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Oxygen Art Centre has launched their education program for the whole of 2023 including a range of course formats for all levels. Oxygen’s education program is designed to inspire, promote, and support creativity for our regional and expanded communities. The education program is continually developing and expanding with new artist instructors joining the faculty each semester.
Oxygen Art Centre is delighted to announce an online workshop series entitled BODIES OF WATER: SK/ETCHING DESIRE LINES featuring artists Eija Loponen-Stephenson and Kevin Pinvidic. The workshop explores deep mapping connecting artists in Nelson and Ymir, BC and Montréal, QC. The series aims to create meaningful connections between creative practitioners and scholars in three
On Saturday, October 15th, Oxygen Art Centre will celebrate its 20th anniversary from 1- 4 p.m. Carol Wallace, Oxygen Board Member and acting board Secretary, extends an open invitation to the whole community and says admission is free. “The event will be a wonderful opportunity to unite as a community while celebrating twenty years of artist-run programming in the Kootenays.”
Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to offer a new exhibition, How to be 57 by visual artist Lucie Chan. Lucie Chan was born in Guyana, and currently resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations otherwise known as Vancouver, BC where she maintains a multi-disciplinary visual
In ‘Pandemia’s Black Feather,’ a portrait of power and pathos Pandemic shaped perspectives for Samantha R. Talbot-Kelly’s Sullivan Museum installation The Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde suggested masks set people free — “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person,” he wrote. “Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Wilde meant masks for concealing, but Samantha R. Talbot-Kelly found truth in masks for healing — the coronavirus pandemic sort. Talbot-Kelly, a seamstress in Norwich University’s Uniform Store and an adjunct faculty member in...