Announcing the 50 Finalists for the 2025 Parallel Art Show

We are thrilled to reveal the 50 artists selected for the 2025 Parallel Art Show (PAS), presented in conjunction with the Salt Spring National Art Prize. Selected from across the Southern Gulf Islands, these finalists represent a dynamic range of emerging and established talent working across mediums, ideas, and approaches.
 
Matt Adolf • David Allan • Seth Berkowitz • Chintan Bolliger
Carole Bondaroff • Sally Born • Leo Chan • Gary Cherneff
Stefanie Denz • Kyle Durant • Mimi Fujino • Dina Gonzalez Mascaro
Diana Hayes • Martin Herbert • Jen Holmes • Elisabeth Jahren
David James • John David James • Cathryn Jenkins • Amy Jones
Garry Kaye • Laura Keil • Kasumi Lampitoc • Bob Leatherbarrow
Jeff Lederman • Cheryl Long • Jennifer Maksymetz • Gillian McConnell
Larry Melious • Chris Metze • Robert Moss • Doreen Palme
Patricia Parkes • Max Parsons • Elaine Potter • Lexane Rousseau
Andrea Russell • Anette Schrage • Katherine Scott • Karen Selk
Sandy Shreve • Jeannette Sirois • Nathalie St-Amant • Alicja Swiatlon
Anna Szul • Melanie Thompson • Ida Marie Threadkell • Sherry Williams
April Winter • Margo Zak
 
This year’s Parallel Art Show will be opens at ArtSpring on September 28, and runs until October 19, showing concurrently with the SSNAP Finalist Exhibition at Mahon Hall and the new SSNAP Youth Exhibition in the Mahon Hall Annex. Together, these exhibitions form a multi-venue celebration of artistic excellence on Salt Spring Island.

We congratulate these 50 artists and look forward to sharing their work with audiences this fall.