April 2021

Comic book award winners

Brenda Hickey and Sandy Carruthers are fan favourites

The Sequential Magazine Awards are a hybrid juried and fan voted awards program with the goal of promoting and celebrating the best independent comic ...

Hidden SymMeTrees

New Sixty Days of Fame series exhibit by Trisha Clarkin

Love’s Hidden SymMeTrees is the new spring art exhibit for Culture Summerside’s Sixty Days of Fame series. It will feature the work of Patricia Cl...

The Time of our Lives

Seniors College group art show at The Guild

The Time of our Lives featuring the artwork of Seniors College students and instructors will be on view at The Gallery @ The Guild in Charlottetown fr...

Colonel Gray student art

Works from 2020 and 2021 International Baccalaureate program at The Guild

TRIAD in the Key of IB, a collection of artwork completed by graduating visual art students from Colonel Gray High School’s 2021 International Bacca...

Last call in the gallery

Winter exhibitions making way for spring and summer

With new spring and summer exhibitions on the horizon, it’s the last chance to take in four exhibitions at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in C...

Virtual opening

Remote Transmissions group art exhibit—Apr 9

Peake Street Collective and this town is small invite the public to a virtual opening for the group exhibition Remote Transmissions, on view at Receiv...

Exhibits

Confed Centre Art Gallery On view: Eye Candy to April 6. Give me Shelter to April 6; The Drive to May 2; and Gerard Clarkes: A Haunted Land to May 9....

New vision at Watermark

The Watermark Theatre in North Rustico has produced classic and modern classic plays for the last 13 years. Artistic Director Robert Tsonos recently a...

Quills, Ash, and Bone

Exhibition by Mi’kmaq artists extended at Eptek Centre

Quills, Ash, and Bone: Current perspectives on traditional Mi’kmaq art has been extended to the end of March at Eptek Art & Culture Centre in Su...

Art exhibits at The Guild

Alyse Mercey paintings and David D’Aubin restrospective

The Gallery @ The Guild in Charlottetown will present two new art exhibitions in March. At Play by Alyse Mercey and David D’Aubin: A Retrospective. ...

New adjunct curator

Artist, writer, curator Charles Campbell joins CCAG

Charles Campbell joined the Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG) team as adjunct curator in February. He is a Jamaican-born multidisciplinary artis...

Exhibits

Galleries and Museums

Confed Centre Art Gallery On view: Eye Candy: Recent Gifts to the Collection to April 4. Give me Shelter to April 6; touring exhibition The Drive fro...

Comic book awards

Three artists from PEI receive nominations

The Sequential Magazine Awards are a hybrid juried and fan voted awards program with the goal of promoting and celebrating the best independent comic ...

A Shell of a Story

Micro story competition dives into oyster art

Debbie Brady, fine art photographer and Oyster Art Lady from Tyne Valley is hosting “A Shell of a Story,” a micro story competition designed to sp...

A Haunted Land

Gerard Clarkes: A Haunted Land exhibit is on view at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG) in Charlottetown. The new exhibition features a selec...

Exhibits

Confed Centre Art Gallery On view: Give me Shelter to Apr 6; a new touring exhibition, The Drive, from the Art Gallery of Guelph until May 2; Gerard ...

The Drive

A new touring exhibition, The Drive, from the Art Gallery of Guelph, is on view at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown until May 2. ...

Peter & Nancy Richards

Keep on Buzzin’

The fifteenth of the month is approaching, and the arts community in PEI knows what that means: time to get your act together to meet The Buzz deadlin...

@billspotting

Retrospective exhibit at Receiver—Dec 14 to Feb 1

this town is small presents @billspotting—A Retrospective, an exhibition curated by Max Knechtel, on view December 14 to February 1 at Receiver Coff...

Damien Worth art

this town is small presents solo exhibit—Dec 8 to Jan 4

this town is small and The Guild present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Damien Worth. The Cusp exhibit will be on view December 8 to January 4 ...

Film Fest Wrap

The 6th Annual Charlottetown Film Festival (ChFF20), which took place in October, showcased close to 60 works from all four Atlantic provinces—both ...

New group exhibits

The Gallery at The Guild in Charlottetown will present two new art exhibitions this November. Making Your Mark, a group exhibit, will be on view to No...

Animal Kingdom lives on

Exhibition extended until end of November

The Summerside Art Club is extending their exhibition Animal Kingdom until the end of November at Eptek Arts and Culture Centre in Summerside. Explor...

New GM of Theatre

Andrea Surich takes new position at Confederation Centre

Over the next few months, Andrea Surich will be sharing her time between Watermark Theatre in North Rustico and Confederation Centre of the Arts (CCOA...

Lost in Dreams

Dylan Menzie’s weekly podcast is now streaming

PEI-based songsmith Dylan Menzie launched the Lost in Dreams Podcast in September. Over the course of 10 weekly episodes Dylan will sit down with Can...

Give Me Shelter

Confed Centre Art Gallery celeberates St. John’s culture

Culminating several years of studio visits and research, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG) is presenting Give Me Shelter, a two-gallery surv...

Old Home Week tribute

Gallery exhibition at Details

Details Fine Art Gallery will pay tribute to Old Home Week, the long standing popular event that has been a part of the Island’s heritage for over 1...

Art in the Open 2020

Open-air contemporary art reimagined

As one of many events that contributes to the active cultural ecosystem on the Island, Art in the Open (AITO) has always embraced public art in spacio...

Pounding pavement

Fringe Festival organizers amplify fringe artists—Aug 12–14

Island Fringe Festival organizers shifted their focus to a new production, Pounding the Pavement: Celebrating and amplifying artists from the fringe, ...

Destination Georgetown

Kings Playhouse gives plenty of reasons to visit this summer

Kings Playhouse in Georgetown is bringing stories to life in a different way this summer with creative opportunities to enjoy local art, share a treat...

Creative Obsessions

Contemporary craft in PEI exhibit—Aug 8 to Jan 3

A new exhibition titled Creative Obsessions: A Look at Contemporary Craft in Prince Edward Island will be showing August 8 to January 3, at the Confed...

Postcards from the Island

New 12-part online series broadcasts every Thursday

CIBC Confed Centre Presents is set to deliver Postcards from the Island, a weekly online series featuring a rich depth of creative pioneers and local ...

Art additions

New purchases for the Provincial Art Bank

Artist Monica Lacey says the Provincial Art Bank supports and validates her career as a professional artist. “I have been fortunate to have several...

Artist Galleries

Art ’n’ Words Studio & Gallery Cindy Lapeña, contemporary, visual art. Open by appointment. artnwords.ca. 892-1426, 628-5867 Comfort House...

Artisans

Artisans on Main Forty Island artists and artisans, whose offerings include glassware, pottery, paintings, fibre art, wood and bone sculptures, jewe...

Exhibits

Acadian Museum of PEI Acadian genealogy resources available to researchers. The gift shop offers Acadian books in French and English, CDs of Acadian ...