It’s the final week to view the Mitchell Art Gallery’s fall exhibition, GLAD YOU CLOSER HOME / NEW WHITE WHISKER MARY!

Visit us from Tuedsay to Saturday, 12-5 p.m., with extended hours on Thursdays until 7 p.m. Don’t miss this immersive exhibition from Cait McKinney and Hazel Meyer, featuring the archives of local legends Mary Imrie and Jean Wallbridge, who were lovers and founders of the first women-led architecture firm in Canada in the 1950s.

Mary Imrie (1918 – 1988) and Jean Wallbridge (1912 – 1979) operated their architecture firm – the first run by women in Canada – at Six Acres, the home they built for their work and life together overlooking the North Saskatchewan River in west Edmonton. When Mary Imrie passed away, she bequeathed the records of their remarkable architectural practice and adventurous life, along with their home, to the province of Alberta. With a title borrowed from a telegram in the collection, GLAD YOU CLOSER HOME / NEW WHITE WHISKER MARY is Cait McKinney and Hazel Meyer’s immersive exhibition that playfully imagines and speculates in the spaces between the correspondence, amateur 8mm film recordings and modernist buildings that Imrie and Wallbridge left behind.

Head to the MAG’s website to learn more!

From the Mitchell Art Gallery