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to Nov 8th. The exhibition “Poetics of the Discarded” is a series of paintings and multi-media installations that explore the relationship between material consumption and natural existence, breathing new life into abandoned objects and daily waste by intertwining them with natural elements like forests, rivers, mountains, and oceans.
to Nov 8th. The exhibition “Unseen Forces” is a series of paintings that reflect the idea of the unseen forces that often serve as unconscious catalysts to the creative process when working in the abstract, using a mix of standard, non-standard, and recycled substrates including canvas, upholstery fabric, burlap and construction building paper, as a […]
to Nov 8th. The exhibition “Poetics of the Discarded” is a series of paintings and multi-media installations that explore the relationship between material consumption and natural existence, breathing new life into abandoned objects and daily waste by intertwining them with natural elements like forests, rivers, mountains, and oceans.
to Nov 8th. The exhibition “Unseen Forces” is a series of paintings that reflect the idea of the unseen forces that often serve as unconscious catalysts to the creative process when working in the abstract, using a mix of standard, non-standard, and recycled substrates including canvas, upholstery fabric, burlap and construction building paper, as a […]
to Nov 8th. The exhibition “Poetics of the Discarded” is a series of paintings and multi-media installations that explore the relationship between material consumption and natural existence, breathing new life into abandoned objects and daily waste by intertwining them with natural elements like forests, rivers, mountains, and oceans.
to Nov 8th. The exhibition “Unseen Forces” is a series of paintings that reflect the idea of the unseen forces that often serve as unconscious catalysts to the creative process when working in the abstract, using a mix of standard, non-standard, and recycled substrates including canvas, upholstery fabric, burlap and construction building paper, as a […]
to Nov 8th. The exhibition “Poetics of the Discarded” is a series of paintings and multi-media installations that explore the relationship between material consumption and natural existence, breathing new life into abandoned objects and daily waste by intertwining them with natural elements like forests, rivers, mountains, and oceans.
to Nov 8th. The exhibition “Unseen Forces” is a series of paintings that reflect the idea of the unseen forces that often serve as unconscious catalysts to the creative process when working in the abstract, using a mix of standard, non-standard, and recycled substrates including canvas, upholstery fabric, burlap and construction building paper, as a […]
to Nov 8th. The exhibition “Poetics of the Discarded” is a series of paintings and multi-media installations that explore the relationship between material consumption and natural existence, breathing new life into abandoned objects and daily waste by intertwining them with natural elements like forests, rivers, mountains, and oceans.
Come learn about Coast Salish art, culture and storytelling on Saturday Dec. 20th, 2pm - 4pm. Andrea Fritz will read from her newest book Woolly Dog Warms His Family and talk about its relation to her serigraph Sqwiqwi, on display now in her Eve Smart exhibition Lyackson Place Names. This event is free and open […]
Join us for the Opening Receptions of our three newest exhibitions on Sat. January 17th, 2pm - 4pm. All are welcome! All are welcome to join us at the Opening Receptions of Portals to Elsewhere by Amy Dyck in the Main Gallery, Three Ways Home by Matthew Boismier, Cambria Logan, and Eva Taylor in the […]
With formal training in graphic design inspired his love of typography but was also influenced by hands-on learning of early letterpress printing methods. This was followed by a stint as a typesetter in a small letterpress shop where he was tasked with handsetting and casting hot metal type on Ludlow linecasting equipment, as well as […]
Sixteen-year-old blues prodigy and his band will be back in Gibsons to rock the roof off at the Heritage Playhouse. Inspired by rock and blues heroes Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, classic blues and rock faves with a Gen Z edge and many of their own signature songs. The Nanaimo band has already […]
Saskia Jetten is a contemporary fine artist and expert printmaker who gratefully resides in the swiya of the shíshálh Nation where she operates a printshop and artist studio. Her work is rooted in drawing and printmaking and internationally acclaimed for an explorative character. Her work touches on themes related to theatre, identity, and interpersonal relationships. […]
Celebrate Printmaking on The Coast! The exhibition launched our new print media studio at the Arts Centre, and celebrates the rich community of practice that thrives locally. Come celebrate with us this new offering as we close out this exhibition! The exhibition shares the breadth of approaches to printmaking, with a focus on storytelling the […]
Helena Wadsley and Carolina Franzen, both Sunshine Coast residents, have adopted a diverse tradition of Walking Art into their practices. Engaged with the challenges posed by land use, and in order to find alternative relations to the land, their inspiration for drawings, sculptures, and video comes through periods of intense physical contact to the environment; […]
Join us for a free Artist Talk with exhibiting artist Carlyn Yandle and CBC's Early Edition host Stephen Quinn. Yandle and Quinn will be discussing a variety of topics relating to Yandle's exhibition Joyful Making in Perilous Times, including how making is connecting — a form of resistance to forces of individualism. Carlyn Yandle is […]
April 17 and 24, 6pm - 9pm. How do you print IN the box? How do you play OUT of the box? A two session print workshop with Saskia Jetten. Practice a series of small print exercises that you can also build on in your own time to play, get unstuck, generate ideas, and get […]
Sheila will share poems and stories from her bookdriftwood/Driftwood about her journey from northern BC's Driftwood Canyon to her childhood home here in qathet. This event will take place at the Texada Library. For more information contact Mark at mmerlino@prpl.ca
April 17 and 24, 6pm - 9pm. How do you print IN the box? How do you play OUT of the box? A two session print workshop with Saskia Jetten. Practice a series of small print exercises that you can also build on in your own time to play, get unstuck, generate ideas, and get […]
In our final week of Traversing the Tip of the Iceberg, join exhibiting artists Carolina Franzen and Helena Wadsley in a closing artist talk. Meet the artists and gain more insight into the exhibiting works, which include mixed media, drawings, video, and sculptures on the themes of walking and water.
Naguala is an immersive video and sound installation that explores the rich Mexican tradition of nagualismo—a spiritual and cultural worldview rooted in communication, transformation, and interconnection. The installation reimagines the boundaries between the human and non-human, inviting viewers into the realm of the Naguala, where animals, plants, earth, cosmos, and ancestral spirits intertwine.
Of Course This Hurts is a photography project that intimately documents the toxic drug supply crisis through the lives of people who are being impacted by this public health emergency. The images explore love, grief, bodily autonomy, trauma, and healing, as experienced by drug policy activists, frontline workers, people who use drugs, and their family […]
Please join the Sunshine Coast Arts Council to celebrate the launch of the Sunshine Coast’s newest fibre arts and culture hub: Fibre Farm an Indigenous-led, disability justice centered, growing and gathering space! Art and fibre demos, storytelling, music, and a chance to participate in invasive species removal as you check-out the new accessible pathways, garden […]
