another Landscape show

Amery Calvelli contributes through her work to improving the public's relationship with architecture and design. Since 2018, as Adjunct Curator of the Poole Center of Design at the Art Gallery of Alberta, she has curated and co-curated exhibitions including Cul-de-Sac; From Here, Convening Place; another Landscape show; and Nests for the End of the World. With the NPO Design Talks Institute, which she co-founded seven years ago, she produces public events, small exhibitions, workshops, and an online publication that aims to develop communities focused around architecture and of design.

Amery Calvelli contribue à travers son travail à améliorer la relation du public avec l’architecture et le design. Depuis 2018, en tant que commissaire adjointe du Poole Centre of Design de l’Art Gallery of Alberta, elle a été commissaire et co-commissaire d’expositions incluant Cul-de-Sac; From Here, Convening Place; another Landscape show; et Nests for the End of the World. Avec l’OBNL Design Talks Institute, qu’elle a cofondé il y a sept ans, elle produit des événements publics, de petites expositions, des ateliers, et une publication en ligne qui vise à développer des communautés axées autour de l’architecture et du design.

Franchesca Hebert-Spence is a MFA candidate at the University of Winnipeg, in the Masters of Arts in Cultural Studies stream with a BFA in ceramics from Ishkabatens Waasa Gaa Inaabateg, Brandon University Visual and Aboriginal Arts program. Hebert-Spence’s grandmother was from Sagkeeng First Nation, Manitoba and her research focuses on identity both as an indigenous woman as well as a feminist. Hebert-Spence began her art journey as a maker which has created an empathetic lens within her curatorial praxis. Kinship is a common theme within her projects and those responsibilities direct the engagement she maintains within her community. 

Jessie Ray Short is an artist, filmmaker and independent curator whose cross disciplinary practice involves memory, visual culture and Métis history. In the past 10 years she has exhibited work nationally and internationally at venues including The Banff Centre for the Arts, M:ST Performative Arts Festival, Calgary AB, and at the Wairoa Māori Film Festival in Wairoa, Aotearoa (NZ). Jessie Ray has been the recipient of several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. As a curator she has had the opportunity to work on various projects most notably Jade Carpenter: Mourn at City of Calgary Open Spaces Gallery and Mixed Berries: Amanda Strong and Bracken Hanuse Corlett at Gallery 2, Grand Forks, BC. She has worked for the Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, based in Edmonton, AB, and currently works as a program coordinator for TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, AB. Jessie Ray holds an MA degree from Brock University with a focus on contemporary Métis visual culture.