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…
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:
Izabella Orzelski-Konikowski & Bogdan Koral-Konikowski
Canadians have an identity, one to be proud of. HERS is a portrait exhibition and the paintings are all women and all artists. In their honour, 32 large-scale portraits of contemporary, innovative Canadian women in the arts. The artists’ goal is to depict each of these women…
Opening Reception: Friday, June 4, 2010 at 7:00 pm
The moving sight of about 100 cribs and cradles lined up in orderly fashion in The Prairie Art Gallery will summon up memories of hospitals, orphanages, dormitories, schoolrooms, cemeteries—images that telescope the cycle of life: birth, life and death.
Le Jardin du sommeil (1998) is a…
Opening Reception: Friday, April 2, 2010 at 7:00 pm
This portrait exhibition earnestly captures the spirit and unique perspective of Peace Country elders whom the artist has had the pleasure of interviewing and photographing. To honour the many character’s individual life stories, every oil painting reveals a senior’s favourite colour, animal,…
We hope you will mark the new event date on your calendar and join us on April 10th in the beautiful Teresa Sargent Hall at the Montrose Cultural Centre.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
7:00 pm
9839 – 103 Avenue, Grande Prairie, AB
Tickets are $100 each.
If you have further questions about the 30th Annual…
Family Workshops
Join gallery educators once a month for a brief tour of the current exhibit, then a hands-on art activity related to the exhibition theme.
‘Team Art’ with Rhonda Wiebe
On your mark, get set, go! Race your way through the fundamentals of art with family team members as you learn to…
Exhibition Opening: January 8, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Montreal artist Jean Pierre Gauthier has been active on the contemporary art scene since the mid-1990s, when he quickly gained recognition for the inventiveness of his work. The kinetic installations that have emerged from his exploration of the acoustic and metaphorical potential of…
Travelling exhibit from Macdonald Stewart Art Centre.
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 3 at 7:00pm
Qamanittuaq is a comprehensive exhibition of drawings by Inuit artists from Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada. This touring exhibit has been organized by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph, Ontario. The exhibition focuses on 80 drawings selected from…
Curated by Catherine Dean
Opening Reception: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 7:00 pm
In its most simplified definition, the boundary layer is the thin plane at the surface of the Earth where land meets sky. Though we may temporarily escape it in skyscrapers and planes, boats and submarines, this is the only…