2nd annual Paddle with a Purpose event in support of Grey’s Haven Farm Sanctuary. If you want to support but can’t be with us in person, a virtual even option is available. Don’t miss out on the fun!

Gather your friends, register, get pledges, and join us on the water.

All non-motorized watercraft welcome.

Summer Art Camps in Gairloch Gardens

Register now—space is limited!

Multiple Sessions All Summer: 4 July – 19 August

Cost: $238 ($280 for non-members)

LONG WEEKEND 4 DAY WEEK: $204 ($240 for non-members)

Oakville Galleries' day camps offer instruction in key art-making techniques such as drawing, painting and sculpture, and then build on these fundamentals with fun-filled projects. No two campers' outputs look alike, as every activity is adapted to suit our participants' individual ideas, interests and abilities. For ages 6-12.

This year’s camps will focus on getting outside as much as possible, adding additional health and safety as well as using nature as inspiration. Classes will include instruction in creating artworks influenced by the beautiful surroundings of Gairloch Gardens and Lake Ontario. Each session will introduce new techniques as we bring them to life with our imaginations. Materials such as chalk pastel, watercolour, canvas and clay will be used to create beautiful masterpieces.

Sessions offered for English and French learners! Full details of our Summer Art Camps, including session schedule and registration info can be found here:   https://www.oakvillegalleries.com/programs/details/3/Summer-Art-Camps

Tree Sessions:

Outdoor Writing Workshop

with Whitney French

9 July 2022

10:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Register here:  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tree-sessions-outdoor-writing-workshop-with-whitney-french-registration-360811556077

Tree Sessions is an outdoor workshop series that invites aspiring and seasoned writers alike to seek inspiration under a tree for an afternoon. Facilitated by storyteller and multi-disciplinary artist Whitney French, this creative writing workshop embraces the changing seasons, allowing writers to shift their observation to the flux in the natural world. Tree Sessions encourages writers to connect with nature’s teachings to understand their own writing rhythms. 

This iteration of Tree Sessions will take inspiration from the current exhibition at Oakville Galleries, Paul P.: Friendly in the Knife-edged Moment and from works in the Oakville Galleries sculpture garden. In this free, one-day workshop, participants will explore writing in nature, receive feedback on individual writing, and engage in playful collaboration with other writers. Complimentary lunch is provided for all participants.

NOTE:

This workshop will take place on the grounds of Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens.

In the event of inclement weather, the workshop will take place inside the Oakville Galleries Studio in Gairloch Gardens. Masking is required indoors. 

Whitney French is a storyteller and a multi-disciplinary artist. She is a self-described Black futurist and aspiring farmer, who is committed to building radical new worlds by centering stories of Black women and queer BIPOC communities around memory, loss, technology and nature. Language is her favourite collaborator. Whitney French is the co-founder of the Black queer feminist press Hush Harbour. Currently, she lives in Toronto. 

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Paul P.
Friendly in the Knife-edged Moment

5 June – 28 August 2022

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

The work of Toronto-based artist Paul P. employs the visual aesthetics of the late nineteenth century to consider and commemorate queer social histories, particularly the period of gay liberation that occurred just before the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The artist is known for portraits appropriated from source material found in the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.

Less well known are his numerous delicate watercolours of gardens, flowers and statuary, as well as seascapes and shorelines, drawn from life over the past 15 years. Friendly in the Knife-edged Moment brings together a number of these works — most of them never before exhibited — in a haunting reflection on the aesthetics of longing.

P.’s work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Whitney Museum, among others. P. lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Beyond Art Box

Now Available! Order Yours Today

$90.00 CAD

Oakville Galleries is thrilled to announce an exciting new initiative in support of our arts education programs! Introducing Beyond Art Box, a curated box of art supplies and activities for family fun to be enjoyed throughout the summer.

Our mission with Beyond Art Box is to fundraise for Oakville Galleries' Programs, which provide quality arts education classes to local families. Oakville Galleries will also be donating a portion of the proceeds from each box to Art House. We are thrilled to partner with Art House to reach as many Halton Families as possible and give back to our community.

Each Beyond Art Box includes:

• A $55 Family Membership to Oakville Galleries which includes a 15% discount on all children's programming throughout the year and many other benefits.

• Travel Watercolour Kit with Paper Pad

• Fundamentals of Landscape Watercolour Painting Activity, an Artist-led Tutorial.

• Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh, This Is How I Know book by Brittany Luby. A lyrical, bilingual story-poem about an Anishinaabe child and her grandmother exploring the natural wonders of each season.

• Art in Nature Planter Workshop which includes: a pot, three small gardening tools, flower seeds and a tutorial by one of Oakville Galleries' art instructors on designing and potting your own flowers throughout the summer.

• Coupons for use at businesses in the Downtown Oakville BIA.

More info and to order, visit https://oakville-galleries-shop.square.site/product/beyondartbox/57

Tanya Lukin Linklater
My mind is with the weather

5 June – 28 August 2022

Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square

Tanya Lukin Linklater works across a range of media, including choreographed dance performances, video, sculptural installation and text. Her research-based practice considers the troubled colonial histories of Turtle Island (North America) and the structural violences Indigenous communities continue to withstand.

In My mind is with the weather, new and recent works consider how these violencesare registered and processed in the body and highlight moments of resistance. These moments come from working collaboratively with others as an anti-colonial strategy, addressing the complexities of sharing Indigenous knowledge in institutional setting— such as the museum — and a focus on the critical importance of certain practices of everyday life, such as music, dance, language, and domestic rituals.

Lukin Linklater has lived and worked in Nbisiing Anishinabek territory in northern Ontario for more than a decade.

My mind is with the weather is presented in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art,a free city-wide art event taking place across the city and GTA from 26 March – 5 June, 2022. This exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. An exhibition catalogue with new writing is due to be published in the Spring of 2023. 

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