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Image featuring text & photograph against a green background. Top: Crit Nights. The 4th Monday of Every Month. 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Centre: Four people standing in a studio space, viewing artworks hanging on the wall. Bottom left: Hosted at Necessary Arts Collective & Otherwise Studios. Facilitated by Paige Bromby.
Image featuring text & photograph against a green background. Top: Crit Nights. The 4th Monday of Every Month. 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Centre: Four people standing in a studio space, viewing artworks hanging on the wall. Bottom left: Hosted at Necessary Arts Collective & Otherwise Studios. Facilitated by Paige Bromby.

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Necessary Arts Collective & Otherwise Studios: Crit Nights

The fourth Monday of every month – Necessary Arts Collective and Otherwise Studios host Crit Nights, a series of monthly art critique sessions.

Artists come together to discuss their work

Alternating between the two hosts’ creative spaces, Crit Nights brings together local painters, sculptors, printmakers and other artists to engage in a critical dialogue about each other’s work. Artists are encouraged to bring a work in-progress or complete artwork to share with the group.

Facilitated by artist Paige Bromby, these monthly group critiques provide valuable feedback on your artwork, a friendly safe environment to share ideas and an opportunity to connect with local artists in your community!

Never participated in a critique before? No problem! They’ll be there every step of the way to ensure the process is fun, kind and inspiring.

This event is free to attend, but they welcome donations to help support their creative spaces. Space is limited, RSVP today!

About Paige Bromby

Paige Bromby is a Guelph-based artist and community animator. Working primarily in painting and drawing, Bromby explores landscape painting in the age of digital media. Bromby creates paintings that explore the recording, translation and filtering of the landscape through both artist and technology. Working from her own photographs, Bromby breaks down her images through digital manipulations and layered compositions to create landscape painting that are a tangle of organic shapes and perspectives.

About Necessary Arts Collective

Necessary Arts Collective a shared studio space comprised of both shared and individual, semi-private studios for artists and creatives in Guelph, ON, and the surrounding area. They are an all-in-one type of space, known to be an arts hub in Downtown Guelph, and home to 12 – 15 local artists. Their offerings include studio spaces for rent and co-working memberships.

About Otherwise Studios

Otherwise Studios hosts creative minds of all ages for art-making and community building. With a focus on fostering a creative and inclusive community hub, Otherwise offers diverse opportunities for collaborating, gathering, teaching, skill-building, innovating, and mess-making. It’s a studio, a classroom, a stage, a gallery space, and anything you may need it to be! They aim to make a brave space that allows people to feel comfortable making mistakes and encouraged to learn new skills.

Image featuring text & photograph against a green background. Top: Crit Nights. The 4th Monday of Every Month. 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM. Centre: Four people standing in a studio space, viewing artworks hanging on the wall. Bottom left: Hosted at Necessary Arts Collective & Otherwise Studios. Facilitated by Paige Bromby. Bottom right: Otherwise Studios & Necessary Arts Collective logos.

(Photo credits: Necessary Arts Collective & Otherwise Studios.)

 

Event details

Hosted by: Necessary Arts Collective & Otherwise Studios (Click on “At the studio” for the upcoming event.)

Type of event: art critique session

Facilitated by: Paige Bromby

Dates: Fourth Monday of every month (for example, the May 2025 event takes place on Monday, May 26). Please note: This event may break for the summer (July & August).

Start time: 6:30 PM ET

Duration: 2 hours

Cost: Pay-what-you-can: C$0 – $30.00

Locations: Location alternates between the two host studios. Please refer to the specific event for the location for that month’s event.

  • Necessary Arts Collective, 84 Wyndham Street N., Guelph, ON, N1H 4E8
  • Otherwise Studios, 490 York Rd., Building I, Suite 201, Guelph, ON, N1E 6V1

Booking link: Click on “At the studio” to find the upcoming monthly event booking link.

Contact details: Necessary Arts Collective, 84 Wyndham Street N, Guelph, ON, N1H 4E8, Canada; (905) 334-5524, necessaryartscollective.ca

 

Accessibility: Please contact the organizer (see contact details above). You can also contact the host studio for the event you’re attending (locations alternate). For Otherwise Studios, please email info@otherwisestudios.com; for Necessary Arts, please call (905) 334-5524.