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Shazia Ahmad: Three Years, Two Gardens, One Feeling

July 8th - August 27th, 2022

Annual Members’ Exhibition 2022 – Potluck

July 8th - August 27th, 2022

HOLD FAST: 2022 Call for Pop-Ups

Deadline: July 18, 2022

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👀 Sneak peek of all the fabulous submissions fo

👀 Sneak peek of all the fabulous submissions for our 2022 Members' Show, just waiting to be installed!

If you've submitted work via email, don't forget to bring your piece in before the end of this Saturday! We will be closed tomorrow, Friday July 1st for the holiday. If you can't make it on Saturday, let us know and we can try to coordinate something!

Have a good long weekend! 💫

Next week Shazia Ahmad's exhibition Three Years, T

Next week Shazia Ahmad's exhibition Three Years, Two Gardens, One Feeling opens in the rOGUE Gallery! The show will open on July 8th, and from 6:00-8:00PM there will be a reception with snacks, beverages, and good company! We hope to see you there! 🎉

"Informed by Pakistani textiles that surround Ahmad's domestic space throughout her life, her nuanced relationship to her Pakistani identity is nostalgic. These remembrances are expressed through a vibrant limited colour palette in reconstructed repetitive elements of both domestic interiors and exteriors. This exhibition is about confinement during the pandemic, and reaching out to touch a past which can never exist again."

And last but not least, introducing our Gallery As

And last but not least, introducing our Gallery Assistant: Maddie Reid is a self taught visual artist based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, with experience in program coordination and tourism within the local craft community. Her interest in fine art dates back as long as she can remember, with lots of exposure to the local craft scene from a young age, thanks to her mother. Still trying to find her style and identity as an artist, Maddie continues to explore many mediums, most commonly drawing, collage, zine making and painting, and more recently rug hooking and knitting/crocheting. When she isn’t creating, she enjoys playing the bass, thrifting, and feeding the neighborhood cats.

Introducing our new Paid Intern: Ksenia Korniewska

Introducing our new Paid Intern: Ksenia Korniewska is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist from Kyiv, Ukraine, who arrived in St. John’s in May 2022 and immediately fell in love with the ocean. Drawing inspiration from 14th century Sienese iconography, 17th century anatomical illustrations, natural phenomena and metaphysical poetry, she creates alien hieratic paintings, spectral photography and liminal video art.

Introducing our new @holdfastfestival and Communic

Introducing our new @holdfastfestival and Communications Coordinator: Elijah Garrard is a multidisciplinary artist, zinester, and storyteller. Their work, informed by by an interest in narrative and Jewish folklore, explores world-building, memory, queerness, and relationships to land. A 2013 Fulbright grantee, Elijah holds a BA in Latin American Studies and Film, and has worked in Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, and Mongolia. They attended North Seattle College as a nontraditional student and received an AFA in printmaking. Elijah also serves on the board at St. Michael’s Printshop.

Introducing our new Residency and Digital Project

Introducing our new Residency and Digital Project Coordinator: Rachel Gilbert is a Canadian American of mixed-race descent living and working in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. She works with painting, drawing, and printmaking to explore her identity and home(s). Rachel received a BFA in Visual Arts in 2020 and a Graduate Certificate in Museum and Gallery Studies in 2021. She is interested in working to increase diversity, associability, and inclusion in the arts.

Introducing our new Presentation and Outreach Coor

Introducing our new Presentation and Outreach Coordinator: Laura Sbrizzi is an artist and arts administrator from Brampton, Ontario who relocated to St. John’s, NL in 2021. She received her BFA from York University, where her studies centered on printmaking, painting, and poetry. She is primarily interested in objecthood, indeterminacy, and sharing creative agency with her medium. Her practice acts as a “fidget” to soothe anxious energy, as it utilizes repetitive processes, delicious textures, and other feel-good stimuli. Laura’s objective as an arts worker is to generate opportunities for artists to connect with their community, and diminish barriers to creation.

Introducing our new Operations Manager: Amanda Joa

Introducing our new Operations Manager: Amanda Joan Penney is a mother, visual artist, and arts administrator. In recent years she has illustrated a children’s book, worked at the NL Craft Council gallery, and worked as a volunteer in community outreach creating safe creativity workshops for adults and children with the intention of empowerment through creation. The connection between art and community and the healing power of both is what motivates her work at an artist run centre. Amanda is a big fan of street art and public art spaces and is driven to experience and create art every chance she gets.

Introducing our new Interim Executive Director: As

Introducing our new Interim Executive Director: Ashley Hemmings is a visual artist and arts administrator based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. They completed their BFA in Visual Art at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2018, and an MFA in Visual Art at the University of Windsor in 2021. Their practice asks questions about the relationships between humans and the natural world, and draws attention to the exponentially bizarre ways that land and public space are regulated but not protected.