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Foreign Dreams in the Community Gallery

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Opening Reception: Saturday September 21, 6-9pm As part of their artist residency, Simranpreet Kaur Anand with Conner Singh VanderBeek have curated a community exhibition of visual art, Foreign Dreams, in our Community Gallery presented in conjunction with community partners Laadliyan and Naujawan Support Network. This exhibition includes photographic and media arts work by community artists […]

Bread and Butter

Community Gallery

On view in WAHC's Community Gallery. Food is often prepared and shared as an act of love and care, and in the spirit of justice and solidarity. Our access to food comes to us through a constellation of working people, from farmers and delivery workers, to groups fighting for greater food security for all. This […]

Proof Positive

Community Gallery

With assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts, Centre successfully organized and delivered the project, Proof Positive, in collaboration with the Regional Rehabilitation Centre (RRC) in the fall of 2016. Proof Positive connected Margaret Flood and Donna Akrey, two local established visual artists, with persons with acquired brain injuries undergoing rehabilitation at Hamilton’s RRC […]

Lunch Bucket: Art from the Permanent Collection

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Come and view a variety of works from our Permanent Collection, selected and interpreted by WAHC's Facilities Coordinator, Brian Kelly. These works reflect the range of ways that art can both engage and depict working people. Spanning media from lithography, sculpture, painting and illustration, the art in Lunch Bucket engages with both the long tradition […]

Matt McInnes: Worker’s Cottage

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An exhibition and site-specific installation by Hamilton-based artist Matt McInnes. Worker's Cottage involves a simple cottage made of wood and paper, based on historic neighbourhood buildings. Visitors can enter the cottage and walk up a set of steps to look through a window and see the view of the city. Screen-printed images of landscapes in Hamilton's […]

James Street North, Then and Now

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As a counterpoint to our contemporary exhibition taking place in our Main Gallery, WAHC explores the historical development of James St. North as a major commercial centre and burgeoning community through archival photographs and a street-scape mural photographed by artist James Chambers and created by the WAHC staff. Running through the centre of Hamilton and […]

This is the Place: The Graffic Art of Gord Pullar

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The  show represents a cross section of the work  of Hamilton Artist and Illustrator Gord Pullar. Many of the images were  commissioned as illustrations for publication and exhibition. Among these, there is an example of courtroom drawing for the CBC of Canada's first war crimes trial and the spin-off painting, "Fintas Haircut"; a streets of […]

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Jim Eller: Great Depression & Workers Series

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Jim Eller: Great Depression & Workers Series Community  Gallery Jan 18th – March 1st, 2014 The Workers Arts & Heritage Centre is pleased to welcome a new addition to our city’s artistic community, Jim Eller.  Hailing from California, Eller was at the forefront of the burgeoning conceptual art movement in the United States during the […]

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