Wednesday April 7

Working with a Commercial Gallery

with Grant Berg of the Grant Berg Gallery and Berg Gallery

and Levi Nicholat of The Gallery/Art Placement Inc.

6:30 – 8:00pm MDT/CST

Register through Eventbrite

What is a commercial gallery? How do they work? How do they differ from other kinds of public galleries/art spaces. Levi Nicholat will talk a bit about the modern history of selling art leading into how galleries generally operate today, the unique circumstances within the Canadian art market (regionalism), and some of the ways COVID-19 has impacted those operations, positively and negatively. Grant Berg will talk about how commercial galleries work as he walks you through his Grande Prairie gallery. Both Levi and Grant will discuss how to approach a gallery for the first time and how to work with a commercial gallery.

Levi Nicholat is co-owner of The Gallery/Art Placement Inc., a longstanding commercial gallery in Saskatoon that also operates a picture framing shop and art supplies store. He oversees the general operations of the businesses three departments, including the gallery’s exhibition program. Since assuming leadership in 2013, he has organized more than one hundred exhibitions and introduced nearly twenty new and emerging artists to the gallery roster. He previously served on the board of AKA artist-run centre as Treasurer, as well as on committees for the Saskatchewan Professional Art Galleries Association (SaskGalleries), including as chair of the organizing committee for the inaugural Saskatchewan Fine Art Fair in 2016. He completed a BFA and MFA at the University of Saskatchewan, with a specialization in painting. His thesis exhibition was honoured with the Graduate Thesis Award for the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Grant Berg is an artist and gallery owner with two Alberta galleries, the main gallery in Grande Prairie and a satellite gallery in Kananaskis. The galleries represent roughly 50 Canadian artists. Grant Berg’s artwork is primarily landscape sculpture mixing a Group of Seven vibe with his Cree heritage.  As a COVID-19 project, Grant recently self-published a series of 3 books titled Bus Stop Philosophy covering such topics as art, politics, life death and general BS.

Zoom Engagement Session Saturday, April 10, from 1–2:30pm MST. Join with your laptop or tablet so you can see the people talking.

Topic:
The Foibles of Facebook
(Facebook for the independent artist)

In this session: Pages or groups? The Facebook mall cop algorithm … jailed again? Selling anything on Facebook? Connecting Facebook to your other online presences …. Photos… size & type… to text or not to text… Videos… live or dead? Rights and not rights….

Learn about the management of groups and pages. Then we’ll work on the Facebook oddities folks have encountered and see if we can learn to understand something behind why they did that… and some work-arounds …

Register through Eventbrite by 11am on Saturday April 10. Open to all.

Bio: George Lessard (Information Curation, Communication & Media / Cure d’information, communication et médias)

From a community access & media training base, George creates in print, broadcast radio & TV and educational media. Now a Lethbridge artist in electronic & digital media, George was born / brought up in Rosemère, north of Montreal, Canada before medicare. His muse is now sourced from his work, residencies & showings in, Toronto, Vancouver, Banff,  Calgary, Yellowknife, Inuvik, and Fort Smith Northwest Territories, Salluit, Nunavik (Arctic) Quebec & Arviat, Nunavut, Beijing, China; Nassau, the Bahamas; La Paz, Bolivia; Butare, Rwanda; Chelyabinsk, Russia; Berhampur, Odisha, India and Manu, Peru.

Recently relocated from Yellowknife NWT, these days he’ll be uploading / streaming reflective / experiential imagery from Lethbridge Alberta, and the surrounding spaces on the traditional territory of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Nakoda (Stoney) and Tsuut’ina. •  Skype: themediamentor  •  Web http://mediamentor.ca

If you’re not familiar with Zoom, this link gives a good overview. You can access the meeting through your browser just by clicking on the given link, or if you prefer, the free app is safe to download and use.

Zoom Engagement Session Saturday, April 24, from 1–2:30pm MDT. Join with your laptop or tablet so you can see the people talking.

Topic:
Art Chat: A Meeting of Artists’ Minds

with artists Verna Vogel, CARFAC Alberta Board member, and Sharon Moore-Foster, Program + Development Coordinator.

Join Verna and Sharon for an informal conversation…let’s discuss who we are, share what we are working on, and talk art during life transitions and challenging times.

“Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.”  ― John Barth

RSVP to sharon@carfacalberta.com by 11am on Saturday, April 24. Open to all.

If you’re not familiar with Zoom, this link gives a good overview. You can access the meeting through your browser just by clicking on the given link, or if you prefer, the free app is safe to download and use.