Come to dine; stay for the reading material! On Novembers 7 and 8 Andrew Kear will be at the Tallest Poppy restaurant overseeing circulation of Artbrary Manitoba to restaurant patrons. Artbrary Manitoba is an as-comprehensive-as-possible collection of exhibition catalogues, and other compendiums, featuring modern and contemporary art by Manitoba artists. The collection was amassed by Kear from all the major publishing art galleries and art centres in Winnipeg and Brandon: Ace Art, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Gallery 1C03, Gallery One One One, Platform Gallery, Plug In ICA, Urban Shaman Gallery, Video Pool, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. After the residency, Andrew hopes the restaurant will hold the artbrary in trust for future generations of Poppy patrons to enjoy with their meals.
Andrew worked at the circulation desk of the NSCAD library during the summer of 1999. Today he’s Associate Curator of Historical Canadian Art at the WAG.
