Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KWAG) is Waterloo Region's leading public art gallery, connecting people and ideas through art. Admission to KWAG is free.
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Acrylic Landscapes with Venus Al ZouhouriThis two-part workshop invites participants to explore their connection to the ...
06/01/2026

Acrylic Landscapes with Venus Al Zouhouri

This two-part workshop invites participants to explore their connection to the local environment while engaging with the rich history of landscape painting in the region, as seen in Sharing the Passion: 70 Years of Building the Collection. Through guided instruction, participants will learn the foundations of acrylic painting while working from photographic reference to depict their favourite local scenes. Alongside hands-on practice, the workshop will include discussions of landscape as a subject in art history, site-responsive approaches, and the many ways landscapes can be interpreted collectively. All materials will be provided.

13 June
20 June
2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
$80.00 + HST | Ages 16+

Register at kwag.ca

05/31/2026

Welcome the warm season with a relaxing and inspiring outdoor painting experience at KWAG. Guided by artist and educator Candice Leyland, participants will explore the fundamentals of en plein air painting with watercolors: working from life to capture light, atmosphere, and the beauty of KWAG’s Sculpture Garden and the Garden of Resilience. All materials will be provided.

Saturday, 20 June
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
$80.00 + HST | Ages 16+
Registration required

This drawing is one of twelve works on paper that were donated together by the Toronto Telegram. They were the first obj...
05/30/2026

This drawing is one of twelve works on paper that were donated together by the Toronto Telegram. They were the first objects ever to be formally collected by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. This drawing by Aba Bayefsky carries the first accession number and is technically/therefore the beginning of the Permanent Collection.

On view until 23 August 2026.

Image: Aba Bayefsky (Canadian, 1923-2001). The Market – Chickens (detail), 1956. Conté on paper, 50.2 x 64 cm. Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Permanent Collection: Gift of the Graphic Arts Fund of the Toronto Telegram, 1957. © The Estate of Aba Bayefsky. Photo by KWAG.

Join KWAG’s 2026 Gardeners-in-Residence sophia bartholomew and Shalaka Jadhav on Sunday, 7 June for the first of a serie...
05/29/2026

Join KWAG’s 2026 Gardeners-in-Residence sophia bartholomew and Shalaka Jadhav on Sunday, 7 June for the first of a series of regular gatherings at their garden plot. Gatherings will be held throughout the summer in the Garden of Resilience, rain or shine, with group conversations loosely organized around these themes and questions: How do we build a garden in the spirit of exchange and reciprocity?

Learn more, click on the link in our bio.

Image: From the opening/closing for Danan Lake’s project Ernest Griset's Satellite Repair Service, in a van down by the river, September 6, 2025, parked next to Schneider Creek in Kitchener.
PHOTO CREDIT: sophia bartholomew

Our next QYAC session is taking place on Friday, 29 May 2026!Q***r and trans youth (13-18) across the region are invited...
05/27/2026

Our next QYAC session is taking place on Friday, 29 May 2026!

Q***r and trans youth (13-18) across the region are invited to the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery for a free, casual drop-in creative space. This new initiative at the gallery is led by q***r and trans facilitators, aiming to offer a safe container for teens to connect with their q***r peers over creative interests and free refreshments! Bring your own project or use our art supplies to create artworks of your own.

3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Free | No Registration Required

When KWAG first opened in the bicycle shed in 1956, Kitchener’s local artists and arts enthusiasts had been working towa...
05/26/2026

When KWAG first opened in the bicycle shed in 1956, Kitchener’s local artists and arts enthusiasts had been working towards establishing a public art Gallery for decades. They saw it as a mark of their home-town’s growth into a thriving city. They envisioned that this Gallery would be a place for people to meet and share in ideas and creative innovation represented by artists from home, and from around the nation and the world. Today, you can see 70 works—each priceless work representing a year building your Permanent Collection for Waterloo Region.

'Sharing the Passion: 70 Years of Building the Collection' on view until 19 July 2026.

Photo by Scott Lee

KWAG is seeking a qualified individual to serve as Accessibility Coordinator for a project spanning July 2026 to April 2...
05/25/2026

KWAG is seeking a qualified individual to serve as Accessibility Coordinator for a project spanning July 2026 to April 2027!

The Accessibility Coordinator is a term position at the core of a year-long Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) project focused on improving access to KWAG and its public programs. This project directly addresses intersecting barriers to arts participation, including disability, socio-economic status, language, culture, and health. The Coordinator will lead the effective integration of measures that help remove barriers to participation in KWAG’s programs by working with KWAG staff and an Accessibility Consultant to engage in research, planning, and outreach to develop and pilot new, more accessible public program formats, including through coordination of a twice-monthly “Access Saturday” program. The Coordinator will also create an internal Access Toolkit that will lay the groundwork for programming and gallery-wide accessibility best practices, as well as lead the creation of an Access Guide for public visitors. They will also lead planning of the project-closing Access in the Arts Symposium, to take place in April 2027.

Apply by: Monday, 8 June 2026, 5:00 p.m.

To learn more, visit our website.

Photo by Scott Lee

Announcing KWAG's Gardeners-in-Residence for 2026! sophia bartholomew and Shalaka Jadhav take inspiration from sophia’s ...
05/24/2026

Announcing KWAG's Gardeners-in-Residence for 2026!
sophia bartholomew and Shalaka Jadhav take inspiration from sophia’s grandmother’s community’s practice of eating and socializing in the garden, showing off and sharing in its spoils, and Shalaka's memories of their grandfather pointing out how the garden changed season over season when they visited their hometown in India. Titled garden visits, their residency project reclaims the garden as space for knowledge exchange and social connection, and reasserts the central importance of community relationships and relationship-building when addressing issues of ecological sustainability and food security.

Throughout the summer, sophia and Shalaka will host regular gatherings at their garden plot outside the gallery. In exchange, they are asking community members to invite them into their gardens for a visit. Through this series of reciprocal garden visits, the artists will produce a series of film photographs and compile gardening tips, tricks, and stories into a zine.
Public gatherings in the garden are scheduled to take place on 7 June, 5 July, and 8 August, rain or shine, and will be loosely organized around a garden-adjacent question or theme. The residency will culminate in a shared meal, artist talk, and zine launch in October.

Learn more: https://kwag.ca/exhibitions/garden-resilience

Headshot of sophia bartholomew + Shalaka Jadhav, September 6, 2025. Photo by Danan Lake.

05/23/2026

Saturday's Rooted events are coming to a close with epic indie tunes from and an array of food by .cafe

Check out our events for Sunday with special guests

Special thanks to our funders
Learn more, click the link in our Bio!

Everything is going ahead this weekend, just indoors!Rooted is KWAG's free weekend of arts programming celebrating KWAG'...
05/23/2026

Everything is going ahead this weekend, just indoors!
Rooted is KWAG's free weekend of arts programming celebrating KWAG's milestone anniversary and return of the Garden of Resilience on May 23–24, 2026.

What's happening on Saturday, you ask?
- Seedling Exchange & Food Drive-
- Plant pot decorating
- Mini gallery tours
- Outdoor concert with SHEBAD
- Community picnic by Rommana Café

Address

101 Queen Street N (in Centre In The Square)
Kitchener, ON
N2H6P7

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5pm
Thursday 9:30am - 9pm
Friday 9:30am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

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+15195795860

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