The Glenbow Museum is a nice mini size museum in the heart of downtown Calgary. Last year it saw many events featuring the Asian community; exhibitions on Hindu art, as well as authentic century old Buddhas and a showing of a Japanese Buddhist shrine.
But the exhibit that stood out in my mind was a sculptural and film exhibition of fellow Saskatchewan artist Joe Fafard. The Glenbow is very easy to get to; it is beside several bus lines and the downtown train terminals. I was greeted warmly at the desk and was offered to take my coat to a cloakroom, as well as there are temporary lockers in case you want to store your shopped items, purse or knapsack.
The show was well curated, very spacious and well lit; a movie was playing which featured Fafard's work using hectares of acreage to plough an aerial view of a horse. By planting different mediums, like wheat or oats for example, Fafard could manipulate the colors and shadowing of his image. The film covered the process over many months and you were witness to changing of the seasons and therefore more incarnations of his creation.
You also had an option of going to an arts and crafts area to express hands on several exercises that were already organised for you. How to create a three dimensional cow or to how draw a well proportioned horse with charcoal, a very thorough and sensory experience overall.