Tip Your Hat 2012 - live and silent auction of artistically altered cowboy hats

Saturday July 7, 2012
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

DaDe ART & DESIGN LAB

proceeds support THIS IS MY CITY Art Society's programming with those who have experience of, or are at risk of homelessness.

www.thisismycitycalgary.ca
 
 
MEASURING a YEAR by the MINUTE (installation / performance)
Margie Davidson

This year long process started with continuing my interest in colour study of seasonal change, a desire for a daily meditative art practice, and a curiosity about the visual representation of a year. What would a year measured by one knitted stitch for every minute actually look like? 
 
My goal was to knit 60 stitches in a row and complete 24 rows a day to represent that day as measured by the minute.  I recorded each days knitting progress with a date tag. As the project grew, I dealt with tangled yarn and competing priorities. It was a challenge to find 3 hours each day to complete 24 rows of knitting.
 It has been an insightful process. I have learned about myself as I came to terms with the evolution of the artwork and the divergence of two types of measurement.  I learned about making space physically for the artwork as it grew and about the rigor of a daily commitment of time.  I learned about the value of holding the intention of a daily meditative practice.(installation / performance) 

Sunday May 13 (Mothers Day)
12:00 to 5:00 (ARTIST TALK - 2:00)
 
 
DaDe ART & DESIGN LAB in collaboration with the Alberta Craft Council, will showcase unconventional, contemporary works, from 10 contemporary fibre artists from around North America.  FABRICated will be on display and available for sale from April 20 to June 3, 2012.
 
featuring
Ilse Anysas-Salkauskas, Arlee Barr, Margie Davidson, Deborah Dumka, Connie Fraser, Matt Gould, Luke Haynes, Mary Holdgrafer, Jill Nuckles & Dana Roman
 
opening reception Friday April 20, 2012
7:00 pm
 
 
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negativeSPACE 

kim BRUCE

an exhibition of selected works from the Off the Wall Series

March 2 to April 15, 2012
DaDe ART & DESIGN LAB

opening reception 
friday march 2, 2012 
7:00pm

Kim started the “Off the Wall” series to study form, colour and design in the purest sense.

Kim's work has always been stronger when the individual pieces can relate to each other.  Then when grouped the whole becomes the sum of its parts.

Installing the pieces in a group with the negativeSPACE flowing through and around the objects reinforces the individuality of each piece.  Rather than framing which would contain the pieces forcing them to be one; with installation and use of negativeSPACE each piece remains as individual while working as a whole.

 
 
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4Cats Art Show at DaDe ART & DESIGN LAB featuring the art of the 4Cats Inglewood kids!

February 24th - 29th, 2012

4Cats Art Opening Celebration:
February 25th, 2012
3:00 - 6:00pm


 
 
The CAPIC Showcase presents creative works by many of Western Canada’s finest Commercial Photographers. This annual juried show by members of the Prairie Chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators gives remarkable insight into the creative minds of the photographers who create the images we admire and see daily in the media around us.
 
 

ACAD grads photography @DaDeGallery
february 14 to 19, 2012

reception february 16, 2012
7:00 pm
 
 
January 23, 2012 to January 30, 2012

opening reception & book launch
monday january 23   |   7:00 pm
 
 
CRAVE Calgary innovatively connects urban women to the most inspiring people they need to know. Let CRAVE Calgary serve as your ambassador to everything there is to CRAVE about Calgary.
books available for purchase at DaDe 
$20.00
 
 

DaDe ART & DESIGN LAB'S second annual anniversary SALE

thursday december 1 - sunday december 18, 2011
  • 10% off all furniture custom orders
  • up to 40% off select floor models
  • complementary art delivery & install *