Artist Ranch Project Announces 2011 Artists

January 25th, 2011 by Lauren Piercy, Western Showcase committee volunteer

Artist Ranch Project, part of Western Showcase, is excited to announce four artists, Philip BanduraJoanne MacDonaldEveline Kolijn and Adele Woolsey as the featured artists for Stampede 2011. For those of you not “in the know”, four amazing contemporary artists are invited each year to visit and experience a working ranch in Alberta – this year, the artists will be at the Homeplace Ranch near Priddis Alberta. They spend the year creating artworks inspired by the experience, and exhibit them at the following Calgary Stampede Western Showcase exhibition. Be sure to come down to the Western Oasis to experience what these artists have created.

 On another happy note…Tim Belliveau, one of Artist Ranch Project’s featured artists in 2010 and one of the trio of glass-blowers known as Bee Kingdom, was named to Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 along with his colleagues Ryan Marsh and Philip Bandura, the latter of which will be showing at Stampede 2011. Congrats to the talented trio!