Convoluted Beauty: In the Company of Emily Carr

Please be sure to add the following to your calendar:

Public Lecture:         Sunday, September 7 at 7 p.m.

Irene Faber, Head of Collections, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Jewish Community Centre – 715 McKinnon Avenue, Saskatoon.

The work of Emily Carr (1871-1945) is nationally respected for its pioneering of modernity in Western Canada. This project, curated by Lisa Baldissera, Chief Curator, Mendel Art Gallery, is the first significant presentation of Emily Carr’s work in Saskatchewan in almost 20 years. Convoluted Beauty examines Carr’s legacy through work by major international artists, including Charlotte Salomon.

The Mendel is grateful to Tourism Saskatoon, B’nai Brith Lodge 739 and Congregation Agudas Israel, Saskatoon, for sponsoring this exhibition.

Theatre in the Park 2014
July 3 Raoul Wallenberg Park

Theatre in the Park is Saskatchewan’s first FREE live professional outdoor theatre. Suitable for all ages. Everyone welcome. FREE of charge.

Special Pre-Opening Reception for Congregation Agudas Israel: POSTPONED – NEW DAY TO BE ANNOUNCED

The work of Emily Carr (1874-1945) is nationally respected for its pioneering of modernity in Western Canada. In her early career, Carr travelled to the United Kingdom to study art, determined to expand her creative vision. Instead, her time there (1899 to 1904), proved to be among the more challenging ordeals of her life, culminating in an 18-month hospitalization with the diagnosis of “hysteria.” Surprisingly, it became a formative point in her career, one where she resolutely declared her sense of her own Canadian as well as artistic identity.

German artist Charlotte Salomon is represented through a selection of 20 reproductions from the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam.

June 27 to September 14, 2014

Opening Reception: Friday, June 27 at 8 p.m.
Performance: Thursday, June 26 at 7 p.m. with Berlin-based artist Thomas Zipp
Talk/Tour: Friday, June 27 at 7 p.m. with artists Thomas Zipp, Karen Tam, Joanne Bristol, Cedric and Nathan Bomford, and curator Lisa Baldissera with a short performance by Joanne Bristol
Curator’s Talk: Sunday, July 20 at 1 p.m. with curator Lisa Baldissera
Public Lecture: Sunday, September 7 at 7 p.m. with Irene Faber, Head of Collections, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam Jewish Community Centre – 715 McKinnon Avenue, Saskatoon.