Amelia Douglas Gallery
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 and established B.C. artists and to enhance the educational offerings of the College.
The gallery is named after Lady Amelia Douglas, the Cree wife of Sir James Douglas, known for her courage in the face of danger, and her skill and compassion as a nurse and midwife. Learn more about the life of Lady Amelia Douglas.
If you are an artist interested in learning more about the submission process, please see Submission guidelines.
We welcome you to explore the current and upcoming exhibits below.
Upcoming 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