Founded in 2011
The Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective has been together as an ad hoc group of curators, educators, artists and writers since 2011, when we first started to plan, curate and present arts events in our region.
First Exhibit: 2013
After several indoor group exhibitions held in and around North Bay, Ontario, we produced our first site-specific exhibition in the Fall of 2013. At that time our group assisted Anishinabek artist, Michael Couchie to produce an outdoor installation, called Outside In on the shores of Lake Nipissing.
Ice Follies and Affects of Site
In early 2014, the group curated and presented a conference focusing on site-specific art production called Affects of Site. The site-specific exhibition, Ice Follies, continues to grow and foster the growth of visual arts events that occur within the public sphere. The Nipissing Region curatorial Collective’s 2014 professional development and curatorial project, Affects of Site: A Conference and Dialogue on the Future of Site-specific art practice, furthered the impact of this highly successful exhibition of artists’ projects on a frozen lake by acting as a focal point for important discussions on the practice itself and on how other artists or collectives can create site-specific visual arts events in their cities and regions. In partnership with local arts groups, the Near North Mobile Media Lab, the Pinewood Clarion Resort, Tour de Nipissing and the City of North Bay, we promoted and hosted this conference aimed at growing the artistic form that is site-specific art across Canada.
One Hundred Thousand Poets for Change
Also in 2014, we worked with The Conspiracy of Three Writers Group, active in North Bay for over twenty years and presenting one of the longest running reading series in the country, to present One Hundred Thousand Poets for Change, 2014. This celebration of literary readings and performances was our regional contribution to the global OHT Poets for Change phenomenon.
The Northern Arts and Crafts Movement
In 2015, the collective presented a series of artists’ workshops introducing regional artists and students in the area to traditional art-making practices (especially Anishinabek artistic practices such as leather-working, carving, casting and beadwork) that our artist/mentors are using as they develop contemporary artworks and practices. The Northern Arts and Crafts Movement featured ten artist’s workshops and ran from July 10th to October 15, 2015.
Ice Follies 2015/2016
In late 2015 and early 2016, the collective worked with the Ice Follies Biennial committee and the Aanmitaagzi artists group to assist with the construction of an installation and performance project.
ArtJam
The NRCC has also worked with local arts groups to present four “ArtJam” events at a vacant school in North Bay and with the North Bay and Area Potters Guild to create an exchange exhibition with the Deep River Potters Guild. The project is now complete and was called: Canoe Culture.
NOVAH (Northern Ontario Visual Arts Hive)
In January of 2017, the NRCC Collaborators decided to create a Public Art Gallery in order to nurture fine arts curation and to exhibit high quality visual, media and performing arts that reflect the state of contemporary art in Northern Ontario: NOVAH (Northern Ontario Visual Arts Hive) was born! In May of 2017, we exhibited over 80 artists at a group exhibition and sale called Paddle Project 2017. Through the summer of 2017, and with funding from an OAC grant obtained through the Northern Arts and Crafts Movement, we presented half a dozen “outdoor” workshops for artists. The highlight was our first-ever Artists Wilderness Retreat to Obabika Lake.
176 Lakeshore
Throughout the fall of 2017, we worked on lining up funding for our NOVAH/NRCC Renovations Project. By early January, 2018, we received Heritage Canada funding to renovate the dedicated Gallery spaces at 176 Lakeshore Drive, to install new walls, lighting and surveillance systems and to install brand-new equipment in our Artist Studio Spaces in Units 14 and 16. This project also has dedicated funds toward creating a new Digital Arts Studio that will be designed by RFP Media for the NRCC.
NOVAH Projects
At the Northern Ontario Visual Arts Hive our exhibition schedule is now in place for the next 2 years, starting officially in 2018 with two major events: the opening of a group exhibition called Portraits North of 17 and our Friends of the Wilderness Fundraiser for the Friends of Temagami that takes place on May 5th, 2018. NOVAH, is a branch of the NRCC, created to present high quality, professional visual and performing arts exhibitions and events that will feature art from across northern Ontario, includes a media arts gallery and an outdoor gallery in our gardens. These programs also run throughout the year!
Exhibitions ARCHIVE
In Transition – Nov. 21 – Dec. 15, 2019 – a major exhibition of works by North Bay artist, Jurgen Mohr. The exhibit will include Mohr’s recent experiments in abstraction and an attention to artistic influences including those from his second home, the Dominican Republic. <a href=” https://thenrcc.com/nipissing-region-curatorial-collective-about/nrcc-exhibits/ “>See More</a><br><br> This and That…from the Present to the Past, Oct. 24 – Nov. 19, 2019 – New works in various mediums by sculptor and painter, Barry Burniston. The show includes a series of pan and ink drawings completed while the artist was recovering from a serious illness <a href=” https://thenrcc.com/nipissing-region-curatorial-collective-about/nrcc-exhibits/ “>See More</a><br><br> Nipissing Culture Days, Sept. 27-29, 2019 – a series of performances and community cultural events sponsored in part by the Department of Canadian Heritage. <a href=” https://thenrcc.com/culturedaysnorthbay/ “>See More</a><br><br> <a href=”https://thenrcc.com/upcoming-events/”>See More</a>
Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective
1466 Jane Street,
North Bay,
ONTARIO, CANADA P1B 3J6
email: nrcc2014@gmail.com
phone: 705-358-1764
This “public access” Gallery graces the walls at 176 Lakeshore Drive, North Bay, Ontario, Canada…CHECK out the new Northern Ontario Visual Arts Hive website TODAY!!!
Cautionary Tales – Alex Maeve Campbell – Nov. 18 – Jan. 05, 2024
Pollinators and Spirit Guides – Donald Chretien – Sept. 10 – Oct. 28, 2023
Harmonies and Rhythms – Sept. 10 – Oct. 28, 2023
Paintings and Drawings by North Bay artist, Marcel Blanchard. OPENING: 1pm, Sunday, Sept. 10 at 222 Gallery.
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TAROT INTERPRETED, SATURDAY, June 17
1pm – Opening Event for Janet Hendershot and Cesar Forero’s exhibition entitled: Tarot Interpreted. Readings by Stephanie Vandoleweerd.
TWO EXHIBITIONS, SATURDAY, APRIL 15
1pm – Ed Regan – Reconnections and Recollections – Gallery 222
3pm – Clare Ross – Empty Nest – NOVAH Gallery, 176 Lakeshore
OUT on the ICE, a CELEBRATION of 20 Years of ICE FOLLIES
OPENS: February 18th, 2PM
CLOSES: April 10th, 2023
NRCC 32auctions.com
Holiday ART AUCTION OPENS – Nov. 29, 2022
Terre and I just set up an AMAZING array of beautiful artworks by our NRCC Artist Members from across Northeastern Ontario. They’ve donated 20% of the sale price of these works back to NRCC!! WOW!
THANK-YOU, ARTISTS!
PLEASE visit the site, create a free account at 32auctions.com and make a bid… Here is the link…
32Auctions NRCC Holiday Art Auction
NRCC NEWS
Endangered Boreal Art and the Environment TOUR TICKETS – Now on Sale – Follow this link to register for the Full Tour (August 15 – 30) or for Partial Tour packages (five day sections of the Tour)
https://thenrcc.com/broken-forests/
NOVAH Gallery – 176 Lakeshore – EXHIBITION – Breath, Heart, Spirit and OSA North group exhibit of paintings, mixed media artworks and sculpture.
Gallery 222 Exhibition – Paintings and Mixed Media Artworks by Anastasia Meicholas
Gifts of Joy and NRCC AGM
Hey Friends of NRCC and fellow artists! If you would like to join us live and in person for the Annual General Meeting…we’ll be at 176 lakeshore Drive at 3pm this Sunday. Look for us in Room 12. AND PLEASE drop in from now until Dec. 21 to view GIFTS OF JOY, our Solstice Art Celebration at NOVAH Gallery, 176 Lakeshore Drive.
If you would like to attend the meeting virtually…drop us a line at nrcc2014@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoom Invite.
3rd Annual Nipissing Culture Days – Sept 24-Oct 24, 2021
Nipissing Culture Days 2021 is happening on Sept 24-Oct 24. The official opening is going to be on Sept 24, Friday at TD and the #11 Parking lot, Downtown North Bay. The Long&Mcquade’s Gateway to Diversity Festival hosted by Gateway to the arts and in partnership with NRCC will be having its Parking lot party on September 26, 2021, @ 10-6 pm, the same venue as the opening. On the 26 at 12-3:30 pm are the Pop-Up Picnic and Cultural games during the InterCultural Fun Day at the grounds of North Bay Museum. Our closing ceremony will a virtual event. Stay tuned for more information on this.
World FusionFest- Sep 17 and 18, 2021
We’re excited to announce the confirmed line-up for World FusionFest performances slated for September 18th from 1-7 pm and to publish the updated poster for the event. Please share this poster with your friends. This is a FREE MUSIC EVENT sponsored by the City of North Bay, many Downtown businesses, and the Department of Canadian Heritage. It features local and regional performance artists and musicians. The event will be held in three venues; The lot (near Guardian Drugs at Downtown), Big Medicine, and Good2go. For more information,