The Elora Centre for the Arts presents ‘Beyond Words’ in partnership with the University of Guelph’s School of Fine Arts & Music (SOFAM) department to present a student exhibition that is sure to leave a lasting impression. ‘Beyond Words’ is a curated, by invitation show that taps into the wisdom and the power of artistic expression, and the importance of developing creative ways to help us understand the world we live in.
Art students at SOFAM were challenged to submit pieces for this show that gave voice to something important to them, allowing them to use their art form to communicate their perspective to the world, and to us as a community. The topics explored in this exhibition range from cultural issues, climate change and nature, to memory loss and mental health. Artistic medium includes, oil and acrylic paintings, intaglio prints including photogravure, photography, pencil drawings and mixed media. This group exhibition illustrates a diverse use of many mediums to convey the artists’ thoughts and inspirations.
Our gallery will feature work from the Elora Fergus Studio Tour, one week before the Tour begins. You are invited to stop by for a sneak peek so you can plan your route for Studio Tour weekends!
One sample piece from each of the Studio Tour artists will be on display, and are available to purchase in our gallery.
Admission to our gallery is free.
Studio Tour weekends are Sept 23 & 24 and Sept 30 & Oct 1 10AM – 5PM. For more information about the Elora Fergus Studio Tour event weekends please visit their website here.
September 23-24, and September 30 – October 1, 2023 | 10AM – 5PM
Opening Reception – September 15th from 7-9PM
Start your Studio Tour at the Centre! 75 Melville Street, Elora. View a sample of all participating artists in the main gallery. Pick up a map and plan your route!
For more information and artist bios please visit https://elorafergusstudiotour.com/
TO VIEW A VIRTUAL MAP OF STUDIO LOCATIONS please click here!
March 10 – April 17, 2022 | Main gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts
Artist reception drop-in: Saturday March 19th from 1 – 3 PM
“Between the idea, and the reality”, a line from T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men, is a quote I keep coming back to in my work. There is an entire world of process that happens in the gap between the invisible phase of ideas and the reality of a finished forged piece. The final object leaves behind it a trail of tools that were also designed and made by hand in order to give it life. This exhibition attempts to demonstrate the “in between” by providing a peek behind the scenes at what’s involved and also what gets created along the way.
April 21 – May 15, 2022
Artist Reception Drop-in: Sunday April 24th from 1 – 3PM , everyone is welcome!
The Octarine Women Artists’ Collective (OWAC), founded in 2013, is a group of 8 artists, living in Centre Wellington, working in various media who exhibit together. The OWAC members are Judy French (oil), Carol Hughes (watercolour), Kim Johnston (watermedia and oils), Dianne Kennedy Cruttenden (weaving,textiles) , Jean Loney (in memory, glass mosaic), Gail Root (oils and chalk pastel) , M. Anne Smith, (textile and fibre arts) and Nancy Farrell (acrylics).
About the Exhibition:
Climate Change is the existential crisis of our time.
Many of us have become very aware that we are part of a living planet, and that our health is connected to the health of our environment and all living creatures. There is a growing realization that solving our environmental problems will require massive changes to our economic and social systems.
Sunday May 22, 2022 | 1:00 – 5:00 PM in the gallery at the Elora Centre for the Arts
Elora Plein Air Festival Show and Sale: This is the culmination of the artists’ efforts and they are ready to share and celebrate. In the gallery there’s a buzz of excitement as people come in to view and buy the beautiful works the artists created over the previous 3 days. Meet the artists, discover a piece you can’t resist, vote for your favourite for the People’s Choice award and just enjoy the show!
For more information about the Elora Plein Air Festival (May 19 – 22) please visit their website.
Opening Reception: Saturday May 28, 2022 from 2-4PM | Main gallery at the Elora Centre for the Arts
‘Splendid Isolation’ is a series of paintings exploring themes of isolation, uncertainty, and transience during the strange and surreal time of the global pandemic but also, simultaneously, of enhanced connections, and deepening of the creative spirit.
This has been a time of renewal as we explore new ways to live. Many of us are re-examining our existence and what is most important to us, as we emerge from the pandemic, finding new meaning in our transformed lives as we plot a course in still uncharted waters.
Meet the Artist in the gallery: Sunday September 11th from 2-4PM
Northern Ontario artist Bruce Cull draws from the impact of the last two years, during which time his long-held belief was reinforced: that the most important aspects of our lives is our sense of connection. As Cull explains, we begin our lives connecting to our parent, our siblings and gradually extending those relationships outward to a greater world of friends, co-workers and others whom we encounter on this journey. Most of all, we reach for mutually nourishing intimacy in partner relationship and this connection of love brings us hope and strength.
‘Connection and Response’ reminds us that we are participants in and a part of the physical world we inhabit. Over time, we have lost that sense of connection, have all too often let ourselves be severed from a world of which we are a part. Bruce Cull’s work expresses his fear of lost connection with each other, with our environment and a hope that we will rediscover old, new and better forms of connection.
GALLERY EXHIBITION SHOW & SALE
View a sample of all participating Studio Tour artists in the gallery at the Elora Centre for the Arts! All original art on display is available for purchase. Our gallery will be featuring the Studio Tour artists from September 15 – October 2, 2022.
An opening reception will be held in the gallery on Thursday September 15 from 7-9PM. Everyone is welcome to come meet the artists and get a sneak peek of the exhibition!
Please note that Studio Tour weekends (visiting artist studios) are September 24 & 25, and October 1 & 2, 2021. During open studio weekends, pick up a map at the Centre and plan your route. Some artist studios are located right in the Elora Centre for the Arts as well!
For more information about the Elora Fergus Studio Tour and opening reception, please click here.
Gallery exhibition from last year’s event:
September 24-25, October 1-2, 2022 | 10AM – 5PM
Start your tour at the Centre! 75 Melville Street, Elora. View a sample of all participating artists in the main gallery. Pick up a map and plan your route!
Opening Reception – September 15th from 7-9PM.
For more information and artist bios please visit https://elorafergusstudiotour.com/
TO VIEW A VIRTUAL MAP OF STUDIO LOCATIONS please click here!
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