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
TOB TOB KIN
Paula Ducharme
The Cube
September 16 to December 30, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
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
THE SHAPE OF MEMORY
Summer Art Camp Participants
Open Gallery
September 2 to 16, 2023
Curated by Adrian Romeo and Kora Ellison
What is the shape of memory? How can we physically represent something so variable and expansive? How can we express our personal relationship to memory through art making?
Generously sponsored by Watson Engineering Ltd.
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.
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.