For the third time since 2016, Art Placement is pleased to host an exhibition of work by the Visual Arts Faculty at the School for the Arts, University of Saskatchewan.

In addition to teaching and research, the Visual Arts Faculty at the University of Saskatchewan are also among the leading artists in the city, making work at the forefront of an ever-changing artistic landscape. Their work is diverse and often cross-disciplinary, merging new technologies with established genres, media, and forms. Individually, they have exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally, and their works have been collected by prestigious institutions across Canada and abroad. Featuring work by current faculty members Lisa Birke, Jennifer Crane, Cameron Forbes, Allyson Glenn, John Graham, Mary Longman, jake moore, and Alison Norlen, as well as outgoing members Tim Nowlin, and Susan Shantz, who retired in 2023 and 2024 respectively.

As practicing artists who operate within an academic context with a strong focus on research, for this exhibition each faculty member was invited to consider some of the potential ways that their artistic production might engage with the idea of "research" as subject, practice, or conceptual framework. Encouraged to not feel bound by the conventions of a commercial gallery, particularly traditional expectations of finish, the artists were instead given an opportunity to put their methods and means on display; to focus on processes rather than outcomes, questions rather than answers. The resulting work is both refreshingly tentative and profoundly sincere, a glimpse behind the curtain that deepens our understanding of each artist’s thought and material processes.

The exhibition is on view from August 24 - September 21, 2024