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Deep Roots
Featuring themes of resource extraction, land use, environmentalism and climate change, homebuilding, energy use, wildfire mitigation, and more.
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Vessels
Amelia Ford February 15 to May 24, 2025 Objects such as glasses, fruit, flowers, and tchotchkes take on figurative roles to represent their latent symbology and challenge the male gaze.
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Within This Earthen Vessel: Stories of India & Community
Celebrating the Indian diasporic community to the local region, weaving together stories of past and present, through historical photos from regional archives and beyond, personal stories, and work from local artists.
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Utopia Unveiled: Intentional Communities in the Kootenays
The counterculture movement brought a wave of creativity to the Kootenays in areas such as theatre, ceramics, filmmaking, weaving, poetry, fine art, and music. Utopia Unveiled explores how this community helped shaped Nelson.
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PULP
Throughout the last 2,000 years, paper has played a crucial role in collecting and sharing information and ideas and has allowed us a window into the past.
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Judy Wapp: VisuAlchemy
As an activist, visual artist, and radio personality for nearly 75 years, Judy Wapp has lived an incredible life.
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Elevation
This four-seasons backyard playground produced world-class athletes, built a tourism economy, and hosts adventurers from around the world. This winter, the Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery presents Elevation – an ambitious exhibition exploring the vast expanse of the mountains in the Kootenays.
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2017 Members’ Show and Sale
The ‘Members’ Show and Sale’ exhibition events are excellent opportunities to get a visual measure of our membership and reciprocate the support that our members give us as an organization. The last member exhibition took place in 2014 and was a beautiful and eclectic showing of the talent, dedication and passion that exists within the…
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2023 Members’ Show and Sale
The beloved Members’ Show and Sale returns in 2023!
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The Poetry of Objects
A dress covered in spoons, a garment composed only of sleeves, an arc of lampshades….in the Poetry of Objects, artist Leah Weinstein invites you to celebrate unexpected connections and discover the extraordinary in the everyday. Using new and re-purposed materials and forms, Weinstein creates assemblages that use the familiar in surprising ways, blurring the lines…