Join us on November 23 from 2 PM to 4 PM for the unveiling of the newly restored “Beavers” sculpture by Acadian artist Claude Roussel at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery!
This restoration project, in partnership with the City of Fredericton, returns this iconic piece to public view. Come celebrate this cherished part of Fredericton’s history and the rich cultural heritage it represents!
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Beaverbrook Art Gallery to Host Landmark Radical Stitch Exhibition
(October 28, 2024, Fredericton, NB) – The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is thrilled to announce the upcoming presentation of Radical Stitch, the most comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Indigenous beadwork ever seen on Turtle Island (North America). Travelling to the Beaverbrook following it’s stop at the National Gallery of Canada, the exhibition will run from November 30, 2024, to March 2, 2025. This groundbreaking showcase celebrates beadwork as a central medium in Indigenous art, exploring its deep cultural, historical, and political significance. Through a remarkable collection of artworks, Radical Stitch will spotlight how beadwork serves as a powerful vehicle for storytelling, cultural preservation, and advocacy for Indigenous rights.
Curated by Sherry Farrell Racette, Michelle LaVallee, and Cathy Mattes, Radical Stitch features a diverse array of forms, including wearable art, large-scale installations, and multimedia pieces, while exploring beadwork’s role in decolonization, resistance, and healing. Organized and circulated by the MacKenzie Art Gallery, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on how contemporary Indigenous artists engage with their histories and confront pressing social issues. Through a combination of traditional techniques and modern practices, the artists create works that resonate across time and geography, fostering dialogue about the resilience of Indigenous peoples and their contributions to contemporary art and society.
"It is an honor to host Radical Stitch at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. This exhibition is one of the most remarkable showcases of contemporary Indigenous beadwork that I have had the privilege of experiencing. It is truly exciting to see some of the exceptional artists and artworks I have admired for years included in this exhibition. We are incredibly fortunate to be entrusted with caring for such a significant exhibition, and as the sole venue in Atlantic Canada, we are proud to share this important cultural event with the community." Says Emma Hassencahl-Perley, Curator of Indigenous Art at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
The curators of Radical Stitch uniquely allow hosting institutions to highlight local beadwork artists within the exhibition, creating a site-specific experience that showcases the depth and diversity of Indigenous beadwork. By integrating works from Wabanakik, the Beaverbrook is excited to highlight local artists and their stories as they contribute to the national conversation on contemporary Indigenous beadwork.
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery invites the public to the official opening ceremony on November 29, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. The event will feature opening remarks by the Beaverbrook’s Curator of Indigenous Art Emma Hassencahl-Perley, along with visiting curators Sherry Farrell Racette, Michelle LaVallee, and Cathy Mattes, along with special addresses from Elder Ramona Nicholas and the Wolostoqey Grand Chief, Ron Tremblay. Guests will also enjoy performances by dancers Abby Brooks and Kyana Kingbird, as well as drumming by the Muskrat Singers.
In addition to the exhibition, the gallery will host a variety of special programs throughout the run of the exhibition, including curator talks, beading workshops, and interactive events designed to foster greater understanding of the significance of Indigenous beadwork. Click here to learn more.
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Organized and circulated by the MacKenzie Art Gallery. The MacKenzie receives ongoing support from the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, SaskCulture, City of Regina, University of Regina, and Saskatchewan Arts Board. Tour supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, is one of Canada’s finest art institutions. Opened in 1959, the Gallery offers a diverse range of exhibitions, educational programs, and events that foster cultural engagement. It showcases both historical and contemporary works, celebrating Canadian, Indigenous, and international artists. The Gallery serves as a cultural hub for the community, offering dynamic experiences for visitors. Its permanent collection includes over 5,000 artworks, featuring significant pieces by British, Canadian, Indigenous, and Atlantic artists, including works by renowned masters such as Salvador Dalí. We respectfully acknowledge that the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and its activities are located within the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi'kmaq Peoples of New Brunswick.
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The Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre’s Red Shawl Campaign will take place from Oct. 2-4, 2024, honoring the lost lives of Indigenous women and girls and raising awareness of the violence, injustice, and systemic barriers behind the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada.
The red shawl, symbolizing protection, guides us toward healing and justice for our lost sisters. This year’s three-day campaign includes a Red Shawl exhibit and various community events aimed at fostering understanding and a commitment to creating a safer, more just world for Indigenous women and girls. Join us as we honour those we have lost and seek protection for those who remain and the ones yet to be born. Together, we can make a difference.
Beaverbrook Art Gallery Display
In an act of solidarity, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery will host a complementary installation from Sept. 22 – Oct. 6, 2024, featuring 13 red shawls in the Harrison McCain Pavilion. This partnership amplifies our message and provides an additional platform for community engagement.
On Oct. 4, 2024, at 7 p.m., a vigil at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick will offer space for reflection and community solidarity.
For more details, visit UNB’s Red Shawl Campaign page.
April 29 - May 10
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is pleased to present Building Home, an exhibition developed out of the Housing First for Youth (HF4Y) program. A team of artists, youth, case managers, and researchers transformed the findings from the program into an art installation that advocates for change in our communities. It will be on display in the Education Centre of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery from April 29th to May 10th.
The life-sized installation immerses viewers in the profound narratives of young individuals navigating housing instability in New Brunswick. Through this project, youth take charge of their narratives, highlighting how the search for safe and stable housing is not straightforward and often involves periods of shuffling through chaos.
By combining art, research, and advocacy, Building Home signals the importance youth have in our communities and aims to promote housing as a human right, promote youth voice, and hold youth housing and support programs to higher standards.
The life-sized installation will be on display at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery's Education Centre from Tuesday, April 30, until May 10. The exhibition is free of charge and can be accessed through the Education Centre doors.
Please note that if you would like to visit the rest of the gallery, regular admission charges apply.
Visit the Building Home website, www.buildinghome.ca, to learn more.
Members Annual Meeting
September 29 at 1 PM: Members, join us in the RBC Learning Centre for the annual meeting. Attendees will receive an additional 10% off your regular member’s discount on a large selection of gallery boutique items!
RSVP by emailing office@beaverbrookartgallery.org.
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery launches its online digital collection of nearly 5000 works of art, along with accompanying digital programming
(Fredericton, New Brunswick, August 23, 2023) – The entire Beaverbrook Art Gallery permanent collection of works is now viewable online on the gallery’s website (www.beaverbrookartgallery.org) for members of the public to study and enjoy, and this is joined with new animated videos and activities for children.
Beginning as a COVID-19 project, the curatorial team at the Beaverbrook undertook the major project of reviewing, documenting, and photographing the entire collection housed at the gallery. Ranging from paintings, to sketches, prints, photographs and sculpture, the entire art collection has been re-catalogued and photographed with a state-of-the-art digital process. The photographs, along with artwork and artist information, have now been uploaded to a browsable database that is available to the public.
John Leroux, our Manager of Collections and Exhibitions, is thrilled to be able to share these new high-quality images of the collection with art lovers around the world. He remarks that, “going through the entire collection during the pandemic allowed us the privilege of digitizing the collection so we could share it, but it also led us to discover many artworks that were all but hidden to viewers. All of the beloved artworks are here, but so are several thousand works that have never been seen by the public.”
Visitors to the Beaverbrook website are encouraged to browse the entire gallery collection and view their favourite works in our collection or explore and admire pieces by artists that they may not have seen before. “While we change out artworks that we have on display from our permanent collection, there are many works that folks may not have seen,” says Tom Smart, Director of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. “This is an excellent opportunity to view all the treasures that the Beaverbrook has to offer, and perhaps discover an interest in a new work or artist that they may have never come across.”
Launching with the digital collection of works are Kidoons videos for youth. These engaging videos, featuring Joe Otter and his pal Billy Mink, showcase their visit to the gallery and what they found on their adventures. The videos are publicly available online in both English and French and can be found here.
To celebrate the launch of the collection, visitors to our website are encouraged to browse the collection, find your favourite work(s), and create a piece in response. This can be a poem, a song, a video, or your own work of art. Share your response on your own social media and tag us and we’ll add it to our collection of responses! We’ll announce and tag the winner on September 4th, who will receive a $50 gift card to our gift shop and free membership to the gallery!
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This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada.
The digital collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery can be found here.
The Kidoons videos can be found here.
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery enriches life through art
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Curtis Richardson
Manager of Marketing and Communications
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
703 Queen Street, P.O. 605
Fredericton, NB E3B 5A6
Email: crichardson@beaverbrookartgallery.org
(Fredericton, New Brunswick, June 19, 2023) – Out of an extremely strong field of nominated artists from across Atlantic Canada, the inaugural Theodore Prize is awarded to Newfoundland artist Will Gill.
Will Gill earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mount Allison University in 1991, with a focus on sculpture. He has maintained a studio practice since graduation, evolving from a solely sculptural exploration, to one that encompasses photography, painting, sculpture and video work.
Career highlights of Will Gill include a commission for a large-scale installation at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche (2012), inclusion in a collateral exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), participation in The Arctic Circle Artist Residency in Svalbard Norway (2014) and a solo exhibition in the 2017 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival in Toronto. In the summer of 2017, he installed a site-specific sculpture in Maberly, NL, as part of the inaugural Bonavista Biennale. A recent solo exhibition, From The Lion’s Den, stemmed from a Fogo Island Arts residency (2017) and was exhibited at The Grenfell Art Gallery Memorial University in 2020. The Scotiabank Photography Award longlisted his work for the 2021 competition. His works have been disseminated widely and are in many public, private and corporate collections throughout Canada. He lives and works in St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.
The recipient of the Theodore Prize is awarded by a jury of four arts professionals, including Jury Chair Ray Cronin, Independent Curator and Author, Nova Scotia, Dr. John Leroux, Director of the Marion McCain Institute for Atlantic Canadian Art at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Christeen Francis, Executive Director, St. Michaels Printshop, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Pan Wendt, Curator, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Prince Edward Island.
Jury Chair, Ray Cronin, says on behalf of the jury: “Will Gill’s work concentrates on moments between the sublime and the banal, the known and the unknown, presence and absence. He is doing something enigmatic and hard to pin down in his work, and as a result risks failure. But his risk-taking often succeeds, leading to a practice grounded in place, that is poignant and perceptive about life here. He works with and in the Newfoundland landscape in a unique way, making the picturesque strange. It is fitting that he ended up in Newfoundland, because he feels right at home on the edge.”
The Theodore Prize is a family-funded initiative led by the Throop Family Foundation to celebrate the professional accomplishments of an Atlantic Canadian visual artist. Stemming from a desire to give something back to the Atlantic Canadian Visual Arts Community, the prize is named for a special family member who exemplified generosity and good will. Administered by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Theodore Prize is an annual award of $20,000 given to an Atlantic Canadian artist whose work displays a high level of artistic and creative excellence, a command of the artist’s medium, and an acknowledged level of regard from the Atlantic Canadian curatorial/gallery community.
“The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is honored to administer the Theodore Prize on behalf of the Throop Family Foundation. It is very exciting to celebrate Atlantic Canadian artists, and we are very happy to see the Theodore Prize be awarded to an excellent artist from St. John’s Newfoundland who also has artwork in our collection.” says Beaverbrook Art Gallery Director, Tom Smart. “We look forward to highlighting Will’s accomplishments through this award and we encourage Atlantic Canadian artists to check next spring when applications open for the 2024 Theodore Prize.”
You can learn more about Will’s art by visiting his website at williamgill.ca.
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High resolution photos of Will Gill’s work are available upon request.
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery enriches life through art
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Curtis Richardson
Manager of Marketing and Communications
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
703 Queen Street, P.O. 605
Fredericton, NB E3B 5A6
Email: crichardson@beaverbrookartgallery.org
In recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery will be exhibiting important artworks and cultural items by Canadian Indigenous artists. A number of these are accompanied by descriptions in their respective Indigenous language. We are committed to continuing to work with Indigenous artists, curators, and translators.
On this day, we will be following our holiday hours. The gallery will be open to the public from 12-5 PM on September 30. Visitors are encouraged to visit the many exhibitions of Indigenous art on display and reflect on the importance of the day.
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is reviving in more ways than one. With a spectacular new facade and revamped internal systems, we need YOU to be part of our passionate team!
Job: Business Services Assistant
Position profile:
Under the general supervision of the Business Services Manager, the Business Services Assistant provides administrative assistance to the Business Services Office and the Gallery’s management team.
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The Beaverbrook Art Gallery “enriches life through art.” We bring art and community together in a dynamic cultural environment dedicated to the highest standards in exhibitions, programming, education and stewardship.
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all qualified candidates to apply.
To apply for this position, please submit your résumé to Sandra Nickerson, Business Services Manager by email at HR@beaverbrookartgallery.org
Application deadline: Ongoing until a suitable candidate has been selected
(The Gallery thanks all applicants, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.)
