Past

 

 

November 8, 2019 – January 22, 2020

 

Reception: November 8, 2019 7–9pm

 

The Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed was created in recognition of Group of Seven member, and Orillia native Franklin Carmichael. Now in its 18th year, this juried show calls on artists from across the country to submit work that embraces, challenges, comments, critiques, echoes, re-works or strengthens images, perceptions and interpretations of Canadian landscape through the artist’s chosen medium.

September 7- November 3, 2019

 

The Mulcahy Family Gallery

 

Habitually collecting decomposing/dried botanical matter during hikes and canoe trips in and around the marshes and beaches of Tiny Township, Tina Poplawski has made art out of this botanical world debris.  There is an allure in observing the process of decay and transformation that is found in her work.  These observations and artistic interpretations are also grounded by the emotional reverberations caused by the enforced displacement of people from their homes by violent military assaul

The Franklin Carmichael Gallery

 

An exhibition mash up of a road trip, Champlain's touchdown in Orillia and the Apollo 11 moon landing by artists Gary Blundell and Victoria Ward, in an exploration of place and time.

 

Victoria spent her summers in Orillia as a child at her family cottage – a place layered with meaning for her.  She watched the Apollo 11 moon landing on a television that her father put on a beach along the shore of Lake Simcoe.  He wanted her family to see the televised coverage of the moon landing and the actual moon in the same mo