Shotgun Jimmie | Free Concert at the Struts BBQ Friday, August 5th, 12 pm Presented in Partnership with Sappyfest Please join us outside the gallery for burger or veggie burger and some live music by Shotgun Jimmie.
We continue to accept donations for the Sackville Food bank. Donations can be dropped off at the Gallery. Priority items include: cereal, juice boxes, granola bars, cookies, crackers, baked beans, canned fruit, juice, tuna/canned meat, peanut butter, jam, Cheez Whiz, pasta sauce, canned vegetables, Kraft Dinner or other brands, toilet paper, instant coffee, menstrual products, and diapers (larger sizes).
Thanks as always to the Rod Allen Company for letting us use their parking lot.
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.
Sappyfest is looking for participants for this year’s Zine Fair scheduled for Saturday, July 30th from 12-4PM. We welcome all, zinesters, crafters, printmakers, publishers, writers and other creative types to sign up and sell your amazing works.
There will be a $15 registration fee (due the day of). Click HEREto register. We look forward to this event every year and can’t wait to see what you put forward!If you have any questions or difficulties filling out the form please email Thor, Festival Operations Intern at festivaloperations@sappyfest.com .
Do it Together: Mini-Zines and Mighty Buttons, at the Owens Art Gallery, Sunday, 31 July 20221:00 pm – 4:00 pm.
For one afternoon only, we’re transforming our lobby into a Do-it-Yourself/Do-it-Together community studio. With just paper, pens, scissors, and glue, harness the power of small to make your own mini-zines and pin-back buttons. Explore the personal, political, or purely visual. Tell your own story or collaborate with friends.
Held in conjunction with Sappyfest, this all-ages event is free. We’ll have all the supplies you need, plus tips to get you started. You might also find inspiration in the Owens Art Gallery’s Teeny Tiny Zine Library and a special selection of indie music and Sappyfest-inspired zines that will be on display. The soundtrack for the afternoon will be a mix of Sappy favourites from years past.
Publish your zine on our photocopier and press your own shiny button to wear home. Trade your zines with friends and, if you choose, you can leave a copy in our library for others to read.
Opening Reception At Struts Gallery Artist in attendance
Thursday, 28 July 2022 at 7:00 pm
Struts Gallery and the Owens Art Gallery are pleased to present A Mortician Walks Into a Bar, a new video installation by Lee Henderson commissioned as part of Umbrella Projects series. Reciting On the Shortness of Life—Seneca’s classical treatise on death—a comic maintains the performative techniques, rhythms, and mannerisms of stand-up comedy. Caught between the Stoic duty to remain true to the text and the Epicurean impulse to follow the pleasure of the riff, the comic tries to sustain her performative energy in an empty room. As she relays Seneca’s philosophy of life, she “dies” onstage with each unanswered quip.
This project is a part of the Umbrella Projects series, a partnership between the Owens and Struts Gallery, designed to pool resources, energies, and respective strengths in order to facilitate off-site, in-print, online, and onscreen programming during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Venue Access
Struts Gallery’s main door on Lorne Street is located on the first floor, with a ramp leading to the entrance with a small lip. There is one gender neutral washroom on the first floor. Guide dogs and other service animals are welcome. Please note: There are no washrooms in the building that are wheelchair accessible, have safety grab bars or supports at this time. The nearest accessible washroom is at The Painted Pony about 500m away on Bridge Street. Our second floor is not wheelchair accessible.
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Canadian National Railway LEVEE ON THE LAKE is back for its 3rd edition! We are ready to welcome you safely to Sackville. New Brunswick. We have only ever operated in a pandemic and we can turn on a ripple to meet changing safety requirements so don’t fear, live music is coming August 18 – 21 to Sackville New Brunswick. Event attendance depends on if a ticket is required or if it is free.
Come to Owens Art Gallery to see Alex Colville’s Throwing Light exhibition!
Exhibition runs from July 4, 2022 to October 23, 2022
Bridge and Raven by Alex Colville
Highlighting Colville’s interest in the relationship between things, Alex Colville: Throwing Light, takes its title from a statement made by the artist: “The painting starts to work, sometimes, when two elements appear to throw light on each other.” Echoing the quote that prompted The Colville Drawing Dice, this exhibition features prints and paintings by the artist that draw together disparate elements to illuminate connections or tensions between things.
Join Sackville artist Kamaya Lindquist for a sketching walk that will take participants to three distinct locations on the Mount Allison campus. The walks are organized as part of summer programming for Colville House, and they are inspired by the ways that Alex Colville drew from the world around him, often incorporating recognizable Sackville locations into his paintings and prints. While these walks share an attention to place and the often-overlooked details of the everyday, the focus will be on discovering your own surprising subjects within familiar surroundings. In Kamaya’s words, “Turning something mundane into a drawing is actually quite exciting because it’s like rediscovering something that you would normally just dismiss.”
The sketching walks are designed for adults, including beginning drawers and those looking to reconnect with drawing. The morning walk is family-friendly, and we welcome drawers ages eight and over along with an adult. Throughout the walk, Kamaya will share her own perspective on drawing and offer techniques and guidance though an informal and supportive approach.
Each walk will be approximately an hour and a half and will include three sketching stops. Walks will begin and end at Colville House, 76 York St. Every participant will receive a sketchbook and pencil to use during the program and keep as their sketching kit.
The walk will be approximately 1.2 km and includes grass, gravel, and sidewalks. Most of the walk is on level ground, however, one section includes a sloped hill for which an alternate path is possible. Please note any access or accommodations you might need in your registration form. Comfortable footwear is recommended, and portable camping chairs will be provided for use while drawing.
11 June to 29 August 2022 Vernissage + BBQ: 10 June @ 5:00 pm at the Owens Art Gallery.
Curator: Emily Falvey
What do plants have to say about their lives under colonial capitalism? Artistic partners Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux seek answers in the electrochemical signals of plants living in habitats that human intervention has profoundly altered, such as Kawau Island, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Sackville’s Pickard Quarry. Translating these signals into sounds and images, their work considers the impossibility of truly communicating with plants, while nonetheless centering their perspectives through practices of listening.
Miranda Bellamy (she/her) and Amanda Fauteux (she/her) are partners and artistic collaborators who extend the stories of wild plants through site-specific research and experimentation. By listening to plants and responding through interdisciplinary projects, they queer the constructs that separate human beings from non-human beings and make space for the critical revision of human histories. Since their collaborative practice began in 2019, they have attended artist residencies in New York and Vermont, USA, and have exhibited their work in Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, and the USA. They live in Aotearoa New Zealand and in Sackville, New Brunswick, within the traditional territory of Mi’kma’ki.
Terrarium was made possible thanks to funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, Creative New Zealand, the New Brunswick Arts Board, and the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation.
Vernissage for new exhibitions at the Owns Art Gallery, 14 May 2pm.
Astuwicuwon
Installed in the gallery’s entrance window, Astuwicuwon is a work of public art by Wolastoqiyik artist Amber Solomon. Symbolizing the interconnectivity of life, community, and environment, it showcases connection to Mi’kma’ki through images of the land and water, as well as double-curve motifs, which embody balance and unity. Red dresses honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and a rainbow represents two-spirited people and the rainbow community. Featuring Solomon’s beadwork, this exhibition extends the spirit of Astuwicuwon through a selection of work by Mi’kimaq artists Melissa Peter-Paul, Alan Syliboy, and Pauline Young.
Salon Hanging
Curated by Roxamy Ibbitson, Preparator/Registrar 14 May to 11 September 2022
A floor-to-ceiling feast for the eyes, the Salon Hanging invites visitors to contemplate over 100 works of art, many from the Owens Art Gallery’s original collection, which was acquired in 1893. First assembled in 1884-1885, this collection is one of the oldest of its kind in Canada. It features nineteenth-century European and North-American paintings, many still found in their original gilded frames, and full-scale plaster copies of classical Greek sculptures. Originally the collection was used to teach students at the Mount Allison Ladies’ College (1854-1939), who learned through copying these pieces.
Made possible thanks to the Reopening Fund for Heritage Organizations.
School Effects
Curated by Jane Tisdale, Fine Arts Conservator: 14 May to 11 September 2022
In 1893, the year the Owens Art Institute (Saint John) transferred its holdings to Mount Allison University, an article appeared in the Saint John Globe describing the collection as “Works of Art and School effects.” The collection of 388 pictures, 32 plaster casts, and a small library of art books expanded the Art Department at the university and established the Owens Art Gallery. At the time, copying was the traditional approach to teaching art, and for decades the collection was used for this purpose, providing “opportunities for Art study unexcelled by any institution in Canada.” This exhibition features work by faculty and students from the early years of the Art Department.Made possible thanks to the Reopening Fund for Heritage Organizations.
Trust the Process: Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2022
Join the graduating Fine Art students to celebrate the formal opening of their graduation exhibition during Mount Allison’s Convocation Weekend.Every year, the Owens Art Gallery presents the work of students graduating from the Pierre Lassonde School of Fine Arts. Featuring a wide range of work in a variety of media, this exhibition celebrates the artistic development of each student and considers it in relation to the collective journey of the whole class.
Works by Saarah B. Ali, Kate Brown, Rupert Hames Colville-Reeves, Emma Connors, Amy Crocker, Rose Cusack, Chase Harper, Kage Hughes, Dylan Johnson, Nora Livesey, Chloe Mantrom, Brook E. Martin, Olivia McCarthy, Evi Milanovic, Annika Sinclair, Manny Travers, Jasmine Vautour
