Category: FINA Gallery Exhibitions

Printmaking-based work made by students at the National Art Academy and the Art Faculty at Sofia University can currently be seen in the FINA Gallery.  The collection of work by ten students was organized as a Special Presentation within the 2021 Lessedra Mini Print Annual.  The works were curated by National Art Academy Associate Professor Rumyana Karastamova. Professor Karastamova writes “the...

Exhibition featuring artists from Cool Arts Society along with community members Cool Arts, in partnership with the Ponderosa Fibre Arts Guild, the Rotary Centre for the Arts, and Kelowna Museums, wove together a colourful fibre art banner over the summer of 2021. Much thanks also go to the City of Kelowna and CLBC who provided support to the project. The generosity of many volunteers through time and...

Exhibiting and giving a voice to BIPOC artists: The Circle of Ubuntu Exhibition Curated by the 2021 City of Kelowna Artist in Residence Lady Dia, Co-curator, Trophy Ewila, and project administrators in collaboration with the African Caribbean Student Club, The Circle of Ubuntu exhibition in the FINA Gallery expresses and celebrates BIPOC stories. The Circle of Ubuntu highlights and commemorates the...

Survey, a retrospective exhibition by alumni artist, Sara McDonald, is hosted by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies as part of Homecoming UBCO.  Originally from the Greater Vancouver area, Sara has lived in Kelowna since 1990. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2000) and Master of Arts (2011) from UBCO.Sara has maintained a visual arts practice since 2000,...

The Earth is my Elder is centred around the film, poetry and installation-based work of artist, poet and earth alchemist Krista Arias. Her work explores the complexities of reconnecting, as a woman and mother, to ancestral homelands, while living as an uninvited guest in Indigenous territories in the USA and Canada. As a member of the Xicana diaspora, Arias’ direct...