O P E N G A L L E R Y

April 5 to May 31, 2025

Presented in collaboration with Jennifer Chrumka and the Climate Disaster Project.

Climate change is causing untold damage to lives and livelihoods in Kamloops and beyond. Too often, there has been a failure to tell the many human stories about climate disaster: from heat waves and floods to wildfires and droughts.  As a result, we can feel as if we are fragments on the frontlines of climate change, disconnected from one another’s experiences and sometimes even our own. This exhibition features the stories of nearly two dozen people across British Columbia who have lived through climate change and offer lessons of what’s to come. Their testimonies are based on reporting conducted by students from Thompson Rivers University participating in the Climate Disaster Project, an award-winning international teaching newsroom that works with disaster-impacted people to share their stories. Under the instruction of Jennifer Chrumka, these environmental journalism students co-created stories of survival, community and hope.

Honouring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Inspiring the Future

Presented in Partnership with Hardley Williams and the Unique Get Together Society

Open Gallery

February 1 to March 29, 2025

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.   

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.

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?

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?