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The Owens is a place where you will encounter lively, innovative artwork, discover your own history, meet artists, engage with your community, and have fun.

10/21/2026

🙇 Dive deep into the ideology and web of ideas behind Jerry Ropson: a place of safety in the “Academy of Broken Dreams (Token Schemes).”

The academy is a rare opportunity to look inside Ropson's (.studio) sketchbooks, see his notes, and read the same research materials he drew on while developing 'a place of safety'. Texts, sculptures, and ever-evolving paintings are hung beside sketchbooks dating back nearly two decades, notes made over the course of six years, and fresh ideas that invite curiosity. In every corner, you will find connections and things to think about.

Jerry Ropson: a place of safety welcomes you to explore at the Owens until 6 December.

10/20/2026

“What if we lived in a world where the ecosystem was in balance again?”—Amanda Amour-Lynx Lynxii | Jilaptoq 🐾

Amanda Amour-Lynx’s augmented reality based work, Netukulimk (Rewilding), 2025, answers this pertinent question, virtually filling the gallery with a lush garden teeming with life, where we can dream of ecological balance.

Describing the work as “a utopic overlay” where native plants can take over landscapes “once fraught with invasive species,” Amour-Lynx envisions a replenishment of wildlife that spreads out “like giddy, happy wildflowers over an exhausted, barren habitat.”

Explore the garden with Jack-in-the-pulpit, wild columbine, Canada anemone, prairie smoke, and wild ginger in the gallery, or scan the QR code with your own device to experience the work. Currently on view in the exhibitions ‘a rush of friendship for stones and grasses’ until 13 December.

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Amanda Amour-Lynx, Netukulimk (Rewilding), 2025, augmented reality. Courtesy of the Artist.

10/18/2026

🏃‍♂️ It's your last week to visit At First Glance!

Pairing artworks from the Owens Collection, this exhibition uncovers unexpected connections and shared themes that may not be immediately apparent "At First Glance".

Curated by Roxamy Ibbitson and Jane Tisdale.
Last day: Sunday October 25, 2026

10/16/2026

☝️ These objects seek bodies.

In Jerry Ropson: a place of safety, while you wear a small wooden object made by the artist, you are granted permission to (gently!) touch any small object in the gallery.

Questioning what it means to have an embodied experience of an exhibition, JERRY ROPSON allows you to touch and hold objects which have “lost the memory of their original purposes.” He describes these objects as part of the remnants of a world that has “collapsed under its own weight.”

See (and touch) the new installation Jerry Ropson: a place of safety, on view until December 6, 2026.

10/15/2026

👀 One is large, and one is small, but why are there two of the same painting on display right now?

While studying at the Mount Allison Ladies' College, students were instructed to make copies of paintings, drawings, and classical casts from the Owens Collection as a way to improve their drawing and painting skills. Works were permanently on view, and students painted right in the galleries.

Around 1895, student Eugenia May Hicks (Class of 1899) made this copy of William Blair Bruce’s painting Temps Passé.

Today, the original Temps Passé and Eugenia's copy are on display side by side, keeping the history of copying and the importance of the Mount Allison Ladies' College ever present at the Owens.

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Small: Eugenia May Hicks (1873–1953), Untitled (Copy after William Blair Bruce’s “Temps Passé”), c. 1895, oil on canvas, Gift of Ronald and Susan Trueman.

Large: William Blair Bruce, Temps Passé, 1884, oil on canvas, 200.6 × 248.9 cm. Collection of the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University.

10/14/2026

📆 Upcoming Event | Gordon Sparks: Mi’kmaq Creation Story
Wednesday October 28, 2026 @ 6:00 pm
Tweedie Hall, Wallace McCain Student Centre (62 York St)
This is a free event and open to the public

Join artist Gordon Sparks for a special presentation of the Mi’kmaq creation story. Sparks is a Mi’kmaw artist committed to mentorship and cultural preservation. Raised in Papineau First Nation, he now lives in Rought Waters, New Brunswick, where he practices traditional Mi’kmaq wooden mask carving and tattooing.

This presentation is part of the Indigenous Speaker Series at Mount Allison University, organized in collaboration with Nicole Porter, Mi’kmaq cultural coordinator and knowledge keeper for Amlamgog (Fort Folly First Nation), and funded through the Marjorie Young Bell Distinguished Speaker Endowment Fund and Future Wabanaki. It is linked to an artist residency organized by the Owens Art Gallery.

Photo: Captured by Sasha, 2023

10/13/2026

🖼️ Jeff Burns paints landscapes, but not always ones you would recognize.

Exploring metaphors for human involvement in natural systems, Burns’s landscapes often combine real and imagined elements with imagery from microscopy, aerial photography, the health sciences, and biology. The resulting paintings expand our notion of landscapes by asking us to read unrecognizable, yet vaguely familiar forms.

Take a close look at his curiosity-inducing painting Untitled (2002) in the exhibition a rush of friendship for stones and grasses, on view until December 13, 2026.

📸: Jeff Burns. Untitled, 2002, oil on canvas, Collection of the Owens Art Gallery. Purchased with financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program and the Friends of the Owens Art Gallery.

10/11/2026

🍁 The Owens will be closed Monday 12 October in observance of Thanksgiving.

We hope you are out and about enjoying the incredible crimson, scarlet, and golden fall colours this long weekend, just like Christian McKiel would have, before painting this vibrant landscape.

📸: Christian McKiel, untitled, n.d. oil on board, 30.3 x 40.6 cm. Gift of Margaret Patricia Eaton ('69). Collection of the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University

10/10/2026

📝 What does it take to keep the Owens thriving for 130 years?

Find out by taking a look inside our latest annual report to learn about a year of exhibitions, programs, and research celebrating our past, present, and future of art education at the Owens.

From collection acquisitions and publications, to community outreach and digital engagement, explore the milestones, impact, and programs that shaped our 2025-2026 reporting year.

Read the annual report @https://owensartgallery.com/annualreports/OwensAnnualReport2025-2026.pdf (link in bio)

🌈 Cover image: Leah Garnett, The sunlight that curved to meet me, 2018, site-specific installation. Courtesy of the artist.

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61 York Street
Sackville, NB
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Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	1pm - 5pm
Sunday	1pm - 5pm

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(506) 364-2574

Website

https://owensartgallery.com/

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