Thames Art Gallery

Join us tomorrow to celebrate GardenShip and State!

The exhibition brings together 21 artists and writers and a Chatham-Kent Collective, who engage in decolonial critique, environmental activism, and twenty-first century artistic practices to address what is arguably the problem of our times: environmental catastrophe.

This exhibition is on display from August 23, 2024, to October 20, 2024

📢Announcement!! Exhibition Celebration for GardenShip and State📢



We have a series of fun events planned for you!

Riverclean up sponsored by the

📅 Date: September 14, 2024

🕐 Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

🏞 Where: Thames Grove Conservation Area - 30 Kingsway Dr. Chatham

GardenShip and State Exhibition Celebration

📅 Date: September 14, 2024

🕐 Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

🏞 Where: Thames Art Gallery - 75 William Street N. Chatham

👨‍🎨 Artist Talk

🎭 Live Interactive Artist Performance

🥐 Free light Refreshments

For more information about the September 14th River Clean-Up and the Exhibition Celebration, please visit our website! ❤️

Join us in the gallery on Thursdays anytime between 2:00-7:00 for Drop in and Draw! Bring your sketchbook, tablet or any projects you’re working on for a casual drawing session in the gallery. Basic drawing supplies are provided.

📢📢CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Eye 4 Art 📢📢

Eye for Art is a juried exhibition, sale and celebration of the visual arts community in Chatham-Kent. The original Eye for Art was held in 1983. Through the years, it has evolved into the much-loved event we know today. The exhibition is open to all past and present residents of Chatham-Kent. This year, all proceeds from sales, tickets, and associated events will be directed to ARTspace, our downtown community art gallery.

✨️ Submissions Deadline – October 2 – 6, 2024
🖼 Where: Thames Art Gallery – 75 Willim Street N. Chatham
👨‍🎨 Juror: Troy Brooks

🌞Eye 4 Art 2024
🗓On Display: November 01, 2024 – January 12, 2025
🍾Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 2024 7:00 – 9:00 pm

For more information on applying to Eye 4 Art, Sponsoring Eye 4 Art, or the exhibition as a whole, please visit: https://www.tagartspace.com/current-exhibitions

Join us Wednesday at 10am for Spark Joy!
If you are 55 years + Come out and get creative!
It’s free to join. We are beginning a special project making art appreciation videos, and art kits for the ASCK Day Programs.
No experience? no problem, we are all learning together!

📢Crowfest ARTlive - A Caw for Artists!📢

Artists and art lovers, listen up! ARTspace is thrilled to announce a live artist event happening soon! Join us on King St W on Saturday, September 21, for Crowfest and showcase your creativity and the opportunity to win one of eight $250 cash prizes, to be awarded based on popular vote. Winning pieces will be displayed in the ARTspace window until November 16, 2024.

We'll designate spots downtown where you bring and set up your own outdoor studio and unleash your artistic vision! Any medium goes! Please note that we are not able to accommodate permanent art or installation, and artists must have the ability to transport their piece at the end of the event. A limited number of easels are available to borrow on a first-come/first-served basis. Participation is FREE.

🐦‍⬛Date: September 21, 2024
🐦‍⬛Registration Closes September 18, 2024 🐦‍⬛https://www.tagartspace.com/crowfest-call-for-artists
🐦‍⬛Artist Check-in: 2:00 pm at ARTspace
🐦‍⬛Artist Set-up: 3:00 pm
🐦‍⬛ Winners Announced: 6:00 pm at ARTspace
🐦‍⬛For more information, terms, and conditions, please see our website at: https://www.tagartspace.com/crowfest-call-for-artists

Stop by the gallery today (or any Thursday) anytime between 2:00-7:00 pm for Drop in and Draw. Bring your sketchbook, tablet or any project you want to work on for a casual session of creativity and conversation in the gallery. Basic drawing supplies are provided.

Embrace the fall season with Tai Chi!

Sessions run Wednesday evenings at 6.30 pm in the gallery.
This session 11 Sept - 16 Oct, no class 2 Oct, 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm.

Sign up at www.tagartspace.com

Keep those kiddos creating and perhaps pick up a class yourself!

Check out our programs at www.tagartspace.com

Drop in and Draw is back after two weeks off for exhibition changeover. Stop in on Thursdays between 2:00 - 7:00 pm for a casual drawing session in the gallery. Bring your sketchbook, tablet or preferred drawing media. Basic drawing supplies will be provided.

At art camp we love to PAINT the pottery we make!

At art camp we love to SEW!

The art campers are learning about Mexican culture and designing alebrijes which they will make in clay this afternoon!

The elevator is currently out of service. We regret the impact this will have on our visitors and will update as soon as it becomes available again.

Artist Kelly Richardson’s wall of digital diamonds twinkle and fade as the art campers listen to a story about the ocean and its inhabitants.

Stop in for Drop in and Draw today (Thursday) between 2-7 and our gallery attendant may do a digital drawing of you. Bring your sketchbook, tablet, or any project you are working on for a casual hangout in the gallery. Receive some constructive feedback, discuss strategies and approaches to your project or just get some creative stimulation by connecting with other creative individuals. Basic drawing supplies are provided.

It is the last week to see Here I Am: Student Exhibition at the Thames Art Gallery. Sunday is the last day the exhibition is on display so be sure to stop by between 11:00-4:00 any day until then, and we are also open until 7:00 pm today (Thursday). For more information visit www.tagartspace.com

It's the last week to view Kelly Richardson's Odyssey at the Thames Art Gallery. If you haven't seen these large-scale video installations be sure to stop in between 11:00 - 4:00 Wednesday to Sunday and 11:00 - 7:00 pm on Thursday to see this while you have the opportunity. For more information visit www.tagartspace.com

Join us Thursdays anytime between 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm for Drop in and Draw. Bring your sketchbook, tablet or any projects you are working on for a casual hangout in the gallery. Basic drawing supplies are provided.

Join us on Thursdays anytime between 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm for Drop in and Draw. Bring your sketchbook, tablet or any projects you are working on for a casual hangout in the gallery. Basic drawing supplies are provided.

Join us on Thursdays anytime between 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm for Drop in and Draw. Bring your sketchbook, tablet or any projects you are working on for a casual hang out in the gallery. Basic drawing supplies are provided.

Stop by the gallery anytime today between 2:00 and 7:00pm for Drop in and Draw. Bring your sketchbook, tablet or preferred drawing materials for a casual hang-out in the gallery. Get feedback and advice on that project you’ve been working on or wanting to get started on. Basic drawing materials are provided.

Today is Drop in and Draw day at the gallery from 2-7pm. Bring your sketchbooks, tablets or any projects you want to work on for a casual drawing session. There’s plenty of works in the Here I Am: Student Exhibition to spark your imagination.

Art + Wine, 25th July, from 7-8:30pm. Special guest Larry Cornelius.

"I am super excited to speak with Larry Cornelius in person. His passion is only surpassed by his knowledge of trees in SW Ontario!"
Mindy Bowls

July's Art + Wine riffs on Kelly Richardson's immersive exhibition, Odyssey, and brings an awareness of climate crisis into the art gallery.

Join in a discussion with Larry and Mindy in the exhibition space - become a protagonist within these scenes and find your own explanation.

Tickets are $20 and available through www.tagartspace.com

The Thames Art Gallery is hosting a New Horizon’s Spark Joy program focused on engagement of folks in our community ages 55 and older until noon today. See more information on this program here: https://www.tagartspace.com/tagsparkjoy

The gallery welcomes you to visit both Kelly Richardson’s exhibit Odyssey and Here I Am Student exhibition at noon. See more information on these exhibits here: https://www.tagartspace.com/

We look forward to having you at the gallery!

Spark Joy! Wednesday, 10th July from 10am-noon.

Gather in the gallery with Andrea and Krista to learn the art of printmaking and developing this lesson for a variety of participants.

Interested in joining Spark Joy! Get involved, connect on our web page at www.tagartspace.com or email [email protected]

Spark Joy! will gather in the gallery this Wednesday 10th July, 10am-noon.
Andrea and Krista will lead a fun workshop on making art prints and how to adapt the lesson for learners of all abilities.

If you are interested in the Spark Joy program, send a message to [email protected] or through the web page at www.tagartspace.com under "Get Involved".

Join us for Art + Wine next Thursday, 9th May at 7pm!

Sign up for a thought-provoking discussion on Canadian landscape painting - how have the iconic landscapes that we all know and love shaped how we see ourselves and the land we live on?

Tickets are $20 for a glass of wine or other beverage, appetizers and a great debate!

www.tagartspace.com