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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.