Charlottetown – The largest collection of Canadian art in Atlantic Canada is opening its vaults to showcase the nation from coast to coast to coast. National Vistas, solitary views of our country, a new exhibition at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, will feature works in the Gallery collection that explore Canada’s landscape.
“The exhibit will reflect on artists’ responses to our nation’s landscape based on their own experiences in it,” says Siobhan Wiggans, Education and Outreach Officer at the Centre. “The viewer will also be encouraged to reflect on how their own experience in our country shapes or affects how they respond to the works on view.”
Included in the exhibit are works by George Angliss, General Idea, Jocelyne Alloucherie, Dan Steeves, Carl Zimmerman, Robert Sinclair, Bruno Bobak, Ron Kostyniuk and Landon McKenzie.
The exhibit will also be a starting point for Arts Discovery Days, a day long hands-on program at the Centre that offers Grade 8 students experiences in movement, theatre, and the visual arts.
National Vista, solitary views of our country opens September 20 and runs through December 14. The exhibition is curated by Siobhan Wiggans.
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