Studio Sixty Six celebrated their one year anniversary at the Glebe location on April 12, 2019. With that check out the photos from the event.
Literally caught wind about this NAC Dance show on Thursday night through word of mouth from a Montreal music friend at OAG’s Spring Exhibition. There was no way I wanted to miss out the show and was lucky to see the first night. Canadian dance artist and Governor General’s Award for Lifetime Achievement Peggy Baker‘s …
The Ottawa Art Gallery held vernissage for their 5 new exhibitions highlighting local, national and international artists. Informed by science and art, news, resistance as well as travelling, the exhibitions feature interactive sculptures, collaboratively-made art and a massive video projection. Here are the details of each exhibitions: Carbon + Light: Juan Geuer’s Luminous Precision (on …
Possible Worlds presented their second exhibition of 2019, part of an ongoing series highlighting Ottawa-Gatineau- based or born emerging graphic artists. Anna Graves‘ Fleeting examines relationships between land use and notions of belonging. These large-scale lithograph and silkscreened prints feature urban and natural settings around Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia that are experiencing gentrification and shifting industries. With …
March 28, 2019 was the opening/vernissage for Governor General’s Awards in Visual & Media Arts 2019 at the National Gallery of Canada. Celebrating the careers of eight outstanding Canadian artists: Stephen Andrews, Marlene Creates, COZIC, Lee-Ann Martin, Ali Kazimi, Andrew James Paterson, Jeff Thomas, and Susan Edgerley. The exhibition runs until August 5, 2019 Check …
Black Squirrel Books hosted a pop-up thrift night market on March 23, 2019. It was unprecedented with the turn out of people who went to this. There was a debut of Black Squirrel’s new cocktail menu and DJing were Jas Nasty and Gewangi. Proceeds from the event went to Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against …
Woke up very early in the morning to attend the first Ottawa Coffee Fest at the Horticulture Building in Lansdowne Park on March 23, 2019. Let’s say when doors opened at 10am things got pretty packed for Ottawa folks to their morning coffee fix. Local and out of town vendors participated at this year’s event …
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Hope some of you were lucky enough to attend the sold out annual Beau’s St. Patrick’s Party at Lansdowne’s Aberdeen Pavillion.. This year the party fell on March 16, 2019 and it is the one time you can be Irish and celebrate it. Got to check out the parade and didn’t …
Attended the opening at the National Gallery of Canada‘s for Dave Heath’s Multitude, Solitude on March 13, 2019. From the website: “Whether picking out a single face in a crowd, capturing an act of violence between siblings, or framing close-up portraits of quiet despair, Dave Heath (1931–2016) had an instinctive ability to capture the soul …
Studio Sixty Six held their opening reception for their new exhibition called Interplays. Featuring the works by Laurence Finet, Natalie Bruvels and Andrew Beck. These three artists whose work centres around the human experience and/or the human theatre. All painters, approaching their shared subject, stylistically and thematically, from entirely different perspectives. The exhibition runs until …