By SooToday.com Staff
SooToday.com
Friday, November 06, 2009

NEWS RELEASE

ART GALLERY
OF ALGOMA

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Grand re-opening Thursday, November 12, 7 pm

SAULT STE. MARIE - After almost two months of renovations, the Art Gallery of Algoma is hosting a grand re-opening party on Thursday, November 12 at 7 p.m.

The Gallery’s retro-regressive carpeted walls and floors have been replaced by drywall and wood veneer, which have transformed this institution into the premier fine art venue in all of Northern Ontario.

The AGA’s newly designated spaces include the Main Gallery, Project Room and Education Gallery.

Among the exhibitions to be launched next week will be Sequential Desire in the Main Gallery, which features seven contemporary artists from across Ontario who look to cartoons for inspiration.

In the Project Room, local architect Alex Rousselle is creating Architectonic Composition, a treatment of the space using wood and light.

The Education Gallery features Cut It Out, hundreds of silhouette constructions by elementary students from throughout the local area.

Another special attraction of the Gallery’s November launch is “Soo” artist Robbie Adamson’s Experimental Self Serve Mobile Cartoon Emporium which is to be parked out front of the Gallery until mid January.

The grand re-opening will also feature a performance art presentation by Windsor artist Gustave Morin.

And guests can enjoy the music of DJ Sensitree from the new AGA window-front stage.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

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