Join Us for the First Friday Art Trail
Meet our latest Artist-in-Residence. See the Creatrix Rising Art Exhibition in our Gallery. Visit the Caetani House museum and gift shop.
The Caetani Centre is excited to announce that it has joined the First Friday Okanagan Art Trail. Visit us on the first Friday of every month, starting March 7.
Participating in the March 7th First Friday Art Trail at the Caetani Centre will be the Archway Society for Domestic Peace Creatrix Rising art exhibition in the Caetani Gallery and Artist-in-Residence Liz Toohey-Wiese in the Centre’s Ninfa Studio. Hours of visitation will be between noon and 4 pm.
While visiting, come see us in the Caetani House to learn the story of Sveva Caetani and the artistic legacy she left to the City of Vernon.
The Caetani House museum and gift shop will be open on March 7 from 11 am to 4 pm.
Meet Our Artist-in-Residence
Liz Toohey-Wiese is the Caetani Centre’s artist-in-residence for the months of February and March. She normally resides on the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in Vancouver.
Liz is a graduate from the MFA program at NSCAD University. She completed her undergraduate degree in painting at Emily Carr University, also undertaking coursework at the University of Victoria and the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
She has taken part in solo and group shows across Canada, and has undertaken artist residencies at the Sointula Art Shed (2019), the Caetani Centre (2020/21/22/25), Island Mountain Arts (2021), the Similkameen Artist Residency (2023), Artscape Gibraltar Point (2023), and the Klondike Institute for Arts + Culture (2024).
Deeply interested in the history of landscape painting, her paintings explore contemporary relationships between identity and place. Her most recent work explores the complicated topic of wildfires and their connections to tourism, economy, grief, and renewal.
About Creatrix Rising
Creatrix Rising: The Archway Society for Domestic Peace is hosting its second annual Creatrix Rising Art Exhibition at the Caetani Centre.
The exhibition features art by survivors of domestic and sexual violence, created through workshops with artist mentors. These workshops included painting mandalas, writing poetry, intuitive painting, watercolour meditations, and working with encaustic.
The resulting artwork will be on display in the Caetani Gallery, 3401 Pleasant Valley Rd., Vernon, from March 7 to 13.
