Traces – César Damián Residency dates: August 1st – September 2nd, 2016 Columbia Basin Culture Tour: August 13 & 14 from 10am – 5pm – Open studio Artist talk: August 13th, 2016 at 4pm Discussion: August 27th at 4pm about FRONDA (Mexican Artist Collective) Opening reception: September 2nd, 2016 from 7-9pm Exhibition dates: September 7th – October 1st, 2016 Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 1-5pm Culture Days Event: Sunday, October 2nd, 2016 at 4pm – Closing Reception and Talk The Oxygen Art Centre is excited to be hosting Mexican artist, César
Read More »Glamourie – Sam Talbot-Kelly Residency dates: December 7, 2015 – January 7, 2016 Exhibition dates: January 9 – February 6, 2016 Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday 1-5pm Opening night: Friday January 8, 2016 from 7-9pm *Performance at 7.30pm! Artist Talk: Saturday January 9, 2016 at 4pm The Oxygen Art Centre will mark the turning of the year and the coming of the light with the introspective creativity of multimedia artist Sam Talbot-Kelly. The artist is in residence for the month of December working on explorations into the ancient ways of
Read More »The collaborative project High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, developed through Oxygen’s Art Centre’s Artist in Residence program, has won the UK based, New Media Writing Prize. High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese is an interactive website and installation exploring Chinese immigration and settlement in British Columbia. The project was created by a team of Nelson and Vancouver artists including Nicola Harwood, former director of Oxygen Art Centre, Fred Wah, former Poet Laureate of Canada, artist / performers Bessie Wapp and Thomas Loh and composer Jin Zhang. Significant artistic contributions
Read More »José Luis Torres – Mutations Residency dates: August 16-28, 2015 Exhibition dates: August 29 – October 3, 2015 Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday 1-5pm Opening night: Friday, August 28 7-9pm Artist Talk: Saturday, August 29 at 4pm Quebec resident and Argentina-born sculptor José Luis Torres will be the artist in residence at the Oxygen Art Centre this August followed by an exhibition of his work generated while in residency. Thematically, Torres intends to continue with a series of “in situ” installation pieces he calls Mutations where the artist assembles
Read More »Artist in Residence – Shannon Cooney Artist talk: Thursday June 4th at 7pm Workshop: June 6th and 7th at the Moving Centre Short Performance: June 15th at 7pm at City of Nelson Council Meeting Art Event: June 29th at 7pm* (Note new time is 7pm~ approximately 1hr length.) Shannon Cooney, artist in residence will open the space for a work in progress event/showing of her research from the month of June at created at Oxygen. It will be a casual affair, with a few interactive performative
Read More »Imaginarium exhibition and catalogue fundraiser What happens when six artists are given free reign of the walls of an art gallery? Imaginarium – a place devoted to the imagination is a collaborative painting Residency and Exhibition now open at Oxygen Art Centre. The walls of the gallery space burst with colour and imagery created by six emerging Kootenay artists; Amber Santos, Sergio Santos, Chelsey Freyta, Coleman Webb, Bryn Stevenson, and Tanya Pixie Johnson. Imaginarium begins in the gallery but moves the conversation to the street as sections of the exhibit
Read More »Imaginarium – a place devoted to the imagination – Collaborative painting Residency & Exhibition with Amber Santos, Sergio Santos, Chelsey Freyta, Coleman Webb, Bryn Stevenson, and Tanya Pixie Johnson. Exhibition dates: September 27 – October 11 Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday from 1-5pm Opening: Friday September 26 from 7-9pm (Culture Days event) Artist talk: Saturday September 27 at 4pm (Culture Days event) Imaginarium – a place devoted to the imagination, an exhibition by six emerging Kootenay artists, opens at Oxygen Art Centre this Friday at 7pm. Painted panels from
Read More »Artist in Residence at Oxygen Art Centre Wuulhu – Bracken Hanuse Corlett Artist Talk: Thursday, December 5 from 7-9pm Workshops: Saturday, December 7 & 14 from 1-4pm The Oxygen Art Centre welcomes NorthWest Coast multimedia artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett as their artist in residence for the month of December. Corlett hails from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. Corlett feels that art making is just a part of his heritage and his everyday life. He draws much of his inspiration from his ancestry and in fact reclamation and identity politics are
Read More »Artist in Residence at Oxygen Art Centre Sense Tracks Elements – Inken Hemsen Open House and Talk: Friday, September 27 from 7-9pm Open Hourse and Tea Time: Saturday, September 28 from 1-5pm Culture Days event Inken Hemsen, artist from Hamburg, Germany is concerned with apperception of landscape and its liveliness. It is her intention to visualize the singularity of the moment and the particularities of nature. Her reflections are recorded in drawings, subjective cartographies and wire objects as maps. Points of reference, evolution-lines of paths and encounters form
Read More »Bristol Diving School (Bristol, UK): Maps in Doubt Artists in Residence at Oxygen Art Centre from June 8th to July 6th Upcoming events: Artists’ Talk: Thursday, June 13th at 7pm Visit their booth at Canada Day Celebrations at Lakeside Park: July 1st Artwalk Opening: Friday, July 5th from 6-9pm Oxygen Art Centre is located at 320 Vernon St (Alley Entrance) Bristol Diving School (UK) is a collective of artists from Bristol, UK, four of whom are Artists-in-Residence at Oxygen Art Centre from June 8-July 6th, 2013. In its initial
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