In order to share our thirtieth anniversary celebrations with the community, we focused on community links for this exhibition. Among the strategies put in place to garner people’s thoughts and feelings about works in our permanent collection, are a blog-site linked with the gallery’s web site that invites people’s reactions; a computer with visitor questions and response software installed in the gallery; and stations with traditional pencil-and-paper supplies for visitors to leave their ideas with us. All these responses will be archived at the Kelowna Art Gallery. Through these means we hope to highlight the meaning of the exhibition’s title and its theme, Nexus, which means link or bond.

In order to show the various strengths and foci of the collection, six clusters of works have been developed, which are outlined here. Just click a theme to view the works.