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Future Prairie
Read more: Future PrairieFuture Prairie (Remediation Plot) is a collaborative artwork led by Api’soomaahka, Alana Bartol, Kara Matthews, and Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed at the Coutts Centre for Western Canadian Heritage. Rather than restoring land for human use, Future Prairie supports the recovery of prairie ecosystems, creating a habitat for native species. The project embraces plant-led processes, ecological reciprocity, and…
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Artists in a Time of Nation-Building – Part One
Read more: Artists in a Time of Nation-Building – Part OneI wonder about the role of artists within this “elbows up” climate in which Canadians are banding together around Canadian identity more than I, at least, have ever witnessed before…Read More
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Yaniya Lee: Writing as Witnessing
Read more: Yaniya Lee: Writing as WitnessingIn October of 2025, writer Yaniya Lee spent a week in Edmonton at the invitation of the Mitchell Gallery. Across her week here, she spent time getting to know artists and the artistic community, all the while working to situate and place these Edmonton artists’ methods and approaches within larger contexts. Near the end of…
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Art is not in some far-off place, and neither is rapture
Read more: Art is not in some far-off place, and neither is raptureBut how many of us are weeping at public art galleries? And if that’s not the point, then what is? What do we want art to do to us? It is a question that is somehow both easy and hard to answer—one that shapes how we approach what kinds of art we seek out, engage with, and make. Muriel N. Kahwagi approaches the…
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Preston Pavlis: The Look of Truth
Read more: Preston Pavlis: The Look of TruthPreston Pavlis and I have made a habit of meeting on cold days. The first was a frigid Friday in May, back in 2021. By then, Preston was already a gifted and successful artist. He’d completed two years of school at MacEwan University (prior to the launch of their BFA program), and was planning a…
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Stones in a Box: Each One Labeled “Parable of Success”
Read more: Stones in a Box: Each One Labeled “Parable of Success”Artist and writer Nic Wilson offers an essay about art, success, and how the two collide — in a form true to Nic’s practice. One day, God told them to “make an index of everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. If you leave anything out, I’ll know …” In their way, they made a miniature of…
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The Embodied Practice of Weaving: an Interview with Jessica Fern Facette
Read more: The Embodied Practice of Weaving: an Interview with Jessica Fern FacetteA full room of supporters crowded into the Alberta Craft Council’s Edmonton gallery on a hot afternoon in late May for Jessica Fern Facette’s opening of Symptomatology, an exhibition of weavings and textiles. I recognized a few people from workshops and drop-in weaving sessions I’ve attended at her studio, Fern’s School of Textile Craft. The…
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Community Thread One: ‘The Prairies’
Read more: Community Thread One: ‘The Prairies’This month, we want to talk about ‘The Prairies’ what we mean when we say it, what it evokes, and how those outside of this place might misrepresent or misunderstand it. What do you think of when you think of this place? What makes it unique? What do you think people miss when they think…
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Taking Care
Read more: Taking CareSince the beginning of our friendship, we have exchanged emails—long, meandering emails that rarely feel conclusive and are always part of one ongoing conversation we are having about everything from art to politics to the bad streaming television we sometimes watch. When it came time to decide how best to introduce…
