Summer Exhibitions Reception: Adam Basanta + Heather Nicol
The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) invites you to attend its Summer Exhibitions Opening Reception on Saturday, May 13, 2023, from 2 - 4 PM. Join Curator Megan Kammerer for a guided walkthrough of this season’s multimedia installations alongside exhibiting artists Heather Nicol and Adam Basanta. Light refreshments will be provided.
Visitors from Toronto are invited to take a free shuttle bus to the VAC, departing from Factory Theatre at 12 PM on Saturday, May 13, 2023. Registration for the shuttle bus is required
Every Beloved Object
Every Beloved Object is a multimedia exhibition exploring the intersection between ancient ruins, recycling technology, and contemporary waste. Fragments are valued in archeology because they uncover more about human behaviour than lavish gems or relics. Trash becomes artifact. A potshard may reveal archaic customs around communal gathering, a broken seal may illustrate sacred mythology or trace trading routes across newly divided landscapes. If garbage tells us the most about ancient people, what can our waste tell us about our current behaviours?
Prelude/Requiem
Heather Nicol's newest audio work Prelude/Requiem positions itself at both extremes of the human life cycle. Built upon songs for lulling infants to sleep or easing passage into a final resting place, this immersive sound installation uses multichannel audio and light to encourage introspection across oral cultures.
Annual Members’ Meeting
The 2023 Annual Members' Meeting of the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington will take place in-person on Wednesday, May 10 from 7 pm to 9pm.
Festive Henna Art Workshop
Come create and learn about henna; its history, traditions, how it's made, and the cultural values around this herbal and holistic body art.
Anoxic Memory: Closing Performance
Join us to celebrate Maria Simmon’s Anoxic Memory by welcoming sarah koekkoek for a final performance and closing event on Sunday, April 23 from 2 - 3 PM.
Opening Reception: Anoxic Memory
The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) is pleased to announce our inaugural exhibition of the 2023 season, Maria Simmons’ Anoxic Memory. The VAC invites you to attend our Opening Reception on Saturday, February 11, 2023, from 2 - 4 PM. Simmons and curator Megan Kammerer will lead an Artist Talk from 2 - 3 PM. Light refreshments will be provided, including mead fermentations produced from the exhibition’s living artworks.
Visitors from Toronto are invited to take a free shuttle bus to the VAC, departing from Factory Theatre at 12 PM on Saturday, February 11, 2023. Registration for the shuttle bus is required.
Anoxic Memory
Anoxic Memory is a sensory exhibition transforming the VAC’s galleries into an active peat mire. Simmons will create living installations that explore the natural biology and mythos of Canadian peatlands. From the dangerous to the health-restoring, the real to the imagined, the extractable to the preserved—our past and present are entangled in the mire. Visitors are invited to traverse the bog’s biological strata, uncovering the human histories preserved in its layers.
Into the Mire: Foraging New Ethics in the Soper Creek Valley
The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) is pleased to announce the first participatory workshop event supporting Maria Simmons’ upcoming exhibition Anoxic Memory. Join us on Saturday, December 10 for a foraging foray into the Soper Creek Valley trail system.
41st Juried Art Exhibition: Awards Reception
The VAC is thrilled to celebrate the artists from our 41st Juried Art Show Exhibition at this year’s Awards Ceremony. This year’s exhibition showcases the work of 35 artists from across the Durham Region and the Greater Toronto Area. Eight cash prizes are awarded between two categories, Youth and Adult, including six juried Excellence Prizes and two People’s Choice Awards selected by the visiting public. All are welcome to attend the exhibition for in-person voting before the Awards Reception.
41st Juried Art Exhibition
The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) is pleased to announce its 41st Juried Art Exhibition in Bowmanville, ON. For over 45 years, the VAC has produced a variety of locally-engaged exhibitions and public programmes that offer members of the Durham Region an opportunity to learn and create through contemporary art.
Incubator Workshop Series: A Virtual Meeting
Virtual discussion over Zoom.
Free event.
August Klintberg leads a virtual discussion studying the phenomenon of artist-run restaurants—the subject of his Ph.D. thesis and a remaining area of ongoing research in his practice.
Incubator Workshop Series: Saprotrophs
Free event
Saprotrophs is a hybrid screening and lecture event to be presented at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, focused on historicizing ideas of growth and decay, as they’ve evolved from the earth’s ancient ecologies to landscapes of industrialized capitalism.
Incubator Workshop Series: We need to speak in spores
A Participatory performance by Emily DiCarlo.
Free event.
We need to speak in spores is a collective exercise in attunement, empathy and collaboration where the public is invited to think like fungi.
* To participate in this event, no previous performance experience is required.
Art Bus: Incubator Workshop Series + Sutures Exhibition
The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) invites the public for a day of free workshops and exhibition viewings on Saturday, August 27 from 12 - 5 pm.
Sutures
The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) is pleased to announce the participation of Eve Tagny (Montréal, QC) and Emii Alrai (Leeds, UK) in our inaugural international residency and site-specific duo installation taking place this Summer 2022.