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It's Revealing: Fundraiser Exhibition

November 10, 2019 to November 30, 2019

"It's Revealing" Fundraiser Exhibition will be on display from November 10-30 at Lee Contemporary Art, located at 5 Peter Street South. This fundraiser, held in association with Lee Contemporary Art, features work created by the Thursday evening life-drawing group at the Orillia Museum of Art & History. The silent auction exhibition closes Saturday November 30. Please come support your local art community by bidding.

Pest Control: Works by John F. Ross and Amy Swartz

September 28, 2019 to October 13, 2019

September 28- October 13, 2019

The Lounge Gallery

Ingrid Mayrhofer: After Krieghoff

September 21, 2019 to January 11, 2020

September 21 - January 11

The Upper Gallery

Opening reception: Saturday, October 19, 1-3pm

“After Krieghoff” comprises a series of stereoscopic photo and video compositions using Mayrhofer's own photographs of landscapes and objects together with skies appropriated from a Cornelius Krieghoff painting.

When The Green Dark Forest Was Too Silent To Be Real

September 07, 2019 to November 03, 2019

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

Melody Lynn Madden: Exquisite to Sublime

July 20, 2019 to September 22, 2019

The Lounge Gallery

The suite of works in Exquisite to Sublime will provide a glimpse of Melody’s development as an artist. She began her professional artistic journey in textiles. Having grown up watching her grandmother embroider instilled a value of working with her hands. Her free motion embroidered works are a stage in her seamless transition into painting with oils and acrylics.

Project Voyager

July 06, 2019 to September 29, 2019

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

When Raven Became Spider

June 29, 2019 to August 26, 2019

June 29 - August 26, 2019

The Mulcahy Family Gallery

When Raven Became Spider features work by six contemporary Indigenous artists and storytellers whose work blurs the line between modern oral stories and contemporary pop art. Their work prompts many questions: How does the transformation of Indigenous images and stories into superhero tales change modern dialogue? Have traditional tricksters like Raven and Coyote been forgotten, or have they inserted themselves into these popular and widely-accessible forms?