The Caetani Centre strives to cultivate a vibrant, inclusive and diverse cultural centre by providing opportunities and programming that celebrate contemporary artistic expressions across all arts mediums and genres.
Our Mission
Caetani Centre cultivates a thriving centre for arts and culture by providing opportunities and programming for contemporary experiences in visual, literary, musical, performing, multimedia, and interdisciplinary art forms.
We provide artists with studio, exhibition and living spaces through our Artist- and Writer-in-Residence Programs (AIR, WIR) for regional, national and international artists and creative individuals.
We present and preserve the inspirational influence of Sveva Caetani through curating and exhibiting her artwork and telling her story of strength and resilience through heritage displays, programs and events.
We maintain a physical facility and grounds for the benefit of North Okanagan citizens and visitors from across Canada and around the world.
February 2026
Jude Clarke & John Lent
Jude Clarke and John Lent are still working on their painting and writing collaboration.
Jude has a new painting to show which is about the effect of living with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, a chronic autoimmune illness…for 50 years.
The painting reveals the attack of the Wolf and more.
Jude has about 8 other paintings to show. She has painted and studied art since she was 6 years old.
Everyone is welcome to come by the Ninfa Studio at the Caetani Art Centre.
John has written four new poems (two of them longer, like the THREE TRAIN TRYPTYCH completed just before John and Jude moved into the Ninfa Studio in October 2025. This new long poem is called, “Driving Down The Long Dark Snow Into This Blue Midnight Mass.” He has also written a poem called NINFA 1 that surfaces out of John watching Jude work and also taking in her subjects and her process. “I am bowled over by an intuitive daring in Jude’s work;” he says. “I love how she is so incredibly bold in both fracturing and uniting everything she sees in her visions.”
Suzy King
Suzy King is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in installation. With a background in photography and design, her practice evolved from constructing photographic sets into immersive, sensory environments. Influenced by her time performing in a two-piece band, she developed a deeper interest in video, sound, and audience experience.
Community and collaboration remain central to her work, shaped by her involvement in grassroots art and music scenes. Now based in the forests of the North Okanagan, King continues to explore how space, objects, and media can evoke emotion and connection.
Inner Thread is an installation series by Okanagan-based artist Suzy King. Blending soft textile forms, familiar objects, video, and sound, the work creates an immersive atmosphere where viewers are invited to sit with cycles of unravelling and repair, letting go, and transformation.
Meet the artist and visit the exhibition during the First Friday Art Trail Feb 6 between 2-6 PM at the Caetani Centre Gallery.