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And remember, you don’t have to consider yourself an artist to make artwork for a Pop-up Art exhibition. You may feel more like a maker or crafter or creative person; this exhibition is for you too,” adds Gansterer.
Pop-up art exhibits, events and workshops will be taking place in locations throughout the Ottawa Valley in the next three years. The goal of Pop-up Art is to address the need for Ottawa Valley residents to have more opportunities to interact with art in public spaces, and to have meaningful encounters with art in their day-to-day lives.
Ottawa Valley Community Arts (OV-CAOS), in partnership with the Community Resource Centre in Killaloe, has received a three-year Grow Grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to expand on the Pop-up Art programming, originally established in 2019. Over the next three years, Ottawa Valley residents will have the opportunity to experience Pop-up Art in a number of ways.
The Ottawa Valley will be home to three semi-permanent public art exhibition venues, located in the communities of Eganville, Garrison Petawawa and Arnprior. Each of these galleries will host up to 10 curated exhibitions between March 2021 and June 2023. The exhibition lineup will feature themed, juried, multi-artist exhibitions and open community exhibits.
If you would like to get involved with Pop-up Art, please visit https://ov-caos.org/ for more information, or contact Anya Gansterer at [email protected].
