
Tangible
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
Tangible
José Luis Torres
An architectural installation of colourfully repurposed doors. Walk around, in, and up this coliseum-like structure and discover a different view.

Accidental Speech
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
Accidental Speech
Alicia Proudfoot
Edmonton artist Alicia Proudfoot tends to her sound garden of expired oil filters and determines the proper growing conditions to engage conversations on bodily illness.
Performances
June 22, 3:30 PM
June 25, 6:30 PM
June 28, 7:00 PM

The Appropriation
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
The Appropriation
Arsan Buffin
The Appropriation Indigenizes advertising through the use of stock photos, highlighting the lack of representation of Indigenous People in media.

Best of Edmonton Public Schools Annual Portfolio Award Show
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
Best of Edmonton Public Schools Annual Portfolio Award Show
Various Youth Artists
Emerging talent and diversity are showcased through the Edmonton Public School Board’s top Grade 12 portfolios. The Works awards 3 outstanding students for innovation, vision, and design.

Read Between the Lines
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
Read Between the Lines
The GOOPof7
Edmonton-area artist group The GOOPof7 explores the development and nuances of language through a series of textured, abstract paintings.

Inner Workings
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
Inner Workings
The Works Volunteers
Get to know the hidden experience, practice, craftmanship and creativity of the volunteers that make The Works Art & Design Festival come together.

Language Exchange
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
Language Exchange
Ottawa Gatineau Printmakers Connective and Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists
A collection of prints by artists from Ottawa Gatineau Printmakers Connective and Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists exploring language and communication.

SNAP Members Print Exchange: Opposites
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
SNAP Members Print Exchange: Opposites
Various Artists
SNAP's 2019 Members Print Exchange features SNAP artists who each created an edition of prints based on their interpretation of this year's theme, "Opposites".
Hand Printed with SNAP Gallery & Printshop
June 26, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
June 27, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Drawn In
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
Drawn In
Stephanie Medford
Stephanie explores the dual aspects of meditation: carving to soothe the nervous system; drawing to analyze the present state.
Special thanks to Mcleod Creek Timber Frame for assistance with building the shaving horse.
Performances
June 21, 7:00 PM
June 23, 1:00 PM
June 26, 7:00 PM
July 1, 3:00 PM

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Site 1 - Capital Plaza
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Tanya Camp
Combining 19th-century carte-de-visite portraits with contemporary haute couture fashion, this series explores the evolution of photography as social media and social currency.
金猪 Golden Pig
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
金猪 Golden Pig
Yong Fei Guan
Artist Yong Fei Guan explores the issue of plastic waste with her monstrous golden piggy bank.
Made with support from the City of Edmonton Reuse Centre and Edmonton’s diverse communities.

Ad/Vent
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
Ad/Vent
Alicia Proudfoot
Edmonton artist Alicia Proudfoot conducts some noise through a vocal ode dedicated to her asthma inhalers: Advair and Ventolin.
June 30, 1:00 PM & 6:00 PM
July 1, 1:00 PM

Create Your Universe
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
Create Your Universe
Cylo
For a nominal investment of $5 and 5 minutes, Festival attendees can create and walk away with their own spray-painted galaxy-scape. Presented in partnership with iHuman Youth Society.
June 22, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

The Cipher - Live Painting
The Cipher: Live Painting
Various Artists
Presented by MINBID
The Works teams up with the Minbid Gallery to generate daily live painting at the Festival, offering the public a chance to experience the artwork creation process.
Monday – Thursday, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Saturday – Sunday, 12:00 – 4:00 PM
Jul 1, 12:00 - 4:00 PM
MinBattles on The Works Patio
June 21, June 22, June 28 & June 29, and July 1: 7:30 – 8:30 PM
The Walking Stitch
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
The Walking Stitch
Bekk Wells
Come for a walk and embroider your path on a map of the city. This event is free, but space is limited. Registration Required at TheWalkingStitch.eventbrite.ca
July 1 & 2
11:00 AM
3:00 PM
7:00 PM

Deliver
Site 1 - Capital Plaza
Deliver
Stacey Cann
Edmonton performance artist Stacey Cann explores women’s labour and how it is viewed in society.
June 20, 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM
June 30, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
July 1, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools
Site 2 – Legislative Assembly Visitors Centre
Main Floor, 9820 107 Street
Monday – Sunday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday – 10 AM – 8 PM
Borealis Gallery
Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools
A powerful travelling exhibition by the Legacy of Hope Foundation that explores the history and consequences of the Residential School System in Canada with the goal of contributing to the healing and understanding required for reconciliation.

Influence/Confluence
Site 2 – Legislative Assembly Visitors Centre
Main Floor, 9820 107 Street
Monday – Sunday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday – 10 AM – 8 PM
Alberta Branded
Influence/Confluence
The creative process demands a confluence of one’s own history, biases, abilities and even limitations with the influences of politics, economics, social constructs and the physical environment. This exhibit explores the intersection of the two.

Capital Boulevard Legacy Public Art Project
Site 3 – Capital Boulevard Legacy Public Art Project – Canada 150
108 Street, from 99 Avenue to 104 Avenue
Five landmark sculptures contribute to the Boulevard being the most important street in the province of Alberta.
This project has been funded in part by the Government of Canada, with matching investments from partners: the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the City of Edmonton; and support from the Downtown Business Association, and The Works Society.

Title TBD / Pedro Rodriguez de Los Santos
Site 4 – Rigoletto's Café
#102 10305 100 Avenue
Monday – Thursday 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Friday 11:00 AM – 10 PM
Saturday 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Sunday 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Pedro Rodriguez de Los Santos’ series of paintings explore cultural codes, migration, and map-stories.

The Fire Dance
Site 5 – Alley of Light Art Boxes
Armstrong Block Building
10125 104 Street, South Wall
The Fire Dance (Video Stills)
Sister Knox Dancers
The Fire Dance encompasses nine minutes of story, unravelling the enmeshed stigma around the feminine expression in social, cultural, religious and political structures. Vision and Choreography: Olenka Toroshenko and Jessamyn Stewart
Video Story/Stills: Atraeon Productions (www.atraeon.com)

Cultivate/Instigate
Site 6 – Alberta Craft Gallery
10186 106 Street
Monday – Wednesday, Friday – Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM / Thursday 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM / Closed July 1
Cultivate | Instigate
Various Artists
May 11 – August 31
Cultivate | Instigate is about the influential creatives at the forefront of post-secondary craft education in Alberta, balancing the dual roles of educator and professional practicing artist.

Coming Up Next
Site 6 – Alberta Craft Gallery
10186 106 Street
Monday – Wednesday, Friday – Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM / Thursday 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM / Closed July 1
Coming Up Next
Various Artists
June 15 – August 3
Designed in 2007 to catalyze professional careers in the fine craft community, Coming Up Next returns to showcase emerging artists.

You Opened That Can Now Let’s Eat the Whole Thing
Site 7 – Latitude 53
10242 106 Street
Wednesday – Friday 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Saturday 12:00 – 5:00 PM
You Opened That Can Now Let’s Eat the Whole Thing
Bridget Moser
June 20 – August 17
New video and performance work that considers the limitations of self-soothing, the potential deficiencies of wellness and the implications of finishing what you started.
Opening Reception
June 20, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Artist Talk June 22,
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Negotiating "Asian-ness" in Canada
Site 8 – Norquest College
Singhmar Centre for Learning
10215 108 Street
Monday – Friday 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM / Saturday 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM / Closed Sunday & July 1
Negotiating “Asian-ness” in Canada
Anchi Lin, Clare Yow, Gabi Dao, Janice Liu, Kim Huynh, Mia Ohki, Romi Kim, Wei Li, Yong Fei Guan, Curated by Yang Lim
Nine artists from Alberta and British Columbia explore the complex meanings of being Asian in Canada through painting, video, installation work, photography and comic art.
This project is supported by the Edmonton Arts Council, City of Edmonton, and the Province of Alberta through Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Opening Reception and Panel Discussion
June 22, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Summer Residency Series / Trippin': getting from there to here
Site 9 – Mitchell Art Gallery
Allard Hall, MacEwan University
11110 104 Avenue
Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Summer Residency Series
Alma Visscher and Taryn Kneteman: June 3 – June 29
Joële Walinga: June 23 – July 23
Every summer, the Mitchell Art Gallery transforms into an incubator – a nexus for new ideas and new relationships. Between May 14 and August 17, six Artists in Residence will be working in the MAG and engaging the local community through performances, workshops and other relational practices.
Meet the Artists and Workshop
June 27, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Trippin’: getting from there to here
Various Artists
Curated by Trevor Anderson
May 15 – August 31
A series of three video works that take the viewer on different journeys, featuring three films from Switzerland, Mexico and the U.S.A.

Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology
Site 10 – Enterprise Square Galleries
Enterprise Square
10230 Jasper Avenue, Main Floor, 1-200
Thursday - Sunday 12 PM - 5 PM (June 20-30)
Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology
Various Artists
April 23 - June 30
DYSCORPIA gathers artists and multidisciplinary thinkers to question what it means not to know the limits of our bodies in the face of new technologies.

Neuromantic: Revisited
Site 11 – Don Wheaton YMCA
10211 102 Avenue
Monday – Friday 5:00 AM – 10:00 PM / Saturday – Sunday 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM / July 1 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Neuromantic: Revisited
Adam Slusar
Adam Slusar’s colorful MFA works explore ideas of memory, nostalgia and escapism through the lens of popular culture and the medium of acrylic paint.
Up on the Roof
Site 12 – Manulife Place
10180 101 Street
Daily 6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
Up on the Roof
Brenda Raynard
Edmonton painter and textile artist Brenda Raynard delights in revealing the everyday as art.

Tickle
Site 13 – Fairmont Hotel MacDonald
10065 100 Street
Daily 24 Hours
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Ruta Nichol
Edmonton based ceramic artist Ruta Nichol creates warm and whimsical sculptural objects which emanate genuine happiness and inspire a smile.

Erosion
Site 14 – World Trade Centre – Edmonton Chamber of Commerce
9990 Jasper Avenue
Monday – Friday 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Erosion
Kelsey Stephenson
Kelsey’s work engages with place through the language of topographical marks, the erosion of riverbanks, and echoing water’s impact on landscape through hand-drawn imagery.

Community Art Program
Site 15 – Edmonton Convention Centre
9797 Jasper Ave
Daily 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Community Art Program
Featuring the work of local artists, these 17 pieces representing Edmonton can be seen on all levels of the venue.
pARTnership Gallery
Every year, Edmonton Public and Catholic School Boards partner with the Centre to curate student-created pieces for a one-of-a-kind showcas

Human Form in Art: De-Coding the Style
Site 16 – Harcourt House Artist Run Centre
10215 112 Street, 3rd Floor
Monday – Friday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Human Form in Art: De-Coding the Style / Naked Show + Art Sale
Various Artists
June 21 – June 28
This exhibition presents a broad range of conceptual and formalistic approaches to human form, featuring works from Harcourt’s Drop-In Live Model Sessions.
Harcourt Open House Party
June 22, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Metaphor and the Art / Members’ Exhibition + Art Sale
Site 16 – Harcourt House Artist Run Centre
10215 112 Street, 3rd Floor
Monday – Friday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Metaphor and the Art / Members’ Exhibition + Art Sale
Various Artists
June 20 – July 13
An exhibition showcasing diverse and compelling approaches to metaphoric language and symbology in contemporary visual culture.

New Wave
Site 16 – CARFAC Alberta Project Space
10215 112 Street, 3rd Floor
Wednesday – Friday 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM / Saturday 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
New Wave
Various Artists
June 20 – September 15
A survey of artworks by new Canadian visual artists from Nigeria, Yugoslavia, Iran, Thailand, Syria and the Philippines.
Reception with Artists in Attendance
June 29, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Layering Light
Site 17 – SNAP Gallery
10123 121 Street
Tuesday – Wednesday 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM / Thursday 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM / Friday – Saturday 12:00 pm – 5:00 PM
Layering Light
Marc Siegner
May 17 – June 22
Influenced by Persian miniatures, Layering Light is a meditation on trees through invented space, exaggerated colours and contrasting perspectives.

In the Absence of Knowing
Site 17 – SNAP Gallery
10123 121 Street
Tuesday – Wednesday 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM / Thursday 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM / Friday – Saturday 12:00 pm – 5:00 PM
In the Absence of Knowing
Deltra Powney
May 17 – June 22
In the Absence of Knowing explores sensed tension within liminal space, informed by memory, story, object, and natural and man-made environments.

Collins Studio Gallery - Create Your Own Art
Site 18 – Collins Studio Gallery
11741 94 Street
Tuesday – Saturday 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Create your own piece of art with various materials – suggested donation $20. View and purchase work by Jeff or one of his participating artists.

Relapse: Art from the Nina Collective & Their Supporters
Site 19 – Stollery Gallery
Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 118 Avenue
Monday – Friday 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM / Saturday 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM / Closed July 1
Relapse: Art from the Nina Collective & Their Supporters
Various Artists
June 20 – July 5
An exhibition pairing 26 artists who are connected to the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, in celebration of the creative bonds formed at the Centre.
Opening Reception
June 20, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Naturalisms
Site 20 – Bleeding Heart Art Space
9140 118 Avenue, 2nd Floor
Saturdays 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM / Weekdays by Appointment
Naturalisms
Holly de Moissac
June 8 – June 29
An alchemic exploration of the mysterious transformation that occurs as materials shift from “natural” to “man-made”, realized through print, sculpture and text.
Naturalisms: Local (Free Workshop)
June 29, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Metro
Site 21 – Spazio Performativo/Mile Zero Dance
10816 95 Street
Monday - Friday 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Metro
Timothy C. & James Laventure
May 21 – July 5
A colourful and quirky collaboration between Timothy C. and James Laventure to make images and objects that relate to municipal buildings, roadways and other themes.
Event
June 21 & 28, 7:00 PM

Innateness
Site 21 – Spazio Performativo/Mile Zero Dance
10816 95 Street
Monday - Friday 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Performance - Innateness
Nate Jaffe
June 28, 5:00 PM
Innateness is created through radical trust in the body itself. My muscle memory reveals a history of self-domination via classical training, internalized hetero-masculine values, and restrained hyperactivity. Underneath these scars lives an innate queer vocabulary.

Community Collection - Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts
Site 22 – Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts
9534 87 Street
Tuesday - Thursday 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM / Friday 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM / Saturday 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Community Collection
Various Artists
June 20 – July 2
ACUA Gallery & Artisan Boutique presents one of the largest group shows of Ukrainian artists. View the vast, genre-spanning works.
Ukrainian Vintage Fair Kick Off
June 22, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Du Vide, les spectres de l'infini
Site 23 – CAVA (Centre d’arts visuels de l’Alberta)
9103 – 95 Avenue
Tues-Thurs: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Friday: 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
May 31 to July 1
Du Vide, les spectres de l’infini
Annie Briard
An immersive multimedia installation centered on the perceptual experience of the viewer, consisting of a meditative and participatory sound performance.
Exposition des membres
Various Artists
CAVA members’ exhibit, featuring works by francophone visual artists Virginie Rainville, Barbara Kowalewski and Nadya Tanguay.

Exposition des membres
Site 23 – CAVA (Centre d’arts visuels de l’Alberta)
9103 – 95 Avenue
Tues-Thurs: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Friday: 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
May 31 to July 1
Exposition des membres
Various Artists
CAVA members’ exhibit, featuring works by francophone visual artists Virginie Rainville, Barbara Kowalewski and Nadya Tanguay.

Stoney Nakoda Exhibit
Site 24 – Galerie Cité
8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury
Monday - Saturday 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM / Sunday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Stoney Nakoda Exhibit
Various Artists
May 1 – July 6
Containing diverse works from members of the Stoney Nakoda Audio Visual Club, this exhibit rallies the power of story and the potential of the Nakoda people.

Land Aki(iin)
Site 24 – Galerie Cité
8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury
Monday - Saturday 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM / Sunday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Land Aki(iin)
Dawn Saunders Dahl
February 6 – July 6
A series of works which utilize and survey the landscape, exploring the impact of connectedness and healing on ‘shared’ land and the artist’s own narrative.
Stoney AV Club Film Screening
La Cité Francophone Theatre
June 29, 7:00 PM – 5:00 PM

The Future, All at Once
Site 25 – McMullen Gallery
8440 112 Street, Main Floor, University of Alberta Hospital
Monday - Friday 11 AM - 7 PM / Saturday - Sunday 11 AM - 5 PM / Closed July 1
The Future, All at Once
Lauren Crazybull
June 8 - August 4
Alberta’s first Artist in Residence Lauren Crazybull wishes to tell a story of Indigenous Futures from the perspective of her younger self.











































