Galleries West contributor Sarah Swan wrote about the new (new-ish) art gallery in Yellowknife for CBC recently. “It doesn't even have a name yet, and it is tiny — roughly 400 square feet. It's tucked inside the visitor centre, where tourists go to get tips on aurora-chasing,” she writes.
“And as the new gallery's first curator, as well as a writer and cheerleader for the arts, I couldn't be happier.”
It is the first gallery space dedicated to non-commercial, contemporary art in the Northwest Territories, and its mission is to “house art that reflects and explores the complexities of Northern life in ways that may be new or novel to local audiences. Every exhibition asks the question 'What is Northern art, anyway?'”
The addition of a gallery to the Yellowknife art scene is important, she has long said, not just for the Northwest Territories, but for any major region. “Art from remote locations, from places with no institutional power, might be the exact antidote a whitewashed, homogenous art world needs,” Swan wrote in a story for Galleries West in 2020.
Source: CBC
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