A much-anticipated event, The Art Gallery of Regina's Members' Show & Sale, is an exciting opportunity for the gallery's members to exhibit and sell their work while supporting our programming. A portion of proceeds from the Members' Show & Sale supports the Art Gallery of Regina's free exhibitions and affordable workshops.
DATES May 6-22, 2022
LOCATION Art Gallery of Regina's Main Gallery
SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED
Using interdisciplinary media including poetry, videography, and self-portraits, Peace Akintade shares one of the most intimate activities in Yoruba culture, Gele-making. Do I Intimidate is a look into the colonialism of clothing and how it plays into the intersectional narrative of the modern immigrant.
Presented in partnership with Black In Saskatchewan.
DATES
April 2 - June 29, 2022
Guided by the province of Saskatchewan's and City of Regina's COVID-19 policies, the AGR requests:
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gallery visitors wear medical masks
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participants in activities where social distancing is not possible provide proof of vaccination
As of February 14, proof of vaccination is no longer required to visit the building.
VISIT OUR ONLINE ART SALES PAGE
The AGR is pleased to offer even more ways to support local artists and artisans. You can now view and acquire works by current Outside the Box exhibitors The Regina and Area Potter's Guild, with work by Peace Akintade to be added soon!
The online art store will be regularly updated to feature works from our Outside the Box (hallway gallery and glass display case) exhibition series, which provides opportunities for members and local artists to show and sell their work.
A Pea Can Be Chopped Up and Reassembled Into The Sun: Phomohobes, Paul Robles, Gerry Ruecker, Rhayne Vermette
essay by exhibition curator Sandee Moore
What do the magician, the mathematician and the collage artist all have in common? Exhibition curator Sandee Moore connects how these three figures cut up and reassemble bits of the world to create more than what they've started with. She carves up the exhibition into an imagined set of artists' materials - the cut, the rabbit/duck, the frame, infinity, the impossible - and compares the magical generative role of collage to a geometric theorem that proves that cutting and rearranging can increase the volume of matter.
Publication free to read online or download.
Award-winning photographic artist Vera Saltzman will share her unique hybrid of digital and analogue photography techniques, give viewers a glimpse into her makeshift developing lab, and talk about her unconventional path to becoming an artist.
Watch recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Osse6fy5i5E
FREE
Get a peek inside Wilf Perreault’s studio. Wilf will guide you through an intimate tour of his studio and creative process.
Watch the archived video on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Art-Gallery-of-Regina-228399860562366/videos/263562271878525
FREE
Linda Duvall and Jillian McDonald's project Messages from the Rocks - Stories of the Invisible empowers the public as co-creators to imagine and share stories of the unseen forces that animate the land around us through walks, drawing, and creating a Field Guide to the Invisible.
Drop into the gallery for participatory art-making or attend free public events.
DATES
Research residency: Summer 2021
Public programs begin: May 23, 2022
Exhibition: June 2 - July 31, 2022
Opening reception: June 3 79 PM
Join the AGR for a free, drop-in still life drawing and socializing session over Zoom video conference. AGR staff and board members will guide participants through drawing exercises to sharpen observational skills, try new drawing techniques, and experiment with media.
Register on the AGR website.
DATES Sundays, January 30, February 27, April 24, May 29
TIME 2-4 pm
LOCATION Zoom video conference
COST FREE
Register online or call 306-522-5940
MAIN GALLERY - Nikki Middlemiss & Peter Tucker: Elevate & Holon
opens Friday, March 18 7 PM
OUTSIDE THE BOX HALLWAY GALLERY - Peace Akintade: Do I Intimidate?
OUTSIDE THE BOX DISPLAY CASE
- Regina and Area Potters' Guild: Thrown Together
HOURS
Mon - Thurs 11AM - 7PM
Fri - Sun 1PM - 5PM
ADMISSION IS FREE
Between Us is a long-term creative relationship – part mentorship, part collaboration – connecting senior artist Aganetha Dyck with selected artists, beekeepers and honeybees in Regina, Yorkton, Swift Current, Estevan and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Between Us refers to the distances and differences between us, especially evident during social isolation due to COVID-19. The project title also refers to the wondrous experiences that bind us together; "us" includes humans and non-human collaborators.
The Art Gallery of Regina has partnered with Black In Sask on a visual arts-focused second installment of their ‘Black In' panel series.
We are thrilled to share the practices of Black artists living in Saskatchewan, the paths they’ve followed in their artistic careers, their personal experiences of blackness, and how these experiences inform their art.
Read artist bios for Peter Tucker, Hagere Selam "shimby" Zegeye-Gebrihwot & Janielle Ogilvie at https://www.artgalleryofregina.ca/talks
watch the recorded panel here: https://www.artgalleryofregina.ca/recordings
Ruth Chambers
essay by Julia Krueger
Julia Krueger interprets ceramic artist Ruth Chambers’ artful calligraphy of stems and blossoms in her essay Tending Time. This exhibition catalogue features numorous documentation photographs by Don Hall capturing the delicacy of Chambers' solo exhibition, Tend, at the Art Gallery of Regina.
Publication free to read online or download.
Ayla Dmyterko, Blair Fornwald & Brette Gabel, Audie Murray, Marigold Santos, Zoë Schneider, Maia Stark
curated by Jess Richter
Enjoy images and ideas from Ritual & Lore: download the exhibition catalogue as a free PDF.
Find the perfect piece of pottery in this delightful display case exhibition featuring work by members of the Regina and Area Potter's Guild. Thrown Together displays the broad and eclectic techniques and styles of members, showcasing a broad range of skills.
DATES
April 2 - June 29, 2022
Read all about it! The Art Gallery of Regina's Spring 2022 newsletter is available to read online. Current members will receive a hard copy of the newsletter in the post.
What's inside: exhibitions, members' opportunities, workshops, publications, artist's talks, community-engaged projects and ways to get involved in your community.
Do you want to:
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get involved in the arts community?
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have opportunities to show and sell your artwork (participate in members' show & sale and Outside the Box exhibitions)?
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receive discounts on our workshops and at partner businesses?
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get our newsletter?
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support SK artists & culture?
COST
only $40/year
The Art Gallery of Regina invited the public to experience bees as conscious and creative agents with its Culture Days activities. Running from September 24 – October 24, 2021, Culture Days offered fun and engaging new creative and cultural activities – both in-person and digital - suited to all ages and abilities.
The AGR’s Culture Days activities are inspired by our multi-year creative relationship – part mentorship, part collaboration – connecting senior artist Aganetha Dyck with selected artists, beekeepers and honeybees in Regina, Yorkton, Swift Current, Estevan and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The artworks resulting from this sustained creative collaboration will be exhibited at the Art Gallery of Regina in 2023, then travel to various partner galleries throughout Saskatchewan and beyond.
Aganetha Dyck, who became an artist while living in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, has been creating artwork assisted by honeybees and beekeepers for over 20 years. Dyck shares her experiences and examples of artwork created in collaboration with honeybees in this online artist’s talk, in discussion with AGR curator Sandee Moore.
Dyck’s Mennonite heritage and its emphasis on thrift is a source of inspiration for her artwork in which she commonly gives new life to broken and discarded items. Famously, she has reshaped wool sweaters into tiny, shrunken effigies, used family pickling recipes to preserve buttons from the sewing factory that occupied her studio before it was a space for artists and placed hand-crocheted doilies and broken porcelain figurines into beehives to be “mended” by the bees. Dyck’s artworks reframe bees as conscious agents who are creative and multisensorial communicators. While empathy for these insects will not be new to beekeepers, Dyck’s artworks reveal possibilities for the public to dismiss their fear and instead experience empathy and caring for all pollinators.
watch the recorded talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQHbsBT9VRU
KC Adams (Winnipeg), Carole Epp (Saskatoon) and Brenda Wolf (Regina) share their ceramics practices in conversation.
a recording of this artist's talk and discussion forum is available to view on the AGR's online talks page
Nic Wilson
Curated and essay by Wayne Baerwaldt
Read Wayne Baerwaldt's exhibition essay accompanied by Don Hall's installation photos of Nic Wilson's Pavilion of Shadows at the Art Gallery of Regina. Read online or download the exhibition catalogue as a free PDF.
Important Information about the
Art Gallery of Regina
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
The following measures are required when entering the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre and its tenant The Art Gallery of Regina:
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wear a medical mask covering your nose and mouth;
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visitors ages 12 & up must provide proof of vaccination and identity.
PLEASE NOTE: The Art Gallery of Regina is an independent organization that leases space in the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre, a City-run organization. The NBCAC's mask and proof of vaccination policy may differ from that of the Art Gallery of Regina. We ask that visitors respect and adhere to the gallery's guidelines for visiting safely when visiting the AGR.
You can find the most current provincial health regulations here and the most current City facility policies here.
APPOINTMENTS FOR AT-RISK VISITORS
If you wish to take extra precautions, please make an appointment for our special Saturday morning hours. From 10:00 am – 1:00 pm on Saturdays. Please call 306-522-5940 at least one day in advance to book a private appointment to view the gallery safely outside of our regular hours.
The Art Gallery of Regina is an independent, nonprofit, public art gallery located at 2420 Elphinstone St within the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre.
Regina, Saskatchewan
The Art Gallery of Regina respectfully acknowledges we are located on
Treaty 4, traditional territory of the Cree, Saulteaux, Nakota, Lakota and Dakota peoples, and the homeland of the Métis people.
No admission fee.