Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery: River Grand Chronicles

The River Grand Chronicles series presents projects with a strong connection to the Grand River and the regions it winds through.

The series frontispiece exhibition, River: Grand!, featured contemporary and historical works created from the embrace of the Grand River’s past and present influences. Historic paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs works were brought together from significant collections and placed in the context of works by contemporary artists.

The River Grand Chronicles will focus on contemporary projects that cast the Grand River as either a conceptual or literal figure in visual storytelling. Major themes such as romanticized visions, traditional depictions of the landscape, and the First Nations perspective on the complex and often neglected cultural history of the region, will surface in these important projects.

As with other KW|AG programming series, the River Grand Chronicles reminds our viewers to consider how stories, be they fictional or true, have resonance beyond geographic boundaries.

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