The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons
June 19-October 11, 2010
Recreated Cel of Bugs Bunny
© 2010 Warner Bros. Inc.
Cel of Wile E. Coyote, ca. 1955, with Background
Artist Unknown (cel); Philip DeGuard (Background)
Directed by Chuck Jones
© 2010 Warner Bros. Inc.
Cel of Porky Pig with Background
Artist Unknown (Cel): Richard H. Thomas (Background)
From BOOBS IN THE WOODS, 1950
Directed by Robert McKimson
© 2010 Warner Bros. Inc.
Programming
Gary Panter
July 8, 2010, 7:00 pm
Artist Talk followed by a book launch
Thursday, July 8, 7 pm
Ledcor Theatre and City of Edmonton Terrace
$10 / Free for AGA Members
In celebration of all things comic and cartoon, the AGA has invited Gary Panter to give an artist talk. The Emmy-award winning Panter was the head-set designer for Pee Wee’s Playhouse and the creator of the underground comic Jimbo. He has been credited with successfully breaking down “the barrier that separates “trash†from “art†and transform[ing] underground comix into a viable art form.â€
Panter has also contributed an illustration to the AGA’s publication The Murder of Crows. Following Panter’s Artist Talk, join us for a book launch on the AGA’s sculpture terrace.
Film & Talk
September 10, 2010, 7:00 pm
September 10, 7 pm
Ledcor Theatre
Free
Visit your AGA for an evening of classic Warner Bros. animation. Re-discover your favorite Warner Bros. cartoons at this special screening and talk hosted by Gene Walz, animation historian and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Manitoba.
Film
July 6, 2010, 7:00 pm
Tuesday, July 6, 7pm
Free
Presented as part of ANIMATION WEEK at your AGA.
Film
July 7, 2010, 7:00 pm
Wednesday, July 7, 7 pm
Free
Presented as part of ANIMATION WEEK at your AGA.
Film
July 9, 2010, 7:00 pm
Friday, July 9, 7 pm
Free
Presented as part of ANIMATION WEEK at your AGA.
All Day Sunday
July 11, 2010, 12:00 pm
Second Sunday of every month, 12-4 pm
Free with admission
What's up doc? The Edmonton Street Performers Festival invades the AGA to help celebrate the Art of Warner Brothers! Create balloon animals and learn to cartoon with professional artists. Develop your own cartoon character and work with local musicians to bring your character to life through sound effects!
All Day Sunday
September 12, 2010, 12:00 pm
Second Sunday of every month, 12-4 pm
Free with admission
Absolute Magnitude Workshop
July 10, 2010, 2:00 pm
$15 / $10 AGA Members
Presented as part of ANIMATION WEEK at your AGA
Spend an afternoon with the talent behind the Warner Bros published comic book: Absolute Magnitude. Discover the ins and outs, whys and hows from Robert Burke Richardson and Kuen Tang.
Creative Age Festival Workshop
June 8, 2010, 6:00 pm
Tuesday, June 8, 6-9 pm
Free
Join 2010 Alberta Biennial artist Lyndal Osborne in the studio to create unique sculptural forms related to nature. Explore transformative sculptural processes using found and collected materials, glue, tissue paper and paint.
This workshop is presented by the AGA in partnership with the 2010 Creative Age Festival.
Warner Bros. cartoon studio has earned both critical and popular acclaim as the producers of the finest, funniest, and most inventive animated shorts ever made. The Hollywood studio, which opened in 1930 and shut its theatrical division in 1969, developed and perfected the kind of antic, irreverent, street-smart humor that has characterized much of short-subject animation ever since. Along the way, the Warner shop won 6 Academy Awards, and created more cartoon stars than any other studio – in chronological order, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Pepe Le Pew, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, The Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Speedy Gonzales, and many others.
Since the introduction of Porky Pig in 1935, Warner Bros. Cartoons have been enormously popular. In the heyday of theatrical animation, they were voted America’s most popular shorts for 16 consecutive years – from 1945 to 1960. This major exhibition features 165 drawings, paintings, animation cels and related art objects used in the making of Warner’s classic cartoons. The exhibition explores seven different themes from a chronological history of the cartoon studio to the evolution of Warner’s first cartoon stars, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck; and features a step-by-step breakdown of how classic cel animation was made and an in depth look at Warner’s most famous creation, Bugs Bunny. The Warner writers devised stories and gags of brilliant invention, while the studio’s directors executed them with masterly verve and timing. They, in turn, were supported by a cadre of gifted animators, painters, and designers. The result is a body of work that, with each new screening, seems richer and deeper, and more clearly a significant part of North American culture.
