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Turning Trash Into Treasure

A travelling environmental art exhibit at CityScape Community Art Space until September 3

District Library Gallery

View the original artwork for the 2023 You Are Here calendar, on until September 19

Art Rental Art Fair

View the 2022 Art Rental Collection in 4 virtual galleries

WHAT’S HAPPENING

The Anonymous Art Show 2022 | Call for Artists OPEN

North Van Arts is thrilled to announce the 2022 Anonymous Art Show. This 19 year old group exhibition and fundraising event will include emerging and established artists working strictly on unframed 8”x8”x1½” canvas or wood panels. This is the third year the...
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Art Rental Art Fair 2022

April 14 to October 5
Online

Art Rental Art Fair 2022 features the new artworks recently added to the North Van Arts Art Rental Programme. In four virtual galleries you’ll see original works by local artists. Created using an impressive range of media and techniques, these 2-dimensional works...
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Calls for Artists

Every year, North Van Arts seeks visual artists, musicians, performers, and instructors for exhibitions, events, education, and other creative projects and initiatives. The table below lists calls for artists in various programme areas. When the call is active, the...
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UPCOMING CLASSES

REGISTRATION FOR SUMMER CAMP NOW OPEN

Member & Instructor Profiles

Grace Gordon-Collins

Mixed Media & Photography

I have always been an observer and a storyteller, as a result, my work invariably starts in a narrative structure. My approach to photography has been clearly influenced by my studies at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T The parallel and conceptual...
Shakun Jhangiani

An intuitively creative contemporary artist, Shakun’s signature style and distinctive use of mixed media is well known and easily recognizable in all of her abstract paintings. The versatility of using acrylics as a painting medium opened the...
Ideet Sharon

Ideet is an artist, certified Expressive Arts Therapist, and mom living in beautiful and diverse Vancouver. She Attended the Vancouver Film School and worked many years as a digital animator in the film and TV industry. As an artist, she works out of 1000...
Margaret Joba-Woodruff

Using the techniques of drawing, bookbinding, and printmaking, my art practice focuses on patterns, nature and the body. The materials I work with such as fabric, paper, ink, copper, limestone, wood, and water all help guide the direction of each piece. Ultimately, I...
Nilufar Moayeri

Painter, Art Instructor

Nilufar Moayeri is a painter and art instructor with more than 20 years of practice. Nilufar was born in Tehran but spent her life in Turkey, where she eventually became one of that country’s most prominent artists and art educators. She started studying art at a very...
Sharka Leigh

Acrylic

Sharka Leigh is an acrylic painter from North Vancouver. She paints varied subject matter, though she most often focuses on her favourite animal, cows. Her work is recognizable by its combination of composition, unusual subject matter and detailed style. Sharka paints...
T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss

T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss Skwxwu7mesh, Sto:lo, Irish-Métis, Hawaiian, and Swiss descent Cease is an ethno-botanist, traditionally trained by Indigenous Elders. Her work involves site-specific and culturally focused teaching with storytelling as her means to sharing...
Sally Clark

Oil & Linen on Canvas

“I paint to get at the essence of my subject, to understand its mystery. I want to create the feeling one has, when light suddenly hits a surface and there is a moment of illumination. I wish to engage the viewer in this sense of mystery, these apparitions of...
Gabriele Maurus

Painter & Collagist

My main interest is in the interplay of colour and composition. I’m painting, drawing, photographing, sculpting and everything else senses are used for. “Trauben unter Aalen”, acrylic + collage, 30”x30”, $1300 “Reunion”, acrylic...
Jane Lowery

Mixed Media Artist

I am a graduate of Langara College and Emily Carr University of Art and Design/ Fine Arts Studio, Drawing and Printmaking. I tried to stop focusing on nature but I couldn’t. I like what’s going on under the ground. Life and Nature has its dark moments, its...
Phyllis Schwartz

Photography

Phyllis Schwartz is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator who works in photography, ceramics and publishing. She is an Emily Carr University of Art + Design graduate with a concentration in photography and the recipient of the Canon Photography Award. Her...
Cameron McLellan

Cameron McLellan’s work concerns the built environment, architectural space and materiality through drawing, painting and site-specific responses. Through form, texture and the meditative quality of repetition, McLellan explores how these connections can be rethought...