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Godfrey Dean Art Gallery

Providing meaningful engagement with the arts. Our programming, workshops, and public engagement activities reflect the creative diversity of our community.

As the only professional public art gallery in our area, we focus on curating, exhibiting, and promoting the work of local artists as well as other artists based in Saskatchewan and across Canada. Through workshops and public programming, we fulfill our mandate to provide high quality, relevant, and diverse artistic experiences for our community. The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery is located in Yorkton,

in Central-East Saskatchewan, on Treaty 4, land of the Cree, Ojibwe, Saulteaux, Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and homeland of the Métis Nation. www.godfreydeanartgallery.ca/

08/31/2026

[Free] Online Artist Talk + Collective Exercise in Looking

Meganelizabeth Diamond.
The Sky as a Performance Site

Sat, Sept 5th, 2026 @ 2pm (SK) / 3pm (MB)

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Presented in conjunction with GLIMPSE, Diamond’s solo exhibition at Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, The Sky as a Performance Site considers clouds, photography, afterimages, and the act of looking upward. Moving between artist talk, visual essay, and participatory performance, Diamond will explore sky burn an ongoing practice of staring into the sky long enough for an image to linger after it has changed and the ways photographs attempt to hold what is already disappearing.

Viewers are encouraged to tune in from an outdoor location, or from somewhere with a view of the sky.

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Presented by Godfrey Dean Art Gallery. Co-Hosted by Paved Arts & BlackFlash Magazine.

REGISTER for Zoom link: [email protected]

08/24/2026

Now on view: Faith Rae - Where the Garden Heals
Aug 8 - Sept 19, 2026

Image series: Resilience

"Where the Garden Heals is an art exhibition about my art therapy capstone thesis project, to expand my understanding of my self-esteem through an art-based self-inquiry research, to discover new in-depth meaning of my lived experience in relation to gardening and macro photography. This project answers the central question: how do art therapy practices improve self-esteem and self-care? The process of digital storytelling focuses on presence, as macro photography captures the up-close, intimate process of gardening, metaphorically correlating the growth of roots, fruits and seeds into my evolving self-esteem. Storytelling is a fundamental part of filmmaking that supports ownership, self-regulation, and identity experimentation, according to Klassen (2021).

Throughout the process, I found the arts-based approach natural to explore, as it has been a useful coping strategy for developing my confidence and insight at multiple stages of my life. The Expressive Therapies Continuum Model by Lisa Hinz (2019) provides a theoretical framework for art therapy to assess how we experience and process information utilizing different art media, explained by material properties (fluid/resistive), structure of the art exploration and task complexity. My arts-based approach is primarily focused on resistive art media (macro photography) that is cognitively oriented and grounded in a personal state of control. To move forward with self-care as a new art therapist, I need to align the self-work with the artistic process because, in my creative process, I am allowed to express what is suppressed, reflect and reframe what I have been struggling with. This art exhibition demonstrates helpful approaches in art therapy for any adult who struggles with their self-esteem and self-care practices.”
- Faith Rae

08/21/2026

Meganelizabeth Diamond: GLIMPSE
On view July 11 - Sept 18, 2026

EXHIBITION STATEMENT
GLIMPSE is a collection of built photographic images and objects that utilize clouds and the sky to consider fleeting encounters, afterimages, and the transient nature of observation. Through aluminum sky scans, velvet Lexan prints, resin 3D prints, image transfers, and sky Polaroids, Diamond utilizes photographic processes that move between image and object, surface and volume. Developed through an ongoing practice of sky burn, clouds become both subject and framework, appearing, dissolving, and re-emerging across materials and forms.

A glimpse. A blink. A cloud already becoming something else.

~ For Jan

With the generous support from the Manitoba Arts Council
GDAG gratefully acknowledges the support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, SK Arts, the City of Yorkton, Sask Culture, Sask Lotteries, Painted Hand Development Corp., Sasktel, Yorkton and District Community Foundation, and Heritage Canada.

08/13/2026

Now on view: Faith Rae - Where the Garden Heals
Aug 8 - Sept 19, 2026

Image series: Protection

"Where the Garden Heals is an art exhibition about my art therapy capstone thesis project, to expand my understanding of my self-esteem through an art-based self-inquiry research, to discover new in-depth meaning of my lived experience in relation to gardening and macro photography. This project answers the central question: how do art therapy practices improve self-esteem and self-care? The process of digital storytelling focuses on presence, as macro photography captures the up-close, intimate process of gardening, metaphorically correlating the growth of roots, fruits and seeds into my evolving self-esteem. Storytelling is a fundamental part of filmmaking that supports ownership, self-regulation, and identity experimentation, according to Klassen (2021).

Throughout the process, I found the arts-based approach natural to explore, as it has been a useful coping strategy for developing my confidence and insight at multiple stages of my life. The Expressive Therapies Continuum Model by Lisa Hinz (2019) provides a theoretical framework for art therapy to assess how we experience and process information utilizing different art media, explained by material properties (fluid/resistive), structure of the art exploration and task complexity. My arts-based approach is primarily focused on resistive art media (macro photography) that is cognitively oriented and grounded in a personal state of control. To move forward with self-care as a new art therapist, I need to align the self-work with the artistic process because, in my creative process, I am allowed to express what is suppressed, reflect and reframe what I have been struggling with. This art exhibition demonstrates helpful approaches in art therapy for any adult who struggles with their self-esteem and self-care practices.”
- Faith Rae

08/08/2026

Now on view: Faith Rae - Where the Garden Heals
Aug 8 - Sept 19, 2026

"Where the Garden Heals is an art exhibition about my art therapy capstone thesis project, to expand my understanding of my self-esteem through an art-based self-inquiry research, to discover new in-depth meaning of my lived experience in relation to gardening and macro photography. This project answers the central question: how do art therapy practices improve self-esteem and self-care? The process of digital storytelling focuses on presence, as macro photography captures the up-close, intimate process of gardening, metaphorically correlating the growth of roots, fruits and seeds into my evolving self-esteem. Storytelling is a fundamental part of filmmaking that supports ownership, self-regulation, and identity experimentation, according to Klassen (2021).

Throughout the process, I found the arts-based approach natural to explore, as it has been a useful coping strategy for developing my confidence and insight at multiple stages of my life. The Expressive Therapies Continuum Model by Lisa Hinz (2019) provides a theoretical framework for art therapy to assess how we experience and process information utilizing different art media, explained by material properties (fluid/resistive), structure of the art exploration and task complexity. My arts-based approach is primarily focused on resistive art media (macro photography) that is cognitively oriented and grounded in a personal state of control. To move forward with self-care as a new art therapist, I need to align the self-work with the artistic process because, in my creative process, I am allowed to express what is suppressed, reflect and reframe what I have been struggling with. This art exhibition demonstrates helpful approaches in art therapy for any adult who struggles with their self-esteem and self-care practices.”
- Faith Rae

GDAG gratefully acknowledges the support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, SK Arts, the City of Yorkton, Sask Culture, Sask Lotteries, Painted Hand Development Corp., Sasktel, Yorkton and District Community Foundation, and Heritage Canada.

08/01/2026

Meganelizabeth Diamond: GLIMPSE
On view July 11 - Sept 18, 2026

EXHIBITION STATEMENT

GLIMPSE is a collection of built photographic images and objects that utilize clouds and the sky to consider fleeting encounters, afterimages, and the transient nature of observation. Through aluminum sky scans, velvet Lexan prints, resin 3D prints, image transfers, and sky Polaroids, Diamond utilizes photographic processes that move between image and object, surface and volume. Developed through an ongoing practice of sky burn, clouds become both subject and framework, appearing, dissolving, and re-emerging across materials and forms.

A glimpse. A blink. A cloud already becoming something else.

For Jan

With the generous support from the Manitoba Arts Council

GDAG gratefully acknowledges the support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, SK Arts, the City of Yorkton, Sask Culture, Sask Lotteries, Painted Hand Development Corp., Sasktel, Yorkton and District Community Foundation, and Heritage Canada.

07/17/2026

Meganelizabeth Diamond: GLIMPSE
On view July 11 - Sept 18, 2026

EXHIBITION STATEMENT

GLIMPSE is a collection of built photographic images and objects that utilize clouds and the sky to consider fleeting encounters, afterimages, and the transient nature of observation. Through aluminum sky scans, velvet Lexan prints, resin 3D prints, image transfers, and sky Polaroids, Diamond utilizes photographic processes that move between image and object, surface and volume. Developed through an ongoing practice of sky burn, clouds become both subject and framework, appearing, dissolving, and re-emerging across materials and forms.

A glimpse. A blink. A cloud already becoming something else.

For Jan

With the generous support from the Manitoba Arts Council

GDAG gratefully acknowledges the support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, SK Arts, the City of Yorkton, Sask Culture, Sask Lotteries, Painted Hand Development Corp., Sasktel, Yorkton and District Community Foundation, and Heritage Canada.

06/30/2026

Congratulations to the winners of our draws held June 27th at the closing of The Members’ Show at Godfrey Dean Art Gallery!

Joelle S. of Yorkton was the winner of the 50/50 Draw.

Basket Raffles Draws:
Art Basket Winner - Emily S. of Yorkton
BBQ Basket Winner - Carol M. of Yorkton
Golf Basket Winner - Gerald D. of Churchbridge

Thank you to our partners and sponsors for their generosity: Legacy Co-op, City of Yorkton, Harvest Meats, Venvi The Bentley and the Board of Directors at GDAG. As well, we would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who contributed and visited the gallery throughout the month of June.

All winners have been contacted. Thank you for your support!

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49 Smith Street East
Yorkton, SK
S3N0H4

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 5pm
Tuesday	11am - 5pm
Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	1pm - 4pm

Website

http://www.godfreydeanartgallery.ca/

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