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Patterns & Parallels: The Great Imperative to Survive, Art Gallery of Algoma, 2023

Patterns & Parallels: The Great Imperative to Survive, Dr. Roberta Bondar’s latest photography exhibit featuring ground-breaking new perspectives on at-risk birds, debuted at the Art Gallery of Algoma on July 12th, 2023.

This travelling exhibition will be shown at the Art Gallery of Algoma in Sault Ste. Marie from July 13th – October 28th, 2023, and will then travel to Science North in Sudbury, Ontario where it will be showing from November 9th, 2023 – January 7, 2024.

Jasmina Jovanovic (Executive Director/Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Algoma) and Dr. Bondar deliver opening remarks to guests at the exhibition. Credit: Alex Flood, Soo Today.
Gallery guests mingling. Credit: Alex Flood, Soo Today.
Gallery guests enjoy and discuss the exhibition. Credit: Alex Flood, Soo Today.
Signature wall of the exhibition (left) and gallery guests. Credit: Alex Flood, Soo Today.
Guests enjoying images of Piping Plovers. Credit: Alex Flood, Soo Today.
Guests enjoying images of Whooping Cranes. Credit: Alex Flood, Soo Today.
A packed gallery for the debut. Credit: Alex Flood, Soo Today.
Bonnie Patterson (Chair of The Roberta Bondar Foundation) and Dr. Bondar with a gallery guest.
Jasmina Jovanovic (Executive Director/Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Algoma) welcomes guests to the exhibition.
Dr. Bondar introduces Patterns & Parallels.
Mark Lepore (Art Gallery of Algoma President) delivers opening remarks.
Dr. Bondar with gallery guests.
Dr. Bondar with Karen and Tara from RBC. RBC’s Tech for Nature grant has aided work on Space for Birds and Patterns & Parallels.
Dr. Bondar with a gallery guest.
Dr. Bondar (left) and Barbara Bondar (right) with opening night visitors.
Dr. Bondar with a gallery guest.
Dr. Bondar and Barbara Bondar with gallery guests.
Dr. Bondar with former Sault Ste. Marie Mayor Christian Provenzano.
The signature wall of the exhibition, featuring “Endangered Shadows“.
Dr. Bondar speaking to school groups visiting the exhibition at the Art Gallery of Algoma on October 18th, 2023.
Students get a close-up look at Lesser Flamingos.
… and Whooping Cranes!
Students inspect limb images taken on the International Space Station.
School groups watching a video of Dr. Bondar in the field taking photographs.

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