Current Exhibitions

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The Woodstock Art Gallery cares for Oxford County’s largest municipal public art collection of more than 1900 artworks. The WAG aims to build and maintain a collection that is representative of, and relevant to, the community of Woodstock and Oxford County, including work by both regional and national artists.

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Curator: Danielle Hoevenaars

Great Small Things: 60 Years of Collecting explores the history of WAG’s Permanent Collection through curator- and community-selected works.

The Woodstock Art Gallery (WAG) was conceived of by the Oxford County Art Association as a centennial project in 1966. The Gallery began collecting artwork that same year, and over the decades has built a Collection that aims tell our shared story: one of local art, culture, history and creativity. Today, the WAG cares for Oxford County’s largest municipal public art collection of more than 1900 artworks. On their own, each artwork just one piece and one moment in time, but together the Collection forms a treasure trove of small but mighty things that chronical the history of art and visual culture in our region. The Permanent Collection connects us to the past, invites us to explore the contemporary and builds intergenerational connections. It reflects the people and stories that shape who we are – yesterday, today and tomorrow.

As part of this exhibition visitors can explore WAG’s past exhibition catalogues and publications in the Reading Nook, sponsored by Commonplace Books.

Artists: Florence Carlyle (1864 – 1923) and Angie Quick
Curator: Danielle Hoevenaars
Reception: Saturday, September 26, 2026, 1 – 3 p.m.

This exhibition presents the portraiture of Florence Carlyle (1864 – 1923) alongside work by contemporary painter, poet and performance artist Angie Quick.

Carlyle was a writer as well as a painter, and her writing reveals a deeply emotional experience of life that still yearned for true expression in the later years of her career. “The immortal picture is still unpainted, and my book still unpublished,” she wrote in 1918. What might these unexpressed passions and unheeded tears entail? What did Carlyle want to paint?

In pairing Carlyle’s work with Quick’s, interesting connections and distinctions are revealed. Visual harmonies of colour and related figurative or domestic imagery are in tension with differences in technique and conceptual freedom. These similarities and contrasts invite new ways of understanding each artist’s work through the lens of the other. 

In Your unheeded tears (filled me up), shared themes of love and lust, passion and the mundane, womanhood and defiance, ripple back and forth through time. Connections between the works create a network of influences that appear to flow in multiple directions, disrupting a linear sense of time. Prompted by a curiosity about Carlyle’s deep desire for expression, the space between Quick and Carlyle’s paintings becomes a site of imagined possibilities.

Charles M. Schulz brightened the world for 50 years with his Peanuts comic strip, which debuted October 2, 1950. With Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the rest of the lovable Peanuts gang, Schulz explored the emotional territory of friendship, disappointment, faith, and tolerance.  He was an artist and a storyteller who transformed images of everyday life into art that captured the humor, vulnerability, and dignity of the human spirit. 

In celebration of the City of Woodstock’s 125th anniversary, WAG is proud to be hosting the travelling exhibition, The Life and Art of Charles M. Schulz, which explores Schulz’s personal history and his role as the sole inspiration and artistic talent behind Peanuts. Original and reproduction Peanuts comic strips, Schulz quotes, and photographs illuminate the story behind the creation of this most popular and influential cartoon strip. 

The exhibition is brought to life with interactive activities for the whole family to enjoy, including “create your own” Peanuts comic strip tracing tables, take home crafts, photo opportunities and community engagement prompts to encourage visitors to reflect on the Peanuts legacy and happiness in Woodstock and Oxford County.

Curated by the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, Santa Rosa, California, U.S.A.

Your Woodstock is a juried community exhibition held in celebration of the City of Woodstock’s 125th anniversary. Works by artists living in Woodstock and Oxford County interpret what Woodstock means to them — past, present, or future.  

Your Woodstock reflects on all aspects of life in the City: depictions of the landscape and iconic buildings and symbols in the City, personal memories and experiences in Woodstock, expressions of community spirit and imagery of everyday life.