# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Launch Celebrating Erica Rutherford
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 04 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 04 Aug, 2025 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: “The struggle to realize and to express my nature is my life’s meaning.” — Erica Rutherford

Bookmark, Charlottetown’s independent bookstore, is partnering with the Confederation Centre Art Gallery for the launch of Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works on Monday, August 4th at 7 pm in the Art Gallery.  Pan Wendt, the book’s editor, will help celebrate the launch with a talk about Rutherford’s work. The event is free and all are welcome.

Erica Rutherford was a multidisciplinary Canadian artist and transgender pioneer. As an artist, actor, filmmaker, farmer, teacher, and writer, Erica Rutherford’s remarkably multifaceted career took her across several countries and continents before she settled on Prince Edward Island in the 1970s. There she established herself as a painter and printmaker, using art to engage in a reflection on gender construction and agency.

This remarkable retrospective includes reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings, as well as personal photographs. An interview with Rutherford’s widow, artist Gail Rutherford, accompanies critical essays by scholars and curators examining Rutherford’s stylistic evolution from dark semi-abstract collages to hard-edged Pop Art.   Pan Wendt, who is the book’s editor, says “In retrospect, Rutherford’s work represents a courageous and often solitary mission of working through questions that are only now part of the mainstream public discourse.”

Pan Wendt is Curator at Confederation Centre Art Gallery. He curated Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works, currently on view at the National Gallery of Canada. He has written for journals such as C Magazine, Fillip, and Arts Atlantic, as well as writing numerous catalogue and critical essays.
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- **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, theatre, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Charlottetown
- **state**: PE
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Confederation Centre Art Gallery
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- **full address**: Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 116 Grafton St, Charlottetown, PE C1A, Canada

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- **organizer**: Bookmark (https://allevents.in/org/bookmark/26029327)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 04 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 116 Grafton St, Charlottetown, PE C1A, Canada
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Bookmark
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, fine-arts, theatre, literary-art
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