Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

Z’otz* Collective: Eccentric Coincidence

07/27/2021 — 07/27/2022

Inspired by the AGB’s architectural space and the cast of characters who wander these halls, Z’otz* have introduced a new eccentric troupe of creatures onto the scene with their expansive mural installation.

Slow Cloth

09/07/2021 — 01/09/2022

Slow Cloth is an exhibition that attempts to provide a better answer to that question by illustrating the process of and telling the story of what goes into making handwoven scarves. A team of sixteen artists ranging from weavers with many years of experience to those just starting out were challenged to design and weave a scarf drawing from the colour inspiration from one of a set of five images.

How to Read a Vessel

09/10/2021 — 01/09/2022

How to Read a Vessel is an experimental exhibition and communal site of learning that openly discusses the challenges and excitement of holding, caring for, and exhibiting this object-based, craft-forward permanent collection, while continuing to develop a vision that incorporates critical social practice at its core.

Ivy Knight: Jugs & Cans: A Reaping

09/10/2021 — 01/09/2022

This exhibition is a collection of over 150 empty vessels; jugs, cans, bottles, and boxes, collected from women in food across Canada and the United States. In gathering the containers Ivy collects the stories and struggles of the cooks, bakers, food writers, restaurateurs, and servers who opened, emptied, and used them. She then lovingly enrobes them in crocheted vestments to hold the donor’s voiced realities in a brightly coloured, protective shield of craft.

Past Exhibitions

Spring + Summer Exhibition Video

05/31/2021 — 08/29/2021

Take a guided tour through the AGB with Senior Curator Suzanne Carte and learn more about our Spring/Summer 2021 Exhibitions.

Monira Al Qadiri: Diver

03/19/2021 — 08/28/2021

This immersive video installation by Monira Al Qadiri represents a new chapter of her ongoing search for historical ties between the pre- and post-oil worlds in the Gulf.

Marina Dempster & Meera Sethi: In Visible

03/12/2021 — 08/28/2021

Adornment can be wielded as a means of protection or immunity against visible and invisible harm- like a talisman, power heels, or an indigo stole dyed with plants made from ancient ancestral processes.

Larry Weyand: Peeling the Sticker Off an Overripe Pear

03/12/2021 — 08/30/2021

St. John’s-based artist Larry Weyand explores family and memory through yarn and cloth, transforming moments in time into a series of two- and three-dimensional rugs.

P. Mansaram: The Medium is the Medium is the Medium

09/11/2020 — 01/03/2021

This exhibition of Burlington’s senior media artist P. Mansaram’s work thinks through the artist’s decades-long practice of repetition.

Paula Murray: You Are Me

09/11/2020 — 01/03/2021

Created for a solo exhibition at the Ottawa Art Gallery, this installation has toured Quebec and has been exhibited in the Taiwan Ceramic Biennale in 2018.

Stylo Starr 89DAMES

08/28/2020 — 12/30/2020

89DAMES explores the beauty of Black women from the so-called ‘glamorous’ era of the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Aesthetics of the Archives

03/07/2020 — 08/23/2020

Foreign Affairs

02/08/2020 — 08/18/2020

interlude

01/17/2020 — 03/01/2020

Division of Labour

01/10/2020 — 07/05/2020

Samantha Dickie: Holding Space

11/07/2019 — 01/26/2020

Helen Sovereign: Living Off the Land

11/07/2019 — 01/12/2020

The Gender Conspiracy

08/31/2019 — 12/31/2019

Burlington Potter’s Guild 50th Anniversary Exhibition

08/30/2019 — 10/07/2019

Grace Nickel: Eruptions

08/03/2019 — 10/27/2019

Legacy: A Life Spent Collecting

07/13/2019 — 01/05/2020

Robynne Cole: Guardian Spirits

07/12/2019 — 08/25/2019

Line Dufour: Worn Worlds

05/31/2019 — 07/07/2019

Jeneen Frei Njootli: my auntie bought all her skidoos with bead money

05/24/2019 — 08/18/2019

150 Acts: Art, Activism, Impact

05/24/2019 — 08/18/2019

In Common Uncommon

04/27/2019 — 07/27/2019

All Guilds Show, Lore: Myths, Legends, and other Stories

04/20/2019 — 05/19/2019

Denise McKay: In Search of Self

03/09/2019 — 04/28/2019

Ears, Eyes, Voice: Black Canadian Photojournalists 1970s – 1990s

02/09/2019 — 03/31/2019

Voices in Black Canadian Narratives

02/09/2019 — 03/31/2019

Territories in Metal

02/02/2019 — 03/31/2019

Chari Cohen: Sanctuary

01/09/2019 — 04/21/2019

Beautiful Scars: Mohawk Warriors, Hunters, and Chiefs – The Art of Tom Wilson

12/01/2018 — 01/27/2019

Dil Hildebrand & Patrick Thibert: Dancing on the Grave

12/01/2018 — 01/27/2019

Diana Thorneycroft: Black Forest (dark waters)

09/22/2018 — 11/18/2018

Round: Bowls & Vases

08/04/2018 — 10/07/2018

Patron’s Choice

08/04/2018 — 10/21/2018

A curated selection of work from the Collection by patrons and donors Bonnie Sylvia and Louise Cooke.

60 by 60

08/01/2018 — 09/16/2018

Showcase of a 60 piece collection of spinning, dyeing, beading, felting, weaving, and knitting, created by members past and present.