Upcoming Events
New exhibition searches for a way to evolve our collective ideologies to encompass inclusivity.
Past Events
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Everybody Deserves A Smile 2020
Annual community schools art based outreach project.
December 1 - 8 2020 -
WALK WITH ME / films that speak
Youth Media Project participants express their truth about the overdose crisis.
October 17 2020 / 7:00 - 8:30pm -
WALK WITH ME / story walks
We invite you to walk with us as we transform our understanding of, and approach to, the overdose crisis.
September 30 - November 21 2020 -
WALK WITH ME / uncovering the human dimensions of the overdose crisis
We invite you to walk with us as we transform our understanding of, and approach to, the overdose crisis.
September 30 - November 21 2020 -
WALK WITH ME / events and sharing
We invite you to 'walk with us as' we transform our understanding of, and approach to the overdose crisis.
September 30 - November 21 2020 -
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TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS FULL CIRCLE TEA GARDEN
As a land based practice, the garden invites contemplation and rooting to the land.
April 9 - December 31 2020 -
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Aperture
Aperture a cinematic experience created by local youth will be screening at the Rotary Hall of the Florence Filberg Centre. The screening will feature the latest original films created by participants of the Youth Media Project at the Comox Valley Art Gallery. This is a free, all-ages event, open to the general public. Doors open at…
March 27 2020 / 7:00 - 9:00pm -
Water (re)Source
A repository that reflects memory, perceptions, experiences, and relationships with the water.
February 29 - September 11 2020 -
WATERSHED EXPLORATIONS / Connected By Water
This collaborative community engagement event aims to build connection, capacity and community in support of watershed protection and water conservation in the Comox Valley.
February 22 2020 / 12:30 - 2:00pm -
ROOT LOVE – Valentines Day at CVAG
Join us at the gallery for an all ages Valentines Day Make Art Event on Friday February 14th from 11 am – 4 pm. LIVE SCREEN PRINTING with Gabrielle Moore-Pratt: – bring a cotton t-shirt or other clothing item to have printed – purchase a CVAG ROOT LOVE hand printed t-shirt $25 – purchase ROOT…
February 14 2020 / 11:00am - 4:00pm -
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In The Water : Art Opening / Artist Talk / Make Art
Join us for an art opening / artist talk – KC Adams / reading – Spencer Sheehan-Kalina / community collaboration at CVAG
January 18 2020 / 1:00 - 5:00pm -
Root Love
A community incubator and exhibition rooted in water to bring community together.
January 18 - February 29 2020 -
Water (re)Source
This incubator presents community collaborations and engagement projects.
January 18 - February 28 2020 -
SINGING TO THE WATER
January 9 – January 19 2020 – Singing to the Water – KC Adams Singing to the Water – a community and production residency during which KC Adams is preparing new work and embellishing existing work that embraces past and contemporary technologies. The artist’s creative practice engages the local community through traditional and ceremonial making to whet…
January 9 - 19 2020 -
Studio Coyote Presents: Print your own holiday cards
As part of the Winter Art Market opening events, Nadine Bariteau of Studio Coyote will be facilitating a community make art drop-in for creating and printing one-of-a–kind holiday cards. The cost is $5 per card. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Nadine will also be facilitating card making on December 20th, as part of…
December 20 2019 / 1:00 - 6:00pm -
CVAG Solstice Celebration
The community is invited to the Solstice Celebration activities at CVAG
December 20 2019 / 12:00 - 9:00pm -
INCUBATOR 2 PROJECT ROOM PRESENTATIONS
CVAG GATHER : PLACE / December 13, 2019 – January 4, 2020 beside / new work from NIC Fine Arts course Sculpture and Intergrated Art Practices / artists: Mona Baker / Janina Brugamn / bobbi denton / Tina Filippino / James Kormansek / Bran Mackie / Rennee Poisson / Spencer Sheehan-Kalina / Kelly Wilson North…
December 13 2019 - January 10 2020 -
Winter Market 2019 Open House
Please join us Saturday, December 7 from 1PM–5PM for the opening of our 45th annual Winter Market of well-made-things. The open house celebration event will have cake and refreshments. We are also offering special discounts that day of 15% off for members and 10% for visitors. Winter Market 2019 – CVAG facebook Album
December 7 2019 / 1:00 - 5:00pm -
Winter Market 2019
Join us for ROOT LOVE, CVAG’s 2019 winter program: featuring our 45th annual SHOP MADE WINTER MARKET, exhibitions, community make art project events, artists’ incubator/creative residencies, project room studios + video screenings. SHOP MADE WINTER MARKET runs from December 7–28th with an open house celebration event on December 7th from 1–5pm. SHOP MADE WINTER MARKET…
December 7 - 28 2019 -
Project Homesick / Roof (Over My Head)
Artist Connie Michele Morey is in residence at the Comox Valley Art Gallery November 27-December 11 to conduct site specific research for Project Homesick and Roof (Over My Head). The artist will will be onsite in GATHER:PLACE and on the gallery plaza as well as other locations in the community and surrounding valley.
November 27 - December 11 2019 -
EVERYBODY DESERVES A SMILE – ECOLE PUNTLEDGE SCHOOL
The Community Gallery at the Comox Valley Art Gallery displays the creations for the EDAS project made by the Ecole Puntledge Students.
November 25 - December 9 2019 -
Halloween Community Make Art Station
Halloween Community Make Art station at the Comox Valley Art Gallery 1pm – 5pm, Thursday October 31, 2019. In conjunction with the Downtown Business Association events. Summoning all ghosts and goblins, witches, robots, walking hotdogs and superheroes! Join us for Spooktacular make art projects at CVAG on Hallowe’en. There will be festive refreshments and hot…
October 31 2019 / 1:00 - 5:00pm -
COMMUNITY MAKE ART PROJECT: with Anna Gustafson
Anna Gustafson will offer participants the opportunity to stitch tiny shrouds and learn about shroud stitching practices while considering the accumulation of outdated technology devices.
September 28 2019 / 11:00am - 1:00pm -
COMMUNITY MAKE ART PROJECT: with Nadine Bariteau
Nadine Bariteau will facilitate printmaking using discarded plastic materials as a way of exploring consumptive economics. Workshops are open to all ages (under 16 years need adult accompaniment), no previous related art-making experience required. This workshop is part of a day of community engagement activities that are part of the UNCOVER opening day events.…
September 28 2019 / 11:00am - 1:00pm -
UNCOVER: Faulty Connection / Not Being Seen
This lens based work, by Danielle Eglison and Emilie Van Hoderbeke, was produced as part of the Magenta Flash Forward Incubator program, facilitated by Dave Ingram at Georges P Vanier Secondary School. The Flash Forward Incubator Program is dedicated to fostering future visual artists in Canada by giving youth from diverse backgrounds the mentorship they…
September 28 - November 23 2019 -
UNCOVER: ART OPENING / ARTIST TALKS / ART PERFORMANCE
Join us on Saturday, September 28, 2019 for the opening of uncover a group exhibition that considers implications of concealing and revealing by six artists.
September 28 2019 / 10:00am - 5:00pm -
Community Make Art Project: Tiny Homes
A community make art project. All ages welcome. No prior clay hand building experience is required.
August 14 2019 / 3:00 - 7:00pm -
Community Make Art Project: Tiny Homes
A community make art project. All ages welcome. No prior clay hand building experience is required.
July 10 2019 / 3:00 - 7:00pm -
KIDS SUMMER CAMP: VEX IQ Robotics Camp
In this introductory level robotics camp, participants will work in partners to build, program, and drive a robot using the VEX IQ platform. Teams will work together to learn basic skills for building a robotic system,
July 8 - 12 2019 -
Hold Being Held: Art Opening / Artist Talk / Public Reception / Community Make Art
Join us on Thursday evening for the opening of hold being held a group exhibition of clay-based work by seven artists.
June 27 2019 / 5:00 - 9:00pm -
Community Make Art Project: Tiny Homes
A community make art project. All ages welcome. No prior clay hand building experience is required.
June 27 2019 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
Community Make Art Project: Water Effect 2019
You are invited to join Rachel Grenon at the CVAG to make hand built porcelain boats.
June 27 2019 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
VIRTUAL REALITY RESEARCH and CREATION / OPEN HOUSE + PUBLIC RECEPTION
A day of artist + community interaction. Hosted at SPACES VR - 468 29th St, Courtenay
May 31 2019 / 2:00 - 8:00pm -
Community Make Art Project: Tiny Homes
A community make art project. All ages welcome. No prior clay hand building experience is required.
May 31 2019 / 10:00am - 5:00pm -
CALLING ALL ROBOTS / Community Drop In / MAKE : SPACE
Join us for an all ages hands on robot make and play experience.
May 31 2019 / 10:00am - 5:00pm -
Community Make Art Project: Water Effect 2019
You are invited to join Rachel Grenon at the CVAG to make hand built porcelain boats.
May 31 2019 / 10:00am - 5:00pm -
Community Make Art Project: Water Effect 2019
You are invited to join Rachel Grenon at the CVAG to make hand built porcelain boats.
May 17 2019 / 2:00 - 5:00pm -
RE–IGNITE
Join us at the Sid Williams Theatre for a curated celebration of films from past and current Youth Media Project participants.
May 15 2019 / 7:00 - 9:00pm -
VISUAL INSPECTION
Join author, Matt Rader and guest writers: Spencer Sheehan-Kalina, Traci Skuce, Jordan Scott, Grant Shilling and Sophie Gilmore at the Comox Valley Art Gallery for a gathering on Thursday, May 9, 2019.
May 9 2019 / 5:30 - 7:00pm -
AGM 2019
You are invited to the Comox Valley Art Gallery's Annual General Meeting at the Comox Valley Art Gallery
April 27 2019 / 10:00 - 11:30am -
Calling All Robots / ENTER + E2 EXPERIMENTS
The students and educators of the ENTER and E2 PROGRAM present their technology and arts-based experiments
April 16 - June 8 2019 -
PROJECT ROOM STUDIO / ITS ROOTS AND ITS INNOVATIVE DEPARTURES
Its Roots and its Innovative Departures sets curatorial hospitality as a framework and grounding for coming together in our differences, echoing Lorde.
April 12 - 27 2019 -
Constant Change: ART OPENING / ARTIST TALK / PUBLIC RECEPTION
The community is invited to the opening of Constant Change, a thematic program that highlights creatives engaged with high and low technology in their lives, work, education and practices.
April 6 2019 / 1:00 - 5:00pm -
COMMUNITY MAKE ART PROJECT: Approaching Painting / LOOKING, SHARING + MAKING
Facilitated by artists Carol Thompson + Madeleine Wood. All ages welcome
March 23 2019 / 11:00am - 1:00pm -
PROJECT ROOM STUDIO / Water and Shelter
During her Project Room Studio at CVAG, Gillian Turner is developing a body of work for the upcoming exhibition Hold Being Held at the Comox Valley Art Gallery June 27 – September 7 2019.
March 18 - July 13 2019 -
PROJECT ROOM STUDIO / MORE THAN SUM
For a week Madeleine Wood will be moving her studio practice to GATHER:PLACE and hopes to encourage dialogue and exchange with the community.
March 16 - 22 2019 -
PROJECT ROOM STUDIO / SCOTT BERTRAM
Scott Bertram will be exploring his painting process further in GATHER:PLACE. Drop by Monday-Friday, 10-1pm.
March 9 - 15 2019 -
PROJECT ROOM STUDIO / TRANSPARENT SPACE + STAR LANGUAGE DIVINATION DAYS
Artist, Carole Thompson, will be on site for creative research and community engagement opportunities.
March 2 - 8 2019 -
PROJECT ROOM STUDIO / PROBLEM SOLVING + ART CHAT
Robert Moon will be in GATHER:PLACE for problem solving and art chats. There will be some of his early lithographs on display as well. Robert welcomes you to join him during his studio hours.
February 25 - March 1 2019 -
MAKE ART PROJECT WORKSHOP: MOVING THROUGH THE WORLD
Facilitated by Cedar Waslewski (16 years and older, preregistration required)
February 18 2019 / 12:00 - 4:00pm -
MAKE ART PROJECT WORKSHOP: ROOTS OF SISTERHOOD
Facilitated by Cedar Waslewski, 9-12 year old girls, preregistration required. *One session*
February 15 2019 / 9:00am - 12:00pm -
Virtual Reality / Constant Change / Creative Research
Spaces VR and the Comox Valley Art Gallery have collaborated to develop a creative research project that offers participating artists the opportunity to explore virtual reality applications as a creative medium.
February 14 - June 8 2019 -
PROJECT ROOM STUDIO / MEDIUMSHIP
Nicole will be experimenting with paper sculpture, as it relates to receiving watercolour paint and video projections of watercolour paintings; exploring the possibilities of sending her practice toward varied spatial dimensions that may or may not receive the transmissions.
February 2 - 8 2019 -
approaching painting: ART OPENING / ARTIST TALK / PERFORMANCE / PUBLIC RECEPTION
Join us for the opening events of this group exhibition that offer diverse approaches to painting.
January 26 2019 / 1:00 - 4:00pm -
COMMUNITY MAKE ART PROJECT: Approaching Painting / Exploring Tools, Gestures and Intentions
Facilitated by artists Nicole Crouch + Scott Bertram
January 26 2019 / 11:00am - 1:00pm -
PROJECT ROOM STUDIO / MIRAGE
Artist, Barb Hunt, will be on-site at the gallery for a Project Room Studio to continue development of an ongoing body of work. The gallery is sharing its resources, large working spaces and surfaces, to support the artist in her work.
January 26 - April 13 2019 -
Make Art Project – Winter Art Market 2018
Fall into the weird and wonderful world of making, with four fantastic Make Art Projects led by fabulous art-making Diva Vanessa Simmonds. Join us in creating winter offerings for loved ones (or loved ones passed)… and/or decorative items to spruce up your home, tent or barn. Winter Make Art Projects run December 1, 8, 15 & 22 from 11–2pm and are open to all ages – fun for everyone.
December 22 2018 / 11:00am - 3:00pm -
PROJECT ROOM STUDIO / RESTRUCTURE
Project Room Studio Creative Research Residency Artist Nadine Bariteau explores ways to make a shelter with recycled plastic...
December 7 - 15 2018 -
WAM: Winter Art Market
Join us for the Opening Celebration of the 44th Winter Art Market. December 1, 2018 12 – 2 PM more…
December 1 - 26 2018 -
Get your Magic On! Moonlight and Magic at CVAG
It’s that time again – Downtown Courtenay Moonlight and Magic. Join us at the Comox Valley Art Gallery for conversations, demonstrations, make art stations, hot drinks and snacks. more…
November 23 2018 / 4:00 - 8:00pm -
MAKE : SPACE - HALLOWEEN AT CVAG 2018
CVAG will be serving up warm cider offering and an all-ages Make Art project from 2 – 5pm on October 31, 2018 Fashion a mysterious mask and/or create a spooky monster from supplies provided by the gallery staff. This event is in conjunction with the City of Courtenay and the Downtown Courtenay Business Improvement Association’s…
October 31 2018 / 2:00 - 5:00pm -
PUBLIC PLACE : SACRED SPACE – Welcoming & Unveiling Ceremony
You are invited to a Welcoming & Unveiling Ceremony and to share in a celebration of partnership between the Comox Valley Art Gallery (CVAG), K’omoks First Nations community and the City of Courtenay.
October 27 2018 / 10:00am - 12:00pm -
MAKE : SPACE – ONE ROOT (CVAG PLAZA)
On Saturday October 20, 1– 4pm the community is invited to participate in an art making station as part of the concurrent exhibition Nump Ma Noch Gyai Yoo Lahss / We All Come From One Root.
October 20 2018 / 1:00 - 4:00pm -
Nump Ma Noch Gyai Yoo Lahss / We All Come From One Root: Welcoming / Art Opening / Artist Talk
Join us Saturday October 20 for the opening of John Powell’s solo exhibition.
October 20 2018 / 1:00 - 4:00pm -
MAKE ART PROJECT – POP-UP PRINT MAKING
Join us Friday, Oct 19th and Saturday, Oct 20th for a free printmaking workshop as well as a Make Art. Nadine Bariteau & her NIC Fine Arts Students are facilitating printmaking workshops on Friday, Oct 19th from 9am–12pm and Saturday, Oct 20th from 11am–1pm. They will be held in a bus parked in front of…
October 19 - 20 2018 -
Kitchen Table Dialogue: Artist Talks, Cultural Sharing, Responsive Discussion
A Potlatch 67–67: The Potlatch Ban Then and Now community engagement event
September 30 2018 / 10:00am - 4:00pm -
Hiłt̕sist̕a’a̱m (The Copper will be fixed): Community Engagement / Cultural Event
Join us for a day of cultural sharing rooted in the Potlatch 67–67: The Potlatch Ban - Then and Now thematic program.
July 21 2018 / 11:00am - 4:00pm -
Hiłt̕sist̕a’a̱m (The Copper Will Be Fixed): Welcoming Ceremony / Art Opening / Artist Talks
Hiłt̕sist̕a’a̱m (The Copper Will Be Fixed) is an exhibition that responds to Potlatch 67–67: The Potlatch Ban - Then and Now.
July 20 2018 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
Performances + Make Art Project – Cornhusk Dolls Workshop
Join the artists for an evening drop-in community make art project workshop from 5-9pm. Performances start at 7:15pm.
June 2 2018 / 5:00 - 9:00pm -
Touching Earth Bodies: Art Opening / Artist Talk
Friday, May 18 for was opening of Touching Earth Bodies, an exhibition of collaborative and individual work.
May 18 2018 / 7:00 - 9:00pm -
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Youth Media Project: Film Screening "Film for Thought"
Film for Thought is a screening featuring a collection of short films from participants in the program.
April 13 2018 / 6:30 - 9:00pm -
ARTIST TALK + MAKE ART PROJECT: STORIES STONES
In this workshop you are invited to share your stories. Skeena will lead an artist talk and Sandra will come to witness.
April 7 2018 / 11:00am - 1:00pm -
Touch Me: ART OPENING / PERFORMANCE
Join us on Friday, April 6 for the art opening of Skeena Reece’s solo exhibition “Touch Me.”
April 6 2018 / 7:00 - 9:00pm -
FILM SCREENING – THE LEISURE SEEKER
The Leisure Seeker is the final film in our Winter 2018 series, and this is the second screening of that film.
March 28 2018 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
FILM SCREENING – THE LEISURE SEEKER
The Leisure Seeker is the final film in our Winter 2018 series. Tickets are sold out for this screening.
March 25 2018 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
FILM SCREENING – BACK TO BURGUNDY
Tickets are now available for Back To Burgundy, the fifth film in our Winter 2018 series.
March 11 2018 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
FILM SCREENING – THE DIVINE ORDER
The Divine Order was the fourth film in our Winter 2018 film series.
February 25 2018 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
FILM SCREENING – FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL
Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool was the third film in our Winter 2018 series.
February 11 2018 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
FILM SCREENING – BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story was the second film in our Winter 2018 film series.
January 28 2018 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
OPENING EVENTS: RETURN
Join us on Saturday, January 27 for a day of community events, including a make art project workshop and an artist talk.
January 27 2018 / 1:00 - 3:00pm -
COMMUNITY MAKE ART PROJECT: RETURN
The community is invited to a MAKE ART PROJECT WORKSHOP led by presenting artists Eileen Leier + Nancy Bleck.
January 27 2018 / 11:00am - 1:00pm -
FILM SCREENING – THE BREADWINNER
The Breadwinner was the first film in our Winter 2018 film series.
January 14 2018 / 5:00 - 6:30pm -
Youth Media Project: Reelization / Video Premiere
Come out to see the new CVAG Youth Media Project videos on Dec 15th at the Rotary Hall at the Florence Filberg Centre.
December 15 2017 / 6:30 - 9:00pm -
Winter Programming: Opening Events
The evening will be bustling with activity that will launch the winter art market and an art opening.
December 1 2017 / 5:00 - 8:00pm -
TIFF FILM SCREENING - LOVING VINCENT
Tickets are available for the second screening of "Loving Vincent", the final film in our Fall series.
November 15 2017 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
TIFF FILM SCREENING - LOVING VINCENT
Tickets are sold out for "Loving Vincent," the final film in our TIFF Fall Series.
November 12 2017 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
Halloween at CVAG
CVAG will be serving up warm cider and an all-ages make art project on the CVAG plaza from 3 to 5pm.
October 31 2017 / 3:00 - 5:00pm -
TIFF FILM SCREENING - FRANTZ
Tickets are sold out for "Frantz," the fourth film in our TIFF Fall Series.
October 29 2017 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
TIFF FILM SCREENING - TRIP TO SPAIN
Tickets are sold out for "Trip to Spain," the third film in our TIFF Fall Series.
October 15 2017 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
OFFERINGS / OFFRANDES: OPENING / WELCOMING / ARTIST TALK
Join us Friday, October 13, 2017 at 7pm to celebrate the opening of France Trépanier’s OFFERINGS / OFFRANDES.
October 13 2017 / 7:00 - 9:00pm -
Community Collaboration: "An Invitation"
The public is invited to contribute to this collective artwork by making an offering.
October 13 - November 18 2017 -
TIFF FILM SCREENING - CHURCHILL
Tickets are sold out for "Churchill," the second film in our TIFF Fall Series.
October 1 2017 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
GUIDED TOUR WITH RITA McKEOUGH – VEINS / LISTEN / CUL-DE-SAC
Join interdisciplinary artist Rita McKeough for a tour on the final day of Veins / Listen / Cul-de-Sac.
September 30 2017 / 3:00 - 5:00pm -
TIFF FILM SCREENING - MAUDIE
Tickets are sold out for "Maudie," the first film in our TIFF Fall Series.
September 17 2017 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
YOUTH MEDIA PROJECT INFO SESSION
Join us for an information session about the YMP program on Thursday, September 7, 5:30pm at CVAG.
September 7 2017 / 5:30 - 7:00pm -
GUIDED TOUR - VEINS / LISTEN / CUL-DE-SAC
On Friday, Sept. 1, there will be a guided tour of Rita McKeough’s "Veins / Listen / Cul-de-sac."
September 1 2017 / 6:00 - 7:00pm -
Project Room Studio: Means of Exchange
A series of experiences and experiments, inviting discussion topics that are hard to look at and harder to talk about.
August 11 - 13 2017 -
Open Studio Visits with Renee Sills
Visit multidisciplinary artist Renee Sills during her creative research residency, in our Project Room Studio.
August 9 - 13 2017 -
Make Art Wednesdays
Join us on Wednesday mornings, for this summer's Make Art Wednesday events on the plaza.
July 19 - August 30 2017 -
PROJECT ROOM STUDIO: PERCEPTION
Perception: Seeing you, seeing me, dressed in a rainbow garment!
July 17 - 31 2017 -
VEINS / LISTEN / CUL-DE-SAC: OPENING AND ARTIST'S TALK
Join us Thursday, July 13th at 7pm to celebrate the opening of Rita McKeough's "Veins / Listen / Cul-de-sac."
July 13 2017 / 7:00 - 9:00pm -
Make Art Project Workshop: ‘Un-Making’ Electronics
Providing an opportunity to build and explore art-making through 'un-making' electronics.
July 10 - 12 2017 -
The Train: Artists' Talk
FACILITATED BY GLENN LAWSON + NEIL CROUCH Artist Neil Crouch and writer Glenn Lawson will be presenting an artist talk and facilitated discussion in the George Sawchuck Room at the Comox Valley Art Gallery. The talk will be about “The Train”, a piece of visual and written art that Neil and Glenn collaborated on for…
June 20 2017 / 2:00 - 4:00pm -
Make Art Project Workshop: Tunnel Visions
Tunnel Visions: An Image (collage) to Text (poem) to Image (sharing) Event with Poet Laureate Natalie Nickerson
June 9 2017 / 1:00 - 4:00pm -
Make Art Project Workshop: Word Talks Back to Image
Artist-led integration of listening, observation and gesture, to stimulate creative responses using sketching, clay work and writing.
June 3 2017 / 11:00am - 2:00pm -
Make Art Project Workshop: A-Lured
Join us for Anne J Steves' performative making installation of A-Luring things, and Make Art Project Workshop.
June 3 2017 / 10:00am - 5:00pm -
Finding Form in the Repeated Absurdity of Dada Art
Dada introduced a simple but revolutionary idea that art might be assembled from the material of modern life itself. The Dadaists utilized the printed matter of culture: advertisements, magazines, newspapers and street posters. Items that represent the chaos and fragmentation of contemporary life. The dialogue of collage and print became a way to re-assemble, and…
June 2 - 3 2017 -
Image to Text to Image: Opening Events
Join us in celebrating this thematic program that explores the diverse relationships found in the creation of dialogue between visuals and words.
June 2 2017 / 7:00 - 9:30pm -
Make Art Project Workshop: Gathering
Bringing together and taking in from scattered places or sources // An assembly or meeting, especially a social or festive one.
May 6 2017 / 11:00am - 2:00pm -
GATHER: Opening Events
A celebration of the work of senior and graduating visual arts ECUAD students at NIC
April 28 2017 / 7:00pm -
FUSE at North Island College
FUSE, hosted by North Island College, features the work of second-year students in their Fine Arts Diploma program.
April 28 2017 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
GATHER: Interactive Media Showcase
NIC Interactive Media Diploma Students will be showcasing a wide range of their design work.
April 28 2017 / 4:00 - 7:00pm -
Project Room Studio: Kitchen Party
Join visiting artists Vida Simon, Jack Stanley, and Rita McKeough for a community in CVAG's new Project Room Studio.
March 23 2017 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
Carried Away - Opening Events
We invite you to join us for this art opening and artist performance, featuring Vida Simon and Jack Stanley.
March 10 2017 / 7:00pm -
Make Art Project Workshop: Carried Away
Following artist prompts, participants will play with ideas of performance, drawing collaboration and improvisation.
March 4 2017 / 11:00am - 2:00pm -
North Island College Winter 2017 Artist Talk Series
Meet exhibiting artists, and learn more about their individual practices through NIC's Artist Talk Series.
February 28 - March 21 2017 -
Sound Meditation and Exploration
Join us for a sound/movement meditation workshop with musicians Patrick Desjardins and Jesse Gentes.
February 24 2017 / 7:00 - 9:00pm -
Project Room Studio: Building Up The Body
Nicole Crouch, our first Project Room Studio participant, will be working in the studio from February 10-24, 2017.
February 10 - 24 2017 -
Make Art Project Workshop: Extracting Narratives
Creating hybrid responses by drawing upon inspiration from Source Material both outside and inside the gallery.
January 21 2017 / 11:00am - 3:00pm -
Extracting Narratives - Opening Events
Join us in celebrating the opening of Source Material, featuring two new exhibits: The Perfect Nowhere and All Tomorrow's Parties.
January 21 2017 / 11:00am - 4:00pm -
Make Art Project Workshop: All In
Make a solstice lantern, draw a picture, collage a card, and interact with the featured exhibitions.
December 10 2016 / 11:00am - 3:00pm -
Youth Media Project: Reel Rejects / 5th Video Premiere
The YMP's 5th Video Premiere, featureing a collection of short films by young filmmakers in the Comox Valley.
December 2 2016 / 6:30 - 9:00pm -
Make Art Project Workshop: Collage Party
Make your own collage, with the guidance of Sonia Stastny, to be printed into an art card for you to keep or trade.
November 26 2016 / 11:00am - 3:00pm -
Winter Programming - Opening Events
Join us at the Comox Valley Art Gallery on November 18th for our opening events that include the 42nd Annual Christmas Craft Fair, interactive exhibitions, and Make Art Projects.
November 18 2016 / 10:00am - 9:00pm -
Make Art Project Workshop: Imprinted Relationships: Creating Abstractions as an Expression of Human Interaction
This Make Art Project Workshop will examine the physical, emotional, and aesthetic materiality of relationships of care.
October 29 2016 / 11:00am - 3:00pm -
Mapping the Terrain of the Heart: Gratitude and Belonging in a Fractured World
Join us for an afternoon with mindfulness teacher and storyteller Margo McLoughlin.
October 23 2016 / 1:00 - 4:00pm -
Make Art Project Workshop: Resilience
This Make Art Project Workshop explores the affects of the denial of identity and strategies that peoples and individuals have developed to create agency and self-determination in the reclamation of identity.
October 15 2016 / 11:00am - 1:00pm -
MAP Fall Program – Opening Events
The opening event of the second part of our MAP: MAKE/ART/PLACE program
October 15 2016 / 11:00am - 5:00pm -
Talk Walk Make
Experience a journey to the horizon line. Walking to the horizon is a kind of mapping, a locating of our community and selves in a topographical schema. The topography we live in exerts a subtle and subliminal influence over us as inhabitants.
July 23 2016 / 10:00am -
MAP – Opening Event
The Comox Valley Art Gallery will celebrate its summer programming with a reception, welcoming ceremony, artist remarks and poetry reading on Wednesday, July 20, starting at 6 p.m.
July 20 2016 / 6:00pm -
Where is Here? Small cities, Deep mapping, Sustainable Futures
Where is Here?: Small Cities, Deep Mapping and Sustainable Futures is a symposium taking place at CVAG and Native Sons Hall that seizes on the tremendous interest shown in cultural mapping and placemaking practices by artists, researchers and small city placemakers, and brings to bear multiple knowledge-domains to move our collective understanding of these practices forward.
July 20 - 22 2016 -
Barbara Meneley + Joanne Bristol – NIC Artist Talk
Join us in the Shadbolt Studios of North Island College for an artist talk with Barbara Meneley and Joanne Bristol.
July 14 2016 / 12:00 - 1:00pm -
Make Art Project Fall Series
Join us for our Make Art Project Fall Series, an interactive art experience held at CVAG.
June 14 - October 31 2016 -
Sooner or Later – Opening Event
Sooner or Later every artist makes a self-portrait.
June 3 2016 / 7:00pm -
Women and Words
Join us for this new collaboration between the Comox Valley Art Gallery and the Elevate Arts Festival for the 5th Annual Festival! Women weaving words into the soft of the evening on the plaza in front of the Comox Valley Art Gallery. Join us for two hours of women sharing their words, their sounds, their voices.
June 2 2016 / 6:00 - 8:00pm -
Emergent Practice – Opening Event
Emergent Practice highlights diverse arts-based curriculum and research modalities being explored by emerging artists, early learners, contemporary arts centres and educators
April 30 2016 / 1:00 - 4:00pm -
Make/Repeat/Alter - Opening Event
Join us for the opening of three new exhibits under the thematic of Make/Repeat/Alter.
March 18 2016 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
Meeting the Ground - Closing Event
We will be hosting a publication launch + performance at 2pm as a closing to Renée Poisson's exhibit Meeting the Ground.
March 5 2016 / 2:00 - 4:00pm -
Meeting the Ground - Opening Event
Meeting the Ground opens at CVAG Jan. 22. “In the midst of meeting the ground I am experiencing a quiet revolution” writes Renée Poisson about her exhibition Meeting the Ground. It opens Jan. 22, with an artist talk at 6pm, followed by a performance and reception starting at 7 pm. The multi-faceted exhibition, which will run until…
January 22 2016 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
Lantern Making
In celebration of the winter solstice, join us in making lanterns to light.
December 12 2015 / 1:00 - 5:00pm -
Collage Party – Send & Receive
Are you curious about the art of collage-making? It is the season of giving and sharing.
November 28 2015 / 1:00 - 5:00pm -
41st Christmas Craft Fair – Opening Celebration
The opening celebration of "41st Annual Christmas Craft Fair", "Gift" by Carrie Tannant, and "Mix" by NIC/ECUAD Painting Students.
November 20 2015 / 5:00 - 9:00pm -
Making Motherhood Workshop
How do you balance modern motherhood? What does it feel like to be pulled in many directions?
November 7 2015 / 10:00am - 2:00pm -
In this Body – Opening Event
The opening reception for the exhibitions will take place at 7 p.m. on Friday, September 18th at the gallery. The evening will begin with an artist talk at 6 p.m., offering the public an opportunity to learn more about the individual projects and the workshops that will be offered by the exhibiting artists. The opening…
September 18 2015 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
Centennial Celebration
In conjunction with the City of Courtenay Centennial Celebrations, the Comox Valley Art Gallery presents a First Nations program of exhibitions and events.
June 26 2015 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
Voices of Fire: World Café
World Café is a conversational process aimed to facilitate open and intimate discussion.
June 4 2015 / 5:00 - 7:00pm -
Pathways – Community Gathering
CVAG hosts a community gathering for the participating early learning centres in the exhibition "Pathways: Between Inside and Out"
May 7 2015 / 4:00 - 6:00pm -
NIC/ECU Students + Staff – Opening Event
In celebration of the graduating students from the North Island College/Emily Carr University of Art + Design's External BFA program, CVAG hosts the opening of their exhibition "As You Are", along with two other exhibitions, "re.search" from the NIC/ECUAD Staff, and "Pathways: Between Inside and Out" from Roseberry Preschool, TiggerToo Preschool, and Brooklyn Strongstart.
April 30 2015 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
Experimental Layers Workshop
The Experimental Layers Workshop with Amanda McCavour will explore found materials, colour and texture.
March 14 2015 / 11:00am - 4:00pm -
Shift – Opening Event
Join us for the opening of three new shows that examine our environment through decidedly different perspectives and media.
March 13 2015 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
2015 Volunteer Appreciation Event
At 4 p.m. CVAG will host a celebration to recognize the crucial contribution of volunteers.
January 31 2015 / 4:00 - 6:00pm -
Voices of Fire: Public Art
A dialogue exploring the issue of developing a robust policy on public art in the Comox Valley.
January 31 2015 / 2:00 - 4:00pm -
Joyce, Kelly, and Barbara – Opening Event
CVAG hosts an opening reception for three new shows "The Way Things Are & How to Be" with Joyce Lindemulder and Kelly Gough, "Oracular Re-encounters" with Barbara Bickel, and "After" with NIC Painting Students.
January 23 2015 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
Residency – Barbara Bickel
Matrixial mediated co-encounters with/in and on art, space and others is the restorative and transformative substance of this residency at CVAG, describes Barbara Bickel.
January 21 - February 18 2015 -
More Than Human – Opening Event
A reception to mark the opening of “More Than Human: The Silent Conversation”, an multi-venue exhibition by students in the Emily Carr external degree program at North Island College.
December 3 2014 / 5:00 - 8:00pm -
Labyrinth of Light Solstice Celebration
Begin the solstice celebration, bring your flame to greet the light, lights returning, candles burning, dance in the labyrinth of light.
December 3 2014 / 3:00 - 5:00pm -
40th Christmas Craft Fair – Opening Celebration
Join us for the 40th birthday of our Christmas Craft Fair.
November 14 2014 / 4:00 - 7:00pm -
Matt Rader Book Launch
What I Want To Tell Goes Like This, a collection of short stories set in Cumberland, Comox and various places in between.
October 18 2014 - March 21 2016 -
By a Thread – Opening Event
Facebook Photo Album – By a Thread Opening Event
September 26 2014 / 7:00pm -
Cynthia Minden – Artist Talk
Minden discusses the artistic process behind her exhibition “Reclamation”.
September 13 2014 / 1:00 - 2:00pm -
Andrea + Cynthia – Opening Event
CVAG hosts the opening reception for "The Waste Land" by Andrea Kastner, "Reclamation" by Cynthia Minden, and "Curiosity + Process = Discovery" by NIC Students.
August 15 2014 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
Art for the Everyday
Workshops for kids to be supported in their unique sensibilities towards drawing, painting, collage, fibre-art, sculpture, found objects and built environments.
August 11 - 28 2014 -
The Book of George – Opening Event
“The Book of George – The Life and Art of George Sawchuk” opens at the CVAG, along with "Wildwood Stories" by Suzan Marczak, and "If You Go Down to the Woods Today" by Roseberry Preschool's The Group of Under 7.
June 27 2014 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
2014 ECUAD Graduates – Opening Event
CVAG hosts the opening event of three new exhibits: "Interstice: An Intervening Space" by the North Island College/Emily Carr University of Art + Design's External BFA Graduates, "Aqua, Colour Florum" by painter Judi Pedder, "Faces: Familiar and Friends" by students Haeli Frost-Mitchell and Lindsay Nixon, "The Window Project" by Carrie Tannant and Guests, and "In-A-Vision" by the Youth Media Project Students.
May 9 2014 / 7:00 - 9:00pm -
Keeping it Living Sponsorship Gala
The Keeping It Living Campaign uses locally made world class art to raise funds and awareness for the restoration and protection of the K’ómoks Estuary.
April 25 2014 / 7:00 - 9:00pm -
Andy Everson – Opening Event
With the Kumugwe Dancers There will be unique experience in store for those who attend the upcoming opening reception at the Comox Valley Art Gallery. The March 14 reception will feature a MAKE ART project starting at 6 p.m., where members of the public will be able to watch the art of print-making. Free copies…
March 14 2014 / 6:00 - 9:00pm -
Ian Forbes – Artist Talk
Ian will present an hour-long Art Talk, discussing his artwork, process and current projects. Admission to the Art Talk is free or by donation.
January 11 2014 / 11:00 - 12:00am -
The Big Foldy Painting of Death – Opening Event
Three new exhibitions — the Big Foldy Painting of Death, Rhythm in Blue and Artistic Dreams.
January 10 2014 / 6:00 - 9:00pm