WITH THE GATHERING TREE
Open Gallery
October 1 to December 31, 2022
This exhibition narrates children's dialogues with a 50-year-old maple tree located in the middle of the playground in an early childhood education centre in Kamloops. Drawing and dialoguing in the company of the maple tree, children reimagine their relations with the world and its inhabitants.
Through carefully crafted pedagogical propositions, educators and pedagogist invite children to invent ethical relations with plant companions as they collectively gather around the maple tree. In this way, following slow educational processes, they extend the usual focus on facts and science, and invite children to imagine other possibilities for relating to the world. As the documentation shows, ploddingly, the tree and its companions become central protagonists in children’s relations with the world.
EXPLORATIONS: A SUMMER OF ART
Open Gallery
August 25 to September 25, 2022
Presenting artwork from each summer art camp artist, Explorations: A Summer of Art, celebrates a summer full of learning, creativity, and fun. Artworks are grouped by medium, including watercolour, ink drawings, single and multi-layer relief prints, and acrylic paintings.
Generously sponsored by Watson Engineering Ltd.
WITNESSING
Alicia Henry
Central Gallery
October 1 to December 31, 2022
Curated by Daina Augaitis
YOUTH UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Seharaab Baidwan // Zero Bethell // Melissa Cadena // Victoria Decaire // Joceyln De Luna // Arseniia Kobzareva // Ashley Martens // Klaira Neilsen // Yanneck Signoretti // Katie Willms
Open Gallery
July 16 to August 20, 2022
Artwork created by the participants of the summer youth intern program.
This program is generously sponsored by the Edwina and Paul Heller Memorial Fund with the Vancouver Foundation.
READING THE LAND: TEN YEARS OF COLLECTING
Rebecca Belmore // Franklin Carmichael // Dana Claxton // Feminist Land Art Retreat // Rodney Graham // Adad Hannah // Andrea Kastner // Ann Kipling // Germaine Koh // Rodney Konopaki and Rhonda Neufeld // Donald Lawrence // Scott Massey // Daphne Odjig // Toni Onley // Gary Pearson // Jerry Pethick // Richard Prince // George Raab // Jack Shadbolt // Gordon Smith // Ted Smith // Tania Willard // Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Central Gallery
July 16 to September 17, 2022
Curated by Charo Neville
GHOST DAYS
Terrance Houle
The Cube
June 30 to September 10, 2022
Organized by the Kamloops Art Gallery
HERE ELSEWHERE OTHER HAUNTINGS
Jin-me Yoon
Central Gallery
April 23 to July 2, 2022
Curated by Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre
Curator of Contemporary Art, Musée d’art de Joliette
SAILING PRETTY CLOSE TO THE WIND
Robin Hodgson
The Cube
April 23 to June 18, 2022
Curated by Craig Willms
LOST IN AN AMBIENT CHAOS WITH A MISH MASH OF THE RIFF RAFF, WHILE FIGHTING CHUCK E. CHEESE IN THE PARKING LOT.
Chris Bose // Susie Dyck // Avery Froste // Billie Jean Gabriel // Leo Hill // Kira Makela // Charlie Napoleon // Monique Reiswig // The Wormlord
Open Gallery
February 17 to April 2, 2022
Over the past year, the artists in the Fierce Shadow Unicorn Masterminds Artist Collective have experimented with new creative mediums and collaborations while sharing ideas and having discussions, jokes and laughter, and some moments of solemn serious real talk, all while making art. We’ve become good friends, dedicated artists, and continue to make new art and explore new directions every day, and every week. We keep returning to support each other and encourage each other to keep going. You get better as an artist by putting in the time and you learn and grow as a person by being with people who have your back and support you creatively. That’s what this exhibition is all about.