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Welcome to our event calendar.Visit this page often as we always have events on the go. With over 15,000 square feet of display space, we carry and extensive collection of Fine Art and Craft, Posters and Reproduction art, Framed Mirrors, Gift and Accessories as well as offering quality custom framing and Art consultation for your home or office.
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Emm Gryner and Royal Wood...
Concert at the Barber! Emm Gryner and Royal Wood Date: Sunday Sept 7, 2008 Location: Barber Gallery, 167 Suffolk Street West in Guelph, (519) 824-0821 Doors: open 7:30 P.M, 8:00 P.M. show start Tickets: $15 advance, $20 door Tickets sold at Ground Floor Music & Barber Gallery –Barber Gallery tickets cash only. An intimate evening with Emm Gryner and Royal Wood: One of Canada's most acclaimed indie artists, Emm Gryner crafts highly polished, yet emotionally raw pop songs. Her talents caught the attention of international stars such as David Bowie and The Cardigans, both inviting her to perform in their touring bands. U2's Bono declared "Almighty Love" to be one of the six songs he wished he had written. After a year and a half with David Bowie, Emm left to return to her career. In 2006 she released the critically acclaimed The Summer of High Hopes, "a winning mix of indie-rock, orchestral pop and ballads ... stunning." Brian Campbell of the Irish News Emm is also the co host of CBC's "Under The Covers" with musician Danny Michel. She runs her own record label, m Dead Daisy Records. Label mate Royal Wood is a multi- instrumentalist who started with the piano at the age of four. His self-written, performed and produced releases The Milkweed (2003) and Tall Tales (2004) have garnered critical praise. "The album (Tall Tales) drifts from sad pastoral laments to capering piano pop jubilance with an effortlessness that is truly staggering." Now Magazine For his third album A Good Enough Day, Royal enlisted a few of his Toronto friends including Hawksley Workman, Kevin Fox and Harmony Trowbridge. His music has been featured on several TV and movie soundtracks including the HBO series Regenisis and the CBC series This is Wonderland. Barber Gallery 167 Suffolk Street West in Guelph (519) 824-0821 Free parking.
The Barber Gallery is pleased to host “Unhung” an exhibition of current work by teachers of the Upper Grand District School Board. The show runs from October 4 to October 29 with a free opening reception Saturday October 4 from 2-4 P.M.
The show provides a rare opportunity to showcase work created by local secondary school art teachers.
Often with limited time to pursue their own creative passion and endeavour, secondary school teachers ardently promote art for both their students and the community. Beyond the class room doors, teachers mount exhibits for their students, facilitate mural creations, and are found behind the scenes creating prop sets and advertising materials for visual arts courses and theatre studies in addition to attending to art services required by their schools.
Please join us as we celebrate the teachers among us. “Unhung” will feature a variety of themes and applications in their diverse show.
Free admission. Free parking. Barber Gallery, 167 Suffolk Street West in Guelph. (519) 824-0821)
Barber Gallery
167 Suffolk street West in Guelph
(519) 824-0821
Rob O’Flanagan
“New Paintings”
The Barber Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition of new paintings by Guelph artist Rob O’Flanagan. The show runs from November 1st to November 26th. Please join us as we welcome Rob with an opening reception and party Saturday November 1st from 2-4 P.M. Admission is free with lots of free parking.
Rob O'Flanagan has spent the past 20 years exploring a number of visual art directions, concentrating most of his efforts in recent years on painting. A native of Saskatchewan, he is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, where he studied history, English literature and art.
His exhibition history includes a number of solo and group shows, and two public gallery exhibitions with his brothers Tom and Terry – "Field Notes" at the Edmonton Art Gallery in 2004, and "Three Ply" at the Art Gallery of Sudbury in 2006.
Rob has a studio in downtown Guelph. He is a staff reporter for the Guelph Mercury and has worked as a journalist for 15 years, twice being nominated for Ontario Newspaper Awards.
Rob is also a poet, writer of fiction and spoken-word artist. He is the author of the "Blown Kiss Collection", a volume of short stories. He wrote and broadcast a weekly story-telling series on CBC Radio in northern Ontario in the 1990s, and has written extensively on art.
“I appreciate the relative simplicity and directness of abstraction. Painting is an intuitive and reflective process – a constructive, many-layered and meditative act, full of surprises. My new work is somewhat of a throwback to the idealism and hopefulness of early 20th Century abstract painting, particularly to the Russian Suprematist and Bauhaus styles.”
Join us as we celebrate with prominent Guelph sculptor Hanna Boos as she exhibits a retrospective view of her most beautiful work in the second floor main gallery alongside the "Yuletide Jewel Box" collection. So festive at this time of year! Her show runs from November 22 to January 2009. Free admission. Free parking. Barber Gallery (519) 824-0821
50 artists in a variety of medium.Painting, metal work, jewellery, photography, wood work, clay and soooooo much more - our annual party!
Live opening day entertainment by jazz/blues muscians Indigo Riff.Special thanks to artists and brewmasters F&M Brewery - the art of brewmaking!Yum!
Annual seasonal Christmas show - Christmas party! Welcome! Join us as we celebrate art work as precious as jewels, live entertainment, refreshment. Free parking. Free admission. Festivities in the gallery! (519) 824-0821 "Oh it's a happy happy holiday..." Show runs from November 29 through to January with a free opening reception and party Saturday November 29th. Barber Gallery (519) 824-0821
G.C.V.I student group exhibit under the tutelage of Sharyn Seibert. "Cenophobia" - Fear of new ideas, AV14M class - First show 2009! Runs January 9 to January 24, 2009. 167 Suffolk Street West in Guelph, (519) 824-0821
Student Exhibition, Runs January 30 to Feb 10, 2009 with a free opening reception Friday evening January 30 from 7-9 P.M.
167 Suffolk Street West, Guelph (519) 824-0821
Free admission. Free parking...
High school students from across the Upper Grand District School Board have come together for the first time in a unique interdisciplinary course
inspired by Leonardo da Vinci. John F. Ross's DaVinci Arts & Science Environmental Leadership Program enables grade 11 students to obtain their credits in the natural setting of the University of Guelph's J. C. Taylor
Nature Centre at the Arboretum.
This art show encompasses works inspired by various aspects of the course including a five day wilderness canoe trip to Killarney. The students were also leaders for an elementary EcoArtist program in which grade four
students came and learned about the interconnection of art and science in
various habitats. With concern for the environment, the elementary and the
secondary school students also created sustainable art inspired by Andy
Goldsworthy. These artworks were photographed in Killarney and at the
Arboretum.
"Farewell farewell but this I tell, to thee thou wedding guest. He prayeth well, who loveth well, both man and bird and beast....He prayeth best, who loveth best, all things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us - He made and loveth all!" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
Annual Valentines Day Party!February 14 to March 10.
Everyone welcome - share the love!
30 visual artists interpret the significance of love, the environment and the allegory of this most cherished poem. Participating artists create work in a variety of medium - painting, sculpture, photography, wood work, metal work, jewellery, clay and sooo much more. Live opening day entertainment features dance performance by Ishra of Invoke-Tress Dance Theatre dancing the "Mariners Dance" Live jazz by Indigo Riff. Refreshment and love on the high seas at the Barber Gallery. Barber Gallery (519) 824-0821
Annual St. Patrick's Day Party! March 14 to April 14.
40 Visual Artists in a variety of medium - painting, photography, mixed, jewellery, metal work, marquetry and more. Opening day... Live Celtic music by Crooked Penny. Dance performances by the Royal City Academy of Irish Dance. Medieval demonstration by Ian Walsh of Blackthorn Productions. Master Brew Crafter Wellington Brewery. Free admission. Free parking. St. Patrick's day Feist!
Artists interpret Yeat's poem "The Song of the Wandering Aengus"...
THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS
by: W.B. Yeats
WENT out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And some one called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
Scott Abbott, Laura Coutts, Barry Hodgson, Joel Masewich, Leslie Miles, Janet Ollers. Runs April 18 to May 19.
Barber Gallery is pleased to host “Up North” – the Bruce and Beyond, an exhibition of recent work by artists Scott Abbott, Laura Coutts, Barry Hodgson, Joel Masewich, Leslie Miles, and Janet Ollers.
“While exploring this classic Ontario scenery, much can seem reassuringly familiar at first. Then one begins to appreciate how much is hidden from the road, how many more scenes there are to paint, and the challenge of doing justice to these natural wonders sinks in. But with observation, time and exploration both geographic and creative, we feel we came to know something of their beauty.
This show is about our time on the Bruce and around Georgian Bay. It is about what we have found beyond geography, in the realm of the imagination. We hope you enjoy it.”
The show runs from April 18 to May 19, 2009 with an opening reception Saturday April 18 from 2-4 P.M. Free admission. Free parking. Barber Gallery, 167 Suffolk Street West in Guelph. (519) 824-0821
Cross-Section
Central Ontario Art Association
Barber Gallery is pleased to host “Cross-Section,” an annual juried exhibition by members of the Central Ontario Art Association.
Central Ontario Art Association is one of the oldest and largest Canadian organizations devoted to the visual arts and artists’ interests.
Tracing its origins from 1954, educators, teachers, and artists combined local art organizations in Wellington, Waterloo, Halton, Dufferin and Peel thereby creating the Five Counties Art Association. Further counties joined, and in 1966 the name was changed to the Central Ontario Art Association.
Its mission is to bring together people with a common interest in art, to provide artistic opportunities, encourage art appreciation and education, pool area efforts and resources, develop leadership in the arts and foster in-group cooperation and participation.
This year hundreds of entries were juried by Guelph Artist Nan Hogg to comprise a 40-piece exhibition on display at the Barber Gallery from May 23rd to June 22nd.
Long time Guelph resident and artist Nan Hogg holds an Ontario Teachers Certificate, a BA in History from McMaster University and an Honours Equivalent in Fine Art from the University of Guelph. An occasional teacher with the Upper Grand District School Board, she’s also taught painting and drawing in her private professional studio in Guelph, the Southampton School of Art, and was a teacher/co-ordinator of “Art Workshops” in Elora, presented by the Wellington County Museums and Archives. Her extensive and diverse career as a juror has included work with the Guelph Studio Tour, Hillside Festival and Fair November.
We welcome you to join us for “Cross-Section” running from May 23 to June 22 with an opening party and awards presentation, Saturday May 23rd from 2-4 P.M.
Cash prizes are awarded in categories including Best in Show, the Lloyd Minshall award, Allan Austin Memorial award, and 4 Juror’s choice awards.
Free admission. Free parking. Barber Gallery, 167 Suffolk Street West in Guelph, (519) 824-0821
Barber Gallery
167 Suffolk Street West in Guelph
(519) 824-0821
Spotlight, “Discover the Arts in You and Your Community.”
Funded by the Ontario Ministry of Culture and produced by the Ontario Arts Council, Dianne Chapitis founder of Symphonica Dance Company with Percussionist Amadeo Ventura invite you to “discover your own musicality and grace” in a performance and workshop in the upstairs gallery of the Barber Gallery Friday June 5th from 6-7 P.M. and Saturday June 6th from 2-3 P.M. All welcome. Free workshop. Free parking. Barber Gallery, 167 Suffolk Street West in Guelph, (519) 824-0821
Student Exhibition under the tutelage of art instructor Carol Cupid. June 27 to July 9. Opening reception Saturday June 27 from 2-4 P.M. Free admission. Free parking. Barber Gallery, 167 Suffolk Street West in Guelph, (519) 824-0821
Annual summer "Core" exhibition of 30 gallery artists - Gallery workers picks! July 11 to September 1st. Keep posted for events in the greenspace - gallery "back yard." Barber Gallery, 167 Suffolk Street West in Guelph, (519) 824-0821