About Artcity
Artcity Festival is Calgary's annual celebration of visual art, architecture, and design. For 10 days each year, new artworks, installations, and projects are temporarily inserted into the urban landscape for discovery and engagement by ordinary citizens and interested parties.
Artcity produces an extensive amount of interpretive content as well, with lectures, podcasts, and educational tours dispersed throughout the exhibition schedule.
All Artcity events are open to the public with free admission.
The 18th annual Artcity Festival will take place September 10th to the 19th of 2010, under the thematic banner of "Boom or Bust".
Mandate
Artcity is produced by the Visual Arts Week Society (VAWS), a non-profit, volunteer-run society dedicated to enhancing the public's experience and enjoyment of contemporary visual arts, architecture and design.
Artcity brings art and architecture into the spaces where the public lives and works. The organization recognizes the continually changing needs of artists and the nature of artistic presentation, and as such provides flexible exhibition opportunities to individuals and groups working in all (inter-) disciplines. The Festival opens possibilities in Calgary for conversations, debates and realizations about how and what artists, architects and designers do and how they see and shape the world around us. Artcity programs new, critically engaged work by professional artists in dynamic settings, and supports activities of a similar nature in the broader Calgary community through partnerships and joint programming ventures. The society provides a high-profile infrastructure to independent practices that move existing genres and ideas forward.
Artcity 2010 Volunteer Board Members and Employees
Meredith Angus - Assistant Director
Lindsay Brandon - Visual Arts Chair
John Frosst - Director
Bradley Harms - Vice President
Jonathan Karpetz - Secretary
Andrew Mackie - President/Architecture Chair
Katrina Olson - Marketing
Dena Seiferling - Design Chair
Artcity 2009 Volunteer Board Members and Employees
Meredith Angus - Assistant Director
Lindsay Brandon - Visual Arts Chair
Thea Campbell - Architecture Chair
John Frosst - Assistant Director/Installation
Bradley Harms - Vice President
Jonathan Karpetz - Secretary
Wednesday Lupypciw - Assistant Director
Andrew Mackie - President
Katrina Olson - Marketing
Gail Scheuring - Treasurer