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
Moments to Monuments: The Public Art of Marlene Hilton Moore
An Exhibition by Marlene Hilton Moore
February 12 to March 21, 2026
“Moments to Monuments” celebrates the public art of Marlene Hilton Moore. Through images, objects, sketches, and ephemera, the exhibition considers the process, collaborations, and impact of creating public art works. Highlighting six pieces that are found across the province, as well as public art submissions that were not chosen to be commissioned, Marlene allows viewers into the way she approaches making public art, the inspirations behind her works, and the conversations between pieces in her public art practice. A former professor at Georgian College for 25 years, Marlene adds educational narratives on how each piece started in the moment to how the works are experienced as monuments.
This exhibition is in partnership with the MacLaren Art Centre and the Museum and Gallery Studies program
Opening Reception: Thursday February 12, 5-7pm
Public Art Panel Discussion with Marlene Hilton Moore, Sandra Fraser, and Liza Mishko: Thursday March 19, 10am in The Campus Gallery in partnership with The MacLaren Art Centre.
This exhibition highlights the public art contributions of Marlene Hilton Moore to the regional arts community and beyond. Committed to arts education, access to art for all, and supporting artists at all stages of their career, it is an honour to exhibit Marlene’s public art and have her work with the Museum and Gallery Studies students in this exhibit. Working in partnership with longtime collaborators, The MacLaren Art Centre, who will be exhibiting Marlene’s sculptures and photography in March 2026, we are honoured to celebrate Marlene and her impact on arts communities across the country.
Amy Bagshaw, Director of The Campus Gallery
Marlene Hilton Moore is a Canadian sculptor with outstanding achievements at local and national levels in the complex arena of Public Art and Monuments. She has been a recipient of significant Public Art Commissions over the last twenty-five years including the Valiants Memorial in Ottawa, the Borden Legacy Monument and Ad Astra at CFB Borden and Wiidookdaadiwin in Simcoe County.
Hilton Moore received the City of Barrie’s Excellence in Arts Award in 2014 and in 2010 she retired from teaching at the School of Design and Visual Arts, Georgian College following a distinguished 25-year teaching career.
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.
Art from the Georgian Collection Collection can currently be viewed at the Royal Victoria Hospital David McCullough Hearts and Minds Gallery “Healing through Art: Nature’s Comfort” featuring paintings by Christina Luck and curated by students in the Museum and Gallery Studies program. On view until early June 2024.
“Hidden Gems” features art from the Georgian College Collection is on view at The First Floor Gallery at City Hall in Barrie, curated by Collections Assistant, Yasmeen Kazak. On view until mid-June 2024.
Contact us
If you have questions or require more information, please email Amy Bagshaw, Director, The Campus Gallery.