A circular vinyl decal is installed on the glass vestibule of the Owens Art Gallery. The stone building with copper siding sits atop a slight hill, with stairs leading to the entrance.

Welcome to the Owens

Plan your visit, find detailed venue access information, and learn about current exhibitions

A hand holds up four trading-card sized prints. Each has a colourful repeat pattern. One has pink and blue triangles, another has pink and purple tulips, the darkest is made up of blue and green ovals, and the last has pink and blue overlapping squares.

Make Something Sunday: Stamp-o-rama

Design your own foam stamps and create a series of trading-card-sized artworks—5 May, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Pom-Pom Jam Mobile Hub 

Visit the Pom-Pom Jam Mobile Hub by Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky—13 January to 4 May

A person holds up a soft cover book. The cover has an image of dark purple and black feathers under the text: Of A Feather Thaddeus Hollownia Harry Thurston

Book Launch and Poetry Reading 

Join Thaddeus Holownia and Harry Thurston to celebrate their new book of a feather—Friday, 10 May @ 4:00 pm

Borrow an Art Kit

Try a mini-making activity inspired by our exhibitions—for kids ages 2-12

Hands remove a publication from a slip case. The cover reads "Warps, Heddles, Shuttles and Sheds" in pink and "Chaîne, Līsses, navettes et foules" in orange, on the purple cover. On the slip case the same text appears in white on top of woven bands of vibrant orange, pink and red against a purple background.

Publications

Explore exhibition catalogues, Occasional Papers, and other special publishing projects

A low white fence runs parallel to a driveway that leads to a two-storey Carpenter Gothic-style, white clapboard house with tall windows, a steeply pitched roof and a prominent cross-gable.

Visit Colville House

Visit the former home of Canadian artist Alex Colville—open Saturday 11 May and Sunday 12 May, 1:00 – 4:00 pm

Video: Meet artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky

Learn about the collaborative artwork Solaris based on the theme “water connects all living things”

Within one large circle of seals, laying on their sides, four smaller semi-circles are filled with colourful, geometric patterns. Between the semi-circles, seen form above, two lines of caribou walk in either direction.

Collection Highlight

New to the Owens Collection, three prints by Jerry Evans

Intern Alice leans in while cleaning an ornate gold frame with a small cotton swab.

Conservation Lab

Learn about how we care for the Owens Collection

Each section of an eight pointed star is made of red, yellow, orange and blue porcupine quills. Pink and white quills fill the remained of a circle on birchbark, within a woven exterior of sweetgrass.

From the Vault

Explore a selection of featured works from the Owens Collection

Video still of a person, blurred form movement, on top of a scissor lift. The high wall behind them is partially filled with paintings in gold frames.

Owens TV

Watch artist talks, interviews, behind-the-scenes videos and more