UPCOMING PROGRAMS + EVENTS
Our programs and events offer opportunities for people of all ages to learn how art connects us with our daily lives. Focusing on the KAG’s current exhibitions, programs include art camps, interactive tours, activities and workshops that encourage self-expression and experimentation while learning about art techniques, basic design concepts and a variety of media. Our events include exhibition opening receptions, fundraisers to inspire you and special happenings in the Gallery Store.
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Artist’s Talk with Patrick Lundeen
Friday, March 8
12:30 to 1:30 pm
All ages, FREE
Thompson Rivers University
Old Main, OM 1564
Black History Month Celebration
Saturday, February 24
Exhibition opens at 12:30 pm
Cultural Celebration Event, 2:00 to 6:00 pm
All Ages, FREE
Room 190, House of Learning
Thompson Rivers University
ART NERDS BOOK CLUB
Wednesday, December 14, 6:30 pm
Mittz Kitchen, 227 Victoria Street
Join local art nerds and KAG Educator Harrisson Ladouceur at Mittz Kitchen to discuss Black Matters, a collaborative book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences created by Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert.
Some Notes on Time in Jin-me Yoon’s Here Elsewhere Other Hauntings: Virtual Lecture with Victoria Nolte
Tuesday, June 28, 2:00 pm (PDT)
All ages, FREE
Online via ZOOM
Join Victoria Nolte, art historian, online on Tuesday, June 28, for an exploration into the experience of time in Jin-me Yoon’s exhibition Here Elsewhere Other Hauntings.
BOOK LAUNCH // Art, Research, Play: The Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Project
BOOK LAUNCH
Art, Research, Play: The Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Project
Saturday, June 25, 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
Kamloops Farmer’s Market
Please join us at the Kamloops Farmer’s Market on Saturday, June 25 to celebrate the launch of a new publication, Art, Research, Play: The Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Project.
Meet editors Donald Lawrence, Josephine Mills, and Emily Dundas Oke and experience an upside-down and backwards farmer’s market from within a camera obscura!
Copies of the publication will be available for purchase.
Slow Looking with Euijung McGillis—Exploring Jin-me Yoon: Here Elsewhere Other Hauntings
Thursday, June 2, 6:00 pm (PDT)
Ages 14+, FREE
Online via ZOOM
Join Euijung McGillis, Guest Educator, online on Thursday, June 2, for an experience in slow looking and affective encounters with Jin-me Yoon’s artwork. Over the course of an hour, Euijung will guide participants through a small selection of artworks in the exhibition Here Elsewhere Other Hauntings, encouraging conversations and a self-reflective experience.
Artist’s Talk with Robin Hodgson
Tuesday, May 17 at 2:00 pm (PDT)
All ages, FREE
Online via ZOOM
Join exhibiting artist Robin Hodgson and Kamloops Art Gallery Assistant Curator Craig Willms online on Tuesday, May 17, for a conversation about the exhibition, Sailing Pretty Close to the Wind, and to learn about Hodgson’s painting practice.
Jin-me Yoon, Charo Neville, and Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre in Conversation
Tuesday, May 3 at 2:00 pm (PDT)
All ages, FREE
Online via ZOOM
Join exhibiting artist Jin-me Yoon, Kamloops Art Gallery Curator, Charo Neville, and Curator of Contemporary Art, Musée d’art de Joliette, Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, online on Tuesday, May 3 at 2:00 pm (PDT) as they discuss the exhibition Here Elsewhere Other Hauntings and Yoon’s expansive artistic practice.
Annual General Meeting 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
6:30 pm (PST)
Kamloops Art Gallery studios
The Kamloops Art Gallery 2021 AGM is set for Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 6:30 pm in the Ken Lepin and Tricia Sellmer Studios at the Gallery.
We hope you can join us.
This is an evening to hear an overview of 2021 at the Gallery, review the 2021 financial statements, and share in a celebratory glass of wine or beer or a cup of tea or coffee. All KAG members and guests are welcome.
We look forward to seeing you!
Note: Current public health orders (as of March 15, 2022) do not require the wearing of a mask indoors or proof of vaccination after April 8. Public health orders may change. We will contact all registered participants in the event of any changes in orders.
Art Nerds Book Club
Thursday, March 31, 6:00 pm
Red Collar Brewing, 355 Lansdowne Street
Join local art nerds and KAG Educators at Red Collar Brewing to discuss Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest and share your thoughts and insights. Selected by exhibiting artist Kelly Richardson as our Art Nerds pick for this season, Finding the Mother Tree offers insight into the interconnectedness of the Mother Tree to the forest, and asks us to think about what we value in relation to our approach to nature.
Healing the land and bringing our people together: wildfire recovery and restoration in Secwepemcúl’ecw with Angela Kane and Sarah Dickson-Hoyle
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
2:00 pm (PST)
Online via ZOOM
Join Angela Kane and Sarah Dickson-Hoyle for an online presentation as they share Secwépemc experiences of recent wildfires, the collective story of coming together in joint leadership to shape a new approach to land-based recovery, and ‘lessons learned’ to support Indigenous leadership in land and fire stewardship.
Book Launch: Philosophers’ Walks by Bruce Baugh
Friday, March 18, 2022
4:00 pm (PST)
Kamloops Art Gallery studios
How did walking affect the thinking and writing of figures as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simone de Beauvoir, and Soren Kierkegaard? What can the experience of walking tell us about the various ways in which human consciousness is embodied? In his newest publication, Philosophers’ Walks, local author and philosopher Bruce Baugh follows in the footsteps of these writers and thinkers in an effort to understand how imagination, memory, thought, and emotions are illuminated by walking.
Join us in our studios on Friday, March 18 at 4:00pm to discuss these ideas and to celebrate the launch of Philosophers’ Walks. Baugh will offer a presentation on his research and discuss his travels in England, Switzerland, France, and Denmark in pursuit of the relation between walking and thinking.
Copies of Philosophers’ Walks will be available for purchase.