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Pictured above: Sullivan in the ArtShelf
​Photographed by Jamie McEwan @_jamiemcewan

ArtShelf Bookshop & Reading Room

Situated inside the gallery, ArtShelf is a not-for-profit bookshop and reading room that specialises in books on art, culture, design, and architecture.

As a volunteer-driven initiative, it survives and thrives due to book donors and Lake Country Art Gallery members. The books are affordable, and the content amazing. Whether you’re looking for how-to's, histories, anthologies, theories, or contemporaries, ArtShelf is likely to have it. And if we don’t, let us know and we’ll keep an eye out for it.

The ArtShelf space is designed for reading pleasure. Just because your favourite book has a cracked spine doesn’t mean you should, so pull up a comfy chair and treat your brain to some words and images. Not only is education a reading room priority, but inspiration too; reference materials, collage materials, and image banks will be available for those that are visual in mind and curious in spirit. 

ArtShelf is also the only pre-loved art book store in the Okanagan, so it's worth checking out! With great prices based on lowest Amazon rates and all funds going to support the Lake Country Art Gallery, this is a win win experience. 

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CALL FOR USED BOOKS 

We are looking for used art book donations to stock the shelves of the ArtShelf Bookshop & Reading Room. We are looking for books on anything art related, as well as books on architecture, design, art theory / history.

Drop off at Lake Country Art Gallery

Support for ArtShelf 

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" What a good idea!  A second hand bookstore in an art gallery - it fits so well with the mission of the gallery and in addition its and ingenious way to raise funds. I had fun browsing in the Lake Country Art Gallery store, but it was also great to find a rare old book by John Berger The Success and Failure of Picasso. I have had my nose in the book since then! "
~ Patricia Ainslie 
Author of Okanagan Artists in their Studios and Chief Curator emerita, Glenbow Museum, Calgary

To purchase or learn more about this fabulous publication on artists in the Okanagan, visit okanaganartists.com

Patricia Ainslie's book was a feature on ShawTV recently. 
Watch the full video here to learn more about the talented local artists covered in her book.
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OPEN HOURS
Tuesday - Sunday
9:00am to 3:00pm*
Admission by donation


*check Exhibition dates for temporary closure during installations
​*extended hours for the Under 200 
exhibition

Contact Us

[email protected]
[email protected]
​250-766-1299

Lake Country Art Gallery
​10356A Bottom Wood Lake Rd, Lake Country

We respectfully acknowledge that the 
Lake Country Art Gallery and Art House are
located on the traditional and unceded territory
​of the Syilx/Okanagan people.

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