National
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WOOD
Eight artists showcase the myriad ways a simple medium can be transformed.
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Dark Chapters
David Garneau March 22 to June 28, 2025 There are so many ways to investigate how the written word can implicate, illuminate, and interpret artworks.
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The Witness Blanket
The Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery (NMAG) is honoured to exhibit a replicated portion of The Witness Blanket in the summer of 2024, on tour from the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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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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Brain Scans / Neurotransmitting
The exhibition features Ruth Cuthand’s intricately beaded reproductions of MRI scans, as well as a film component from Theo. Both facets of the exhibition illuminate the difficulty of facing mental health challenges, and how families unite in support.
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Momentum
Explore the diverse, seven-decade-long art practice of the formidable Jack Shadbolt (1909-1998) and the ‘Momentum’ exhibition. Works include early 1930s sketches, commissioned silkscreen play posters, painterly abstractions, and lithographs
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The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada & Leaf Through This
A selection of award winning books from the Vancouver-based society dedicated to promoting a wider appreciation of books and reading. The Alcuin Society is a Vancouver based non-profit society dedicated to promoting a wider appreciation of books and reading. The Society’s interests include authorship, publishing, book design and production, bookselling, book buying and collecting, printing,…
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Pendulum/Pendula
Living in the tension between beauty and repulsion, playfulness and danger, Pendulum/Pendula is a series of paintings produced collaboratively by artists John Hall and Alexandra Haeseker. With colourful subject matter drawn largely from Mexican culture, the work is rendered in the stunningly photorealistic style they’re both known for. Hall & Haeseker met when they were…
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Out of the Ordinary
Out of the Ordinary examines everyday household objects and questions our relationship to them. It reinterprets the common, the mundane – buttons, fasteners and kitchen utensils – into exaggerated objects of questionable usage.
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Unfamiliar Selves
Who are we and what is the nature of identity? In Unfamiliar Selves, artists Jude Griebel and Tammy Salzl explore this question. Griebel’s fantastic sculptural beings contrast with the quieter, more introspective qualities of Salzl’s small scale watercolour paintings. Together, they offer a diverse and engaging perspective on the uncertain notion of identity