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New MAG exhibitions explore human relationships with animals and the land

Sep 10, 2024 | 12:24 PM

Two new exhibitions have made a temporary home of the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery.

“Orphan Well Woes” by Alana Bartol is a thought-provoking, interactive multi-media exhibition that highlights the haunting beauty of Alberta’s abandoned oil wells. It delves into the complex relationship between industry, land, and community, promoting a reciprocal relationship with the land.

The exhibition displays work from the Orphan Well Adoption Agency (OWAA), which was founded in 2017. The OWAA finds symbolic caretakers for orphan wells across Alberta, and these adoptions will be facilitated on selected days throughout the exhibition.

This exhibit will be featured until November 23, 2024.

“Backyard Wilderness: Burrows and Bungalows” by Leila Armstrong explores the disconnect between people’s everyday lived experience and their conception of nature as something external and removed.

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Through this work, Armstrong endeavours to increase awareness of, and the need for, engagement with urban ecologies as spaces in which humans and other species must live and thrive together.

This exhibit will be displayed until November 30, 2024.

Both exhibit artists attended a First Fridays opening night on September 6.

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