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July 18, 2025 July 24, 2025
This event began 2024-08-23 and repeats every week forever
From nature to abstract theres something for everyone!
Artwork paintings prints cards and lots more!
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July 17, 2025 06:00 PM July 18, 2025 11:00 PM
This event began 2025-06-07 and repeats every day forever
11am - 4pm June 7 & 8
Artists and Creatives in the greater Fernwood area are opening their studios, homes, and gardens to visitors
For online map & information about participants in the 2025 Fernwood Art Stroll: www.fernwoodartstroll.ca
20 locations in both Fernwood and Oaklands, featuring more than two dozen artists showing a wide variety of local art: paintings, ceramics, jewelry, garden art, printmaking, photography, & collage. There’s even a venue featuring storytelling!
Since 2007, this free, family-friendly event has welcomed guests who enjoy & support Victoria's art scene. Visitors can stroll leisurely through leafy streets dotted with heritage homes & delightful gardens, exploring back yard studios with private gardens full of art in one of the oldest neighbourhoods of Victoria.
Keep an eye out at local businesses & stores around town for the Fernwood Art Stroll brochure that includes a detailed map of the venues & details about the participating artists.
Some artists venues offer activities for families with children. Spend the day getting in your steps whilst soaking up contemporary culture - then indulge in the tasty food & beverage on offer in Fernwood’s popular cafés & bistros.
For online map & information about participants in the 2025 Fernwood Art Stroll: www.fernwoodartstroll.ca
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July 17, 2025 06:00 PM July 18, 2025 12:00 AM
This event begins 2025-07-15 and repeats every week on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 2025-08-03
Clare Palmer and Anne McCarthy use photography as a starting point for a fresh perspective on everyday life. This unusual mix of street photography and digital art encourages viewers to reconsider what they see through humour, irony, and unexpected details.
Reception: Saturday, July 19, 3-5 pm.
Victoria’s one and only Gage Gallery Arts Collective is excited to present Crikey!, a bold new photo-based show featuring original works by Gage members Clare Palmer and Anne McCarthy.
This is the first time these two artists are exhibiting together. As the only two photography - based artists at the Gage, they have found that their work complements each other and enhances creative exploration. Crikey! developed from Clare and Anne walking and talking through the streets of Victoria with their cameras. Each artist brings her unique perspective to the exhibition.
Clare Palmer mainly works in street photography and mixed media. She loves to look up and around as she walks; capturing unexpected textures and zeroing in on oddities. Her photography has minimal editing, so the rawness stands out. Clare says, “I’m inspired by the street, the natural world and my life experiences. My goal is to invite you, the viewer, to enter the image and explore it with me.”
Anne McCarthy's digital works incorporate her own photography into digital art using Photoshop. This is a continuation of work done in the late 70’s when she used non-silver photographic methods and acrylic paint. She works primarily with Adobe digital tools.
Gage Gallery, 19 Bastion Square, Victoria
Hours: Tuesdays to Sundays, 11:00 to 17:00
Web: gagegallery.ca
Phone:250-592-2760
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June 18, 2025 05:00 PM October 20, 2025 12:00 AM
Meryl McMaster: Bloodline is a survey exhibition of a remarkable Canadian artist whose pioneering large-scale photographic works reflect her mixed Plains Cree/Métis, Dutch, and British ancestry. This exhibition looks back to McMaster’s past accomplishments and brings us up to date on her current explorations of family histories, in particular those of her Plains Cree female forebears from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in present day Saskatchewan.
Exhibition runs from June 18 to October 26, 2025.
To learn more visit https://aggv.ca/exhibits/upcoming/meryl-mcmaster/
Image credit: Meryl McMaster (b. 1988) Anima, 2012, Digital Chromogenic Print, 91.4 x 91.4 cm. Image courtesy of the artist, Stephen Bulger Gallery, and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.
*Hours of operation:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10AM – 5PM
Wednesday: 10AM – 5PM
Thursday: 10AM – 9PM
Friday: 10AM – 5PM
Saturday: 10AM – 5PM
Sunday: 12PM – 5PM
*Admission is always free for:
• Visitors aged 25 and under
• AGGV Members
• Indigenous Peoples
• Support Workers
*Accessibility:
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is committed to providing a welcoming and accessible destination for all to enjoy. The main entrance is wheelchair accessible with a ramp on the left side of the entrance with no handrail. There is one set of power doors located at the left side of the entrance at the top of the ramp.
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June 18, 2025 05:00 PM October 20, 2025 12:00 AM
A film by Brianna Bear and Eli Hirtle.
Our film, Lekwungen: Place to Smoke Herring, was collaboratively created in order to share a brief history and overview of the Lekwungen territory; the land we work, live and play on. We want to centre the Indigenous knowledge of, connections to, and responsibility for these lands. Our hope is that this film will help people gain a deeper understanding of and respect for the culture, language, traditions and history of this territory, which have been nearly erased and under attack in many ways since first contact with Europeans, and subsequent settlement of this area.
To show how the territory and people of this land are still thriving, we interviewed Songhees community members Cheryl Bryce, Joan Morris, and Skip, Butch and Bradley Dick, so they could share their knowledge, stories, and teachings about the lands and waters, which are now known by its colonial name, Victoria. As Butch Dick says in the film, “The most important thing you can do is learn as much as you can about Lekwungen people, because this is our land.” _Brianna Bear and Eli Hirtle.
Image Credits: Brianna Bear and Eli Hirtle, Lekwungen: Place to Smoke Herring, stills, 2018, 4k single-channel video. Courtesy of the Artists. *Hours of operation: Monday: Closed Tuesday: 10AM – 5PM Wednesday: 10AM – 5PM Thursday: 10AM – 9PM Friday: 10AM – 5PM Saturday: 10AM – 5PM Sunday: 12PM – 5PM *Admission is always free for: • Visitors aged 25 and under • AGGV Members • Indigenous Peoples • Support Workers Feel Free – Free Gallery Days Supported by TD Bank Group: Admission is free on the first Saturday of the month from 10 am – 5 pm, and every Thursday evening from 5 pm – 9 pm. *Accessibility: The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is committed to providing a welcoming and accessible destination for all to enjoy. The main entrance is wheelchair accessible with a ramp on the left side of the entrance with no handrail. There is one set of power doors located at the left side of the entrance at the top of the ramp.
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July 18, 2025 05:00 PM July 24, 2025 11:00 PM
Artsea Gallery in Tulista Park at 9565 Fifth St in Sidney, will be alive with the wonder of roses July 18 -24, when Salt Spring Island artist Susan Haigh presents a solo show titled ‘For the Love of Roses’. This is a retrospective exhibition of Rose paintings spanning 20 years. From the very much larger than life ‘Rosa Grande’ at 48” x 36” to an intimate 8” x 8” painting on canvas called ‘Precious’, the show will celebrate the beauty of the rose. There will be an opening reception July 18 from 4:30 until 6:30. The artist will also be in attendance at the gallery 10 am to 4pm each day.
Well known for her vibrant flower paintings on canvas using oils or acrylics, Susan Haigh’s studio is filled with paintings that celebrate flowers and other curiosities of nature. Last July Haigh presented a beautiful solo show titled ‘Constant Miracles’ at ArtSea Gallery. This was a more varied collection of the wonders of the plant world but for 2025 her show will spotlight some of the amazing roses that have called out to her to be painted. This encompasses the flower’s life from rose buds to rose hips. With a step outside reality she also created ‘The Sun Rose’ a landscape imagining the surprise and wonder of the day the sun rose and it was a giant yellow rose. Susan Haigh paints to celebrate the beautiful idiosyncrasies of plants, their joyful colours and exotic forms. Her compositions flow lusciously and her paintings delight.
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July 18, 2025 05:00 PM July 24, 2025 11:00 PM
This event began 2024-08-30 and repeats every week forever
Four Friends Having Fun is in its 9th year! Local artists Linda Butcher, Karen Wilk, Lois Kissinger and Shirley Sarens are setting up their art studio at ArtSea Gallery in Sidney and painting together, laughing and welcoming visitors to visit and watch them create Enjoy browsing their art work in a wide range of styles and mediums. Walk on the Sidney seaside and stop in to see them August 30-September 5. 10am to 4 pm. ArtSea Gallery, Tulista Park, 9565 Fifth Street, Sidney BC
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