Spring 2026 Opening Reception

Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026
Time: 6:30 – 9 pm (opening remarks at 7 pm)
Cost: FREE, registration encouraged but not required

The MacLaren invites you to get the very first look at our Spring season of exhibitions. The evening provides a unique opportunity to hear directly from the artists and curators and be surrounded by community. All are welcome to attend.

About the Exhibitions:

Marlene Hilton Moore: Threadlines
Threadlines brings together more than three decades of studio work by senior Canadian artist Marlene Hilton Moore, whose practice spans textiles, sculpture, photography, drawing, and sound. Rather than tracing a career history, the exhibition presents an evolving body of work.

Forbidden Fruit
Curated by Museum and Gallery Studies students at Georgian College: Eden Cameron, Marissa Legrow, and Gabriela Ojeda Garrido.

The art showcased in Forbidden Fruit hosts landscapes and still life paintings, drawings, and prints by prominent contemporary artists who are women to demonstrate that these genres of art are not constraints, but a freedom of expression and autonomy over lived experience and connection to subject matter.

The art on display includes work from the collections of The MacLaren Art Centre and Georgian College.