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////September 10 to October 22, 2010

From September 10th to October 22nd, 2010, AKA gallery presents the exhibition InAccessible City, an up-close and interactive look at issues around mobility, accessibility and what life in a wheelchair is really like. The exhibition will feature the biggest painting Saskatchewan has ever seen installed on the billboard spanning the top floor of the building’s exterior. Artists Paul Major and Kelly Roszell use a mobile painting device connected to their wheelchairs to make the work. To put things in perspective, the largest painting at the Louvre, The Wedding Feast at Cana by the Mannerist Italian painter Paolo Veronese measures 21 feet by 32.5 feet, or 682.5 square feet. At 14 feet by 50 feet, Kelly and Paul's painting will take up a whopping 700 square feet of real estate.

For the duration of the exhibition and through two special workshops being held during Culture Days (September 24 and 25 from 12 to 4pm), AKA’s main gallery space became a production centre and workspace. Artist and curator Jeff Nachtigall, facilitated these hands-on workshops where people with limited mobility and able-bodied persons alike were able to use adaptive mark making equipment with the results being displayed on the gallery walls.