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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
LUMINOCITY
Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke // Shiraz Bayjoo // Blaine Campbell // Carolina Caycedo // Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman // Luciana Freire D'Anunciação // Marja Helander // Cheyenne Rain LeGrande // Beric Manywounds // Natalie Purschwitz // Ahilapalapa Rands // Genevieve Robertson
Kamloops Art Gallery & Riverside Park
October 14 to 21, 2023
Curated by Emily Dundas Oke and Charo Neville
PROCESS, PRODUCT, MINDSET
Kiyana Basworo // Willow Beers // Benjamin Branch // Hannah Durant // Tarynne Gray // Ruby Liddy // Jade Matthews // Ze McDaniel // Jasmine Thomas // Aidan Wiggil
Open Gallery
July 15 to August 26, 2023
Curated by Simone Olanski
What inspires creation?
Process, Product, Mindset, portrays the artwork of 10 youth interns who were brought together for two weeks to collaborate on a group exhibition which expresses their identity through art. They chose to showcase their individuality by bringing their personalities to life through different styles and forms of art. The interns chose to ask themselves what inspires them to create.
THE COSMIC SYMPHONY OF INTERGALACTIC CHAOS
bunchofsickness // Clementine Clark // Ryder Dobson // Jahree James // Rowan Jensen // Michelle Jones // Kira Makela // NAPCOLORS // Vasualha Nikku // Riffia // SAFO // Shades // Huxley Wendland III Esq. // Sophia Westwood // Emily Wood // WORMLORD
Open Gallery
April 15 to June 24, 2023
Curated by Chris Bose and Charlie Napoleon
This exhibition shares the work of The Fierce Unicorn Shadow Masterminds Artists Collective. Lead by KAG Youth Programs Coordinator Chris Bose, this program engages a determined and dedicated group of young artists who meet weekly in the Kamloops Art Gallery studios to explore multi-media.
I KNOW ABOUT LOTS OF THINGS I’VE NEVER SEEN. AND SO DO YOU.
Zoe Kreye
Central Gallery
April 22 to June 30, 2023
Curated by Charo Neville
THE 215 LE ESTCWICWÉY̓ (“THE MISSING”)
Johnny Bandura
The Cube
April 15 to June 24, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
GLACIAL RESONANCE
Paul Walde
Central Gallery
January 21 to April 1, 2023
Curated by Charo Neville
QUEER NEWFOUNDLAND HOCKEY LEAGUE (QNHL)
Lucas Morneau
The Cube
January 14 to April 1, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
HEBREW SPELLED BACKWARDS (תירִבעִ)
Lindsey Tyne Johnson
Open Gallery
January 21 to April 1, 2023
In her exhibition, Hebrew Spelled Backwards, Lindsey Tyne Johnson examines the complexities of identifying as Jewish and the fear and uncertainty that often come with it. Through a combination of modern, spiritual, and Jewish themes, Johnson explores discovering one's ancestry later in life and its connection to familiar experiences and art. By challenging people to learn more about cultures they may not understand, Johnson aims to create a space for dialogue and inclusivity.
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.