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Instructor: Deb Chaney, Artist Workshop class/subject: acrylics, mixed media, abstract, landscape, painting Sessions: 12 Fee: $125/month drop in, or $100/month subscription member price Receive inspiration, instruction, guidance and support in a safe and fun small group environment to help you achieve your painting and creative goals. Learn what you want Read more [...]

Call For Entry to all Visual Artists. The Chilliwack Visual Artists Association is issuing this Call For Entry as an invitation to visual artists or art groups to submit entries for juried exhibitions to be held at O’Connor Group Art Gallery in Chilliwack during the 2019 and 2020 calendar years. Read more [...]

2018 marks the beginning of a new year at the O’Keefe Ranch, as well as the centenary of the close of the First World War. Cornelius O’Keefe and his late wife, Mary Ann, contributed three sons to the war, as well as a grandson. The war, as a major fixture Read more [...]

Originally from Victoria, BC, Jeff Ladouceur is a prominent figure within Canada’s tradition of contemporary drawing. His world is populated by a slowly morphing cast of old-timey comic-inspired characters: droopy elephants, big-nosed salesmen, and bubble babies rendered with a dizzying level of detail. He has shown internationally for many years, Read more [...]

Grief Work/Hope Work, Watersheds, Rising Tides and Skinboats: Connecting Ecology, Community, Science and Art | Opening reception will be on June 30, 1:00 -3:00 pm | Admission is free This series of drawings, paintings, artist books, maguettes, sculptures and soundscapes, which draw analogies between human bodies and bodies of water, and Read more [...]

Bowen Island Artists Guthrie Gloag and Di Izdebski will showcase their artworks in benefit of the conservation organization Pacific Wild. This show will feature sculptures of coastal animals, and landscape and wildlife acrylic paintings and will explore the delicate balance of British Columbia’s coastal ecosystems. This exhibit runs July 11 Read more [...]

do it Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist | July 14 – September 02, 2018 | OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, July 18, 6:30-8:30pm do it began in Paris in 1993 as a conversation between curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier. They were curious to see what would happen if Read more [...]

For her new exhibition Colour Mark, Claire Sarfeld chooses to play with her signature bold strokes while embracing a more vivid and unconventional colour palette. Imposing colorful blocking to her signature loose sweeps Sarfeld creates a complex yet playful narrative throughout this body of work. Sarfeld embraces the tactility of Read more [...]

Gallery B | FIELD DOLL – HEATHER BENNING | August 11 – October 28 | Curator: Arin Fay The Field Doll will be taking up residence at Touchstones during the late summer and fall of 2018 and will also be making an appearance at several iconic spaces throughout the city of Nelson, including the Big, Orange Read more [...]

Beyond Dreams features the work of Bowen Island artists Andrea Klann and Bill Hoopes. These oil paintings, gouached paintings, drawings on paper, and small sculptural pieces explore the intersection of realism and the imagined in the context of the dream. Join us Saturday, August 18 for the opening reception, 6-8pm, Read more [...]

Gallery A | THE HISTORY OF MOUNTAIN BIKING | August 18 – November 4 | Curator: Community-curated & Astrid Heyerdahl The History of Mountain Biking is an exploration of the culture, characters, infrastructure and landscape of mountain bike culture in the Kootenays. This exhibit is truly a community-curated exhibition, and is the result of Read more [...]

Canadian master printmaker Anna Wong (1930-2013) was born and raised in Chinatown in Vancouver, BC. In her early twenties, Wong worked as a seamstress at her family’s business, Modernize Tailors. After graduating from the Vancouver School of Art with a degree in Creative Printmaking, she studied Chinese brush painting in Read more [...]

Home Made Home by Germaine Koh | September 15th – November 4, 2018 Home Made Home is a creative enterprise, led by artist Germaine Koh, to design and build innovative and ecologically-friendly small buildings and dwellings for modest living. Our mission is to develop well-crafted and thought-provoking structures that not only Read more [...]