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Elora Fergus Studio Tour 2023

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!

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‘The In Between’ | An exhibition by artist blacksmith Sandra Dunn

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....

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‘Everything Connected’ | Octarine artists respond to Climate Change

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...

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Elora Plein Air Festival Art Show & Sale | in the gallery at Elora Centre for the Arts

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...

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‘Splendid Isolation’ by Eva McCauley

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...

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‘Connection and Response’ exhibition by Bruce Cull

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...

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Elora Fergus Studio Tour gallery exhibition show & sale at the Elora Centre for the Arts

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 &...

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Elora Fergus Studio Tour 2022

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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The Elora Sculpture Project call for submissions!

The Elora Sculpture Project is an outdoor exhibition that runs from May – October each year.  It is a self-guided treasure hunt for outdoor sculptures installed throughout downtown Elora and Fergus. Call for entries now open!  Submission deadline January 15, 2022.  For information please visit their website.

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H20 FOR GOOD: 3 ARTISTS | 3 WALLS | 1 PLANET

Can art inspire us to make a change in our own life, our own neighbourhood, our own community? How can it make us think a bit differently and grab our attention to sharpen our world view? Can creativity and artistic expression partner with social justice causes to inspire people to act differently? Let’s find out. Many of us are aware of our local water concerns regarding Nestle’s proposed large-scale water pumping at the Middlebrook well. “Here in the township of Centre Wellington, Nestle is planning on extracting 1.6 million litres of groundwater every day from our local aquifer” says Amy...

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