Call for Work: due May 15th, 2011

Mapping a Prairie City: Lethbridge and its Suburbs

Southern Alberta Art Gallery, June 24 to Sept 11, 2011.
Lethbridge is very spread out and there's nothing particular to draw you to it, but doesn't make for a bad stopping point on a long day's drive.
Lonely Planet
Many arts professionals live in Lethbridge or have visited the city to deliver a lecture in Art Now or Architecture and Design Now, exhibit their work, present their research, or develop new ideas. Mapping a Prairie City: Lethbridge and its Suburbs is an exhibition being developed for the Southern Alberta Art Gallery that will showcase a variety of responses to the identity of small prairie cities. The exhibition will be centred at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery with links to external sites throughout the greater Lethbridge area. The focus will be art, urban design, architecture, landscape, water, cartography, design, history, theory, First Nations, the public, transportation, pedestrianism, gardens, weather and other issues.
Lethbridge as a city has been developed on the same set of ideas of urban development as many other western North American centres in the oil rich twentieth century. The questions of this exhibit are: What experiences are unique to Lethbridge? What experiences of Lethbridge are generic but become unique, as they are experienced through the lens of this specific prairie town? How can experiences of site, landscape, intellectual engagement, urban design etc. be mapped?
We are asking for past visitors to Lethbridge as well as local arts professionals to send us a mapped response to a site or experience related to their concept of Lethbridge. These should be 2D works of a maximum size of approx. 20 x 24 in. on flexible material: paper, mylar, tissue, lightweight fabric etc. The form of these mapped responses is open but can take a traditional or psychogeographic format or can be an expanded definition that might include a conceptual approach.
In addition we are looking for visual projects or texts of 500- 1000 words or less that would be suitable for the Spring 2012 edition of OnSite Review.

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For more information contact either:

Don Gill: don.gill@uleth.ca
Ryan Doherty: rdoherty@saag.ca