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Imagine a VISAC that’s easier to find, easier to access, and welcoming to everyone.
That’s exactly what we’re working toward.
VISAC Gallery has begun a Facility Needs Assessment to better understand how our space can serve the entire Lower Columbia region. Through community feedback, we’ll identify barriers, explore opportunities, and create a vision for a more accessible future. Findings will inform recommendations to either improve the current space or pursue relocation, potentially in partnership with the City of Trail’s downtown development initiative.
Over the coming months, we’ll be inviting community members to participate in surveys, focus groups, and conversations. There will be honoraria and supports available to ensure fair participation. We hope you’ll join us.
Art belongs to everyone, and your voice can help shape where we go next.
Take the Community Survey here.
A Gathering of Indigenous Voices
As we gather on unceded Sinixt territory, we honour the ancestral lands and waters that sustain us. This National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, we come together to acknowledge the painful history and ongoing resilience of Indigenous peoples. Our art show is a celebration of the vibrant cultures, traditions, and stories of Anishinaabe, Métis, Cree, and Hesquiaht artists who call this land home.
Through their creations, these artists share their perspectives, experiences, and connections to the land, each other, and their communities. Their work is a testament to the power of Indigenous voices, past, present, and future.
We acknowledge the Sinixt people, the original caretakers of this land, and express our gratitude for the opportunity to live, work, and create here. This exhibit is a gesture of appreciation for the land’s generosity and a step towards reconciliation.
Join us in celebrating the diversity and richness of Indigenous art and culture. Let us listen, learn, and honour the stories and spirits that bring us together.
Artists featured:
Johnny Mukwa, Mark Anthony Jacobson, Kassondra Pelletier, and Laura Lee Graves.
Exhibition Dates: September 14th – October 8th, 2026
Opening Reception: September 14th 5PM – 7PM
Light refreshments, Live Painting, and Land Acknowledgment
Gallery Hours: Monday – Thursday 12PM – 4PM
Exhibitions
Offering 6-8 exhibitions per year, our focus is supporting both emerging and established artists located in the Kootenay/Basin area. We also facilitate opportunities to exhibit elsewhere in the community.
Programs
The VISAC Gallery offers workshops in a variety of mediums. Facilitated by our talented arts practitioners, we welcome all skill levels to explore their creativity! Our workshop space is also available for private rentals.
Pottery Studio
Our pottery studio hosts over 70 members, as well as 100+ workshop participants per year. Membership benefits include access to kilns, glazes and tools, as well as arts opportunities such as sales and exhibitions.
Create with VISAC!
We are pleased to be offering core youth programming, as well as a variety of adult classes and workshops, such as pottery and lapidary learning opportunities. Facilitated by our talented arts practitioners, all of our programming fosters creativity in an encouraging environment.
$35 for 35 Years
VISAC is proud to be celebrating 35 years of excellent visual arts activity in the Greater Trail Area. Incorporated in 1989, the Greater Trail Visual Arts Centre Society has a long history of representing visual artists in a community-minded way.
We’ll be organizing events and activities all year long that celebrate and reflect our long history of serving the arts in the community. If you’ve long been a patron or have never visited us before, we invite you to celebrate with us this year.
The VISAC Gallery operates with the generous support of our members, corporate sponsors, and community partners.
