Artist's Talk: Aganetha Dyck (online)

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The AGR is pleased to present a pre-recorded artist talk with Aganetha Dyck, in conversation with Curator Sandee Moore.

Aganetha Dyck, who became an artist while living in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, has been creating artwork assisted by honeybees and beekeepers for over 20 years. She will share her experiences and examples of artwork created in collaboration with honeybees in this pre-recorded artist talk.

Dyck’s Mennonite heritage and its emphasis on thrift is a source of inspiration for her artwork in which she commonly gives new life to broken and discarded items. Famously, she has reshaped wool sweaters into tiny, shrunken effigies, used family pickling recipes to preserve buttons from the sewing factory that occupied her studio before it was a space for artists and placed hand-crocheted doilies and broken porcelain figurines into beehives to be “mended” by the bees.

Dyck’s artworks reframe bees as conscious agents who are creative and multisensorial communicators.

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In 2005, after 30 years in operation, the name was changed to the Art Gallery of Regina to better reflect its scope and role in the community.

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