Nanaimo Art Gallery

Nanaimo Art Gallery We engage and inspire community through art. https://linktr.ee/nanaimoartgallery

Are you a practicing artist seeking to grow your network and connect with other artists? You’re invited to join us for C...
08/26/2026

Are you a practicing artist seeking to grow your network and connect with other artists? You’re invited to join us for Creative Minds: Artist Meet-Up!

This time, we will be focusing on Artist Statements & Bios. Bring your artist statments and biographies for feedback, or get tips on how to write them.

🗓️ Tuesday September 8, 2026
⏰ 6:30-8:30pm
📍Nanaimo Art Gallery at 150 Commercial St.
🎟️ Entry is by donation. Register through the link in our bio!

Join us for Saturday Studio! 🎨 Spend your Saturdays exploring new materials and techniques! Each week you’ll be introduc...
08/26/2026

Join us for Saturday Studio! 🎨

Spend your Saturdays exploring new materials and techniques! Each week you’ll be introduced to a different medium, encouraging experimentation, skill-building, and imaginative play. Discover exciting approaches to painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and more as you create your own unique works of art!

🗓️ Every Saturday from September 19th to November 14th, 2026 (no class on October 10th)
⏰ 9-10:30am (ages 5-7) | 11am-12:30pm (ages 8-12)
📍Nanaimo Art Gallery at 150 Commercial St.
🎟️ register through the link in our bio

08/20/2026

Biophilia is a touring exhibition from MAJ Musée d’art de Joliette, on now at Nanaimo Art Gallery until October 11, 2026 🌿

The accelerating effects of climate change force us to question our individual and collective behaviour, and reflect on how we exist as part of the world. This is precisely what the works in this Biophilia invite us to do. How do we reconcile the quest for ever-increasing physical and material comforts, with the restraint that is necessary? How can we untangle the complexities of land and resource exploitation that many societies still rely on? This exhibition addresses the limits of regeneration and fertility, but also the intrinsic strength of living beings and their transformative capabilities.

Stop by to experience Biophilia for yourself! Admission is by donation.

Video by Adam Kveton. See the full version on our website or in person at Nanaimo Art Gallery.

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08/19/2026

We have a big announcement coming soon… Can you guess what it is? We left you a couple hints 👀🤫

We’ve had one last-minute space open up in our Youth Art Immersive next week (August 24-28)! This program is for teens a...
08/17/2026

We’ve had one last-minute space open up in our Youth Art Immersive next week (August 24-28)!

This program is for teens aged 14-19. Join us from 10am-4pm each day to learn alongside professional artists, curators, and peers. Participants receive a $200 stipend and must attend the full week to be eligible.

If you or someone else is interested in snagging this spot, please email [email protected] 🎨

Have you experienced our current exhibition Biophilia yet? 🌿Biophilia is a touring exhibition from MAJ Musée d’art de Jo...
08/17/2026

Have you experienced our current exhibition Biophilia yet? 🌿

Biophilia is a touring exhibition from MAJ Musée d’art de Joliette that asks what it means to be connected with the natural world as it rapidly changes around us. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and video, artists in Biophilia examine the desires and contradictions that surround human relationships with nature.

Biophilia means “love of nature.” It is the innate human desire to be in touch with living things and to bond with nature. This term sets the tone for the exhibition and encourages respect and kindness towards all forms of life—microscopic organisms, plants, and animals—and every element of the environment. It contrasts the colonial perspective of a nourishing Mother Earth—whose resources are there to exploit—with worldviews that know the Earth as an entity to unite with, care for, and love, but not possess.

Biophilia is on now until October 11. Admission is by donation!

Photos by Sean Fenzl.

✂️NEW IN THE GALLERY STORE✂️ Looking for your next crafternoon activity? A gift for that creative person in your life wh...
08/13/2026

✂️NEW IN THE GALLERY STORE✂️

Looking for your next crafternoon activity? A gift for that creative person in your life who seems to have it all? We have a new selection of nature-themed collage and card-making kits inspired by our current exhibition, Biophilia. 🌿 we couldn’t resist opening a few kits to peek at what’s inside. 👀 These are made on Vancouver Island by Bella

The Gallery Store is open Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm & 12-5pm on Sundays. We are also open late for Commercial Street Night Market on Thursdays — including tonight. Pop by to browse our collection of locally-made products & grab your own collage kit!

Call for Indigenous Artists & Artisans in BC!You are invited to showcase & sell your work at our next Indigenous Artisan...
08/13/2026

Call for Indigenous Artists & Artisans in BC!

You are invited to showcase & sell your work at our next Indigenous Artisans Market September 16-30, 2026. The deadline to apply is August 21 (link in bio).

All mediums are welcome, including (but not limited to) fibre arts and textiles, carving, beadwork & jewelry, painting & prints, zines, ceramics, edible products

We have two summer day camps for ages 6-12 with spaces still open! Now is your chance to snag a spot before they fill up...
08/11/2026

We have two summer day camps for ages 6-12 with spaces still open! Now is your chance to snag a spot before they fill up 🎨

Enchanted Forest Day Camp:
Create magical landscapes and mythical creatures during this day of forest-themed fun.

🗓️ Monday August 31, 2026
⏰ 9am-4:30pm
📍 Nanaimo Art Gallery at 150 Commercial St.
🎟️ register through the link in our bio

Eco Art Explorers Day Camp:
Join us for a day of art making using the natural world and its beauty for inspiration.

🗓️ Tuesday September 1, 2026
⏰ 9am-4:30pm
📍 Nanaimo Art Gallery at 150 Commercial St.
🎟️ register through the link in our bio

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150 Commercial Street
Nanaimo, BC
V9R5G6

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Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 5pm

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