Regions of Distinction: Edmonton Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

Image courtesy Bearclaw Gallery

The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) was founded in 1880 to honour artists in Ottawa at the National Gallery of Canada. Today, the RCA is comprised of members who have made significant arts and cultural contributions from across the nation.

Each year the RCA invites new Academicians to the RCA; Edmonton is the host of the 2014 annual assembly of members. Academicians to the RCA represent excellence across a broad range of artistic disciplines, from painters, sculptors and architects, to film, photography, design and the crafts.

The exhibition at Enterprise Square is to showcase the diverse range of Edmonton-area artists and architects who have been inducted into the RCA, and recognized for their significant cultural impact to Alberta and the nation at large.

Curators

Kristy Trinier

Kristy Trinier is the former Director of Visual, Digital and Media Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Previously, as the Curator at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Trinier curated Future Station: 2015 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, as well as exhibitions at the AGA and Enterprise Square Galleries. Her previous roles include Public Art Director at the Edmonton Arts Council, where she managed the City of Edmonton’s Public Art Collection, related exhibitions and public art programs and Grant Writer at Banff Centre. Trinier has written for Canadian Art, Momus and other arts publications. She holds a Bachelors degree in Visual Art and English from the University of Victoria, and a Masters degree in Public Art from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI, ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten) as a Huygens scholar in The Netherlands.

Apr 24 April 24 – October 26, 2014Oct 26, 2014

Organized by

Art Gallery of Alberta