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.
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.
“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
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.”
James Buxton has been teaching carving classes at the River Art Centre for many years. His students have created many beautiful works that we look forward to sharing with you.
Featured carvers include: Max Hutchison, Roseanne Hutchison, Scott O’Brien, Rudy Stocek
The UNB Art Centre launches a new group exhibition on April 29 at 5:00 pm curated by Amy Ash, an independent curator and artist based in Saint John, New Brunswick. As we emerge from a global pandemic, the exhibit it comes in waves observes the nature of absence through the work of seven contemporary artists: Emily Critch, Chantal Khoury, Adriana Kuiper & Ryan Suter, Lou Sheppard, KC Wilcox, and Florence Yee.
it comes in waves refers to the sensation of becoming awash in the haze of emotions, memories, and associations that result from grief, loss, and other confrontations of absence.
Presented in both the East and West galleries, the works included in it comes in waves hold space for contemplation and the quiet construction of meaning, while boldly facing the uncanny sensation that something is lost or missing. From climate devastation and personal loss, to broken expectations, this group exhibition explores grief as a means of understanding what we value.
Curator Amy Ash explains, “A conversation about loss or grief is equally a conversation about what we value. This is crucial to consider not only while reflecting on the past or on the construction of our individual identities, but as means of collectively envisioning a future that we would hope to inhabit.”
it comes in waves brings together a diverse group of artists who work across media ranging from textiles, printmaking, and painting, to video, audio, and sculpture. The exhibit will be on view in person at the UNB Art Centre from April 29 – June 17, 2022, and online.
The UNB Art Centre is located at Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. The galleries are open 9 am – 4 pm weekdays and during special events. Admission is free to members of the public.
Join us at Gallery 78 on Friday, May 6, from 5-7 pm for the opening of two new exhibitions, Petals & Lace by Joanne Hunt and Susan Paterson, and Christopher Webb’s And You., with a special performance piece at 6:30 pm for Webb’s immersive exhibition.
All works will be available online starting May 3, and they will be on display until May 28.
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Petals & Lace features new works by oil painters Joanne Hunt and Susan Paterson. Hunt brings softness and exquisite details to her dreamy depictions of large-scale flowers, and Paterson’s meticulous paintings portray elegant still life settings of fruit, nuts, flowers, silverware, and fabric—this powerful duo show is not to be missed!
And You. is the latest solo exhibition of new works by multidisciplinary artist Christopher Webb. Building on his award-winning art residency in Torino, Italy, Webb’s new paintings incorporate written prose and sound that examine the emotion of love.
The work, which features a 3-minute performance piece, will be brought to life with the voice of New Brunswick poet and playwright Clyde A. Wray, violinist Ali Johnson and cellist Emma Johnson at 6:30 pm on Friday, May 6. Masks are optional and encouraged.
Showcasing artworks by, Alison Veino, Brittany Schuler, Debb Ferris Bates, Laura Forrester, Penny Heather, and Sarah Sarty. Opening Reception Friday, Oct. 19th at 7:00 pm, exhibiting Oct. 20th 10:00am-7: 00 pm, October 21st 12:00-5: 00 pm. Free to the public and free refreshments opening night with the opportunity to meet with the artists. Silent Auction.
31 May Thursday 5-7pm: Join the New Brunswick Museum in celebration of the exhibition A Circle of Lifeby Donald McGraw. RSVP 506 643-2349 / 1-888-268-9595 or email VS-SV@nbm-mnb.ca by 28 May.
