Nightfall: Opening Reception + Concert at the RMG

Noelle Wharton-Ayer, Bedfellows – Orchid-oeillet, 2024, silver gelatin photogram on Ilford Multigrade Art 300, 16″ x 20″. Courtesy of the artist.

Saturday, November 21, 2026, 4 – 7pm
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
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Come out to celebrate the opening of Nightfall, a group exhibition featuring work by Megan Arnold, Shannon Garden-Smith, Ness Lee, Shelley Niro, Chiedza Pasipanodya, Brenda Mabel Reid, and Noelle Wharton-Ayer. Light refreshments will be served, and a cash bar will be offered. All are welcome!

Fittonia.

At 4:30pm, some of the artists will join the exhibition’s curator, Hannah Keating, in an informal tour of the exhibition, which will be followed by a musical performance with Fittonia at 6pm. Seating will be provided.

This event is free and open to everyone. If there are ways we can support your participation, please contact Brigitte at bsampogna@oshawa.ca.

Also coming up in November at the RMG:

Austin Henderson, RMG Residency. Courtesy of the artist.

Archival Research in Artistic Practice: A Professional Development Workshop for Artists
November 26, 2026, 7 – 8:30pm
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This virtual workshop will explore the possibilities and limits of archival research as it relates to artistic practice. Using his experience in drawing from private (familial) and public archives, Austin Henderson will discuss how archival collections can be used to in artwork to prompt questions that are often left outside of documented histories.

In the month of November, Austin is participating in a visual arts residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Titled “On Other Archives,” the residency brings together artists and artist mentors who are currently working with institutional, personal, fictional and/or speculative archives. Drawing from his ongoing projects, and this exciting educational opportunity, Austin will lead this virtual workshop from his Banff residency studio and share reflections that have come out of his experience.

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