The UNB Art Centre presents the work of emerging and established Canadian artists.
August 8 - Oct. 10, 2025.
The UNB Art Centre invites you to join us for Resist – a quilt exhibition by the Canadian textile co-operative, Fibre Art Network (FAN). Inaugurated in 1998, FAN has created 32 exhibitions, exhibited at 105 Canadian and 9 International venues.
Each work presents resist techniques, including but not limited to: wax, crayons, inks, paints, pastel/oil sticks, tape, masks, and paper cutouts, while preserving the unique and individual style of each artist. Resist can also be seen as an artistic concept - positive or negative, frightening or enlightening, to stand firm against change or temptation.
The UNB Art Centre will showcase these personal interpretations of Resist in a variety of art-making methods, including quilting, needle painting, felting, rug hooking, hand printing, and hand dyeing, by some of the best nationally and internationally recognized contemporary fibre artists in Canada.
May 9 - July 25, 2025.
IN DEEP is a group exhibition that observes complex narratives around extraction.
Together, Frédéric Bigras-Burrogano, Lori Blondeau, Gina Brooks, Emily Critch, Gillian Dykeman, Tsēmā, and New Mineral Collective care for intricate and intertwined histories while planting seeds for a future where land and body are valued beyond capitalist systems.
By way of their processes, actions, and transmissions, the artists decentralize core values of extractive activities, such as power, greed, and ownership, to create space for shared meaning-making, wonder, and learning in the pursuit of healing strategies for change.
In their works, relationships with the land, bodies, the more-than-human world, and one another are honoured and replenished.
May 3 - August 30
Into the Blue: Remembering Brigid Toole Grant is a labour of love by her daughter Hannah Grant, who along with curator Roslyn Rosenfeld, assembled a collection of acrylics, watercolours, prints, and drawings from friends, family, and the UNB Permanent Collection. It tells the story of a talented and insightful artist, who found inspiration in the people and the land she called home.
“This exhibition is like a period which marks the end of the final chapter of a really good book,” says Marie Maltais, Director of the UNB Art Centre. “It holds within it the tale of a life spun over many chapters - rich in detail, character development and action.”
It is fitting that Brigid Toole Grant is being honoured in this retrospective at UNB. She grew up on the UNB campus and spent her early years living in what is now known as Sir Howard Douglas Hall. She attended art classes with renowned Canadian artists Fritz Brandtner, Alfred Pinsky and Lucy Jarvis, one of the founders of the UNB Art Centre. She later worked as an assistant to the UNB Art Centre Director Marjory Donaldson, taught art classes for UNB’s Department of Extension and then for the UNB Art Centre’s Leisure Learning programs. Many of her works are on display throughout campus as part of the UNB Permanent Collection where they continue to enrich the lives of faculty, staff, students and visitors.
Memorial Hall | 9 Bailey Drive | UNB Fredericton campus
For more information, call 506-453-4623.
Monday to Friday: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Free admission | Everyone welcome
Details of work: Looking Forward, c.2010 | Acrylic on canvas
Photo: Roger Smith
The UNB Art Centre is pleased to present Rediscovering the Roots of Black New Brunswickers, a program of exhibits and films designed to showcase and honour the everyday experiences of Black New Brunswickers.
Jan. 19 through March 1, with the opening on Friday, Feb. 9 at 5 p.m. This exhibit is a project commemorating Black History Month, a time set aside to celebrate Black achievement and to acknowledge that the struggle for recognition and equality happens every day.
This collection of portraits and biographies has been an ongoing project for the UNB Art Centre. This year nine new portrait panels have been added and now include Carol Howe, David Peters, Carl Howe, Terry Dymond, Chester Eatmon, Gabriel Johnson, Randolph George Hope, Dexter Noel, and Carl White.
Additionally, banners highlighting some of the individuals honoured in the panels will be on display along Regent and Westmorland Streets in Fredericton throughout February again this year.
This year’s film series, presented in partnership with the New Brunswick Black Artists Alliance, is every Tuesday in February at 7:30 p.m. in room 261 of Marshall d’Avray Hall on the UNB Fredericton campus.
