Exhibitions
Eleven Women Facing War
August 8, 2013 – December 2, 2013
Eleven Women Facing War tells eleven stories of women from Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Colombia, the Balkans, Israel and the Palestinian territories. Internationally renowned photographer Nick Danziger initially photographed these women in conflict zones for an International Committee of the Red Cross study in 2001. Ten years later, he set out to fi…
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Defending a Nation: Canada and the Korean War
June 25, 2013 – December 1, 2013
Canada devotes a significant amount of attention to its living veterans from the Second World War, and to that conflict in general, but those from the Korean War have not been given the full recognition that they deserve. This exhibit will tell the story of the major battles that Canadians were involved in during the war in their context as a Unite…
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SEEING Soldiering: In Theatre With Those Who Serve
May 13, 2013 – July 17, 2013
Those who appear in the works of Althea Thauberger are co-creators. Thauberger gives her subjects the opportunity to participate in the process of the making of their pictures—to be seen on their own terms. In SEEING Soldiering, the performative and theatrical nature of Thauberger’s work draws back the curtain on those who serve in the military, re…
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Walls Between People
January 14, 2013 – April 14, 2013
Exposing the contradictions found in an open and globalized world, this exhibition focuses on the use of graffiti on contemporary barriers in: Cyprus North Korea and South Korea India and Pakistan Northern Ireland Israel and Palestine The Spanish Enclaves Mexico and The United States The Western Sahara Since 2005, Alexandra Novosseloff and Frank Ne…
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A Brush With War: Military Art From Korea to Afghanistan
June 29, 2012 – December 2, 2012
The Founders’ Gallery was very proud to have hosted artist Gertrude Kearns for a lecture on October 25, 2012. She spoke about her paintings depicting The Somalia Affair of 1993, the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and Canadian soldiers after a 2006 suicide bomber attack in Kandahar. In case you missed it you can download her talk here. Canada’s personal, dr…
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