Light up the Christmas season on Tuesday, Dec. 3, when the Art Gallery invites everyone to attend the opening reception of White Lights from 4 to 8 p.m.
The reception is part of Salmon Arm Downtown’s Tuesday On the Town promotion that runs through the month of December.
The exhibition features 13 artists, including five artists from the gallery’s exhibition year, and eight artists who are on the annual White Lights Studio Tour: Bob Kingsmill, Jen Dyck, Patrick Hughes, Lisa Figueroa, Gwen Martinuk, Lori Talerico, Judy Sims, Cindy Whitehead, Valerie Rogers, Gudrun Weisinger, Sharda Murray-Keiken, Rebecca Shepherd and Audrey Nanimahoo.
The White Lights Studio Tour takes place on Saturday, Dec. 7, and is a self-guided tour to studios in the Salmon Arm area and Malakwa.
Tickets at $10 are available at the art gallery on Hudson Avenue. The tour includes a chocolate reception at the gallery at the end of the day, with door prizes provided by the artists.
Included on the 2013 tour are pastel artist Cindy Whitehead, painters Lisa Figueroa, Lori Talerico and Valerie Rogers, sculptors Audrey Nanimahoo and Rebecca Shepherd, fibre artist Gudrun Weisinger and glass artist Sharda Murray-Keiken.
The White Lights exhibition runs until Saturday, Dec. 14.
The gallery will host the monthly artist trading cards ‘make and trade’ session on Tuesday, Dec. 10 from 3 to 6 p.m., and the coffee break and artist talk takes place on Thursday, Dec. 12 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Families are invited to visit the Elves’ Workshop from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, to make special Christmas art projects.
The workshop will take place following Breakfast With Santa, which runs from 9 to 10:30 a.m.
More information is available at www.salmonarmartscentre.ca
