Name: Thick as Thieves: Curator’s Talk
Start: 2026-05-02T11:00:00-06:00
Location: 111 Bear Street Box 160, Banff, AB, Canada, Alberta T1L 1A3

$Thick as Thieves: Curator\u2019s Talk$

Thick as Thieves is an exhibition full of intrigue, layered meaning, and subtle connections. Come and hear from the exhibition Curator, Crystal Mowry, as she describes her motivations and influences when developing the exhibition. Crystal’s presentation will be followed by a Q & A led by The Whyte’s Curator and COO, Christina Cuthbertson.
Crystal Mowry (she/her) is the Director of Programs at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. She previously held the position of Senior Curator at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery where she oversaw the gallery’s exhibitions, collections, and publishing activities. Her curatorial work includes group exhibitions such as I’ll be your Mirror, The Perennials, What the Bat Knows, and Romancing the Anthropocene, one of three zones commissioned by the City of Toronto for its annual Nuit Blanche event. Her solo projects with artists Deanna Bowen, Maggie Groat, and Ernest Daetwyler have received Exhibition of the Year Awards from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (now Galleries Ontario Galeries). In 2020 she was a recipient of a Waterloo Region Arts Award and in 2024 was shortlisted for the Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence. Her writing has appeared in various artist-focused publications on the work of internationally active artists such as Brendan Fernandes, Shary Boyle, and August Klintberg among others. She regularly participates on industry juries and advisories, most notably for the Sobey Art Award (2015), the Scotiabank Photography Award (2021), and the Canadian pavilion for the 2026 Venice Biennale. Crystal was born in Tkaronto (Toronto) where she completed undergraduate studies in sculpture and installation at the Ontario College of Art and Design University before earning a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in (Kjipuktuk) Halifax.
Thick as Thieves is organized and circulated by MacKenzie Art Gallery and curated by Crystal Mowry. Support for the Banff iteration comes from Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Bowstrings Heritage Foundation, and Rimrock Banff, Emblems Collection.
Free with Museum Admission.