Gallery

Jessica Penney

Subject to Change

July 27 - August 21

Opening reception: July 29th 7-8:30pm

About the exhibition: "Jessica Penney’s watercolours drift between the familiar and the strange, revealing figures, fragments, and fleeting traces that never quite stay put. With water, pigment, and gravity each getting a vote, these works reveal the unexpected places a painting can go when it’s allowed to wander."

Jessica Penney is a Cambridge-based artist who focuses on building and strengthening the arts community through her group, Preston Arts Collective. Currently, PAC is exhibiting "Botanicals: Rooted in Creativity", a Cambridge-wide exhibition with 10 different sites across the city, as well as their ongoing development of a Cambridge Arts Directory.

Artists who are residents of Cambridge can submit up to two works in any media to be considered for inclusion in the Annual Juried Art Exhibition which takes place annually each fall.

The Jill Summerhayes Award (Juror’s 1st), 2nd and 3rd place awards, and three Honourable Mentions will also be chosen.  Awards are generously sponsored by the Cambridge Arts Guild and are announced at the Opening Reception in October.

The 2025 guest juror was Guelph-based artist Lisa Hirmer. Ms. Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the collective nature of being, particularly in human relationships with the more-than-human world. She has shown her work across Canada and internationally including at Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Guelph, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Tom Thomson Gallery, Art Windsor-Essex, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Peninsula Arts, CAFKA, Queens Museum, and Flux Factory, among others. She has done artist residencies with Arts House Melbourne, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, KIAC and Camargo Foundation, and was the 2022 Waterfront Toronto Artist in Residence. She has received grants from Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Musagetes and the Culture and Animal Foundation, and has a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo.

How to Participate

Watch this space for the 2026 Call for Entry information, available early September 2026.

School Programs at the Cambridge Centre for the Arts

In 2026, Cambridge Centre for the Arts and the Waterloo Catholic District School Board began their partnership to deliver contemporary art lessons and gallery tours to local school groups visiting the Art Centre.

With art activities led by CCA instructor Alyssa Haynes, over 100 young artists in Grade 6, 7, and 8 created abstract watercolour paintings inspired by their tour of the Cambridge Centre for the Arts Gallery.