Events
The West Vancouver Art Museum offers a wide range of programs, including public talks and workshops, school programs and art camps.
Exhibition
Oh Nightingale: Parviz Tanavoli
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The West Vancouver Art Museum is delighted to present this exhibition of work by the eminent Iranian-Canadian artist, Parviz Tanavoli. A resident of West Vancouver for over three decades, Tanavoli is among Canada’s most significant contemporary artists. This exhibition will feature work that spans his six-decade-long career, focusing on his wearable art and small sculptures, prints and paintings of birds, cages and locks. The artist has returned repeatedly to these forms, allowing him to explore the themes of freedom, nothingness, poetry and history, while playing with his viewer’s awareness of traditional function and meaning. Just as he subverts the accepted meaning of a cage, he explores dualisms that manifest themselves as both significant and trivial, a poet contrasting the everyday with the remarkable.
FREE
Workshop
WVAM! Drop-In Family Art Project
12–4 p.m.
Join us at the West Vancouver Art Museum on the last Saturday of every month for a different art project. Drop-ins are free and suitable for all ages!
FREE
Curatorial Tour
Oh Nightingale: Parviz Tanavoli
2 p.m.
Join us for a free Curator's Tour of our new exhibition. A resident of West Vancouver for over three decades, Tanavoli is among Canada’s most significant contemporary artists.
FREE
Workshop
Film Screening of Poetry in Bronze: Parviz Tanavoli
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6 p.m.
Film Screening of Poetry in Bronze: Parviz Tanavoli
Q&A with Terrence Turner, Director
FREE
Workshop
WVAM! Drop-In Family Art Project
12–4 p.m.
Join us at the West Vancouver Art Museum on the last Saturday of every month for a different art project. Drop-ins are free and suitable for all ages!
FREE
Public Talk
Culture Days: Farsi Exhibition Tour of Oh Nightingale: Parviz Tanavoli
10:30 a.m.
The West Vancouver Art Museum is delighted to present this exhibition of work by the eminent Iranian-Canadian artist, Parviz Tanavoli. A resident of West Vancouver for over three decades, Tanavoli is among Canada’s most significant contemporary artists.
FREE
Exhibition
Landon Mackenzie: Recollect(s)
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Landon Mackenzie: Recollect(s) is a survey of works from the artist’s 40-year career shown alongside a selection of paintings by such formidable Canadian artists as Jock Macdonald, Walter Yarwood, Harold Town, Michael Snow and Gordon Smith, assembled by her family in the late 1950s.
FREE
Workshop
WVAM! Drop-In Family Art Project
12–4 p.m.
Join us at the West Vancouver Art Museum on the last Saturday of every month for a different art project. Drop-ins are free and suitable for all ages!
FREE
Opening Reception
Landon Mackenzie: Recollect(s)
7–9 p.m.
Landon Mackenzie: Recollect(s) is a survey of works from the artist’s 40-year career shown alongside a selection of paintings by such formidable Canadian artists as Jock Macdonald, Walter Yarwood, Harold Town, Michael Snow and Gordon Smith, assembled by her family in the late 1950s.
FREE
Workshop
Slow Art Day for Landon Mackenzie: Recollect(s)
1 p.m.
Join us for a Slow Art Session, when we spend 10 minutes looking closely and quietly at four works, followed by a guided discussion. Akin to meditation, this session requires no previous experience or knowledge.
This event is free but requires registration as space is limited.
FREE
Workshop
WVAM! Drop-In Family Art Project
12–4 p.m.
Join us at the West Vancouver Art Museum on the last Saturday of every month for a different art project. Drop-ins are free and suitable for all ages!
FREE