Kelowna Art Gallery

Kelowna Art Gallery

The Kelowna Art Gallery is a Canadian public art gallery located in Kelowna, British Columbia founded in 1976. The gallery has become a leading public art gallery serving the central Okanagan region. The gallery was incorporated as a not-for-profit charitable society in 1977. The gallery’s permanent collection started with the acquisition of "After the Rain" by Okanagan resident Irvine Adams (1902-1992) in 1977. Since then, close to 500 objects have been acquired by the gallery through donation and purchase.

Building

The Kelowna Art Gallery was originally housed in the Kelowna Centennial Museum. In 1996, a convert|15758|sqft|m2|sing=on facility meeting national standards for secure, climate-controlled storage and exhibition of artworks was constructed by the City of Kelowna and leased to the museum. On November 1, 2006, the Kelowna Art Gallery was granted “A” status by the Minister of Canadian Heritage.

The facility is divided into a number of galleries, including the Treadgold Bullock Gallery, the Reynolds Gallery and the outdoor Rotary Courtyard. Classes, community presentations, lectures, and other outreach programs are delivered in the Kiwanis-Hiram Walker front hall and Scotiabank Classroom.

An expansion of the facilities is planned for sometime in 2010. The anticipated expansion will include a climate-controlled gallery space dedicated to the ongoing exhibition of work in from the permanent collection of the gallery.

Collections

Works in the Kelowna Art Gallery permanent collection are displayed in the Treadgold Bullock Gallery. The focus of the gallery are the historical and contemporary visual arts of the Okanagan, typically representing the landscape and images of the region, but also portraiture and abstract works. The types of works in the gallery’s collection include paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and photography. Most of the work in the collection was created since 1940.

Notable works held by the gallery include creations by Okanagan artists such as Mary Bull, Ann Kipling and Gary Pearson. Works by other prominent western Canadian artists include those of Chris Cran, Faye HeavyShield and Ken Lum. Other works from the rest of Canada and around the world include that by Wanda Koop, Aganetha Dyck and Tony Scherman.

Since 2001, the Kelowna Art Gallery has hosted the Indigenous Arts Service Organization/ULLUS Collective exhibition of First Nations contemporary film and video art. Residents from the local Westbank First Nation community attend the screening and opening reception featuring speeches by Westbank First Nation leaders, traditional drumming, and artists’ talks.

Former curator Linda Sawchyn organized the gallery’s 2004 "Break Away!" exhibition, which received the 2005 BCMA Museums in Motion Award of Merit, and "road runner", which brought together for the first time works exploring road trips and car culture in drawing, photography, painting, sculpture and video by Ken Gerberick, Lee Goreas, David Pirrie, Jason van Horne and Collin Zipp. In 2006, Kelowna Art Gallery Curator Linda Sawchyn joined with other small city art gallery curators to co-produce an exhibition that will travel to each participating curator’s institution: Art Gallery of Swift Current, Estevan Art Gallery & Museum, Art Gallery of Prince Albert, Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Esplanade Art Gallery, and the Two Rivers Art Gallery. This joint project has strengthened professional working relationships among the six western Canadian curators and their respective institutions.

External links

* [http://www.kelownaartgallery.com/ Kelowna Art Gallery website]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Kelowna — City of Kelowna Kelowna and Okanagan Lake …   Wikipedia

  • Kelowna Days Inn (Kelowna) — Kelowna Days Inn country: Canada, city: Kelowna (Kelowna) Kelowna Days Inn Located in the beautiful Okanagan, Kelowna Days Inn is conveniently placed 5 kilometres from Kelowna Airport. While strolling around the downtown, you can visit the Art… …   International hotels

  • West Kelowna — Westside, British Columbia redirects here. For the area in Kamloops, see Westsyde, British Columbia. District of West Kelowna   District Municipality   West Kelowna as seen fr …   Wikipedia

  • List of museums in British Columbia — This list of museums in British Columbia, Canada contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural,… …   Wikipedia

  • A Grandview Bed and Breakfast — (Келоуна,Канада) Категория отеля: Адрес: 1605 Griffiths Place, V1Z 2T7 Келоуна …   Каталог отелей

  • Jeannette Armstrong — (born 1948) is an Okanagan Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist. She was born and grew up on the Penticton Indian reserve in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. Armstrong has lived on the Penticton Indian Reserve for most of her life… …   Wikipedia

  • Tony Scherman — (born 1950) is a leading Canadian painter. Born in Toronto, Canada and a 1974 graduate of the Royal College of Art, Scherman has had solo shows in galleries and regional museums throughout Canada and the United States. His expressive work often… …   Wikipedia

  • Vancouver — This article is about the Canadian city. For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). Vancouver   City   City of Vancouver …   Wikipedia

  • University of British Columbia — This article is about the university s Vancouver campus. For other uses, see University of British Columbia (disambiguation). UBC redirects here. For other uses, see UBC (disambiguation). University of British Columbia Coat of Arms of the… …   Wikipedia

  • Courtenay, British Columbia — City of Courtenay Coat of arms of City of Courtenay Coat of arms …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”