history of the window gallery at 924 17th Ave SW Calgary
This small scale interdisciplinary project space was originally started by the United Congress in 1999 as One Minute Happiness. In 2007 they handed it over to me and I renamed it Museo Poco. When Angie Inglis + Jane Grace + I closed Sugar Shack Art Salon in 2010 we co-curated the window gallery as Sugar Cube. Then it was a collaborative space known as La Fenêtre co-curated by me + Eddie Olson + White-field Senate. We closed the window gallery after 16 years at the end of 2015.
Photos row 1:
Romana Prokopiw / Leslie Sweder / Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner / John Will / Tanzerpudel (pudilluminator)
row 2:
Jolie Bird / Sally Raab / Jack Bride
DIY 2009-2010
The Sugar Shack Art Salon was an independent gallery and interdisciplinary project space run by Angela "Fat Harp Malone" Inglis, Lisa "Pretty Liver McGee" Brawn, and Jane "Boney Jones" Grace in 2009 and 2010 in a turn-of-the-century “cottage” in residential NW Calgary. Sugar Shack featured 77 local, provincial and national artists at shows such as Debutante’s Ball, Nursies, Paper Jam, Love Shack, DioramaRama!, God Show 2: The Resurrection, and Genderblender. There was also an artist residency, The L. S. Benschop Institute for the Preservation & Veneration of Imagination & Nostalgia. The art salon was closed when centipedes fell from the light sockets.
Sugarmobile and the Bambi Media Machine
Sugarmobile was an artmobile in a 1935 silver trailer from 2001 - 2002. Sugarmobile appeared at ACAD, Estate Gallery, Calgary Folk Festival, Stride Gallery, The Art Gallery of Calgary, and made several appearances in the parking lot of Carpenters Hall in Kensington, Calgary.
Bambi Media Machine was an artmobile in a 1962 Airstream Bambi from 2009 to 2010. This artmobile debuted in August 2009 with the Mobile Surgical Beautification Unit performance and film “I Liked You Better Before”.
independent art salons '02 - '07
Sugar Gallery was a 300 sq. ft. project space and alternative art salon in the Grain Exchange Building in downtown Calgary, 2001 - 2002. Sugar Estate Art Salon and Museum of Oddities was a collaboration between Milo Dlouhy, Lisa Brawn, and Angela Inglis, 2003 - 2004. The National Portrait Gallery Inc.’s Portrait Estate was a six month storefront museum collaboration between Milo Dlouhy, Lisa Brawn, and Angela Inglis, May - November 2007.
