Online Events
Comforter Philosopher's Cafe
April 15th at 7:30pm. Please RSVP by noon on Wednesday, April 14th to receive a Zoom link.
An online conversation between Comforter artists Olivia de Fleuriot, Laura Rosengren and Sarah van Sloten and Trinity Western University English and Gender Studies Professor Holly Nelson, followed by an audience Q & A.
April 15th at 7:30pm. Please RSVP by noon on Wednesday, April 14th to receive a Zoom link.
An online conversation between Comforter artists Olivia de Fleuriot, Laura Rosengren and Sarah van Sloten and Trinity Western University English and Gender Studies Professor Holly Nelson, followed by an audience Q & A.
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Holly Faith Nelson, Ph.D., is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University, where she is also a Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing. She has co-authored one monograph, co-edited nine books, and her many articles have appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals and academic collections on literature and/or gender. She publishes on the work of women writers from the medieval through the early modern period.
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Laura Rosengren is a Canadian artist, originally from Northwestern Ontario, recently relocated to Stó:lō territory in Chilliwack,BC. Her practice involves a mixed material approach to painting and considers questions around motherhood and labour. She is currently participating in an Artist Residency in Motherhood and is the recipient of a 2021 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Laura has a BFA from the Alberta University of the Art, a BEd in Art Education from Mount Saint Vincent University and a MATS from Regent College. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Kings University (2019) and a three person exhibit at CityScape gallery (2021). Laura has attended residencies at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, CO, Whale and Star studio in Miami, FL.
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Sarah van Sloten is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Calgary, AB on Treaty 7 territory. She received an MFA from the University of Windsor (2016), and a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts (2010). Van Sloten has recently completed a residency with Gushul Studios in Blairmore, AB (2020) and participated in the Hibernation Project in Calgary (2020). She currently sits on the board of The New Gallery, a non-profit artist-run centre located in Calgary Chinatown.
Photo credit: Luke Maddaford. |
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Olivia de Fleuriot Perry is an artist and a mother who interweaves the performative gestures of motherhood in her soft sculptural forms, consisting of fabric, yarn, and thread. Olivia de Fleuriot Perry earned her MFA in 2019 from Emily Carr University (ECUAD) as a recipient of the SSHRC Master’s scholarship (2018). She will be a part of a group show, Comforter, at the Fort Gallery, in Fort Langley, BC, in April 2021. In spring 2021, de Fleuriot Perry’s work will be published in Milked Magazine Issue 3, Body & Form. In 2020, she exhibited work in two online shows, Home-works, curated by Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, and Art in Isolation, curated by Dal Schindell Gallery, Vancouver, BC. de Fleuriot Perry exhibited in the MFA Thesis Show at ECUAD, in April 2019. In 2018, she was a part of the SSHRC funded Leaning Out of Windows group exhibition at ECUAD. In 2015, de Fleuriot Perry was a part of a two-person show, Art On Demand 1:3, at The Reach Gallery Museum, in Abbotsford, BC; and a solo show, Cityscapes, at the Langley Centennial Museum, in Fort Langley, BC.
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La Ligue Gourmande Food Performance Event
Mar 18th at 7:30pm. You are invited to join us for an online cocktail hour and food performance hosted by La Ligue Gourmande artist Todd Gronsdahl. Gronsdahl will teach participants to make his signature Fort Langley-themed cocktail. Ingredients to have on hand: 1 1/2 oz of vodka 3 oz cranberry juice 1 oz grapefruit juice grapefruit slice to garnish Hearken back to your pre-covid days and dress in formal or costume attire. Crazy Zoom backdrops encouraged and welcomed. Please submit the RSVP Form by Thursday, March 18th at noon or send an email to: fortgallery@hotmail.com to let us know you plan to attend and we will send you a Zoom link. |
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La Ligue Gourmande Philosopher's Cafe
Feb 11th at 7:30pm.
You can view a recording of this event here: Zoom Recording.
An online interview with La Ligue Gourmande artist Todd Gronsdahl. The Cafe will include an interview of Gronsdahl by Clare Omelaniec, followed by a moderated discussion and an audience Q & A.
Guests: exhibiting artist Todd Gronsdahl and interviewer Clare Omelaniec.
Feb 11th at 7:30pm.
You can view a recording of this event here: Zoom Recording.
An online interview with La Ligue Gourmande artist Todd Gronsdahl. The Cafe will include an interview of Gronsdahl by Clare Omelaniec, followed by a moderated discussion and an audience Q & A.
Guests: exhibiting artist Todd Gronsdahl and interviewer Clare Omelaniec.
Todd Gronsdahl is an artist from Saskatchewan working primarily in sculpture and drawing. Through the use of humour and narrative, Gronsdahl’s work complicates official histories and legitimizing mythologies.
Informed by folk art and self-taught practitioners, Gronsdahl treats his subject matter with a rural sensibility. Through a practical repurposing of vernacular forms and found materials, coupled with an intuitive approach to building, his work often has an unrefined or pragmatic aesthetic. Gronsdahl’s sculptures and drawings are charged with narrative potential. Each project emerges from invented stories and colorful characters that speak to his experience. His artwork is an enactment of these elaborate fictions with his sculptures, in particular, functioning not unlike museum replicas or artifacts. Todd Gronsdahl
Informed by folk art and self-taught practitioners, Gronsdahl treats his subject matter with a rural sensibility. Through a practical repurposing of vernacular forms and found materials, coupled with an intuitive approach to building, his work often has an unrefined or pragmatic aesthetic. Gronsdahl’s sculptures and drawings are charged with narrative potential. Each project emerges from invented stories and colorful characters that speak to his experience. His artwork is an enactment of these elaborate fictions with his sculptures, in particular, functioning not unlike museum replicas or artifacts. Todd Gronsdahl
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Of Stuff Storytelling Event
Jan 28th at 7:30pm. You can view a recording of this event here: Zoom Recording. On Jan 28th, the Fort Gallery will host an online storytelling event linked to our current exhibition, Of Stuff by Jazz Keillor. You are invited to participate in two ways . . . 1. Attend the event and listen to the stories of stuff that have been submitted by the community. 2. Contribute your own submission - a photograph and story of a personal object. See details below. Please submit a photograph of a personal object and an accompanying story using the form here: https://jasminekeillor.wufoo.com/forms/z16iydvp0b8hbhm/, You can also submit by posting your image and story to Instagram and tagging @fortgallery. These contributions continue to be printed and assembled into an accordion-style book currently on display in the center of the gallery space. The Storytelling Event will dive into these histories on January 28th, hosted by the gallery live over Zoom. Fostering a unique dialogue surrounding local material culture through the personal lens of gallery goers, participants will have the opportunity to share their stories and engage in a fascinating round of show and tell moderated by exhibiting artist Jazz Keillor. |
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Jazz Keillor is an emerging artist currently based in Halifax, NS. Her artwork often takes the form of drawings, paintings and miniature sculptures. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Mount Allison University, in Sackville, New Brunswick with a major in painting and sculpture and a minor in art history. Upon graduating in 2015, she was chosen as the New Brunswick provincial winner of the BMO 1st Art Invitational Student Art Competition. In 2016, she was awarded the Emergency Artist Residency Award at Sparkbox Studios in Picton, Ontario and in 2019 she received an Alberta Foundation for the Arts Individual Project Grant. http://jazzkeillor.ca
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Of Stuff Philosopher's Cafe
Dec 10th at 7:30pm.
An online discussion on the exploration of stuff. The Cafe will include a short presentation by each guest, followed by a moderated dialogue and an audience Q & A.
Guests: exhibiting artist Jazz Keillor and award winning poet Fiona TInwei Lam.
Dec 10th at 7:30pm.
An online discussion on the exploration of stuff. The Cafe will include a short presentation by each guest, followed by a moderated dialogue and an audience Q & A.
Guests: exhibiting artist Jazz Keillor and award winning poet Fiona TInwei Lam.
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Jazz Keillor is an emerging artist currently based in Halifax, NS. Her artwork often takes the form of drawings, paintings and miniature sculptures. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Mount Allison University, in Sackville, New Brunswick with a major in painting and sculpture and a minor in art history. Upon graduating in 2015, she was chosen as the New Brunswick provincial winner of the BMO 1st Art Invitational Student Art Competition. In 2016, she was awarded the Emergency Artist Residency Award at Sparkbox Studios in Picton, Ontario and in 2019 she received an Alberta Foundation for the Arts Individual Project Grant. http://jazzkeillor.ca
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Fiona Tinwei Lam’s third collection of poetry Odes & Laments celebrates the overlooked wonder and beauty in the everyday, while lamenting harm to our ecosystems. She has authored two previous poetry books, a children’s book, edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems on Facing Cancer, and co-edited Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs, Ups & Downs of Marriage with Jane Silcott. Lam won The New Quarterly’s Nick Blatchford Prize and was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Her work appears in more than thirty-five anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English (both 2010 and 2020) and Forcefield: 77 Women Poets of BC. Her award-winning poetry videos have screened at festivals locally and internationally. She teaches at Simon Fraser University’s Continuing Studies. fionalam.net
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Journey's Junction Philosopher's Cafe
Oct 29th at 7:30pm.
An online panel discussion on the plight of the Fraser River Sockeye Salmon.
Guests: Journey's Junction artist Barbara Zeigler and Stó:lō Elder Eddie Gardner.
Oct 29th at 7:30pm.
An online panel discussion on the plight of the Fraser River Sockeye Salmon.
Guests: Journey's Junction artist Barbara Zeigler and Stó:lō Elder Eddie Gardner.
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Barbara Zeigler is an artist, Associate Professor, and Supervisor of the UBC Printmedia Research Centre of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She received her BFA in Painting and her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Illinois. Additionally, she studied in Munich, Germany at the Akademie der bildenden Künste and the Universität München. In Canada she has also taught at the University of Alberta, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Queen's University, and in the USA at the University of Illinois. Barbara Zeigler's Journey's Junction, an exhibition of work concerning the Fraser River sockeye salmon is currently on display at the Fort Gallery through November 8.
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Eddie Gardner, a Stó:lō Elder from the Skwah First Nation in Chilliwack B.C., is elder-in-residence with University of the Fraser Valley (UFV). Eddie works tirelessly to inform the public about the health risks and the threat to wild salmon posed by net-pen fish farms, and to challenge retailers to adopt a sustainable seafood policy that protects their customers.
In June of 2013 Eddie organized and spearheaded the Spirit of Wild Salmon Gala Fundraising Dinner – a hugely successful event that raised funding for and public awareness of the need to protect Wild Salmon. A pioneer of Boycott Rallies in the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland, since 2013 Eddie Gardner has organized and led Farmed Salmon Boycotts in Chilliwack and Abbotsford – as well as supporting new Boycott chapters in Duncan, Nanaimo, Burnaby, Coquitlam and North Vancouver. His Rallies have also inspired Boycott startups in Cranbrook, Kamloops, and Kelowna, and as far away as Halifax Nova Scotia. |
Fort Gallery / 9048 Glover Road, Fort Langley / Tuesday to Saturday 12 to 5pm
The Fort Gallery resides on the unceded traditional territory of the Kwantlen, Katzie and Coast Salish nations.
We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support of the following funders as well as our members, donors and volunteers.
The Fort Gallery resides on the unceded traditional territory of the Kwantlen, Katzie and Coast Salish nations.
We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support of the following funders as well as our members, donors and volunteers.
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