Enter the Mind of a Genius with Imagine Van Gogh
Walking through Imagine Van Gogh at the Vancouver Convention Centre is like being pulled into the artists’ sketchbook. You’ll wade through watercolours and sense the broad texture in every brush stroke. This show is such a unique experience, we’re tempted not to spoil anything, but really, it would be hard to describe how enveloping it […]
Celebrating International Dance Day with Two Vancouver Institutions
International Dance Day is Today and if you’ve been itching to move a bit, you’re not alone. Anyone with even a slight familiarity with rhythm will feel the urge to cut loose with dancefloors being closed for so long. While we don’t condone launching into your most physical choreography among strangers, there are ways to […]
7 BC Artists You Need to Follow on Instagram
Seeing as PHO orders are discouraging travel between health regions, gallery outings will likely be scaled way back. But why should that stop us from checking out new art virtually and exploring the incredible voices that call BC home? We’re taking it as an opportunity to play curator for a day and champion a few […]
10 Reasons to Join BC Culture Days
Who cares if summer is over, BC Culture Days has plenty of reasons to celebrate sweater weather! Here are our top picks for staying inspired this fall.
Your Guide To Safely Visiting Vancouver Galleries
If you’ve been sheltering in place and need a bit of a bit of art therapy, you’re in luck.
After months of being closed, galleries in the Lower Mainland are taking a break from virtual tours, to safely offering the real thing.
Artist Inspiration: Grant Withers
Photograph by Yunuen Perez Vertti Grant Withers is a husband, dad and photographic visionary living in Burnaby. Shooting since he was a teenager armed with his father’s Pentax SLR, he fell in love with black and white darkroom work and Kodachrome 64, and now embraces the creative potential of the digital darkroom. Known for pushing […]
Public Art Tour: New Westminster
You don’t always have to take a trip to a museum or gallery to enjoy local art. New Westminster has done a wonderful job of curating temporary and permanent public art pieces located in various hot spots around the city, particularly in the downtown/Front Street region. These installations, murals, sculptures and totem poles are on […]
Out of Concealment – Female Supernatural Beings of Haida Gwaii
Photo: Xuuya XiisGid | Yaahl Xigid| Raven Stretched OutLED lightbox with transmounted lightjet duratrans, 2017 The majority of the pieces in this solo exhibition feature Haida artist, Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, using her own image in her ethereal photomontages. She boldly captures the viewer’s imagination in Out of Concealment – Female Supernatural Beings of Haida Gwaii, on […]
8 Places to See Art for Free or By Donation
Checking out inspiring local and international art and artists doesn’t have to break the bank. There are plenty of free (or almost free) exhibitions all over the West Coast. We’ve short-listed 8 galleries and museums to get you started. Langley Centennial Museum | Admission by donation 9135 King Street, Fort Langley, BCHours: Monday to Saturday […]
The Bill Reid Gallery Set To Celebrate the Artist’s 100th Birthday
Emerging out of a courtyard in downtown Vancouver is a hidden gem of a gallery with large skylights framed by terracotta archways; just some of the remaining architectural features of what was once a nursing college. The Bill Reid Gallery at 639 Hornby Street is Canada’s only public gallery dedicated to contemporary Indigenous Art of […]
Gordon Duggan, Director-Curator of the New Media Gallery
Gordon Duggan brings a world of experience to New Media Gallery in New Westminster. And that’s not said lightly. An award-winning designer, theorist, curator, teacher and somewhat accidental activist, Gordon along with partner and co-curator Sarah Joyce, is putting New West on the map of cutting edge contemporary art, and he’s using the friends he’s […]
A Resounding: Echoes at the Burnaby Art Gallery
In an intimate exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery curated by Emily Dundas Oke, six indigenous artists explore the way stories reverberate through our modern, shared world. Voices from the past are reflected in our present and shape our future. Patterns emerge and fall away and repeat like that until we start to recognize meaning, […]