Jason Carter / Visual Artist
Jason Carter is an Indigenous sculptor, painter, and public artist from the Little Red River Cree Nation. He grew up in Edmonton and is a graduate of both NAIT and MacEwan University (where he was awarded a Distinguished Alumni in 2017), and was the only Alberta artist to have his own solo show at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. He has major permanent installations in both the Calgary & Edmonton International Airports, and both sculpture and canvas artwork in many public places (NAC, AFA, YWCA Calgary, Travel Alberta, Wood Buffalo Region, Stantec, Banff Caribou Properties, Canada Goose), and private collections globally.
Jason has illustrated 5 children’s books and created & installed The World Of Boo for the Art Gallery of Alberta in 2015. He created permanent murals for the Amiskwaskahegan (Beaver Hills Park) in Edmonton and was one of three artists part of the LRT/SOUTH Extension beautification project. In February 2019, he was featured on Property Brothers on HGTV. Many schools in and around Alberta and Canada are currently studying Jason Carter and his body of work and he could not be more humbled by this.
In 2019, Jason was commissioned by the Museum of Aboriginal Peoples’ Art and Artifacts of Canada to create a 2 x 79” x 29” & 58” x 29” painting permanently installed in the museum’s entrance, as well that same year, he installed ‘Dancing Bears’ into the new YW Calgary Hub Family Facility in Calgary.
In 2020, Jason was the lead sculpture artist for ‘In Search of Christmas Spirit’; an immersive sculpture exhibit where he created 12’ - 18’(H) sculptures of bears, wolves and bison that were lit from within like a lantern, an initiative he worked alongside Banff Lake Louise Tourism and Parks Canada on. Most recently, in March of 2021, another large scale in Edmonton, an immersive exhibit with over 8 10’ (H) lantern-like rabbit sculptures called wâpos at Amiskwaskahegan Park - an exhibit intended to bring hope, humour and spirit to those who walked through the park.
Jason Carter is currently represented by The Bearclaw Gallery in Edmonton and The Town Square Gallery in Oakville Ontario. In 2012 he opened his own gallery - The Carter-Ryan Gallery - with Bridget Ryan in Canmore, and in 2017 he opened another Carter-Ryan Gallery in Banff, Alberta. Jason is a member of the Little Red River Cree Nation and he paints and/or carves seven days a week.
Bridget Ryan / Creative Director & Producer
Bridget Ryan is a producer, playwright, director and actor living and creating in Canmore, Alberta. As Artistic/Creative Director of the Carter-Ryan Gallery and Live Theatre. Select directing credits include People and Stuff, A Christmas Carol, The Year of Magical Thinking, Canada the Musical, Songs For A Winter Night (Carter-Ryan Theatre); Weill in Weimar (Edmonton Opera); Spring Awakenings, Wonderful Town, Winter’s Tale: The Musical (Citadel Theatre); NINE, Pacific Overtures, Spitfire Grill. Little Me, Bernald Alba (MacEwan University); WedLOCKED: A New Musical, Saturday Night Club, Mile High Madness (Mayfield Dinner Theatre). Select writing credit include People and Stuff, A Christmas Tale, Winters Tale: The Musical. WedLOCKED, Myles And The HypoAllgenic Superhero and Counting Americans. As an actor, select credits include HMS Pinafore (Edmonton Opera), The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee, Maggies Getting Married (Mayfield Dinner Theatre) A Guide To Mourning (ATP/Theatre Network) A Christmas Carol, Cabaret, Hamlet, (Citadel Theatre) Wonderful Town, Floyd Collins, The Gift of The Magi (Leave It To Jane Theatre) The Bus Show (Workshop West) Sylvia, Problem Child (Sudbury Theatre). Bridget is a proud graduate of MacEwan Theatre Arts program (Distinguished Alumni) and University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music with a BFA in Musical Theatre.
While living and working in NYC, Bridget performed in several off-Broadway and touring productions before joining Richard Frankel Productions working alongside Richard Frankel, Marc Routh, Darly Roth and Scott Rudin. She also discovered her passion in NYC performing her one woman cabaret, something that has taken Bridget all over North America. From 2004 - 2018, Bridget was Host/Producer of CityTV’s Breakfast Television in Edmonton and in 2018, Carter-Ryan productions began their first season of live theatre in Banff/Canmore and currently producing live theatre events all year long, where last year (2024) Carter-Ryan produced 9 shows, with thousands of people in attendance.
Currently, in addition to Artistic Director at Carter-Ryan Gallery and Live Theatre, Bridget is the is the Creative Director of In Search of Christmas Spirit and Art In Nature Trail (both immerisve experiences) in Banff Alberta (working with Banff Lake Louise Tourism, TOB and Parks Canada). She created and directed ‘The Art of Waiting’ Film Campaign for the Fairmont Properties when the world closed down in May 2020. Bridget and Jason Carter have published 4 children’s books, 3 amazing art installations country-wide, opened 2 galleries and are currently shooting their first movie.