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Art Walk Strathcona invites you to discover Strathcona’s extraordinary gallery district

Until June 14, check out contemporary-art billboards while you take your self-guided tour

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverJune 10, 2021Partner Content, Strathcona BIA, Strathcona Art Walk

Whistler’s Audain Art Museum re-opens its doors on June 10

Exhibitions featuring works by Itee Pootoogook, Louie Palu on view through the summer

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverJune 9, 2021Partner Content, Audain Art Museum, Whistler

Griffin Art Projects presents William Kentridge: The Colander, to September 4

Post-apartheid, authoritarianism, globalization, and colonization among the themes that emerge in the prolific South African multidisciplinary artist’s work

Intimate objects and assemblages emblazon Arbutus Greenway billboards via the Capture Photography Festival, until July 1

Celia Perrin Sidarous’s “Flotsam” series plays with art history, still lifes, and archival imagery

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJune 7, 2021Capture Photography Festival

VAG's vast Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo exhibition amplifies diverse new voices on the local scene

Seeing in new ways, with broken-and-rebuilt ceramics to room-filling tree sculptures, textiles, and murals

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJune 3, 2021VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Homepage feature

Viewing and bidding now open for The Polygon Gallery's art auction of 22 works

Steven Shearer, Landon Mackenzie, Krystle Coughlin Silverfox, and Sara Cynwar among artists whose works are on the block

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverJune 2, 2021Partner Content, POLYGON GALLERY, the Polygon

Visionary Vancouver landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's legacy lives on, from Robson Square to the Museum of Anthropology

She was a leader in sustainable design and a pioneer of Green roofs who pioneered green playgrounds

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithMay 24, 2021

Public art in the form of marigolds, murals rejuvenates Vancouver’s Punjabi Market

Punjabi Market Regeneration Collective introduces new installations to honour the historic area’s legacy, combat racism

Cindy Mochizuki and Henry Tsang set to make invisible Japanese Canadian histories visible again at Surrey Art Gallery this summer

Autumn Strawberry brings old farms to animated life, while Hastings Park documents internment site via thermal imaging

Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 in-person events to check out at Crafted Vancouver

As the fest of fine craft enters its final days, here are highlights happening IRL with full pandemic protocols in place

ART & DESIGN, FESTSStir VancouverMay 21, 2021art and design, fests, Crafted Vancouver, Herschel Supply

Commit Us to Memory: Black Women Curators Interrupting the Canon roundtable digs into history and future, at Art Connects on May 27

Discussion takes off from Vancouver Art Gallery’s Where do we go from here? exhibit

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 19, 2021VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, livestream

Crafted Vancouver’s final week is full of craft-based workshops, exhibitions, talks, and more

The 2021 festival features everything from a hand-stitching workshop by a global expert to an exhibition by local printmakers

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMay 19, 2021Partner Content, Crafted Vancouver

The Polygon opens new waterfront patio with food and B.C.-focused drink

The outdoor dining space is the perfect place to stop in before or after the Feast for the Eyes exhibition, closing soon

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMay 18, 2021Partner Content, POLYGON GALLERY, the Polygon

Talking Totems tour explores Indigenous art in present-day Stanley Park

Talaysay Tours’ new guided cultural experience shares stories of the totem poles and sculptures at B.C.’s most visited tourist attraction on unceded Coast Salish territory