Calling Home: Working Full Circle

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Calling Home: Working Full Circle

Illingworth Kerr Gallery | Alberta University of the Arts

Date: Monday, February 3, 2025
Time:
3:30pm
Location: Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre

Join us, to listen to AUArts alum Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal (BFA in Sculpture 2015) about their practice and community work. As a multi-disciplinary artist who engages between the contexts of traditional and contemporary materiality, culture, and histories, Cardinal weaves her analyzed lived experience into her artistic practice. Being locally rooted within the Treaty 7 Territory in what is now known as Alberta, Canada, Cardinal discusses how the land directly ties her to a sense of place and purpose through the various beings she invites into her work.

Cardinal is one of the thirty-three artists featured in Knowledge Made Concrete: 100 Years of Teaching and Collecting, currently on view at the IKG through March 8, 2025.

The exhibition is organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in celebration of the AGA’s and Alberta University of the Arts’ 100th Anniversaries, respectively in 2024 and 2026. Curated by Tak Pham and Lindsey Sharman. 

Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal (she/they) is a mixed-media, large-scale installation artist and a community activist. Born in Treaty 6 Territory, her ancestral roots are of Nêhiyaw (Cree), Austrian, Ukrainian and Deutsch (German) descent. She has been a visitor to Otôskwanihk (Calgary, AB) since 2009. Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2015, Cardinal has been a recipient of the National BMO 1st Art! Award, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Young Artist Award, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, and more recently the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal. Cardinal has been an active member in the urban Indigenous community in Treaty 7 Territory activating many social service positions throughout the years. Cardinal is a full-time student attending Mount Royal University’s Psychology program, and has been a Public Art Project Lead through Calgary Arts Development since January 2024.

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