Past Exhibitions
A selection of previous exhibitions at the Lake of the Woods Museum and Douglas Family Art Centre. Click on an exhibit to learn more.
78th Kenora District Festival of the Arts – Visual Arts
The Douglas Family Art Centre is pleased to be hosing the Visual Arts display for the 78th Kenora District...
Anong Migwans Beam
Anong Migwans Beam is an artist from Mchigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island, working primarily in large-format oil paintings.
Beyond the Bars
Beyond the Bars is an exhibition of artwork from inmates of the Kenora jail.
Tell Me a Story: Youth Literature and the Holocaust
This travelling exhibition, produced by the Montreal Holocaust Museum, introduces the history of the Holocaust and the Second World...
Exquisite Miniatures
International traveling art exhibition of miniature paintings by Wes and Rachelle Siegrist
Piitwewetam: Making is Medicine
Piitwewetam: Making is Medicine. This is a story of an Anishnaabe family’s journey of love and grief and grief...
Richard Calver: Life Force
Richard Calver : Life Force. A selection of 25 linocuts celebrating Calver's life's work.
Hardship and Resilience: The History of Ukrainians in Kenora
This exhibit explores the history of the hundreds of Ukrainians who found themselves in the Kenora area, making a new...
Seasons From a Bird’s Eye View
Dakota Vandale documents the vast changes of each season with a bird's eye view.
Hope and Healing Canada: Tracey-Mae Chambers
Since 2021, Tracey-Mae Chambers has been creating site specific art installations that aim to broach the subject of decolonization...
Mundus adaptat: Ione Thorkelsson
Mundus adaptat brings together 9 exquisite cast-glass pieces by leading Canadian glass artist Ione Thorkelsson.
Nakatamaakewin: Bringing art to you
Nakatamaakewin is a mobile exhibition of Inuit art organized and circulated by the Winnipeg Art Gallery / Qaumajuq. Here...
Modern Explorer: Randolph Parker
Modern Explorer: Randolph Parker captures Lake of the Woods through 42 striking landscape paintings paired with GPS coordinates.
Gail Konantz: A Life & Love of Art
A Life & Love of Art is a celebration the life and work of painter and longtime summer resident...
My Art, My World: Rita Winkler
My Art, My World is an exhibition featuring 28 colourful watercolour paintings by Rita Winkler, a young woman with...
35th Annual Lake of the Woods Quilters Guild Quilt Show
After a two year hiatus, the Lake of the Woods Quilters Guild is back with their 35th Annual Quilt...
Power of Place: Melissa Jean & Walter J. Phillips
Power of Place is an exhibition featuring Lake of the Woods inspired artwork by Walter J. Phillips and Melissa...
One is Part of the Whole
One is Part of the Whole brings together the art of artist and retired art educator, Pippi Johnson, and...
A Walk in the Wilderness
A Walk in the Wilderness is an Early Years Community Project that invites educators to venture outside and discover...
Dakobinaawaswaan / Baby in a Cradleboard
Dakobinaawaswaan (Baby in a Cradleboard) gathers more than 50 cradleboards from Indigenous communities across Turtle Island (North America).
Ivan Eyre: Persona
Persona is an exhibition featuring a selection of Ivan Eyre’s figure drawings that explore character – known, generated, and perceived.
Itee Pootoogook: Hymns to the Silence / ᐊᐃᑏ ᐳᑐᒍᖅ: ᐱᓰᑦ ᓂᖃᑐᓕᕐᓂᕐᒧᑦ
Itee Pootoogook: Hymns to the Silence features more than 50 drawings from the late artist in the first full-scale...
The Golden Age of Postcards: From the Collection of Rob McInnes
The Lake of the Woods Museum is pleased to have worked with Rob McInnes in curating this exhibit which...
Student Photo Exhibition
This exhibition features digital photographs taken by ACE and AASP program students, under the guidance of the Nee-Chee Friendship...
Nancy Bergman: Somewhere in the Sky
Somewhere in the Sky is an exhibition by art-quilter Nancy Bergman that examines the symbolism of circles in nature.
Ruth Cuthand: Beads of Truth
Beads of Truth is an exhibition of the work of Indigenous artist, Ruth Cuthand, that examines historic and contemporary...
Kahnowiilyaa / Everyone
In Kahnowiilyaa / Everyone, architecture students from the University of Manitoba use design to strengthen community, while discussing homelessness.
Bakaan nake’ii ngii-izhi-gakinoo’amaagoomin / We Were Taught Differently: The Indian Residential School Experience
This exhibit examines the Indian Residential School experience, particularly two schools that were located in Kenora, Ontario.
Nadya Kwandibens: The Red Chair Sessions
Photographer Nadya Kwandibens presents The Red Chair Sessions, an exhibition about reclaiming Indigenous spaces/places and language.
Raising the Curtain: 30 Years of Trylight Theatre Co.
2021 marks the 30th anniversary of Kenora’s TryLight Theatre Co. After producing 60 memorable shows they’ve partnered with...
Phillips Interpreted
Phillips Interpreted features fine art quilts created by local group QA5 that are based on the work of Canadian...
ART AT THE LAKE: Celebrating 60 Years of the Sioux Narrows Arts Festival
Art at the Lake features the paintings, carvings, sculptures, glasswork, fibre art, photography and film of Sioux Narrows artists...
Colour with a “U”
Colour with a “U” is a juried exhibition of art quilts created by Canadian SAQA members interpreting themes of...
Maud Lewis
Canada’s most beloved folk artist, Maud Lewis (1903–1970) has captured the hearts of many with her dazzling depictions of...
Strike a Pose: Portraits from the Collection
Strike a Pose: Portraits from the Collection features over 60 of the most compelling and striking portraits from our...
Art in the Time of Corona
ART IN THE TIME OF CORONA is an exhibition celebrating the arts and its ability to help people process...
Cheryl Wilson-Smith: 21 Pillows
21 Pillows is an interactive installation by award winning glass artist Cheryl Wilson-Smith, which reflects on the human impact...
From the Vault
FROM THE VAULT features a selection of artwork from the collection of the Lake of the Woods Museum.
The Sounds of Summer
Whatever you called it— phonograph, gramophone, record player— they were a staple at camps on the Lake of the...
A Dip of a Paddle & the Stroke of a Pen: Maps of Lake of the Woods
The Lake of the Woods boasts over 14,500 islands and more than 105,000 kilometers of shoreline. Here the Museum presents...
Cassandra Cochrane: Nindinawemaaganag: My Relations
Through the use of beadwork, sewing, printmaking, textiles, and ceramics, Cochrane encourages conversations about the contemporary Indigenous experience.
Heather Shillinglaw – Whiskey Scrip
Heather Shillinglaw retells her Metis family's oral history of the Carlton Trail through beadwork and textile installations.
Michel St. Hilaire – High Speed
Michel St. Hilaire's artwork is an expression of the intersection of human infrastructures with those of the natural environment.
GAA-NIGAANII ONIDAAWIZIWAD / LEADING ARTISTS
A celebration of the artwork of two local Indigenous art collectives formed in the 1970s.
The Gift of Art
The foundational collection of Walter J. Phillips’ Lake of the Woods inspired art donated by the Douglas Family.
The Artists’ Muse
This Grand Opening exhibition celebrates the artists from the region of Lake of The Woods.
SHIIBAASHKA’IGAN: Honouring the Sacred Jingle Dress
Shiibaashka’igan – the jingle dress, the healing dress, is sacred in the Anishinaabe culture. 50 dresses are on display.
34th Annual Quilt Show – Presented by the LOW Quilters’ Guild
The Annual Lake of the Woods Quilters' Guild showcases the fine work of local quilters.
Miijim: Traditional Foods of the Anishinaabeg
Miijim - food - and its importance to the body, mind, soul and heart of the Anishinaabeg.
Bakaan nake’ii ngii-izhi-gakinoo’amaagoomin / We Were Taught Differently: The Indian Residential School Experience
This exhibit examines the Indian residential school experience, particularly two schools that were located in Kenora, Ontario.