Haliburton School of Art + Design: Reclaim Artist Residency

Reclaim Artist Residency is an opportunity for established artists to work in the Haliburton Highlands region for a 6 - 8 week period between June and August, developing work that focuses the local landfill as subject matter and/or material inspiration. Reclaim Artist Residency hopes to attract artists seeking to create art that shares their knowledge, respect and understanding of recycling and waste management.

Interested artists are invited to submit proposals that will detail how they plan to work with the local landfill as part of their art practice. The residency is also intended to educate the greater community on the impact of the landfill on our environment; how this will be achieved should be included in the submission.

The selected artist in residence will be provided with a studio space at the Haliburton Campus, a modest stipend, and potential access to shared accommodation. The artist’s studio will be open to the public enabling the community to visit, view work in progress and ask questions. Artists are welcome to access college equipment as appropriate; however, they are responsible for their own consumable supplies. Artists are also expected to provide one public lecture to the college community.

Concluding the residency, there will be a public display of the artist’s work in the community and one piece will be donated to the HSAD’s Annual Faculty Art Auction. All proceeds from the Art Auction are directed to bursaries for students attending arts programs at the Haliburton Campus.

This residency is a wonderful opportunity for artists to live and work in a small, artistically dynamic community located in an inspiring natural landscape.

Application Process:

Interested artists are asked to submit the following:

• 10 work samples (JPG/JPEG format, from 2887 x 2164 pixels to 3468 x 2600 pixels per image)

• CV and Artist Statement

• Proposal for residency, including length of time (6-8 weeks within June to August)

• References upon request

Please send the above electronically to Sandra Dupret, Dean – Haliburton School of Art + Design, Fleming College at sandra.dupret@flemingcollege.ca

Deadline: April 10, 2019

Akin Lansdowne artist Monique Resnick at the Orillia Museum of Art and History and Riverdale Gallery

Akin Lansdowne artist Monique Resnick will be showing works in two upcoming exhibitions in September and October: The Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed at the Orillia Museum of Art & History, and A Living Mosaic at the Riverdale Gallery. More information on both shows below:

Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed
The Orillia Museum of Art & History - 30 Peter St South, Orillia, On
Exhibition dates: September 23 – November 26, 2017
Reception: September 29 | 7—9pm
www.orilliamuseum.org

The Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed was created in recognition of Group of Seven member, Franklin Carmichael, who was born in Orillia. Now in its 16th year, this juried show calls on artists from across the country to submit work that embraces, challenges, comments, critiques, echoes, re-works or strengthens images, perceptions and interpretations of Canadian landscape through the artist's chosen medium.

Monique will be showing a painting entitled 'Disparities'. 

Monique’s approach to art involves viewing the subject matter from a literal 30,000 feet. Specifically she uses Google Map imagery to assess and depict the relationship between the land and those who occupy it. By taking this approach the viewer is able to evaluate the discrepancies fuelled by conspicuous consumption. From population density to the degree of resources required to manicure lawns, Monique forces the viewer to acknowledge that which they may not have otherwise been exposed to. This painting depicts the expansive grounds of an estate home, standing in contrast to smaller or ‘modest’ homes. The source comes from subdivisions and estate homes in her hometown of York Region.


A Living Mosaic: The Cartography of Origins and Settlement
Riverdale Gallery - 1326 Gerrard St E, third floor, Toronto, On
Exhibition dates: September 30 and October 1
www.riverdalegallery.ca

A Living Mosaic is a two day celebratory event and month long exhibition that offers a fresh take on Canadian identity. The exhibition aims to pay tribute to the varying stories of origin that lend vibrancy into our collective society, specifically highlighting Indigenous and immigrant histories in Canada. Featuring the work of thirteen local artists, Living Mosaic represents a broad spectrum of experience and historical perspectives that together acknowledge the past, celebrate the present, and look toward building a bright future. 

Monique will be showing a piece entitles 'The Synagogue Project'.

The Synagogue Project sets out to capture all the synagogues in the city of Toronto and York Region. Monique's interest lies in the way religious and cultural groups morph and mobilize to suit the needs of their communities. Her own Synagogue Beth Tikvah had a day school in it, where she once attended Hebrew School. Due to the decline of the Jewish population in the Willowdale area the school had to close its doors but the sanctuary has remained open.

Many of the structures documented in this piece are situated along Bathurst Street- knows for its historical and contemporary ties to the Jewish community. The architectural details captured tend to denote the different groups within the Jewish religion; Sephardic shuls have Mediterranean influence whereas the Askhenazi structures borrow from North American architecture. The piece is not set in time but forever evolving. Synagogues are demolished, transformed, erected and converted thus this piece is really only a starting point. One of the synagogues captured here (Shaar Shalom) has shuttered within the past year due to population change, it will become the site of a Catholic school.