From left to right: Ibrahim Shauib, Nasim Pirhadi, Kate Pieterman.

Join us from 6 - 8pm on Friday November 7th for our final opening reception of 2025!

Opening in our Main Gallery will be All That Time Has Woven, All It Has Unraveled, by Ibrahim Shuaib. Shuaib is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in Nigeria and currently based in Winnipeg. Central to this exhibition is the use of traditional rugs as a canvas, a deliberate choice rooted in the rich symbolism these objects hold within his Islamic heritage. Each rug represents an untold story,with the patterns a chapter in the book of Shuaib’s life, each memory a splatter of paint, where moments of joy, sorrow, triumph, and tribulation are interwoven.

Up next in the Project Gallery is What Seems Simple by Nasim Pirhadi. Nasim Pirhadi is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Kelowna. Her work investigates questions of female identity, subjectivity, and feminist perspectives within historical and contemporary frameworks. In this video work, Pirhadi stages ordinary gestures within the suspension of an underwater world. What is effortless elsewhere becomes heavy here, yet the body persists until difficulty itself feels routine.

In our Members' Gallery is Homesick by UBCO BFA student Kate Pieterman.Her work explores the disorienting feeling of becoming an adult, of hardship, of homesickness for childhood, and empathy for the people she grew up with. Using an archive of family photographs as the basis for her paintings, Pieterman creates subtly disorienting compositions. She then integrates marks that refernce childhood drawings and transforms the work into conversations between her calculated, adult self, and inner child.

Come connect with your community, enjoy light refreshments, and be the first to see these three exciting exhibitions! RSVP here to let us know you're coming!