Fri, Feb 23
|Ruberto Ostberg Gallery
45th Anniversary Exhibit – Calgary
Join us Friday February 23 from 5-9 pm or Saturday February 24 from 12-2 pm and celebrate 45 years of the Burns Visual Arts Society at Ruberto Ostberg Gallery. The exhibition runs until March 10, 2024.
Time & Location
Feb 23, 2024, 5:00 p.m. – Mar 10, 2024, 9:00 p.m.
Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, 2108 18 St NW, Calgary, AB T2M 3T3, Canada
About the event
It’s what we do. It’s who we are.
CELEBRATING 45 YEARS
The Burns Visual Arts Society of Calgary (BVAS) was formed when dozens of independent artists who rented studio space in the historic Burns Building were evicted to make way for the construction of the Calgary Performing Arts Centre.
Under our mandate, BVAS provides affordable studio space for working artists. Since its establishment in 1979, over 200 artists have maintained studios within the society. This includes artists of all backgrounds and differing areas of expertise.
BVAS is Canada’s oldest continual artist studio cooperative. Its existence has supported the creation of an astonishing body of artistic work and illuminated thousands of lives through a multitude of connections between artists, students, and the public.
In 2003 BVAS initiated what has become the very popular and well‑known East Side Studio Crawl, an annual arts open house in Inglewood and Ramsay. As a co‑op,…