Legacy Unveiled: Black History in Kamloops
Honouring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Inspiring the Future
February 1 to March 29, 2025
Presented in Partnership with Hardley Williams and the Unique Get Together Society
This exhibition tells the story of Black history in Kamloops across generations. It honours the pioneers who paved the way, the leaders shaping today, and the youth who will carry the legacy forward.
Through art and storytelling, we celebrate resilience, culture, and community. Our history is still being written—together, we continue to make an impact.
Through a series of intergenerational collaborations, artists created these works to record narratives that honour the past and educate future generations on Black history in Kamloops.
STAIRCASES LEADING TO NOWHERE
Keith Langergraber
The Central Gallery
May 10 to August 30, 2025
Curated by Charo Neville
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
DREAM ; NÀTE
Casey Koyczan
The Cube
Residency and Exhibition
January 18 to April 19, 2025
Curated by Craig Willms
re:materia exhi’pit
October 26, 2024 to January 25, 2025
Presented in collaboration with Early Childhood Educators of BC and Early Childhood Pedagogy Network
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
September 14 to October 19, 2024
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.
Curated by Nicole Favron, Ian Laurrabaquio, and Adrian Romeo
So Long As They’re Friends: Queer Safety On This Side of the Rainbow
August 10 to September 7, 2024
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.
Curated by Teresa Donck-Matlock
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.
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.
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.
Black Odyssey: Past, Present, and Future
June 8 to August 3, 2024
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 attended 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.
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.
ANCESTRAL DREAMS & OTHER PREMONITIONS
Cindy Mochizuki
Central Gallery
April 20 to July 6, 2024
Curated by Charo Neville
Spring Art Camp
April 20 to June 1, 2024
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.
Curated by Kristen Gardner and Emily Hope
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
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.