The First Floor Gallery, created to profile the incredible artwork of local artists, opened in January 2015. This exhibition space is located at City Hall, between the Service Barrie and Legislative Services counters. The space is open to the public from 8:30am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays).
The First Floor Gallery provides the City an opportunity to serve the arts sector by profiling the works of local artists and beautifying a public area within City Hall, while providing artists with paid exhibition opportunities.
Are you an artist interested in exhibiting your work? Please refer to The First Floor Gallery guiding principles and application process.
March and April 2026 Exhibit
Converging Expressions
The Barrie Art Club (BAC) presents this exhibition of members’ work, featuring 15 regional artists.
Converging Expressions brings together a diverse range of works by BAC members who live and create in our community, each shaped by individual experience, process, and point of view. Spanning styles, subjects, and media, this exhibition celebrates variety as a strength – inviting viewers to move between distinct voices while discovering unexpected connections. Together, these works reflect the richness that emerges when creative practices coexist, overlap and diverge.
The Barrie Art Club was founded in 1949, in the city of Barrie. Over the past three quarters of a century, it has grown into a vibrant community resource for professional and amateur artists alike, as well as artists-at-heart – those wanting to learn or those just wanting to appreciate art.
The BAC has grown to over two hundred artists working in and around the Barrie area. Their studio and gallery are open weekdays with art for appreciation and sale. Their members can be found creating in a variety of mediums; they welcome everyone from painters to photographers, to fabric artists, anyone with a love to create.
Featured Artists
- Carolyn M. Boyd
- Enrique Bravo
- Norman Robert Catchpole
- Tara D’Souza
- Emilia Edwards
- Elena Gaevskaya
- Jayne Hill
- Susan Hunter Guise
- Janna Kozoub
- Joan LeBoeuf
- Carrie Paquette
- Susan Rudoler
- Charlotte Sprague
- Janet Tonello
- Ailene Vrana MacDougall
