Gallery 96

Gallery 96 members have been invited to show at the Blyth Festival Art Gallery in an exhibition called Rural Roots starting August 7th and running until September 19th.  The exhibition will feature work that looks at art and agriculture expressed in a variety of media.

Topics explored will be: how the artist views environmental issues facing the agricultural community, the fate of the small town Ontario, agriculture practices old and new, and the beauty found in our rural landscapes.

Confirmed artists include: Glenn Elliott, Elisabeth Feryn, Nancy Groenestege, Carolyn Horley, Gloria Kagawa, David Leaney, Jim MacDougall, Brenda McDonnell, Wendy O’Brien, Valerie O’Flynn, Wendy Orr, Kathi Posliff, Michelle Salter, Erik Sansom, John Sobura, Bonnie Steinman and Lesley Walker-Fitzpatrick.

Please join us in this beautiful rural setting to celebrate our community.

BookMarked is an altered book exhibition, a collaboration between Gallery 96 and the Stratford Public Library. The exhibition runs from Sunday, October 18 to  Saturday, November 7, 2009 at the Stratford Public Library's auditorium on the third floor.  The opening reception will be on Sunday, October 18 from 2:30 to 4:30 pm. 

This juried exhibition is opened to anyone to enter.  There is a submission fee of $30 and you may submit up to three pieces.  For information on submitting to exhibit, please go to "Call for Artists" in the Gallery 96 Menu on the upper left side of this page.

Jurors are Marian Davies, Jean Stevenson and Karoline Varin-Jarkowski.

For further information contact:  Michelle Salter, Curator, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

There are many scenarios for curating an exhibition, each with its own appropriate timeline.  This guide is based on an exhibition that resulted from a number of workshops held by Gallery 96.  The artists were aware when they attended the workshops that their resulting work was eligible to be selected for an exhibition.  

In this document, the curator is assumed to be inexperienced.  The gallery would normally be responsible for many of the jobs listed here; however, frequently, an emerging curator must oversee all aspects of mounting an exhibition.