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Installation view of Deanna Bowen's Black Drones in the Hive, showing a pair of shackles displayed on a white plinth in front of a wall filled with framed archival images
Director's Message: Winter 2021
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the heart of a community As an artist and audience-centered institution, we, at KWAG, begin the new year with a continued commitment to our community. By embracing art as a

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Adad Hannah photo of a restaging of Picasso's Guernica using wood and cardboard cut-outs, arranged in a lush green backyard space
Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection
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Like many art museums, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery cares for a Permanent Collection of artworks that has been gathering and growing since our first acquisitions in 1957.

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Instalation view of Deanna Bowen: Black Drones in the Hive
Director's Message: Fall 2020
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It has been over six months since the Gallery closed in mid-March due to COVID-19, and over three months since we reopened in mid-June. During this challenging time, art museums

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Screenshot of a Zoom conversation between Dylan Robinson, Candice Hopkins and Crystal Mowry
Soundings Curators Talk now online
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At at time when COVID-19 prevented our usual public gatherings, KWAG hosted its first virtual Curators Talk on Wednesday 24 June to introduce the curators and ideas behind 

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Shuvinai Ashoona's Composition (Clock) is a coloured pencil drawing featuring a large circular form split between black upper and white lower sections marked with Inukitut syllabics and Arabic numerals, surrounded by soft coloured drawings of the sea goddess Sedna and other figures
Shuvinai Ashoona goes to Berlin
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While few among us can imagine any hint of international travel in this unusual summer, one work of art in our Permanent Collection has gone abroad for a special journey to the

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White text on a black background reading "The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery stands in solidarity with all people of colour in the fight against racial injustice and inequality."
Our Commitment to Anti-Racist Solidarity
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Watching multiple incidents of deadly violence against Black people unfold before our eyes – Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Regis Korchinski-Paquet –

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A Conservation Story: Maurice Cullen
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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

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A collaged child's picture of a caterpiller walking under a rainbow and radiating colourful squiggle marks
Artists at Home: Catherine Mellinger
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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,

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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
Art galleries offer pleasure, education, history, and cultural change
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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

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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
Artists at Home: Amanda Rhodenizer
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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

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