re:materia exhi’pit
Open Gallery
October 26, 2024 to January 25, 2025
re:materia exhi’pit is a participatory artistic installation and exhibition space launched at the Early Childhood Educators of BC (ECEBC) Conference in May of 2024 as an invitation for early childhood educators and their allies across the province of BC to take up the difficult labour of disrupting the capitalist citizenship that supports the extractive cycle of consumption and waste production. The installation is hosted by the re:materia program, a partnership between the Early Childhood Pedagogy Network (ECPN) and ECEBC that invites early childhood educators to creatively and critically reimagine pedagogical processes and curriculum-making around waste.
DREAM ; NÀTE
Casey Koyczan
The Cube
Residency and Exhibition
January 18 to April 19, 2025
Curated by Craig Willms
Casey Koyczan is returning to Kamloops to develop a new project as artist-in-residence in The Cube. As part of his creative process, Koyczan is piecing together imagery and narratives from a dream that brought him from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, to Kamloops.
ITHIN-EH-WUK—WE PLACE OURSELVES AT THE CENTER: JAMES NICHOLAS AND SANDRA SEMCHUK
James Nicholas and Sandra Semchuk
The Central Gallery
January 18 to April 19, 2025
Curated by Timothy Long
For fifteen years, James Nicholas and Sandra Semchuk collaborated on a series of nationally exhibited photo-installations and videos which unveil the mindset and effects of colonialism through the lens of their remarkable intercultural marriage.
Summer Camp: Land and Home
Open Gallery
September 14 to October 19, 2024
Curated by Nicole Favron, Ian Laurrabaquio, and Adrian Romeo
While creating these works, we thought of the ways land makes us feel. What does home mean to us? How do landscapes shape us?
The artworks included here were created over the course of eight weeks by 160 artists aged 5 to 12 enrolled in Kamloops Art Gallery Summer Camp.
Inspired by the artists and artworks in Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital, young artists explored materials, concepts, and techniques represented by the many artists in the exhibition.
We hope that you will take your time exploring the artworks created here this summer and join us in celebrating the work of these incredible young artists.
So Long As They’re Friends: Queer Safety On This Side of the Rainbow
Open Gallery
August 10 to September 7, 2024
Curated by Teresa Donck-Matlock
So Long As They’re Friends; Queer Safety on This Side of the Rainbow presents traces of how queer folks have created safety within conditions of criminalization and discrimination, and creates a space for education and dialogue around 2SLGBTQPIA+ topics.
DIASPORIST ANCHORS FOR FUTURE MEMORY
Gambletron // Johnny Forever Nawracaj // zev tiefenbach
The Cube
Residency
July 10 to 20, 2024
Exhibition
July 20 to September 21, 2024
This collaborative project by Gambletron, Johnny Forever Nawracaj, and zev tiefenbach represents a potential touchstone for diasporic Eastern European Jewish collective memory as the three artists explore their shared Jewish and Polish ancestry.
TOWN + COUNTRY: NARRATIVES OF PROPERTY AND CAPITAL
Architects Against Housing Alienation // Rodney Graham // Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill // Karin Jones // Tiziana La Melia // Carel Moiseiwitsch // Alex Morrison // Janet Wang // Holly Ward // Tania Willard // Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Central Gallery
July 20 to September 21, 2024
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
January 10 to April 13, 2025
Curated by Caitlin Jones, Charo Neville, and Melanie O’Brian
Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital troubles the enduring narrative binary of town and country. Borders between these two terrains have always morphed and slipped around each other theoretically, politically, economically, and socially, yet the narrative of the urban/rural divide persists.
EVERY DAY IS A DAY AT THE RACES WHEN YOU’RE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY ILL
Adrian Romeo
The Cube
September 28 to December 28, 2024
Curated by Craig Willms
Through visual strategies that embrace humour and play, Adrian Romeo explores the human condition and reflects on her own mental and physical struggles.
STORIES THAT ANIMATE US
Robert Davidson // Francisco de Goya // Jérôme Havre // David Hockney // Ed Pien // Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo // Marina Roy // Royal Art Lodge // Cauleen Smith // Amanda Strong // Camille Turner // Joyce Wieland
Central Gallery
October 5 to December 28, 2024
Storytelling—its scope and significance—lies at the heart of Stories that animate us. Highlighting a rich selection of works on paper and animations, Stories that animate us draws from a wide range of collectively shared oral histories, knowledge systems, and cosmologies, as well as personal memories, imaginings, and dreams.
Black Odyssey: Past, Present, and Future
Open Gallery
June 8 to August 3, 2024
Hardley Williams and The Unique Get Together Society
Presented in collaboration with Hardley Williams and The Unique Get Together Society, Black Odyssey illuminates the past, embraces the present, and envisions the future of the Black community in Kamloops. The Open Gallery features art posters spotlighting local Black community leaders, who will be in attendance at a free gathering on June 15 in the Kamloops Art Gallery Studios (on the main floor of the TNRD building). With awareness and understanding at its core, this initiative is open to everyone interested in learning and sharing about the Black experience in Kamloops.
ANCESTRAL DREAMS & OTHER PREMONITIONS
Cindy Mochizuki
Central Gallery
April 20 to July 6, 2024
Curated by Charo Neville
Spring Art Camp
Open Gallery
April 20 to June 1, 2024
Curated by Kristen Gardner and Emily Hope
The artworks included in this exhibition were created over the course of two weeks by 40 artists aged 5 to 12 enrolled in the Kamloops Art Gallery’s Spring Art Camp.
ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᒃ DOUBLE VISION
Jessie Oonark, Janet Kigusiuq, and Victoria Mamnguqsualuk
Central Gallery
January 20 to April 6, 2024
Curated by Candice Hopkins
SLEEPING IN SKINS: LIFE IN INUIT NUNANGAT
Davidialuk Alasua Amittu // Kenojuak Ashevak // Pitseolak Ashoona // Elizabeth Nutaraluk Aulatjut // Ada Eyetoaq //Vital Makpaaq // Henry Napartuk // Martha Noah // Pudlo Pudlat // Jamasie Teevee
Central Gallery
January 20 to April 6, 2024
BLUTO’S CAVE: ALLEGORY OF THE MAN CAVE
Patrick Lundeen
The Cube
January 13 to April 6, 2024
Curated by Craig Willms
No Boundaries: History and Progress in Microbiology Research
Open Gallery
January 20 to April 6, 2024
Naowarat Cheeptham, professor of science, Thompson Rivers University.
As an academic cave microbiology researcher and educator, I have headed the TRU Cave Microbiology laboratory since 2002 with an indelible commitment to be a part of microbiology educators’ communities debunking ungrounded concerns about microorganisms.
RESONANT OBJECTS
Open Gallery
December 6, 2023 to January 13, 2024
This community art project was inspired by the idea that the objects we keep in our lives embody some significance to us and hold our stories. Through conversation, self-reflection, and explorations of Deanna Bowen’s exhibition Black Drones in the Hive, participants were invited to consider their relationships with objects. Which objects in our lives hold meaning? What gets saved and why? How do we decide which objects tell our story?
THE COMMUNITY ARCHIVE PROJECT
KAG Visitors
Open Gallery
October 25 to December 2, 2023
Organized by Emily Hope
How people and events are memorialized often offers clues to who is doing the memorializing. While history is often understood as permanent and fixed, what if it were told from another perspective?
BLACK DRONES IN THE HIVE
Deanna Bowen
Central Gallery
September 23 to December 30, 2023
Curated by Crystal Mowry