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Current Exhibitions
Upcoming Exhibitions
Holiday Programs & Events

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Current Exhibitions
The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig:  A Retrospective Exhibition
On until January 4, 2009 
 
Visit the first major exhibition of Daphne Odjig's drawings and paintings in over two decades. Organized by the Art Gallery of Sudbury and the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with guest curator, Bonnie Devine, this exhibition features over fifty of Odjig's history paintings, murals, legend paintings, erotica, abstractions, and landscapes.  Together, these pieces communicate the breadth of Odjig's engagement with her personal, political, and cultural history.
 
    
Contemporary Canadian Inuit Drawings / Chinese Drawings from Huxian, Jinshan and Qijiang
On until January 4, 2009 
A cross-cultural exhibition, Contemporary Canadian Inuit Drawings / Chinese Drawings from Huxian, Jinshan and Qijiang, organized by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (MSAC) in Guelph and the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (SFAI) in Chongqing, China, is an exceptional exploration of social culturology as  expressed by Chinese and Canadian Inuit artists who are trying to retain traditional values in the midst of rapid societal change.

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Child's Play 
On until April 13, 2009   

Based exclusively on the McMichael's permanent collection, Child's Play is an educational exhibition exploring the theme of children in Canadian art.
Kenojuak: From Drawing to Print
On until November 30, 2009 
 Kenojuak
View Kenojuak Ashevak's extraordinary light-sensitive drawings transformed into print.

Woodland School
 
Norval Morrisseau
Ongoing
The Woodland School exhibit examines the vibrant art of Woodland School painters Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Carl Ray, Jackson Beardy, Joseph Sanchez, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Benjamin Chee Chee, Blake Debassige, Saul Williams, Martin Panamick, and Goyce Kakegamic.
Upcoming Exhibitions 
 
Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images
January 31 to June 14, 2009 

 
The Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images exhibition is a culmination of Karsh's industrial and commercial work with the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Atlas Steel in Welland, Ontario, and Sharon Steel in Pennsylvania, and a variety of other commercial images. This exhibition explores the tone of Karsh's industrial and commercial portraits in relation to the work and life philosophies prevalent in post-WWII North America. It also explores consumerism, marketing, and the political atmosphere in Canada during the 1950s, through his portraits. 
 
"Karshed": Yousuf Karsh Selected Portraits 
January 31 to June 14, 2009  
 
December 23, 2008 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh, one of the most important portrait photographers of the twentieth century. To commemorate this, two special portfolios of thirty rare, limited edition portraits by Karsh will be on display at the gallery from January 31 to June 14 to complement the exhibition, Industrial Images. Karsh's celebrated photographs of Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, Jacques Cousteau, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, and many more will be shown in an exclusive new exhibit at the McMichael, direct from the Estate of Yousuf Karsh in California.


A Brush with War: Military Art from Korea to Afghanistan
January 17 to June 14, 2009


The exhibition, A Brush with War: Military Art from Korea to Afghanistan, includes artworks dating from 1947 to 2008. In particular, it explores the two military art programs that started more than twenty years after the Second World War, the Canadian Armed Forces Civilian Artists Program (CAFCAP, 1968-1995) and the Canadian Forces Artists Program (CFAP, 2001-present). Initially influenced by the art of the First and Second World War programs, over the past sixty years military art has moved gradually in new directions, current works expressing artists' more personal rather than documentary responses to their subjects.

The Arctic Image
Opens January 17, 2009 (Ongoing)

View over thirty works--paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photographs--from the McMichael's permanent collection and Cape Dorset collection.  This exhibition will examine the importance of the Arctic in relation to the Group of Seven and Inuit artists. Juxtaposing works by the Group of Seven artists with those of leading Inuit artists, this exhibition explores the expressiveness and vibrancy of Inuit culture, the spiritual vision of visiting southern artists, and the resulting cultural cross-influences.
What's on
Public Programs for November, December 2008, and January 2009
Program and Events Calendar  

NOVEMBER
 

November 29
The Portrait:  Capturing Character on Film Exhibit

Winning photographs from our 2008 photography contest, The Portrait: Capturing the Character on Film will be on display in the gallery.

November 30
ArtChat
Child's Play
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DECEMBER
 
December 7
Sunday Concert Series
Glynis Ratcliffe, Opera

December 21
Canadian Stories:
Art of the First Peoples

December 28
ArtChat:
Woodland School Revisited

December 29 & 30
Family Bonus Days
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JANUARY 

January 1, 2009
Happy New Year, Gallery Open

January 4, 2009
Sunday Concert Series
Pat Collins, Jazz Ensemble

January 10 to 11
Studio Courses and Workshop
Winter Watercolour Landscapes

January 11
Family Sunday
Winter Animal Fun

 
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