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Photo of KWAG Visitor Services desk with plexiglass shield installed
Earlier this week, the Province of Ontario announced a regional approach to Stage 2 of reopening businesses, which includes those operating in the Region of Waterloo. Under Stage 2, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is now permitted to reopen to the public , with restrictions in place to ensure... Read More
As a public art gallery, one of KWAG’s core purposes is to steward our Permanent Collection, which now numbers over 4300 works of art that we retain for present and future generations. That duty of care goes largely unseen in the racks and rooms where artworks are safeguarded from the elements, but... Read More
Mary Wrinch's landscape painting features a winding rural road entering a small village painted in autumnal colours
Virtual meetings on Zoom have become a recurring feature of both our social and working lives, from regular weekly meetings for remote work to weekend catch-up chats with friends far away. And after two months, a lot of us are looking for ways to inject something new into our physically-distanced... Read More
Three rows of homemade face masks arrayed in a spectrum of colours and patterns
Update (12 August 2020): Judith has renewed her offer to supply face masks with a new ordering process in place. This blog post has been updated to reflect these changes. Are you in need of a reusable, washable, homemade face mask? If you do, here’s an opportunity to get the face masks you need and... Read More
do it (home) promo image features the text "do it (home" in black on an orange background
We've been working with Independent Curators International (ICI) in recent months to prepare - and swiftly adapt - our presentation of their touring exhibition, Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts . This collaborative process provides further opportunity to share more of ICI's creations with our... Read More
A collaged child's picture of a caterpiller walking under a rainbow and radiating colourful squiggle marks
Catherine Mellinger is mixed media collage artist and certified Expressive Arts Therapist who has shared her creativity with learners of all ages through KWAG’s Public Programs, from mentoring teenaged artists through our InSight residency program to supporting seniors in Meet Me at the Gallery. In... Read More
Photo of two pairs of gallery visitors seen from behind as they examine rows of pages of Deanna Bowen's installation of a 1911 petition, which fills the wall to both edges of the photo
Last fall, when I could simply pop into KWAG and have a chat with real, living, breathing people, I interviewed Senior Curator Crystal Mowry. Our conversation really drove home to me the extent to which art isn’t just about preserving our past, but also about questioning our past. During COVID... Read More
View of Amanda Rhodenizer's studio wall showing four paintings in progress of working women in saturated colour settings; a small studio table sits in the foreground
Amanda Rhodenizer was born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, and is currently based in Waterloo. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2006) and an MFA from the University of Waterloo (2014). Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the... Read More
Photo of Edina Pervanic, a young smiling woman with long dark hair
National Volunteer Week is always a welcome opportunity to give our thanks and appreciation to the many KWAG volunteers who so generously give their time and talent to the Gallery. From helping out with community art activities to organizing our big annual Black & Gold fundraising gala, our... Read More
A female skateboarder in dark clothes and a black facemask holds up her green skateboard while reclined against the side of a graffiti-covered half-pipe wall
The last exhibition that KWAG was able to sustain from open to close before COVID-19 upended our exhibition schedule was Adad Hannah’s Glints and Reflections . A mid-career retrospective organized and circulated by the Musée d’art de Joliette , Hannah’s exhibition provided a broad overview of the... Read More

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