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Cambridge Art Galleries Discover the public art galleries of Cambridge Public Library. Open to everyone at Queen’s Square and Preston.

Upcoming ClosureAll Cambridge Public Library locations, including the galleries, are closed on Friday, October 23 for ou...
10/13/2026

Upcoming Closure
All Cambridge Public Library locations, including the galleries, are closed on Friday, October 23 for our Staff Professional Development Day. Locations will reopen with regular hours beginning Saturday, October 24.

ART BOOKS ON LOAN 📚This week: D’Arcy Wilson: The Memorialist, published by the Owens Art Gallery.Wilson goes looking for...
10/13/2026

ART BOOKS ON LOAN 📚

This week: D’Arcy Wilson: The Memorialist, published by the Owens Art Gallery.

Wilson goes looking for a zoo that is no longer there.

The Memorialist traces the strange history of Andrew Downs’ Zoological Gardens in Halifax once home to wild animals, spectacle, scientific ambition, and all the uncomfortable baggage that comes with the urge to collect, classify, and contain the natural world. Through photographs, drawings, field notes, performance, and a painstaking reconstruction of the gardens, Wilson follows what remains after the cages are gone.

The result is part detective story, part mourning ritual, part very peculiar museum visit.

A beautiful book about what we preserve, what we forget, and what keeps haunting the display case.

Find D’Arcy Wilson: The Memorialist in the art book collection at Queen’s Square and borrow it with your Cambridge Public Library card.

Thanksgiving Holiday Hours⁠All Cambridge Public Library locations, including Cambridge Art Galleries are closed Sunday, ...
10/05/2026

Thanksgiving Holiday Hours⁠
All Cambridge Public Library locations, including Cambridge Art Galleries are closed Sunday, October 11 and Monday, October 12 for the Thanksgiving Holiday.

ART BOOKS ON LOAN 📚This month’s new addition to Art Books on Loan is Colleen Wolstenholme: Hyperobjectivity, accompanyin...
09/23/2026

ART BOOKS ON LOAN 📚

This month’s new addition to Art Books on Loan is Colleen Wolstenholme: Hyperobjectivity, accompanying the artist’s current career survey at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

If you flip to page 58, you might recognize something familiar: Wolstenholme’s Drug Company Logos (1999), a work from the Cambridge Art Galleries permanent collection that is currently on loan to the Beaverbrook for the exhibition.

In Drug Company Logos, Wolstenholme translates the polished visual language of pharmaceutical branding into thread. Familiar corporate logos become carefully stitched objects, bringing together advertising, medicine and the handmade traditions of fibre work. The work consists of six individual pieces, each measuring just 10 × 18 cm.

Art Books on Loan is also a chance for us to share more of the stories behind our permanent fibre art collection. Established in 1986 to reflect the Grand River region’s textile history, our permanent collection grew to over 200 contemporary fibre artworks! Come find this art publication at our Art Book Collection on the main floor of Queen’s Square and discover more about the works we care for. 📖🧵

Colleen Wolsenholme, Drug Company Logos, 1999. Photograph by Scott Lee

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You’ve seen his work across our website. 📸Scott Lee is one of the photographers behind the documentation of our exhibiti...
09/11/2026

You’ve seen his work across our website. 📸

Scott Lee is one of the photographers behind the documentation of our exhibitions and permanent fibre art collection. His photographs beautifully capture both the artworks themselves and the ways they come together in the gallery.

Now, he’s sharing his expertise with you!

Join Scott for a hands-on workshop exploring how to photograph your artwork for gallery submissions, grant applications, websites, social media, and more. Learn practical approaches to lighting, staging, and equipment so your images represent your work clearly and professionally.

Thursday, October 8
6:00–8:00 pm
Queen’s Square Gallery Studio
FREE | Registration required

Bring a DSLR camera and a small artwork to photograph if you have them—but neither is required. Sample artworks will be available.

Register through the link in our bio!

Swipe through for a selection of Scott’s photography from Cambridge Art Galleries exhibitions over the years.

First Image Credit: Fibreworks 2020 (installation view). Photograph by Scott Lee



How It All Starts (installation view), 2021, Photograph by Scott Lee

Co Hoedeman, Coho Salmon, dye, linen rag paper, 11.4 x 5.6 x 17.8 cm each, 1992. Photograph by Scott Lee

Discover the radical creative freedom of zines in this hands-on workshop with local artist, writer, and zine maker Ellie...
09/09/2026

Discover the radical creative freedom of zines in this hands-on workshop with local artist, writer, and zine maker Ellie Anglin of the Zinetopia collective.

Learn a little about zine history while exploring folding, collage, drawing, writing, and sequencing. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have the beginnings of your own small, self-published art book—and the tools to keep making more.

Whether you’re completely new to zines or already a fan, come share your stories, art, ideas, and perspectives outside the boundaries of traditional publishing.

Thursday, September 24
6:00–8:00 pm
Queen’s Square Gallery Studio
FREE | Registration required
All materials provided

No experience necessary! Register through the link in our bio.

Presented as part of Culture Days.

Labour Day Holiday Hours⁠All Cambridge Public Library locations, including Cambridge Art Galleries are closed Sunday, Se...
08/31/2026

Labour Day Holiday Hours⁠
All Cambridge Public Library locations, including Cambridge Art Galleries are closed Sunday, September 6 and Monday, September 7 for the Labour Day Holiday.

Three galleries. One bus. A full afternoon of contemporary fibre. 🚌🧶On Saturday, September 19, we’re hitting the road wi...
08/26/2026

Three galleries. One bus. A full afternoon of contemporary fibre. 🚌🧶

On Saturday, September 19, we’re hitting the road with the Textile Museum of Canada and Art Gallery of Burlington for a special Art Bus Tour connecting Toronto → Burlington → Cambridge.

Along the way, explore Made By Many and Always in Fashion at the Textile Museum of Canada, see Wiigwasitig / Waskway / Honouring the Birch Tree at the Art Gallery of Burlington, and finish the day at Cambridge Art Galleries with *Next In Fibre: Fibreworks 2026*, where you’ll meet some of the artists, experience the new exhibition, and celebrate its opening with a catered reception.

📍 Saturday, September 19

⏰ 2:00 pm – 8:30 pm

🎟️ $20 + HST

Your ticket includes round-trip transportation, exhibition admission at all three galleries, afternoon snacks, and a catered reception at Cambridge Art Galleries.

Registration closes September 17 at 5:00 pm. Link in comments.

Next in Fibre Exhibition, Cambridge Art Galleries

Image Credit: Maria-Margaretta Cabana Boucher, I have been changed for good, 2025, seed beads, latex gloves, felt. Image courtesy of the artist.

Wiigwasitig / Waskway / Honouring the Birch Tree, Art Gallery of Burlington

Image Credit: Helen Pelletier, Loch Lomond-For my Dad and Brothers, 2023. Detail. Winter birchbark, spruce root, cedar, moose antler, deer hide. Photo Credit Chondon Photography.

Always in Fashion, Textile Museum of Canada

Image Credit: Darren Rigo

Next in Fibre Exhibition, Cambridge Art Galleries

Image Credit: AJA Louden, Daughter with Elm, Birch, Piney, 2024, hand-carved tapestry. Image courtesy of the artist.

On Saturday, September 19, Cambridge Art Galleries joins the Textile Museum of Canada and the Art Gallery of Burlington ...
08/11/2026

On Saturday, September 19, Cambridge Art Galleries joins the Textile Museum of Canada and the Art Gallery of Burlington for a special Art Bus Tour from Toronto to Burlington and Cambridge.

Met at the Textile Museum of Canada to explore Made By Many: 50 Years of the Textile Museum of Canada, an exhibition tracing five decades of curatorial ideas, approaches and histories through more than 30 past exhibitions. Also on view is Always in Fashion, curated by Amber-Dawn Bear Robe. This immersive exhibition celebrates Indigenous designers who are reclaiming cultural narratives, innovating with ancestral techniques and challenging colonial frameworks within the fashion industry.

From Toronto, the bus travels to the Art Gallery of Burlington for Wiigwasitig / Waskway / Honouring the Birch Tree, curated by Albany Sutherland. Featuring Pat Bruderer (Halfmoon Woman), Helen Pelletier, Amber Sandy, Seth Arcand and the late Angelique Merasty, the exhibition brings together artists from Anishinaabeg and nêhiyawak communities. Through bark biting, baskets, wearable art, photography and film, the works consider intergenerational knowledge, healing and the role of Wiigwas, or birch bark, in sustaining relationships with Land and kin.

The final stop is Cambridge Art Galleries for the opening celebration of Next in Fibre: Fibreworks 2026! The exhibition features Maria-Margaretta Cabana Boucher, Négar Devine-Tajgardan, Ioana Dragomir, Margaret Firlotte, Ava Katz, Eva Kolcze, Christy Kunitzky, AJA Louden, Tara Lynn MacDougall and Sky Weir.

The evening concludes with an exhibition tour and catered reception celebrating new directions in contemporary fibre art.

Your ticket includes:

Round-trip bus transportation between Toronto, Burlington and Cambridge

Free admission and an exhibition tour at each gallery

Afternoon snacks

A catered evening reception at Cambridge Art Galleries

Registration closes at 5:00 pm on Thursday, September 17.

Register here:

https://events.cambridgepl.ca/event/17022023



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Image Credit: Helen Pelletier, Loch Lomond-For my Dad and Brothers, 2023

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