Richmond Art Gallery

08/28/2026

✨ Join us for a fun and creative gathering where adults can explore the world of Artist Trading Cards (ATCs)—miniature artworks created for trading and connection!

📍 Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) September Trading Session
⏰ Saturday, September 19, 2026
🗓 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
🔗 REGISTER: https://bit.ly/45XTFfZ

Whether you’re a seasoned artist or just starting out, this welcoming session is perfect for anyone curious about small-scale art, creative exchange, and meeting other artists.

Artist Ming Yeung will host the session, explain how ATC trading works, and answer questions. Bring along your own pre-made and signed Artist Trading Cards to trade with others.

Light refreshments provided.
Free Adult Drop-in, RSVP Appreciated.

Image: TC Trading Session hosts Crystal Chan and Ming Yeung, June 2026. Image description in alternate text.

08/28/2026

08/28/2026

💭 Curious to learn more about Ongoing / Pacific Crossings? Join guest curator Makiko Hara for a guided tour and conversation in English or Japanese!

📍Curator’s Tours in English or Japanese / キュレーターによるツアー(英語•日本語)
🗓 Saturday, September 12, 2026
⏰ 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
🔗 REGISTER: https://bit.ly/3Upx1KX

Dates: 9月12日, 土曜日
English Tour at 1:00 pm 英語ツアー: 午後１時より
Japanese Tour at 2:00 pm 日本語ツアー: 午後２時より

Join our tour of our current exhibition hosted by guest curator Makiko Hara.

Learn more about its themes through a guided visit and informal discussion in either English or Japanese.

Limited spaces, RSVP to reserve a seat.

ゲストキュレーターの原 万希子 (Makiko Hara) による展覧会ツアーにお越しください。このツアーは、英語と日本語の順に開催されます。キュレーターによる解説付きの展示見学とカジュアルなディスカッションを通し、展示のテーマについて理解を深めることができます。

定員には限りがございます。ご予約はお早めにお願いします。

Image 1: Makiko Hara () at the Ongoing / Pacific Crossings Opening, July 2026. Photo by Ya Wei Lin.
Image 2: Makiko Hara looking at works at the Ongoing / Pacific Crossings Opening, July 2026. Photo by Ya Wei Lin.

08/27/2026

📣 Something is cooking at the Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in Montréal!
First presented at Richmond Art Gallery in 2024, FOODWAYS opens on Tuesday, September 1st.

✨ FOODWAYS
🗓 September 1, 2026 – December 5, 2026
📍 Opening Reception & Tour with Zoë Chan: Thursday, September 10, 2026, 4:30–7:00 PM
🌎 Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal
🔗 READ ON: https://bit.ly/4xc9OK5

Food and its diverse associated techniques, histories, and social interactions serve up a bottomless source of inspiration for artists. Indeed, food-related practices share significant parallels with art. As art historian Luce Giard compellingly argues in her essay “The Nourishing Arts,” the domestic processing of food is “a domain where tradition and innovation matter equally,” demanding “as much intelligence, imagination, and memory as those traditionally held as superior, such as music or weaving.”

Unsurprisingly then, artists continue to delve into this rich subject matter, through multiple mediums. Showcasing artworks from the 2010s to the present, FOODWAYS focuses on a diverse selection of artists who explore food and food cultures, addressing a wide range of questions regarding cultural identity, personal narratives, community, and the transmission of knowledge. These layered artworks are often intersectional and embodied in nature, highlighting how ethnicity, culture, kinship, socio-economic status, geography, and colonialist histories percolate through practices linked to food and food culture.

Image 1: FOODWAYS at Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal . Photo courtesy of Zoë Chan.
Image 2: Installation of prints of FOODWAYS at Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal . Photo courtesy of Zoë Chan.
Image 3: Installation of FOODWAYS at Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal . Photo courtesy of Zoë Chan.
Image 4: Exhibition detail of FOODWAYS at Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal. Photo courtesy of Zoë Chan.
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08/26/2026

Thank you to our visitors who spent time in our lounge and created art!

This season’s prompt, inspired by the current exhibition, “Ongoing / Pacific Crossings,” had everyone looking deep into connections between people, places and nature across distances.

Here are some artworks to inspire you to perhaps pick up some art materials and create your own artwork the next time you visit us.

Images 1-6: Artworks that currently hang at The Gallery Lounge, Photo by Gallery staff

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08/24/2026

✂️ Mixed-Media Drawing and Collage with Tomoyo Ihaya
🗓 Saturday, August 29, 2026
⏰ 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
🔗 Event Sold Out! Get on the Waitlist: https://bit.ly/4gOiHUT
📍As spots for this event are limited, if you have registered and are unable to attend, please email us in advance so your seat can be given to someone else who would like to attend.

Join guest artist Tomoyo Ihaya () for a hands-on exploration of lift-drawing, a unique ink transfer technique on delicate hand-made Japanese papers. Transform your experimental drawings into a layered mixed-media collage using a variety of papers and water-based pigments.

No prior experience needed, just come ready to experiment and play.
Limited seating, 15 participants max. For ages 18+
Cost: $5.00 + processing fee includes all art supplies.
Refunds issued with a minimum of 7 days notice prior to the event

Image: Tomoyo Ihaya preparing a test print for the workshop, July 2026.
Image 2: Tomoyo Ihaya, "Water Stream" courtesy of the artist.

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08/18/2026

Congratulations to Howie Tsui for winning the 2026 Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Visual Arts!

The prestigious Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Visual Arts is presented each year to a Canadian mid-career artist who has shown excellence and innovation in their work and demonstrates strong potential for future artistic achievement.

In 2026, Howie Tsui’s works were presented in the exhibition The Roaming Peach Blossom Spring alongside Qiu Anxiong’s. The exhibition featured a wide range of Tsui’s innovative works, including lenticular lightboxes, video, inkbrush works, and a site-specific mural made with ink, acrylic paint, and smoke stain. Tsui constructs tense, fictive environments that undermine venerated art forms and narrative genres, often stemming from the Chinese literati tradition. He employs a stylized form of derisive and exaggerated imagery as a way to satirize and disarm broadening regimes and their programs of cultural hegemony. The most notable branch of his practice involves the use of algorithmic animation sequences to raise questions around order, chaos and the potential of social harmony through self-organized societies. Tsui synthesizes diverging socio-cultural anxieties around superstition, surveillance and otherness through a distinctly outsider lens to cast light onto liminal and diasporic experiences.

Congratulations Howie Tsui!

08/17/2026

Looking for a fun, inspiring night out? Join our Collage Club for Adults—a relaxed, social evening dedicated to art-making in a welcoming environment. No artistic experience required; just bring your imagination!

✂️ Collage Club: September 2026
🗓 Thursday, September 3, 2026
⏰ 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
🌎 Location: Creativity Lab, Richmond Cultural Centre Annex (across the plaza from Richmond Cultural Centre)
🔗 REGISTER: https://bit.ly/4g1p5YG

This month’s theme is SHAPE, inspired by Kia Eriksson’s Fruitful Loop exhibition. Explore the relationship between recognizable images and abstract forms through collage!

Using stencils and freehand cut-paper techniques, participants will transform images and patterned papers into simple shapes that can be layered, combined, and rearranged to create original compositions. Whether your work becomes abstract, representational, or somewhere in between, the focus is on experimentation, play, and personal expression.

The evening begins with a slideshow of contemporary collage artists from around the world to spark inspiration, followed by open studio time. A wide selection of papers and imagery will be available, along with a curated playlist of music videos chosen to inspire creativity through colour, composition, and visual storytelling.

Ages 16+ • $5 per person • All supplies included
Registration required

Image 1: August Collage Club at The Creativity Lab. August 6, 2026. Courtesy of gallery staff. Image description in alternate text.
Image 2: Cutting and gluing at the August Collage Club at The Creativity Lab. August 6, 2026. Courtesy of gallery staff.
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