{"id":9,"date":"2026-02-28T02:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/?p=9"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:53:10","slug":"week-of-march-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/week-of-march-3-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of March 3 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-markdown\"><h2>\ud83c\udfa8 This Week\u2019s Picks<\/h2>\n<h3>Wildfire<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The New Gallery<\/strong> | Downtown | Through Saturday, March 7<\/p>\n<p>Catch the last weekend of this group exhibition curated by Lara Felsing and David McGregor. Artists from across many nations examine our shifting relationship with fire in an era of climate crisis, combining critical responses with what the curators call \u201ckin-centric thinking.\u201d The work spans urban and rural experiences, grounded in both loss and care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Wed-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm | Free\n<strong>Info:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewgallery.org\">thenewgallery.org<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Cheryl L\u2019Hirondelle: where the voice touches<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Walter Phillips Gallery<\/strong> | Banff | On Now<\/p>\n<p>The first career survey of multidisciplinary artist Cheryl L\u2019Hirondelle\u2019s decades-spanning practice. Born in Alberta with family ties to Papaschase First Nation and Kikino M\u00e9tis Settlement, L\u2019Hirondelle works across performance, video, net.art, sound, and installation\u2014all grounded in n\u0113hiyaw\u0113win (Cree language) and n\u0113hiyawin (Cree worldview). The exhibition brings together work rarely seen in large-scale presentations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Wed-Sun 12:30-5pm | Free\n<strong>Info:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banffcentre.ca\/walter-phillips-gallery\">banffcentre.ca\/walter-phillips-gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>PARTICLE + WAVE 2026 Exhibition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>EMMEDIA Gallery<\/strong> | Beltline | Through March 11<\/p>\n<p>EMMEDIA\u2019s annual media arts festival features works exploring technology and new media, including Teresa Tam\u2019s \u201cTTES: The ROM Collection,\u201d an immersive audiovisual piece repurposing Gameboy hardware, and installations that embrace experimental processes. EMMEDIA is Calgary\u2019s only dedicated media arts centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Tue-Sat 12-6pm | Free\n<strong>Info:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/emmedia.ca\">emmedia.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Nour Ouayda: The Secret Garden<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Contemporary Calgary<\/strong> | Beltline | Through March 15<\/p>\n<p>Catch this before it closes. Ouayda\u2019s 16mm film imagines strange plants erupting across an unnamed city, turning streets into an entangled labyrinth. Two unseen voices\u2014Camelia and Nahla\u2014uncover a notebook chronicling this botanical invasion. The close-ups of foliage function as meditations on the elements of life we often neglect and can\u2019t control.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Daily 12-4pm in Heather Edwards Theatre | Free with admission ($5-10, free First Thursday)\n<strong>Info:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contemporarycalgary.com\">contemporarycalgary.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>\ud83c\udd93 Free Admission &amp; Special Events<\/h2>\n<p><strong>First Thursdays<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Contemporary Calgary<\/strong> \u2013 Free admission 5-9pm, Thursday, March 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See Nelly-Eve Rajotte\u2019s immersive installation \u201cTrees communicate with each other at 220 hertz\u201d and the group show \u201cEntwined\u201d before they close March 15. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contemporarycalgary.com\">contemporarycalgary.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>\ud83d\udcc5 Still Running &amp; Worth the Visit<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Craft Perspectives<\/strong> at Alberta Craft Gallery + Shop (cSPACE Marda Loop)\nThrough March 14 | New works inspired by historical objects and cultural artifacts, reimagined through contemporary craft.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.albertacraft.ab.ca\/calgary-gallery\">albertacraft.ab.ca\/calgary-gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Trees communicate with each other at 220 hertz<\/strong> at Contemporary Calgary\nThrough April 19 | Montreal artist Nelly-Eve Rajotte\u2019s large-scale multi-media installation combines moving image, generative sound, and a modular synthesizer connected to a live tree\u2014a meditation on listening and interdependence.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.contemporarycalgary.com\">contemporarycalgary.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Esker Foundation Winter 2026: Four Solo Painting Exhibitions<\/strong>\nThrough April 26 | Esker is showing four concurrent painting exhibitions worth the trip to Inglewood:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alexandre P\u00e9pin: Lavender<\/strong> draws from Byzantine frescoes and post-impressionism to explore moments of queer intimacy and spiritual contemplation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anthony Cudahy: metronome yawned<\/strong> captures queer tenderness in everyday life, with figures that merge into the atmosphere of their environments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Magalie Gu\u00e9rin: Orange to Rattle<\/strong> builds generative compositions from the residue of previous works\u2014paintings that emerge from what remains.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justin de Verteuil: sie will \/ muse. zur marionette<\/strong> explores the dynamic between figure and space from the D\u00fcsseldorf-based Trinidadian painter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All free to explore. Wed-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm.\n<a href=\"https:\/\/eskerfoundation.com\">eskerfoundation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Calgary Art Weekly<\/strong> is published Tuesdays covering the upcoming week.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcec Published at [https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca], syndicated at [some medium site], and also available as a newsletter to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd16 Written by a friendly robot, under the supervision of a human.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-weekly.cloverflood.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}