Memories
Presented by artist Laird Goulet
October 4, 2025 – January 11, 2026
Laird Goulet is a passionate and dedicated artist with over two decades of experience in creating compelling visual art. His work explores the intersection of nature and human experience with an emphasis on environmentalism and the values and traditions of the Cree people.
Memories is a show based on the lifestyle of First Nations Peoples culture and traditions using the beadwork patterns of Laird’s grandparents in a vibrant colourful energetic style.
Regina Over the Years
Presented by artist Pepito Escanlar
June 28 – September 28, 2025
The sharp contrast between the peace and quiet of the City of Regina and the noisy, bustling streets of Metro Manila struck Pepito profoundly as an immigrant. This striking difference made it impossible not to focus on the unique features of his new environment, inspiring a deep artistic exploration.
Regina Over the Years is a curated collection of Pepito’s paintings, capturing the evolving urban landscape of Regina from the 1980s to 2025. These works mainly chronicle significant transformations in the city’s downtown core, blending artistic insight with historical documentation.
This visual dialogue between past and present highlights a recurring theme—the tension between the solidity of brick and the apparent fragility of glass. The juxtaposition invites viewers to reflect on the permanence of history and the transient nature of modernity.
Family +
Presented by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild
March 29 – June 22, 2025
In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, designated by the League of Canadian Poets and in coordination with National Poetry Month’s theme of “Family”, Family+ is a group exhibition exploring the rich dynamics of the families in our lives. Family is composed of various bonds. As The League of Canadian Poets state, family is, “Parents, pets, friendships, soulmates, siblings, plants, and beyond.” They ask our poetry to “celebrate, cherish, mourn, critique, and explore the myriad bonds that family forms in our lives.” And Family+ does just that.
Our chosen artists Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye (Saskatchewan Poet Laureate), Dash Reimer (Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laureate), Amber Goodwyn, Beverley Brenna, Bruce Rice, Chelsea Coupal, Courtney Bates-Hardy, Josiah Nelson, Medrie Purdham, and Nicole Mae explore the rich textures of “family” in their poems. Found family is a strong recurring theme in this exhibition, as the poets consider what the joys and the implications found family means for them in their lives. Family+ meditates on blood relations, growing families, an evolution of self with/out relatives, becoming kin, familial separations- by travel or respectful boundaries- grief, and/or withdrawing from toxic structures; these poems consider ancestral knowledge and connections, relate to the natural world as an ancestor, view neighbourhoods as lineage, grapple with religious community bonds, and even view solid structures as relatives.
When we think of family, often the traditional conception of biological family comes up, but these poets wrestle with the notions of the traditional and instead illuminate the joys of all kinds of family that is meant to be celebrated, questioned, mourned, cherished. Ancestors permeate the exhibition as ghosts, shadows in the sunlight, that carry us forward. These poems ask us to consider the weight we give to traditional families and encourage us to allow the same weight to our found families, to our friends, animals, and beyond. Family+ is an expanded understanding of what family can be and allows us to reflect on our own family structures, our roles, and community responsibilities.