Anita and her staff have done a terrific job researching and furnishing an environment in which dogs of all ages and sizes can play and socialize.New Crits on the Block, a youth-led studio-visit program offers unique and unmediated experiences for youth to engage with artists-in-residence at Banff Centre.This exchange is a unique opportunity for visiting artists to consider how to present their work to a younger public and raises questions concerning language, discourse, context, and power in artistic practices. Skwara’s classes of grade 4 students from Banff Elementary School participated in the program.Local students benefit from the opportunity to meet face-to-face with contemporary artists from all over the world, and the exchange will offer insight into contemporary art-making processes and will help demystify contemporary art practices. A total of 50 students visited artists participating in the Banff Artist in Residence Text and Practicum programs and the Walter Phillips Gallery exhibition .

It's an optical illusion created by a professor at MIT who studies vision and the brain. One of them is surrounded by lighter stuff so it looks darker, and the other gray box is surrounded by darker stuff so it looks lighter. If I could get through to one troll-- the meanest one I ever had-- couldn't I feasibly get through to any of them? No evidence that it is more common now than it's always been. A few years ago, a linguist named Penny Eckert from Stanford University heard a young woman at NPR and was surprised to hear somebody speaking in such a casual style with so much vocal fry about serious news. The results-- people under 40 heard it very differently than people over 40. I think old people tend to get cranky about this stuff, anyway. I mean, I'm constantly getting requests from media.

Students saw artwork by Eunice Luk, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Erica Prince, Sara Cwynar, Carson Tarnasky, Morgan Bath, Melany Nugent, Pascaline Knight, Jina Valentine, Maria Whiteman, Rachel Melanson and Sean Randolph.

Prior to the visit, Jordan Smalls from Rocky Mountain Outlook and public programs officer Karly Mortimer work with the students to introduce them to contemporary art practices as well as tips and techniques on how to ask good questions.

We strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. A reporter wrote a story about that study at the website of Science Magazine.

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