Through sculpture, sonic art, video, drawing and printmaking, An Exercise in Listening explores themes such as place, change, ignorance, and deep engagement. This exhibition aims to provoke reflection on climate change and human environmental impact upon our fresh water resources. Freshwater health, access, security, and biodiversity are all impacted by climate change – a global crisis that has been known for over thirty years. Yet, in spite of a multitude of warnings form scientists, politicians, artists, and everyday people, humanity largely remains on a capitalist trajectory defined by growth and resource extraction. In response to our current predicament, this exhibition asks how each of us can do a better job of listening to the planet and to each other.

Haley Bassett is a Metis and Austrian-Russian visual artist, whose work is informed by social practice. She is based in Subset Prairie, BC and originally from Dawson Creek, BC. Her work explores how time, place, family histories, and personal traumas converge as formational aspects to the self.

Lineage is an installation that reflects on Bassett’s own family history and how it has come to influence her work. The exhibition will include work created by Bassett over the years, from childhood to adulthood, along with family mementos and keepsakes. Lineage will chart the development of an artist, highlighting her creative process and the transformation of ideas from the first seeds of creativity.

Come visit the Central BC Railway & Forestry Museum to step into their latest art exhibit!

Melanie Desjardines has been a practicing artist in Prince George for the last 18 years, as well as a gallerist, having owned and operated the Groop Gallery from 2010-2017. Her paintings and artworks have made it into various homes, offices, and public spaces locally, as well as throughout B.C. and parts of Canada. Having retained a sampling of her own work over the years from various past exhibitions, she is now choosing to share a rather eclectic collection of diverse pieces in this exhibition, as well as some of her newest work.

This summer Two Rivers Gallery invites individuals, families, and youth to participate in a community
engaged printmaking project envisioned by artist Catherine Ruddell which invites participants to engage
with the Michif language while learning how to make home-made stamps.

Mîtawîtân (Let’s Play)!, is a community engaged project by printmaker and textile artist Catherine
Ruddell. This project has been developed for KidzArt Dayz in the Community, an adaptation of Two
Rivers Gallery’s annual in-person family event that normally extends outdoors into the Civic Plaz

This event will explore how arts & culture can thrive in small(er) communities without urban systems and support. Using Prince George, BC as a case study/launching point, this virtual panel and Creative Paths screening will bring together artists who stayed in Prince George and artists who chose to relocate to larger urban centers. Exploring questions of professional development, metric of artist success, and grassroots vs. institutional community development, this panel efforts to re-center arts and culture conversations away from larger metropolitan cities, and toward more remote regions. This event explores the lived experience of the unique artistic community of Prince George, focusing on the challenges, concerns, differences, and future development of this (and other) non-metropolitan communities.