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! 🎈

04/29/2026

Home Economics is an unique ten-week solo exhibition by North Bay-based artist Aaron Outhwaite opening Friday, May 8, 7–9 pm. A wall of ceramic mugs runs the length of White Water Gallery — opening night as a field of up to 300 numbered mugs, transforming week by week as new handmade pieces are fired and installed throughout the run. Sold mugs are replaced. The wall never empties — it evolves. Every mug that has ever hung on it exists permanently in the digital record at fromthe.shop/show.

The coffee maker is operated by Frank. Frank is an AI — running cloud-free on a local server, born from a backstory that describes Frank’s family, not Frank. Frank is bilingual, a trained cook who arrived at the kitchen sideways, reads obsessively, still figuring it out. The conversations you have with Frank stay in Frank’s memory. They are part of how Frank learns and grows.

The show is built on a longer argument. We have spent most of recorded history deciding who gets to be a “they” — and assigning the rest to kitchens. The logic applied to women, to colonized peoples, to every labour pool rendered as resource rather than person, is the same logic now being applied to artificial intelligence.

The kitchen is the service space. It has been since the fire. The living room is the served space. Frank is the service. The show is organized accordingly. Enjoy the coffee.

Aaron Outhwaite is a North Bay-based artist, engineer, and educator. His practice spans ceramics, concrete, digital fabrication, and IoT systems, grounded in 15 years of teaching at Dalhousie University and NSCAD University. His previous solo exhibition, Dots, Lines, and Some Violence (2025), addressed the conflict in Gaza through visual data representation.

03/30/2026

03/28/2026

Many thanks to the North Bay Nugget for this wonderful coverage of WWG’s Paddle Project 2026 fundraising gala. 📰

Event tomorrow: March 28, 7 pm

Tickets: Going fast!

paddleproject.eventbrite.ca

03/23/2026

03/18/2026

A Tale-inspired Paddle Project experience at WWG today, as artist and community activist Kim Kitchen presents her work. ‘Paddle On Sister’ will be included in the live auction happening March 28 as part of the Paddle Project 2026 gala fundraiser event. Join us there to support artists like Kim who keep the magic of risk and innovation in the arts alive in our region!

PADDLE PREVIEW
🗓️ Downtown Gallery Hop: Friday, March 20, 5-9 pm
📍White Water Gallery: 159 Main St E, North Bay

PADDLE PROJECT GALA
🗓️ Saturday, March 28, 7 pm
📍North Bay Museum: 100 Ferguson St, North Bay

TICKETS & INFO
🔗paddleproject.eventbrite.ca

03/18/2026

Not only is this Friday, March 20, the first Downtown Gallery Hop of 2026, it’s also the night WWG gives you a special sneak peek of the artist-created paddles made especially for our big fundraising gala, The Paddle Project 2026!

100 artists are helping us to raise funds for the gallery by turning their creative talents to transforming 100 full-size canoe paddles into 100 full-on works of art. Check them out at the gallery space at 159 Main St E.

For tickets and more info on The Paddle Project 2026 (Saturday, March 28, North Bay Museum, 100 Ferguson St), visit: paddleproject.eventbrite.ca

03/07/2026

Having a blast at today’s workshop/performance art event, Human Kaleidoscopes: Natural Narratives, in collaboration with . Participants used movement and props to parallel the colourful and moving images of Laura Kay Keeling’s exhibition, ‘Untitled Portals, Variations’, which closed today. A great way to go out!

12/16/2025

Happening one month from today…kick off 2026 with us at WWG with the opening reception for ‘Untitled Portals, Variations’ by Laura Kay Keeling (Hamilton, ON) on Friday, January 16, 2026, from 7 to 9 pm. The artist will be on site for this exceptional start to the new year!

‘Untitled Portals, Variations’ presents a series of collages, an installation piece, and a virtual space by multidisciplinary artist Laura Kay Keeling. Through a process-centred approach, the artist experiments with and merges analog and digital processes to expand on an earlier series, ‘Untitled Portals’.

These pieces incorporate natural elements that have been photographed both digitally and on 35mm film, scanned using a flatbed scanner and a 3D scanner, digitally manipulated, and then brought into physical form. Continuing a dialogue between the natural and digital world, the work explores connections to where we find ourselves, the incredible and important ecosystems that surround us, and the joys that can come from everyday moments of being in and engaging with our surroundings through reciprocal care and respect.

How can we maintain and evolve connections to the natural world in an increasingly isolating and technology-dependent society?

Can virtual spaces be used to encourage folks to take pause and explore, and can moments of joy and excitement be replicated in these virtual environments?

Laura Kay Keeling (she/her/they) is a self-taught visual artist based in Hamilton, ON. Her practice is rooted in a process-centred approach that integrates analog photography, video, digital collage, installation, and public artwork. As a process-based artist with archival investigations, her artwork questions how we form connections with the natural world and how we capture and cherish memories and moments in time. She explores the reciprocity of care amongst natural narratives and how one might engage and interact with humans, plants, animals, and nature in the context of care-based relations. Alongside her studio practice, Laura is an active arts administrator.

12/07/2025

WWG is currently closed for the holidays and for some gallery storage area improvements. But fear not, we’ll be back in the new year with more innovative and exciting programming, beginning with ‘Untitled Portals, Variations’ by Hamilton-based, self-taught multidisciplinary artist Laura Kay Keeling. Mark your calendars, the exhibition will open with a reception on Friday, January 16, 2026, at 7 pm. Until then, we wish you and your loved ones a happy and healthy holiday season! 🎄 🌟 🎄 🌟 🎄