Images clockwise from left: Latitude 53’s newest writer-in-residence, Riva Symko; CEO of Contemporary Calgary, Pierre Arpin; Graeme Patterson, Secret Citadel (animation still), 2013. Patterson will be participating in SappyFest’s new artist-in-residence program.
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Contemporary Calgary announced on March 28 that Pierre Arpin has been appointed director and CEO of the institution. Arpin most recently worked as the director of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, Australia, and has previously held positions at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and Art Gallery of Sudbury. Aprin officially begins on April 5, 2016.
Arts administrator and independent curator Riva Symko will be the next writer-in-residence at the Edmonton artist-run centre Latitude 53. Symko has previously published critical writing on art with the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and Union Gallery, and holds a PhD from Queen’s University. Symko is Latitude 53’s eighth writer-in-residence, and her writing will begin to appear on the institution’s blog in mid-April.
The annual music festival SappyFest, held in Sackville, New Brunswick, has announced that their 11th instalment, taking place this summer, will include an artist-in-residence program. The residency will be interdisciplinary, and the visual artists selected to participate in the 2016 iteration include Amy Siegel, Graeme Patterson, Mitchell Wiebe, Amanda Fauteux and Jon Claytor. The group will work together at Sackville’s Thunder and Lightning Ltd. from May 6 to 14.
Phyllis Lambert, architect and founding director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, will be awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize at the 2016 Architecture Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. The $20,000 prize is awarded to an architect of any nationality who “has made a significant contribution to architecture as an art.”
