Navigating

We navigate our way through cities, towns, and country roads; through systems, the internet, and challenging life situations. Ships navigate rough waters. Animals perform extraordinary feats of navigation using the stars and magnetic fields. Since 1980 the use of the word navigate has increased exponentially. What do you navigate? How do you respond in the moment you realize you need to find a path? How do you steer your course? What stars, compasses, moral bearings, or waypoints do you use to find your way? This exhibition invites artists to explore the notion of way-finding, be it in nature, through travel, or personally.

This juried quilt exhibition features 14 art quilts created by 12 members of the Studio Art Quilt Associates, Atlantic Canada. This showcase offers a unique perspective on how we explore our paths through life – whether it’s in nature, through travel, or in personal journeys.

The opening reception will take place on Thursday, September 25. Navigating will be on display until October 18, 2025.

Art of Living 2025

The Art of Living has been helping people diagnosed with cancer and their families for 13 years now. The participants make art one-on-one with a professional artist who they pick themselves. The pieces speak about the participant’s experience with cancer using visual art as their voice.

Thank you to all the brave souls who allow us to see what cancer is like in such a personal way.

The opening reception will take place on Saturday, July 12 from 1-3PM. The Art of Living will be on display until August 1, 2025.

Perfectly Imperfect Pets

Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design is pleased to announce Perfectly Imperfect Pets, an exhibition of work by Grade 2 students from Coxheath Elementary School and Grade 11 and 12 students from Riverview High School. The opening reception for Perfectly Imperfect Pets will take place on Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. in the Centre’s Loft.

This inspiring partnership celebrates the power of creativity, connection, and the transformative magic of art in education.

These works were created with support from ArtsSmarts, an Art Gallery of Nova Scotia school and community outreach program in partnership with Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and Arts Nova Scotia.

Perfectly Imperfect Pets will be on display in the Centre’s Loft until June 28, 2025.

A Natural Evolution

Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design is pleased to announce A Natural Evolution, a visual art exhibition by the late Brian Geary. The opening reception for A Natural Evolution will take place on Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. in the Centre’s Loft.

Brian worked as an artist and educator his entire adult life. He received his Diploma of Applied Arts from the Alberta College of Arts and Design in 1973, Bachelor of Education from the University of Alberta in 1989, and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Montana in 1989. In 1994, Brian moved to Sydney to be an instructor at the Graphic Design program at Nova Scotia Community College until his retirement in 2015.

Teacher, photographer, jeweller, graphic designer: behind all these veneers was the unifying role of the artist: observer of divisions and connections.

Beginning as a figurative painter, Brian naturally evolved towards abstraction, which offers not the ease of familiar objects, but the challenge of the unknown, the yet-to-be formed: mysterious landscapes and mindscapes which demand attention.

A Natural Evolution will be on display in the Centre’s Loft until May 29, 2025.