to June 21st. A multi-media exhibition curated by Kamala Todd that opens space for the in-between, sharing expansive cosmologies that blur binaries, uphold radical kinship, and question the idea of what a monster truly is. With works expressing cultural knowledge and practices that are rooted in the interconnected world, featured artists include Senaqwila Wyss (Squamish Nation), Siobhan Joseph (Squamish Nation), Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations), Savanna Todd (Métis-Cree), and Candace Campo (Sechelt Nation). An exhibition on display in the Eve Smart Gallery May 28th – June 21st, 2026. Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday May 30th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
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GPAG: Art Exhibition: JEANNETTE SIROIS | At the Table | The Architecture of Control
to June 21st. At the Table | The Architecture of Control is a portrait-based exhibition highlighting the lived experiences, identities, and truths of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals. Large scale hyperrealistic drawings offer complete transparency, with differing conceptions of identity, vulnerability, and strength put prominently on display. Jeannette Sirois invites viewers to step closer, engage deeply, and contemplate the importance of being seen. While each subject’s story is distinct, together they convey a shared truth, asserting that what 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals bring to the table is the same as anyone else; the right to exist authentically and without fear. In an era of increasing hostility toward 2SLGBTQ+ communities, this project provides a vital space for visibility, dialogue, and empathy, and encourages reflection on the systems that determine who is seen, heard, and valued. An exhibition on display in the Main Gallery May 28 – June 21. Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 30, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
GPAG: OPENING RECEPTION | Jeannette Sirois, Kamala Todd et al., Coralie Swaney
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 30th, 2pm – 4pm for the Opening Reception of our newest exhibitions. All are welcome!
In the Main Gallery, Jeannette Sirois’ At the Table | The Architecture of Control highlights the lived experiences, identities, and truths of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals. In the Eve Smart Gallery, kin-between: monsters/beasts/relations opens space for the in-between, sharing expansive cosmologies that blur binaries, uphold radical kinship, and question the idea of what a monster truly is. Curated by Kamala Todd, kin-between: monsters/beasts/relations features the work of Senaqwila Wyss (Squamish Nation), Siobhan Joseph (Squamish Nation), Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations), Savanna Todd (Métis-Cree), and Candace Campo (Sechelt Nation). In Joe’s Lounge, Thinking Out Loud by Coralie Swaney melds portraiture with still life painting and explores the notion of the observer being able to look inside the mind of the subject.
GPAG: The Language and the Land Are Connected — Keeping Our shashishalhem Language Alive
Join us for a special evening of shíshálh culture and connection at GPAG with Candace Campo. Free and open to all.
Candace, ancestral name xets’emits’a (to always be there), is a Shíshálh (Sechelt) member from the Sunshine Coast, BC and the co-founder of Talaysay Tours. Trained as an anthropologist and teacher, she shares the stories and history of her people, focusing on Indigenous language and cultural revitalization alongside Shishálh Elders and Educators while providing Indigenous cultural and outdoor experiences to students and visitors throughout the world. Candace’s mission is to work with her youth and community members to support reconnection to the land that their ancestors have stewarded and lived on sustainably for thousands of years. Candace’s art expresses her ancestral shishálh connections & deep love for family – the ones here & the ones passed – through paint, mark making, screen printing & sculpture.
Land-based education, Shíshálh language, arts and cultural revitalization are Candace’s life work.
GPAG: BOB EVERMON | We Are the Eyes of the Stars
Bob Evermon’s exhibition in the Main Gallery, We Are the Eyes of the Stars, speaks to what can be sensed beneath the layers of visual art; as well as to the little moments in life that catch one’s attention. Evermon’s work is anchored in natural forms, line, colour, structure, and beauty. He explores the depth and poetry of visual language, translating stories that we draw from nature into his works. We Are the Eyes of the Stars also explores the consciousness of the universe and our role as its timekeepers, as well as our attempts to make logical sense of our lives and our attempts to map or record them for posterity.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 2nd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
GPAG: Opening Reception | Bob Evermon, Yuan Wen, Maureen Sugrue, Rose Stardust
Join us for the Opening Reception of our four newest exhibitions on Saturday, May 2nd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
In the Main Gallery, Bob Evermon’s We Are the Eyes of the Stars features prints, paintings, and sculptures that speak to what can be sensed beneath the layers of visual art, as well as to the little moments in life that catch one’s attention. Yuan Wen’s Unbounding combines printmaking methods with painting, utilizing lithography and hand-drawn elements to create networks of organic forms, suspended fragments, and flowing gestures.
In the Eve Smart Gallery, Maureen Sugrue’s Pathways features mixed media textile banners that represent ideas that came from conversations about aging, paths taken or not taken, and the journey to “now” in our lives. In Joe’s Lounge, Rose Stardust’s Art, Wit, and Other Coping Mechanisms explores how creativity and wit help us make sense of things and keep going. It follows an arc from hope to doubt, from dawn to dusk, and back again.
Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Artist Talk with Carlyn Yandle and CBC’s Stephen Quinn
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 a Vancouver-based artist whose art practice interweaves a childhood steeped in West Coast counter-culture, a range of skills in traditional craft methods, and her previous profession as a city newspaper journalist. Her exhibition in the Main Gallery Joyful Making in Perilous Times features large scale fibre art pieces that connect domestic rote hand-making methods with abject materials, issues of personal wellness, and social engagement.
Stephen Quinn is the host of CBC Radio One’s popular morning show The Early Edition. Previously, he was the long-time host of afternoon radio show On The Coast, he spent eight-years as CBC’s civic affairs reporter, he guest-hosted several CBC shows, news specials and a series on the media for network radio, and he is also the creator and host of the very popular Quinn’s Quiz on CBC Radio One. A multiple RTNDA (The Radio Television Digital News Association) award winner, Quinn has covered a multitude of stories that affects British Columbians, in addition to interviewing prolific individuals.
Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Spring Hare Felting Workshop with Marianne Hansen
Join Marianne Hansen on Wed. April 8th, 1pm – 3pm, to learn needle felting and fibre sculpting techniques and to make a spring hare. Tickets are $65, with a 10% discount for GPAG members, and include a kit of the supplies needed to make one hare. There is a max of 15 participants, so register soon! Find more information and register online via EventBrite.
GPAG: Print Out of the Box with Saskia Jetten
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 your creative process flowing. Sessions are on Fridays April 17 & April 24, from 6pm – 9pm each day. Tickets are $165 for both sessions with a discount for GPAG Members. There is a max. of 10 people, so register online via EventBrite soon!
Saskia Jetten is a contemporary fine artist and printmaker who gratefully resides in the swiya of the shíshálh Nation where she operates a printshop and artist studio. Continually exploring boundaries of printmaking with drawing at the base of it, Saskia has exhibited internationally and received numerous prizes and grants. She immigrated in 2012, mid-career, from the Netherlands to the Canadian West Coast to build upon her experience and skills, shake up, broaden and challenge her views and art practice. Saskia nourishes the roots from both worlds in her being. Her art work touches on themes related to theatre, identity, and interpersonal relationships. The print-based work balances between fine and applied arts and takes shape in traditional prints on paper, hand printed shawls and scarves to print-based installations and animation. A broad experience of over 30 years (international) teaching printmaking and fine art completes her practice.
Gibsons Public Art Gallery: The Art of Chocolate Youth Workshop
A fun & free workshop for youth led by Sunshine Coast chocolatier and artist John Down.
In this workshop you’ll create your own original artworks (paint it, collage it, glitter it!) to wrap and label a gourmet chocolate bar provided by Christopher Norman Chocolates. Everyone will be invited to take their custom bar home to enjoy, while extras will be available for sale in the Gift Shop as a fundraiser for the Gallery.
Admission is free but space is limited so you must RSVP via EventBrite. Open to youth aged 2 – 18. Youth under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. All supplies provided. Special thanks to John Down and Christopher Norman Chocolates for sponsoring SHOUT OUT and offering this wonderful opportunity to be a chocolate artist!
Opportunity: Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Call for Youth Artists
CALLING ALL YOUTH ARTISTS; it’s time to start creating! Our annual youth exhibition SHOUT OUT is coming up in March. Drop off your artwork March 5th – 8th.
Sunshine Coast youth aged two to eighteen are invited to submit their artwork of any size or medium for display at the Gallery during our annual youth exhibition Shout Out, on display March 12th – 29th, 2026. In addition to offering an inspiring body of work that represents the creativity of our community’s youth, this exhibition is also an opportunity for young people to experience what it is like to be a professional exhibiting artist at GPAG. Class/group art projects are also welcome! Find more info and submit your work online at https://gpag.ca/shout-out-application-2026/. Please do not drop off artwork before March 5th.
Opportunity: Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Open Call for Exhibitions in 2027
Deadline Mar 31st. Artists working in any style and medium are invited to apply to our Open Call! Proposals for solo and group exhibitions in the Main and Eve Smart Gallery by artists and curators will be accepted January 15th, 2026 to March 31st, 2026 for exhibitions in 2027.
The application is free and must be submitted digitally. If digital submissions are prohibitive, please contact us at info@gpag.ca. Please note that we will not accept applications made by email or applications that do not follow our Submission Guidelines.
For more information and before applying, please carefully read our Submission Guidelines and our Exhibition Policy and view our floor plan, all available along with our online application form here.
We look forward to seeing your applications!
Opportunity: Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Open Call for Exhibitions in 2027
Deadline Mar 31st. Artists working in any style and medium are invited to apply to our Open Call! Proposals for solo and group exhibitions in the Main and Eve Smart Gallery by artists and curators will be accepted January 15th, 2026 to March 31st, 2026 for exhibitions in 2027.
The application is free and must be submitted digitally. If digital submissions are prohibitive, please contact us at info@gpag.ca. Please note that we will not accept applications made by email or applications that do not follow our Submission Guidelines.
For more information and before applying, please carefully read our Submission Guidelines and our Exhibition Policy and view our floor plan, all available along with our online application form here.
We look forward to seeing your applications!
Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Artist Talk & Reading with Andrea Fritz
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 to all!
Lyackson Place Names features hand produced silk screen prints in the traditional style of the Coast Salish People, exploring place names and different aspects of storytelling and culture. Each print in Andrea Fritz’s exhibition focuses on a place within Lyackson territory on the Salish Sea or on an aspect of Coast Salish storytelling, and is accompanied by the story relating to the piece. Lyackson Place Names will be closing on Saturday, December 20th at 4pm.
PR – Artique Gallery:
Mon – Sat 10:00AM – 5:00 PM; Sun 12:30 – 4 A Co-operative Gallery consisting of 30 members with a very wide selection of local original art, fine craft, handmade and art cards for every taste and budget. Safety protocols observed. We run a guest artist program or, if you would like to become a member artist, applications are always welcome.
PR – Artique Gallery:
Mon – Sat 10:00AM – 5:00 PM; Sun 12:30 – 4 A Co-operative Gallery consisting of 30 members with a very wide selection of local original art, fine craft, handmade and art cards for every taste and budget. Safety protocols observed. We run a guest artist program or, if you would like to become a member artist, applications are always welcome.
PR – Artique Gallery:
Mon – Sat 10:00AM – 5:00 PM; Sun 12:30 – 4 A Co-operative Gallery consisting of 30 members with a very wide selection of local original art, fine craft, handmade and art cards for every taste and budget. Safety protocols observed. We run a guest artist program or, if you would like to become a member artist, applications are always welcome.
PR – Artique Gallery:
Mon – Sat 10:00AM – 5:00 PM; Sun 12:30 – 4 A Co-operative Gallery consisting of 30 members with a very wide selection of local original art, fine craft, handmade and art cards for every taste and budget. Safety protocols observed. We run a guest artist program or, if you would like to become a member artist, applications are always welcome.