Friday, October 20 – Wednesday December 7, 2023 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Drive, Stouffville Max Lupo and José Andrés Mora explore the power and playfulness of words using technology. Mora’s videos and prints open up conversations about memory, cultural hybridity, and assimilation while highlighting the intimacy of language. Lupo reprograms obsolete devices, like typewriters and rotary phones, to reveal personal stories and machine-made wisdom. Taken together, the works in Continuous Memory ask us to consider what is required to give meaning to language, and how that meaning can change as our relationships to words shift. The artists would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the...

Tuesday, August 1 – Tuesday, October 31, 2023  Town Office Gallery – 111 Sandiford Stouffville-based photographer Sean Stone presents a collection of photographs from his travels throughout Canada, capturing images of the land and wildlife in different seasons. With an eye for lighting, honed by past careers teaching theatre and lighting design, Stone’s documentary-style photographs show coast-to-coast views of Canadian natural wonders.

Friday, August 25 – Sunday, October 15, 2023 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. Vanessa Dion Fletcher is a Lenape and Potawatomi neurodiverse artist; her family is from Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiitt (displaced from Lenapehoking) and European settlers. Relative Gradient includes recent works that expand the possibilities of contemporary quillwork. She transforms this surface embroidery technique into textile design and vinyl imagery, playing with geometric shapes and repeating patterns. Taken together, these works build on Vanessa’s continued exploration of what it means to live in an Indigenous, gendered body with a neurodiverse mind. The artist would like to acknowledge the support...

Friday, July 14 – Saturday, August 19, 2023 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. In September 2022, facilitators Lara Seixo Rodrigues and Duarte Cavalinhos flew to Toronto from Lisbon, Portugal, to assist Latcham Art Centre in a program called Street Art Seniors of Stouffville (SASS), based on their award-winning international project LATA 65. Designed to engage local seniors in creative placemaking and lifelong learning, the project gave fifteen participants an opportunity to showcase their creativity, learn new skills, and build social connections by transforming a public space with art. One year after its completion, SASS! Street Art Seniors of Stouffville showcases...

Friday, May 26 – Saturday, July 8, 2023 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. Born in Nigeria and based in Toronto, Emmanuel Osahor’s artwork engages with beauty as a necessity for survival and a precursor to thriving. For What we tend, the artist depicts gardens as carefully considered and intricate sanctuaries. His paintings and etchings embody a collage-like sensibility, drawing from various sources to create new yet convincing garden settings. Also featured are recent ceramic fountains, which moves the exhibition toward the immersive. Image: Emmanuel Osahor, Since there are no other worlds, 2022, oil on canvas, 90” x 44”. Courtesy of the artist. Read the brochure...

Wednesday, April 26 – Saturday, May 20, 2023 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. As a part of National Youth Week, this annual exhibition of art by local children celebrates the creativity, energy, and ideas of students from Whitchurch-Stouffville elementary schools as well as Stouffville District Secondary School. Image: Installation view of Celebrations 2023. Courtesy of Dennis Hristovski.

February 1 – April 30, 2023  Town Office Gallery – 111 Sandiford Dr. Leslie Bertin is a Newmarket-based artist who uses alcohol inks to create layered, abstract compositions. Embracing the fluidity of the medium, she allows the ink to wander unpredictably on her canvases, creating forms with a strong sense of movement.   The Town Office Gallery is programmed by Latcham Art Centre in collaboration with the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville.

Monday, March 13 – Saturday, April 22, 2023 Latcham Art Centre – 2 Park Dr. This exhibition offers artists working in all media the opportunity to have their work evaluated by three visual art professionals serving as jurors. The public can discover a variety of work exploring ideas and themes by contemporary artists from all over Ontario while the Curator has the chance to engage with hundreds of Ontario-based artists. Read the artist statements here. A big thank you to our wonderful external jurors, Katie Lawson, Emmanuel Osahor, and Heather Riley, who took on the process with enthusiasm and generosity....

Friday, January 20 – Saturday, March 4, 2023 Informed by a background in engineering, woodworking and visual art, Trueman’s work for this show includes video, sound, kinetic sculpture, and reclaimed natural materials, which work in concert to present a more-than-human perspective on forest life cycles. voices in a cool wet darkness transforms the gallery with monumental, resonant tree trunks, artworks that move and warble, and a recent video that offers an alternative vantage point on our shared landscape. Latcham Art Centre gratefully acknowledges the City of Barrie’s Horticulture and Forestry Departments for their material contributions to this exhibition.  About the artist: Matthew Trueman is an artist based...

Wednesday, December 14, 2022 – Saturday, January 14, 2023 Adomania brings together artwork by senior students from Stouffville District Secondary School as they re-enter the classroom for the first time since beginning high school. Collectively, the works address speeding time within the pandemic by reflecting on class discussions, art history, music and their lives before and during the pandemic. Individually, each piece reveals unique struggles that the artists face as they transition into adulthood beyond high school. Featured artists include Chris Baird, Suellen Beltran, Owen Biricz, Mary Bruce, Lily Carbajal, Jessica Chung, Willow Holywell, Sakura Huang, Jenny Meixin Jiang, Georgina Keeler,...