A photographer on the move, John Conway is trying to capture Saskatchewan. He is stealthy, catching landscapes off-guard, and in the process recording astonishing scenes, striking paradoxes, and disquieting reminders that are often overlooked. Saskatchewan: Uncommon Views rejoices in a landscape known only to insiders as Conway celebrates his province with affection and a keen eye for unusual detail. With essays by Sharon Butala, David Carpenter, and Helen Marzolf, this blending of text and image will both surprise and invite wonder.

"Greenw∞sh was an art project, featuring work by Kyath Battie, Rachel Evans, Scott Evans, Robert Hengeveld, Marlene Jess, and Xane St Phillip, that entangled the relationships among natural, technological, and consumerist ecosystems."--Open Space website.

This book chronicles the career of Sam Meigs, a Governor General's Award-winning visual artist who taught at the University of Victoria for 25 years and whose work has been exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Designed by Clint Hutzulak at Rayola Creative.

Widely recognized and admired in countercultural communities but overlooked by the mainstream for decades, Anna Banana has been fearlessly challenging convention as Town Fool and Doktor Anna Freud, producing parodic publications, creating and exchanging artist's stamps and other original artworks and staging banana-themed events that she documents for a network of like-minded artists around the world. It is this vibrant community of creative individuals that has both fuelled her work and embraced it, and it is their long history of communicating by mail-welcoming anyone interested in participating-that has laid the groundwork for today's social media networks.Anna Banana: 45 Years of Fooling Around with A. Banana is a compelling retrospective of the artist's work and her place in art history. Michelle Jacques traces Banana's evolution from Anne Long to conceptual artist Anna Banana and the breadth of her oeuvre. Craig Saper contemplates the paradox that an artist of her stature could remain virtually unknown while subverting mainstream art and culture so relentlessly and so humorously for so long. Anne Thurmann-Jajes relates the value of the Banana Rag and other publications in publicizing the artist's actions and maintaining contact with other artists. And Edward M. Goméz highlights the importance of Banana's fun, frank and frequently experimental art in engaging new audiences and bridging the historic anti-art practices of Dada and Fluxus and today's contemporary practices. Like the artist herself, this remarkable book will enlighten, engage and surprise.

"Gust Burns is a pianist, composer and foremost an improviser, based in Seattle, Washington. He continues to develop new routes into improvisation on the piano, working with diverse areas of music including silence, density, structure and form, extending traditional piano technique and developing new techniques for inside the piano. During his residency at Open Space, Gust deconstructed an abandoned piano, piece-by-piece and reassembled some parts into a unique instrument organizing other parts into a gallery installation. Gust launched his residency with a performance on the piano prior to its deconstruction on Monday, March 1. See this process documented in a 144 page flip book image series from start to finish."--Open Space website.