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 [...]
Come and Visit Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at Lipont This BC Day Long Weekend! Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at Lipont put you inside the Titanic experience like never before. It features real artifacts recovered from the ocean floor along with room re-creation and personal histories, each highlighting a different chapter in the compelling story Read more [...]
At Vancouver Art Gallery with Corey Bulpitt, Roxanne Charles, Navarana Igloliorte, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Haruko Okano and Juliane Okot Bite Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? is a dialogue between two artists, presented via their individual and collaborative performances. Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin’s work begins with 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 [...]
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 | Opening Reception: Friday, September 14, 2018, 6–8 pm as part of the Art Gallery at EVERGREEN CULTURAL CENTRE 2018-19 Season Launch Today in the Lower Mainland, even living “small” seems out of reach. Artist Germaine Koh proposes a do-it-yourself Read more [...]
This September, Ukama Gallery brings together two leading lights of the international art world. Against the multicultural backdrop of Vancouver, this meeting will highlight collaboration between artists who are uniquely emblematic of the rich artistic traditions of Canada and Zimbabwe. Dominic Benhura arrives in Vancouver as a preeminent representative of Read more [...]
A Curator’s View: Ian Thom Selects unites historical and contemporary works as selected by Ian M. Thom, former Senior Curator–Historical, from the permanent collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Over his thirty-year tenure at the Gallery as Senior Curator, Thom has curated more than eighty exhibitions and stewarded hundreds of Read more [...]
INSPIRED BC is a web series about artists in Vancouver. The aim of the series is to highlight local artists and their work, inspirations and place in the community. Five of these episodes – including the one about Jeanne Krabbendam – will be premiered on Thursday September 27 at The China Cloud Read more [...]
Organized by the American Federation of Arts | at Audain Art Museum Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection presents a selection of outstanding contemporary art by Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander artists. Since the 1960s, artists from these communities have spearheaded a renaissance in the Read more [...]
A combination of photographs, watercolours, AstroTurf collages and a site-specific installation. | at Audain Art Museum Joseph Tisiga was born in 1984 in Edmonton, Alberta and is a member of the Kaska Dene Nation. He is currently based in Whitehorse, Yukon. He studied at Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design Read more [...]
EXPERIENCE 25 DAYS OF EXCEPTIONALLY MADE GOODS. Crafted Vancouver showcases a thoughtful selection of the best in local, national and international craft. Through a wide array of self-guided events: demonstrations, exhibitions, film festival, craft talk series, craft bus tour, studio tours and dining and tasting events, we celebrate unique pieces in Read more [...]
