Headed to the ✨cottage✨ ?
We’re definitely feeling the cottage vibes with these cold mornings and warm, sunny afternoons. Our Maxwell pottery canoes make the perfect hostess gift for those friends kind enough to share their oasis 🛶
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We’re back with another What’s In Our Bag ✨
This time: staff edition. Here are a few of Tessa’s favourites for creative routines, thoughtful moments, and getting unstuck!
Currently in her bag:
• Oracle Deck by Okay Shoe
• Micro-Line Pen Set
• Creative Block: Over 100 Tasks to Get Your Head Into a Creative Space by Gemma Lawrence
• Plots & Plans Organizer and Notebook
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Feeling stumped on what to get Mom this Mother’s Day? The AGH Shop staff put their minds together to offer up this handy gift guide to spark inspiration 💕
Find these pieces and more at the shop during gallery open hours or online at shop.artgalleryofhamilton.com!
🌱AGH SHOP SPRING SHOWCASE: @alisa_mcronald
Alisa McRonald’s woven and hand-punched tapestries live in the fairytale paradise of a queerdo child of the 80s. Her work is a tactile fruit salad with a soupçon of the esoteric.
Her work has been featured in publications such as: Harper’s Bazaar Japan, Untitled Magazine and the Toronto Star. She was awarded the 2023 Best Product/Design Award from DesignTO, the 2020 Best of Craft and Design Award from the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair and her work has been featured on many curatorial lists. She is a Creative in Residence for the 2023 Ontario Culture Days.
This is the LAST weekend to come by the @agh_shop to explore its inaugural Spring Showcase! On through May 3rd, the showcase spotlights prints and original artwork under $250 from over 15 Hamilton-based artists.
🌱AGH SHOP SPRING SHOWCASE: @hamontdoodles
Sara Sandham, also known as Hamont Doodles, is a Hamilton-based digital illustrator whose work draws inspiration from the city’s unique spaces and places. Her illustrations capture a sense of nostalgia while celebrating the pride and character of the Hamilton community.
This is the LAST weekend to come by the @agh_shop to explore its inaugural Spring Showcase! On through May 3rd, the showcase spotlights prints and original artwork under $250 from over 15 Hamilton-based artists.
🌱AGH SHOP SPRING SHOWCASE: @stickerhardlyknowher
Katie Gorrie is a Hamilton-born-and-raised artist working in both acrylic and digital media. Her acrylic paintings explore themes of mental health and neurodivergence through bright, saturated colours and a bold, graphic style. She frequently uses the imagery of eyes to express the feeling of being under constant observation: an experience familiar to many neurodivergent individuals. Her vivid colour palette mirrors the intensity of emotion and thought, making her work impossible to ignore. In addition to her painting practice, Katie runs a small art business where she sells her own designs as prints, stickers, and other handmade goods. While the business has its own playful identity, it’s rooted in the same values of visibility, humour, and mental health awareness that inform her fine art.
This is the LAST weekend to come by the @agh_shop to explore its inaugural Spring Showcase! On through May 3rd, the showcase spotlights prints and original artwork under $250 from over 15 Hamilton-based artists.
🌱AGH SHOP SPRING SHOWCASE: @maisie.beee
“My name is Maisie (he/they) and I love to create femme worlds that cater to disability and madness. I am a painter and crafter in the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas, where I make multimedia pieces that surrender to love and serve love. I have artistic visions of love that soothe and nurture women and femmes by dismantling what is beautiful while participating in joy. My art is pink and gooey, soft and rough, always with femme science in mind. Femme science is a concept designed by Kim Katrin Milan, to honour the craft, knowledge, and technologies created and passed down in femme spaces. Painting, for me, is a way of surrendering to the work of envisioning liberation as a natural and beautiful present and future that we can create together.”
Find “Septum Party” from Maisie at the @agh_shop for its inaugural Spring Showcase! On now through May 3rd, the showcase spotlights prints and original artwork under $250 from over 15 Hamilton-based artists.
🌱AGH SHOP SPRING SHOWCASE: @collage.ista
“I am an emerging analogue mixed media collage artist rebooting my love of creativity and all things art. My art is an expression of my life, character, and experience. I am inspired by the amazing hub of creativity, community, promotion and vision this city and its many talented artists.”
Find a selection of prints from Rose at the @agh_shop for its inaugural Spring Showcase! On now through May 3rd, the showcase spotlights prints and original artwork under $250 from over 15 Hamilton-based artists.
Today’s the last day of our annual AGH Art Sale!
If you like this… we think you’ll like this :)
We paired a few artworks with shop pieces to make your browsing a little easier (or harder… depending on how you look at it).
Featuring works by Danielle Cole, Cody Houle, and Chelsea Brant, alongside shop favourites like the Antiquarium Sticker Book, and original works by Sydni Weatherson and Ting Yang.
Shop in person or browse available works online while you still can.
🌱AGH SHOP SPRING SHOWCASE: @julianna.the.artist
Julianna Biernacki is an emerging artist from Welland, ON who is currently residing in Hamilton, ON. She recently obtained her BFA from McMaster University as well as a minor in English and Literature. Biernacki’s practice has pivoted from painting to textiles in the form of tufted handmade rugs. Her work surrounds themes of voyeurism, display and spying, and how we want others to perceive our personal image.
Find original artwork from Julianna at the @agh_shop for its inaugural Spring Showcase! On now through May 3rd, the showcase spotlights prints and original artwork under $250 from over 15 Hamilton-based artists. Come by this weekend to additionally view the stunning annual @agh_art_sales Art Sale and enjoy free admission to all exhibitions!
