A Year In Review: Since the collapse of the gallery in 2007, we have been without adequate facilities in the gallery to offer hands on activities to school classes, so we have taken those activities to the students’ own classrooms. Between April 2009 and March 2010, we visited 115 classrooms…
Beginning in September 2010, the construction project will require that the gallery’s art exhibitions and art classes be temporarily interrupted. The gallery’s office hours may be temporarily effected as well. The staff would like to thank the public for their patience during this time of transition.
We’ve started the construction phase of the restoration project on the Prairie Art Gallery’s previous home in the historic 1929 Grande Prairie High School building (103 Ave & 99 Street) and we’d like to show you what the building will look like when it’s completed in 2011.
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If you haven’t picked up your copy at the Prairie Art Gallery yet, you can view our ARTimage newsletter online. Learn more about the gallery’s upcoming phase of construction, events held during the Street Performers Festival in July, Art Insight Tours and summer art exhibitions.
AutoPark is a portable garden of defunct vehicles that have been converted into large-scale terrariums. Cars, vans, trucks and SUVs house communities of native plants, re-inserting the wilderness into contrived urban landscapes. Riffing off of the history of the enclosed growing space, the artist investigates our evolving relationship to the…
We invite you to join us for a free tour and learn more about the Prairie Art Gallery and our past, present and future. We will share our story in a special 1 hour tour in a small group setting. We encourage you to bring a friend, colleague or loved one.…
The Prairie Art Gallery would like to congratulate Teeple Architects Inc. for winning the 2010 Prairie Design Award of Excellence. The Montrose Cultural Centre is home to the Prairie Art Gallery, the Grande Prairie Public Library, and Esquires Coffee House. Read the following article published July 7, 2010 in the Daily…
The TREX program at the Prairie Art Gallery is pleased to present the art exhibition What Lies Beneath, on view now at the Grande Prairie Regional College until August 13, 2010. See What Lies Beneath this summer in the GPRC Glass Gallery located near Pillars cafeteria.
What Lies Beneath
Many of us wish to…
The Prairie Art Gallery was featured on the front page of the Daily Herald-Tribune on Monday, July 5, 2010.
Record number of visitors for local art gallery
The Prairie Art Gallery had a record number of visitors last year, despite being closed for nearly 20% of the year.
For its fiscal year, which…
July 23 – 25, 2010
Visit The Prairie Art Gallery during the 2010 Street Performers Festival! Gallery staff and volunteers will be downtown with chalk drawing that is open to visitors of all ages.
View four different art exhibitions: