In our inaugural episode, host Brandy Dahrouge, Calgary Arts Development's Director of Public Art, introduces us to public art historian and curator Katherine Ylitalo, whose lengthy career in public art provides some interesting details about some of the artworks in the City's municipal art collection that may not have been shared before.
An advocate for visual arts, Ylitalo is also a curator, writer, educator and garden historian who has been drawn to the arts since very early in her life, when she would draw, paint and read as a young child. She initially studied architecture, but it was a difficult path for a woman at that time and she shifted to pursing art — and it proved to be a good fit. "...The first curating job I got in Regina was working at the Dunlop museum, and it was a show on teapots that were shaped in different ways, and I was hooked. And once I started working with art and the public I just thought, this is where I want to be."
