FCA-COC

FCA-COC is a community of over 150 artists from the central Okanagan area, that includes emerging artists through to highly proficient professional artists. Through peer support and mutual encouragement our aim is to promote the artistic development and professional advancement of our members.

Member benefits include opportunities to participate in:

• Regional and international art competitions
• Workshops
• Monthly meetings including talks and demonstrations by guest artists
• the FCA-COC Mentorship Program
• Promoting your artwork through our website and art shows

2026 OASIS Regional Show

This is a juried regional FCA exhibition. It is a qualifying exhibition for Signature Status.

LOCATION:  Peachland Art Gallery, 5684 Beach Avenue, Peachland, BC

DATES:  June 27 - Aug 3, 2026

Click Here to view the Online Sales Gallery.

Click Here to view the Award Winners.

Kelowna Artscape Exhibition

Your Art, Our Community — Join the Second Kelowna Artscape 2026.  Help us reflect the beauty and diversity of Kelowna through art.

This exhibition is an OPEN CALL, submitting artists do NOT need to be Central Okanagan FCA or Federation members to submit.

This show will be held at the Rotary Centre for the Arts in Kelowna in October. The RCA has made two display spaces available to us for this show.  Each display space has its own Exhibition Dates and size requirements. 

You may enter both sections of this show or just one.

For more information and to enter, click here.

FCA-COC Monthly Meetings

Our next meeting is on Saturday, September 5th at 1:00 pm at the Rotary Centre for the Arts in the Painting Room.
 
We recommend parking in the Library Parkade.

After a short business meeting Susan Burnham Neilson will be giving us a presentation.  

Journals, experiments and first layers!

Thinking (and playing) like an artist. Where do the ideas come from? 

In this demo, artist Susan Burnham Neilson, (susanneilson.ca) will introduce some examples of image development strategies she enjoys using to begin creative warm-up activities in the studio or outdoors.

She will show a few ideas about ways to gather sketches, photos or mini-collage material collections. Then together we will ask “What if. . .?” questions, while staying open to possibilities and while noticing the things that capture each artist's attention and lead to uniquely personal work.

Neilson will show examples of approaches to drawing with empathy, while paying attention to favourite imagery, to particular colours, to patterns and to the tools she has found useful. She will explore the power of quick thumbnail sketches, colour swatches, and warm-up mark-making experiments. Then together we will talk about ideas for ways to start projects with playful backgrounds or interesting surface preparations. 

She will do a process demonstration for Japanese "Suminagashi" to show how one simple experiment led to inspirations for an entire "Ebb and Flow" series of her paintings.  Then she will show a sneak peek at materials and starting points she is currently gathering for a brand-new series. 

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