Art Crawl 2025

10:00 am: Tour of An Alternative to Simplicity, guided by Z’otz* Collective artists, at The Campus Gallery (Georgian College, Barrie Campus, D140)

11:00 am: Break to travel to MacLaren Art Centre and grab lunch

12:00 pm: Bring or buy your lunch and artist talk by Suzanne Morrissette, followed by a tour of her exhibition, The Shape of Transference.

Hungry for art? Take an extended lunch break and join an Art Crawl! Meet at The Campus Gallery (Georgian College, Barrie Campus, D140) for a special guided tour of the exhibition, An Alternative to Simplicity by Z’otz* Collective.

Artists Nahúm Flores, Erik Jerezano, and Ilyana Martínez create site-specific installations with drawing, painting, sculpture, and animation to consider the role of transformation: both in space and within their collective creative process. Informed by their Latin American heritage, mythology and narrative, and a playfully collaborative investigation of the vast approaches to mark-making, the gallery will be the canvas for their stories and gestures to emerge. Then, head over to the MacLaren Art Centre, and bring your lunch for a seated presentation by artist Suzanne Morrissette followed by a tour of her exhibition, The Shape of Transference.

Morrissette presents an intimate meditation on how different forms of knowledge are passed along. Using reclaimed clay, animation, layered sound, and drawing, the artworks map personal, entangled ways of knowing: embodied, inherited, experienced, and studied. Arising from moments of reflexive questioning about how to carry oneself amidst profound global shifts, The Shape of Transference is an invitation to pause, to sit with things that unfold slowly, and to find meaning in making.

You are welcome to join the full Art Crawl or to drop-in at whichever point works best for you.

After the guided tours, you are welcome to explore other exhibitions on view at the MacLaren Art Centre. If you are in need of a car ride between the two venues, please contact christina@maclarenart.com, and we will do our best to coordinate one for you. This event is a participating program in Culture Days, a national three-week festival celebrating arts, culture, and heritage across Canada.

Image Credit: Z’otz* Collective, A Way of Commuting, mixed media on paper, 2025
Suzanne Morrissette, Grief Plates, 2025, reclaimed clay with glazes, various dimensions.