LAKEHEAD RESEARCH EDUCATION GALLERIES
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From the Curator
2025 February
The Galleries hosted two art launch events during Research and Innovation Week. The juried exhibition launch in the SPACE Gallery included exceptional works by local artists. A special event in the LAIR Gallery involved 10 resident artists in a collaboration with the Northwest Climate Gathering group. Artists ranged from teens to elders, all illustrating dire concerns about climate change. Artworks were also rehung in Lakehead International and in the gallery "In Other Words" in the Bora Laskin building. $6500 was granted to artists in awards. Karen Meyer was our resident artist of 2025. 2024 March The art tour during Research & Innovation Week showcased numerous scholartists and several Indigenous installations including a canoe and snowshoes during the launch. $6500 was granted to artists in LAIR Gallery Awards and our resident artist, Paul Edmonds. 2023 March The Galleries celebrated its first in person on-campus exhibit and artist's talk since COVID-19 during Research and Innovation Week. We invited art that embraced this year's theme, Improving our Lives through Research. We also celebrated a gallery-sponsored residency. $6000 was granted to artists in competitive LAIR Gallery Awards and to our resident artist, Heather McLeod. 2022 March The Galleries celebrated another virtual launch with the theme Climate Action in Action to honour Lakehead's Year of Climate Action. We also celebrated a Galleries-sponsored residency. $6250 was granted to artists in LAIR Gallery Awards, and our resident artist, Michael Fisher. 2021 February Our first virtual gallery walk-through launched with Research and Innovation Week. $2750 was granted to artists in LAIR Gallery Awards 2020 February The Lakehead International Office Gallery opens. A Gallery Tour is offered as as part of Research and Innovation Week. 2019 February The SPACE Gallery (Science, People, Art, Creativity Engineering), in the CASES (Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering and Sciences) Building, and Minogin Gallery in the Graduate Education Department open. 2018 A SSHRC Connections grant is secured to develop and implement the Lakehead University Community Connections Showcase, three events offered as part of Research and Innovation Week including our first artists' tour. 2016 January A Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation Internship is secured to fund a Gallery Coordinator. 2015 October The virtual gallery opens and features juried submissions from innovative researcher-artists beyond Lakehead. 2015 April The Baggage Building Arts Centre becomes a community partner, offering exhibition spaces at their Marina Drive location. 2015 LAIR Gallery Award Recipients: Melissa Oskineegish, Dayna Slingerland, Varainja Stock and Holly Tsun Haggarty 2014 September Through the support of the Canada Research Chairs program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Research Fund and the Department of Education, three physical art spaces open for juried exhibitions: The LAIR (Lakehead Arts Integrated Research) in the Bora Laskin Education Building In Other Words in the Education Library The Junction: Where Science Meets Art in the ATAC Building in the Northern School of Medicine |