A. and I have a friend who is participating in this C4 Gallery: Contemporary, Conceptual, Compartmental, Community project today. If  you don’t have any plans tonight, come check it out.

The City of Ottawa is excited to launch the first C4 Gallery temporary art exhibition. Please join us in a celebration of Ottawa’s diverse artistic community.

Hintonburg Community Centre – Wellington Room
1064 Wellington Street
October 14 to December 14, 2009

Opening Reception: Wednesday October 14, 7 to 9 p.m.

The C4 (Contemporary, Conceptual, Compartmental, Community) Gallery will be a travelling compartmental gallery that houses temporary artwork and moves between neighbourhood community centres. Submissions will be on display for a period of two months within the C4 Gallery, a five-feet wide by three-and-a-half feet high cabinet similar to an old-fashioned library card catalogue.

Inspiration for the project arose from a desire to encourage Ottawa residents to see art in new and interesting ways, and to recognize artwork in unlikely places and sizes. Due to the temporary and rotational character of the C4 Gallery, it will not only provide a forum for edgy artwork that is site- and time-specific, but it will also become a means for community exchange and a networking exercise. It will connect communities through a swap of physical objects that are rooted in a conceptual relationship to the contributors, their communities and their relationship to the world around them.

This project will generate pride in Ottawa communities increasing a sense of ownership within city neighbourhoods; it will harness cultural identity by engaging the local residents, and contribute to quality of life thorough active participation.

The exhibit’s feature artists include:

Mary Bramley, Malinda Caron, Michelle Casey, Cool Youth Group, Anna Coulombe, Gabriel Dale-Hill, Liz Dodds, Doug Garrow, Hemant Gunhan, Catherine Gutsche, Mike Hinchcliff, Robert James, Vivian Joynt, Manami Kawahara, Analisa Kiskis, Zivana Kostic, Junlan (Ji) Li, Alisdair MacRae, Chris Maveety, Cynthia O’Brien, Nirmolak Singh Saggu, Shannon Whittle, Kelly Xu, and Amy Zhou

The C4 Gallery is both a pilot project and a new partnership between the Community Art and Public Art programs.

For more information, please visit the City of Ottawa’s website.