FREE Artist Talk and Q&A with Toni Cormier at KOAC

Join us for an afternoon Artist Talk with Artist-in-Residence Toni Cormier as she shares the ideas, observations, and research guiding her time at KOAC.

Toni’s practice explores the interconnected relationships between living beings and their environments, using visual narratives drawn from nature to reflect experiences of agency, kinship, power, loss, desire, and hopeful futures. During her residency, Toni will spend time moving through KOAC’s aspen forests and surrounding landscapes and meltwater systems, studying how light reveals, obscures, reflects, and refracts across water, plants, insects, animals, and human interactions.

Through daily walks, observational studies, en plein air sketches, and experiments in charcoal, graphite, watercolour, and painting, Toni is developing a body of research rooted in direct encounter with the land. These studies will gradually evolve into a new series of intimate oil paintings created from time spent building relationship with place.

This artist talk offers visitors an opportunity to learn more about Toni's process, hear about her evolving residency research, and learn how observation, environmental systems, and social systems shape her artistic practice and visual concepts.

Guests are invited to explore the sculpture park grounds and take part in conversation about art, ecology, and creative practice in relation to place.

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Sunday, June 14, 2026
Doors open at 2:00 PM
Artist Talk and Moderated Q&A begins at 2:30 PM

Studio mingling and refreshments until 4:00 PM

Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre
244034 Horizon View Road
Calgary, AB T3Z 3M5

Admission: Free (donations to KOAC are welcome and help support artists and the park)
Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Toni Cormier is a visual artist based in Mohkinstis (Calgary, Alberta). Working

primarily in painting and sculpture, she explores relationships and social power

dynamics through the metaphor of sport fishing. Scenes of play, deception,

absurdity, and social roles happen over a backdrop of dream-like landscapes.

Cormier graduated with distinction from the Alberta University of the Arts with a

Bachelor of Fine Arts with disctinction in Drawing. She exhibited at Herringer Kiss

Gallery in Surface, Surface and participated in BUMP’s 2025 Road Works Festival.

Calgary Arts Development has generously supported her. Cormier maintains an

active role in the Mohkinstis arts community as an artist and arts programmer,

including her current position at National accessArts Centre as the 2D

Painting/Drawing Faculty.

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Studio Access & Accessibility: The residency studio is a short five-minute walk from the main parking lot along a gravel path, which involves some uneven terrain. Weather appropriate clothing depending on our fluctuating spring climate is recommended. The studio entrance is at ground level with no stairs. For accessibility questions or assistance, please contact:

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