Publications

The following publications are listed chronologically, from the most recent. The accompanying price is in Canadian funds. The price includes shipping and handling; GST will be added. To purchase any publications below or to inquire about quantity discounts, please contact: Jon Oxley  (jonoxleyulethca)   | Art Gallery Administrative Manager | 403.329.2569.

Art, Research, Play: The Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Project

2021
Texts by Louise Barrett, Sven Dupré, Levi Glass, Petran Kockelkoren, Donald Lawrence, and Josephine Mills
Edited by Donald Lawrence, Josephine Mills, and Emily Dundas Oke
Forward by W.F. Garrett-Petts

During summer solstice 2015 in Dawson City, Yukon, the Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival brought together an international group of artists and other researchers interested in cameras obscura and related optical phenomenon as a meeting place of art and science, cultural and wilderness settings, learning and play. The project was conceived by Kamloops-based artist and visual arts professor Donald Lawrence and, with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the group carried out extensive research during 2014 and 2015. With this exceptional support, the artists were able to produce strong and diverse work that engaged visitors in the interplay of art and science as well as thinking about ideas of the North. Using the long days to provide maximum effect, the festival included a range of public-site installations around Dawson City, exhibitions in the local galleries, workshops and a community exhibition with the Yukon Arts Centre, performances, tours, and public talks. Camera obscura simply means ‘dark room’ in Latin, a term coined to describe devices used to aid perception, but can include any darkened space into which light enters through a small opening (sometimes aided by a lens and a mirror). As is clear in the range of work in this exhibition, this deceptively simple technology continues to fascinate contemporary artists and scholars. The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery created a touring exhibition of the works from the Festival with this companion publication. In addition, Donald Lawrence created a site-specific camera obscura at the University of Lethbridge Coutts Centre for Western Heritage in Nanton, AB as a legacy of this project.

312 pages, hardcover

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The Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Project Travelling Exhibition Page

The Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Project Hess Gallery Exhibition Page

 

The Sleeping Green : no man’s land 100 years later = un no man’s land cent ans après

2017
Artist: Dianne Bos
Edited by Josephine Mills
Essays by Harry Vandervlist and Josephine Mills
Forwards by Catherine Bédard and Andrew Hakin

Catalogue of a travelling exhibition originally held at the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris, France) in April 2017.
Co-published by: Canadian Cultural Centre.
Text in English and French.

Catalogue d’une exposition itinérante présentée initialement au Centre culturel canadien (Paris, France) en avril 2017.
Publié en collaboration avec le Centre culturel canadien.
Texte en anglais et en français.

Hardcover/couverture rigide, 144 pages ISBN 978-1-927770-08-5

Price/Prix: $29.95

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Complex Social Change

2014
Edited by Josephine Mills
Essays by Louise Barrett, Lisa Doolittle and Jean Harrowing, Bruce MacKay, Josephine Mills, and Tiffany Muller Myrdahl

Artists projects: Lori Blondeau and Adrian Stimson; DodoLab; Emily Luce and Christine Clark; and the Feminist Art Gallery.

184 pages, hardcover

Price: $30

U of L Art Gallery Exhibitions Include:
Acting Out (Helen Christou Gallery)
Acting Out (Main Gallery)
We Can’t Compete
Canadian Idol No More
Activist Love Letters
The Anatomy and Etiquette of Social Change
 

Dr. Soanes’ Odditorium of Wonders

2013
Forward by Josephine Mills
Essay by Jane Edmundson
80 pages, softcover

Price: $25

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The Lion’s Share

2012
Essays by Josephine Mills and Elizabeth Diggon
64 pages, hardcover

Price: $25

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Safe Home

2011
Forward by Dr. Andy Hakin
Essays by Jim Coutts and Josephine Mills
82 pages, hardcover

Price: $40

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Snap Crackle Pop

2010
Essays by Josephine Mills and Riva Symko
72 pages, softcover

Price: $20

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Land Matters

2009
Essays by Josephine Mills and Linda Sawchyn
80 pages, hardcover
Price: $40

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Tails from the Vault

2009
Essay by Brenna Kanski for Trap\door artist-run centre
Forward by Josephine Mills
28 pages, softcover
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Scout’s Honour

2009
Essay by Ryan Rice
Forward by Brian Meehan
Introduction by Josephine Mills
20 pages, softcover
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Collecting Everyday

2007
Essay by Josephine Mills
80 pages, softcover
Visit Exhibition Pages: Found | Bibliomania | Collecting Collecting
 

Time & Space

2007
Essay by Josephine Mills
26 pages, softcover
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On Collecting

Essay by Josephine Mills and Nancy Tousley
64 pages, softcover
Visit Exhibition Pages: Bibliophilia | A Few of My Favourite Things | Private to Public
 

Cul-De-Sac

2004
Essay by Andrew Hunter
Forward by Josephine Mills
9 x 6 inches, 64 pages, softcover
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Feigned Memories

2003
Essay by Curtis Joseph Collins
Forward by Josephine Mills
48 pages, softcover
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Tom Dean: Ruins

2002
Essays by Josephine Mills and Lee Rodney
64 pages, softcover
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