For two weeks in June, Co.Lab Gallery + Arts Centre will host Earth Tone, a solo exhibition by local ceramic artist Georgia Wilkins. The show features pieces Wilkins made over two months at Medalta, a museum and contemporary ceramics centre in Medicine Hat, Alberta, through its renowned International Artist in Residence program.

The students at Westgate CVI have been busy preparing for their fifth annual art show The Slant—a collaboration between the school's art department and the Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) programs.

It’s been said that the only constant in nature is that it’s ever-changing, and that quality is precisely what draws artist Angela Wiebe to landscape painting.

Take everything you know about fashion shows—the prim, the proper, the pretentious—and throw it out the window, and you have Derelicte: a one-of-a-kind, multisensory, multidisciplinary art experience.

“Taking pictures is peaceful for me. I love the nature of our area, and for me, it’s more than imagery—it’s memory, it’s emotion,” photographer Denis Bresolin says. “It reminds people of the raw beauty that surrounds us.”

Talk about a triple threat: Bianca Gascoigne is a skilled makeup artist, visual artist, and photographer, and all three disciplines work together when she’s prepping for a shot.

Local artist, filmmaker, and illustrator Shayne Ehman’s upcoming exhibition, Loose Trucks, invites visitors to experience how decades immersed in the world of skateboarding have shaped his choice of subject and his way of seeing.

“If you had a brick house and painted it pink, it would still hold the same as a brick house, even though it looked soft and squishy,” says local artist Hope Heart, whose debut art exhibit Not Too Sweet aims to prove that pink and strength are not mutually exclusive.

Artists Darcy Tara McDiarmid and Chantal Russo create an immersive environment where wildlife, traditional knowledge, and dream imagery unfold through four atmospheric films.

As the simple matchbox is physically enlarged through Remus’ work, its new scale evokes wonder in all these little details that might otherwise be missed. And, seeing their wear alongside design techniques of days past brings forth a sense of longing for a cultural point in time that no longer exists.

Fifty years ago, in late 1975, what we now know as the Thunder Bay Art Gallery opened its doors, welcoming the community to see exhibits that included works by Picasso, Norval Morrisseau, the Group of Seven, Ray Thomas, William Kurelek, Daphne Odjig, Benjamin Chee Chee, and Jackson Beardy. Visitors and residents alike now had a chance to be inspired by art, take classes, and to be part of nurturing and showcasing local, regional, and Canadian artists. 

Definitely Superior Art Gallery’s annual Halloween extravaganza The Hunger returned this past weekend for a party unlike any other, where the audience was as much a part of the art as the artists were.