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🎤 Join us for another Alberta Culture Days event: Thursday, September 11th from 6:00 – 7:00 PM at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie for an inspiring artist talk with Megan Green!Megan’s work is currently featured in the two-person exhibition “Fire Season”— come hear her speak about her practice and the exhibition.
Megan Green is a visual artist from Newfoundland who was part of a worker migration to the oilsands in the 1990’s; she completed an MFA at the University of Waterloo in 2014. Megan participated in the Banff Centre’s 2016 BRiC ”On Energy residency.” Work from this residency was presented at the ”Petrocultures” 2016 conference at Memorial University of Newfoundland, at the University of Edinburgh’s ”Postcards from the Anthropocene” exhibition and published in ”Energy Cultures” from West Virginia University Press. Her work was also included in the 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art. Megan was an artist residence at the Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture in 2018 and in 2019 she presented at ”Animal Remains” at The University of Sheffield. She has been the recipient of production grants from the Ontario Arts Council in 2017 and 2021, and of the Canada Council for the Arts 2021 Explore and Create program. Recent publications include an essay in ”Popular Inquiry”: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture, in the International Journal of Cultural Studies. In 2022 Megan Green had a solo exhibition at the Tina Dolter Gallery in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
“Fire Season” is on view until September 28, 2025.
Curated by Jessica Groome
We acknowledge the support of the Province of Alberta through the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the City of Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie Regional Tourism Association, Pomeroy Hotel, M3M Marketing and Town & Country News
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#103, 9839 - 103 Avenue, Grande Prairie, AB, Canada, Alberta T8V 6M7
