Last September, sessional lecturer Rodney LaTourelle launched an exhibit titled The Stepped Form at the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina. The exhibit consists of a series of platforms ranging in material and colour, which are periodically rearranged by the gallery staff. Visitors are allowed to touch the artwork. Since its opening, the exhibit and LaTourelle have received significant press coverage.

“Students can be seen sitting and socializing — and even drinking beer during the opening — on the art work’s tiered steps,” writes Gregory Beatty for Prairie Dog Magazine who attended the first instance of the exhibit at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary.

Last week, New Dance Horizons responded to LaTourelle's installation at the Mackenzie Art Gallery by inviting guests to use the space as a backdrop for song, sound, and motion. Guest artists included Neal Adolph, Stacy Allan, Jon Fearnside, Brady Frank, Arthur Jack, Adelle Johnson, Janelle Johnston, Kelsey Kuz and Jeanette Wiens and Sbot N Wo, Helen Pridmore & WL Altman, Krista Solheim, Johanna Bundon, and others.

More recently, LaTourelle was interviewed about The Stepped Form for the National Gallery of Canada Magazine. The article reflects on the exhibit, LaTourelle's experiences of public space, and how this has affected his work.

“'Trust in people' is a theme that seems to run throughout LaTourelle’s own work,” writes Lisa Hunter. “There’s something extra-satisfying about art with which we can interact. Surely we light up more parts of our brains when we use multiple senses to experience art.”