Don Mabie
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Don Mabie, also known as Chuck Stake, is an artist based in Calgary, Alberta, who has been performing, drawing, assembling, trading and mailing art since the early 1970s.
Mabie adopted the name Chuck Stake in 1972 when he became involved with Correspondence/MailArt (CMA) and is the name he uses for most of my art activities including Artist Trading Cards (ATCs). Mabie has performed at documenta 8 in Kassel, Germany; Zürich, Switzerland; Los Angeles, USA; and on numerous occasions in Calgary, Alberta, at the Glenbow, the Illingworth Kerr Gallery, the Nickle Arts Museum, the Muttart Gallery (now the Art Gallery of Calgary), Truck, Ten Foot Henry’s, The Night Gallery and The New Gallery — he is credited with presenting the first performance work in Calgary, Alberta back in 1968.
His contributions to the Calgary community have been varied: he was a co-founder of The Parachute Centre for Cultural Affairs, spent ten years operating The New Gallery (then, Clouds ’n’ Water/OFF CENTRE CENTRE); he published Image and Information; he has taught at the Department of Art at the University of Calgary and currently at the Alberta College of Art and Design; he has initiated a vital artist’s trading cards network; has had numerous exhibitions including a retrospective at Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary, Alberta.
