work from home

work from home

Friday, November 4 – Saturday, December 10, 2022 work from home includes artwork made during COVID-19, by past and present instructors, volunteers, staff and Board members of Latcham Art Centre. These works were created while much of the global workforce shifted from working in-office to working remotely. For some visual artists, their studios also moved into their homes. Creative time provided by the pandemic was abundant—for better or for worse—and the challenge of separating work, life and studio presented itself. To watch the artist interviews, click here. To read the brochure, click here  We would like to acknowledge the Young Canada...

SYLVA SROUJIAN 

SYLVA SROUJIAN 

Tuesday, November 1, 2022 – Tuesday, January 31, 2023 Town Office Gallery – 111 Sandiford Dr. “I paint with cold wax, oil, and acrylic on canvas and wooden board. The beauty of nature in its entirety, especially during my many camping and hiking trips in Algonquin Park and Lake Superior, has greatly inspired me in the pieces that I create.”  Sylva Sroujian is an Armenian artist from Lebanon who has called Canada home for over thirty years. She now lives in Richmond Hill. Although her education and career were in business, art making has been her primary focus for the...

Loup Garou & Moccasins: A Story in Multi-Mediums

Loup Garou & Moccasins: A Story in Multi-Mediums

Friday, September 2 – Saturday, October 29, 2022 Loup Garou & Moccasins: A Story in Multi-Mediums is a diverse collection of paintings, photographs and mixed-media beaded sculptures by Bonfield-based, Franco-Métis artist Nathalie Bertin. The exhibition combines personal stories from the artist’s life and upbringing, centered within a larger, ongoing context of negotiating identity that Métis communities have had to process and resolve for centuries. The exhibition pauses on different aspects of Bertin’s life, starting with early-learned stories and tales expressed through the creation of moccushions. These sculptures use beadwork, silk embroidery, quills, fish scales, and other materials to acknowledge meticulous Métis...

an intimate index

an intimate index

Friday, July 8 – Saturday, August 27, 2022 In late 2021, Latcham Art Centre released a call for submissions inviting artists 30 years old and under to submit works to be considered for a small group exhibition. From this call, an intimate index was created, providing space for artistic voices of a new generation. How reliable are the memories we hold within us, and what can be found in their gaps? Within this multidisciplinary exhibition, artists Audrey Hansen, Ramolen Laruan and Paula McLean acknowledge the incomplete and fragmentary nature of memories, seeing their gaps as fruitful places where new meaning can be...

Both Sides Now: Paintings by Gary Evans and Frances Thomas

Both Sides Now: Paintings by Gary Evans and Frances Thomas

Friday, May 20 – Saturday, July 2, 2022 In Both Sides Now, Gary Evans & Frances Thomas exhibit two strikingly distinct approaches to abstract painting, and pathways that are embedded with an undeniable je ne sais quoi that tethers their organic language. The title of this exhibition is inspired by Joni Mitchell’s song of the same name and provides a lyrical entry point into the connection between the work of these artists; the two modes in which they paint, the way they address their subject and surface, and the hard to define connection between Evans’ use of density and Thomas’ tendency towards...

IMAGES 2021/2022: A Shattered Symphony

IMAGES 2021/2022: A Shattered Symphony

December 2021 – June 2022 Latcham Art Centre is thrilled to be partnering once again with the graduating class of Stouffville District Secondary School (SDSS) in the exhibition A Shattered Symphony. For over two decades, the grade twelve art students from SDSS have worked with the Art Centre’s curator to mount a professional exhibition that presents the artworks they have created over the course of their first semester. This year, due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, this annual exhibition was exclusively online through the Latcham Art Centre website on December 14, 2021. It is important to recognize that these students...

Celebrations 2022

Celebrations 2022

Friday, April 29 – Saturday, May 14, 2022 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. 

Annual Juried Exhibition 2022

Annual Juried Exhibition 2022

Friday, March 25 – Saturday, April 23, 2022 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. To read the artist statements, click here. Meet the Jurors Georgia Fullerton is a Jamaican Canadian practising visual artist, expressive arts therapist, arts educator, and public speaker. Earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts at...

Inward Identities | Recent Works by Vicky Talwar

Inward Identities | Recent Works by Vicky Talwar

Tuesday, February 1 – Saturday, March 19, 2022 Vicky Talwar is an interdisciplinary Whitchurch-Stouffville artist who draws upon her personal experience as a Hindu-Canadian to produce painting, mixed media and installation artwork. In her artistic practice, she addresses themes of cultural hybridity, displacement, movement and memory. Latcham Art Centre is pleased to host Vicky Talwar’s recent work which also serves as her Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media & Design thesis exhibition with the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U). In her paintings, she expresses the contrasts of her identity by embracing both vibrant colour and textured materiality....

Jeff Thomas | The Indigenous Map Maker’s Room

Jeff Thomas | The Indigenous Map Maker’s Room

Saturday, October 30, 2021 to Sunday, January 2, 2022 Jeff Thomas (b. 1956, Buffalo, New York) is a nationally recognized Urban-Iroquois photo-based artist, story teller, writer, and curator based in Ottawa, Ontario. Through his work, curatorial practice and written publications, he has led major projects at prominent national cultural institutions such as the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Woodlands Cultural Centre, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Library and Archives Canada. Jeff Thomas’s ground- breaking work has solidified his place at the forefront of scholarship in Indigenous histories. In his photography practice, he examines historical and contemporary views of Indigeneity...