From regular exhibitions located at the ACT Arts Centre, to special art gallery events, the City is pleased to feature the work of amateur, emerging and mid-career artists. Exhibitions are selected with a view to providing a balanced program of local, regional and occasionally, international artists, so that the community benefits through the exposure of artwork created both within and outside the community.
Upcoming | 2026 Winter Gallery Information
New Artworks on Display at Albion Community Centre
The Albion Community Centre is one of many sites local artists can share their work with their Maple Ridge neighbours. While you are visiting the community centre this Fall you can see the work of the Maple Ridge Artists in Residence along with a fabulous work, Grandmother Moon Quilt, 2024, created by local artist and quilter, Jocelyn McIntosh. Local Métis artist and educator Jocelyn McIntosh began her collaboration with the Albion Community Centre in 2023, leading a Bead Art class as part of Culture Days. She returned in 2024 to share her knowledge through a Tea Blending and Plant Wisdom workshop. Continuing this meaningful partnership, the Centre proudly displays the Grandmother Moon Quilt in the Social Heart. This beautiful piece was created in collaboration with Louise Ducharme and Wenda McIntosh.
Constellation
Carefully chosen to invite an introduction to relationship building and community, this selection of portraits celebrates a group of folks who have had an incredible impact on the artist-providing guidance, stability, and reliable direction. As you spend time with these portraits, consider the relationships in your own life; what community looks like for you; what it could look like for you. Feel encouraged to start building that community by reaching out to the friends and family these portraits remind you of. Community begins with conversation.
About the Artist
Alex Neff (they/them) is the Artist in Residence at the Raymond House. They are a spouse, son, brother, friend, and colleague who works, learns, plays, and lives on the Unceded Territories of the Katzie First Nation and Kwantlen First Nation. Alex embraces their neurodivergency as, through their art, they explore activating alternative economies such as gratitude, perspective, and creative skills. Through their work with Drawing Thanks, Alex has hand-drawn over 3000 folks across the Lower Mainland, pairing each portrait with a signature thank-you note. Working with community partners such as The HUB (Coast Mental Health), Inclusion BC, Fraser Valley Regional Library, and Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Katzie Local Immigration Partnership, Alex looks to use their portraiture to ensure everyone who wants to engage with the project can be celebrated for their community contributions— whether their efforts are well known broadly, or preciously shared within an inner circle.
River Weather Variable
Composed of contributions by over 50 artists who donated works at workshops, meetings or at HUTCH, these collages express each artist's thoughts of real and imagined landscapes, brought together into a single image.
About the Artist
Colleen Brown (she/her) is one of the Maple Ridge Artists in Residence. Colleen holds a BFA from Emily Carr University, a BA Psyc, Simon Fraser University and an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York. Her most recent solo exhibitions were held at the Ranger Station, Burrard Foundation, and Unit 17. She participated in recent exhibitions and events at the Belkin Art Gallery; Cooper Cole, Toronto; Vancouver Art Gallery; Western Gallery, Bellingham and Hedreen Gallery, Seattle. Brown is a recipient of the 2016 Portfolio Prize. Her first book, If you lie down in a field she will find you there, published by Radiant Press, was a finalist for the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize. Colleen is a committed teacher, working with young children in galleries, with teens in the classroom and seniors as part of community-based work. She is a sessional faculty member at Emily Carr University. Colleen has supported artists' work throughout her career, most recently as the General Manager of Vancouver Poetry House from 2019-2023.
Current Exhibitions at the ACT Arts Centre
Ichigo Ichie - The Fruit That Bears Secrets
About the Exhibition
Ichigo Ichie – The Fruit that Bears Secrets is a solo exhibition by multi-disciplinary artist Cindy Mochizuki.
Ichigo Ichie roughly translates to "once in a lifetime", which speaks to the dream of Issei (Japanese-born immigrants) to come to Canada for new opportunities. Issei worked hard to cultivate farmland in an unfamiliar (and sometimes hostile) environment. Their lives were disrupted when World War II broke out, and 22,000 men, women and children were forced into internment camps under the War Measures Act.
Through mediums of digital animation and immersive installation, this exhibition explores the history of Japanese Canadian berry farmers who settled and worked in the Fraser Valley prior to World War II. The foundation of Mochizuki's art practice is memory work with Nikkei (Japanese immigrants and their descendants), by visiting and collecting their stories about the past, many of whom were children at the time.
A central artwork in this exhibition is a large-scale projection of a 60-minute, hand-painted animation titled Autumn Strawberry (2021) detailing Nikkei farming life. Compass (2017) is an installation that presents choices and paths forced by war. Three-dimensional works include puppets and props from each film.
About the Artist
Cindy Mochizuki creates multi-media installation, animation, drawing, audio fiction, performance, public artworks, films and community-engaged projects. She has exhibited her work in Canada, US, Australia, and Japan. Recent exhibitions include the Art Gallery at Evergreen, Kamloops Art Gallery, Prince Takamado Gallery, and Nanaimo Art Gallery. She has created scenography and animation design for theatre companies including the Arts Club Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Rumble Theatre, Theatre Replacement, and Little Onion Puppet. Her permanent installation Seiko Udoku (2025) is part of the Remembering the Lost Legacy of the Japanese Canadian Farming Community in Maple Ridge projects which can be viewed at the CEED Centre in Maple Ridge. She has received the Vancouver's Mayor's Arts Award in New Media and Film (2015) and the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts VIVA Award (2020).
