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Ground Awakening Ceremony at new Vancouver Art Gallery site marks long-awaited start of construction

With more than $340 million raised of the gallery’s $400-million goal, the building’s estimated completion is now set for 2028

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithSeptember 15, 2023Vancouver Art Gallery, Homepage feature

North Van Arts hosts semi-annual Art Rental Show, September 1 to 23

Over 400 original artworks for rent or purchase are available to view online and at CityScape Community ArtSpace

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverAugust 29, 2023Partner Content, North Van Arts

Master Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda offers young'uns a chance to learn from him at the Audain, August 27

The force behind Flowers From the Wreckage offers a pen and ink drawing workshop for kids

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonAugust 18, 2023Summer 2023, Audain Art Museum, Manabu Ikeda

Exploring Vancouver: Ten Tours of the City and Its Buildings offers fantastically detailed look at the urban landscape

Local experts Harold Kalman and Robin Ward release fifth edition of the must-have guidebook

ART & DESIGN, BOOKSGail JohnsonAugust 17, 2023Vancouver, architecture, Summer 2023, Homepage feature

New teen voices in photography, at Chester Fields: Unsung, opening at The Polygon Gallery, August 12

Annual exhibition highlights topics seldom given attention in public spaces

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithAugust 10, 2023Polygon Gallery, POLYGON GALLERY, Summer 2023

Amsterdam Rainbow Dress visits Vancouver just in time for Pride celebrations

Local icons Kendall Gender, Jaylene Thyme, and Norma Lize are photographed in the gown made of flags from countries where being LGBTQ2SIA+ is punishable by law

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithAugust 4, 2023Vancouver Art Gallery, Pride, LGBTQ+

New art museum to open at Simon Fraser University

The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum launches in 2025 at the Burnaby campus

ART & DESIGN, NEWSGail JohnsonAugust 3, 2023Summer 2023, SFU, Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum

Martha Sturdy's One World sculpture installed on West Van waterfront for Harmony Arts Festival

Monumental yellow piece is one of several public artworks that the artist-designer has created for the event

Layered images in Disrupted Narratives, on view at Visual Arts Open House, at the Q.E. Theatre on August 9

Vancouver’s Olga Campbell, Dorothy Doherty, and Jane McDougall work with wood and paper at Vancouver Civic Theatres show

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithAugust 1, 2023Vancouver Civic Theatres

Marco Tulio's painting of Christine de Pizan debuts at Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival

Unveiled last night, the magic-realist portrait of 15th-century feminist poet was commissioned to celebrate Our City of Ladies concert

ART & DESIGN, FESTSJanet SmithJuly 28, 2023EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVEr, Early Music Vancouver

Curator Carmen Levy-Milne explores haunting and reclamation at Burnaby Art Gallery's Ghostly Makers

Diasporic craft and textile express absence and repair in the artists’ cultural and familial histories

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJuly 26, 2023Burmaby Art Gallery, Summer 2023

Glass and ceramics in the spotlight as CCBC Craft Awards announced

Prizes go to Vancouver’s Hope Forstenzer, Coral Patola, and Carol E. Mayer

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithJuly 24, 2023CCBC, Craft Council of BC

Reclaim + Repair: The Mahogany Project finds inspiration in wood that was going to waste, at Museum of Vancouver

Propellor Studio gathers local artisans and designers for an exhibition that spans lighting, a surf board, and a guitar

Stir Q&A: Artist Jeremy Shaw talks about the time-bending, transcendent effects of Phase Shifting Index

Vancouver-raised, Berlin-based talent loves that the Polygon Gallery installation “triggers something strong enough in people that they feel compelled to act on it in public”

Salt Spring National Art Prize announces 52 finalists in competition for one of Canada's largest contemporary-art awards

Esther Rausenberg, Jeanne Bourget, Guntaj Singh, Douglas Smith, and Frances Tiffany among Vancouver nominees

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithJuly 20, 2023Salt Spring National Art Prize

Brews meet bikes and art at Create! Arts Festival Fundraiser, July 22

Enjoy art while tasting the most refreshing summer pours at four of eight East Van beer havens

Surrey Art Gallery hosts Atheana Picha: Salish Weaving Residency to September 3

Nash’mene’ta’naht weaver’s work includes ceremonial hand-spun sheep’s wool blankets

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverJuly 14, 2023Partner Content, Surrey Art Gallery

Salish-singing and indigo-dyeing workshops join the wide array at Create! Art Festival

Composer-singer Russell Wallace and artist-designer Naomi Yamamoto are just some of the artists on hand for the event at Strathcona Park and East Side studios July 22 and 23