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	Billy J. McCarroll How to Play a Winning Game Your Natural Way MARCH 12 TO MAY 1, 2011 Forty years ago, a lanky young artist with a shock of red hair, brushes in one hand and golf clubs in the other, left the sunny coast of California for the prairies of Alberta.  Not only would he choose to stay in Lethbridge, he would become instrumental in shaping the city’s reputation as a dynamic arts community while lending an uncommon and unmistakable voice to contemporary art in Canada.   Celebrating one of the few artists who could boast such accolades or elicit such praise, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery is pleased to devote its spaces to the work of Billy J. McCarroll. The exhibition features key examples from McCarroll’s most significant bodies of work and reveals how many of the strategies and interests he explores remain evident, albeit reconfigured, transformed or quoted, with each new shift. Opening Reception: Saturday, March 12 Reception Sponsored by: Meyers Norris Penny 7 PM: In Conversation with Billy J. McCarroll, Peter White and Jeffrey Spalding 8 PM: Opening Remarks and artist walkthrough Read more
	Billy J. McCarroll Speaks in Art Now WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 AT NOON University of Lethbridge Recital Hall (W570) Billy J. McCarroll  lives in Lethbridge, Alberta were he continues his practice in art and music.  He immigrated to Canada in 1971 and  has taught and served in various  administrative positions as a member of the University of Lethbridge Faculty of  Art. From 1972-1982 He was Director/Curator of the University Art Gallery and visiting artist coordinator. read more
	In Conversation w. Billy, Peter & Jeffrey Join us at 7 PM on March 12 for a special session of In Conversation with artist Billy J. McCarroll, Peter White and Jeffrey Spalding. Peter White is an independent curator and writer based in Montreal. Formerly a journalist with The Globe and Mail, curator/director of the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, and director of the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, he has organized numerous exhibitions of contemporary and historical art and developed a wide range of museum programming initiatives. He has taught on curatorial practice in the Museums Studies Program at the University of Toronto and is on the board of CERAS (Centre for South Asian Studies) and the SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art. In 2008 he was recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Joan M. Lowndes Award in recognition of achievement in critical and curatorial work on contemporary Canadian art. Jeffrey Spalding is an artist, educator and art museum professional. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland 1951, he obtained his BA from the University of Guelph, (Guelph, Ontario); MA from Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) and MFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Spalding has taught at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; York University; The Banff Centre; and The University of Lethbridge. He has been an invited artist and guest speaker internationally, and has delivered lectures at the majority of art institutions in Canada. He has served in leadership roles for major museums, President of the Glenbow Museum 2007-2009, Director and Chief Curator 2002-2007 of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. From 1999-2002, he was Professor of Art, Florida State University and Director of the Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida and prior was Professor of Art and Director/Chief Curator at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery 1982-1999. Previously he was Director of the Anna Leonowens Art Gallery of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Both Jeffrey Spalding and Peter White have contributed essays to the exhibition catalogue Billy J. McCarroll: How to Play a Winning Game Your Natural Way.

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