Home School:
Calgary Residential Art Spaces
as Community Interventions
Critical essay
Encounters in Socialverse symposium
York University Art History Graduate
Students Association
6 March 2009

This paper, delivered at a symposium about issues of community and collaboration in art, examined three grassroots Calgary art spaces that have re-purposed personal residences as art venues, situating the projects in the context of current debates about collaborative creativity and the history of artist-run culture in Canada.

Calgary welcome sign, seen entering the city from the west.