrate The Book of Fading Memories by Mohammad Tabesh\n  \nMohammad will be joining via a Zoom live-stream\, and light refreshments will be provided. \nIn person attendance is encouraged\, and folks may also join online if they are unable to attend. \nThe Artist Talk will begin shortly after 7pm\, followed by the reception until 9pm. \n  \nAttending online? Register your attendance HERE. \n  \nThis event is FREE and all are welcome. \n\nAbout the Exhibition:\nGrowing up in Iran\, the highly political atmosphere of society and the constant turmoil in the region manifested themselves in Mohammad Tabesh’s memories. He remembers the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88\, including mass arrests of political activists\, widespread imprisonments and executions with no fair trial. The Orwellian censorship imposed on his generation and the continuous religious propaganda experienced throughout his early education have made him a vigilant observer of the intimate moments between horror and humour. As a storyteller\, he strives to find a common language to share the stories of resistance and perseverance. \nIn this work\, The Book of Fading Memories\, Tabesh collects some of his memories of war\, violence and censorship into a hand-printed\, limited-edition artist’s book. Each story is told from two parallel viewpoints. While a poem portrays how he sees the event today\, an image illustrates his perspective as a child on the opposite page. Tabesh’s approach to writing poetry is brief and honest. By abandoning description and providing the essential elements\, he invites readers to envisage these memories through their own eyes. Broken verses encourage them to live the experience instead of merely reading the stories. Tabesh has developed a narrative visual language through tracing\, line drawing\, and a bande dessinée or graphic novel approach. \nMohammad Tabesh (he/him) is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose work delves into the complexities of the human experience\, resistance\, and social change. Across various media\, including writing\, printmaking\, multimedia\, and sculpture\, Tabesh strives to convey profoundly human and universal stories. As an artist\, Tabesh is committed to using his work as a vehicle for social change\, encouraging viewers to engage with his pieces personally and creatively. With a unique ability to blend the personal and political\, his work offers a powerful commentary on the human condition. \nTabesh’s work has been recognized with several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, the Toronto Arts Council\, and the Access Copyright Foundation. An engineer-turned-artist\, he earned his BFA from OCAD University and was honoured as the recipient of the university’s Sculpture and Installation Medal in 2020. He has been an Artist-in-Residence for ceramics at Harbourfront Centre since 2022. \n\nVisitor Information:\nNew to the A/P space? Welcome! \nHere’s a helpful guide to visiting the A/P Gallery\, Studio\, and Events \n  \nHours and Location: \nA/P Main Gallery Hours: Wednesday from 10am – 5pm; Thursday – Saturday from 10am – 5pm (closed Sunday\, Monday\, and Tuesday) \n  \nAccessibility:  \nA/P is located near the 39th Ave. C-Train Station and has free parking stalls located in front of the building\, as well as street parking nearby.  \nThere is an access ramp at the east end of the building (near the Hitch Shop)\, and A/P is equipped with an accessible gender neutral washroom. \nWe do our best to accommodate the needs of our visitors whenever possible. \nWe welcome your questions and are committed to working with our members and guests to have a great visit when you are here! \n\n  \nInclusivity and code of conduct: \nA/P’s cultivates an inclusive and collaborative environment to learn about printmaking\, to create printed works\, and to pursue exciting artistic opportunities. \nA/P operates by a code of conduct with an expectation of promoting dignity and respect to all\, and we prioritize individual and community safety.  Any form discriminatory behaviour\, intimidation\, bullying\, harassment or victimization is not tolerated. 
URL:https://albertaprintmakers.com/event/artist-talk-closing-reception-with-mohammad-tabesh-2/
LOCATION:A/P Gallery and Studio\, 460 42 Avenue SE\, Calgary\, Alberta\, T2G 1Y5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past,Event Past
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk & Opening Reception with Jenie Gao
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Opening Reception to celebrate The Integrity of a Story by Jenie Gao\n  \nJenie Gao will be in attendance\, and will be providing a hybrid in-person and online artist talk during this opening reception to celebrate their exhibition: The Integrity of a Story.  \nLight refreshments will be provided. \nIn person attendance is encouraged\, and folks may also join the artist talk online if they are unable to attend. \nThe Artist Talk will begin at 7pm\, followed by the reception until 9pm. \n  \nAttending online? Register your attendance HERE. \n  \nThis event is FREE and all are welcome. \n\nAbout the Exhibition:\n“My mother lives in a rural area of Kansas\, threatened in recent years by encroaching suburbanization. Since 2024\, my spouse and I have taken turns visiting my mother to help her with house repairs and to assert our presence to overly inquisitive realtors and developers eager to displace older residents. \nThe centrepiece of this exhibition is a TV tray table in my mother’s home\, where we share our meals. In this modest and intimate setting\, my mother steps into one of her most profound roles as our family’s knowledge keeper. Her stories—simultaneously historical\, allegorical\, almost mythic\, and sometimes prophetic—come alive. \nIn one story\, my mother explains how she sees herself\, brave and capable of doing things alone. When she was a child in Taiwan\, her family rented her a third-story bedroom separate from their first floor flat. Every night\, she had to ascend the staircase outside into the mountains under the watchful eyes of mountain lions. \nThe works in this exhibition capture moments when my mother’s stories are suspended between a child’s imagination and an elder’s recollection\, one in which there might truly have been lions in Taiwan’s mountains\, or perhaps an elusive Clouded Leopard before habitat loss caused them to die out and disappear. The tension of disappearance in these stories alludes to the repeated displacement my own family members\, who have lost their homes to multiple occupying governments across generations. \nThe mountain lions of my mother’s childhood ended up being feral cats. Yet for a moment\, as she passes her stories to my stewardship and safekeeping\, the common becomes mythic. \nVia this work\, I interweave the personal and political\, to strengthen local-global perspectives of colonization. I share my family’s stories as a frame through which we can better understand one another as different peoples connected through shared struggles—and shared imaginings for something beyond what our stories seem to be.” \nJenie Gao (they/she) has run an anti-gentrification arts business since 2014\, specializing in printmaking\, public art\, social practice\, and community storytelling. They consult for cultural organizations and the public sector on equity and ethics. \nJenie pulls from experiences as a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American and a descendant of working class immigrants. Prior to founding their business\, Jenie worked in the museum industry\, public education\, and lean manufacturing. Through their cross section of experiences\, Jenie has become attuned to issues of artists’ labour\, cultural power\, and institutional accountability. They run a paid apprenticeship program and have thus far mentored 25 emerging artists. \nJenie has a BFA in Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Their work is in 40 institutional collections including Bainbridge Island Museum of Art\, Bowdoin College\, Cornell University\, Stanford University\, and the Library of Congress. Their recent exhibits include Museum of Wisconsin Art\, Trout Museum of Art\, Burnaby Village Museum\, Cedarburg Museum\, and South Bend Museum of Art. Their work has been included in publications such as PBS\, Shoutout LA\, and Fête Chinoise. Their art residencies include Women’s Studio Workshop in Kingston\, New York; Art in the Park with Vancouver Board of Parks & Recreation: Decolonization\, Art\, & Culture; Ma’s House in the Shinnecock Reservation in Southampton\, New York; Iowa Lakeside Laboratory in Okoboji\, Iowa; the Bubbler at Madison Public Library in Madison\, Wisconsin; Artist Campaign School in Chicago\, Illinois; Proyecto’ace in Buenos Aires\, Argentina; and Museo de Arte Moderno in Chile. They are a TEDx Madison speaker and gave a talk entitled The Power and Purpose of Creativity. \nJenie Gao is the recently appointed Executive Director of Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. They live on the unceded lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. \n\nVisitor Information:\nNew to the A/P space? Welcome! \nHere’s a helpful guide to visiting the A/P Gallery\, Studio\, and Events \n  \nHours and Location: \nA/P Main Gallery Hours: Wednesday from 10am – 5pm; Thursday – Saturday from 10am – 5pm (closed Sunday\, Monday\, and Tuesday) \n  \nAccessibility:  \nA/P is located near the 39th Ave. C-Train Station and has free parking stalls located in front of the building\, as well as street parking nearby.  \nThere is an access ramp at the east end of the building (near the Hitch Shop)\, and A/P is equipped with an accessible gender neutral washroom. \nWe do our best to accommodate the needs of our visitors whenever possible. \nWe welcome your questions and are committed to working with our members and guests to have a great visit when you are here! \n\n  \nInclusivity and code of conduct: \nA/P’s cultivates an inclusive and collaborative environment to learn about printmaking\, to create printed works\, and to pursue exciting artistic opportunities. \nA/P operates by a code of conduct with an expectation of promoting dignity and respect to all\, and we prioritize individual and community safety.  Any form discriminatory behaviour\, intimidation\, bullying\, harassment or victimization is not tolerated. 
URL:https://albertaprintmakers.com/event/artist-talk-opening-reception-with-jenie-gao/
LOCATION:A/P Gallery and Studio\, 460 42 Avenue SE\, Calgary\, Alberta\, T2G 1Y5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Past,Event Past
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