Gallery News

Campbell River Art Gallery hosting poetry reading and workshop

Learn from poet Cecily Nicholson Cecily Nicholson, Governor General’s literary award winning poet and UBC assistant professor, will be doing a reading and hosting a poetry workshop, on July 29th, at the Campbell River Art Gallery and Robert V. Ostler Park. Inspired by our current exhibition Interrelations: a third perspective by Abdi Osman, participants will explore questions of place and place-making inspired by the water, through poetry.  Attendees will meet at the Campbell River Art Read more

By Jocelyn Doll, ago

CRAG receives funding from Island Health’s Community Wellness Grant Recipients for Art Hive

Community resilience will be supported by 51 new projects across Vancouver Island and surrounding coastal communities because of Island Health’s Community Wellness Grant Program, one of which is the Campbell River Art Gallery’s Art Hive. The Community Wellness Grant program helps promote health and wellness across the region Island Health serves by fostering local partnerships and grassroots initiatives. Nearly $800,000 from the Community Wellness Grant Program will fund a mix of projects and initiatives. “We’re Read more

By Jocelyn Doll, ago

Curatorial Essay: ‘Interrelations: A third perspective’

A solo exhibition of new works by Abdi Osman By Ellyn Walker, curator A mesh of roots makes slow haste 1 the gaping sea beckons and breaks you. the impotence the imploring the inured. the inexact. the crisis. the crease. port is increasingly distant. you ache for a semblance of. the vantage of this one. the proliferation. they are out of sight until they are a sightline.2 –Asiya Wadud I recall waking up each day Read more

By admin@crartgallery.ca, ago

What does this art mean?

The CRAG is a safe place to explore the meaning behind art and all the feelings it might bring up Have you ever had a child hand you a piece of paper with a scribble on it and a proud twinkle in their eyes?  “What is it?” you might have asked, with kindness and curiosity in your voice. “It’s a dead bird, like the one that flew into the window yesterday,” they respond. And here, Read more

By Jocelyn Doll, ago

Campbell River Art Gallery’s latest exhibition ‘Interrelations: a third perspective’, opening June 9

Explore questions of place and place-making through a focus on water as a migratory body and living relation, in Campbell River Art Gallery’s latest exhibition Interrelations: a third perspective by Abdi Osman, curated by Ellyn Walker. Water brings with it complex histories of global Indigeneity and diaspora, enslavement and indentureship, (im)migration and freedom-seeking. With every tide these histories come to the fore, reminding us of water’s ongoing-ness as a force that has brought and continues Read more

By Jocelyn Doll, ago

‘Mu’la’  wraps with a Ceremonial Fire and Feast

More than 100 people attended the oceanside ceremony and the feast at the CRAG The sun shone on the closing ceremony of Mu’la, April 29. A beautiful celebration of gratitude and community, the ceremonial fire was led by Indigenous Artist Shawn Decaire.  Decaire burned  the drum Goliath, which was featured in Mu’la. He made the drum back in 2013 with the help of Jorge Lewis, who has since passed away. “Traditionally we don’t hang on Read more

By Jocelyn Doll, ago

CRAG exhibition featuring ceramics artist Marika St. Rose Yeo opening May 13

Marika St. Rose Yeo is a visual artist from Treaty 4 territory, Saskatchewan. Her artistic works and research are concerned with healing, justice and transformation through creative practice.  Her solo exhibition, Material as Archive, curated by Alexa Heenan, is showing in the Campbell River Art Gallery’s Satellite Gallery from May 13-August 19, 2023, with an opening reception and curatorial talk May 13 from 3-5pm. The show explores the premise of “search” and how we navigate Read more

By Jocelyn Doll, ago

Arts Council and Gallery celebrating 41st Annual Members’ Show and longtime contributor

Pillar of the Campbell River Arts Community Heather Hughson is returning to England For many moving to the Campbell River area, Heather Hughson was their gateway into the local arts scene.  “Not only does she have encyclopedic knowledge of the area’s artists, programs, makers, movers, and shakers, but her enthusiasm for the arts is contagious,” said Sara Lopez Assu, executive director of the Campbell River Art Gallery. “She fiercely believes in uplifting artists, supporting their Read more

By Jocelyn Doll, ago

Minister of Mental Health and Addictions visits The CRAG

On her visit to the North Island with MLA Michele Babchuk, Honourable Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions stopped by the Campbell River Art Gallery to learn about our Art Hive. The Art Hive program is an open studio program for folks who are unhoused, precariously housed, and have lived experience with substance use. It enables them to access opportunities for art making. We also provide economic opportunities for these artists to sell Read more

By Jocelyn Doll, ago

Hide tanning and ceremonial fire and feast events coming up at the Campbell River Art Gallery

Join the Campbell River Art Gallery in Spirit Square on Saturday, April 1st for a demonstration on how to traditionally brain tan a hide, facilitated by Mu’la artist Shawn Decaire.  At this demonstration Decaire will discuss the traditional, pre-contact, way of processing raw hide to tanned leather, while discussing Indigenous historical and ceremonial uses of the finished material. In connection with the current exhibition Mu’la, Decaire wishes to create a space of knowledge sharing and Read more

By Jocelyn Doll, ago