White Water Gallery

10/05/2026

A little pause. ✨

WWG will be closed Saturday, October 10, 2026, as we take a moment to step back, breathe, and reflect on the season.

We’re grateful for the artists, collaborators, volunteers, audiences, and community who keep this place moving, challenging, surprising, and very much alive.

09/28/2026

White Water Gallery will be closed on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, to observe National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We appreciate your support as we take the time to honour and remember both the children who were lost and the survivors of residential schools. Our organization supports Indigenous peoples and recognizes the struggles they continue to face.

09/22/2026

A huge thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for increasing funding support for White Water Gallery. ❤️

This kind of investment matters.

For nearly 50 years, WWG has been part of Northern Ontario’s artist-run culture — creating space for experimental work, challenging ideas, emerging and established artists, and the kinds of projects that don’t always fit neatly into conventional cultural institutions.

Increased public funding means more opportunities for artists, better support for the people making the work, and more capacity to keep an independent, experimental art space alive in Northern Ontario.

It means we get to keep being weird.
Keep taking risks.
Keep making trouble.
Keep giving artists a place to do things their own way.

Because artist-run culture isn’t an optional extra. It’s where a lot of the interesting stuff starts.

So thank you, OAC, for investing in artists — and in the wonderfully unruly thing that is artist-run culture.

WWG isn’t going anywhere.

Ontario Arts Council | Conseil des arts de l’Ontario
Victor Fedeli

09/21/2026

The Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance program supports Ontario-based artists and artist collectives working in visual arts, craft, and media art practices in the presentation of their artwork in a confirmed public exhibition.

This is a third-party recommender program. Using Nova, OAC’s online grant application system, artists can apply to our gallery as a recommender for the program. We assess all applications on an ongoing basis until our yearly funding has been allocated to artists.

WWG is a Zone 5 recommender. To find your zone, see the Map of Exhibition Assistance Zones on the OAC website.

Ontario Arts Council | Conseil des arts de l’Ontario

09/19/2026

09/10/2026

This Saturday, September 12, 2026, 6-9 pm! Don’t miss your chance to meet the artists, partake in some grief tea, and dance to some curated goth music at the opening for What We Make of the Dark by Schem Rogerson Bader and Terre Chartrand. All are welcome!

08/21/2026

Today! Stop on by, find a treasure…

08/21/2026

This evening during the Gallery Hop we will be having a "make us an offer" clean out sale of items we have removed from the storage unit. There are t-shirts (including some John H.U. Weiss printed tee's, digital cameras, an antique optometrist kit, fancy dishes, unclaimed art, painted paddles and much more. This a cash-only sale.

08/20/2026

WWG Board Statement On The Passing of Keith Campbell:

On June 3, 1983, the White Water Gallery hosted Seven Years, an exhibition celebrating its founding board of directors. Keith Campbell submitted a piece titled “Untitled – porcelain vase with airbrush decoration.” When asked about the name, we would guess that Keith likely offered a typical sardonic dare to the viewer: “I’ll let you fill in the blanks.”

The artist behind that unpretentious art piece title was one of the most brilliant and technically accomplished artistic minds in Canadian ceramics and glass. Keith didn’t just fill in those blanks over the next four decades, he forged a path to reshape the entire cultural identity of North Bay.

When Keith arrived with his wife Terry in 1977 to teach ceramics at Canadore College, the concept of an “alternative gallery” was prime material for his humor. As Keith and fellow local artists dryly asked: “Alternative to what?” At the time, there were no public galleries in North Bay. The White Water Gallery was quite literally an alternative to nothing at all, so Keith set to work helping to build the regional art scene from the ground up, co-founding the White Water Gallery, the W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, Artsperience, North Bay Art and Craft Co-op, the Nipissing Stage Company, and the North Bay Arts Council.

To talk to him, you met a wiry, sharp-witted, deeply unpretentious man. But behind that casual exterior and signature pantos-style glasses, was a man with a kaleidoscope of artistic discipline and extraordinary pedigree. As Canada’s first graduate in glass, Keith studied under masters like Ruth McKinley and Vivika Heino, founded the ceramics program at George Brown College, and earned over 50 honors, including the Governor General’s Medal and an Ojibwa Eagle Feather. His works reside in the Royal Ontario Museum, the National Museum of Civilization, and private collections worldwide.

As the White Water Gallery approaches its 50th anniversary under the leadership of his daughter, Executive Director Alex Maeve Campbell, our board and members reflect on an unfathomable legacy.

– From all of us at The White Water Gallery.

05/22/2026

Home Economics by North Bay-based artist, engineer, and educator Aaron Outhwaite has begun at White Water Gallery. Ceramic mugs are in place. The systematization of the kitchen is under way. Stay tuned for the sideways arrival of Frank — trained cook, bilingual, artificial intelligence — serving the coffee. Visit WWG to experience the evolution of this unique exhibition, May 15 to July 11, 2026.

🎈Open 5–9 pm on Friday, May 29, for North Bay’s Downtown Gallery Hop! 🎈