Confederation Centre Art Gallery
145 Richmond Street C1A 1J1 Charlottetown, PE, Canada

Meet the Makers behind our spectacular Creative Obsessions exhibition this Thursday September 17 between 123 pm! For our second MtM session, were welcoming Island jewellers Jim Aquilani of Vitamin Sea Studio, and Ayelet Stewart. The two artists will occupy the gallery with works in progress, studies or sketches of future works, tools they frequently use. Visitors will come away with a deeper understanding of the techniques and labour that go into each artwork. All are welcome to drop in!

Thanks to all who came out to our second Meet the Makers, and special thanks to this months featured makers, Jim Aquilani and Ayelet Stewart! Were so pleased to offer visitors the opportunity to Meet the Makers behind our Creative Obsessions exhibition every third Thursday! Next up: Melissa Peter-Paul (quillwork) and Bette Young (rug hooking).

ICYMI at Art In The Open . Art ciel ouvert, Gerald Beaulieus curated project Fallen is still on view in our courtyard for a little while longer! Fallen is a series of three tree stumps in various states of decay, intended as metaphors for various social institutions that are in a state of collapse or transition.

For this months FIELD TRIP, we embark on an interactive game environment created by Nova Scotias Ian Funke-McKay. Choose your own adventure as you navigate through the maze using your keyboard, unlocking a series of animations and colour combinations. Find the hidden tiles to trigger new visions, each containing a collection of colour vignettes, verses, and texts drawn from historic manuscripts and recomposes through a Markov chain. Visit the Colour Maze: https://www.fieldtrip.art/field/ian-funke-mckay-colour-maze

ICYMI at Art In The Open . Art à ciel ouvert, Gerald Beaulieu's curated project 'Fallen' is still on view in our courtyard for a little while longer! 'Fallen' is a series of three tree stumps in various states of decay, intended as metaphors for various social institutions that are in a state of collapse or transition.

Victor Cicansky: The Gardeners Universe leaves the CCAG September 6! This retrospective exhibition brings together more than 100 ceramic and bronze works that present a richly layered picture of Cicanskys career. The Gallery is open 10 am - 5 pm Tuesday to Sunday.

For this months FIELD TRIP, we embark on an interactive game environment created by Nova Scotia's Ian Funke-McKay. Choose your own adventure as you navigate through the maze using your keyboard, unlocking a series of animations and colour combinations. Find the hidden tiles to trigger new visions, each containing a collection of colour vignettes, verses, and texts drawn from historic manuscripts and recomposes through a Markov chain. Visit the Colour Maze: https://www.fieldtrip.art/field/ian-funke-mckay-colour-maze

Thanks to all who came out to our first Meet the Makers event, and a very special thanks to our first two Creative Obsessions craftspeople to present, Nancy Cole and Jane Whitten! Learn more about the exhibition and the featured craftspeople: https://confederationcentre.com/news/78981/

This Thursday were kicking off a Meet the Makers series in which two artists featured in the Creative Obsessions exhibition will occupy the gallery. Artists will bring works in progress, studies or sketches of future works, tools they frequently use and/or other items that will help describe how they create what they do, and interact with visitors about their creative process. Drop in to Meet the Makers #1 with Nancy Cole and Jane Whitten Thursday August 20 from 12... 3pm. Learn more about Creative Obsessions: https://confederationcentre.com//creative-obsessions-a-lo/

Were now hiring for the position of Gallery Preparator! This position is responsible for: preparation and physical installation of exhibitions constructing display furniture... lighting works of art to conservation standards monitoring and maintaining exhibitions other duties as outlined in the job description Learn more and apply: https://confederationcentre.com//External-Job-posting-Prep

For the first time ever, L.M. Montgomerys famed Anne of Green Gables manuscript will be made widely accessible as the central feature of an upcoming online exhibition. Announced today, the ambitious new exhibition, Exploring a National Treasure: L.M. Montgomerys Anne of Green Gables Manuscript, will be developed through a partnership between the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, and the L.M. Montgomery Institute of UPEI and the Robertson Library, UPEI. Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//major-digital-exhibition/

Its a Gardeners Universe See the retrospective exhibition of Victor Cicanskys richly layered career as a ceramicist, on in the CCAG until September 6. Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//victor-cicansky-the-gard/

This Thursday were kicking off a Meet the Makers series in which two artists featured in the 'Creative Obsessions' exhibition will occupy the gallery. Artists will bring works in progress, studies or sketches of future works, tools they frequently use and/or other items that will help describe how they create what they do, and interact with visitors about their creative process. Drop in to Meet the Makers #1 with Nancy Cole and Jane Whitten Thursday August 20 from 12... 3pm. Learn more about Creative Obsessions: https://confederationcentre.com//creative-obsessions-a-lo/

We're now hiring for the position of Gallery Preparator! This position is responsible for: preparation and physical installation of exhibitions constructing display furniture... lighting works of art to conservation standards monitoring and maintaining exhibitions other duties as outlined in the job description Learn more and apply: https://confederationcentre.com//External-Job-posting-Prep

Take a FIELD TRIP with the Confederation Centre Art Gallery! This month we take a virtual tour of the exhibition Spheres, Skulls, and Other Icons of the Interior, with commentary by featured artist Colleen Wolstenholme and an introduction by curator Pan Wendt.

"Soil is the foundation of life." We had the pleasure of hosting artist Victor Cicansky at the CCAG earlier this year, and he gave a wonderful talk... all about dirt ICYMI, check out the artists blog post: https://victorcicansky.blogspot.com//the-gardeners-univers... Victor Cicansky: The Gardeners Universe is on now in the CCAG. The Gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday 10 am - 5 pm.

It's a Gardener's Universe See the retrospective exhibition of Victor Cicansky's richly layered career as a ceramicist, on in the CCAG until September 6. Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//victor-cicansky-the-gard/

When I was a kid every backyard had a garden. Every backyard. People grew their own food. Planting gardens was just what people did back then. Its what Cicansky has always done. But even since the 1960s, he has recognized a radicalness to the act. For some reason, people dont want to talk about climate change. And I contend that as an individual you have to do something. And for me its gardening, says Cicansky.... And if millions of people started to garden, dig up their lawns things begin to change. Excerpt from Regina Leader-Post. See Victor Cicansky: The Gardeners Universe in the CCAG until Sept 6. Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//victor-cicansky-the-gard/

Congratulations to Debbie Muttart on the final day of 'The Debbie Show: Views from the Desk.' Its been a joy to see our receptionist Debbie take such pride in the curation and presentation of this exhibition over the past few months. 'The Debbie Show' will remain a personal favourite for many staff and visitors. Stop in between 10 am - 5 pm this weekend to see it one more time before it comes down on July 26.... Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//the-debbie-show-views-fr/

Congratulations to Debbie Muttart on the final day of The Debbie Show: Views from the Desk. Its been a joy to see our receptionist Debbie take such pride in the curation and presentation of this exhibition over the past few months. The Debbie Show will remain a personal favourite for many staff and visitors. Stop in between 10 am - 5 pm this weekend to see it one more time before it comes down on July 26.... Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//the-debbie-show-views-fr/

As we head into the final weekend of 'The Debbie Show: Views from the Desk,' we'd like to congratulate Jill McRae and Andrew Cairns, the curators who worked with Receptionist Debbie Muttart to choose her favourite works from the Gallery's permanent collection. We heard from the co-curators in an interview with CBC Prince Edward Island earlier this year: McRae says the idea for The Debbie Show came up during a weekly meeting when staff talked about how they enjoy working in th...e gallery because they get to overhear Muttart's enthusiastic interactions with gallery patrons. "I very much agree with Debbie's taste, so the pieces that she's chosen I love," said McRae. "We have a good collection of sort of older pieces, as well as some new stuff that we haven't shown before," she said, noting Muttart went down into the centre's art vault, something she doesn't normally get to do. Co-curator Cairns helped bring Muttart's choices together in cohesive groupings. "She's got a real eye for colour," Cairns said. "A lot of the pieces, they're different but they still have a 'Debbie' touch as she was saying, she really loves nature and animals." Muttart emphasized to the curators that she wanted the show to be welcoming. "I feel the pieces really reflect that make you feel good in the gallery!" Cairns said. Read the full article: https://www.cbc.ca//pei-confederation-centre-art-gallery-d

As we head into the final weekend of The Debbie Show: Views from the Desk, wed like to congratulate Jill McRae and Andrew Cairns, the curators who worked with Receptionist Debbie Muttart to choose her favourite works from the Gallerys permanent collection. We heard from the co-curators in an interview with CBC Prince Edward Island earlier this year: McRae says the idea for The Debbie Show came up during a weekly meeting when staff talked about how they enjoy working in th...e gallery because they get to overhear Muttarts enthusiastic interactions with gallery patrons. "I very much agree with Debbies taste, so the pieces that shes chosen I love," said McRae. "We have a good collection of sort of older pieces, as well as some new stuff that we havent shown before," she said, noting Muttart went down into the centres art vault, something she doesnt normally get to do. Co-curator Cairns helped bring Muttarts choices together in cohesive groupings. "Shes got a real eye for colour," Cairns said. "A lot of the pieces, theyre different but they still have a Debbie touch as she was saying, she really loves nature and animals." Muttart emphasized to the curators that she wanted the show to be welcoming. "I feel the pieces really reflect that make you feel good in the gallery!" Cairns said. Read the full article: https://www.cbc.ca//pei-confederation-centre-art-gallery-d

The work of Victor Cicansky asserts that history and locality are vital sources for healthy creative expression, just as gardens are essential for the health of our bodies and the planet. The Gardeners Universe is exhibiting in the CCAG until September 6. Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//victor-cicansky-the-gard/

Today is the deadline for Artist Trading Card submissions! Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//submission-deadline-arti/ Image: Hayley Perry, 2019

Located in the Centre's fully equipped Schurman Family Studio, our visual arts camps immerse children in creativity and creation. Working with trained visual arts educators in an enriching environment with full access to our national Gallery exhibitions, children learn visual literacy, creative thinking, and art processes. Here, we'll be sharing some photos of this summer's campers exploring, creating, and having fun!

The Art Gallery is open 10 am - 5 pm today! Drop in to see our six exhibitions: The Debbie Show: Views from the Desk Victor Cicansky: The Gardeners Universe Spheres, Skulls, and Other Icons of the Interior... Sandi Hartling: anything at all Artists by Artists Setting the Table: Still-Life and Its After Effects See more

Located in the Centres fully equipped Schurman Family Studio, our visual arts camps immerse children in creativity and creation. Working with trained visual arts educators in an enriching environment with full access to our national Gallery exhibitions, children learn visual literacy, creative thinking, and art processes. Here, well be sharing some photos of this summers campers exploring, creating, and having fun!

On now in the CCAG: Artists by Artists If a portrait is a record of its subject, it also reveals something of its makers relationship to the person portrayed and the social world they share, remarks Curator Pan Wendt. Portraits of artists show us how artists define the singularity of their role, whether they are self-portraits that function as self-presentation, or images of other artists that record the identifications, rivalries, and intimacies between peers. Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com/exhibit/artists-by-artists/

Victor Cicansky on the origin of his ceramic preserves : "I first appreciated the gem-like beauty of preserve jars as a young boy when I watched Bunica and my mom working to fill them. The image of jars of preserves impressed itself on my young imagination. Many years later, when we were living and gardening in Craven, I remember my wife, Fran, busily preserving the bounty from our Craven garden. My imagination was reignited by her beautiful preserves: jars of sliced... beets, carrots, cucumber pickles, tomatoes, jars of giardiniera, tri-colour bush beans, and salsas. I picked up a jar quart of mixed pickles, held it up and said, "This is beautiful. I should make something like this in clay." Fran responded, "Why dont you!"" - Victor Cicansky, The Pantry Shelf. UP FROM GARLIC FLATS, Radiant Press, 2019. Image: Detail of Victor Cicanskys French Pantry Shelf (1981). On view now in the CCAG. Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//victor-cicansky-the-gard/ See more

Debbie with some of her favourite artworks by Sarah Saunders. Stop by today to see 'The Debbie Show: Views from the Desk,' we're open 10 am - 5 pm. Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//the-debbie-show-views-fr/

Kids in need of a boredom buster? Art Class from Home is a series of instructional art activities that can be completed with basic materials that you probably already have at home! There are 8 classes available for your childs imagination: https://confederationcentre.com/art-class-from-home/

All Confed Centre properties (including Confederation Centre Art Gallery, The Showcase, and Confederation Centre Public Library) will be closed today (Wednesday July 1st). On behalf of everyone at Confederation Centre of the Arts, we wish you and yours a safe and happy Canada Day!

The Art Gallery will be closed today (Wednesday July 1st). However, our collection of public sculptures and the neon installation anything at all by Sandi Hartling are there for you to enjoy! Learn more about the CCAG: ... https://confederationcentre.com/gallery-exhibitions/ See more

'Spheres, Skulls, and Other Icons of the Interior' presents a selection of works from the CCAG's permanent collection that explores art as an external manifestation of mental processes. Pop by and check it out, we're open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am 'til 5 pm! Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//spheres-skulls-and-other/

Debbie with some of her favourite artworks by Sarah Saunders. Stop by today to see The Debbie Show: Views from the Desk, were open 10 am - 5 pm. Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//the-debbie-show-views-fr/

This weekend we would have been gathered together to toast the 2020 Summer Gallery Opening. Instead, we are celebrating the reopening of our Gallery and the exhibitions that were installed early this year, but hardly seen before the Centre shut down to flatten the curve of COVID-19. Here are some photos from the opening night of those winter exhibitions, taken just 10 days before the shut down began. ... Photography by Mikey Wasnidge. Learn more about our current exhibitions: https://confederationcentre.com/gallery-exhibitions/

Spheres, Skulls, and Other Icons of the Interior presents a selection of works from the CCAGs permanent collection that explores art as an external manifestation of mental processes. Pop by and check it out, were open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am til 5 pm! Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//spheres-skulls-and-other/

Several exhibitions that opened just weeks before the Gallery closed down due to the pandemic have been extended into this summer, including the touring exhibition, Victor Cicanksy: The Gardeners Universe. This career retrospective features selections from the Regina artists body of work, including surrealist pieces, early experimental Funk sculptures, and bronze bonsai trees. Cicanskys art work reflects his knowledge of his Romanian-Canadian roots, his early exposure... to gardening, and a more contemporary interest in sustainability. Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//victor-cicansky-the-gard/ Image: Installation view of Victor Cicansky, Left Leaning Haystack (1974), earthenware, stains, glaze, commercial decal, lustre. Collection of David and Veronica Thauberger. On view now at the CCAG.

Hours of Operation: Tuesday Sunday 10am 5pm Admission by donation.

We're pleased to announce that Confederation Centre of the Arts will be reopening its doors on Friday, June 12, and the Gallery will reopen Tuesday June 16! Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//confederation-centre-of-/

Today we honour the history, culture, and achievements of Indigenous peoples across Canada. Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! Robert Houle (b.1947), O-ween du muh waun (We were Told), 2017, oil on canvas triptych, 213.4 x 365.8 cm.... Commissioned with the A.G. and Eliza Jane Ramsden Endowment Fund, 2017, CAG 2017.1 See more

Were open 10 am - 5 pm all weekend! Stop in to say hi to Debbie and Angela, check out our six exhibitions, and stay safe with our new health & safety protocols! Learn more about our current exhibitions: https://confederationcentre.com/gallery-exhibitions/

Reminder that the short film Victor Cicansky: The Gardeners Universe is available to view at the link until tomorrow See the exhibition in person beginning tomorrow, as we reopen our doors to the public! Victor Cicanskys body of work, from the 1960s to present includes surrealist pieces, early experimental Funk sculptures, ceramic Mason jars, and bronze bonsai trees. Cicanskys work reflects his early exposure to gardening and his Romanian-Canadian working class roots.... https://vimeo.com/341638684

Were pleased to announce that Confederation Centre of the Arts will be reopening its doors on Friday, June 12, and the Gallery will reopen Tuesday June 16! Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//confederation-centre-of-/

A series of LED neon works from Sandi Hartling has been installed in the CCAGs glass entranceway on the Grafton St plazathe first physical art installed at the Centre since the pandemic began. Learn more: https://confederationcentre.com//sandi-hartling-anything-/