Owens Art Gallery

Trees and a row of lush, green bushes with clusters of pink and white flowers are reflected on a glass window, with a faint grid-like structure. The sunlight is concentrated in the center creating a bright, glowing effect. The surrounding area is dimly lit, vignetting the yellow and blue sky.

🧑‍🎓 Upcoming Exhibition | Last(ing) Impressions: Pierre Lassonde School of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2026

March 21 – May 12, 2026
Reception: Saturday, May 9, 2 – 4 pm

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📸: Anabel Donison

A handmade artwork made of colourful felt pieces is being held by two hands. The background is a teal rectangle with various geometric felt shapes arranged on it. In the center is a vibrant orange circle surrounded by a white border, resembling a sun. Radiating from the sun are triangular shapes in pink and purple. Additional shapes include red, pink, and purple ovals, rectangles, and a couple of purple triangles.

🌎 Cut your own shapes from colourful felt to create a moveable, changeable felt board artwork at Make Something Sunday: Felt World—Sunday 15 March, 2:00-4:00 pm

Make Something Sunday are FREE workshops for kids 12 and under and their adults.

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Two hands hold a blue felted hand, palm side up.

🪡 MAKER MAKER: Needle Felting with Alana Morouney—Wednesday 11 March, 7:00-9:00 PM

Learn to needle felt with Sackville’s Alana Morouney! We will have baskets full of soft roving for you to transform into your own sweet creations to take home.

✨ FREE owensartgallery.com/owens/maker-...

A red glowing heart is in the middle of the image on a red background. The heart's outline is decorated with small light pink and white beading, some are dripping delicately from the bottom of the heart. In the center of the heart is the text The Sweetest Little Thing 2026 also in beading. 2026 GRAPHICS BY EMMA HASSENCAHL-PERLEY

The Sweetest Little Thing Fundraising Art Auction returns Saturday 14 February. Celebrate art and community at our annual silent auction, in support of the @owensartgallery.bsky.social and @strutsgallery.bsky.social
www.sweetestlittlething.ca

Five black cards with colourful cosmic designs and glittering stickers are strung on blue cord.

🌟 String together a dreamy garland of paper flags that will sparkle, shine, and glow at our Make Something Sunday Family Program: Glow Garland—Sunday 14 December, 2:00-4:00 pm

For kids 12 and under and their grownups. FREE.

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We're screening HIGH AND LOW at 7pm this Friday, Nov. 21 at the Owens Art Gallery @owensartgallery.bsky.social. Programmer @patrickallaby.bsky.social will be introducing the film.

In a corner of a gallery space, someone sits reading a zine in a well-worn armchair with a floral pattern. On the wall beside them, there's two small shelves filled with zines.

I have work in this beautiful show at the @owensartgallery.bsky.social alongside a bunch of incredible artists whose work I've admired for a long time and I'm pretty excited about it! The show is up until Dec. 14th and, like everything at the Owens, it's free to attend!

(Photo by Rodger J. Smith)

A hand holds an embroidery hoop embellished with vibrant colourful yarn, beads, and large sequins on beige burlap fabric. Yarn loops over the edge of the hoop and in the top right, a vibrant piece of blue toile extends off the edge.

🧵 Take an experimental approach to embroidery at our Make Something Sunday Family Program: Freestyle Stitching— Sunday 16 November, 2:00-4:00 pm

FREE. For kids 2-12 and their adults.

Find the full line up of Make Something Sundays @ owensartgallery.com/owens/make-something-sunday/ 🔗✨

Today @ the Owens!

A hand holds a black and white group photograph showing a large gathering of people posed in front of and on an outdoor stairway attached to a brick building.

You're invited to be a part of Here/Now: A Community Tintype Portrait with Karen Stentaford!

Sunday 9 November @ 11am, 1pm and 3pm
On the steps of the Owens

Take part in a collective portrait and share in the experience of coming together. Everyone is invited!

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❤️ On view: The Sackville Art Association's Annual Members Exhibition

The SAA supports art and artists in the region through education and exhibition opportunities. We'd like to extend heartfelt thanks to the SAA for their generous $500 donation to the Owens, supporting our art education programs.

🌈: Leah Garnett, The sunlight that curved to meet me, 2018, site-specific installation. Courtesy of the artist.

Three people stand below an art installation of colourful yarn arranged in arcs across two walls. The yarn is a spectrum of colours including red, yellow, green, blue, and purple, suspended forming smooth curves. The left segment of the installation has shorter loops with the ends hanging vertically and touching the ground, where small, colourful balls can be seen at the base.

🌈 Is there anything more magical than standing under a rainbow?

We're getting a hefty deluge of rain in Sackville today, but inside the Gallery, Leah Garnett’s The sunlight that curved to meet me (2018) glows with hope for future rainbows.

See it for yourself as part of Art = Work, on view now.

A group of people stand together on a staircase, all smiling for the photograph.

🎉 Celebrate 90 Years of the Sackville Art Association

Exhibition: 2 November - 7 December 2025
Opening Reception: Sunday 2 November @ 3:00 pm

The SAA is celebrating their 90th anniversary with an exhibition of 90 works from their members, past and present.

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A hand holds an open paper booklet with intricately cut and layered pages. The booklet contains pages in bright orange, purple, blue, and red with various cut-out shapes and punched holes.

📖 This Sunday at our Make Something Sunday Family Program, we're making Extraordinary Books—26 October, 2:00-4:00 pm

FREE. Drop-in for half an hour or stay for two. No booking required.

Learn more about Make Something Sundays @ owensartgallery.com/owens/make-something-sunday/ 🔗✨

MAKER MAKER: Little Books with Laura K. Watson MAKER MAKER is a series of seriously small after hours art workshops at the Owens Art Gallery. This short video profiles Maker Mentor Laura K. Watson. MAKER MAKER…

Step inside Laura K. Watson's whimsical Sackville studio, and get excited to make your own small-scale, one-of-a-kind, handbound books at MAKER MAKER: Wednesday 22 October, 7:00 - 9:00 PM.

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A pair of hands holds six small books above a wooden table. Each has a unique cover. The second from the top of the pile is green, featuring a black cat illustration with the words "IN BLOOM." The next is brown with an illustration of a person with their hair in a bun, and has words partially visible. The smallest book, on the top of the pile reads 'To a friend' above a drawing of an acorn and green oak leaf, on brown paper.

📚 MAKER MAKER: Little Books with Laura K. Watson
Wednesday, 22 October, 7:00–9:00 PM

Get ready for a bookbinding extravaganza with Sackville artist and writer Laura K. Watson at the next MAKER MAKER.

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Free, and all materials are provided.

Trees with red, yellow, orange and green leaves are painted with quick loose brushstrokes.

🍁 Is there anything better than the colours of fall?

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Christian McKiel, untitled, n.d. oil on board, 30.3 x 40.6 cm. Gift of Margaret Patricia Eaton ('69). Collection of the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University.

Red text on a sign reads "Gallery closed for installation". In the background, out of focus, is a gallery with red walls and many paintings in gold frames. A person walks holding one painting towards a cart.

⚠️ The Owens will be closed from Monday 29 September through Sunday 19 October as we install the new exhibition Art = Work in all the main floor gallery spaces.

We will resume our normal opening hours on Monday, 20 October and look forward to sharing the new Exhibition Art=Work with you soon after!

A hand holds five colourful zines in front of a maple tree with red, orange, yellow and green leaves. The frontmost zine features falling leaves, and a boot splashing in a puddle with the text "step into Autumn".

🍂 Welcome Autumn!

Autumn invites us to slow down and look closely at how the season is changing around us. Celebrate these changes and everything autumn with the help of these zines from the Owens Teeny Tiny Zine Library.

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The purchase of our Lectus “New York” stools for the Owens and Colville House was made possible through core funding from the Canada Council for the Arts and a special grant from the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture (Arts Wellness Component, Strategic Initiatives Fund).

A group of students sit on black stools in a gallery with framed paintings and works on paper hung salon style against deep red walls. A plaster cast of the Venus de Milo is displayed on a wooden plinth in the corner of the room.

🪑 Take a seat the next time you visit—we've got new museum stools!

These versatile, lightweight stools provide a flexible seating option allowing you to pause and rest during your visit, linger with a favourite artwork or draw in the galleries.

A hand holds up a black fabric banner adorned with gold embroidery and fringes. A pair of scissors surrounded by a measuring tape is stitched in shimmering gold thread. The background is a room with shelves upon shelves of DVDs and a couch on the left.

🪡 MAKER MAKER: Mini Banners with Melissa Morris—Wednesday, 17 September, 7–9 pm

Join Sackville artist Melissa Morris to learn some simple stitches and make a mini banner of your own design.

✨ MAKER MAKER is free, and all materials are provided: owensartgallery.com/owens/maker-maker/

A hand holds a wooden square filled with an array of colourful stamps including geometric shapes, stars, and swirls.

🙌 Make Something Sunday Family Programs return this Fall starting with Hand-Stamped Panels—21 September 2-4 pm

Use our amazing stamp collection to play with pattern and colour!

Make Something Sunday is a FREE monthly program for kids under 12 + their adults.

owensartgallery.com/owens/make-s...

A hand holds up a black fabric banner adorned with gold embroidery and fringes. A pair of scissors surrounded by a measuring tape is stitched in shimmering gold thread. The background is a room with shelves upon shelves of DVDs and a couch on the left.

🪡 MAKER MAKER: Mini Banners with Melissa Morris—Wednesday, 17 September, 7–9 pm

Join Sackville artist Melissa Morris to learn some simple stitches and make a mini banner of your own design.

✨ MAKER MAKER is free, and all materials are provided: owensartgallery.com/owens/maker-maker/

📸: Former Intern Hannah Bridger installing an artwork label circa 2020

An adult with blonde hair wearing a black top and jeans places a label on a gallery wall using a red laser level. The artwork is a framed black-and-white photograph of a person walking backwards on a road surrounded by hay fields. There is a marsh barn in the distance.

👋 Internship Opportunity: Work at the Owens as a Community Engagement and Access Assistant

Application Deadline: 21 September 2025
Term: 1 October 2025 to 30 April 2026
Salary: $18.00 per hour, 3-5 hours per week

💥 Full details @ owensartgallery.com/owens/intern...

📸 1: Marjory Rogers Donaldson, Untitled (Interior, Owens Art Gallery), 1946, oil on board, Purchased with funds from the Ruth Lockhart Eisenhauer Art Fund
📸 2&3: Installation views of the Salon Hanging 2025. Photo: Roger J. Smith.

The iconic Venus plaster cast, and several of the paintings within Marjory's painting are currently on view again today in the Salon Hanging. How many do can you recognize?

Painted in muted colours, two women stand at easels painting in a high-walled gallery. Behind them, a plaster cast of the Venus de Milo is displayed on a plinth.

In a gallery with high ceilings, framed paintings and works on paper are hung salon style against deep red walls. A plaster cast of the Venus de Milo is displayed on a wooden plinth in the corner of the room. In the centre of the room there is a wooden bench.

In a gallery with high ceilings, framed paintings and works on paper are hung salon style against deep red walls. In the centre of the room there is a wooden bench.

🍂 Happy first day back to class!

Back in 1946, Marjory Rogers Donaldson painted what a typical class would look like for her. Painting right in the Owens Art Gallery was a common occurrence, allowing students to learn to paint by copying works from the Owens Collection.