Amelia Douglas Gallery

Current Exhibition

Journey

Natasha Boškić

January 15 - February 26, 2026

Opening reception: January 15, 2026 | 4:30–6:00pm 

About the exhibit: 
The Journey is a result of Natasha's latest poetry weaving projects, where she explores the intersection of fibres and words, tactile and virtual. Natasha sees the world as a constant interplay between forces, the exchange of layers of reality that meet and dissolve in time and space. This engagement creates narratives and poetic ripples. 

Natasha has always enjoyed creating something with her hands, from cooking to crafting, sawing, knitting, weaving. She likes bringing poetry into every day in fun and engaging way, so that we can enjoy the beauty of words even when doing the most ordinary tasks, like walking, eating or sleeping. The artist is interested in technology as a new landscape for literary expression, so she experiments with new and old media forms. Natasha is fascinated with the ways our virtual and physical worlds interact and she uses different opportunities to combine analog and digital technologies to create art.

The wall hangings present fragments of different journeys, both physical and imaginary, telling stories of lost love, friendships and memories. They reveal a sense of displacement and erasure, loss and discovery of people and places, heritage, traditions and cultures.

About the artist:

Natasha Boškić works as a Director of Learning Design and teaches at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She moved to Canada with her two children from war-torn Serbia in 1999, during a NATO aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 

A long history and tradition of family engagement in crafting, artistic expression, and storytelling, as well as her personal life experience and current times have shaped and directed Natasha’s work. She is fascinated by the opportunities to combine analog and digital technologies, old and new ways of “crafting” and uses a variety of media to include poetry and personal narratives in her art. Natasha had always been interested in weaving, but it took her years of sewing, knitting, and crocheting to finally buy her first loom three years ago. The newly discovered passion led to a number of explorations in textile and fibre art and then to various exhibitions. She creates wall hangings that embrace poetry, QR codes, and light to expand our two-dimensional into multi-sensory experience.

Her textile work has been exhibited in Surrey, Port Coquitlam, Bowen Island and other places in Lower Mainland. She won the 1st place in Sculpture and Fibre Art category at the Exhibition of Visual Art, Arts 2024 at Surrey Art Gallery. 

She obtained a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy at UBC, with a focus on ethics and narratives in gameworlds in 2011.  More about her work at onlywords.ca

Amelia Douglas Gallery 2026-2027 Call for Submissions

Amelia Douglas Gallery is currently accepting submissions for our 2026-2027 season beginning in mid-December 2026 to August 2027. 

The gallery features an inner gallery wall space of 35 feet and an outer gallery wall space of 53 feet. Additionally, there are up to six display cases available for standing structures such as sculpture and ceramics. Solo exhibitions and group exhibitions are encouraged from all visual arts media. 

The Amelia Douglas Gallery is a non-profit organization run by members of the Douglas College community. The mandate of the Art Exhibit Committee is to feature new emerging and established BC artists and to enhance the educational offerings of the College. 

The Amelia Douglas Gallery is located on the 4th floor of Douglas College's New Westminster campus. The gallery is open to the public Monday to Friday from 10am - 7:30pm, and Saturday from 11am - 4pm. Admission is always free. 

Eligibility: 

• Selected artists must live within BC and be available to deliver, install, and pickup their pieces to the art gallery in person. Dates and times will be determined by the artist and organizer well in advance. 
• Artists who have not exhibited in New Westminster in the previous year will be prioritized. 
• Artists whose work has been exhibited in the gallery in the previous two years will not be considered (2025/2026).  

We strongly encourage applications from members of communities that are marginalized and/or that experience barriers including those identifying as person with disability, Indigenous, Black, people of colour, LGBTQ+. We invite applicants to self-identify in their application if they feel comfortable doing so, as priority will be given to these individuals or groups.

All artwork must meet the following criteria to be exhibited: 

1. A minimum of 10 pieces to display
2.  Pieces must be ready to hang and/or display. 
3.  Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot accommodate exhibits that include audiovisual or video components on display. However, we encourage the use of QR codes that link to digital components that patrons may view on their personal devices to accompany the physical pieces. 
4. Pieces must be available for display for a minimum of two months 
5. We do not accept AI-generated artwork.

Estimated Timeline: 

April 8, 2026 – Deadline to submit 

End of April 2026 – Submissions reviewed by the Amelia Douglas Gallery Advisory Committee 

Early May 2026 – Selected artists contacted 

January-September 2027 – Exhibition schedule 

Fees/Compensation: 

In addition to a hosted opening reception, artists will receive CARFAC installation fees as well as an opportunity to present an artist talk to students. 

Click here to submit your application

Please direct questions to Saghi Ehteshamzadeh, Arts Events Officer, artsevents@douglascollege.ca 

Upcoming Exhibition

Connective Tissue

Malina Sintnicolaas 

March 5 - May 5, 2026

Opening Reception: March 5, 2026 | 4:30 - 6 pm

About the exhibit:

Connective Tissue is a solo exhibition by Malina Sintnicolaas at the Amelia Douglas Gallery, showcasing a series of handmade sculptural works made out of various traditional craft techniques like ceramics, crocheted yarn, and needle-felted wool.  Sintnicolaas considers her work to be manifestations, transmutations, or ‘petrifications’ of emotions into a physical form. She is drawn to ceramics and textiles as her central materials because of their contrast in properties, that they can be so strong yet so fragile at the same time, which correlates to the subject matter of her work, because like the materials, human emotions are fragile, unpredictable, and at times, difficult to maintain.  Connective Tissue showcases sculptural work that is exploring the idea of ‘bodily memory’ and how emotions like trauma and anxiety can become imbedded in our cellular structure. Sintnicolaas depicts work that appears organic and biological, yet is unrecognizable, to create an energy that is both ominous and seductive at the same time. Using repetitive processes akin to ceramics, and a technique called hyperbolic crochet in her textiles, she uses her materials to emulate the bodily feeling of emotional turmoil and is questioning with her sculptures, in what ways can one induce empathy for an object even if the form is alien or abstract. She pulls from her own experience as a queer person who experiences C-PTSD and experiences an autoimmune disorder, and explores what ways can she use material to broaden discussions and representation around mental health. Working with texture, surface, material properties, and form, her sculptures drive to evoke feeling from the viewer to create an empathic landscape that will urge an understanding for states of being which are difficult to be described verbally.