Classes and exhibits to fill this fall at the MJMAG

The Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery recently held their fall open house, to preview the many classes, collections, and events coming to the gallery in the next few months.

The list of available classes this year includes a number of different mediums to be explored with some familiar local names.

Edie Marshall will offer a class on basic color mixing with acrylic paints on Oct. 5, returning for a class on acrylic landscape painting on Nov. 16-17. Charles Buchanan will offer a few classes on drawing the human form, the first a week-long experience from Oct. 6-20, followed by a threepart class on Nov. 24 and Dec. 1 and 8. Christy Schweiger will teach a clay platter and bowl-making session on Nov. 27 and Dec. 4, and Sheri Chamberlain will explore the art of macramé on Nov. 30. Geri Ann Siwek has an all-day class working with acrylic mediums and mixed-media processes on Nov. 23.

Each class has a differing cost, and details on how to register can be found on the MJMAG’s website, alongside a full calendar of available classes.

To begin the fall, the MJMAG has organized a tour of Joe Fafard’s Julienne Atelier Foundry in Pense on Sept. 21, as a fundraiser to purchase and display the 7-foot tall sculpture Peggy as a permanent piece in the MJMAG’s collection.

The annual Moostletoe Artists Studio Tour will be returning again this year on Oct. 19, to preface Moose Jaw’s famous Christmas in October celebration with guided tours through ten different studios of artists around the community. With summer coming to a close, the MJMAG’s current exhibit — A Prairie Vernacular — will make its way to Medicine Hat, and the gallery will be filled with works from three new exhibitions beginning Oct. 10.

Russel Mang, a Moose Jaw artist, will feature his collection titled Time, Presence, Place which explores the familiar landscape of Wakamow and the Moose Jaw area with paintings that interact with the medium of drawing. Riverhurst artist Edie Marshall will join Mang’s collection with her own exploration of space in her collection titled Terrain, which features one thousand small oil portraits of scenery she captured originally in a digital medium.

Field Portraits of Contemporary Western Culture is a photography exhibit that focuses on the subject of rural lifestyle and cowboy culture. The collection has been curated by Wayne Baerwaldt, and features work from photographers from Saskatchewan to the United States.

All three exhibits will be on display until Jan. 5, with an opening reception for Terrain and Time, Presence, Place on Oct. 10 and an opening reception for Field Portraits on Oct. 18.