Tour with Naomi Potter and Katherine Ylitalo

Join Calgary-based curator, writer, and educator Katherine Ylitalo and Esker Director/Curator Naomi Potter for a tour of Dimensions of Intimacy, where they will reflect on the reception of Sterbak’s work over the last four decades. This tour will be an opportunity for Ylitalo to reflect on her involvement installing Jana Sterbak: States of Being, presented at The Nickle Art Museum (now Nickle Galleries) at The University of Calgary in 1992 where Ylitalo was Curator of Art from 1990-1996.

Katherine Ylitalo was born in the settlement known as Anaquashatanik to the Nacotchtanks of the area, and grew up in various places in the world thanks to the diplomatic life of her parents. In 1986, she came to Calgary where she continues to work as a curator, writer, educator, garden historian and gardener. She experienced the flood and the time that followed directly as an instructor in the art department at the University of Calgary, the curator of the Bow Valley College collection, the wife of an artist whose work was in basement storage in the most severely impacted area of downtown, and a member of the Calgary arts community.

Image: Katherine Ylitalo, photo by: Dana Prediger. Naomi Potter, photo by: Christina (plus) nathan.

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