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The Art Gallery at the Cambridge Centre for the Arts (CCA) presents month-long exhibitions featuring art by local artists from Cambridge, the Region of Waterloo and beyond.
Sarah Fabrizi
Fluid Forms
February 21-March 21
Sarah Fabrizi is a process-driven abstract painter whose "paint first, think later" approach explores the tension between control and spontaneity across her large-scale works. Influenced by discarded printed materials, medieval and Renaissance imagery, she investigates the intersection of collage and painting through the juxtaposition of graphic elements and expressive oil marks with repetitive layering, redaction, and gestural mark-making.
Heejung Shin
Still, Wind
March 28 – April 25th
Reception: Saturday April 11, 1pm-2:30pm
Xuemei Lu
May 2-May 30
Reception: Saturday May 2, 1pm-2:30pm
Aidan Frenette
June 13-July 11
Reception: Saturday June 13, 1pm-2:30pm
Jessica Penney
July 25 – August 22
Laura Heaney and Kendra Lightfoot
September 5-October 3
Reception: Saturday September 5, 1pm-2:30pm
23rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition
October 17-November 14
Reception: Saturday October 17, 1pm-2:30pm
STUDIO 30
November 21-December 19
Reception: Saturday November 21, 1pm-2:30pm
Artists who are residents of Cambridge can submit up to two works in any media to be considered for inclusion in the Annual Juried Art Exhibition which takes place annually each fall.
The Jill Summerhayes Award (Juror’s 1st), 2nd and 3rd place awards, and three Honourable Mentions will also be chosen. Awards are generously sponsored by the Cambridge Arts Guild and are announced at the Opening Reception in October.
The 2025 guest juror was Guelph-based artist Lisa Hirmer. Ms. Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the collective nature of being, particularly in human relationships with the more-than-human world. She has shown her work across Canada and internationally including at Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Guelph, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Tom Thomson Gallery, Art Windsor-Essex, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Peninsula Arts, CAFKA, Queens Museum, and Flux Factory, among others. She has done artist residencies with Arts House Melbourne, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, KIAC and Camargo Foundation, and was the 2022 Waterfront Toronto Artist in Residence. She has received grants from Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Musagetes and the Culture and Animal Foundation, and has a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo.
How to Participate
Watch this space for the 2026 Call for Entry information, available early September 2026.
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Visit this space for the 2026 Call for Exhibition Proposals, available Spring 2026.
Laura Kay Keeling
Untitled Portals, Variations
Untitled Portals, Variations presents a series of collages, an installation piece, and a virtual space by Laura Kay Keeling as part of CAFKA.25 Field Guide to the Understory. Through a process-centered approach, the artist experimented with and merged analog and digital processes to expand on an earlier series, Untitled Portals.
These pieces incorporate natural elements that have been photographed both digitally and on 35mm film, scanned using a flatbed scanner and a 3D scanner, digitally manipulated, and then brought into physical form. Continuing a dialogue between the natural and digital world, the work explores connections to where we find ourselves, the incredible and important ecosystems that surround us, and the joys that can come from everyday moments of being in and engaging with our surroundings through reciprocal care and respect.
How can we maintain and evolve connections to the natural world in an increasingly isolating and technology-dependent society?Can virtual spaces be used to encourage folks to take pause and explore, and can moments of joy and excitement be replicated in these virtual environments?
