MacKenzie Gallery Launches Online Project as Part of New Website

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Regina's MacKenzie Art Gallery has launched its new website, mackenzie.art, including a new digital forum for art and ideas called The 13th Floor, which opens with an online artist project.

Blue Sky Project: Connecting Canadian and International Artists via the Colour Blue compiles photos of the sky from artists around the world. It is organized by Saskatchewan artist Marie Lannoo and will release a new photo daily for a month.  

“By constructing the gallery’s 13th floor, we will create another space where the public can meet writers, philosophers, activists, artists, scientists, hackers, sociologists, critics and other cultural producers who will share new texts, images and ideas," says gallery director Anthony Kiendl. "These stories will be found on our site alongside other engaging content. Part of our rationale for enriched online content is to increase accessibility to the MacKenzie.”

Lannoo recently designed a new Saskatchewan Arts Award for the Saskatchewan Arts Board to be given out over the next five years, and has an exhibition, The Architecture of Colour, at the College Art Galleries at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon until Dec. 21.

“The sky is a readily available, free access point for everyone, and artists were asked to simply use their cellphones to point, shoot and send their images,” says Lannoo. “A blue sky is a universal visual, but with the impact of climate change, how much longer will that be the case?” 

Source: MacKenzie Art Gallery