THE GULF IN HISTORIC MAPS
(15TH-19TH centuries)
October 31, 2009 - March 13, 2010
This exhibition of ninety-seven significant historic maps from the private collection of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council - Ruler of Sharjah, offers a fascinating glimpse into the histories of both cartography and the Gulf region itself.

SPECIAL LECTURE

The Evolution of the Cartography of the Gulf Region

between the 2nd and 19th Centuries

by Dr. B. J. Slot
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 2 pm
Convocation Hall, University Hall, 2nd Floor, McMaster University

Ben Slot is an historian and author of numerous books and articles on Gulf history, the history of the Mediterranean and Balkan countries. His lecture at McMaster University in conjunction with The Gulf in Historic Maps (15th - 19th centuries) exhibit at the McMaster Museum of Art will discuss the evolution of cartography in the Gulf region between the 2nd and 19th centuries.

Register for this lecture

1:30 p.m. Reception - Convocation Hall

3:30 p.m. The Gulf in Historic Maps (15th-19th centuries) exhibit at the McMaster Museum of Art

NATALKA HUSAR: BURDEN OF INNOCENCE
November 19, 2009 - January 16, 2010
Co-produced by the McMaster Museum of Art, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph and Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound
In this exhibition, celebrated Canadian artist Natalka Husar takes her lifelong obsession with painting and with Ukraine, her ancestral home, into new territory and presents three interwoven, though unresolved narratives, in the form of a history play in three acts.
Described as "the ultimate visual storyteller," Husar has exhibited extensively across North America in both solo and group exhibitions. She has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council, Toronto Arts Council and SSHRC. In 1992 CBC's Sunday Arts profiled her work in a half hour television documentary. Her work is in many private and public collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Husar teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

PUBLIC RECEPTION: Thursday November 19, 6-9pm
Free Opening Night Shuttle Bus from Toronto
Departs: 6 pm from the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto. Returns: 10 pm

ARTIST’S TALK: January 14, 6 – 7:30 pm

Image above: Natalka Husar, Burden of Innocence, 2007, oil on rag board (photo: Michael Rafelson)

FIERCE: Women's Hot-Blooded Film/Video
Curated by Janice Hladki
January 28 - March 27, 2010
A group exhibition of video and experimental film works by Maureen Bradley, Dana Claxton, Allyson Mitchell, and b. h. Yael: women who are at the forefront of Canadian based, media production and installation. Multiple themes thread through the exhibition's 15 works, which were produced between 1994 and 2008. Says Janice Hladki, exhibition Curator and Associate Professor at McMaster's School of the Arts, "In their interrogation and theorization of social and cultural relations of power, territories of land and body, and spectator responsibility, these works may be understood as hot-headed: intellectually tempestuous and thoughtfully simmering."
This exhibition will travel to the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa July 2 - August 28, 2011. It is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Image above: Dana Claxton, Buffalo Bone China 1997, multimedia installation. video still.

PUBLIC RECEPTION: Thursday January 28, 6-8pm