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Shotgun-Review Launch

ANTHEA BLACK (Calgary Alberta), Nicole Burisch
Wednesday, December 10 at 7:00 PM

Join us for the launch of Shotgun-Review.ca! Meet the writers and editors, sign up to receive updates about new posts, learn about writing opportunities, read online reviews of exhibitions in Alberta, and join us for a panel discussion about visual arts writing.

Shotgun-Review.ca is a web publication reviewing contemporary art events, projects and exhibitions in Alberta, Canada. Edited and organized by Nicole Burisch & Anthea Black, the Alberta edition is a partner project of Shotgun-Review.com in San Francisco. Each month we divide and conquer - reviewing as many spaces as possible and building dialogue around contemporary art in Alberta.

 

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Shotgun-Review Launch by Kim Neudorf

 

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ANTHEA BLACK

is an artist, art writer and cultural worker based in Calgary, Alberta. She has attended NSCAD, ACAD, The Banff Centre, and several conferences on contemporary art and Artist Run Culture. Her projects have been exhibited throughout Canada, and her writing has been published by FFWD Weekly, Bordercrossings, FUSE, and through the Artist Run community in Calgary and beyond. She has held positions as the Director of Stride Gallery, a Board member of ARCCC/CCCAA, President of M:ST Performative Art Festival, is the co-editor of Shotgun-Review.ca and on the program committee for Fairy Tales International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.  In 2007, she launched looking for love in all the wrong places, a series of posters by queer artists for public spaces.

Nicole Burisch

Nicole Burisch is an Alberta-based artist, critic, and cultural worker with a strong interest in contemporary craft theory. A graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design’s Ceramics programme, her current research focuses on the intersections of contemporary art, craft, and activist practices. She has presented and published writing on this topic for several local and international conferences and publications, most recently in the anthology Utopic Impulses: Essays in Contemporary Ceramics. Burisch’s writing on contemporary craft and art has been published by FFWD Weekly, TRUCK Gallery, The New Gallery, spur magazine and Ceramics Art and Perception. Along with Anthea Black, she is currently the co-editor of Shotgun-Review.ca, an online web journal with reviews and images of fine art events, projects, and exhibitions in Calgary and Alberta.