Lobby Art Installations

Jane Kline

Jane Kline is a Visual Artist and Theatre Creative Maker. Working in theatre production and associated industries for nearly 40 years, she possesses a wealth of skills and experience. Since moving to Edmonton from Toronto in 2012 Jane has been the Properties Master of the University of Alberta’s Drama Department.

Her core creative passion is exploring conceptual work through the creation of form.

Jane’s background in costuming and a keen interest in working with unconventional materials lead to her participation in the SkirtsAFire Wearable Art Competition, twice winning first place. These skirts explored themes of feminine strength, expectations of feminine beauty, and identity.

Through process, materials and subject matter, Jane Kline approaches each project as an adventure in discovery.

Adrianne Beauregard

Adrianne Beauregarde is a Métis artist based in ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ amiskwacîwâskahikan, Alberta. Her work uses traditional and contemporary Indigenous methodologies and perspectives based in the history of Indigenous and Non-Indigneous Peoples. This process translates into visual works inspired by imagining a life pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization, and resistance. Beauregarde graduated from the University of Alberta’s Fine Art & Design Program where she majored in sculpture and intermedia. She has over a decade of experience working with art organizations in the
community such as SkirtsAfire, Latitude53, John and Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery (MAG), Lowlands Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie.

Cheyenne Rain LeGrande

Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ is a Nehiyaw Isko artist, from Bigstone Cree Nation. She currently resides in Amiskwaciy Waskahikan also known as Edmonton, Alberta. Her work often explores history, shared knowledge and traditional practices. Through the use of her body and language, she speaks to the past, present and future. Cheyenne’s work is rooted in the strength to feel, express and heal. Bringing her ancestors with her, she moves through installation, photography, fashion, video, sound, and performance art.

Asal Andarziour

Asal Andarzipour (she/they) is a multidisciplinary creator based in Edmonton, Alberta. Asal identifies as an immigrant artist walking in her nomad ancestors’ shoes. Her long journey across the ocean from Tehran to New York and then Alberta continues to inform and form her creative profile. Her practice is mainly focused on visual arts with roots in her long-term studies in theory and the practice of design, which also makes her an independent curator. Since 2015, Asal has actively served in arts and culture non-profits as an employee, board member and volunteer. Asal holds an MA in History of Art, Design and Visual Culture from the University of Alberta, an MFA in Collaborative Design from Syracuse University and a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Tehran.

Asal is a studio artist at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre and continues to create, curate and educate through exhibitions and workshops. Her artistic career and activism as an Iranian woman in the diaspora are integrated into her daily life.

Tanya Edison
Midnight bees and black butterflies  

The skirt represents my gratitude towards spaces created for healing.  My healing comes when I garden. Whether that’s a bucket full of blooms on a balcony or potatoes in the ground, I am  required to learn and to make mistakes that can affect the spaces, species and people around me.  The land is full of mysteries and beauty. It is also full of hurt and fear.  I hope to grow to be the very best guest and knowledgeable steward as I can be.

Tanya Edison is a multi-media artist from Nova Scotia who has worked in construction as a residential painter for over 25 years. She wants to see more women in construction trades and will talk about it to anyone who will listen. She believes everyone is a unique piece of art within their personal journey.

Instagram: @thestorybuilderworkshop

Adrianne Beauregard
Baroque on Turtle Island

This hybrid baroque/traditional ribbon skirt is a playful way to honor and show pride in the freedom of self-expression for Indigenous women. Its purpose is to celebrate the joy of being proud of ourselves when we were told by history not to be. A play on the title of this exhibit “Stand Out” is exactly what it aims to express. Showcasing pride in our Indigenous families, our relatives, our ceremonies, our land, and our language and in being highly ornate and extravagant Iskwêwak: Women.

Adrianne Beauregarde is a Métis artist based in ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ amiskwacîwâskahikan, Alberta. Her work uses traditional and contemporary Indigenous methodologies and perspectives based in the history of Indigenous and Non-Indigneous Peoples. This process translates into visual works inspired by imagining a life pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization, and resistance. Beauregarde graduated from the University of Alberta’s Fine Art & Design Program where she majored in sculpture and intermedia. She has over a decade of experience working with art organizations in the
community such as SkirtsAfire, Latitude53, John and Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery (MAG), Lowlands Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie.

Lola D. Sanchez (Costume & Graphic Designer)
CURRIGUE-PAPER

Lola is a Mexican designer that works as mascot builder, costume designer, graphic designer, Illustrator and occasional photographer. Lola finished her Fashion Design Diploma at NBCCD, New Brunswick and got her Graphic Design Degree at the Technologic University of Mexico. Lola won First place at the “21th NBCCD Fashion Show” 1st Year Challenge, and her piece was showcased at the Fredericton Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Saint John George Fry Gallery. Lola believes that art performance is medicine to the heart and she wants to create costumes that bring happiness and freedom to artists that wear them. She is passionately working hard and expanding her horizonts by getting experience in the costume design world. Lola wants to be a designer that “See with perspective, live with ambition, create with passion, and move with freedom”.

Follow her on instagram: @kheoz_lola

Megan Beland
Literie

I have titled this piece of art ” Literie ”, the French word for bedding.

In response to this year’s theme of Lost and Found, I began my search in a thrift store, where the old can become new and the opportunities for transformation are endless. With the help of a friend a discovery was made among the racks and shelves of endless items, outfits and materials. We came across a unique set of Bedding. At first glance I was disoriented with all of the flowers, silk and overall design. But the more we looked at this menagerie of patterns it became the perfect blueprint to what I wanted to create. Along with other fabrics from other thrift stores and some cut off scraps from work, a deconstructed the duvet and dust cover, along with zip ties to created the boning for the corset element of the skirt.  I was able to create a Baroque inspired “Stand Out “ skirt.

Megan Beland is a conceptual and visual fine artist who specializes in acrylic painting and intermedia art practices. Born and raised in the Canadian Rockies, she is now based in Edmonton where she received her Fine Arts diploma at MacEwan University in 2018 and her BFA at the University of Alberta in 2020. She is fascinated by how the passage of time impacts people and spaces, as well as how things exist and transform within the context of their environments. In her intermedia practices. Her focus is in creating wearable art, serving as an extension of identity and experience the physical interaction of art with the body function as the performance element, the temporary portion which only exists in the moment. Over the past few years she has been gathering materials from second hand and antique stores, repurposing the materials, to create her latest creations. Her inspiration often comes from the natural world and from myths and fairytales, combining metaphor and reality. She also explores what is perceived as the “other” in society, raising awareness to persons with different learning abilities.

Megan’s visual work has been included in last years SkirtsAfire , Skirts Project “Adaption”. Along with, group exhibitions at the Maggie Mitchell Gallery (Edmonton); University of Alberta Museums and Collections (Edmonton); Quenten Doolittle Memorial Gallery (Calgary); the Alberta Society of Artists (Calgary); and the artist-led exhibition The Fallow (Edmonton). She appeared in a group art performance at Latitude 53 (Edmonton) and a solo art performance.

Instagram:@megybel
Visit her website here

Kim Neeser