Nanaimo Art Gallery celebrating golden anniversary

The Nanaimo Art Gallery is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Founded in 1976, according to the gallery, it started as the Madrona Exhibition Centre, established by a group of faculty members at the then-Malaspina College, now Vancouver Island University.
Carolyn Holmes, gallery executive director, has been involved since 2000. She said that it started as one of many centennial exhibition spaces across Canada.
“It was set up so that travelling exhibitions, science exhibitions, history exhib