Owens Art Gallery

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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.

⚠️ Important Accessibility Update Starting today, Thursday, 27 August 2026, part of our entrance ramp is being repaired,...
08/27/2026

⚠️ Important Accessibility Update

Starting today, Thursday, 27 August 2026, part of our entrance ramp is being repaired, and will be unavailable for use until Wednesday, 2 September.

Because our other entrances require stairs, we will have no accessible entrance available during this time. We sincerely apologize for this.

The stairs to the Owens from the entrance nearest the University Chapel, and the York Street side entrance stairs are still available for use.

Please get in touch if you have any questions about your visit.

🙌 WE ARE HIRING for three(!!!) student employment opportunities at the Owens.From gaining hands-on experience as an Educ...
08/26/2026

🙌 WE ARE HIRING for three(!!!) student employment opportunities at the Owens.

From gaining hands-on experience as an Education Assistant, to welcoming visitors at the Information Desk, and working with our ever-growing Zine Library, find the role that matches your interests.

Education Assistants help facilitate hands-on artmaking workshops for children 12 and under and their adults at the Owens' family program, Make Something Sunday.

Information Desk Student Assistants are the first point of contact for all visitors to the Owens and represent the Gallery with warmth, enthusiasm, and genuine interest in connecting people with art.

The Teeny Tiny Zine Library Assistant will help with research, outreach initiatives, and care of the Owens’ Zine Library of nearly 900 zines.

Applications are due 8 September 2026

🔗✨ Read the full details @ https://owensartgallery.com/owens/internship-opportunities/

📸: 2025-2026 Education Assistants Ava, Teagan, and Theo
📸: Former student Assistant Ranz (BFA '24) at the Owens' Information Desk.
📸: Summer interns Claire and Bre with the Teeny Tiny Zine Library circa 2019.

🏡 Last chance this summer: Visit Colville House this week!Colville House is open by appointment each summer. Inside, you...
08/25/2026

🏡 Last chance this summer: Visit Colville House this week!

Colville House is open by appointment each summer. Inside, you can explore the life and work of artist Alex Colville, including a recreation of the artist’s studio, complete with his studio supplies.

Colville House was home to Alex, his wife Rhoda, their four children, and a procession of pets from 1949 to 1973.

✨ Last day to visit for the 2026 season: Saturday, August 29.
🔗 Book your visit @ https://owensartgallery.com/visit/colville-house/

🌸 In the shade of taller shrubs, delicate pink and white mayflowers spring to life in this small painting by Amelia Eliz...
08/21/2026

🌸 In the shade of taller shrubs, delicate pink and white mayflowers spring to life in this small painting by Amelia Elizabeth Pickard (1849-1936).

Amelia Elizabeth Pickard and her sister Mary Emerancy Pickard (1847-1918) were two of the first recipients of a Mistress of Liberal Arts from the female branch of the Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy in 1866. Their Father, Reverend Humphrey Pickard, was the first president of the Mount Allison Academy (1843), Ladies' College (1854), and University (1862). After receiving her degree, Amelia was a major force in establishing The Alumnae Society of the Mount Allison Ladies’ College in 1871, which eventually became a part of the Mount Allison Federated Alumni.

See this curious little painting in the exhibition 'a rush of friendship for stones and grasses' which invites you to look at the world from a ground level point of view.

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Amelia Elizabeth Pickard, Woodland Flowers, c.1866, oil on canvas. Collection of the Owens Art Gallery. Gift of Bill Evans and Heather Patterson.

👀 These two works deserve a double take! The exhibition At First Glance is all about artworks in the Owens Collection “f...
08/19/2026

👀 These two works deserve a double take!

The exhibition At First Glance is all about artworks in the Owens Collection “finding commonalities with neighbours.”

There is certainly some commonalties between A.Y. Jackson's Barn at Port au Persil, Quebec, and Joanna Close's The Garage. Though Jackson's barn is a painted with bold brushwork, and Close's garage is hooked wool on burlap, both essential farm buildings share a similar architecture.

Discover dozens more unexpected pairings from the collection in At First Glance, on view until 6 September.

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Top: A.Y. Jackson, Barn at Port au Persil, Quebec, n.d., oil on board. Gift of the Studio Club, Mount Allison University, 1950. Bottom: Joanna Close, The Garage, 2012, hooked wool on burlap. Purchased with funds from the Ruth Lockhart Eisenhauer Art Fund.

08/17/2026

⚠️ Please note the Owens will close early at 2:30 p.m. today, Monday, August 17, 2026, for building maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Throughout her career, Erica Rutherford worked in many mediums, including painting, film, writing, and printmaking.Ruthe...
08/14/2026

Throughout her career, Erica Rutherford worked in many mediums, including painting, film, writing, and printmaking.

Rutherford's keen sense of colour shines through in her prints, which use bold, flat colours to depict self-portraits, landscapes of PEI, and vibrant scenes of domestic life.

After purchasing a farmhouse on Prince Edward Island, Rutherford and her former wife, Gail Turner, actively encouraged printmaking on the island. In the 1990s Rutherford hosted printmakers' workshops and artist retreats, which brought artists from Open Studio in Toronto to her home. Erica and Gail were also instrumental in setting up the Printmaker’s Council of PEI in Charlottetown.

Explore a variety of prints by Rutherford among her paintings in the current exhibition Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works.

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Erica Rutherford, The Startled Model, 1972, serigraph and lithograph on paper, ed. 1/6, 87.5 x 67.3 cm, Collection of the Rutherford Family, Prince Edward Island. ©Estate of Erica Rutherford.

😴 🗣️ Two gatherings, one lively and engaging, the other more subdued.Despite the differences in energy, these two painti...
08/12/2026

😴 🗣️ Two gatherings, one lively and engaging, the other more subdued.

Despite the differences in energy, these two paintings share a common theme: gathering to listen. A. Stanick's A Political Discussion features a lively debate among its subjects, while the folks seated and listening to a skeleton tickle the ivories in Humphrey's Studio Musicale look a bit blasé about the whole situation.

Compare and contrast these two works yourself. Paired together in At First Glance, this exhibition finds kinships and commonalities between works in the Owens Collection.

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Left: Jack Humphrey, Studio Musicale, c. 1941, oil on Masonite. Collection of the Owens Art Gallery. Purchased with funds from the Ruth Lockhart Eisenhauer Art Fund.
Right: A. Stanick, A Political Discussion, c. 1885, oil on canvas. Collection of the Owens Art Gallery.

📸 "The excitement, for me, lies not in photographing and reproducing something I can see, but in revealing the impercept...
08/10/2026

📸 "The excitement, for me, lies not in photographing and reproducing something I can see, but in revealing the imperceptible (and maybe only the imagined) using the physics of light and time and traditional darkroom techniques." —Dianne Bos

Dianne Bos' photographs challenge the idea of photography as a way to "capture an instant in time." By using pinhole cameras and long exposure times, she records the passage of time at a site rather than a single moment.

For Wildflowers Mix, France (2021), Bos got low to the ground with the plants, immersing us in a blur of movement. Stems, leaves, and flowers dance in the wind surrounded by mysterious floating orbs. The dreamlike image evokes time, memory, and the essence of a particular place.

See this work in the exhibition a rush of friendship for stones and grasses, on view now.

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Dianne Bos, Wildflowers Mix, France, 2021, chromogenic print from pinhole negative with darkroom manipulations. Collection of the Owens Art Gallery. Purchased with funds from the Ruth Lockhart Eisenhauer Art Fund.

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