UNB Art Centre: World Water Day

WORLD WATER DAY 2016:

Poster Campaign

WORLD WATER DAY 2015:

HEAVY METAL

In recognition of World Water Day 2015, the UNB Art Centre will host a special exhibition by ArtZone, Fredericton’s student art collective, to bring awareness to environmental issues around the theme of water. Many of the hazardous materials found in discarded electronic devices leach into the soil during rainfall and can have dangerous effects on our eco-system.

E-waste is one of the fastest growing pollutants in landfills. 20-50 million metric tons of e-waste is disposed of globally each year. Currently, only 12.5% of e-waste is being recycled. ArtZone invites you to become an active participant in environmental stewardship.

ArtZone will create sculptures out of your e-waste and exhibit them in the galleries in an exhibition called Heavy Metal, March 13 through April 9. ArtZone is made up of students from UNB, STU, and NBCCD.

E-waste collected for Heavy Metal, will be recycled by local e-cycling company, Beaverdam Recyclers.

Don’t throw it away. Use it some other way!

Rock out with ArtZone as they unveil their recycled electronic creations at a special opening night of Heavy Metal, Friday, March 13 at 9 pm. For the past month, UNB’s student art collective Artzone has been collecting electronic waste and recycling it into art. It is estimated that 50 million metric tons of e-waste is dumped into landfills around the world. Many of the hazardous materials found in discarded electronic devices leach into the soil during rainfall and can have dangerous effects on our eco-system. Heavy Metal is part of an environmental awareness project in support of the UN initiative, World Water Day.

ArtZone is a home base for students from UNB, STU and NBCCD interested in creativity and the visual arts. ArtZone fosters visual literacy through workshops as well as informal skill sharing. No experience required; students just need to bring their interest and their desire to learn.

Heavy Metal opens with a free live performance by 3 of Fredericton’s heaviest metal bands: Ho Chi Minh Shuffle, Moment of Inertia and Wasteland Zombies. Moment of Inertia was just voted one of the best metal bands in the City of Fredericton by Grid City Magazine. Doors open at 9:00 pm for this all ages event.

There’s still time to bring your electronics to the UNB Art Centre. E-waste collected for Heavy Metal will be recycled by local e-cycling company, Beaverdam Recyclers.

The UNB Art Centre is located at Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. The galleries are open 9 am - 4 pm weekdays and for special events. Admission is free to members of the public. Everyone welcome!

WORLD WATER DAY 2014:

SILENT AUCTION FUNDRAISER FOR

PEOPLE WHO NEED IT MOST

FUNDRAISING FOR Q DRUMS - The Q-Drum saves time and helps prevent debilitating back and neck injuries to women and children in the developing world caused by carrying heavy loads of water on their heads.

In conjunction with the exhibits Souvenir and Plenty of Fish, artists Wilma Needham and Alanna Baird generously donated a print of their own work to the UNB Art Centre to help raise funds to support a water project in the developing world. This year proceeds from this silent auction went towards the purchase of Q-Drums from Kopernik, a not-for-profit organization that connects simple, life-changing technology with the people who need it most.

In rural areas women and children spend many hours of labour collecting water from sources that are often more than one kilometer away. The Q-Drum is a rollable water drum that has the capacity to contain 50 litres of water. Designed to ease this heavy burden, the Q-Drum saves time and helps prevent debilitating back and neck injuries caused by carrying heavy loads of water on their heads.

Prints by artists Wilma Needham and Alanna Baird were on view at the UNB Art Centre throughout the exhibitions Souvenir and Plenty of Fish running March 14-May 2.

Plenty of Fish, 2014, lino cut on rice paper, 20 x 16" (framed) Alanna Baird's donation for The UNB Art Centre's fundraiser for Q-Drums

CATARACT, 2012, digital photographic print, 20 x 24" (framed), Wilma Needham's donation for UNB Art Centre's fundraiser for Q-Drums.

CELEBRATE WORLD WATER DAY WITH A FILM SCREENING

The UNB Art Centre and the Center for Research and Innovation in Sustainability will be screening the film Sun Come Up [Dir: Jennifer Redfearn | Big Barn Films | 2010| USA| 38 min] on Friday March 21 at 10:00 am in the auditorium of Memorial Hall on the UNB campus.

This short documentary film shows the human face of climate change by focusing on a small community living on a remote island in the South Pacific Ocean. As a result of rising sea levels, the Carteret Islanders must face the painful decision to leave their ancestral homeland and relocate to a community 50 miles across the ocean. This academy award nominated film, Sun Come Up is a thought provoking study on the consequences of climate change.

The film will be followed by a talk with Imelda Perley, Elder-in-Residence at UNB’s Mi’kmaq Maliseet Institute.

Refreshments will be served. Admission is free.

While in Memorial Hall check out two exciting exhibits in honour of World Water Day, Plenty of Fish by St. Andrews artist Alanna Baird and Souvenir by Halifax based Wilma Needham

The UNB Art Centre is located at Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. The galleries are open 9 am - 4 pm weekdays and for special events. Admission is free to members of the public. Everyone welcome!

CELEBRATE WORLD WATER DAY 2014

at the UNB ART CENTRE WITH ARTISTS WILMA NEEDHAM & ALANNA BAIRD

The UNB Art Centre invites you to celebrate World Water Day with a variety of special events.

World Water Day, held annually on March 22, is a United Nations initiative to recognize the value of water globally and to advocate for the sustainable management of water resources.

The public is invited to the opening of two special exhibits on March 14 at 5:00 pm. Nova Scotia artist Wilma Needham brings her exhibit Souvenir to the UNB Art Centre from a recent showing at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax and St. Andrews artist Alanna Baird displays her solo exhibition Plenty of Fish for the first time in New Brunswick.

Wilma Needham, (Souvenir) Falling, 2013

Souvenir provides multiple perspectives on Niagara Falls through a selection of photos, mixed media and new media. With a vertical drop of over 50 meters and the highest flow rate of any falls in the world, this awe inspiring natural wonder has given rise to a centuries old tourist industry that has shaped the artist’s experience of the falls. Wilma Needham who was born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario, engages the audience in the discussion about nature and culture through an examination of environmental, political and social issues that have played out around the falls.

WILMA NEEDHAM was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and

Wilma Needham obtained her MFA from NSCAD University where she later taught in the Intermedia department, Media Arts Division, and served as administrator in Fine and Media Arts. Her studio work examines the ways that issues of the environment, equity, gender, and militarism shape our daily lives. With a foundation in printmaking and photography, her current studio practice spans a range of media. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and Europe.

Alanna Baird (Plenty of Fish) Neptune

Alanna Baird recycles coffee cans and salvages scrap metal to produce a fantastical school of fish for the exhibit, Plenty of Fish. Cod, char, bass and barracuda are only some of the fish you’ll be able to identify in the West Gallery’s aquatic zone.

Alanna Baird studied Engineering at UNB before turning to more artistic pursuits. She studied in the Clay Studio at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design and worked as a potter until she began crafting fish in 1991 in answer to a call for a weathervane competition at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Since then she has received numerous commissions, awards and exhibits for her unique fish sculptures.

She was commissioned by the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller in 2008 to build a 17 foot Ichthyosaur where it is permanently displayed in the museum’s courtyard. In 2010 she held a solo exhibition at the Trinity Art Gallery at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Ottawa, exhibiting 50 fish in one space. In 2012 she was included in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery’s exhibit Whirligigs- Going with the Wind. In 2011, the Huntsman Marine Science Centre commissioned her to produce Sea Raven to commemorate the opening of the new Discovery Aquarium where it now resides outside the entrance of the building. In 2012 she was part of a trio of artists exhibiting artwork made from recycled materials in The Reclaimers at the Mary E. Black Gallery In Halifax. Most recently, she won First Place in the Kingsbrae Gardens 2013 Canadian National Sculpture Competition for Salmon Vortex.

Souvenir and Plenty of Fish will be on view from March 14 until May 2 at the UNB Art Centre.

THE UNB ART CENTRE CELEBRATES

WORLD WATER DAY 'ONE DROP AT A TIME' 2014

The UNB Art Centre invites you to celebrate World Water Day 2014 with a variety of special events. World Water Day held annually on March 22, is a United Nations initiative to recognize the value of water globally and to advocate for the sustainable management of water resources.

If you visit UNB during the week leading up to World Water Day, you will notice placards posted above fountains, toilets and sinks in the buildings on campus. These cards carry positive messages for change like:

Did you know…Canadians rank as one of the highest consumers of water in the world. The average Canadian uses 335 litres of water a day during domestic consumption?

What you can do….Showers use 19 litres of water per minute. A 5 minute shower uses 95 litres of water. Reduce your time in the shower!

By taking small steps in our daily lives, each of us can affect change on a global scale… One drop at a time.

Don’t forget to visit the UNB Art Centre to pick up your “One drop at a time” collectors pin and to visit the exhibits Souvenir and Plenty of Fish on view March 14-May 2.

WORLD WATER DAY 2013:

Each year the UNB Art Centre observes World Water Day with activities that highlight the problems and solutions we currently face in regards to water conservation. This year, the UNB Art Centre marked World Water Day with a screening of the internationally renowned film Chasing Ice and a panel discussion on March 22^nd at 10:30 a.m.

In addition to these events the UNB Art Centre raised awareness about water consumption with “One Drop at a Time” featuring buttons and plaquards that carry positive messages for change. By taking small steps in our daily lives we can affect change on a global scale.

Also for World Water Day, along with the film screening, and awareness campaign, The UNB Art Centre is pleased to present:

EDWARD BURTYNSKY: MATERIAL MATTERS

Works of renowned Canadian Photographer, on exhibition in Fredericton for the first time at the UNB Art Centre, included in Doc Talks Film Festival

The UNB Art Centre is pleased to present Edward Burtynsky: Material Matters, an exhibition of chromogenic colour prints on loan from the Confederation Art Gallery, in Charlottetown. This is the first time that Burtynsky’s work will be on exhibition in New Brunswick’s capital city.

The opening reception of the exhibition is on Friday, February 15th, at 5 p.m. Everyone is welcomed to attend.

In 2011 Burtynsky, internationally known for his large-format industrial landscapes, donated the works to Prince Edward Island’s foremost gallery.

The images, including farmland in Spain, stone quarries in Vermont and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, all represent his long career as a photographer of the transfigured landscape.

Burtynsky says of this particular body of work, “in 1997, I had what I refer to as my oil epiphany. It occurred to me that the vast, human-altered landscapes that I pursued and photographed for over twenty years were only made possible by the discovery of oil and the mechanical advantage of the internal combustion engine….It was then that I began the oil project. These images can be seen as notations by one artist contemplating the world as it is made possible through this vital energy resource and the cumulative effects of industrial evolution.”

Burtynsky’s work is included in over fifty major international museum collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

Born in 1955 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Burtynsky is a graduate of Ryerson University and studied Graphic Art at Niagara College in Welland.

Edward Burtynsky: Material Matters is accompanied by Manufactured Landscape, a 2006 documentary by Jennifer Baichwal, a Toronto filmmaker and DOC Ontario member, will be shown daily in the West Gallery.

Manufactured Landscapes filmed in Super-16 mm, debuted at the Toronto Film Festival in 2006. A year later it won the Genie Award for best documentary, the TIFF Award for best film and was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. Manufactured Landscapes examines the world and work of Edward Burtynsky and follows the photographer to China as he documents the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution: the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, which displaced over a million people, massive factories and the overwhelming scale of Shanghai’s urban renewal.

Also on February 15, at 5:30 p.m., as part of the Doc Talks Film Festival, Dr. James MacLellan, Senior Research Associate – Climate Change, UNB Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, presents “Art, Science and Climate Change”, in which he explores the toll human beings are having on our planet. Along with Manufactured Landscapes, this presentation will open your eyes, mind and heart to the power, for better or for worse, of human engineering and industrialization.

Edward Burtynsky: Material Matters and Manufactured Landscapes will be on exhibition until April 5.

For more images from the Exhibition please visit our Exhibition Page.

A placard from our One Drop at a Time Campaign

A placard from our One Drop at a Time awareness campaign

Some 'bling' for our One Drop at a Time awareness campaign

Film Screening of Chasing Ice

The panel discussion

Dr. James MacLellan Research Fellow with the Adaptations and Impacts Research Section,
of the Climate Research Division, of Environment Canada

World Water Day 2012:

Water Water... Everywhere (2012)

The UNB Art Centre produced this short movie in addition to a performance for World Water Day 2012

Participants in the performance included, Elvira Libertad Nuñez, Motherhood,

Georgia Rondos Out of Proportion Dance Company, UNB Dance, River Dancers: Taryn Knorren & Maclean Boyd,

The Stand and Deliver Poets, and a variety of drummers.

World Water Day 2011:

H2O: Liquid Measure

H2O: Liquid Measure

Information Panels throughout the galleries tell the tale of plastic water bottles.

A grade 2 class at Chipman Elementary helped out by making water bottle sculptures like this Dolphin.

The bottled water industry has more the $60 billion in sales annually, a lot of this water is simply municipal tap water.

Oromocto High School and Cambridge-Narrows Community School also made some sculptures.

It takes the city of Toronto 11 minutes to collect 6,500 water bottles.

Tropos

Deanna Musgrave

The following images are details of Deanna Musgrave's installation piece, Tropos. Each panel of this piece was 4 x 8 feet including the two projected panels. Tropos was installed in the round and had an audio component by Andrew Reed Miller, that surrounded the viewer. This exhibition accompanied our H2O: Liquid Measure exhibition for world water day 2011.

Deanna Musgrave, Tropos (detail)