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EXHIBITION

HWHG Juried Show 2025

Nov 14, 2025 – Jan 4, 2026
Watson, Cayley & Ferrie Galleries

Hiding in Plain Sight/Site

Our annual juried exhibition showcases artwork from across the Waterloo Region and celebrates the creativity shared throughout our community. In keeping with this year’s theme, Hiding in Plain Sight/Site, we encourage artists to embrace their relationships with our physical, natural, and artistic surroundings. These explorations can be captured in a variety of ways; therefore all artistic techniques are welcome.

Click here to fill out the Artist Submission Form

Important Dates

Open for Submissions:
June 1, 2025

Submissions Close:
October 10, 2025

Jurying:
October 14-20, 2025

Artist Notification:
October 31, 2025

Artwork Drop-Off:
November 10-11 2025 – 10am-4pm

Exhibition Runs:
November 14, 2025 – January 4, 2026

Exhibition Reception:
November 14, 2025 | 6-8pm

Pickup for end of show:
January 4-5, 2025

Homer Watson House & Gallery acknowledges that it is located on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishinaabeg,
and Haudenosaunee peoples; land promised to Six Nations, six miles on each side of the Grand River. 

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  • Mon: CLOSED
  • Tue: 10:00am - 4:00pm
  • Wed: 10:00am - 4:00pm
  • Thu: 10:00am - 4:00pm
  • Fri: 10:00am - 4:00pm
  • Sat: 10:00am - 4:00pm
  • Sun: 12:00pm - 4:00pm

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The Loch Doon area was memorialized in celebrated Scottish poet, Robert Burns piece “Ye banks and braes O’ bonnie Doon”

Ye banks and braes o’ bonny Doon,
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae weary fu’ o’ care?
Thou’lt break my heart, thou warbling bird,
That wantons thro’ the flowering thorn:
Thou minds me o’ departed joys,
Departed, never to return.

Aft hae I rov’d by bonnie Doon,
To see the rose and woodbine twine;
And ilka bird sang o’ its love,
And fondly sae did I o’ mine.
Wi’ lightsome heart I pu’d a rose,
Fu’ sweet upon its thorny tree;
And my fause lover stole my rose,
But, ah! he left the thorn wi’ me.

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