August 2020

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 ...

Exhibits

Galleries & Museums

Acadian Museum of PEI Last chance to view the Acadian Children of the Island from 1900-1965 exhibit with many photos and a number of artefacts on dis...

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 ...

FIELDTRIP 2.O

Confed Centre’s second contribution to national initiative

The Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG) recently rolled out its second contribution to Canada’s new visual arts platform, FIELDTRIP: Art Across ...

Stephen DesRoches

Given Time

“If you photograph landscape,” photographer Stephen DesRoches laughs, “you really have to be committed to dumb hours, terrible hours.“ The hou...

Art returns

New and extended exhibitions available for viewing

The Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown is once again welcoming patrons with six exhibitions to explore, including new work from Sandi H...

Artistic passions

Summerside artist Stephen Leard ‘s eclectic creations

Stephen Leard calls himself a “tinkerer.” I call him a gentle man with a gift. I had the privilege of meeting Steve and his wife Roxanne recently...

85 years of art

Retrospective of the art of Nan Ferrier

A retrospective exhibition of work by island artist Nan Ferrier is being displayed at Eptek Art & Culture Centre in Summerside. 85 Years of Painti...

Artists by Artists

Confederation Centre Art Gallery exhibit opens

Who makes art, and what does it mean to be an artist? Artists have often tried to address such questions in portraits of one another, and of themselve...

Shelagh Lindley

Craft building

Shelagh Lindley moved to PEI as a builder but soon fell in love with rug-hooking and set up Plum Tree Studio in Rustico. “Plum Tree Studio started t...

They will come

Robert MacMillan to open new professional pottery facility

Since coming to PEI from Calgary in 2010, Robert MacMillan has been selling his ceramic creations in gift shops on the Island and at numerous well-est...

About Brian Burke

Book launch and screening of documentary

The Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG) will be hosting two events this month to celebrate its current retrospective exhibition on prolific PEI pa...

On the walls at Receiver

Works by Christine Gray and Jessica Sheppard

Christine Gray and Jessica Sheppard show their work at Receiver Coffee on Richmond Street in Charlottetown November 18 to December 27. Jessica Shepp...

Tread Lightly

Exhibit by Carina Phillips and Niki Heddle

Tread Lightly—Carina Phillips & Niki Heddle is on view at Gallery @ the Guild in Charlottetown November 13 to January 6. This joint exhibition...

Spaciousness by Lucie Bellemare

Art on display at MacNaught Centre

The Sixty Days of Fame art series returns to the gallery of MacNaught History Centre and Archives in Summerside. It will be the eleventh year for the ...

Search for truth

Pages From the Book of Light: Photography by Paul Vreeland

Pages from the Book of Light, an exhibition of photography by Paul Vreeland, will be displayed in Memorial Hall of the Confederation Centre of the Art...

Reclamations

Group exhibit by Renee Laprise, Lenny Gallant and Jane Whitten

Reclamations is a group exhibition exploring the theme of reclaiming with artwork by Lenny Gallant, Renee Laprise, Jane Whitten at The Gallery @ The G...

Confederation Centre Art Gallery: Three new shows

Exhibitions of Brian Burke, Carl Beam, Lisa Theriault

Confederation Centre of the Arts will celebrate three new exhibitions later this month. The Art Gallery will host an opening reception on October 18 a...

Look slowly and all that moves

Tyler Los-Jones explores the Island’s shifting environments

Opening October 19 in the Confederation Centre Art Gallery (CCAG), Charlottetown, is Look slowly and all that moves, a photo-based exhibition from Alb...

this town is small this fall

Exhibitions and residencies

this town is small, an artist run co-operative, presents a number of residencies and exhibitions this fall. Do Good Residency takes place September 9...

BMO 1st Art! results

Hanna Matheson is PEI regional winner

BMO Financial Group has announced the winners of its 17th annual BMO 1st Art! competition, recognizing visual arts excellence among undergraduate arti...

Review: Ebb & Flow

Tides of Settlement on Prince Edward Island

Ebb and Flow: Tides of Settlement on Prince Edward Island is a multi-faceted multimedia multicultural presentation put together by Laurie Murphy and A...

Memory Keepers II

GLAM Collective installation at Art in the Open

GLAM Collective (short for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) is a collective of scholars who work through Indigenous, feminist, and anti-opp...

Art in the Open: Meet Séamus

aka Sara Tonin

This August, guest curator and K’jipuktuk (Halifax) based artist, Julia McMillan, joins this year’s Art in the Open curatorial team. Her visiting ...

Arts grants

PEI Government awards fourteen Island artists

The PEI Government has awarded Arts Grant to fourteen Island artists. The successful applicants were selected by a six-member jury of their arts commu...

Rug hooking art at Watermark

For the 2019 season, the Watermark Gallery installation is a celebration of traditional rug hooking with a creative nod to the lobster fishing history...

July art exhibits

Artisans on Main Montague Artisan co-op gallery: painting, art prints, photography, art cards, sewing, quilts, cushions, pottery, jewellery, soap, ho...

Summer exhibit at The Gallery at Kings Playhouse

The Gallery at the Playhouse has expanded this summer season with the works of more than eight Island-based artists on display. Featured artists inclu...