Opening Friday, October 3, 2025 7-9pmShow run, Oct 4-19, 11-4pmArtist Talk, Sunday, October 5th, 1pm Xchanges Gallery is excited to present Ella Chay, I saw You in a Dream. Working with materials like acrylic paint and paper mache clay, Chay creates images that feel both familiar and strange. The pieces blend time periods, places and... Continue Reading →
Please join us for Breanna Sprecker's artist talk on Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 1:00pm at the gallery and online. Blood Memoryย (there is a place in the body where no blood flows) is a collection of work exploring themes of complex grief and intergenerational trauma. It weaves together family narratives, visual metaphors, and distinct cultural... Continue Reading →
Canadaโs celebration of arts, culture, and heritage. Don't miss these Xchanges events and more! This year, the national Culture Days celebration takes place from September 19th - October 12th, 2025. Thousands of free events are presented in hundreds of communities across Canada, welcoming millions of participants to create, share, and celebrate a life enriched by arts... Continue Reading →
Opening Friday September 5 at 7:00 pmShow runs September 6-21, 11-4 pm Xchanges is excited to present the first exhibition of the 2025-26 season featuring Breanna Sprecker's multimedia work in Blood Memory. Spreckersโ body of work in this exhibition explores themes of complex grief and intergenerational trauma. It weaves together family narratives, visual metaphors, and... Continue Reading →
Hands-on Holbein, Legion Paper, and General Pencil Acrylic Family Workshops August 10, 2025The Acrylic Family Workshop: 10:00-12:00 The Water Media Workshop: 1:00-3:00 Xchanges is happy to partner with Danielle Caners, Brand Ambassador for Holbein and Legion Paper to bring 2 FREE workshops to Xchanges on August 10th starting at 10am. These two family-friendly workshops will... Continue Reading →
In Encrypted Identities, Decoded Histories, Heidi Bergstrom and Adryan Bergstrom-Borins express the story of their Icelandic and Metis heritage, which for many in their family, has only been myth and legend. The artists wrestle with aspects of their settler and Metis histories to debunk myths that are common in Canadian society and their own family, and... Continue Reading →
Eco Illuminescence: A Sensory CrossingUPDATE June 21, 2025Ann will be having an improvised finale performance. This will take place on Sunday June 22, starting around 3:00 pm (soft-start). Ann brings the sunshine with her multimedia-multisensory immersive experience, where traditional sumi-e paintings, sculptural lanterns, upcycled objects, and fabric forms converge with the artist's improvised actions. Through... Continue Reading →
"Every Day Lives of Lesbian Wives"Queer Island Festival of the Arts, Passages Gallery at Xchanges June 1 to June 30, 2025 Xchanges is thrilled to partner with Queer Island and so many other galleries in the month of June to present Queer Island Festival of the Arts. We squeezed Peter MacBeth and Darcy Gould into... Continue Reading →
Bacchantes: The Celebrants May 3-18, 2025 Summer knocks on our doors with celebration. Volet operates between modes of perception, travelling into the collective-unconscious retrieving symbols from mythic space, returning to give form to these discoveries. His paintings construct scenarios with figures from disparate times, animals, hybrid creatures, fantastical flora, and transitory architecture. The work explores... Continue Reading →
Seeing Time Pop Up: Friday April 25, 6-8 pm Opening A photograph is more than a static image. It is a slice of life, pulled from the stream of time, held still for us to study and reflect upon. When we consider the element of time within a photograph, when we look beyond the surface... Continue Reading →
