CREATE & CELEBRATE
Canada Day at the Kelowna Art Gallery
Wednesday, July 1 · Free admission all day · All ages welcome · 10 am–5 pm
Five amazing exhibitions, three Maker’s Spaces, one big day — all free. Bring the family, bring a friend, and come see what you’ve been missing.
This Canada Day, come create and celebrate — free admission, hands-on art to make, and five amazing exhibitions to explore. Never been inside before? This is your chance to wander in and get curious.
Choose your own adventure — from the patio to the galleries
On July 1, admission is free for everyone. From the moment you arrive to the very last room, you choose your own path and pause wherever you like. Look for our three Making Spaces along the way — hands-on activities where you create something to take home.
Start on the patio.
Maker’s Space 1.
Create your family’s passport portraits and tuck them into a shiny Canada passport cover to keep — one per family, with portrait templates for the whole crew, grandparents included. (With grateful thanks to Sarah Rambold, who donated the covers.)
By the entrance — the Glass Gallery: Afterglow, Arianne Tubman.
Just inside the doors, pause at our small glass space dedicated to new and local talent, where emerging artist Arianne Tubman’s atmospheric installation greets you on the way in.
The front gallery — Wackem Sackem, Glenn Clark.
Canada’s game comes right into the gallery in this bold, hands-on pop-up: hockey reimagined as art, interactive and kinetic, and a sure hit with kids and sports fans alike.
The Art Lab — make a fluttering flag.
Maker’s Space 2.
The supplies and instructions are all set out for you. Design and build your own fluttering flag — one you invent yourself — to carry with you for the rest of the day.
Down the hallway — the Courtyard: HANDMADE, José Luis Torres.
Follow the hall to our outdoor Courtyard, where José Luis Torres builds immersive structures from reclaimed and everyday materials. Open for the season.
Into Sugar Rush — Tarralik Duffy.
Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy supersizes the everyday — soda cans, jerry cans, even canned meat — into bold, funny soft sculptures, alongside vivid drawings and prints. Pop culture meets contemporary Inuit life in work that is playful, surprising, and impossible to walk past.
Into our largest gallery for Skillful.
Get wowed by three award-winning Canadian makers who rewrite what is possible in ceramics, tapestry, and glass and bronze. In a digital, AI-saturated world, their handmade work is an invitation to slow down and look closely — uncover the visual messages woven into Jane Kidd’s tapestries, find the hidden faces in the spaces between Greg Payce’s vases, then sit down at our loom (Maker’s Space 3) and try weaving for yourself.
Find us
Kelowna Art Gallery · 1315 Water Street, Kelowna, BC
