Exhibition Dates: Saturday September 6, 2025 to February TBD, 2026
Where: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King Street West, Hamilton ON, L8P 4S8
This theme is perfect for artists who love nature by challenging our members to create artwork that represents the environment around us. By capturing the vibrant colours of sunsets, the soft glow of cherry blossoms, majestic mountains or peaceful lakes, nature offers endless inspiration and creative possibilities. We encourage all WAAH members to bring the magic of the outdoors to life on your canvas.
Past Exhibitions
Minto Gallery – Call for Entry 2024
Entry Deadline: April 5, 2024; details below or click for Minto website
Minto Juried Art Show 2024 is an annual event in Town of Minto. RUNNING from May 7TH till May 24TH, 2024. With featured artists from across Ontario, presenting an incredibly diverse mix of mediums, styles and subjects.
Minto Juried Art Show 2024 Awards Reception
The MINTO ARTS COUNCIL is very pleased to announce for the seventh time the Minto Juried Art Show. On the night of the Awards Reception the winners will be announced. The event will take place at the Minto Arts Gallery.
Apart from the money prizes, participation is the biggest award of joining the Minto Juried Art Show, that is gaining more national recognition each year.
The awards reception will be held on May 9th, from 6:30-8:00 pm.
The winners will be announced at 7 p.m., at the Minto Arts Gallery – 88 Mill St., Harriston.
Located upstairs in the Harriston Public Library
Minto Juried Art Show 2024 Awards
Sponsored by Minto Arts Council
1st Place – $200
2nd Place – $150
3rd Place – $100
Viewer’s Choice Award – $50
Privately Sponsored
Best Watercolor Award – $200.00
West Meadow Press and printmaking prize – $100.00
In an edition of 10 or more in any medium of the following media , etching, metal engraving, mezzotint, relief print, woodcut, wood engraving, silkscreen. Digital or photographic prints are accepted.
Jurors
Faith Hieblinger
Faith Hieblinger is an award winner for excellence in heritage arts and two-time nominee for the Kitchener Waterloo Arts Award.
Hieblinger studied Business at Wilfred Laurier University and has an honours fine art studio degree from University of Waterloo. Actively participating in exhibitions as curator, juror and artist throughout Southwestern Ontario and beyond.
She spent close to three decades as Executive Director/Curator of the nationally recognized Homer Watson House and Gallery. She has also curated shows with the Etobicoke Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Mississauga and is affiliated with City of Kitchener as guest curator in the Berlin Tower ARTSPACE.
Hieblinger has enjoyed working with Studio Art Quilt Associates international or SAQA, curating an exhibit that toured across Canada.
Her own artwork is exhibited with the Art District Gallery of Waterloo Region.
Scott McNichol
Scott McNichol is a successful working artist for the past 32 years in a variety of mediums such drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. He has exhibited his works in solo and group shows from Toronto to Montreal and Buffalo, NY, with many works in both private and public collections. As a graduate of Fine Arts and Philosophy from the University of Guelph and Print Journalism from Conestoga College, McNichol has been actively curating, jurying and above all teaching visual arts. He has designed and taught children’s and adult art programs through Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge Art Galleries, as well as galleries in Stratford, Guelph, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Toronto.
For 28 years, McNichol was Associate Artist at Homer Watson House and Gallery and taught workshops and programs through Waterloo and Wellington school boards. In 2017, Scott received the Canada 150 Award of Excellence for youth arts engagement from the Government of Canada.
Currently, Scott is head of the Art Department at Scholars’ Hall Private School
Colour with a U
Campbell House Toronto | April 1 – June 3, 2023
Colour with a U and its companion exhibition Colour with a U Too are juried exhibitions art quilts on the theme of diversity and inclusion by Canadian members of Studio Art Quilt Associates.
In Canada, we spell colour with a “u”. We care about the “u”, it makes us unique. We care about the “you”, it brings us together. SAQA artists have reflected on the theme of diversity and inclusion to give “colourful” representations of our Canadian cultural
identity. Each offers an individual perspective on how we as Canadians see ourselves in our social, historical and physical landscape.
Colour with a U was juried by Faith Hieblinger, Guest Curator, Homer Watson House & Gallery, Alan Syliboy, Mi’kmaq Artist, and Jayne Willoughby, Textile Artist. Colour with a U Too was juried by Dr. Debra Antoncic, Director/Curator of RiverBrink Art
Museum.
SAQA is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the art quilt and the artists who create them. Founded in 1989 with 34 members, it now has over 3,700 members world-wide. SAQA defines an art quilt as “a creative visual work that is layered
and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure.” More information about SAQA can be found at http://www.saqa.com
Minto Juried Art Show 2023
Minto Art Gallery, Harriston ON | May 2 – May 26, 2023
Minto Juried Art Show 2023 is an annual event presenting an incredibly diverse mix of mediums, styles and subjects, with featured artists from across Ontario. This year promises to be no different.
We would like you to join us at the Minto Arts Gallery on May 4th, 2023 for the awards reception, from 6:30 till 8 p.m. The winners will be announced at 7:00 p.m.
Jurors
Faith Hieblinger
Scott McNichol
In-person Exhibition at the historic Log Cabin May 1 – July 30
Click to view the creating process.
Colour with a “U” | Canadian Members of Studio Art Quilt Associates
Curator Faith Hieblinger
March 13 – September 7 2020 | Homer Watson House & Gallery
Summer Detour | Art District Gallery
August 1 – September 30 2020 | Virtual Gallery
Off the Wall | Art District Gallery
June 1 – July 31 2020 | Virtual Gallery
Thirteen | Art District Gallery
March 1 – May 31 2020 | Virtual Gallery
Vicinity | The Art District Gallery
Curated by Nancy Peng
February 1 – February 28, 2020 | Gallery 52
Artists imagine how vicinity might be portrayed within a work of art. Through local colour, neighbourhood structures and garden textures artist explore their vicinity. Choice of subject matter varies from items close at hand to those close in spirit through symbolic and thought provoking composition. The theme is examined though a variety of artistic backgrounds, diverse media and rich cultural influences.
Imagining the Night Sky |Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Curators Faith Hieblinger, Clark Muir
February 1 – March 2020 | Berlin Tower ARTSPACE
Astro photographers explore the universe. Many of their works have appeared on Canadian stamps, International Magazines, and astrophysic reports. These artists capture scenes and explore the sky with their cameras.
New | Art District Gallery
Guest Artists Brom Churchill, Faith Hieblinger, Teresa Walker
October 18 – November 27 2020 | Art District Gallery
Contrast | Kitchener Society of Artist
Curator Faith Hieblinger | Juror Andrew Soorah
March 17 – April 21 2019 | Homer Watson House & Gallery
Artists explore the use of contrast within a work of art whether it be visually through colour, line or texture, figuratively through symbolic choice of subject matter or spiritually through thought provoking composition. The theme is examined though a variety of artistic backgrounds, diverse media and rich cultural influences.
Resonance | Tiina Price
Curated by Faith Hieblinger
March 17 – April 21 2019 Homer Watson House & Gallery
2018 winner of the Curator’s Choice award, Price chooses to paint with watercolours as it allows the nuances of nature to unfold. “I am continually struck by the play of light on water, the shadows in foliage, the changeability of skies, and the vibrancy or subtlety of colour.” Price’s paintings celebrate not only the energy and vitality of nature, but its serenity and harmony.
Textures || Kitchener Waterloo Society of Artists || Homer Watson Gallery
Reflections || Mira Wasilewska || Ferrie Gallery, Homer Watson House
Group Exhibit || 18 local artist || Art District Gallery
The Art District Gallery is located at 159 King Street E., Kitchener; open Tuesdays – Fridays 11-6 and Saturdays 10-5.
Tree-Centricity || Amy Ferrari || Homer Watson Gallery
curated by Faith Hieblinger
Amy Ferrari showcases the personalities of trees. Through her work of acrylic on canvas paintings, Ferrari believes that focusing on trees can help to center us and bring us back into alignment with the flow, harmony and wisdom of life.
Mind-Scape || Ed Schleimer || Homer Watson House & Gallery
curated by Faith Hieblinger
Ed Schleimer takes us on a journey of discovery, reconciliation, change, intellect and moral purpose. Through his work in wood cut etchings, watercolour and oil pastels, Schleimer often uses his own image to interpret the historic spirit of our city in terms of values and aspirations, seeking to satisfy the universal needs of “everyman”.
Sitting Still || Ruth Lane || Homer Watson House & Gallery
curated by Faith Hieblinger
Ruth Lane explores the idea of our identity as fluid rather than fixed. The subject matter she paints is varied, but the portraiture and figures are her true passion. Lane works from both personal photographic images and life interchangeably.
Our Nature; Ourselves || Hidden Valley Artists || Artspace – Kitchener City Hall
curated by Faith Hieblinger
Etchings || Homer Ransford Watson || Watson Museum
co-curated by Faith Hieblinger, Janine Foertsch
Focusing on the element of line to capture interest and emotion, Homer applied a technique of etching into copper and printing with ink. Homer created some of his most interesting pieces including a print of one of his most famous pieces, The Pioneer Mill, 1879
First Curator || Phoebe Amelia Watson || Watson Museum
curated by Faith Hieblinger
Nature and Humans|| Homer Watson|| Watson Museum
curated by Faith Hieblinger
Lush forests, heavy clouds and rushing streams are often seen in partnership with markers of human industrialization: small and gestural depictions of working men and women as well as the depiction of man made structures, such as local mills and barns. Through his work, Homer captures the unforgiving moods and beauty of nature as well as man’s complex relationship with it.
Faith Hieblinger 