Short Media Work | Art in Action: Climate

Multiple

Fri 30 Jan 2026 – Sat 28 Feb 2026

The Niagara Artists Centre presents a series of short media art films curated from the Vtape collection that engage with environmental issues through experimental and poetic approaches. The works by Mike Hoolboom, Shelley Niro, Jeremy Drummond, and Josephine Massarella explore themes of ecological fragility and our relationship to the natural world using moving image, sound, and digital processes to provoke reflection rather than offer simple solutions.

black and blue: pottery and poetry by martina doom

Wed 10 Dec 2025 – Sat 17 Jan 2026

Opening Reception Sat 13 Dec 2025 7PM-9PM

black and blue is a project born through life’s most transformative experiences - love, loss, everything that comes in between and after. Through poetry and sculpture, I’ve reflected on these moments of connection we carry with others and the self.

Written over the course of two years, these poems explore the softness of what lingers underneath the surface, when we’re left to sit with discomfort.

Each sculpture is built by hand, coil by coil, and assembled in a spiral motion until they reach completion. This slow and intentional process mimics the pace of digesting our own behavioural patterns and attachment wounds.

black and blue is divided into 3 elements - black, blue and after. Each embodied by 3 sculptures with a corresponding poem. In spiritual teachings, the number 3 represents harmony, wisdom and spiritual growth. Together, they compose an integrated journey of the self.

Spotted with Pansies

Chris Glabb

Sun 1 Feb 2026 – Sun 12 April 2026

Opening Reception Sun 1 Feb 2026

Spotted with Pansies explores how landscape can be weaponized to enact harm against marginalized communities. A pansy is both a flower and a derogatory term for a feminine gay man, making it simultaneously beautiful and inflammatory. The title of the series refers to a time in the artist’s life when, before coming out, he feared being seen with other homosexual men: afraid that this association would expose him as “one of them.” These works pervert ornamental tradition, embracing fashion and Internet culture as Queer muses. Overwhelming the architectural surface with spots underscores how Queerness is often rendered decorative and claustrophobic, ostentatious to the point of suffocation.

This project was supported by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

Select works on loan from de Montigny Contemporary.

A Fog That Won't Burn Away

B Mosher

Fri 30 Jan 2026 – Sat 2 May 2026

Opening Reception Sat 7 Feb 2026 6:00 PM