Opening May 1 2026, 7pm โ 9pm Show Runs Saturday/Sundays : May 2-17, 2026 In Open Planes, Heather Kai Smith examines the imagery of touch and interpersonal exchange. Working through drawing, painting and installation, Smith explores how bodies meet and negotiate one another across surfaces. Contact between subjects, and the ambiguity of their connectedness becomes both... Continue Reading →
Adoptee Artists Collective, Into The Fold
Opening April 3rd, 2026, 7pm โ 9pm Show Runs Saturday/Sundays : April 4th-19th, 2026 Artist Q&A: Saturday, April 11th, 1pm - 3pm Sculpture Workshop - Attachment as Process with Jessie Demers and Trudi Lynn Smith, Wednesday, April 15th, 7-9pm Xchanges is thrilled to welcome the Adoptee Artists Collective who will present an exhibition, poetry reading and... Continue Reading →
Rowan Doucette, Threshold
Opening March 6, 2026, 6:30pm โ 9pm Show Runs Saturday/Sundays : March 7-22, 2026 Artist Q&A: Sunday March 22, 1:00pm Threshold features diary excerpts, miniature oil paintings, and thickly worked surfaces depicting gates in various states of opening. Throughout the work, the theme of shielding and revealing becomes a guiding force, as Doucette navigates the fine... Continue Reading →
Allan Toews, Eastend Cowboys & Monumental Miniatures
Opening February 6, 2026, 7pm โ 9pm Show Runs Saturday/Sundays : February 7 โ 22, 2026 The exhibition,ย Eastend Cowboys, Monumental Miniatures, is loosely based on the artistโs residential experience at the Wallace Stegner House for writers and artists in Eastend Saskatchewan in 2016. The multi-media work utilizes photography, collage and drawing. The western theme is only... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: Deadline extended! Calling all artists from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands
Deadline extension alert! You now have until March 10, 2025 to submit your proposals, so mark your calendars! We're thrilled to invite you to submit your proposals for Xchanges' upcoming exhibition season, running from September 2025 to June 2026. We're on the lookout for a diverse range of visual arts mediums and are especially excited... Continue Reading →
Call to artists: We are now accepting proposals for our 2024-25 exhibition series
Artists and curators from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are invited to submit proposals for Xchangesโ exhibition season running from September 2024 to June 2025. The deadline to submit is February 18, 2024 and decisions will be made by the middle of March 2024. We encourages a range of visual arts mediums and the... Continue Reading →
Call to Artists- Annual Juried Exhibitions 2022-23
Submissions for our 2022โ2023 Public Exhibitions Program (September, 2022-June, 2023) are now open. Submission Deadline is February 28, 2022.โ Artists and curators from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands and beyond are invited to submit proposals for Xchangesโ next Gallery season. Xchanges programming encourages a range of visual arts mediums with a particular interest in... Continue Reading →
