Lucas Morneau (2025). Image courtesy of the artist.

Queer Newfoundland Hockey League
Lucas Morneau

September 12 – October 25, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, September 12, 7 – 9pm
Cannon Gallery

Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) is a fictional hockey league made up of 14 teams, all of which use pejoratives used against the 2SLGBTQIA+ community as team names. QNHL uses these pejoratives to reclaim the words often used against queer individuals both on and off the ice. These pejoratives, such as sissy and fag, are also often used against individuals who do not conform to the hegemonic masculinity often assigned to sports – teammates often cannot be emotional, cannot draw attention to themselves, nor talk about personal issues without fear of reprisal.

Each jersey is hand crocheted and rughooked, using craft practices often delegated as “women’s work.” Some jerseys are rughooked using pantyhose worn by drag performers, referencing the history of rughooking in Newfoundland and the Grenfell Mission’s use of stockings from women around rural communities in the province.

The jerseys are paired with 10 crochet goalie masks, stylized as doilies. These goalie doilies reference the introduction of the goalie mask and its first full-time NHL user Jacques Plante, who was ridiculed and mocked for wearing a mask after sustaining serious injuries during a game.

QNHL, by reclaiming these pejoratives, aims to deconstruct homophobia in sports and sports culture and critique the existing hegemonic masculinity in sports culture. By bringing awareness to the toxic elements of the current hegemonic masculinity, QNHL aims to create a new, positive, and accepting masculinity for sports enthusiasts.

Public Programming:

Drag Hockey Game: Saturday, September 13, 1 – 3pm at Pier 6

Various works, Hundred Dollar Gallery. Photograph courtesy of the curators Andrew McPhail and Stephen Altena.

Hundred Dollar Gallery

Featuring Various Artists
Curated by Andrew McPhail and Stephen Altena

September 12 – October 5, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, September 12, 7 – 9pm
James Gallery

Interesting and affordable art for a hundred bucks. Engaging shows and a community of gallery goers. Sure by dead of night you could slip in through the attic window of the Louvre or the MOMA and steal yourself a Picasso or a Garfunkel, but art isn’t just for criminals and Banker J. Moneybags. Art is for people. And here in Hamilton, art is a whole lot nicer than steel. At the Hundred Dollar Gallery, art was the new steal at $100 per art piece. That made it a kind of conceptual project in itself, problematizing the exchange value of art. Is art better if it costs more? What happens if regular folks can afford art? What is the relationship between art and money, between artist and purchaser, between a hundred bucks and your wall? What happens if you circumvent the idea of art as an expensive object for the elite and make it cost a lot less than a pair of snazzy sneaks? Or (and I just looked this up) six tickets to a movie. That’s nine hours of fun for your eyes, but for $100 at the Hundred Dollar Gallery show, you can buy some art and look for as long as you like. Also, even if you don’t buy anything, at the Hundred Dollar Gallery show you can look for free. It’s a nice thing to have this show at Hamilton Artist Inc to remember how great the Hundred Dollar Gallery was, how great its artists still are, and how great looking at things always is.

Text by Gary Baldwin

Fluxus Experimental Film Festival

September 26 – 27, 2025
Hamilton Artists Inc.

Fluxus Experimental Film Festival is a contemporary short film and media arts festival hosted in partnership between Factory Media Centre, Hamilton Artists Inc, and McMaster University School of the Arts. Our mission is to provide an accessible forum for the exhibition of creative, experimental, moving-image art forms, and to develop connections between Canadian media artists, arts institutions, and the public.

Fluxus is dedicated to showcasing experimental and boundary-pushing media works from artists of all levels working in Canada. The festival will take place over the course of two screenings at Hamilton Artists Inc. presented on Friday, September 26 and Saturday, September 27, 2025. The Friday screening will be dedicated to exhibiting the work of emerging media artists and filmmakers. All screenings are free to attend.

As an artist-run centre, Hamilton Artists Inc. (the Inc.) empowers artists of all career levels to take risks with their contemporary visual arts practices and present their work in a critical context.

We are open to the public on Wednesday and Thursday 12 – 5pm, Friday 12 – 6pm and Saturday 12 – 5pm.

Accessibility: The Inc. is an accessible venue. Click here for detailed information.

Hamilton Artists Inc.
155 James Street North
Hamilton, ON L8R 2K9
www.theinc.ca | 905.529.3355

Facebook: @HamiltonArtistsInc
Instagram: @HamiltonArtistsInc

Contact:
Sanaa Humayun, Programming Director
programming@theinc.ca

The Inc. gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council, City of Hamilton, Canada Council for the Arts, Hamilton Community Foundation, Incite Foundation for the Arts, and all of our members, donors, sponsors, and programming partners.

Image Descriptions:
1. Eight handmade, crocheted jerseys for Lucas Morneau’s Queer Newfoundland Hockey League exhibit line the walls of a white gallery. There is a short pillar in the middle of the hardwood floors which displays several white goalie masks from Morneau’s exhibition.
2. Eleven people sit inside of the entrance of the Hundred Dollar Gallery. Some people are standing and chatting, some are standing and looking at artwork on the walls, and some are sitting and facing inwards towards the space. The door for the gallery states “hundreddollargallery” twice, with a large dollar sign above the door.
3. This is the poster for Fluxus, the experimental film festival. It states “Fluxus” in large, bold, white font, and “Experimental Film Festival” underneath in a smaller bold, white font. The background graphic is a 35mm film negative that is a gradient of vibrant purple and blue, and it takes up almost the entire width of the design.