MEKIC Art Gallery Since its inception, the primary objective of MEKIC’s art gallery has been to showcase the contemporary art of Southwest Asia. Running between five to eight exhibitions per year, the gallery presents works by both well-established artists as well as talented young and mid-career artists who express themselves in various media such as painting, sculpture, ceramics, miniatures, and photography. Certain artists represented by the gallery live outside Canada and often exhibit work in the gallery that has never before been seen on the American continent. Several other artists currently reside within Quebec. Roughly fifteen artists are represented by the MEKIC art gallery. Cultural Centre MEKIC has organized over a hundred cultural activities such as lectures, painting workshops, poetry reading evenings, book launchings, musical evenings, film viewings, and evenings dedicated to Iranian traditional festivities such as Nowruz and Yalda.