This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
Images
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![An assortment of white trash being piled on the sand. One hand reaches into the picture frame to add another piece of garbage to the pile of refuse which includes paper, plastics, textiles, Styrofoam, cutlery...]()
From There to Here - Walking for Tomorrow installation shot at the MacLaren Art Centre -
![A large installation of white shelves topped with white trash, a large scale blue tarp hung on the wall mimicking the movement of waves, an embroidered blue towel, and a photograph of white trash being piled on the sand. One hand reaches into the picture frame to add another piece of garbage to the pile of refuse which includes paper, plastics, textiles, Styrofoam, cutlery...]()
From There to Here - Walking for Tomorrow installation shot at the MacLaren Art Centre -
![A group of people looking at different art works in a gallery setting.]()
From There to Here - Walking for Tomorrow Opening Night at the MacLaren Art Centre -
![an old fashioned slide blown up large that depicts a young girl's face layered on top of a busy beach.]()
Jill Price, There, 2025 (detail)
From There to Here - Walking for Tomorrow
In-person
Climate Action Film & video Visual arts Sculpture & installation PhotographyDate and time
This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location
MacLaren Art Centre
Mulcaster Street
Barrie, ON
Directions: Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday 10am – 4pm ; Thursday 10am – 8pm ; Friday 10am – 4pm ; Saturday 10am – 4pm.
Access
Free, and accepts optional pay-what-you-may donations for admission.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
From There to Here: Walking for Tomorrow is a compelling exhibition that reconfigures the narrative of accumulation and erasure. Through her concept of UN/making, Dr. Jill Price leads visitors on a journey of walking, witnessing, and regeneration—transforming shoreline debris into sculptural cyanotype works that speak to ecological resilience, the overlooked agency of discarded materials, and the slow violence of plastic contamination in our shared ecosystems MacLaren Art Centre.
Price’s scholarly-artistic practice is rooted in rich interdisciplinary foundations—she holds an MFA from OCAD University and completed a PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. Her work is informed by textile activism, museum ethics, and environmental justice discourse, and is supported by SSHRC, Ontario Arts Council, and other notable institutions MacLaren Art Centre.
Framed as both a gallery and performative experience, the exhibition invites reflection on material mortality and collective responsibility—modeling art as a form of ecological care, activism, and place-making.
Links
- Maclaren Art Centre maclarenart.com
Organizer
UN/making Network
Initially supported in part by Queen's University and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the UN/making Network is a Cultural Studies PhD research-creation project inspired by creative thinkers and makers who undertake temporary, unexpected, necessary or durational acts of un/making to acknowledge the liveliness and agency of human and more-than-human beings often othered or rendered absent through anthropogenic perspectives and approaches to land.
Always at risk of encouraging the creation and consumption of more “stuff" or "unhappy objects", practitioners and practices featured on the UN/making Network site often engage at the intersections of art, ecology, post-colonial studies, geography, aesthetics, race theory, gender studies and activism to disrupt colonial, capitalist, patriarchal, and extractive systems that reify Euro-centric values and industrialist processes.
Partners
Ontario Arts Council arts.on.caThis event is part of a hub:
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