Artist Tour with David Garneau

Join artist David Garneau, UCalgary alum and Governor General’s Award recipient, for a tour of the exhibitions David Garneau: Dark Chapters and Reading the Ruins.

Monday, June 22 at 3 - 4 pm, followed by a book signing

UCalgary Founders’ Gallery

The Military Museums, 4520 Crowchild Trail SW, Calgary

Tour included with paid museum admission.

Following the tour, there will be a book signing for Dark Chapters: Reading the Still Lives of David Garneau. Published by the University of Regina Press, this richly annotated full-colour book features essays by seventeen writers and poets including Susan Musgrave, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Fred Wah, Larissa Lai, John G Hampton. Available for purchase at the Museum Gift Shop for $34.60 (incl. tax)

David Garneau: Dark Chapters and Reading the Ruins comprises a pairing of exhibitions by Canadian Métis artist and scholar, David Garneau. Dark Chapters, curated by Arin Fay, uses metaphorical still life paintings to share the lived experience of contemporary Indigenous people contending with the legacy of colonialism and institutional containment.

Reading the Ruins, curated by Dick Averns, continues the vein of still life paintings to contemplate current conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine, and the ongoing legacy of the Dark Times that followed the repression of Métis people. Reading the Ruins, includes new paintings featuring NWMP-era artefacts from the holdings of University of Calgary Libraries, Special Collections and Archives. The re-contextualized paramilitary artefacts are also displayed.

Exhibitions run at Founders’ Gallery until August 30, 2026.