About Us
Lynnwood Arts Centre has been Norfolk County's cultural home since 1974 - a place where art is made, celebrated, preserved, and shared with everyone.
Welcoming more than 6,100 visitors each year, we believe that access to art is not a luxury, it is a right. Our programming champions creativity at every stage of life, from children encountering a canvas for the first time to practicing artists deepening their skills.
At the heart of Lynnwood is a permanent collection of over 800 works by some of Canada's most celebrated artists, including Alex Colville, William Ronald, Tom Hodgson, and Robert Cadotte. We are proud to steward this collection, valued at more than $3.1 million, on behalf of all Canadians.
Central to our mission is celebrating Canadian artists: those rooted right here in Norfolk County through our Norfolk Studio Tour, and Indigenous artists from across the country through our partnership with the Brant Haldimand and Norfolk Catholic District School Board’s annual Indigenous Artist Project. Through exhibitions, workshops, events, and educational programs, we bridge traditional and contemporary art forms, ensuring that the full breadth of Canadian creative expression has a home and an audience in our community.
A New Chapter — Coming Late 2026
Lynnwood Arts is moving - and we couldn't be more excited about what comes next!
In late 2026, we will be relocating to 109 Norfolk Street South, co-habiting with the Norfolk County Archives at the former Eva Brook Donly Museum just a few blocks from our current home in downtown Simcoe. The Archives building offers generous, flexible space purpose-suited to what we do best: presenting art and bringing people together around it.
This move lets us focus entirely on our mission. Rather than directing energy toward the upkeep of an aging historic building, we can put everything into the exhibitions, events, and programs that matter most to our community. As board chair Paul Hammond has said, it will allow us to streamline our operations and concentrate on programming and showcasing art.
The new location also carries a fitting connection to the arts; Eva Brook Donly herself was a gifted local painter whose works still hang in the building. We are moving into a space that has always had art at its core and soul.
What to look forward to at the new location:
Dedicated gallery spaces designed for exhibitions: proper lighting, natural flow, and room to experience art as it deserves to be experienced
A purpose-built workshop space: for the first time, Lynnwood Arts will have a teaching space designed entirely for hands-on artmaking, allowing us to significantly expand programming for students, adult learners, and practicing artists
A cultural partnership with the Norfolk Archives: two of the county's most important institutions sharing one welcoming destination
An accessible downtown location: close to parking, transit, and the heart of Simcoe
Programming continues without interruption at 21 Lynnwood Avenue throughout 2026. Not a single exhibition or workshop will be missed.
The best art centres are defined not by their walls, but by what happens inside them. Everything that makes Lynnwood Arts what it is; the creativity, the community, the commitment to art for everyone, is coming with us.