The Campus Gallery
Georgian’s Campus Gallery is a vibrant multi-disciplinary exhibition space where students in Design and Visual Arts programs and established artists showcase their work. The Campus Gallery hosts a variety of exhibitions and artist talks that reflect regional, national and international art, craft and design.
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Exhibitions
On Repeat
Large-scale Woodblock Prints
An exhibit featuring Georgian College Students, Alumni, Faculty, and Ontario-based Artists
November 6-29, 2026
Join Georgian College’s School of Design and Visual Art as we celebrate large-scale printmaking using lawn rollers. Carved first on wood blocks and using relief printmaking techniques, original prints and woodblocks will be on display in The Campus Gallery. In addition, students, alumni, and local artists will work with Georgian’s established printmaking faculty to create new artworks using a lawn roller within The Campus Gallery itself to be on view in the latter half of the exhibition. Collaborative and impressive, engage with the process of relief printmaking combining traditional techniques with innovative imagery.
Closing Reception: Thursday November 26, 5-7pm
Background information
Featured artists: Katie Argyle, Deborah Atkinson, Tamara Benoit, Derek Berry, Kim Brett, Omar Canalas-Cisneros, Michael Ciesielski, Josh Deneumoustier, Katie Green, Tim Laurin, Joanne Lomas, Christina MacBean, Kat Sumpton, Clinton Todd, Jennifer Zardo, and the students of Visual Digital Media Arts, Year 1 and 2
This exhibition is in partnership with Visual and Digital Media Arts and the Museum and Gallery Studies programs. This exhibition is part of Barrie’s Printmaking Month of November with events at The MacLaren Art Centre and Spare Room Gallery.
This exhibition continues the expansive legacy of printmaking in Georgian College. Highlighting the largest (and best!) printmaking facility north of Toronto, The School of Design and Visual Art has long been dedicated to celebrating printmaking as an art form. “On Repeat” considers repetition through practice, form, and honouring the heritage of woodblock carving and large-scale printmaking events that have occurred in The Campus Gallery. Patience and hard work go into making each print, and it is thrilling to see many generations of artists learning from each other and dedicating their creative energy to this ancient form of communication.
— Amy Bagshaw, Director of The Campus Gallery
About the gallery
Location
The Campus Gallery is located in room 140, D building (Helen and Arch Brown Centre for Design and Visual Arts) at the Barrie Campus, Georgian College, 1 Georgian Drive.
Hours of operation
Effective Sept. 21:
- Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Saturday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
For more information, please contact us.
The Campus Gallery objective and mandate is to deliver a diversity of visual to the City of Barrie, its immediate region and within the Georgian College campus community.
The exhibitions celebrate emerging, mid-career and established artists, designers and craftspersons, as well as students within post-secondary arts education. The Campus Gallery will support the exhibition objectives with informative artist lectures that will be open to the immediate community, high schools and the college community, thus creating an environment of critical thinking, insight and appreciation.
Through outreach and exchange, the Campus Gallery will host and present international exchange exhibitions and lectures as well as exhibitions of community outreach at our partner venues. We exhibit our significant collection and bring visual arts to distinctly different audiences, facilitating and encouraging a dialogue and awareness of the arts in our community.
The Campus Gallery is committed to delivering a diverse program of exhibitions by visual artists, designers and crafts people to the Barrie and the Simcoe County arts community. A policy of inclusivity guides our programming, giving equal voice to emerging, mid career and senior artist with diverse practices.
The gallery space allows artists to realize special projects, surveys or retrospectives, and to see large groups of work together in an excellent facility, sometimes for the first time.
We are committed to furthering the knowledge of contemporary practice to the community with our on going artist lecture series, which has consistently featured insightful dialogue form the frontlines of creativity by exceptional regional, national and international artists.
The Campus Gallery identifies its exhibition roster three years in advance and books its artist lecture series on a yearly basis. We provide a diversity of visual arts programming to the community and continue to foster an environment of learning, engagement and dialogue in the visual arts which is only available in one other Barrie location.
The Campus Gallery provides a laboratory space for our Museum and Gallery Studies graduate certificate students to engage with artists, the campus collection, and to develop programming in locations outside of the gallery, based on the Campus Gallery Collection. This offsite programming allows us to bring unique, contemporary art to an even more diverse audience, creating another level of dialogue, awareness and engagement.
Over the past years, we have partnered with the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH), Five Points Theatre (formerly The Mady Centre for the Performing Arts) and the Barrie Courthouse to create exhibition space and thoughtful, unique programming from some of over 2,500 works in the Campus Gallery collection.
The Georgian College Art Collection holds over 5,000 diverse artworks of local, regional, and international significance. The collection has grown over the span of 50 years, as artists have crossed paths with the college’s Design and Visual Arts Department and contributed artworks. The artworks are preserved and displayed in college offices, libraries, and The Campus Gallery, as well as in community venues. The collection space also acts as a learning environment for students of the Museum and Gallery Studies program.
Contact us
If you have questions or require more information, please email Amy Bagshaw, Director, The Campus Gallery.