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Students and Faculty

The Owens is a vibrant hub for the campus community. We’re open seven days a week and always free. Visit on your own and take in the exhibitions at your own speed or attend one of our many events, including exhibition openings, artist talks, and hands-on programs, such as our after-hours workshop series MAKER MAKER.

The Owens is also a venue for many visiting speakers to campus, offering even more opportunities to get to know the gallery. Join our e-list for information on our lecture series and the Department of Fine Arts’ Visiting Artists Program.

Our Information Desk is staffed entirely by Mount Allison students and paid internships offer current students in-depth, professional experience in specific areas of museum work, including curating, art criticism, museum accessibility, public programming, collections management, exhibition installation, art education, community engagement, digital media, and fine art conservation.

In a large gallery space, a group of students line a wall. They are partially covering the last two lines of a text-based artwork that fills the wall from the floor to ceiling. The text set in bold, black capital letters and reads "Self-portrait as a wall divided proportionally between this black type representing life lived and the remaining white space representing life to some based on statistical life expectancy.”

Current Programs for Students and Faculty

Celebrating 130 Years of Art at the Owens

Celebrate our past and look forward to our future

MAKER MAKER

Seriously small after-hours art workshops

Internships at the Owens

For Mount Allison University Students

The Sweetest Little Thing

Annual fundraising art auction

Teaching Museum

Interdisciplinary research and innovation

Zine Library

An ever-growing collection of zines, artists' books, and handmade publications

Artist Talks

Attend talks by local, national, and internationally recognized artists

Openings

Celebrate new exhibitions

Publications

Exhibition catalogues, Occasional Papers, and special publishing projects

Diane Borsato: Cloud Collection

Observations of clouds and other ephemeral phenomena in the Owens Collection

Studio 360°

An up-close look at artists' working spaces

Past Programs

Slow Art Study Break

Chill, snack, linger with art

Sackville Sketching Walk with Kamaya Lindquist

A digital guide that leads you on a drawing exploration across campus

No Ducks: Emerging Art Critics

An online venue for art criticism and essays by students

You Are Here

Seeing Sackville through the Owens Art Gallery Collection

MAKERmatic

Custom Maker Kits Designed for You

Let’s imagine our future together!

What is the Owens to you now? What could the Owens be in the future?

Umbrella Projects

Artists, what have you always wanted to do?

Owens After Dark

Get a special backstage pass to the Owens

Owens Open House

Get a special backstage pass to the Owens

The Collage Party

A nomadic, public studio by Paul Butler

Symposium of Art

An annual festival devoted to performance and related art practices (1996-2011)

A Handmade Assembly

A community event to share a common thread—the handmade

Entre les lignes : Incubateur de la pensée écrite

Ateliers de formation professionnelle en écriture

Slow Zine

Discover what happens when you look closer and look longer