ART GALLERY OF REGINA
MAIN GALLERY - closed for renovations
OUTSIDE THE BOX HALLWAY GALLERY
Labyrinthitis
by Derek Pho
OUTSIDE THE BOX DISPLAY CASE
Joyful Jewels
by the Jewellery Artists' Guild of Regina
HOURS
Mon - Thurs 11AM - 7PM
Fri - Sun 1PM - 5PM
To curb the spread of COVID-19, all visitors to the gallery and participants in programming must:
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COST
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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.
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Derek Pho's large-scale paintings on canvas and paper go beyond merely representing struggles with mental health.
DATES
December 7, 2021 - January 4, 2022
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The Art Gallery of Regina is thrilled to announce that the City of Regina and Heritage Canada are funding our gallery renovation taking place this December.
The main gallery will be closed from December 6 - January 12 to refresh critical aspects of our gallery's physical infrastructure.
learn more
Artists Linda Duvall (SK) and Jillian McDonald (MB/NY) will animate a community-engaged artwork and residency in consultation with diverse members of the community to share extraordinary encounters with unseen forces that animate the land.
DATES
Research residency: Summer 2021
Exhibition & public programs: June 2 - July 31, 2022
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
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The Jewellery Artists Guild of Regina (JAGoR) is a collaboration of local jewellery designers and artisans ranging from part time enthusiasts to dedicated full time professionals. Discover the wide variety and uniqueness of handcrafted jewellery JAGoR members create in their Outside the Box Display Case exhibition at the Art Gallery of Regina. As we enter the festive season, acquire one of these Joyful Jewels as a special gift.
Outside the Box is an open-access exhibition program for AGR members to show and sell their work.
DATES
November 12, 2021 - January 4, 2022
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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 members of Prairie Artists' Guild or the Jewellery Artists' Guild of Regina online through our "online art store."
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.
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
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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.
Important Information about the
Art Gallery of Regina
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
We’ve updated our policies to reflect the new civic guidelines and to make sure that we are keeping our community safe! As a tenant in a City of Regina building, the AGR will be adhering to the new COVID-19 guidelines announced by the City of Regina.
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Effective September 4, masks will be required when visiting indoor City of Regina facilities. This includes the Art Gallery of Regina.
APPOINTMENTS FOR AT-RISK VISITORS
We understand that many people are still unvaccinated, come into contact with people at risk or are themselves at risk. 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 each Saturday, you can 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.
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