ART IN THE WINTERTIME: INTERVIEW WITH KAREN COOPER
In this interview, learn a little bit about our current Winter Small Works Show & Sale, Karen’s advice for artists and gallery goers, and what is currently inspiring her this winter season.
MEET THE AGGV’S NEW EDUCATOR OF SCHOOL AND FAMILY PROGRAMS
We sat down with Jeri Engen, our new Educator of School and Family Programs, to learn about her experiences in Art Education and her new role.
GALLERY SHOP HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE – 2023
Make the season of giving a cinch this year by visiting us at the AGGV Gallery shop, where you can cross all the names off your list, including yourself!
KEMI CRAIG’S BLACKSPACE LIBRARY
Keep your eyes open for pop up libraries in select locations in Victoria starting on Sept 12 through to Oct 22. Blackspace Library, led by multi-disciplinary artist Kemi Craig, emerged as a way to share books authored by and about artists of the Black diaspora, Black visual culture, and Black creative expression.
UNEXPECTED: THE LIFE AND ART OF SOPHIE PEMBERTON (1869-1959)
Always interested in biographies of settler women in the Province, I had opportunities to exhibit Sophie Pemberton’s work but never enough time to conduct in-depth research on a woman that I felt had been partially miscast and become stereotyped.
WARMTH, COMFORT, INSPIRATION: A LOOK AT ART RENTAL & SALES’ UPCOMING FALL SHOW & SALE
With the end of the summer, the warmth of the season seemingly stays with us as we transition into a new and familiar range of artists for the AGGV Art Rental and Sales team. These moments of embracing the comforts of fall bring with it a sensation we can best describe as Inspired.
TENDER TOUCH: EXPLORING & CELEBRATING VICTORIA’S TATTOO COMMUNITY
Tattoos have had a presence in my life since I was a small child. My maternal grandpa has a single tattoo: a rose on his shoulder with my grandma’s name that he got after they were married.
SPACE TO CREATE AT THE AGGV STUDIO: FALL 2023 CLASSES
Our popular Guest Artist series returns with an exciting opportunity. Victoria-based artist, Andy Lou, who will be featured in our upcoming exhibition “Crossing”, will be bringing his skill to the Studio for two separate classes on Chinese brush painting.
A PLACE FOR FAMILIES: FAMILY SUNDAY AT THE AGGV
The third Sunday of the month (Oct-June) is always the best Sunday here at the AGGV. That is when we host our monthly program Family Sunday.
COMMUNITY ILLUSTRATIONS FROM SYMBIOSIS
Piles of illustrations have accumulated over the past few months, as encouraged by co-curators Mel Granley and Jaimie Isaac, of all sorts of mushrooms and fungi inspired by the exhibition. Viewers are welcomed to share their artworks to showcase the intrinsic communal feeling inspired by our favourite symbiotic fungal friends.