Burnaby Art Gallery

09/04/2026

📚 Every great book deserves a great bookmark! Get creative in the community by making your own bookmark with artist Keerat Kaur ! ✨

Join the Public Art team for this free, fun family-friendly drop-in activity on September 13 from noon-4 pm at Lougheed Shopping Centre in front of Burnaby Public Library’s Temporary Cameron Branch.

Create your own custom bookmark using stamps featuring the artist's illustrations. Choose from a variety of bookmark blanks and colourful tassels to personalize your creation and take it home. While you’re creating, you can meet the City’s Public Art team to learn about upcoming projects, ask questions and share your ideas and feedback.

Don’t forget to visit the Temporary Cameron Library and check out a book to enjoy with your new bookmark.

Keerat Kaur is a Canadian artist of Sikh-Panjabi heritage and a background as a licensed architect (OAA). Her multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, writing, music, public art, and architecture. Rooted in the written word, her work weaves narrative and symbolism to explore themes of nature and spirituality, drawing deeply from Indic philosophies.

Click the link for more info: https://ow.ly/L6bR50ZJB9H.

Image: Bookmark examples by Keerat Kaur.

09/02/2026

In recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we invite you to visit Burnaby City Hall to view artworks by renowned Indigenous artists in the City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection.

These artworks explore the realities and impacts of residential schools on Indigenous peoples, alongside depictions of Indigenous resurgence that has survived despite colonial harm. The display includes artworks by notable artists: Shirley Bear, Robert Davidson, Richard Hunt, Annie George Kietlah, Kimberly Fulton Orozco, Jane Ash Poitras, Tania Willard, and Lyle Wilson.

The display is on view to October 5 during City Hall business hours.

Image: Richard Hunt, "Three Faces of Vancouver Island," 2004, serigraph on paper, ed. 112/200, 55.8 x 37.5 cm, Transferred from the University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries, City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection.

09/01/2026

September is your last chance to get creative with BAG on a Bike! 🚲🎨 Join us at these community events throughout the month and make your own print to take home:

📍Sep 2, 5-8 pm - Willingdon Community Fair & Movie Night, Willingdon Community Centre
📍Sep 5 & 6, 11 am-7 pm - Nikkei Matsuri Fun Park, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
📍Sep 18, 2-6:30 pm - Welcome to Burnaby Fair, Burnaby Village Museum

But don’t worry, the printmaking fun doesn’t stop there! Keep your eyes peeled for the BAG Mobile, our mobile art cart that can travel indoors and outdoors, bringing opportunities for creativity and connection to events throughout the year.

Click the link for more info: https://ow.ly/pjz150ZGLLQ.

08/28/2026

This is the last weekend to view Myfanwy MacLeod's solo-exhibition "Trophies," on view to August 30.

Her source material is diverse: stained pizza boxes, ancient Greek pottery and sculpture, photographs of fraternal initiation rites and hazing rituals, and popular magazine and newspaper headlines; all inform elements of her works. Emerging from this inquiry is a series of distorted ceramics, new sculpture, and photomontage in which MacLeod explores fraternal ideals of competition, status, camaraderie, and masculinity while proposing vessels and objects as sites of discomfort and feminist resistance.

For more info about the exhibition, click the link in bio.

Images: Installation views of “Myfanwy MacLeod: Trophies,” Burnaby Art Gallery, June 12–August 30, 2026. Photography: Blaine Campbell

08/27/2026

08/27/2026

Burnaby Art Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition "RESIST!" on view from September 11–November 15, 2026.

“RESIST!” brings together works by Rawan Hassan روان حسن , Gord Hill, Laurence Hyde and Elizabeth MacKenzie , artists who have used their work to educate and to inspire significant social change. Since its inception, the medium of print has been employed to create and disseminate information, from early newspapers to posters, flyers, books and zines. Bringing together urgent voices in conversation, this exhibition considers the role of artists in recording and responding to the world around them.

Stay tuned for opportunities to engage with the exhibition through talks, workshops, and other public programs that invite deeper reflection on the exhibition’s themes of resistance and creative practice.

Image: Laurence Hyde, “Southern Cross,” 1951, wood engraving on paper, 13.5 x 15.2 cm, City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection.

08/26/2026

Another summer camp season comes to an end and what a fantastic one it was! 🌞😎

Thank you to all our amazing instructors, Melissa, Amy, Allison and Mat! Your creativity and dedication to make art accessible to all ages is inspiring. 🤩

A heartfelt thank you to all our hardworking team members and volunteers. 🫶 Each year we get several career placement volunteers that support our fantastic summer campers and their creative adventures. Their energetic and kind nature creates a caring, fun and enjoyable time for the campers—and for us! Your contributions are invaluable and we appreciate all you do. You make a real difference in our community and we are extremely lucky to have you part of our team.

And lastly, a HUGE thank you those crazy art-making campers! You make everyday a creative one!

See everyone next year!

08/24/2026

This is the last week to view our current exhibition “Trophies” by Myfanwy MacLeod. We invite you to join us on August 27 at noon for our free lunch-time curator tour to get a deep-dive into the exhibition and MacLeod’s practice.

Please note that registration is now full for Pledging the Undead, an Artist and Curator Talk on August 28 with MacLeod, Kathleen Ritter, and Jennifer Cane, however you can put yourself on the waitlist by calling 604-297-4422 or emailing [email protected].

Image: Myfanwy MacLeod, “Crossing the Burning Sands V-VII,” 2025, photocopy, vinyl paint, ink on paper, 29.6 cm x 21.0 cm. Photography: Rachel Topham Photography.

08/21/2026

🌈✨ Inspire young minds through artmaking, imagination and visual literacy with our school programs!

⭐ Burnaby Art Gallery offers three levels of engagement to enrich young minds through exhibition tours: Art & Me (Kindergarten and under), Art & Studio (K-Grade 2) and Art & Studio (Grades 2-12). Each program is guided by an artist.

⭐ Our outreach workshops are designed to touch on components of the B.C. Curriculum, while engaging students to think creatively. Programs are offered at the school, guided by an artist and support up to 30 students.

Registration for our school programs is open now—with programs available as early as September 15!

Click the link for more information: https://ow.ly/ljXO50ZBY1j.

Images: Photography: Sarah Race

08/20/2026

Meet Erin, BAG's Summer Program Leader! 🌞🌸

Erin has been involved for 10 years at BAG doing:
⭐Kids art classes
⭐Volunteering
⭐Artist Apprenticeship.. to becoming BAG's Summer Program Leader!

Hey Erin, what's your favorite City of Burnaby Collection artwork?
Erin: J. Carl Haywood, "A Fleir De Pierre," 1999

Favourite BAG memory?
Erin: Getting to teach in the space where I took classes as a kid.

Favourite art technique learned at BAG?
Erin: Printmaking! In particular, Gelli Plate and linocut.

Thanks for a great summer!