Anyone is Saskatchewan was invited to submit works to the open call exhibition. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)

By Alison Sandstrom

Community showcase

Curator organizes ‘137 different personalities’ for the P.A. Winter Festival Art Show

Jan 30, 2020 | 5:47 PM

The two-day process of arranging the pieces submitted to the annual Winter Festival Art Show has finished at the Mann Gallery.

Guest curator and artist Tim Moore told paNOW the project is challenging because of the volume and variety of the artwork.

“It is very different than trying to curate a normal exhibition from one artist of two artists,” he said. “You’ve got 137 different personalities, 137 different works. It’s a lot to combine into one space.”

This year is the 44th edition of the Winter Festival Art Show. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)

Anyone in Saskatchewan was invited to submit work for the show, which spills out into the front lobby.

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“You start out with this overwhelming feeling,” Moore said of curating the exhibition.

One of the first things he did was select a few pieces to “ground” different areas of the gallery.

“You use one or two artworks to just kind of start the wall off and that sort of creates a theme for that portion of the gallery whether it be colour or medium or subject matter,” he said.

From there he built the show around those pieces, tweaking, refining and mixing up the arrangement over the course of two days on Tuesday and Wednesday.

“Bringing in this level of work by so many different artists really does speak well for Prince Albert and area,” he said.

Paintings sit waiting to be hanged. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)

The Winter Festival Art Show and Sale opens Feb. 7.

“It’s always been that one exhibition of the year where people can come in and they can see what’s going on in their community, region and even provincially,” Moore said. “It is a really good way of keeping tabs on what is actually happening in your backyard.”

(Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)

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