Hamilton’s arts history is a rich and complex tale, chock full of fascinating characters vital to the growth of culture in the city. As you may recall from the AGH exhibition presenting the project, Hamilton Arts Council’s Building Cultural Legacies is a storytelling platform aiming to comprehensively collect the stories of Hamilton arts between the … Continued

Sandra Meigs: Imaginal Worlds opened just a couple short weeks ago, gracing the AGH lobby with two large works from the internationally-renowned artist Sandra Meigs – Elevators (2015), a series of circular paintings that celebrate and elevate the everyday, and the large red inner-smile mobile from Room for Mystics (2017). Bringing a sense of joy … Continued

Opening March 20, 2021, Esmaa Mohamoud: To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat will inhabit space on Gallery Level 1, presenting a powerful exhibition deconstructing Black life in contemporary culture. Focused in particular on the modern industry of professional sports, the exhibition features a dozen artworks ranging in media from sculpture and installation to … Continued

Have you seen our expanded The Collection exhibition since our reopening in July? Head to the Gallery during any of our open hours and enjoy the sprawling selection of some of the 10,000+ works in our collection, on display and free for everyone! Exploring a piece from this exhibition, today’s Collection Showcase looks at Fredericton-born … Continued

At the time of this article’s publication, the 2020 AGH Film Festival is live! Our first-ever online version of the Festival features over 40 feature films to watch anytime between October 16 and October 25. The last couple AGH Magazine articles featured curated Festival picks from Film Program Curator Ryan Ferguson and Program Advisory Committee … Continued

This coming Friday marks the start of the 12th annual AGH Film Festival! Our first-ever online iteration of the Festival features over 40 features to watch anytime between October 16 and October 25. Along with the films themselves, AGH Film fans will get to enjoy free short film programs, director Q+As, panel discussions, and more! … Continued

Ryan Ferguson is the Film Program Curator here at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. In charge of leading each year’s AGH Film Festival and recurring Film Series program, Ryan has taken on the additional challenge with this year’s 12th annual Festival by taking the entire event online. I sat down with Ryan to discuss the … Continued

According to Kim Adams, the Bruegel-Bosch Bus is always on his mind, in his dreams, and if he could, he’d build a bunkie in the Gallery so that he could sleep nearby and work on the piece every day. The piece is the longest-ever work-in-progress—in the AGH collection, anyways. It has been installed at the … Continued

Melissa Bennett is the Curator of Contemporary Art here at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Among her many duties, Melissa is responsible for curating some of this past decade’s most-memorable AGH exhibitions, such as are you experienced?, Graeme Patterson: Secret Citadel, and the recent Hamilton Now: Subject and Object, which featured eighteen local artists exploring … Continued

The Artist’s Dream: Works of French Symbolism was recently extended until January 10, 2021, giving AGH visitors extra opportunities to enter the world of French Symbolism. Back in April, we published an article by the exhibition’s curator, Dr. Amy Wallace, exploring the important contributions of women artists to the movement, focusing in particular on Sarah … Continued