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The Algonquin Art Centre features three distinct wings, where our visitors can enjoy a great variety of works ranging from wildlife paintings to embroidery and paper sculptures. We showcase both Canada’s most renowned and up and coming artists and offer our visitors a great range in style, medium, and subject matter.

2011 International Year of Forests

Canadian Master painters are joining a worldwide effort to raise awareness of forest sustainability and conservation by participating in a special art exhibition at the Algonquin Art Centre. The exhibition has been created as part of the United Nation’s 2011 “International Year of Forests”—a global campaign to promote awareness of the importance of forests for human and ecological sustainability.

The Algonquin Art Centre’s 2011 exhibition, also called “The International Year of Forests” will feature new, original works by Canada’s leading wilderness and wildlife artists which focus on Canadian forests and their threats; the show will also profile artists’ environmental projects and explain how Park visitors can get involved. In addition to this, the gallery is recognizing the environmental achievements of the Friends of Algonquin--a non-profit organization that has played a major role in the conservation, education, and maintenance of Algonquin Park-- by donating a percentage of theme-related art sales to their organization.

International Year of the Forests Art Exhibit

Tony Bianco	Tony Bianco	Tony Bianco	Neil Clifford	Neil Clifford
Hilary Clark-Cole	Hilary Clark-Cole	Hilary Clark-Cole	Hilary Clark-Cole	Hilary Clark-Cole
Robert Bateman	Don Cavin	RoseMarie Condon	RoseMarie Condon	RoseMarie Condon
Kelly Dodge	Kelly Dodge	Pierre Girard	Andrew Kiss	Andrew Kiss
Andrew Kiss	David Lidbetter	Calvin Nicholls	Calvin Nicholls	Andres Paabo
Tim Packer	Tim Packer	Tim Packer	Tim Packer	Tim Packer
Tim Packer	Tim Packer	Sylvia Naylor	Sylvia Naylor	Joseph Pearce
Joseph Pearce	Joseph Pearce	Rod Prouse	Mark Reeder	Peter Rotter
Michael Dumas	Shane Wilson	Shane Wilson	Shane Wilson	Shane Wilson
Shane Wilson	Shane Wilson	Peter Allan Rice

The 2011 exhibition is designed to show visitors that forests provide not only important resources, such as lumber and food, but provide also a profound and compelling subject matter for art and culture; they provide beauty and inspiration and, as a result, have played a key role in Canada’s artistic heritage, inspiring some of Canada’s most famous painters from Tom Thomson to Robert Bateman. The Algonquin Art Centre will share the artistic and cultural importance of the Canadian forests with the world during the United Nation’s International Year of Forests.

The International Year of the Forest exhibit will be on display from June 1st to October 15th at the Algonquin Art Centre in Algonquin Provincial Park.

Click here to see the United Nation's International Year of Forests webpage.

Click here to see how Canada is involved in the United Nation's International Year of Forests.