A  couple of unique art exhibitions open this weekend.
Metamorphosis, opening at  the Waterfield gallery upstairs in the Yates Theatre, opens  March 6 and runs  until April 3, combines poetry and visual art.
 “We put out a call  for submissions last year for poets to team up with  visual artists for an exhibition,” said Darcy Logan, curator and gallery manager of the Bowman Arts Centre.
“They had the option of  creating a piece of art incorporating a poem , or they could create a painting based on a poem. Or they could come up with some other kind of radical experiment,” Logan said adding there are 22 participants in this exhibition including familiar faces  like Robert Bechtel, Aaron Hagan, Sonis McAllister and Fraterm Tham (aka Darcy Logan), Two Spirit Sage Walker as well as some relative newcomers like Sarah Christensen and Most Vocal Poets’ Blain Greenwood, plus numerous others  including Indigo Iris, Loralee Edwards, Val Falconer, Lisa George, Jeff Godin, Dale Herrrington , Haley Herrrington, Becky Johnston, Sylvia Klassen, Eric Martens, Ellen McArthur, Ian Randell, Mandi Schraeder,  Kylee Sorenson and Richard Stevenson.
A couple of the more unusual  works an an interactive alcove display of photographs and an illuminated manuscript  by Robert Bechtel, which consists of text which is lit up.
“The rest of the work I’ll see when it gets here,” Logan said, spending  Monday at the office gathering the the submissions.
 The opening reception is 7:30-9 p.m., March 6 at the Yates Centre.
Conections to Textiles
The Bowman Art Centre opens a new exhibition that same night.
‘Connections: Fibre Art By Filamenta’ features  creative textiles work by Calgary artists Cathy Tomm, Dawna Dey Harrish and Sharon Willas Rubuliak.
“It’s pretty interesting what they’ve done. There is some embroidery and there’s a fibre sculpture and a fabric book,” Logan said.
“The artists are coming down from Calgary, so we  encourage the public to  come down and welcome our out-of town visitors,” Logan continued. The opening reception for Connections: Fibre Art by Filamenta is 7-8:30 p.m. at the Bowman Art Centre.