Ottawa - Aspiring artists are invited to submit their work for the new City of Ottawa C4 Gallery - a travelling showcase with an emphasis on contemporary, conceptual, compartmental and community art. Submissions will be accepted by mail or by hand until Monday April 5, 2010 at 3 p.m.

The request for submissions is open to all residents (young, older, amateur or professional artists, etc.) living within a 150-kilometre radius of the City of Ottawa. Participants must be Canadian citizens or have landed immigrant status.

Current Exhibition:
Shenkman Arts Centre
245 Centrum Boulevard
February 25 - March 26

Friday

The Ottawa Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to a tour of the exhibit Nightlight (pictured: "Green Nocturne" by Philip Surrey) in the Firestone Gallery. Friday 11 December at 12:30 pm

ONE DAY ONLY !
It’s my FIRST EVER
ARTWORK INVENTORY CLEARANCE PARTY!!!
Bring your friends & family!
Original oils, watercolours
& pastel drawings
up to 50% off
Where: at my STUDIO,
1900 Merivale Road Ottawa  Suite 216
Ottawa, ON K2G 4N4
When: Friday Dec 11th, 1-5pm
Refreshments provided

PATRICK MIKHAIL GALLERY presents THE BEST OF THE SEASON, a holiday group exhibition.
DECEMBER 9, 2009, TO JANUARY 2, 2010
ARTIST RECEPTION:
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009
5:30 P.M. TO 9 P.M. | 2401 Bank Street

Gatineau: Nadine Bariteau and Dan Bernyk have a show opening tonight from 6 to 8 at Maison de la culture (855, Boul. de la Gappe). It's a combination of steel sculpture (Bernyk) and silk screen canvases (Bariteau). Show's on until May 3rd. Bertrand R. Pitt has a new video installation, "Horizon Incertains," at Studiõ de DAÏMÕN (78, rue Hansen, Hull Sector) on until March 29th. 

Bank St: The Patrick Mikhail Gallery (2401 Bank St.) present Susan McEachern's new series, "Structures of Meaning" (pictured: Information Dependence from Backyard Community). The opening reception is tonight from 5:30 to 9, and the works will be exhibit until April 6th. Artguise Gallery (590 Bank St.) also has an opening tonight for new work by Bill McCann. It's on from 7:30 to 10:30. Show closes April 13th. 

Karen Grenier and Bozica Radjenovi each have a show on the Centre d'exposition l'Imagier (9 Front Street, Gatineau). Grenier's exhibit, ‘‘Entretiens particuliers,'' presents a series of original works reifying the often exclusive to women ancestral practice, quilt making, while Radjenovi's works, "About Diligence," presents the portrait and the writings of ten women which influenced strongly the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Both are on until April 22.