For our 2024 Call to Artist please visit Get Involved: Call to Artists
At the Arts Council of New Westminster (ACNW), we live and work on the unceded, traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the QayQayt (qiqéyt) Nation as well as all Coast Salish Nations.
The Arts Council of New Westminster aims to have exhibitions that feature a variety of visual arts by a wide range of artists from the Metro Vancouver region. The exhibition program aims to reflect both the cultural and artistic diversity of contemporary art and serve as an educational forum for New Westminster and surrounding communities. This program is open to applications from both established and emerging artists.
The Arts Council wishes to highlight the diversity of our community, and in order to break down any exclusionary barriers and create a platform for marginalized voices, artists on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, non-binary artists, artists of colour, Indigenous artists, and disabled artists, are strongly encouraged to submit. Please indicate in your submission, if you identify as any of the above.
Submissions are open May 1st – July 15th, 2023.
Overview:
The ACNW operates a picturesque gallery in the Centennial Lodge, Queen’s Park, known as The Gallery at Queen’s Park. The ACNW also curates and coordinates the Community Art Gallery within the Anvil Center, in downtown New Westminster. This call to artists is inclusive of both gallery spaces.
The primary differences between the two locations are:
| Gallery at Queen’s Park | Anvil Center Community Art Gallery |
| – Monthly exhibits | – Exhibits run for 2 months |
| – 2D & 3D art | – 2D art only |
| – Individual artists (unless it is a group show including 3D artworks) | – Groups of 2 or more (*does not have to be a formal group, it can be a partnership with other artists) |
Below/attached you’ll find more information about the two gallery spaces and details for the submission requirements of both.
The Gallery At Queen’s Park, Exhibition Application
Anvil Centre Community Art Gallery, Group Exhibition Application
For more information, please phone: 604-525-3244, or email gallery@acnw.ca .
The Gallery at Queen’s Park presents:
TRASH by Jeongmin Ahn
Exhibition Dates: Aug. 3rd – 28th, 2022
Gallery Hours: Wed – Sun, 10 am – 2 pm
Free Admission
Exhibition Statement
These paintings are meant to promote thoughts of consumerism and consumerism’s relationship to the ecosystem. In painting these objects I also inevitably portray the potential beauty that can be found even in things often regarded to be without value, such as used and disposed of objects. Hyperrealistic paintings require an obsessive attention to detail, and in giving this attention to an object rendered in this style, the objects will arguably be beautified in a way that suggests value. Consumerism corrupts human perception of value.
Humans have created materials, such as plastic, that allow us to have a convenient and comfortable life. Modern society is relying heavily on these materials and there are consequences to this reliance. However, people are blinded by their desire for convenience. Annually the consumption of these materials has increased. Trash is not an object that people have second thoughts about, or look carefully at. As I paint hyperrealistic paintings of trash I allow viewers to look more carefully at the objects. Hyperrealistic paintings require large amounts of time to render, and the great care and detail put into this work conflicts with the notion of the object’s disposability and lack of value.
Artist Biography
Jeong Min Ahn is an emerging Korean hyperrealist painter, based in Vancouver BC, the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, the Sḵwxwú7mesh ̱(Squamish), Stó:lō and Səlí\lwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. He graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2020, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He has trained professionally with hyperrealist artists in Korea, such as Jeong-Hae Kwang. His recent exhibitions include AIRE 2021, and AIRE 2020, at the Canadian federation Art Gallery, ArtRich 2019, of Richmond Art Gallery, and he was the recipient of the 2019 Richard Alm Scholar Award from the Federation of Canadian Artists. He plans to pursue a Masters Degree in Fine Arts in the years to come.
For more information, visit: https://www.jeongminahn.space/
Exhibition Dates: Oct.4th – 29th, 2023
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 10:00am – 2:00pm
EXHIBITION STATEMENT:
Kick off the 2023 New West Cultural Crawl at The Gallery at Queen’s Park. The Best of the Crawl Exhibition features the works of participating Crawl artists! Browse pieces from over 40 of our city’s artists as you plan your 2023 New West Cultural Crawl route.
The 20th Annual New West Cultural Crawl, taking place October 14 & 15th, is a chance for the community and beyond to connect through art in a fun and safe way. This year’s crawl is an opportunity for art lovers, community members and visitors to explore local art and discover the diverse cultural experience that exists within the city.
Art lovers and curious culture seekers will be given an inside look into local artists’ creative spaces and home studios for two days only.
Stretched across five unique neighbourhoods, the New West Cultural Crawl takes visitors on a self-guided tour of studio spaces, civic art venues and galleries. From pottery to jewelry artists and acrylic painters to photographers, each crawl stop offers something new.
Public places like Anvil Centre, River Market, Army & Navy store front, and Van Dop Art Gallery should be on your crawl route, but it’s the exclusive access to private home studios that make the crawl a unique art experience.
For more information Visit: https://newwestculturalcrawl.com/ to learn more and view the 2023 digital Guide Book.
