The UNBC Arts Council fosters the presence of the visual, literary and performing arts within the UNBC community and works jointly with community partners to create collaborative opportunities for promotion of the arts in all their manifestations. 

The UNBC Arts Council oversees the Robert Frederick Gallery which is open to the public and is free! The gallery offers professionally curated exhibits through the year. The gallery supports the development of emerging visual artists by increasing access and awareness to visual arts within the university, community, and region. The Robert Frederick Gallery is located in the atrium of the Research Laboratory building (accessed from Student Street). The gallery is open from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Monday to Friday and is closed on weekends and holidays.

Current Exhibit: Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
April 26th - Oct 6th, 2024

Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration is the result of a decade of research by Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood based in New York, USA. This important travelling exhibition concludes its tour in Prince George at Two Rivers Gallery and other partnering venues. Marking Time highlights artists who are, or have been, incarcerated, alongside artists who have not been incarcerated but whose practices expose aspects of the carceral state. Seen together, their works reveal how punitive governance, predatory policing, surveillance, and mass imprisonment impact millions of people in the US. Through this exhibition, we will turn a lens to the Canadian context. An important publication by the same name accompanies this exhibition.

This presentation at Two Rivers Gallery and the Robert Frederick Gallery at the University of Northern British Columbia has been organized in collaboration with Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, NYU Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, and the Marking Time Team. Major support for the Exhibition is provided by the Mellon Foundation, the Art for Justice Fund, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Two Rivers Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of MNP and ABC Photo as sponsors of this exhibition in Prince George.

Featured artwork: Jared Owens. Ellapsium: master & Helm, 2016, mixed media on birch panel, each panel 48 x 31 in. Courtesy of Jared Owens and Nicole R. Fleetwood.