Reception + Artist Talk: Friday, May 17th at 5pm
Exhibition dates: May 17 – June 15, 2024
We invite you to join us for the opening reception for Studies in Sentience, a multi-media exhibition by artists Biliana Velkova, Erika Mashig, and Sunshine Frère. Through feeling and sensing in her meditative print-making process, Erika Mashig makes visible the intangible. Through ancient folklore, Bilana Velkova invites us to delve into the past and connect with old creatures whose mythologies that once provided ancient communities with a way of understanding the world and their place within it. Sunshine Frère’s work exposes the impossibility of living in a bubble, and the challenges of understanding the interconnectivity of our world(s).
May 17 – June 15, 2024
Reception + Artist Talk: Friday, May 17th at 5pm
A multi-media art exhibition by Biliana Velkova, Erika Mashig, and Sunshine Frère. Through feeling and sensing in her meditative print-making process, Erika Mashig makes visible the intangible. Through ancient folklore, Bilana Velkova invites us to delve into the past and connect with old creatures whose mythologies that once provided ancient communities with a way of understanding the world and their place within it. Sunshine Frère’s work exposes the impossibility of living in a bubble, and the challenges of understanding the interconnectivity of our world(s).
July 16–19 | Tuesday–Friday | 10AM–3PM
$200/$250 (member/non-member)
Ages: 8-13, Max 12 participants
Instructor: Bruce Edwards
Bruce Edwards is a long-time art teacher who will guide lessons on drawing and illustration. Learn how to draw using traditional techniques and exercises in a fun and relaxed manner. Youth will learn basic shapes, forms, shading, depth, shadows, light sources, and perspective. Participants will learn and make art in our beautiful studio for most of the day, with breaks outdoors exploring the natural spaces near the Arts Centre. Camp runs 10:00 – 3:00 each day, with a break provided for lunch. Participants must bring their own lunch and a water bottle!
July 23– 26, 2024 | Monday – Thursday | 10AM – 3PM
Cost: $200/$250 (Member/Non-Member)
Ages: 8-13, Max 12 participants
Instructor: Ali Casey
In this camp, participants will have a chance to explore different materials and creative processes. From collage and sculpture to working with fibre and other materials, youth will play, experiment and learn. Participants will learn and make art in our beautiful studio for most of the day, with breaks outdoors exploring the natural spaces near the Arts Centre. Camp runs 10:00 – 3:00 each day, with a break provided for lunch. Participants must bring their own lunch and a water bottle!
April 19 – May 11, 2024
Life Drawing
Group Exhibition
Artist Talk + Reception: Friday April 19 @ 5pm
This exhibition marks the 39th anniversary of the Tuesday Life Drawing Group and includes drawings completed between 2022 and 2024. Drawings include works in pencil, pen, conté, charcoal and digital drawings on iPad. Drawings untouched in the studio back home have a spontaneity, freshness and immediacy ordinarily not seen in art exhibitions where the usual criteria include polish and composition. Drawing times range from one to thirty minutes and range from fine portrait drawings to bold and brushy colourful works of full or partial nudes.
April 19 – May 11, 2024
Reception + Artist Talk: Friday, April 19th at 5pm
This series recreates mythological and religious figures as modern people of diverse backgrounds. These models are security guards, baristas, artists, computer programmers, and entrepreneurs, but in these paintings they become god-like. Each work attempts to match each model to different iconic figures based on a moment of perceived similarity, while also deliberately mismatching the models in other aspects of their visual characteristics, such as their perceived racial identity, or biological sex.
Exhibition Dates: April 19 – May 11, 2024
Reception + Artist Talk: Friday, April19th @ 5PM
Recreations of Myth and Spirit – Samantha Harrison
Life Drawing Exhibition – Brenden Harris, Brian McFayden, Bruce Edwards, Cathy Wickett, Charlene Stallard, Christel Evers, Cindy Riach, Claude Perrault, Darlynne Gehring, Devon Blean, Gabrielle Barrett-Lennard, Janice McFegan, Judith Miller, Kathy O’Brien, Kevin J. Wells, Louise Valentine, Nena Braathen, Pamela Lee, Paula O’Brien, Paula Sawadsky, Sandi McGinnis, Vicky Marshall
Sunday Apr 7 @ 2:30PM | Doors @ 2:00PM
Entrance by donation, limited seating (30)
Introduction to the End of an Argument
Director: Jayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman, 1990, 41mins
Post-screening discussion: Jayce Salloum + M. Simon Levin
Trailer: https://www.vdb.org/titles/introduction-end-argument
Replicating the tone of a dizzying and oversaturated news cycle, the filmmakers deconstruct how dominant narratives influence and hold power. Through archival footage and reenactments, the film shows how cultural representation dehumanizes a people through a perpetually colonial gaze, and critiques the pervasive racism in the media’s portrayal of Arabs. Created in the ’90s, reflecting the politics of the ’80s, the film is as relevant as ever in these times.
to April 13th
Reception: Friday March 15th @ 5PM
Artist Talk: April 12th @ 5PM
Each year, hundreds of millions of herring return to the Salish Sea, their spawn painting a milky turquoise collar along its shores. For a few chaotic days, the sea is transformed. We set out to capture the abstract patterns found in the chaos and wonder of the herring spawn. Our decision to create a triptych grew out of an impulse to make art that was as compelling and immersive as the spawn itself.
GO FISH captures the patterns of this mayhem as the herring “set the table,” and we discover the extraordinary cast of wildlife and humans who come to dinner. GO FISH was made with the participation of both environmentalists and members of the fishing fleet.
February 9th – March 9th
Laurence Belzile
Through the Gardens
Reception + Artist Talk: Friday, February 9th at 5pm
Through the Gardens invites contemplation on the poetic act of wandering through nature by delving into the evocative possibilities of abstraction. Laurence Belzile explains that gardens, with their myriad interpretations, parallel the indistinct nature of abstraction within her artistic practice.
February 9th – March 9th
John Down
Of Line and Landscapes
Reception + Artist Talk: Friday, February 9th at 5pm
As rainforests of the West Coast become increasingly threatened, Of Line and Landscape documents the intimate conversation between the artist and the surrounding natural landscape. John Down’s studio sits high atop a granite outcrop looking into the forest where he interprets and expresses the energetic company of forest, rocks, trees and sky in acrylic, charcoal and pastel.
Sunday Feb 4th @ 2:30PM | Doors @ 2:00PM
Entrance by donation, limited seating
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Directors: Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, 2023, 1h 42m
Post-screening discussion with Vimalasara and Terra Long (Editor)
The Sunday Film Series returns this Spring. Each screening is followed by a facilitated discussion with a special guest speaker. The film series is carefully curated to provide selections that challenge our audiences and stimulate discussion about important topics in the arts. An impressive line-up of films, guest speakers and sponsors make this series convivial, mind-expanding and enjoyable.
Sundays – Feb 4; Mar 3; Apr 7.
In-person at the Arts Centre | Pre-registration required | Max. 15 participants | Suggested donation: $30-$50 (for all three sessions)
Museums and galleries have played an important role in how cultures and peoples from across the globe have been framed and represented in Western society. Many of the stereotypes that we retain today about other cultures have found their roots in the art and exhibitions of museums and their colonial histories. This three-part discussion will introduce how museums and galleries, and their exhibitions and collections practices are part of the complex framing of other cultures.
Online via ZOOM | Pre-registration required | Max. 15 participants | Suggested donation: $30-$50 (for all three sessions) Wednesdays, Feb 7; Mar 6; Apr 10.
Museums and galleries have played an important role in how cultures and peoples from across the globe have been framed and represented in Western society. Many of the stereotypes that we retain today about other cultures have found their roots in the art and exhibitions of museums and their colonial histories. This three-part discussion will introduce how museums and galleries, and their exhibitions and collections practices are part of the complex framing of other cultures.
January 5 – February 3, 2024
Reception: Friday, January 5th (5-7PM)
The Friends of the Gallery (FOG) is our annual celebration of the creativity of our membership. This exhibition launches our new year, and features the work of members of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council. The exhibition is a long-standing community event that has spanned more than 25 years. Its aim is to involve the broadest range of local artists, to acknowledge the role of the arts in our community, and to celebrate the extraordinary diversity in materials, forms and approach. Artists are invited to submit one piece of art they have completed in the previous year to be shown in this group exhibition.
