About Exhibitions

Exhibitions encourage public engagement, bridging cultures and building strong communities through the arts.

Calls for Artists Overview
Throughout the year, North Van Arts seeks people to participate in the various art exhibitions and creative projects that we program on the North Shore. Please find more information about the typical calls that artists, art instructors, and community members can apply to in the list below.

 

CityScape Community ArtSpace Gallery - Image / Object OPEN

North Van Arts holds various juried open calls for art and exhibitions at CityScape Community Artspace throughout the year. Image / Object is currently open, which will take place at CityScape Gallery from April 10, 2026 – May 23, 2026 with an Opening Reception on April 9, 2026.

Deadline to Submit: September 15, 2025

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Image / Object invites submissions exploring photo-based work incorporating elements of collage or sculpture and photosculpture, the fusion of photography with three-dimensional form. This group exhibition seeks work at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and installation. We are looking for artists who push photography beyond the flat image. Whether through physical layering, object-making, or installation, photosculpture reimagines the photographic medium as something to be experienced as much as seen.
Art in the community OPEN
North Van Arts is currently accepting submissions for our Art in the Community Program for 2026. Art in the Community consists of two exhibition venues:
 
  • District Library Gallery / Located at the Lynn Valley Main Library (2D submissions)
  • District Foyer Gallery/ Located at North Vancouver District Hall (2D and 3D submissions) 

Deadline to Submit: October 30, 2025

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North Shore Art Crawl -Call CLOSED

North Shore Art Crawl are Oct 3-5, 2025.

Now in its fifteenth year, the North Shore Art Crawl is an annual celebration of local creativity and artistic talent. This free community event invites the public to explore a vibrant mix of galleries, studios, community centres, art schools, and local businesses across the North Shore. 

Registration for the 2025 North Shore Art Crawl is closed. Registration for the 2026 North Shore Art Crawl will open late Spring 2026.

You Are Here Calendar

North Van Arts has been producing the You Are Here calendar since 2017, as a fundraiser for the online culture map, the North Shore Culture Compass. This calendar tells the story of the region through artistically rendered images of locations, places, or scenes that are recognizably in North Vancouver or West Vancouver, on part of the territories of the Squamish Nation and Tsleil-Waututh Nation. By submitting your art, you add your voice to this story, and inspire people to imagine that You Are Here. 

The submissions for the 2026 You Are Here Calendar & Exhibitions has closed.

 

 

Arts in the Garden
Arts in the Garden celebrates the intersection between artistic practices and the natural world. Each year, musicians, visual artists and performers fill outdoor spaces with their imagination and creativity. Through play, creativity, learning, and engagement, this event invites the community to reflect on their relationship to the land and to place and hopes to inspire us to care for the natural world and for all those sharing the land with us. Arts in the Garden takes place June 14 & 15, 2025 this year.

Submissions are usually open from January to mid-February.

Art Rental Program

Art Rental promotes the appreciation of visual arts in our community by making the work of local artists available for display in homes, offices and film and television production sets while provides individuals and businesses with an affordable and flexible way to enjoy a wide range of quality, original two-dimensional works including paintings, photography and mixed media works.

More information about participating in Art Rental as an artist can be found here. Call for Art Rental artists will open Fall of 2025

 

Anonymous Art Show

Every year since 2003, the Anonymous Art Show exhibits over 600 artworks on 8” x 8” canvases, from emerging and established artists in our CityScape Community Artspace. Each artwork is $100 to purchase, and proceeds are split 50/50 between the artist and North Van Arts. Participating artists can choose to retain or donate the proceeds from each sold artwork to North Van Arts. This is a fun event and our biggest FUNdraiser of the year for our organization.

Call for artwork will open early fall 2025

Pushing Boundaries
Pushing Boundaries is a biennial exhibition that features the artwork of emerging Indigenous artists. North Van Arts works with an Indigenous Guest Curator on developing a different theme and concept for the exhibition every two years.

The next call for Indigenous Curators will be open in the Spring of 2025.

Call for Artist Instructors- CALL CLOSED

North Van Arts offers arts education through courses, workshops, and camps for all ages, interests, and abilities, with programs delivered in the winter and spring.

Calls for artist instructors are open each September for a month-long intake, with additional opportunities available throughout the year.