Winter Opening Reception

Winter Opening Reception
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025
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 Winter season of exhibitions.  

Each in their own compelling way, the five new exhibitions ask us to be grounded in the present and look hopefully into the future. Like the winter season, they encourage us to slow down and process for intentional regrowth. The evening provides a unique opportunity to hear directly from the artists and be surrounded by community. All are welcome to attend.

About the Exhibitions:

• Every connected fibre, a theory of everything presents recent works by Toronto-based artist R.O.I Olou that include drawing, painting, animation, and pulp painting, with each medium influencing and supporting the others.
• Toward Emergent Futures brings together work by Judy Anderson, Christina Battle, Emily Pelstring, and Naomi Okabe, who acknowledging the gravity of current realities while also proposing that the future remains open to revision.
• The Seed Project reminds us that winter serves as a time to envision the growth of spring, presenting regional native plant arrangements made by participants of a community workshop (with special thanks to Ashley Hammell / Pollinate Barrie).
• Sky Screen presents prints by Robert Game, selected from the MacLaren’s collection, which project a vision of the future where nature and technology have co-evolved.
• Dazzle Days celebrates Janet Jones’ paintings from the MacLaren’s collection, which open windows onto glowing, atmospheric worlds shaped by architecture and technology, hovering between the familiar and the distant.