The CUPE/SCFP and Community Galleries are closed for Winter exhibition installation, reopening February 7th. We are open to the public and welcome visitors!

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Opening Reception and Artist Walkthrough

February 15, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Natalie Hunter and Heidi McKenzie will guide audience members through the themes and inspirations behind their exhibition, What We Inherit, exploring how the legacies of family members’ occupations shape us.

IMAGE AT TOP: Heidi McKenzie, Detail of Body Interrupted (2016), variable dimensions, earthenware, ceramic decal, aircraft cable, raku fired rings. Collection of the artist.

IMAGE BELOW: Natalie Hunter, Detail of Of Rust and Rays (Slater Steel 3/6) (2024), five sculptures and twelve photographs in variable dimensions, archival pigment prints on transparent film, hand shaped birch, hand cast and tinted resin, colour reflective film, magnets, UV varnish, light.

For more information, please contact Sylvia Nickerson, Programming and Exhibitions Specialist, at (905) 522-3003 ex. 29 or sylvia@wahc-museum.ca


WAHC wishes to acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Hamilton, the Province of Ontario, CUPE National, the Canada Council for the Arts, Canada’s Building Trades Unions, OPSEU/SEFPO and Teamsters Local Union 879 for their support of our exhibitions and ancillary programs.