Fredericton Arts & Culture Events
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New City Hall Gallery Exhibit
The City Hall Gallery is pleased to showcase the exhibit “Fine Craft” featuring approximately 16 pieces from the New Brunswick Craft Council’s permanent collection.
This exhibit is a rare look into the collection, as some of the pieces have not been on display in the past decade. It highlights selections of contemporary and historical works acquired by the Council over the past 40 years.
The works are now on display. The exhibit will officially open on February 17 with a reception from 5-6 pm. The exhibit will remain on display until March 31, 2010.
Permanent Locations
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Connexion’s Annex Gallery
Gallery 78 Fine Art
York Sunbury Museum
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Upcoming Temporary Exhibitions
Until 4 April, 2010
-China’s Renowned Photographers Focus on China
Dates: March 27 – April 4, 2010
Details: An exhibition of 100 black and white photographs which showcase modern, everyday life in the People’s Republic of China and the changes it has undergone since 1949. The photos, many of which have never before been on exhibition, depict all of China’s provinces. The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is only one of four Canadian locations hosting this exhibition. It also travels to Toronto, Waterloo and Victoria as well as New York and Washington D.C.
China’s Renowned Photographers Focus on China is sponsored by the China Daily and AKD International Inc. and co-sponsored by the NB Department of Education and the Confucius Institute of New Brunswick.
-Alan Syliboy’s – Quill Basket Mural – New Acquisition!
-Christopher Pratt: – Prints from the Permanent Collection
18 April – 13 June, 2010
-Invisible Worlds: Toby Graser Suzanne Hill Kathy Hooper
Organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery
-These stones – this sea, dreaming – PAINTING by Donald Andrus
Organized by Confederation Centre Art Gallery
-Studio Watch – Emerging Artist Series
Greg Klassen: Constructed Photographic Portraits
Organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Beaverbrook Gallery Events
11th annual Christina Sabat Memorial Lecture Series
Date: Thursday April 15, 2010 7PM
Location: The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Details: Speaker for 2010 is the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD.
Member’s Opening Reception – our first in 2010!
Date: Saturday April 17 5-7PM
Location: The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Our popular Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner! is back!
Date: Saturday April 24. 2010
Time: TBA
Location: The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Details: For more information contact Darren McLeod, Manager, Development and Marketing / National Capital Campaign at: 506-458-2038 or dmcleod@beaverbrookartgallery.org
Presenting Sponsor: Investors Group
Art Programs at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Thursday Night Art Sessions for Adults
Fredericton artist Marcus Kingston will instruct the Gallery’s popular Thursday Night ART sessions for adults. The classes are held from 7 PM to 9 PM each Thursday evening.
Location: The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Students will feel engaged and inspired to create in these comfortable and fun evening classes. Participants will work with anything from paints, inks, pastels, clay, charcoal, mixed media and salvaged objects. Paintings and drawings will make way for sculptures and collage. Marcus believes in bringing creativity and thought out of all his students, no matter what level of artistic ability. If you would like to sharpen skills you already have or simply play with color and line, join us on Thursday evenings at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. ”
Admission is free for Gallery members and is $15 for non- members.
Thursday Night ART sessions for adults continue every Thursday, 7 pm to 9 pm. Admission is free for Gallery members and $15 for non members. Please register by contacting 506-458-2028 or emailbag@beaverbrookrartgallery.org.
Painting Explorations – Instructed by Kimberly Herron
Date: Until March 20th
Location: The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Details: For children ages 6-12
Saturday mornings 10 AM- 12 noon
Experiment with color theory, composition, painting on numerous surfaces and in a variety of media and techniques. A great opportunity to experiment, to play and to learn!
Register at the Gallery front desk, 458-2028 or Emailbag@beaverbrookargallery.org
Family Art Workshops
Location: The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Family Art workshops are offered on the second Sunday every month, 2 pm to 4 pm, with educator and art specialist Jane Stewart, MEd. Come experience the art in the gallery and create a masterpiece yourself!
$5 per person/$15 for a family of 4. Gallery members/free. All materials included.
Teen Art Zone
Location: The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Teen Art Zone Teens are invited to come to the Gallery on the last Sunday of every month between 2 pm and 4 pm and experiment with painting, drawing and printmaking with educator and art specialist Jane Stewart, MEd. Free of charge.
For further information on workshops for adults and children contact Adda Mihailescu at 506-458-2032 or adda@beaverbrookartgallery.org
Connexion’s Annex Gallery
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Date: March 9th through March 28th, 2010
Location: The Fredericton Playhouse Annex Gallery
Details: On March 9, Gallery Connexion’s Annex Gallery reveals two new exhibitions by Multiple Exposures and Marie Fox. The exhibition by 3rd year NBCCD photography student group Multiple Exposures titled “Discovery” displays a series of unique photographs. The exhibition by painter Marie Fox titled ‘Caught in the Peripheral’ and curated by WhiteFeather comprises of a series of model paintings. Both exhibitions open at the Annex Gallery located in the Playhouse at 686 Queen Street on Tuesday, March 9th at 5pm. Please join us for an opening reception. The exhibitions will run from March 3 until the 28th, 2010. Admission is free.
Fredericton Small Press Book Fair
Date: March 20th, 2010
Location: Gallery ConneXion, 470 York Street
Details: Vendors • Exhibitors • Readings • Workshop(s)
Indie, small and micro-press publishers: books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, artist multiples, artist books, broadsheets, postcards, zines, lit mags, literacy info & much more
Gallery 78 Fine Art
Gallery 78 Presents: The Art of Drawing
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March 12 – April 3, 2010
There is simplicity in drawings. A drawing is art pared down, stripped of jargon, reduced to honesty. A drawing is a record of thought, an unassuming, intimate murmur of an observation. Drawings are art speaking plainly. Whether a sketch dashed off in a moment or a highly developed image, drawings are honest and simple and true. Drawings on display during the exhibition have been rendered by a variety of Gallery artists, including: Stephen May, Ann Manuel and Stephen Scott.
Exhibition ends April 3rd, 2010
Visit Gallery 78 at 796 Queen St. (the corner of Church and Queen) or on-line at www.gallery78.com
Gallery hours are: Tuesday – Friday 10am-5pm, (new hours) Saturday 10am – 3pm and Sunday 1-4pm.
GALLERY 78 Fine Art
Est. 1976
796 Queen St.
Fredericton, NB E3B 1C6
506-454-5192
www.gallery78.com
York Sunbury Museum
Hand and Lock Embroidery
Hand & Lock Chairman, Alastair Macleod is currently conducting a world tour of universities, colleges and embroidery groups and has decided to make two stops in Canada, one of which will be at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. Members of the York Sunbury Historical Society and friends have been invited to attend the hand and lock embroidery work shop at the Craft College on March 18th at 3pm. An RSVP is required by Tuesday so they know how many to expect and which room to place the workshop in. Please RSVP to the Museum. For more information about Alastair Macleod, please check out the link below.
http://www.handembroidery.com/prize-conference/prize-2010/lecture/
Rising from the Ashes: The Fires at St. Mary’s Ferry
The York Sunbury Museum (571 Queen Street, Fredericton) recently opened their new exhibit; Rising from the Ashes: The Fires at St. Mary’s Ferry, a City of Fredericton 2009 Arts, Culture & Heritage project. This exhibit provides a glimpse into the history of a community devastated by fire on two occasions!
Some of the exhibits at the museum are:
- Acadians of Fredericton by Sheila Andrew
- Fredericton’s Loyalists by Robert L. Dallison
- Museum Treasures: A Celebration
- Orientation Room
- The 19th Century Gallery
- The Agricultural Room
- The Boss’s World by T. W. Acheson
- The Coleman Frog
- Rising from the Ashes: The Fires at St. Mary’s Ferry
- World War I Trench
For more information about hours of operation and a complete list of exhibits please visit the York Sunbury Museum Website. www.yorksunburymuseum.com