Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts
9225 - 118 ave
Edmonton, AB
T5G 0K6
Ph: (780)474-7611
Fx: (780)474-7601
Email: info@ninahaggertyart.ca
or click here for Membership/Registration/Information Request
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Studio Hours of Operation:
Monday to Friday : 10:00am - 2:00pm
Closed Saturdays, Sundays, and Statutory Holidays
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Stollery Gallery
9702 - 111 ave
Edmonton, AB
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Gallery Hours of Operation:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday : 9:30am - 2:30pm
Tuesday and Thursday : 9:30am - 4:00pm and 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Closed Saturdays, Sundays, and Statutory Holidays
The Stollery Gallery hours generally depend on the exhibit being shown. To verify current gallery hours you can call the Nina Haggerty Centre at (780)474-7611, or you may find the current hours listed on the Events page or Current Exhibit on the Nina Haggerty News page.
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Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts
Wendy Hollo, Centre Director
Marta Beranek - Lead Artist
Jon Corbett - Office Administration
Sherri Chaba - Lead Artist
Brenda Christiansen - Lead Artist
Paul Freeman - Lead Artist
Cindy Fuhrer - Lead Artist
David Janzen - Lead Artist/Centre Facilitator
Cynthia Sentara - Lead Artist
Susan Seright - Lead Artist (Clay)
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NHCA BOARD MEMBERS
Jeni Adler
Paul Bellemare
Yvonne DuBourdieu - Secretary/Treasurer
Curtis Gillespie - Chair
Ailien Holdis
Connie Moores
Roberta Moro
Harold Pearse - Vice Chair
Brian Webb
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| All people have the right to achieve their highest potential, which includes the right to creative expression. Creativity lies within everyone and is often expressed through the arts. The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts believes in the importance of the creation and exhibition of art by those who face barriers to artistic expression. |
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The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts exists to:
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Provide a supportive place where people with developmental disabilities can become practicing artists.
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Promote the Centre's collective of artists.
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Provide opportunities for the exhibition of work by artists who face barriers, including the Centre's artists' collective.
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Operate a public gallery and other outreach programs that connect artists and audiences.
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The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts believes that:
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The arts provide an ideal way to develop and express one's identity and when this takes place, transformation can occur for the artist and the audience.
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Artists in the collective need to be offered a range of possibilities for artistic expression and be able to choose their own medium and work at their own pace.
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Sharing artistic expression with the public is important and that we need to seek out opportunities to connect artists and audiences.
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Artists in the collective are expected to focus seriously on their own artistic practice and the studio experience.
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Artistic collaboration is powerful and can enhance artistic growth, community awareness and investment.
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Who Was Nina Haggerty"
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 Nina Haggerty was born in 1915, a year after her sister Rita. The girls never knew their father, a soldier killed in the Great War. Early in life, both girls contracted polio and the "sky fell in." Their mother took the girls to the Mayo Clinic in the United States for treatment, anxious to do everything she could for them. While there, she met and married a man that appeared to answer all their prayers. Unfortunately, it soon became clear that he was an alcoholic and abusive when drinking. In an effort to protect the girls, their mother took the advice of friends and placed them in an institution in Red Deer, Alberta. They remained behind its walls for over 50 years.
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The story does have a happy ending, however. Although it did not happen until very late in their lives, the women finally realized their dream of living together ina house within the community. They traveled, celebrated Christmases, and shared a home just as they had as children.
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It was during this last decade of her life that Nina was introduced to art. She had found her passion. Nina loved to paint and showed great talent for it. She created many beautiful paintings that now hang proudly in the homes of friends and support staff.
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One can only imagine the contribution she would have been able to make in her lifetime had her gift been recognized and nurtured earlier. Three years after her death in 1999, the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts opened its doors. Her life underscores the great importance of providing people with developmental disabilities the chance to find creative outlets for expressing their experiences and emotions.
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Nina and Rita's story is published in a collection of life stories titled Someone Like That, written by award-winning Alberta author Curtis Gillespie and published by Rowan Books. Copies are available through the Nina Haggerty Centre.
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