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The Sunshine Coast Arts Centre is a professionally run public art gallery. It is owned and operated by the Sunshine Coast Arts Council, a non-profit society funded by the Sunshine Coast Regional District, the District of Sechelt, the BC Arts Council, our members, private and corporate sponsors and fund-raising events.

The Sunshine Coast Arts Centre is an unique log structure, centrally located at Trail Ave. & Medusa St. in Sechelt. It presents a year-round schedule of exhibits of contemporary art by both local and off-coast artists. With our two exhibiting areas we have up to 12 exhibition timeslots in the year.

For more information email sc_artscouncil@dccnet.com
Call for Submissions
Exhibition Year Feb 2011 to Feb 2012

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council + Arts Centre [SCAC+AC] invites artists to submit exhibition proposals for the Doris Crowston Gallery, in any visual art medium, of work that has not been exhibited on the Coast in the last six months.

Submission Deadline August 31 2010

CLICK HERE for Proposal Submission Guide
CLICK HERE for image list
The 2010 Doris Crowston Gallery Shows
~ at a glance ~

Jan 6 - 31 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Jan 6, 7 - 9pm
      Friends of the Gallery 2010

Feb 3 - 28 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Feb 3, 7 - 9pm
      25 Years of Life - Life Drawing Group

Mar 3 - 28 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Mar 3, 7 - 9pm
      Between House and Home - Sonja Kobrehel

Mar 31 - Apr 18 2010
      Young Peoples Own Show - Elementary

Apr 19 - May 5 2010
      Festival of the Performing Arts

Apr 21 - May 9 2010
      Young Peoples Own Show - Secondary

May 12 - 30 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday May 12, 7 - 9pm
      Transience and Beauty - Afuwa Granger; Seasons - Susan Fletcher

Jun 2 - 27 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Jun 2, 7 - 9pm
      National Aboriginal Day Show - National Aboribinal Day June 2

Jun 30 - Jul 25 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday June 30, 7 - 9pm
      2nd Annual Ceramics on the Edge - Berry Keller / Heather Waddell

Jul 28 - Aug 8 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday July 28, 7 - 9pm
      2010 Summer Invitational - TBA

Jul 31 - Aug 7 2010
      Sechelt Art Festival - District of Sechelt

Aug 11 - Sept 5 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Aug 11, 7 - 9pm
      leaving my found eden & seven 1/2 and one - Ron Zheng

Aug 14 & 15 2010 ~ jury submissions: Feb & Mar 2010
      Hackett Park Summer Craft Fair - TBA

Sep 8 - Oct 3 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Sep 8, 7 - 9pm
      Landscapes Around Us - Tina Flux

Oct 6 - 31 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Oct 6, 7 - 9pm
      Faces & Places, Close & Distant - Krista Maurer

Nov 3 - 28 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Nov 3, 7 - 9pm
      Ourselves and Others - Life and Limb Painting Group

Dec 1 - 19 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Dec 4, 1 - 4pm
      Young Artist Awards

Dec 1 - 19 2010 ~ Reception: Wednesday Dec 4, 1 - 4pm
      Banner Project 2010

Jan 5 - 30 2011 ~ Reception: Wednesday Jan 5, 7 - 9pm
      Friends of the Gallery 2011

  To view the archive of past shows CLICK HERE



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Mar 3 - 28 2010
reception Wednesday, Mar 3, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Sonja Kobrehel Between House and Home

Sonja Kobrehel

Leaving political and economic turmoil in eastern Europe for calmer waters in Vancouver has brought forth bright, colorful, somewhat whimsical paintings for Sonja Kobrehel of German-Hungarian ancestry.

Kobrehel, whose work has been exhibited in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, Spain and Japan to both public and critical praise.

In studying the evolution of her work, one notes Kobrehel's interior perceptions and attitudes steadily evolve. As the artist says: "I am constantly searching (within and) about for something new."

The changing attaractions include script from the ancient Hungarian alphabet (called Rovasiras). Very often these new creations seem to float, fly, dance, undulate-even swim-against a background expanse of subtly mixed colors and hues, many very brilliant.
Feb 3 - 28 2010
reception Wednesday, Feb 3, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Life Drawing 25 Years of Life

Life Drawing Group

Twenty-five years ago, a group of Sunshine Coast artists got together in Roberts Creek to draw the nude model, a practice which has been a standard part of artistic training for centuries. Since then, artists have come and gone, venues have shifted, and opportunities for life drawing have increased, but the original drawing group has continued its practice, most recently at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.

These new vigorous drawings are in various traditional drawing media, and their hallmarks are spontaneity and immediacy. They have been untouched by the artist after the modelling session and therefore show the very freshest impression of the human form which the human artist can bring to bear. The drawings are unframed and literally "paper" the walls of the exhibition space, atelier style, resulting in a vibrant celebration of the diversity of the human form.