The Kanata Civic Art Gallery is owned by the City of Ottawa and run by gallery members.

I applied for membership back in the fall and was informed this week that I had been accepted. I had supplied 10 still-life images to the selection jury. I was told that of the 38 people who applied to join, only eight were selected.

I am a member starting in January 2023 and will be able to exhibit and sell my work there. This is something a lot of photographers hope to do, but most never get there, so I am feeling rather pleased with myself.

The next show opens on January 9, 2023 and I will need to have a number of pieces ready to be hung a few days earlier. While I had artwork ready to go, it still has to be matted and framed. With Christmas coming in just over a week, I had to really scramble to find a framer that could do the work. The framers and their suppliers do shut down between Christmas and New Year, so I found one who had been recommended to me by a gallery member. The order for my materials should have been placed today, for delivery next week. He will be able to work on making the frames and mounting my work during the first week of January 2023, so I will be able to show three pieces from early January through to early March 2023.

That will give me some time to get another set of pieces ready for the March show…