The University of Lethbridge is pleased to present  a new exhibit of U of L students artwork, in the new curated exhibit From Where I Stand: Annual University of Lethbridge Student Art Exhibition , which opens with a reception, March 8 at the Dr. Foster Penny building (324-5th Street South) .

“It’s part of our museum studies program,”said professor Devon Smither.

“The students learn how to curate and organize and exhibition and how to do an installation as part of their course credit,” Smither said.

  Curator and student Chloe Gust is excited to present a variety of works from 28 different artists reflecting on the theme of the body, subjectivity and identity relating to the surrounding world.
“I’m impressed with the breadth of the submissions. There’s ceramics, oil paintings, photographs and sculpture,” Smither said.

“We received almost 50 submissions. Lots of people  submitted more than one pieces,” Gust said, adding it was a tough job to trim down the works for the exhibition.

Six new art exhibits open at Casa tonight, mostly featuring different ways the artists have altered  and manipulated paper.
Angeline Simon explores some of her favourite Lethbridge locations in her Passage Gallery exhibit “ gently passing by.”
“ There are photos I bought from the Galt Museum. I wanted to feature some of the places in Lethbridge that are special to me,” said Katie Bruce.
They’re all locations from 1890 to the 1950s,” she said.

 She manipulated some of the images to make them appear three dimensional.
 There are two big exhibits  in the main gallery.

 David Hoffos, who is known for larger, three dimensional installations and sculptures, many of which are on display at the Owl Acoustic lounge, narrows his focus to photos in “Anamorphic Arrays and Other  Variations.”
“This exhibit is two dimensional. He’s scanned mostly old advertising material, cut them up, scanned them, cut them up and scanned them again,” described Casa curator Darcy Logan.

CASA  celebrates the body with a new exhibit combining the talents of guest curators  Jorge Sandoval and Brenda Brandley in their new exhibition “Mapping the Body: Wearing the Other” which opens tonight, Saturday, Nov. 3 at Casa.
“Mapping the Body is the third iteration of  a continuously evolving project combining  the efforts of students, and faculty of the Lethbridge College Fashion Design and Sustainable Production department and the University of Lethbridge drama department.

“It is the culmination of a three year project,” said Brenda Brandley, Lethbridge College lead instructor, fashion design and  sustainability.

The 20 works in the  were created through a variety of mediums using found items like plastic bags, textiles, digital photography and computer graphics.
The first exhibit was two years ago at the Penny Gallery downtown and at Lethbridge College the next year.
“ There are 20 different artists involved in this  exhibit. there were 40 at the beginning. Some of these pieces were in the last one and some of have been in all three. They‘ve evolved a lot since then,” Brandley observed.

“So it‘s been a really interesting process to be involved in,” she said.

“We wanted people to get a chance to express themselves and think about sustainability and to be able to visualize the body in their own way,” she continued.
“ I’m really passionate about sustainability,” she said.