Tons of art in Hamilton this week, at Doors Open

Door Open Hamilton is on this coming weekend, May 1 and 2. There's quite a variety of sites on the tour, all free to the public.

• Fieldcote Memorial Park & Museum: This site includes an art gallery. Last year, it featured works by local youth. This year?  Guennadi Kalinine, a landscape artist.
• Carnegie Gallery: Once a Carnegie Library, just like what we have in Brampton, it's now the Dundas Art and Craft Association's gallery and shop. Currently on display is their 30th anniversary show, plus work by local two high schools.
• Rock Chapel United Church: Some art will be on display at the church.
• Art Gallery of Hamilton: Current shows on the first floor are Posing Beauty in African American Culture, Ritual Evidence: Tim Whiten, Arctic Passion: The Inuit Art Collection, End of the American Road: Terence Byrnes, and david merritt: sham. On the second floor, Max Streicher: Architecture of Cloud, Robert Mason, Shaped By Light, and Kim Adams' Bruegel-Bosch Bus. Various art talks happen throughout the weekend, plus an art sale.
• Lincoln Alexander Centre: A former movie theatre, now an entertainment hall, an art show is on display.
• The Studios at Hotel Hamilton: Tenants of the building are putting on an art show.
• Workers Arts and Heritage Centre: The only national labour history museum, it also includes an art gallery. On display are gold paper cutouts, inspired by Chinese wallpaper, works by labour union members, and vintage songbook covers.
• McMaster Museum of Art: McMaster graduating students and selections from the permanent collection are on display.
• Engineering Technology Building, McMaster University: Inside are various permanent artworks. The new building opened in 2009.

Beyond all of the attractions directly related to art, there's tons of interesting places, from a nuclear reactor to a planetarium, Dundurn National Historic Site to a waterworks (where they film the exteriors of Murdoch Mysteries, if I'm not mistaken).