Oceanside Arts Magazine
A Publication of the Oceanside Community Arts Council – Oceanside Arts Magazine
The Oceanside Community Arts Council (OCAC) is a collective of arts professionals serving the Oceanside region of Vancouver Island, including Qualicum Beach, Parksville, Nanoose Bay, and Nanaimo. The council plays a vital role in supporting and promoting art, music, and culture across the region, while also providing essential funding and programming support for The MAC (MacMillan Arts Centre), the area’s public art gallery.
Parksville, located within the community of Oceanside on Vancouver Island.
Through exhibitions, performances, classes, workshops, and community initiatives, OCAC fosters meaningful connections between artists and the public, helping to sustain a vibrant and accessible arts ecosystem in the Oceanside region.
Oceanside Arts Magazine
Recently, OCAC launched Oceanside Arts Magazine, a monthly publication dedicated to celebrating the creativity, culture, and artistic life of the region and beyond. With this second issue, the magazine continues to take shape as a dynamic platform for artists, writers, and arts organizations to share work, ideas, and perspectives that reflect the richness of contemporary creative life on Vancouver Island and across Canada. Rooted in the belief that the arts are essential to a healthy, connected community, each issue features artist profiles, exhibition highlights, interviews, critical perspectives, and opportunities for engagement through galleries, performances, studio tours, and workshops.
I am pleased to be a regular contributor to Oceanside Arts Magazine, writing a series focused on regional arts and artists across Canada. Drawing on my extensive national arts network, I will be sharing stories from local arts communities and exploring how creative practices and markets are evolving beyond major urban centres.
In this second issue, I begin with Beyond the Big Three: Why Regional Voices Are Reshaping Canadian Art Collecting, an exploration of art markets and artistic activity outside the familiar metropolitan hubs of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
You can read the current edition here. You can read more articles by Brandy Saturley here.
