Cambridge Art Galleries

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

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



Art Gallery of Burlington

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

Cambridge Art Galleries made the front page of the Cambridge Times! We’re thrilled to see the work of Shark G Smith gett...
08/07/2026

Cambridge Art Galleries made the front page of the Cambridge Times!

We’re thrilled to see the work of Shark G Smith getting some local ink.

Pick up a copy here at the library or read the story online through the link in our bio. ✨

Cambridge Art Galleries made the front page of the Cambridge Times! We’re thrilled to see the work of Shark G Smith gett...
08/07/2026

Cambridge Art Galleries made the front page of the Cambridge Times!

We’re thrilled to see the work of Shark G Smith getting some local ink.

Now playing on library screens across Cambridge Public Libraries!Shaheer Zazai: ECfdV_ECAugust 3, 2026 to October 3, 202...
08/06/2026

Now playing on library screens across Cambridge Public Libraries!

Shaheer Zazai: ECfdV_EC
August 3, 2026 to October 3, 2026
Curated by Žana Kozomora.

Launched this week, Shaheer Zazai’s digital animation ECfdV_EC will appear intermittently on the information screens at all Cambridge Public Library branches.

Shaheer Zazai works across painting, textiles, print, and digital media to investigate cultural identity within the present geopolitical climate and experiences of diaspora. This project draws on the artist’s years-long experimentation with Microsoft Word. Using the software, Zazai digitally “weaves” images that recall the patterns and ornamental designs of Afghan carpets. Presented in complement with Next in Fibre: Fibreworks 2026, Cambridge Art Galleries’ biennial survey of contemporary fibre art, the animation highlights the connections between traditional craft and digital technology. Rhythmic keystrokes gradually unravel and reweave the work’s ornamental design. Digital glitches interrupt the pattern, referencing the loom as an early precursor to computational technology and reminding us that today’s digital world has deep roots in the handcrafted practices that came before it.

Throughout 2026, Cambridge Art Galleries presents digital art in the public spaces of the libraries, bringing animation and video projects by contemporary Canadian artists into the everyday rhythms of each branch.

Learn more on our website, link in bio!

Image credit: Shaheer Zazai, ECfdV_EC, 2023, 5 minutes, 21 seconds. Image courtesy of the artist.

AfghanCanadianArt Animation TextileArt FibreArt NextInFibre

Video excerpt from Shaheer Zazai’s ECfdV_EC, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

Cambridge Art Galleries is pleased to announce the artists featured in Next In Fibre: Fibreworks 2026!Selected from more...
07/30/2026

Cambridge Art Galleries is pleased to announce the artists featured in Next In Fibre: Fibreworks 2026!

Selected from more than 300 submissions from across Canada, the exhibition brings together ten artists whose practices challenge and expand the possibilities of contemporary fibre art.

Drawing on the histories of Fibreworks and SHOWCASE, the exhibition considers the cultural and historical labour embedded in textiles while exploring fibre as a material for activism, poetry, storytelling, photography and imagined futures.

Next In Fibre: Fibreworks 2026
August 22 to November 8, 2026
Queen’s Square Gallery

Opening Celebration- Saturday, September 19th 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Featured artists:

AJA Louden

Ava Katz

Christy Kunitzky

Eva Kolcze

Ioana Dragomir

Margaret Firlotte

Maria-Margaretta Cabana Boucher

Négar Devine-Tajgardan

Sky Weir

Tara Lynn MacDougall

The exhibition was juried by Suzanne Carte, Artistic Director of the Art Gallery of Burlington, and Maria Hupfield, artist and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, alongside Cambridge Art Galleries staff.

AJA Louden is a Jamaican-Canadian artist, muralist, designer and educator based in amiskwaciwâskahikan, Treaty 6 territory. Best known for large-scale public artworks, Louden has also expanded his bold visual language into rug tufting, using fibre to explore identity, community and the places where contrasting histories meet.

AJA Louden
https://www.ajalouden.com/

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

Vancouver-based artist and educator Ava Katz creates large-scale textile sculptures rooted in q***r ecology. Drawing inspiration from the resilience and adaptability of plants and animals, Katz makes tactile forms that move between vulnerability and self-protection while questioning rigid distinctions between human, animal and plant bodies.

Ava Katz
https://avakatzart.com/

Image Credit: Ava Katz, The Watcher (detail), 2025, silk, thread, wire, acrylic paint, polyfil, carabiners. Image courtesy of the artist.

Christy Kunitzky is a multidisciplinary artist and weaver based between Montreal and Toron

Civic Holiday Hours⁠All Cambridge Public Library locations, including Cambridge Art Galleries are closed Sunday, August ...
07/27/2026

Civic Holiday Hours⁠
All Cambridge Public Library locations, including Cambridge Art Galleries are closed Sunday, August 2 and Monday, August 3 for the Civic Holiday.

🏁There's just one week left to apply for a unique opportunity to volunteer with Cambridge Art Galleires.Cambridge Public...
06/29/2026

🏁There's just one week left to apply for a unique opportunity to volunteer with Cambridge Art Galleires.

Cambridge Public Library is seeking expressions of interest for volunteers to form the Gallery Advisory Committee (GAC) in 2026. Volunteers sought are practicing artists and/or cultural professionals who reside in Waterloo Region and have knowledge of the cultural field with enthusiasm for community engagement and connection.

Volunteers will meet three times a year to discuss scheduled Cambridge Art Galleries programming (exhibitions, events, education and public programs), provide feedback and share insights on trends in art and culture, recommend partnerships and outreach opportunities, and act as ambassadors in the community. The GAC will function in an advisory capacity only, with no fiduciary or decision-making powers.

Apply online by July 5, 2026 through our Vome Volunteer Portal: https://www.vomevolunteer.com/volunteer/form-details/cambridge-20public-20library-s-20gallery-20advisory-20committee/ed5255f0-0404-470a-80e4-af497394a300/link

06/22/2026

📢Call for Applications!

Cambridge Public Library is seeking expressions of interest for volunteers to form the Gallery Advisory Committee (GAC) in 2026. Volunteers sought are practicing artists and/or cultural professionals who reside in Waterloo Region and have knowledge of the cultural field with enthusiasm for community engagement and connection. ⁠
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Volunteers will meet three times a year to discuss scheduled Cambridge Art Galleries programming (exhibitions, events, education and public programs), provide feedback and share insights on trends in art and culture, recommend partnerships and outreach opportunities, and act as ambassadors in the community. The GAC will function in an advisory capacity only, with no fiduciary or decision-making powers.⁠
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Apply by July 5, 2026 through our Vome Volunteer Portal: https://www.vomevolunteer.com/volunteer/form-details/cambridge-20public-20library-s-20gallery-20advisory-20committee/ed5255f0-0404-470a-80e4-af497394a300/link?utm_campaign=feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_sou

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