September 30, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
September 30 – October 22, 2022
Opening Friday, Sept. 30, 5 – 7 pm at Gallery 78.
New Work by Cathy Ross
Landscapes by James Wilson
New Work by Cathy Ross and Landscapes by James Wilson 🏔
September 30 – October 22, 2022
Opening Friday, Sept. 30, 5 – 7 pm at Gallery 78.
New Work by Cathy Ross
Landscapes by James Wilson
50th Anniversary Exhibition of Joe and Herzl Kashetsky.
September 2 – 24, 2022
Opening Friday, September 9, 5 – 7 pm at the Gallery 78.
Living is Easy | John Haney (Woodpoint, NB)
August 3rd-13th
Opening Reception Friday, Aug 5, 12-1pm at Struts Gallery
John Haney will be showing work at the gallery as part of our Living is Easy member’s projects.
John Haney is a multidisciplinary artist who lives in an old farmhouse in Wood Point, New Brunswick. He earned a BA from Mount Allison University in 2001, and an MFA from the University of Guelph in 2016. He has exhibited in Canada, the US, and Germany. He was long-listed for the Sobey Award in 2011, and was a nominee for the Scotiabank Photography Award in 2012.
In 2019, in order to make a home for art in the fields, forests, and shorelines that surround him, he launched Wood Point Art Projects with the multi-artist presentation titled the Ark.
Exhibition at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre runs from July 22 to August 13, 2022.
Opening Friday, July 22, 5 pm – 7 pm.
Sunbury Shores will be holding a group exhibition titled Maritime Colours incorporating natural pigments from July 22 through August 13.
Featuring: Renata Britez, Sara Jones, Christianna Myers, Jennifer Pazienza, Ralph Simpson, and Danika Vautour.
info@sunburyshores.org
Opening: July 16, 2-4 pm at the Andrew and Laura McCain Art Gallery in Florenceville, NB. Artist introduction at 2:30 pm.
Event website is here.
You’re Invited! This Friday, June 10th from 5-8 PM Paris Crew will be hosting the official opening for The Wooden Sketchbook by Rebecca Aldernet featuring a live performance by Apryll Aileen.
“The Wooden Sketchbook” is a collection and examination of everyday life. Altering the human figures in a way that observes the emotion and the purpose of the environment. A celebration in human form, and our altered perception in which we all view ourselves.
Rebecca Aldernet’s urban contemporary art defies explanation, providing commentary on the notion of collective versus private identities. Her art seeks to blur our perceptions of a shared reality. Her distorting of faces through organic and inorganic elements transcend our collective notion of how we exist in the physical world.
With over 100 pieces of never before seen artwork and a musical performance from soulful piano pop songstress Apryll Aileen, this will be a one of a kind event in the heart of Saint John.
Join us at Gallery 78 on Friday, June 3, from 5-7 pm for the opening of two new exhibitions, “Reflections of Sophie” by Stephen Scott, featuring thoughtful and tender paintings of his wife, and “After the Rain: Parsing the Wild” by Daniel Porter, which focuses on landscape and wildlife from central New Brunswick.
View all the works on June 3 and meet the artists too! Masks are encouraged. All works will be available online starting May 31, and they will be on display until July 2.
Gallery 78, 796 Queen St. (corner of Church and Queen), Fredericton, NB
Open: Tues to Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-3pm, or visit virtually at: www.gallery78.com
May 13 — June 1, 2022. Join us for the public opening from 10am-4pm on May 13.
Masks required for entrance into Government House, 51 Woodstock Road, Fredericton, NB.
NBCCD announces the 15th annual jewellery/metal arts exhibition, STERLING, generously sponsored by Gallery 78 and hosted at Government House. This year’s exhibition opens to the public at the official residence of New Brunswick’s Lieutenant Governor on May 13, 2022 and runs until June 1, 2022, Monday-Friday, 10am to 4pm.
“We’d like to welcome you back to Government House and our annual exhibition. It’s always a surprise,” said recent Governor General’s Award winner and longtime NBCCD instructor Brigitte Clavette. “People come and they love it!”
Students from all levels of NBCCD’s jewellery/metal arts program will showcase selected best works from basic production work, silversmithing, collection pieces, sculpture, and fine one-of-a-kind pieces. Select works will be available for sale starting May 13 here. The exhibition will also feature in-progress pieces as an opportunity to educate the public about the creative process and care that goes into the fine craft of metal arts.
The exhibition doubles as a competition with one student winning a solo exhibition show at Gallery 78 and a cash prize.
Studio Head Kristyn Cooper said this year’s diploma graduates have been a dream to work with. “This is one of the hardest working groups of students we’ve ever seen. They’re not only talented in their craft but have become a family. They have a very strong sense of support, friendly competition, and work ethic.”
Clavette agreed, “This group is going to be hard to say goodbye to. They took in everything we brought to them and embraced every challenge. It was hard work.”
Cooper and Clavette look forward to celebrating the success and determination of all jewellery/metal arts students who navigated their studies throughout a pandemic in the mentally- and physically-demanding metal arts program.
To view NBCCD’s upcoming exhibition schedule, click here.
Reception at Sunbury Shores Art and Nature Centre in St. Andrews Friday, May 6, 5pm – 7pm, to open two exhibits, Fibre Art Network: Refocus on Fibre Art and Dawn Steeves: Glimpses of Saint Andrews.
Fibre Art Network: Refocus on Fibre Art
Through these challenging times and search for higher meaning in a post-lockdown world, these artists put their energies into exploring new possibilities in their respective fibre art practices and created works beyond the utilitarian. In their effort to integrate non-traditional materials into their rugs, quilts, felts and sculptures, they attempt to communicate dreams, movement, and colour to deal with the reality of our lives. In some ways, these fibre artists express this through the search for beauty in nature and comfort in textured forms.
Dawn Steeves: Glimpses of Saint Andrews
In this collection of oil and ink on paper, wood, and canvas, Dawn Steeves presents impressions of Kingsbrae Gardens and Salty Towers. She created these works during a residency at Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts (KIRA) in September of 2021.
“This work is a series of snippets or partial scenes which combine to create a visual adventure. I strive to create an experience for the viewer which they can explore. I am interested in creating mood using a particular palette and combination of colour which is not quite real, tending to lean to the warm side, reminiscent of old colour photographs, giving a feeling of nostalgia. The subjects in my work are often truncated or extreme closeups, scenes not quite filled in, which emulates the way memories sometimes create an incomplete picture of the past, or the way dreams provide only a partial view of a place or thing.” – Dawn Steeves
info@sunburyshores.org
Presenting Still Grounded — a ceramics exhibition at the George Fry Gallery. May 5—May 27, 2022.
Join us for the public opening from 4-6pm on May 5
Masks required for entrance to the George Fry Gallery, 408 Queen Street, Fredericton, N.B.
NBCCD’s first ceramics show in four years is unearthed at the George Fry Gallery on May 5.
Ceramics Studio Head, Liz Demerson and her faculty, technicians, and students are ready to open the doors to the public to reveal new works after a long hiatus due in part to the pandemic. In the spring of 2020, the doors of the college shut when the COVID-19 lockdown hit New Brunswick. This included the George Fry Gallery.
“Our show was slated for May 2020,” said Demerson, “and we were shut down because of the pandemic. Our last showing was in September 2018, and it was called 900 Degrees and Rising. It featured a variety of New Brunswick Artists.”
Each of the eight studios at the college have an exhibition in the George Fry Gallery bi-annually. The studios can choose to exhibit student work, work from alumni to inspire students by showing them successful practice in their field from graduates of their program, or choose to show work from invited professional artists in their field, also to inspire and teach students.
Demerson said this exhibition is about the last two years of learning and in making pots. With many ups and downs throughout our pandemic-ridden ceramics journey, this exhibition presents an overall feeling of that experience.
“Here, you will see the drive to create, the love of the material and the process, the persistence and tenacity in our personalities and the obsession with clay and pots. We all have the ceramics bug, and we just can’t stop,” said Demerson.
The students and staff in the Ceramics Studio are excited for the future and feel proud of our accomplishments, she said. The cultural trend towards local is invigorating and encouraging and we can’t wait to be a part of that trend as people realize the increased quality of life achieved by using local handmade ceramics.
“Here is the heart and soul of the last two years of our lives. Here is what got us through this mess of a time,” said Demerson. “Here are our pots.”
To view NBCCD’s exhibition schedule, click here.