Mother / Canada Games Gallery / January 17-March 7, 2025 Mother explores a woman’s transition into motherhood, coming from my experience of pregnancy, delivery, and the post-natal restructuring into becoming a mother. Mothers are fearsome and strong, sweet and loving. Transforming into motherhood is not something I take for granted. I experienced infertility and it was a practice in faith …
Carolyn Klotz-Mosher
Heartbeat 1 / Library Gallery / January 17-March 7, 2025 Artist statement Life is magic! When I unwrap a new canvas there is always a memory that wants to be shared, a memory that wants to jump into colour, a memory that wants to live forever……. Seeing the world from the lives of others, both animals and people from all …
Portfolio Development Class of 2025
James Venner Russell Foundation Portfolio Development Class of 2025 / Percival and Rotunda Galleries / March 14 – April 25, 2025 For the nineteenth straight year, the Saint John Arts Centre has offered a 20-week Portfolio Development Program to high school students in this part of the province. This program, which is unique in New Brunswick, is designed for students …
Stephanie Weirathmueller
Gentle Work / City Gallery / March 14 – April 25, 2025 artist statement This project started several years ago during a trip when I was missing home and my family. I wanted to capture what my family was like then and also reflect on how time keeps moving and changing. I wanted to create something that could hold all …
Grand National Fibre Arts Exhibition
Delights / Port Saint John Gallery / March 14 – April 25, 2025 Exhibition Statement After these past years of cancelled trips, isolation and basically life on hold, we are ready for some fun. Every one of us has pleasures in our lives. What delights you? What makes you happy, joyous and cheerful? What lifts your heart? We asked the …
Alicia Robichaud
My Journey Through Darkness / Rotunda Gallery / November 1 – December 19, 2024 Artist Statement My Journey Through Darkness is an intense series of photographs and poems showing the inner mind of a person suffering through clinical depression. This series uses composite photography and freeform poetry as tools to represent the artists personal journey with mental illness. Through these …
Natalie Légère
Owls of Turtle Island / Canada Games and Library Galleries / November 1 – December 19, 2024 Artist Statement In a Dakota ceremony, I had a vision of an owl. I asked my Elder the significance. He suggested that I paint an owl, because this was my way of understanding things. I made an owl painting, on a 20” x …
Erica Stanley
Brink of Extinction / City Gallery / November 1 – December 19, 2024 Artist Statement There are currently approximately 350 North Atlantic right whales left in the world. Loss of food and habitat, due to climate change and human action, have brought this species to the brink of extinction. This artwork is a response to this threat, a threat that, …
Hallie Watson
‘Farm Walk’ / Port Saint John Gallery / November 1 – December 19, 2024 Artist Statement You are on a walk on the family farm. There is a large wood, fields and a pond. It is a beautiful day and the sun shines The trees are tall and swaying gently, the sky sparkling between the leaves way up high. Birds …
Place in Perspective
Exhibition Statement There is a story to every place and every place can tell many stories. Places are imbued with meaning, be it through personal memories, defining events, or the landscape itself. For this exhibition three artists explore their connections to three provinces they have in common: Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Each artist considers the fundamental meaning of “place” …