The Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery is pleased to present the work of alumna (1992) artist Kim Vose Jones. Now living and working in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Jones’ has created a rich multimedia installation exploring the dichotomies and paradoxes of migrant life, past and present.
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The mission of Dawson’s Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery is to educate, empower, inspire and showcase diverse contemporary art practices to the Dawson College community and general public. The gallery is located in room 2G.0 at street level by the entrance to the college at 4001 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West and features artwork by alumni, faculty, staff, and students, as well as contemporary artists from across Canada and abroad.
This coming academic year features a variety of exhibitions beginning with Lifeboat: An Unnatural History featuring the work of Dawson alumna Kim Vose Jones. The first vernissage is Thursday, Sept. 11 at 5 PM and the exhibit is on through Oct. 18.
Coming up this fall at the gallery:
Come visit the gallery in 2G.0: Monday to Friday from 11 AM to 7 PM, and Saturdays from 11 AM to 5 PM.
The Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery presents an exhibition by Dawson alumna Kim Vose Jones, who is now based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. While researching her family genealogy, she discovered her ancestor, Ann Dodin, arrived in Quebec in 1669, along with over 800 French girls known as the Filles du Roi, who sailed to the New World to populate the land with French settlers. In four stunning tableaux, Jones draws a parallel with the fates of humans fleeing genocide, war, and poverty across the globe, and draws lines between the treatment of women, the environment, and the project of Empire then and in 2025.
Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman is a young Ottawa-based artist. Her work is deeply personal, exploring themes of childhood, nostalgia, and the diasporic experience. She explores these themes in her current exhibition, Memories We Carry, Stories We Heal at the Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery from March 27 to May 3, 2025. Two second-year Visual Arts students, Tristan…
The Dawson community is invited to the Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery today, March 27, at 5 PM for an artist talk/vernissage launching Memories We Carry, Stories We Heal, an exhibition of new work by Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman.
In her perpetual search for a connection to her parents homelands—Somalia and India--Abdourahman creates work exploring contrasting themes of haunting and healing. Multimedia painted blankets and installations reference childhood, and the ancestral trauma that can be activated in the process of connecting to one’s history.
Abdourahman will give an in-gallery tour of the exhibition at 5 PM, followed by the vernissage. Everyone is welcome. The exhibition continues until May 3.
Dawson College’s Department of Professional Photography presents Continuum, an exhibition featuring the work of students approaching the end of their three-year program.
Continuum celebrates their transition into the professional world, offering a glimpse into the diverse ways they’ve explored and expressed contemporary culture. Through a blend of technical expertise and creative vision, these students showcase the transformative journey they've undertaken, illustrating not only their growth but also the ever-evolving nature of the program that has helped shape their progress.
Exhibition is on from Dec. 5 - 13 in Dawson's Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery.
Re-Assembly: Emboldening the Temporal exhibits work from past students of Dawson’s Visual Arts program over the last 20 years, brought together by their teacher Giuseppe (Joe) Di Leo (Retired Faculty, Fine Arts). The exhibition, on view at the Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery at Dawson until Nov. 27, focuses on sharing ideas through different and…
This year the Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery invited indigenous students Julia Clement (curator), and three artist/creators—Shayla Chloe oroho:te Etienne, Angela Ottereyes, and Tapisa Tulugak—to present works in the Upper Atrium display case for Truth and Reconciliation Week.
They shared acrylic paintings (Etienne), a linocut work on paper with a poem (Tulugak), handsewn regalia—a jingle dress, and a ribbon skirt with a poem (Ottereyes). Together, their works honour residential school survivors and their families, and create hope and beauty for the generations to come.
The showcase is located just outside the Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery in the Upper Atrium and the works will be on display until Sunday, Oct. 6.
─Submitted by Rhonda L Meier
O.M.: This exhibition explores queer art history through gossip. Why was it important for you to show queer art history through gossip, especially since you could argue that gossip has negatively impacted young queer folk. (For example: rumors about a person’s sexuality). C.P.: This is a good question, and it did come up for me…
The Warren G. Flowers Gallery is delighted to welcome Vancouver artist Cassia Powell, whose exhibition, in between you and me, opens today (Thursday, Aug. 29) with an Artist Talk in the gallery at 4 PM., followed by the opening reception at 5 PM.
This body of work explores what Gavin Butt refers to as a “social activity which produces and maintains the filiations of the artistic community,” namely – gossip. Using soft-sculptures and oil paintings, Powell explores intimacy, vulnerability, storytelling, and worldbuilding. Gossip is framed as a form of unconventional art history, an inescapable feature of urban artistic life, and a way of building queer and artistic communities.
-Submitted by Rhonda Meier
Last Modified: September 11, 2025
