art galleries
Arts community rallies behind gallery/music venue, City ordered Little Mountain Gallery to secure appropriate approvals
Main Street’s Little Mountain Gallery is optimistic its doors will remain open just weeks after a city inspector warned it was hosting events contrary to its business licence. The gallery, at 195 East 26th, opened more than four years ago and has regularly leased the space to artists and musicians for more than two years. [...]
The battle of Larwill Park rages on, The Vancouver Art Gallery wants the three acres for a new landmark building, but city councillors want a mixed-use development. Meanwhile, the public is caught in the middle
From its earliest history, Larwill Park was a place marked by contest and conflict. Boots of the volunteer artillery corps stomped in drill. The dusty parade ground housed men in tents as they enlisted to fight in the Boer and First World wars. In peacetime, the field, once called the “Commons of the Pioneers,” was [...]
Block parties: Moments in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s history
–1925 Henry Stone and five other founding members offer Vancouver city council $100,000 toward a new permanent collection if the city would give them a building and site for the new Vancouver Art Gallery. The city refuses. –1928 Voters turn down a proposed $75,000 money bylaw to build a gallery. –1930 City agrees to donate [...]
Courtenay: Muir Gallery raising funds
The Muir Gallery has been giving Comox Valley artists a place to display their work for at least 15 years, but now, its future is in jeopardy. Faced with cuts to its provincial gaming grants, the Comox Valley Community Arts Council (CVCAC) is holding a raffle to raise money to continue operating the gallery in [...]
Ladysmith: Fibre art coming to gallery for first time
Composting, old technology and recycling can lead to art. Members of the Vancouver Island Surface Design Association will be exhibiting the results of some of these unusual techniques during their first exhibit since forming as a chapter about a year ago. The chapter holds its first show at the Ladysmith Waterfront Art Gallery. “We will [...]
Princeton: Gallery will open July 30
At the Town Council meeting on Monday 19th the revised Sunflower Gallery business plan was approved. Thankyou to Lyle Thomas for advocating on our behalf. The Gallery committee has been hard at work preparing the space and the lease, insurance and final details are being discussed. ( Robin, Vicky, Barb, Marjorie) The downtown location will [...]
Denman gallery growing
You can invigorate your environment from an impressive collection of affordable artwork by acclaimed Canadian artists at MiMa Fine Art on Denman Island. It features an exhilarating array of archival giclée editions on paper and canvas — all produced in-house. From the colourful boats of Graham Herbert to the impressionistic landscapes of Brian Scott, coastal panoramic [...]
100 Mile House: Artists Guild celebrates 30 years at show
The Cariboo Artists Guild has history with 100 Mile House. Thirty years of history to be exact, and they’re ready to celebrate it through their upcoming summer show and sale at Parkside Art Gallery. The six-week event opens on July 23 with an artists’ reception from 5 to 9 p.m. in the main gallery. That’s [...]
Port Moody: Contemporary gallery closing its doors
Contemporary art gallery and artists’ studios in Port Moody David Bizzo is closing the doors on his Electronic Avenue venue to make way for redevelopment.” “I always knew year after year eventually they were going to tear the building down or redevelop the lot, I just didn’t know when,” Bizzo said. The Electronic Avenue Gallery [...]
Ladysmith: Exhibition connects artists from around the world
Traditional First Nation and Japanese garb lent flavour to Art Jam in Ladysmith last week. The Pacific Rim Connection, or Art Jam, was held in the Waterfront Gallery in Ladysmith Friday, July 9. Art Jam is a grass-roots Japanese event with a Canadian connection: the Pacific Rim Connection. “This is different from a government-initiated tour [...]
‘High art’ may be another reason to move gallery: Vancouver Art Gallery volunteer tells public meeting that ‘there’s dope wafting through the air’ at current location
As a volunteer at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s acquisitions committee, David Allison gets to spend time in the facility’s basement vault. Not only is there “appalling” leaking down in that basement, he reports, but he revealed another problem Wednesday night: He has been able to detect the scent of marijuana smoke in the air. “It [...]
Nanaimo: Outdoor art gallery offers unique and changing venue for Nanaimo artists
Tourists and residents alike are already leaving the beaten track to check out Nanaimo’s newest outdoor art gallery. Three of nine temporary public art pieces have already caught the attention of passersby in Maffeo-Sutton and McGregor parks. The outdoor gallery project is a collaboration between the City of Nanaimo and the Nanaimo Art Gallery to [...]
Vancouver Art Gallery takes new-building proposal to public forums
The Vancouver Art Gallery is hosting two public-information sessions next week about its drive for a new building at a new location. The facility says it is looking to both answer questions from the community, as well as guage feedback. The first will take place downtown at the Robson Square Theatre on Wednesday night (July [...]
Victoria: Carr show features rarely seen early work: emi-permanent exhibit includes loans from galleries across Canada
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria celebrates the art and life of Emily Carr, with the opening of a new semi-permanent exhibition called Emily Carr: On the Edge of Nowhere (now on display). “Here, in Carr’s hometown, both visitors and residents have long expressed their desire to explore more of Carr’s life and art at [...]
Penticton: Gala continues gallery’s momentum
Artists who captured the breathtaking settings of wineries and vineyards above Okanagan Lake will have their work up for auction at the 33rd annual Penticton Starry, Starry Night gala. “Growing in popularity each year, this event is fast becoming the foremost summer event on many social calendars not only here in the Okanagan Valley but [...]
