passports & prizes

Canadian Art Hop Passports

Can’t get a passport? Download one here.

Pick up and stamp/sign your Canadian Art Hop Passport at participating spaces to keep track of your weekend adventures and to enter our giveaway!

Submit photos of your stamped/signed passport via DM to @canadianarthop on Instagram or Email your photos to canadianarthop@ad-ac.ca by 7pm on September 27, 2026.

Rules:

  • Participants must visit a minimum of 3 galleries over the weekend of September 24 - 27, 2026 (in any Art Zone/ Route)*

  • Email and Instagram DM submissions must be sent to The Canadian Art Hop by 7pm September 27, 2026.

  • Contest open to Canadian citizens

*If your Art Zone has less than 3 participating spaces, you can submit with public art installations in your area. Photos required of your visit.

Stellar Hunt, 2026. Courtesy of Vick Naresh & Smokestack.

Canadian Art Hop giveaway

The Canadian Art Hop is excited to partner back up with our friends at Smokestack for the chance to win 1 of 15 unique prints done by Hamilton artist Vic Naresh!

These prints will be made specifically for the September 24- 27, 2026 weekend.

Details on the print and artists behind it to be announced in the coming weeks.

About the Giveaways:
Participants can enter to win 1 of 15 unique prints by entering our giveaways:

1) Instagram Giveaway (early September). Tag a friend and share our Instagram Post for a chance to win!

2) Passport Giveaway (on from September 24 - 27, 2026). Go to three* or more Participating Spaces over the weekend and track them on your Passport via signing or stamp. Take a picture and send it to The Canadian Art Hop Instagram or Email. Giveaway will close on September 27 at 7:00pm MST.

Winners will be announced the following week.

About Smokestack:
Smokestack is a leading producer & presenter of limited-edition prints. Based in the creative hub of The Cotton Factory in Hamilton, Smokestack’s activities and aspirations are grounded in the support of contemporary Canadian artists working in print-based media, and the endorsement of printmaking as a distinctive fine-art form at large.

About Vic Naresh:
Vick Naresh lives and works in Hamilton, Canada. His paintings unfold through sustained processes of abstraction, layering organic complexity against geometric order, and vibrant colour against the quieter registers of memory and the imagined. His work occupies a space between the personal and the universal, drawing on lived experience, art historical inheritance, and a dual attentiveness to spiritual and scientific thought. Here, the works exist in a structural condition, one in which time, perception, and recollection remain perpetually in flux. He is represented by Dianna Witte Gallery, in Toronto ON.

Canadian Art Hop posters

All participating spaces will have an official Canadian Art Hop Poster so that you are able to easily identify them!

Happy Art Hopping!

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