4/8/2023 0 Comments Tegan smithThe whole pandemic deal threw some things off, but I didn’t capitalize on everything, and if I can do that and keep riding good it’ll work out.” “This year put into perspective that I can be up there. “A $1 million added rodeo, heck yeah to that,” Smith said, referring to the RAM NCFR that’s set to be held in Kissimmee, Fla., in the spring. The money won at the 2021 RAM GLCFR and the RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo count toward the world standings, and that could prove to be the boost Smith will need come next September. “I missed the Finals by a little bit, and I really want to get there.” “Everything gets to count here, and this rodeo pays pretty good, so it’s a good start to the new year,” Smith said. Haney and the second round with an 85.5-point ride on Final Feather for a $4,476 kickstart to the new season. Smith brought that fire to the arena, winning the first round with an 81-point ride on Three Hills Rodeo’s Mr. Smith, 22, missed qualifying for the 2020 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo after finishing 21st in the PRCA | RAM World Standings. Smith was quick to compliment Wayne Knutson for helping to move the rodeo from its usual home in Louisville, Ky., to the Rockin A Arena in Palmyra, Mo., as this victory could be Smith’s key to redemption in the 2021 season. “She (Final Feather) made me look really, really dumb, so when I saw I’d drawn her here I figured they’d make me earn it, but I got my revenge,” said Smith, who also won the RAM GLCFR on his permit in 2018. This time, the Iowa cowboy came out the victor while making a clean sweep at the RAM GLCFR. But their paths crossed again for the final round of the RAM Great Lakes Circuit Finals Rodeo, Oct. Two weeks ago, Smith was bucked off Three Hills Rodeo’s Final Feather at the Gold Buckle Beer ProRodeo Tour Finale in Rapid City, S.D. Whether it’s two years or two weeks, the time between ProRodeo victories doesn’t sour the sweet smell of success as saddle bronc rider Tegan Smith learned on Saturday. Wrangler National Finals Breakaway Roping Wrangler National Finals Rodeo She works actively in collectives and artist-run centres, and was a program committee member of AKA Gallery, Saskatoon and a board member of InterAccess, Toronto.West Coast Barrel Racing Association Finals Since 1997 she has exhibited work in Canada and the United States. Tegan Smith completed her MFA at York University after a BFA at the University of Saskatchewan and studies at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design. The Luminous Bodies residency offers the prospect of discussing ideas about human bodies and other matter with fellow artists while being at the water that is the setting for this displacement work. Recently my work about agency as something humans share with organic and inanimate objects has brought me to New Materialism theory. My interest in the body and art stems teaching figurative drawing and sculpture, after many years of Women’s Movement activism and studying feminist art history. I will use geography and pre-historical evidence to imagine the people of another place now under water. Instead of repeating the failed attempt to find farms under floodwater with a more accurate GPS, I will be looking much further back than my own remembrance of watching floodwater encroaching through trees. At Gibraltar Point I will be particularly responding to the insistence of my Floodgates work. ![]() ![]() The Pharaoh’s Forearm and the Kings’s Foot uses parts from undergraduate work for which I measured my body at one inch intervals and drew a pelt-like projection. On my website I post sky and ground photographs from wherever I happen to be standing at noon each solstice and equinox. This project will continue my practice of tracking things over time and returning to past projects. At the water’s edge I will be thinking about how to communicate the scale of the lake’s changing volumes and its impact on bodies the size of ours. I plan to rent a boat, bring my camera and if necessary arrange for a camera operator. Similar to Floodgates, a GPS device will guide and measure swims and boat rides where the historical shoreline would have been. In past work I have used various measuring tools and mapped places as well as all kinds of objects including myself. I will focus on displacement as measurements of distance and volume. At the Luminous Bodies art residency I will begin work about human presences and Lake Ontario entitled Displacement Bodies in Water.ĭisplacement has specific meanings in Chemistry, Social Welfare, Physics, Engineering, Psychoanalysis, Geological Science, Astronomy and Mathematics.
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