Collect, Assemble, Gather

The exhibition frames the Gordon Smith Gallery as a shared space to engage with artwork, educational programming, and interactive installations, providing opportunities to explore the following questions:

• What role does collecting play in the artistic process?
• How do the ways we collect and gather from the lands and waters reflect our relationship with the Earth?
• In what ways do objects tell stories about identity, place, and memory?
• How do collaboration and community-based practices build relationships and shape the meanings of an artwork?
• What connections can we make between learning and creative assembling?

Collect, Assemble, Gather brings together artworks from the Artists for Kids and the Gordon Smith Gallery Permanent Collection, alongside contributions from contemporary Canadian artists and student artists from across the Lower Mainland. The exhibition features works by Kenojuak Ashevak, Sara-Jeanne Bourget, Victor Cicansky, Douglas Coupland, Christos Dikeakos, Stan Douglas, Sylvan Hamburger, Sesemiya, Roz Marshall, Michelle Sound, Brendan Tang, Marlene Yuen, Gu Xiong, Robert Young, the T&T Collective (Tyler Brett and Tony Romano), the Vancouver School Collective, Samuel Roy-Bois, Jack Shadbolt, and Gordon Smith. Perspectives from elementary and secondary students from the North Vancouver and Vancouver School Districts are also featured through linocut prints and collaborative collections presented in the Mezzanine Gallery.