A Whale’s Tale at the Maritime Museum of BC is the incredible story of British Columbia’s changing relationship with the Giants of the Deep.

For thousands of years, humans along British Columbia’s coast have co-existed with one of the world’s most majestic and powerful ocean creatures: the whale. Today, these amazing creatures are one of the most revered marine mammals along our coast. We study their behavior, their acoustics and ways of communicating; we try to capture their majesty through photography, art, and writings; we track resident pods and identify individuals; and we aim to protect their environment. However, this has not always been the case.

How have our interactions with whales changed throughout history? Why do we now choose to shoot whales with cameras rather than harpoons? Discover A Whale’s Tale, a featured exhibit at the Maritime Museum of BC that explores our ongoing fascination with the many different species of whales along our coast, our changing public attitudes and perceptions, the history of the whaling industry, and the ongoing challenges facing our coastal whale populations today.

Event Dates: March 24th, 2018 to August 30th, 2018

Event Location: Maritime Museum of BC, 634 Humboldt Street, Victoria, BC V8W 1A4

Website: https://mmbc.bc.ca/events/featured-exhibit-a-whales-tale-2/2018-07-11/

The Museum of Vancouver (MOV), in partnership with Haida Gwaii Museum, presents a visual feast of innovation and tradition with new exhibition, Haida Now, on display until June, 2019.

Guest-curated by Haida Curator Kwiaahwah Jones in collaboration with Viviane Gosselin, Co-curator and Director of Collections & Exhibitions at MOV, this exhibition features an unparalleled collection of Haida art boasting more than 450 works created as early as 1890.

Local Haida Artists will share their insights and knowledge about the art pieces, providing visitors with the opportunity to experience a powerful way to engage with the worldview and sensibility of the Haida people while gaining greater appreciation for the role museums can play in the reconciliation movement.

Event Dates: March 16, 2018 to June 15, 2019

Website: http://museumofvancouver.ca/haida-now/

Curated by Michelle Jacques & Haema Sivanesan Centennial, Ker and LAB Galleries
“Perhaps mine is “environmental” sculpture, rather than geometric … I have never made anything not closely connected with the human being and his environment. Man and his longings, desires, his dwellings, the thresholds he passes over and his places of worship concern me; people, buildings, entrances through which people go in, come out; and the apprehension, the pleasure or the peace that accompanies these acts. Passages may suggest revelations of the unknown, and black holes refer possibly to far recesses of the mind.” Elza Mayhew

Critics such as Clement Greenberg, whose words dominated the way modernist art of the 1960s was interpreted, saw geometric abstraction as an expression of the purity of painting in which all extraneous content had been removed in favour of a focus on the properties that were inherent to paint on canvas, such as form, colour, line, the flat surface, and the shape of the support.

Beyond the Edges: Art + Geometry is an exhibition that questions these dominant Modernist art histories. Instead, it favours cross-cultural and cross-temporal explorations of the possible meanings of geometry in art, and looks at the use of geometric vocabularies by Canadian artists working in the modern and contemporary periods. With an emphasis on artists of the West Coast, Beyond the Edges features works from the collection by such figures as Lawren Harris, Jan Zach, Elza Mayhew, B.C. Binning, Roy Kiyooka, Rita Letendre, Takao Tanabe, Robert Davidson, Susan Point, and Luanne Martineau.

Event Date: October 7th to April 22nd, 2018

Event Location: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1040 Moss Street, Victoria, BC

Website: https://aggv.ca/exhibits/current/beyond-edges-art-geometry/

This Earth Day, explore the cycle of life in our fantastic forests, where everything is connected, from the tiniest bugs to the tallest trees.

The region’s youngest artists are invited to submit artwork to celebrate EARTH DAY! Individual artists, groups and classes (school or rec centre) are encouraged to take part in this opportunity to show off your creativity. Open call gallery exhibition for children up to age 12.

Event Dates: April 18 to April 29

Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Sunday from 11am – 5pm

Meet-the-Artists Reception: Saturday, April 21, 1:00pm – 3:00pm

Event Details: http://www.coastcollective.ca/events/earth-day-childrens-show-april-18-29/

Event Location: Coast Collective Gallery & Art Centre, #103 – 318 Wale Road, Colwood, BC V9B 0J8

Phone: (250) 391-5522