in flux exhibition dates: March 1 – 11, 2017. Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday from 1-5pm. Exhibition opening: Thursday, February 23rd from 7-10 pm Oxygen Art Centre’s 3rd annual Youth Arts Festival presents in flux, a group show by Kootenay artists Hannah DeBoer-Smith, Maya Kacsmar-Mayoh, Olivia Mansveld, Teyana Neufeld and Tyler Wright. The artists were invited to submit work and speak to the concepts behind the exhibition’s title, and how it pertains to their art practice and indeed their lives, as they move through the highly transitional time between high
Read More »The Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to be hosting Sylvia Grace Borda as artist in residence in the City this Spring through June. Sylvia Grace Borda is exploring how image-making challenges and enhances our experience of place, time, culture and perception through the delivery of her ‘Kissing Project.’ The artist’s project uses the metaphor and action of a ‘kiss’ as a platform to enhance the existing image of Nelson. She is hoping to make Nelson the interior’s cultural capital of ‘amour’ through her images. Inspired by the Touchstones Museum’s photograph
Read More »RESILIENCY OF THE WEST KOOTENAY ARTS COMMUNITY IS FOCUS OF A PRESENTATION BY OXYGEN ART CENTRE’S FOUNDERS JAN. 21 Watch the video recording of the Founders talk online here: Part 1:https://youtu.be/_EN6mBeOqyc Part 2: https://youtu.be/fUwagkrpekM Part 3: https://youtu.be/fE53E2r7nF0 The resiliency of West Kootenay artists who, after being fired en masse from Nelson’s Kootenay School of the Arts in 2002 went on to start the city’s only artist-run centre, will be the subject of a talk by five of the founding members of the Oxygen Art Centre on Saturday, Jan
Read More »Join artist and curator Maggie Shirley in a discussion about art in public places and her recent role as residency manager at Oxygen Art Centre. Shirley’s talk will include a discussion of the residency process of Mexican artist César Damiån, whom spent the month of August in residence at Oxygen Art Centre. The outcomes of Damiån’s residency will be on exhibition at Oxygen Art Centre during Culture Days. Admission is free and everyone is welcome Oxygen Art Centre’s Culture Days 2016 schedule: Friday, September 30th from 1-5pm: Exhibition “Traces” by
Read More »FRONDA (Mexican artist collective) in Nelson for discussion Join artist in residence César Damián at the Oxygen Art Centre on Saturday, August 27th at 4pm for a discussion on FRONDA, a platform for interdisciplinary art based in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Damián is co-founder of this unique non-profit organization whose mandate is to promote artistic discipline in rural and urban spaces, with an interest in cross-cultural and disciplinary exchanges between Mexico and Canada. Damián will be joined by Elena Barba who is co-founder of FRONDA, and Haruko Okano who has
Read More »Time Capsule / Memory Capsule If we had the option to receive messages from the past how would we receive them? Would it be possible to respond to these messages? Would these messages help us better understand our place? Could we better understand our identity? Is it possible to have a dialogue with future generations? Time Capsule is a project that tries to generate a reflection about who we are as a society. It is not a real capsule, it is a metaphorical space conceived as an encounter and
Read More »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 »Oskinîkiskwêw (young woman) – Amanda Strong Exhibition dates: June 4 – July 2, 2016 Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday from 1-5pm Opening night: Friday June 3, 2016 from 7-9pm Artist Talk: Saturday June 4, 2016 at 4pm Summer’s almost here and at the Oxygen Art Centre that means it’s time for our artist in residence and exhibition season! To start off the season we will be presenting the work of acclaimed filmmaker and director Amanda Strong. Strong is an Indigenous filmmaker, media artist and stop motion director. She is of Michif descent and currently lives
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