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The Saint Mary's Gallery focuses on contemporary art, and features both emerging and established artists.

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Closing event for Phase Variations exhibition! Join us Thursday, April 14th, 7-9pm.

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Artist Lou Sheppard will be in the gallery on Saturday, 19 February from 2pm to 5pm to host a drop-in preview of his exhibition Phase Variations. Covid protocols in place. Limited occupancy, masks and proof of vaccination required.

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Lou Sheppard's exhibition Phase Variations is in its final stages of installation and should be completed by Friday, 18 February. Stay tuned for details on a preview event that afternoon as well as open gallery hours until the exhibition ends Sunday, 17 April.

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The gallery will be open from noon to five on Tuesday and Wednesday (11th,12th) for a last chance to view the collaborative installation by Claudia Legg, Frankie Macaulay, Mitchell Wiebe and Rob Shedden.

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Special 50th anniversary post! This milestone not only belongs to SMU Art Gallery, but also to MSVU Art Gallery and Dalhousie Art Gallery. Adam Myatt created this abstracted 50 out of the three gallery floor plan shapes. Thanks Adam and Happy Anniversary to all!

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The gallery will be open to visitors this weekend again from noon to five. Boost your study/work flow by letting your mind and body rest in a quiet space while gazing at a beautifully crafted geodesic dome!

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SMU AG will open its doors for some limited hours this month! The public is welcome to come view Rob Shedden's geodesic dome installation on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from noon until five pm. We will do the same for the following week (10th,11th,12th). Masks are required.

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Thanks to Adam Myatt for this juicy illustration.

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Another tasty participant in our 50th anniversary celebration is McDonald’s quarter pounder. An ordinary concept: 4 ounces of beef with ketchup, mustard, onions, dill pickles, on a sesame seed bun, but with the help of a catchy theme song and you get extra-ordinary!

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True story: A&W tried to grab some of that thirsty McDonald’s crowd in ‘80’s by introducing its third pound burger at the same price as the quarter pounder. To their dismay the majority of folks thought a third was smaller than a quarter and didn’t want to pay more for less!

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Rob Shedden sent pics of his progress on his geodesic dome project in the gallery. What a beautiful way to bring math into physical form, with expert craftsmanship!

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Window Studio Project #4 is underway in the gallery space with artist Rob Shedden!

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Dig it, while she was catching some rays on the Pacific something groovy was happening that very same year on the Atlantic...Saint Mary's University Art Gallery was established! Happy Anniversary to us both and thanks to Adam Myatt for this ginchiest of illustrations

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Although Barbie, the iconic fashion doll named after its creator's daughter, was born in 1959, she didn't go to Malibu until 1971. She hit the beach with a baby blue tricot suit, a yellow beach towel and long, long hair! (Malibu Ken, with bendable legs, sold separately)

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50 years ago Walt Disney World was created.
30 years ago I went there for the first time with my family, we drove our Westphalia down, my brother and I in the back asking "Are we there yet?" enough times to drive anyone crazy.

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8 years ago I had a kid, a.k.a. another chance to go to Disney World, "When you're 8 like I was".... whoops, sorry kid here's a t-shirt!
Happy 50th to SMUAG, Halifax's equivalent to Disney World!
xo Natalie
Concept: Natalie Slater
Photograph: Michael Fuller
Model: Louis Fuller

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She finds inspiration in her mixed racial and cultural identity, and is drawn to the immense healing embedded in tactile processes and the intimate narrative potential in craftwork as a means of accessing and sharing ancestral knowledge.

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For the final #SMUatHome Art Prompt, Lux Habrich invites you to build an altar to what moves you.

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Lux Habrich is a multidisciplinary visual artist, arts facilitator and support worker originally from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, practicing in K’jipuktuk/Halifax (BFA Interdisciplinary, NSCAD 2015).