Did you know neuroscience shows that making art actually makes us healthier and happier? 🧠✨

Join us on Saturday, November 7 from 10am to 12pm at the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery for Make Art: Feel Better. This isn’t about the final masterpiece; it’s about the messy, joyful process of playing with colour and texture. Perfect for curious beginners or artists looking for a creative reset!

🎨 One-off sessions 🎨 No experience needed 🎨 Expect to get messy!

About Your Instructor

Tanya Collard is a professional artist and art consultant who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design. With extensive experience in post-secondary arts education, she specializes in “process-based” instruction, helping individuals use art as a tool for self-expression, mindfulness, and health.

Pre-registration is encouraged on our website, but drop-ins are welcome the day of.

Cost: $25/Non-member | $20/MAG Member

Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada through their National Engagement initiative. The National Gallery of Canada’s National Engagement initiative is generously supported by Michael Nesbitt, with additional funding from the National Gallery of Canada Foundation.

Elaine Cameron-Weir's practice explores the systems humans use to navigate the unknown, including science, religion, governance, and creative fields. Her sculptures transform objects from scientific, medical, military, and spiritual contexts into reliquary-like forms that symbolize broader belief systems and power structures. By combining found materials with handcrafted ones—such as enamel, glass, metal, and leather—her installations often appear suspended, balanced by cables and architectural frameworks. These works incorporate transient elements such as heat, light, and scent, hinting at transformation and decay, while symmetrical shapes highlight dualities in perception and storytelling. Though open to multiple interpretations, her works suggest thresholds or portals between states of being.

Born in Red Deer, Alberta, in 1985, Cameron-Weir lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Dressing for Windows (Exploded View) at SCAD Museum of Art (2022) and STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH at the Henry Art Gallery (2021). Her work has been featured in major group exhibitions including The Milk of Dreams at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century at BAMPFA (2021).

Visitors will be responsible for finding their own transportation to RDMAG.

Image credit: Installation view Bookends, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, AUArts, 2026. Photo courtesy of Katy Whitt.

Join us for an artist talk with Elaine Cameron-Weir whose practice explores the systems humans use to navigate the unknown, including science, religion, governance, and creative fields. Her sculptures transform objects from scientific, medical, military, and spiritual contexts into reliquary-like forms that symbolize broader belief systems and power structures.

Born in Red Deer, Alberta, in 1985, Cameron-Weir lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Dressing for Windows (Exploded View) at SCAD Museum of Art (2022) and STAR CLUB REDEMPTION BOOTH at the Henry Art Gallery (2021). Her work has been featured in major group exhibitions including The Milk of Dreams at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century at BAMPFA (2021).

The MAG is collaborating with the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) to bring Elaine ‘home’ to talk about her practice and solo exhibit "Bookends" that is up at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery on the AUArts campus in Calgary from September 18 – November 21, 2026. To help folks tour Bookends, the Exhibitions team at Illingworth Kerr Gallery is offering FREE return fare to the exhibit on the Red Arrow. Rides can be requested by filling out a form available on our website.

Both this talk at the MAG and visiting the Illingworth Kerr Gallery to tour the exhibit are free. Everyone welcome!

This initiative is presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada through their National Engagement initiative which is generously supported by Michael Nesbitt, with additional funding from the National Gallery of Canada Foundation.

Image Credit: Installation view A WAY OF LIFE, Lisson Gallery, 2024. Photography courtesy of the artist © Elaine Cameron-Weir

Making Art History is a 2-part micro-art and history class. The first class starts with a brief lesson on art movements or artists in history (as well as contemporary artists). The second class will occur the following week, and we’ll focus on completing our projects while enjoying a lively discussion about the themes and techniques we’ve been exploring! ✨

This month’s Making Art History explores Mirrored Architectural Marvels 🪞

This class will be a fun learning trip that takes us around the world and through history to look at how mirrors have been used in architecture old and new. Join us to experience the wonders of mirrored architecture in places like New York’s Summit One building, the mind-bending Iranian mirror mosaics of Golestan Palace, and many more! We’ll be using various-sized mirrors and mirrored materials to make our own dazzling small-scale sculptural pieces.

📌 Please note: Classes are a bit different this month, running November 18 & 25 from 6-8 pm. Registration covers both classes. All supplies included.

Cost: $25/non-member | $20/member

Come check out some of our most Rare & Remarkable creatives! 💎

The Rare & Remarkable Artisan Market features a curated selection of local artisans and makers, offering a unique shopping experience just in time for holiday gift giving. 🛍️ Taking place in the permanent exhibit Remarkable Red Deer: Stories from the Heart of the Parkland, the Rare & Remarkable Artisan Market is in a one-of-a-kind setting that encourages learning more about our community, buying local, and the chance to take in the incredible artwork in Gallery 1 & 2.

The Artisan Market on Friday, November 20, is open to Members of the Red Deer & District Museum Society only. Members are invited to be the first to peruse the market, gather with one another to catch up, and enjoy a beverage or two plus some delicious nibbles. ☕ A small way for the MAG to say thank you to our members for another great year!

📌 Please note: The MAG will be closed to the public from 5-8pm for this members-only evening.

Did you know neuroscience shows that making art actually makes us healthier and happier? 🧠✨

Join us on Saturday, November 21 from 10am to 12pm at the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery for Make Art: Feel Better. This isn’t about the final masterpiece; it’s about the messy, joyful process of playing with colour and texture. Perfect for curious beginners or artists looking for a creative reset!

🎨 One-off sessions 🎨 No experience needed 🎨 Expect to get messy!

About Your Instructor

Tanya Collard is a professional artist and art consultant who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design. With extensive experience in post-secondary arts education, she specializes in “process-based” instruction, helping individuals use art as a tool for self-expression, mindfulness, and health.

Pre-registration is encouraged on our website, but drop-ins are welcome the day of.

Cost: $25/Non-member | $20/Member

Art Speaks is a learning series developed and delivered in partnership with the Red Deer Arts Council.

Photographing Your 3D Artworks: Essential Skills for Professional Digital Photo-Documentation

This presentation is for artists who want to develop skill in documenting their 3D artworks. By focusing on the basic principles and methods, Paul Leathers will assist you in developing the ability to see beyond the artwork and into the image. He will discuss setting up a photoshoot for use with a smartphone or digital point-and-shoot camera as well as various accessories and software that can be used to vastly improve image quality. 📷

“Photo-documentation is the last step in finishing an artwork; a necessary one that, in our increasingly busy schedules, is all too often neglected. The point here is to keep the process simple and inexpensive, …so that it gets done!”

📌 IMPORTANT NOTE! This session of Art Speaks will be hosted in The White Gallery, located in the lower level of Sunworks Living at 110-4913 50 Ave. 🎨

November 25 | 6:30-8pm

Reserve your spot online on our website!

$10/non-member | $5/member | $5/student

Grab a friend and discover more about where you live! November’s topic TBC. Presented by the Central Alberta Historical Society, hosted by the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery in the Capitol Theatre. November 25 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.

This talk is FREE to attend!