Parka Patio

Come show off your hardiness and celebrate Edmonton winter on Latitude 53's Parka Patio!

Latitude 53 presents the first annual Parka Patio on Saturday February 18, from 8 pm–late. The Parka Patio brings the magic of our Summer Rooftop Patio Series back for one special night in the winter—on the heated patio, with DJs Axe & Smash and Josh Johnson, video projection, decor by Elemental Interiors, warm and cold drinks and food from Elm Café, Upper Crust Café and The Bothy. Meanwhile, in the gallery we'll be hosting a silent auction with a host of great Edmonton artists, with more music from Easy Love and winter installation environments created by Mackenzy Albright and Rachelle Bowen, and Jes McCoy.

View posts about the Parka Patio on the Latitude 53 Blog.

Parka Patio tickets

Advance tickets are no longer available. Tickets will be available at the door for $15. Advance ticket-holders can also pick up their tickets at the door.

Party on the Patio

The Parka Patio is a celebration of winter in Edmonton. Forget the cold on our heated patio with hot and cold cocktails, lavish decor from Elemental Interiors, heart-warming comfort food and company. If that's not enough, DJs Axe & Smash and Joshn Johnson will keep you warm all evening, or you can relax and watch projected video art on our outdoor screen, produced by local artists.

Silent Art Auction & Installations

While the party is going on outside on the patio, you'll find a perfect chance to discover new emerging talent from Latitude 53's Edmonton community indoors. We'll have winter installations by artist Jes McCoy and the team of Mackenzy Albright and Rachelle Bowen, and our gallery walls will be filled with art by local artists that you can take home in a silent art auction—and help support Latitude 53's ongoing programming and initiatives with your purchases. Introduce yourself to Edmonton art!

Silent Art Auction – Artists

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• Kyle Appelt

  Kyle Appelt recently graduated with a BFA from the University of Alberta. Always a creative writer on the side, he has recently married his art and writing to create what he calls video narrative pieces. His current work explores parallels between human and animal behavior that consider ideas like karma, luck, fate, and chance.

• Atari28BETA

  in a pitch black crater on the darkside of the moon... atari28.blogspot.com

• Cindy Baker

• Cindy Baker

  Interdisciplinary and performance artist Cindy Baker is passionate about gender culture, queer theory, fat activism and art theory. Baker considers context her primary medium, working with whatever materials are needed to allow her to concentrate on the theoretical, conceptual and ephemeral aspects of her work. She believes that her art exists in its experience, and not in its objects.

  Based out of Saskatoon, Baker has exhibited and performed across Canada and has also recently performed in St Louis, Minneapolis, San Jose, Los Angeles, and Kuopio, Finland. In the past two years, Baker has organized screenings for a furry convention in San Jose, created diamond rings and dildoes out of ice for Annie Sprinkle's wedding, and modeled for life drawing classes with transgender porn star Buck Angel.

  Baker is fiercely committed to her diverse communities, and has a background of working, volunteering, and sitting on the board for several artist-run centres and queer non-profits in Western Canada. In 2012, Baker’s writing about her performance work will appear in The Unbearable Fatness of Being, a new Fat Studies textbook being published by Lexington Books.

• Chelsea Boos

  Chelsea Boos is a multi-disciplinary visual artist currently living in the artistic wellspring of Alberta Avenue. When she is not drifting through the streets of Edmonton in search of the next subject of Back Words, her column in Vue Weekly, she can be found making the city more beautiful through art and design. Most recently she worked with the Edmonton Arts Council coordinating transitory public art, including the Colour Alley project, winner of an Edmonton Urban Design Award.

  A regular vendor at the Royal Bison Art and Craft Fair, Chelsea has an affinity for the hand-made. She believes craft is the love-child of art and design.

• Chelsea Boos
• Karen Cassidy
• Cordelia Chan

• Karen Cassidy

  Karen Cassidy is a life-long resident of St. Albert and the Sturgeon County area. Prior to pursuing a career in the arts, Karen practiced as a Registered Nurse at the Sturgeon Community Hospital focusing primarily on the Intensive and Cardiac Care areas. In 2011 Karen graduated with a Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Alberta with a Major in Painting and Printmaking.

• Cordelia Chan

  Cordelia Chan loves animals, fresh-baked cookies, and books with neat pictures. Conforming to no traditional school or style of art, Chan will draw or paint what you may be familiar with only from dreams.

• Olivia Chow

  Olivia Chow is an 4th year undergraduate fine art student from the U of A. She strongly believes that showering everyday is normal regardless of the season. She is also in love with the idea of shower creams.

• Cindy Couldwell
• Joseph Doherty

• Joseph Doherty

  Joseph Doherty is an artist from Minnesota. His current work discusses themes of identity, memory, and gesture.  He is currently pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts in painting at the University of Alberta.

• Gerry Dotto

• Andrea Foht

  Sparkles, popsicles, legs, glitter, cats, rose & teal, ribbons, buttons, all things old and forgotten, vibrant hues, chevron rugs, and ugly pugs. I like all things around me and I like to illustrate all things around me. I am an addict of visual culture and I will soak it all up the best I can, let's be happy! 

• Andrea Foht
• Robert Harpin
• Daria Hirny

• Robert Harpin

  Robert Harpin graduated with a degree in drawing from ACAD in 2006. Since then he has been trying to figure out what the hell he did that for.

• Daria Hirny

  Daria Hirny was born in and lives in Edmonton Alberta. She recently
  graduated from the University of Alberta with a BFA in Visual Arts.

• Ashley Huot

• Ashley Huot

  Ashley Huot was born and raised in rural Alberta, Canada. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Department or Art and Design at the University of Alberta, graduating in 2011. Her work is largely influenced by her rural upbringing, dealing with relationships between the home, architecture and the body, and the uncanny experiences of the everyday. She explores these themes through the use of video, photography, printmaking, installation and painting.

• Lauren Huot

  Lauren Huot was born and raised in rural Alberta. She is currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Alberta. Her studio practices are focused mainly in printmaking, painting, and drawing/intermedia. She hasexpanded her personal concerns about contemporary views and uses of land and animals into her work.

• Lauren Huot
• Joel Kadziolka

• Kristen Hutchinson

  Kristen Hutchinson is an artist, independent curator, and art historian. She uses collage, photography, installation, video, and performance art to investigate the realms of memory, beauty, mortality, embodiment, urban space, queerness, and the macabre. Kristen is the co-founder of fast & dirty, a rotating collective of artists/curators that creates exhibitions and art events for short durations in unusual environments and projects that challenge curatorial methods. She is currently building an art consulting business that will help people buy art for their homes and provide services to artists. Check out her Etsy shop: fromskytoground.

• Joel Kadziolka

  Joel Kadziolka is a Saskatchewan born designer with an affinity for collage and expanding his creative outlets. One of his latest endeavors is his line of plush designer toys - Papercut Monsters. Each of his creations starts out as a collage illustration that he has custom printed onto fabric. He then sews and stuffs each monster to produce his quirky, cuddly beasts. Joel is largely inspired by the visual texture that working in collage can create and the thrill of the hunt for materials. He's also no stranger to working with other artists and new materials and is always open to exciting and fresh opportunities.

• Kristen Keegan

• Taryn Kneteman

  Taryn Kneteman is currently completing her final year of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program in Printmaking and Intermedia at the University of Alberta. Through printmaking, photography, and video, Taryn seeks to document and make more tangible the contradiction between the appearance of abundance in relation to our natural environment and the knowledge of its more finite nature. Born in Edmonton, she gets through the winter with a little skiing, some snow angel making, and a lot of hot chocolate drinking.

• Sydney Lancaster

  Sydney Lancaster is an Edmonton-based visual artist and writer. She is Artist in Residence at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre for 2012.

  See www.sydneylancaster.ca and rustymetalthings.blogspot.com for more information about her work and the Residency as it progresses.

• Sydney Lancaster
• Amy Mijajlovic

• Lauren Lepp

• Corrissa O'Donnell

• Courtenay Mckay

  Courtenay McKay is a graphic designer, illustrator, and long-time winter weatherer from Edmonton, AB. She has a penchant for combining hand-drawn and computer-based illustration techniques, sometimes with some photography thrown in, and has recently decided to dive into the world of needlework. Her favourite things about winter are scarves, and mitts.

• Corrissa O’Donnell

  My life creates the pathways to the music and art I create. I'm never too sure of the medium or style, i just know that when it's time to create i gotta retreat to the cave, like a sasquatch.

• Gabriell Paré

• Gabrielle Paré

  Gabrielle Paré was born and raised right here in Edmonton, Alberta, and has just completed her BFA degree at the University of Alberta. By working primarily through painting and printmaking, and video, Gabrielle creates personal, psychological spaces that are meant for thinking and feeling.

• Sergio Serrano

  Sergio Serrano is a freelance graphic designer currently living in Edmonton. He likes dinosaurs, and more recently whales — although not exclusively, he likes other things as well. Like ghosts, for instance. You can see some of his work over at www.gosergiogo.com.

• Justin Wayne Shaw
• Sergio Serrano
• Bob Prodor

• Justin Wayne Shaw

  Justin Wayne Shaw, born July 23, 1983 in Nanaimo, B.C., Canada, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Attended Strathcona composite high school, graduating in 2001. Attended the University of Alberta fine arts program in 2002 – 2004. Relocated to Montreal in 2005 - 2007. Since returning to Edmonton in 2008 he has had solo art exhibitions and been involved in group art shows. Justin has completed public murals within the city of Edmonton and assisted artists in the construction and installation of public art works as well as gallery slated art works. He has also been featured in the Edmonton arts publication Notebook Magazine. He enjoys travel, literature, writing and performing music, and taking part in good conversation. He currently resides in the community of Belgravia, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. www.justinwayneshaw.com

• Megan Stein

  Megan Stein is currently in her senior year of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Alberta, concentrating in printmaking and intermedia. Through various forms of drawing she examines class structures between species, and deconstructing human assigned value of animals.

• Katherine Vos

• Borys Tarasenko

  Borys Tarasenko, a fourth year BFA of Art and Design at University of Alberta, enjoys working in a number of mediums, including painting, drawing, film and photography. His work often involves combining images of wildlife and space travel to articulate themes surrounding spirituality, consumption, identity, and humanity's relationship with nature. clock-bot.com.

• Jennie Vegt

• Katherine Vos

  Katherine Vos was born and raised in good ol' Edmonton, and is a 2010 graduate from the University of Alberta's BFA program. Her work has heavy roots in photography and drawing with a recent exploration of how the two like to interact with each other. Winter is her favourite time of year, and she is looking forward to celebrating it through art...if she doesn't send herself skiing off a cliff face first.

• Adam Waldron-Blain

  Adam Waldron-Blain is a famous artist in Edmonton and Glasgow. instituteparachute.ca/adam

• Stephan Wiebe

  Stephan works primarily with mixed media on wood, but also has begun working in graphic design and illustration. Recently, Stephan redesigned the logo for Visual Arts Alberta and had his first illustrated children's book published, Ruby vs. the Robots. Stephan has exhibited his work in numerous galleries and has art in the City of Edmonton public art collection. Stephan holds a BFA honours from the University of Manitoba and teaches art in Calgary.

• Ryan Wolters

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