Arts and Culture in the Hall

Art and Culture in the Hall is an exhibition program that celebrates local artistic and creative talent. Exhibitions are updated throughout the year, showcasing artworks, projects and collections from artists, cultural organizations and groups in Durham Region.

View the exhibition space at City Hall, in Oshawa, Ontario, outside City Council chambers.

Current exhibitions

• Cameras from the Oshawa Museum's Brownie Camera Collection, curated by Melissa Cole. These cameras were collected by Bernie Goleski who owned Bernie's Foto Source. This company was in business for approximately 50 years in Oshawa. The collection was acquired by the Oshawa Museum when the store closed on January 31, 2008.
• Artwork by Mercury Dougherty who is an ambidextrous 2D and 3D visual and make-up artist who resides in the city of Oshawa. As a mixed media painter, her work is colourful, textual and lends itself to a relief style of working with diverse materials. The colours she uses are selected based on the Human Chakra understandings as well as colour therapy responses. Mercury chooses a variety of materials, each serving a special purpose in her work. Paints are chosen for their textual empathy. Some mediums used are homemade and help with building up relief and creating an additive base – all of which increase visual texture. The use of crystals, metallic and other found objects are incorporated into and/or onto paintings for symbolic effects in addition to relief effects. Sculptures created by Mercury are in limestone, alabaster and soapstone, also she creates 3D mixed media sculptures of repurposed objects.

How to apply

The Art and Culture in the Hall exhibition program is currently being updated. A new call for artists will be announced soon.

Please email [email protected] for more information.