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Kinetic sculptures by Katie Ohe, KOAC
This first link is the KOAC Arts Centre Introduction Video (7:17 minutes long). It includes these sculptures in motion.
youtu.be/QcBKwZ_KpPA
This link takes you to a YouTube video of these kinetic sculptures in motion (or possibly a very similar set?) created by sculptor, Katie Ohe. The description given is "Sculpture Art - Welded steel. The ovoid forms of each sculpture are off-set from the central rotary fulcrum. As the sculptures rotate, the ovoids of each sculpture will appear to disconnect, and rotate uniquely. independently."
youtu.be/kWgaiLnbG_A
This photo was taken on 27 October 2017. It was a day filled with interest and enjoyment, and the morning was so different from the afternoon. It felt a day well spent. The morning was spent on a preliminary bio-blitz at the KOAC Art Centre in Springbank, west of Calgary. Straight from there, I drove east of the city to see and photograph an old barn that I had wanted to see for a number of years. A friend posted a photo of an old barn the other day and it turned out to be the very barn that I hadn't yet found. Without being asked, he told me exactly where it was. I had been looking for it just a few days before and must have missed it by just one road.
Early morning, I set out to drive west of the city, to meet a small group of friends at a very special place. It was just starting to get light when I left home and the pink sunrise colours over the distant peaks was beautiful. Unfortunately, I couldn't stop anywhere to take a photo, until I actually arrived.
We had been invited to visit and do a preliminary bio-blitz at an art centre in Springbank, belonging to two amazing, vibrant, creative people who were a joy to meet. There are so many things I could write, but will instead borrow the words from various articles about this lively, hardworking couple.
A friend who usually comes out with us on our May Species Counts knows Katie and Harry and had told our main Naturalist, Gus Yaki, that they were interested in learning more about what plant species were growing on their 20 acres of land. I feel very fortunate to have been invited. Of course, it was not the best time of year to do this, though our Naturalist (unlike me) knows all the plants and trees without their flowers.
I will add some information about this generous pair, as I find again the various websites that I was looking at. I say "generous" because Katie and Harry have donated their home, Gallery, collections, and land, while continuing to live there at present. A tremendous gift!
"Harry Kiyooka and Katie Ohe have dedicated their lives to art. Their work has helped shape the local, national and international art scenes. And now they are taking the step of not just being figurative institutions on the scene, but turning their home into a literal institution for art creation.
Ohe, still a part-time instructor at ACAD (Alberta College of Art + Design), has been teaching art since 1959 and has been with ACAD since 1970. As a teacher, she has promoted the creativity of a diverse range of students. While teaching at the Calgary Allied Arts Centre, she also worked and lived out of the Hart family’s carriage house — that’s the Hart family of wrestling fame. Ohe taught art to the “Hitman” himself, Bret Hart, the eighth child of wrestling patriarch Stu Hart.
Harry didn’t seek the limelight,” says Deborah Herringer Kiss, director of the Herringer Kiss Gallery of Contemporary Art, who has known the couple for more than 15 years. “He didn’t care about having big shows or trying to get into museums. He didn’t care about any of that. He made it work by quietly, constantly creating art.”
A couple years shy of 90, Kiyooka is still a prolific painter. Inside his and Ohe’s home, his paintings hang alongside the “greats.” Other paintings line the walls of his studio, and he still works on several huge canvases. More paintings are stored behind couches and under beds, and there’s a dedicated storage room packed with filing cabinets, filled with his paintings." From an article in AvenueCalgary, from February 17, 2016 (see link below).
www.avenuecalgary.com/City-Life/Calgary-Contemporary-Art-...
www.koartscentre.org/
www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/work+progress/8484134...
One of Katie's kinetic sculptures (Chrome Plated Steel) in motion:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp05CHJGV6I
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-art-centre-springb...
Thank you so much, Katie and Harry, for allowing us to come and spend a morning with you at your beautiful home. Both of you, and your home full of beautifully created artwork, are an absolute inspiration.
youtu.be/QcBKwZ_KpPA
This link takes you to a YouTube video of these kinetic sculptures in motion (or possibly a very similar set?) created by sculptor, Katie Ohe. The description given is "Sculpture Art - Welded steel. The ovoid forms of each sculpture are off-set from the central rotary fulcrum. As the sculptures rotate, the ovoids of each sculpture will appear to disconnect, and rotate uniquely. independently."
youtu.be/kWgaiLnbG_A
This photo was taken on 27 October 2017. It was a day filled with interest and enjoyment, and the morning was so different from the afternoon. It felt a day well spent. The morning was spent on a preliminary bio-blitz at the KOAC Art Centre in Springbank, west of Calgary. Straight from there, I drove east of the city to see and photograph an old barn that I had wanted to see for a number of years. A friend posted a photo of an old barn the other day and it turned out to be the very barn that I hadn't yet found. Without being asked, he told me exactly where it was. I had been looking for it just a few days before and must have missed it by just one road.
Early morning, I set out to drive west of the city, to meet a small group of friends at a very special place. It was just starting to get light when I left home and the pink sunrise colours over the distant peaks was beautiful. Unfortunately, I couldn't stop anywhere to take a photo, until I actually arrived.
We had been invited to visit and do a preliminary bio-blitz at an art centre in Springbank, belonging to two amazing, vibrant, creative people who were a joy to meet. There are so many things I could write, but will instead borrow the words from various articles about this lively, hardworking couple.
A friend who usually comes out with us on our May Species Counts knows Katie and Harry and had told our main Naturalist, Gus Yaki, that they were interested in learning more about what plant species were growing on their 20 acres of land. I feel very fortunate to have been invited. Of course, it was not the best time of year to do this, though our Naturalist (unlike me) knows all the plants and trees without their flowers.
I will add some information about this generous pair, as I find again the various websites that I was looking at. I say "generous" because Katie and Harry have donated their home, Gallery, collections, and land, while continuing to live there at present. A tremendous gift!
"Harry Kiyooka and Katie Ohe have dedicated their lives to art. Their work has helped shape the local, national and international art scenes. And now they are taking the step of not just being figurative institutions on the scene, but turning their home into a literal institution for art creation.
Ohe, still a part-time instructor at ACAD (Alberta College of Art + Design), has been teaching art since 1959 and has been with ACAD since 1970. As a teacher, she has promoted the creativity of a diverse range of students. While teaching at the Calgary Allied Arts Centre, she also worked and lived out of the Hart family’s carriage house — that’s the Hart family of wrestling fame. Ohe taught art to the “Hitman” himself, Bret Hart, the eighth child of wrestling patriarch Stu Hart.
Harry didn’t seek the limelight,” says Deborah Herringer Kiss, director of the Herringer Kiss Gallery of Contemporary Art, who has known the couple for more than 15 years. “He didn’t care about having big shows or trying to get into museums. He didn’t care about any of that. He made it work by quietly, constantly creating art.”
A couple years shy of 90, Kiyooka is still a prolific painter. Inside his and Ohe’s home, his paintings hang alongside the “greats.” Other paintings line the walls of his studio, and he still works on several huge canvases. More paintings are stored behind couches and under beds, and there’s a dedicated storage room packed with filing cabinets, filled with his paintings." From an article in AvenueCalgary, from February 17, 2016 (see link below).
www.avenuecalgary.com/City-Life/Calgary-Contemporary-Art-...
www.koartscentre.org/
www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/work+progress/8484134...
One of Katie's kinetic sculptures (Chrome Plated Steel) in motion:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp05CHJGV6I
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-art-centre-springb...
Thank you so much, Katie and Harry, for allowing us to come and spend a morning with you at your beautiful home. Both of you, and your home full of beautifully created artwork, are an absolute inspiration.
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