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GPAG: Art For the Inner I: Creating from the Inside Out

Join us for a painting and mixed media workshop on April 8th 2pm – 4:30pm with instructor Rose Clarke (www.roseclarke.ca), artist and art therapist, who will guide you into a deep and fertile inner world where images, colours, shapes and symbols are encouraged to come out as a vivid living picture-story. You will develop a visual language unique to yourself beyond artistic conventions and roles, to create art that is meaningful and expressive.

This workshop is open to people with all levels of experience. The maximum number of participants is 10. All materials are provided. Find more information and register online via EventBrite.

GPAG: SHOUT OUT! Creation Station

Looking for something fun to do during Spring Break? During our Shout Out exhibition (March 13th – 30th), GPAG will be open every day 11am – 4pm. Parents and guardians, bring your young artists down anytime to see the exhibition and to enjoy our creation station!

We will be providing all you need to do four fun crafts: collage, weaving, origami, and rock painting; as well as a drawing station. Try out a new craft, and then bring your masterpiece home or trade it with others through our artwork exchange board. This is a free drop in activity station for all ages that will be open anytime throughout the exhibition. Young children must be accompanied by an adult.

GPAG: ROSE CLARKE | STORYBOARDS (mixed media)

to Mar 30. Beginning from the understanding that life is full of complexity, Rose Clarke aims for her works to ignite a creative spark and curiosity within the viewer. Each collage painting in this exhibition is a Storyboard, a tale told in a multitude of ways from a multitude of perspectives. Some can be described literally, some are poetic and suggestive, and others resist interpretation and must be allowed to just be. Clarke practices intuitive image-making, allowing her visual language to emerge from a realm that gets covered over in the business of daily living.

Interested in this exhibition or the processes behind Clarke’s work? Keep an eye out for an upcoming workshop with Rose Clarke at GPAG in April.

GPAG: SHOUT OUT! 2025 Youth Art Exhibition

to Mar 30th. One of our most popular annual exhibitions, Shout Out! features the work of Sunshine Coast youth aged 2 – 18. 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. Featuring drawing, painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, and much more, visit and be inspired by the creativity, individuality, and vibrancy on display throughout the exhibition.

During this exhibition, we will be open every day and will have a free drop in crafting station set up for all ages. Join us for the Opening Reception of Shout Out on Sat., Mar 15th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome to join us!

GPAG: SHOUT OUT! 2025 | Opening Reception

Join us for the Opening Reception of our youth Shout Out exhibition on Saturday, March 15th, 2pm – 4pm, to celebrate our community’s young artists. All are welcome to join us!

One of our most popular annual exhibitions, Shout Out! features the work of Sunshine Coast youth aged 2 – 18. 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. Featuring drawing, painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, and much more, visit and be inspired by the creativity, individuality, and vibrancy on display throughout the exhibition.

Mission Point House: Black Out Poetry Workshop

With collage and mixed-media, Tzaddi Gordon instructs you to create captivating “compositions” on vintage book pages. Your piece will arise from the genre of blackout poetry or redacted text, while deepening the meaning of the text with artful visual compositions.

Bring a pair of scissors and a glue stick or purchase a kit ($34),

GPAG: Opening Reception | Cuesta & Baker, T. Owens Union, & Tzaddi Gordon

Join us for the Opening Receptions of three exhibitions on Saturday, February 15th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!

This Opening Reception is for three different exhibitions; Parallels by Claudia Sageele Cuesta & Bill Baker in the Main Gallery; Stories That Still Need to Be Told, an exhibition honouring Black History Month in the Eve Smart Gallery by T. Owens Union; and In the Thick of It by special invitation to Joe’s Lounge by Tzaddi Gordon. Learn more about these three exhibitions online at www.gpag.ca; and check out upcoming Artist Talks & Workshops by these artists throughout February!

GPAG – Artist Talk with Claudia Sageele Cuesta & Bill Baker

Join us on Saturday, February 22nd, 2pm – 3pm for an Artist Talk with Claudia Sageele Cuesta and Bill Baker. This event is free to attend and all are welcome to join us!

Claudia Sageele Cuesta & Bill Baker’s exhibition Parallels is on display in the Main Gallery Feb 13th – March 9th. Learn more about this exhibition online at www.gpag.ca

GPAG: Artist Talk with Claudia Sageele Cuesta & Bill Baker

Join us on Saturday, February 22nd, 2pm – 3pm for an Artist Talk with Claudia Sageele Cuesta and Bill Baker. This event is free to attend and all are welcome to join us!

Claudia Sageele Cuesta & Bill Baker’s exhibition Parallels is on display in the Main Gallery Feb 13th – March 9th. Learn more about this exhibition online at www.gpag.ca

Art Exhibition: GPAG Joe’s Lounge – TZADDI GORDON | In the Thick of It

to Mar 9 – Joe’s Lounge. After spending many years constrained by the demands of caregiving for her husband with early-onset dementia, Tzaddi Gordon sought ways to make art in the cracks; to wedge a few moments of creativity into days that felt less and less like her own. One of these ways is working in the genre of found poetry. Using vintage books as her source Gordon creates new meaning from outmoded or dogmatic text and imagery through a process of redacting, cutting, or rearranging text, the act of removing and rewriting pages echoing the memory changes she has witnessed in her husband. An exhibition in Joe’s Lounge running Feb 13th – Mar 9th.

Join us for the Opening Reception of this exhibition on Saturday, Feb 15th, 2pm – 4pm; and for a FREE Intro to Blackout Poetry Workshop on Tues. Feb 18th, 2pm – 4pm.

Art Exhibition: GPAG – CLAUDIA SAGEELE CUESTA & BILL BAKER | Parallels (mixed media)

to Mar 9th. A selection of artwork from the past 10 years that represents the artists’ journeys. Although different in materiality, Cuesta and Baker share in their art practice a passion for that which cannot be seen. Bill Baker looks at architectural structures and forms, creating works on paper with charcoals and oil pastels. Claudia Sageele Cuesta’s work is fluid and contemplative, based in three dimensional installation and performance art. Cuesta & Baker’s exhibition Parallels is on display in the Main Gallery Feb 13th – Mar 9th.

Join us on Sat. Feb 15th, 2pm – 4pm, for the Opening Reception of this exhibition; and for an Artist Talk on Saturday Feb 22nd, 2pm – 3pm. Both events are free to attend and all are welcome!

Opportunity: Calling all artists | GPAG General submissions are open

The deadline to submit your proposal is 4PM on March 31st, 2025. We are currently accepting proposals to exhibit at GPAG in 2026 in the Main Gallery and Eve Smart Gallery! We accept submissions from both emerging and established artists working in all mediums and styles.

Before applying, please read our Exhibition Policy and Submission Guidelines carefully. Apply using our new online form (recommended) or via Google Drive or USB thumb drive. Find more information, submission guidelines, and application forms on our website at www.gpag.ca/submissions. Please note: we do not accept submissions via email.

Calling all youth artists! SHOUT OUT 2025 is coming up in March

Drop off your submissions March 6th – 9th, 11am – 4pm. 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, running March 15th – 30th, 2025. Find more information and submission forms online at www.gpag.ca/submissions.

Teachers, schools, and other youth group leaders: Class/group art projects are welcomed! Please contact the Gallery at info@gpag.ca to arrange custom display details or to request pickup of student art.

GPAG: Introduction to Blackout Poetry Workshop with Tzaddi Gordon

Join us for a free workshop on Feb. 18th with In the Thick of It artist Tzaddi Gordon. In this workshop we’ll transform book pages into unique blackout poetry compositions. You’ll learn how to use book pages as your poetic muse, and explore a variety of mixed media techniques.

Free; gallery donations of $5-$20 suggested. All are welcome!

GPAG: Artist Talk with T. Owens Union

Join us for an artist talk with T. Owens Union, the artist behind Stories that Still Need to Be Told; an exhibition in honour of Black History Month in the Eve Smart Gallery.

Stories That Still Need to Be Told, by T. Owens Union in the Eve Smart Gallery, describes aspects of African American culture and history. The lack of a fully realized historical portrait of this community in American society has regularly resulted in invisibility and suppression, and in this exhibition the artist uses the past to inform a present voice for ancestors who too often were silenced. T. Owens Union is a career scientist who also achieved an AAS degree in Fashion Marketing from Parsons School of Design (The New School), from rural south central Pennsylvania.

GPAG: RICHARD CHARTER | Vertical Human Horizontal World (mixed media)

Musician and artist Richard Charter uses thread and ink to translate musical scores into visual artworks, creating symbolic representations of music notations. Charter’s works, without the production of any actual decibels of sound, allow the viewer to engage with and intuit their own narrative from musical scores, fulfilling an act that is entirely musical in nature whether the viewer is a trained or untrained musician or a hearing or non-hearing person. The abundance of straight layered lines and the contrast of the vertical and horizontal in Charter’s work provides reflection on both the significance of the line in musical notation and on our sense of self in relation to our landscapes.

Join us for the Opening Reception Saturday, Jan. 18th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!

GPAG: Opening Reception | RICHARD CHARTER | TROCH, BRIAN BAXTER, ALAN SIRULNIKOFF, ALANNA WOOD

Join us at our Opening Reception on Sat. Jan 18th, 2pm – 4pm, to meet the artists behind our newest exhibitions; Vertical Human Horizontal World (Richard Charter), and Unshuttered: From Lens to Print (troch, Brian Baxter, Alan Sirulnikoff, & Alanna Wood).

In Unshuttered: From Lens to Print, four local Sunshine Coast photographers with diverse approaches and individual philosophies unite to explore photography as an art form. In Vertical Human Horizontal World, Vancouver based artist and musician Richard Charter uses thread and ink to translate musical scores into visual artworks, creating symbolic representations of music notations.

Lantern Making Workshop

Join Julia Booth for a fun afternoon of art, play, and light! In this workshop, you will learn how to make your own lantern using willow branches and paper. This is a wonderful opportunity to create a unique piece of functional art that’s perfect for the winter season. This event is in collaboration with Talaysay Tours, hosted by Candace Campo.

• Sunday, Jan 12th from 2-5PM
• 652 Gibsons Way, Gibsons, BC
• $95 (Includes all materials, tea & light snacks)

https://bit.ly/jblantern to book your spot, or contact Julia directly.

Julia Booth is an Expressive Arts Therapist, interdisciplinary artist, and designer located in Gibsons

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