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Street Performers Festival

July 23 – 25, 2010

Visit The Prairie Art Gallery during the 2010 Street Performers Festival! Gallery staff and volunteers will be downtown with chalk drawing that is open to visitors of all ages. 

View four different art exhibitions:

  • AutoPark by Laura St.Pierre is an outdoor performance installation located downtown on 100 Avenue
  • Le Jardin…

The Wild Side of Art

Permanent Collection of The Prairie Art Gallery
Curated by Lynn LeCorre-Dallaire

The Prairie Art Gallery presents the theme of animals in art as enrichment for our children’s summer programs. All the artworks by Alberta artists are selected from our permanent collection, with the exception of the interactive mural display commissioned by local…

A Year in Review

Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s Annual General Meeting for The Prairie Gallery Society.

Between April 1, 2009 and March 31, 2010:

17,765 people visited the Gallery,
2,553 students were visited by Gallery staff,
77,798 visited the Gallery’s travelling exhibitions,
3,005 school children participated in gallery programs,
At least 359 artistic & cultural events…

Restoration Project Begins

A tour of The Prairie Art Gallery building that partially collapsed in 2007 was given to the media and city staff on Monday, June 7, 2010.  Visit the Daily Herald Tribune website to read about the tour and view an online photo gallery to see what the inside of the…

The Wild Side of Art

 

Summer Art Camps for Children

Get wild this summer! Join the art instructors at The Prairie Art Gallery and celebrate animals of the world. Learn about animals and the environments they live in with fun, creative, and educating art activities.

Week-long, half day camps
9:00 am – 11:30 am
6 – 12 years old

Cost:   …

Spring Hurlbut: Le Jardin du sommeil

Opening Reception: Friday, June 4, 2010 at 7:00 pm

The moving sight of about 100 cribs and cradles lined up in orderly fashion in The Prairie Art Gallery will summon up memories of hospitals, orphanages, dormitories, schoolrooms, cemeteries—images that telescope the cycle of life: birth, life and death.

Le Jardin du sommeil (1998) is a…