Owens Art Gallery

Owens Art Gallery Connect with art and artists at the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University.
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The Owens is a place where you will encounter lively, innovative artwork, discover your own history, meet artists, engage with your community, and have fun.

🩷 Now Open! Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening vernissage of this...
05/31/2026

🩷 Now Open! Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening vernissage of this major survey of British-Canadian artist Erica Rutherford’s (1923–2008) work.

Making its stop in Sackville as a part of a nation wide tour, Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works will be on view at the Owens all summer, until September 13, 2026.

Curated by Pan Wendt. Organized by Confederation Centre Art Gallery in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada

🌱 Upcoming Exhibition | a rush of friendship for stones and grassesOn view 6 June - 13 DecemberBringing together works t...
05/30/2026

🌱 Upcoming Exhibition | a rush of friendship for stones and grasses
On view 6 June - 13 December

Bringing together works that study, reinterpret, and immerse us in the overlooked worlds that exist at ground level, this exhibition invites you to shift your perspective, slow down, and consider what lies just below your feet. In doing so, your daily commute, a patch of gravel, or a scattering of weeds on a sports field can become a site of unexpected wonder.

Works by Amanda Amour-Lynx, Robert Bourdeau, Jeff Burns, Alex Colville, Jerry Evans, Tom Forrestall, Violet A. Gillett, Dawn George, Jack Weldon Humphrey, Roel Jacobs, Garry Neill Kennedy, Dennis Oppenheim, Amelia Elizabeth Pickard, Mary Pratt, and Roberta Taylor

Curated by Rachel Thornton, Curator of Digital Engagement

Image: Dawn George, See Weeds (still), 2017, single-channel video, super 8mm, 16mm, stereo audio, 3:20 min

🦺 Heads up! We are open, but our York Street entrance is temporarily closed in preparation for construction work on the ...
05/29/2026

🦺 Heads up! We are open, but our York Street entrance is temporarily closed in preparation for construction work on the front steps.

To visit the Owens, please use our other entrance (the campus-side entrance closest to the Mount Allison Chapel) until construction is complete.

👀 Opening TONIGHT | Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and WorksTake an intimate look at Erica Rutherford's (1923–2008) life an...
05/29/2026

👀 Opening TONIGHT | Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works

Take an intimate look at Erica Rutherford's (1923–2008) life and practice through a career spanning retrospective of her artworks, alongside personal photographs and memorabilia in this nationally touring exhibition.

PEI’s Erica Rutherford was a painter, writer, and performer whose work reflects a lifelong engagement with identity, gender, and belonging. Rutherford's experience of transitioning and living across the gender binary deeply informed her art.

On view at the Owens until 13 September

Curated by Pan Wendt, this exhibition is organized and circulated by Confederation Centre Art Gallery in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada

🙏 This is a Caitlin appreciation post!We'd like to extend an extensive thank you to our Curatorial Assistant Caitlin Gal...
05/28/2026

🙏 This is a Caitlin appreciation post!

We'd like to extend an extensive thank you to our Curatorial Assistant Caitlin Gallant, who is just finishing up a year-long contract with the Owens this week.

Caitlin previously worked at the Owens as our Publications Archive and Distribution Assistant intern as a student, was one of our summer interns last summer, and stayed on to help the gallery with accessibility- related work, tons of event- related preparations, a wide range of clerical and administrative projects, proofreading plenty of publications and labels, hand-modeling many wonderfully random social media photos, and helping make major progress on the movement of artworks in the Library ahead of their upcoming construction projects.

Thank you so much for all of your hard work, enthusiasm, and careful attention to all the little details Caitlin!

🏡 Step inside Colville House this summer, and discover the life and work of Alex Colville.Now open by appointment in Jun...
05/26/2026

🏡 Step inside Colville House this summer, and discover the life and work of Alex Colville.

Now open by appointment in June, July, and August, Colville House was the home of Canadian artist Alex Colville, his wife Rhoda, and their four children, from 1949 to 1973. Explore a recreation of the artist's studio, and displays that trace his artistic process and career.

Head to owensartgallery.com/visit/colville-house/ to book your visit.

🌈 So many incredible DIY sketchbooks were made at yesterday’s Make Something Sunday Family Workshop!With colourful colla...
05/25/2026

🌈 So many incredible DIY sketchbooks were made at yesterday’s Make Something Sunday Family Workshop!

With colourful collages, patterned washi tape, and drawings transforming the covers, every sketchbook was as unique as its maker.

Thank you to all the families who joined us—this was our final Make Something Sunday of the season, but we’re already looking forward to returning in the Fall with a new series of monthly hands-on workshops for families. See you then!

05/24/2026

📖 We have oodles of colourful papers, stacks of washi tapes, and a plethora of pattered paper to customize your own pocket-sized sketchbook at Make Something Sunday Family Program: DIY Sketchbook

⭐️ Today Sunday 24 May, 2:00–4:00 pm

For kids 12 and under and their grownups. Free!

"Making art and making a life is an ongoing inquiry."—Nancy Stevens (Class of ’56)The current exhibition Gathering featu...
05/23/2026

"Making art and making a life is an ongoing inquiry."—Nancy Stevens (Class of ’56)

The current exhibition Gathering features recent work by Nancy Stevens alongside a selection of graduate self-portraits from the Classes of 1951, 1956, and 1961.

Known primarily for vibrant, geometric abstractions, Nancy draws inspiration from a wide range of interests, including music, language, art history, nature, and the transient events of everyday life.

Gathering is on view for just one more week. Visit Nancy's vibrant geometric paintings before Sunday 31 May.

📸: Nancy (right) and Owens Director/Curator Emily Falvey (left) in Gathering, and Nancy posing with her self-portrait (top left with the yellow background).

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61 York Street
Sackville, NB
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Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 1pm - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

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(506) 364-2574

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