Current and Upcoming 2025 Exhibitions
Ontario Juried Exhibition 2025
October 15, 2025 - January 4,2026
Opening Reception: October 17, 2025 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Juror Talk and Tour: October 18, 2025 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Art & Wine Juried Exhibition Favorites: October 22, 2025 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Family Friendly Collage Party: Every Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 am - 4:00 pm from October 15 2025 - January 4, 2026
Juror: Matt Bahen
This exhibition invites new generation and emerging artists and mid career artists living and working in Ontario to submit up to three works for jurying and exhibition. This exhibition will identify and offer a survey of new works by new generation artists with a particular focus on emerging artists living in the Southwest Ontario region.
Past 2025 Exhibitions
Eye 4 Art 2024
November 1, 2024 - January 12, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Eye for Art is a juried exhibition, sale and celebration of the visual arts community in Chatham-Kent. The original Eye for Art was held in 1983. Through the years, it has evolved into the much-loved event we know today. The exhibition is open to all past and present residents of Chatham-Kent. This year, all proceeds from sales, tickets, and associated events will be directed to ARTspace, our downtown community art gallery.
Ariel Williams: Part One
January 31, 2025 - March 23, 2025
Opening Reception: Winter ARTcrawl Friday, January 31, 2025 from 8:00 - 9:00 pm
Ariel Williams’ (Walpole Island First Nation; Bkejwanong Territory) Part One breaks away from traditional conceptions of Indigenous art with bold, monochromatic explorations of the landscape of the American West in a fusion of memory and possibility that aims to challenge and reframe narratives around Indigenous existence- pushing towards a new horizon with Indigenous peoples as architects of the future.
Malik McKoy: Speed Run
January 31, 2025 - March 23, 2025
Opening Reception: Winter ARTcrawl Friday, January 31, 2025 from 8:00 - 9:00 pm
Utilizing digital media such as animation and augmented reality, Malik Mckoy's Speed Run transports you light-years away, immersing you in the galaxy's center. However, you're not alone. You discover a being latched onto a spacecraft in an effort to save themselves and their lonely planet from being vacuumed into the ever-present black hole. Stars whizz by, receding into the distance while the gravitational pull forces them to converge in the abyss. The spacecraft's engine manages to keep all parties suspended in space while 72% of the continuum has already vanished.
How much longer can they hold on?
Will the fuel run out?
Will the event ever cease?
FUSION: Breakthrough PLUS
January 31, 2025 - March 23, 2025
Opening Reception: Winter ARTcrawl Friday, January 31, 2025 from 8:00 - 9:00 pm
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, FUSION: The Ontario Clay and Glass Association presents Breakthrough PLUS, a unique exhibition dedicated to exploring memory and the powerful connection between art and personal recollections. Open to artists at all career stages, Breakthrough PLUS invited members to submit work that delves into the theme of memory, inviting viewers to reflect on how it shapes and inspires artistic expression.
Michael Belmore: power lines in the distance
April 4, 2025 - June 22, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, April 4, 2025 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm
power lines in the distance explores the faceted readings place holds. Through this exhibition Belmore enters into an exchange, offering his voice as an Indigenous artist to how we connect to the land and its ever-changing reality, both past and future.
Here I Am: Student Exhibition
April 4, 2025 - June 21, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, April 4, 2025 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm
“HERE I AM” Student Exhibition is a collection of works celebrating the curiosity, passion, technique, and talent of emerging young creatives in grades 9-12 across Chatham-Kent. Explore the visual narratives young artists, designers, and makers use to capture their unique stories and impressions about their world through diverse mediums and creative processes.
Herbaria: Carrie Allison, Alana Bartol, Lisa Hirmer, Patricia Coates, Susan Turcot and Eva Peskin with the Cedar Listening Circle
July 4, 2025 - September 28, 2025
Opening Reception: During Summer ARTcrawl - Friday, July 18, 2025 from 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Herbaria is a group exhibition that reflects on humanity’s fragile and evolving relationship with plant life and the systems that shape our understanding of it. Rooted in Chatham-Kent’s agricultural legacy—from Indigenous practices and European homesteading to today’s industrial farming—this exhibition resonates with the region’s deep ecological history and the urgent challenges of food security and climate change. Bringing together diverse artistic perspectives, Herbaria invites viewers to consider how more organic, sustainable systems might emerge in response to these complex issues.