Intro

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that is a good question

Do you work with fiber artists

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yes i’ve worked with fiber artists a lot

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specifically in alberta i think that

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there are tons of really really exciting

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work happening right now

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in weaving and also tufting that i’m

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definitely paying attention to and

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definitely thinking about for future

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exhibitions for past exhibitions in the

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scene

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that just

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closed we had kim mccollum she’s an

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edmonton artist who works in weaving

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and also yvonne mullick

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did an exhibition called gift love

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that was down in manning hall and those

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were giant

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gloves that she had made for the

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exhibition

How do you get started in curation

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um yeah to get started in curation i

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would say just go for it i think a lot

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of people think that you know curating

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has to happen in a gallery or a museum

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and it absolutely does not have to

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it can happen anywhere so you know

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whatever spare space you have even in

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your apartment or your basement

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or outside whatever you have just go for

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it

What do you collect

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um

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yeah i i collect a lot of artworks um

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mostly alberta

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artists um i have a lot of things in my

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collection a lot of alberta artworks

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hanging in my home

Which object to explain humanity to aliens

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right which object would i use to

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explain humanity to aliens i

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love this question i think it’s super

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fascinating and super interesting and

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really fun

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to think about

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um

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you know when we’re often thinking about

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artworks we’re thinking of them as so

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tied to

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an individual or tied to a culture or

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tied to a place so it’s really kind of

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interesting and kind of a challenge to

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think of to look more broadly of of what

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would we share to sort of define all of

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us

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um

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one artwork um

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that i actually showed in an exhibition

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here at the aga a couple years ago and

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comes from our collection is by margot

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henry

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and this is a work of art that is an

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entire installation that has a tiny

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village and there’s a ufo sort of

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landing

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over top of the village so i think what

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i what i might share with an alien um it

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are artworks that show ufos and show

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aliens and i think that you could have

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an interesting conversation where you’re

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showing you know

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sort of humanity reflected in how we

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interpret and how we think about um

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those aliens that we are representing in

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our in our art and maybe there’s

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something more that can be shown about

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us

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versus are shown about us sort of

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seeing how we see

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these aliens

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