CONTACT 2014 PORTFOLIO REVIEWS





















Ian Willms, from the series The Road to Nowhere, 2012 - 2013

Ian Willms is the recipient of the 2013 Portfolio Reviews Exhibition Award. His exhibition The Road to Nowhere is on view at the CONTACT Gallery until March 7, 2014.
Please join us for an artist talk on Saturday February 15 at 2pm.

CONTACT 2014 PORTFOLIO REVIEWS
Sunday May 4 & Monday May 5
@ The Gladstone Hotel

Registration opens February 15.
Visit http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/portfolio-reviews for more information and link to the online registration site.

CONTACT will be accepting submissions from artists with well-developed projects to participate in the 2014 Portfolio Reviews.

International experts in the field of photography are brought together for two days during CONTACT to review work with a focus on documentary, photojournalism or photo-based art practices. This is a great program for artists with projects at advanced stages of development who are seeking opportunities for publishing and exhibiting—as well as for those looking for guidance on conceptual approaches or career development advice.

In addition to one-on-one reviews, participants are invited to attend the Portfolio Night, and a reception to announce the winner of the Portfolio Reviews Exhibition Award. This year, CONTACT and Boreal Collective will host an evening of lectures by some of the reviewers and an after party on Tuesday May 6.

portfolioreviews@scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

This program was created to support and advance the careers of talented artists and photographers. A special thank you to The Gladstone Hotel, Vistek, and Toronto Image Works.


Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 310
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2J4
T 416 539 9595
info@scotiabankcontactphoto.com
www.scotiabankcontactphoto.com

Exhibition Opening: Push and Pull @ Mercer Union
































Push and Pull presents a series of new works by artists Bridget Moser, Michael Vickers (*Akin) and Nikki Woolsey. The exhibition title refers to a constant tension, a position between moving in one direction, and into another; a perpetual state of struggle.

Bridget Moser’s performance and video work is suspended between internally voiced conundrums, stand-up comedy, experimental theatre, performance art, and prop comedy, with a continuous slippage from one state to another. In this in-betweenness a certain absurdity materializes, questioning a world of assumptions and belief systems.

Michael Vicker’s works sit between painting and sculpture, in prioritizing their object-hood physical struggle becomes manifest, highly industrialised materials are folded, pushed and beaten into other forms acknowledging the precarity of their formation and labour.

Nikki Woolsey coalesces distinct everyday found materials into sometimes seamless yet habitually unfamiliar forms. Broken vases, glass panels, and other quotidian objects seep into abstraction, questioning how we perceive objects and place value, and disrupting existent systems of knowledge.

Curated by Georgina Jackson

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TORONTO DESIGN OFFSITE FESTIVAL






The fourth annual Toronto Design Offsite Festival will show the best in Canadian design at exhibitions and events across the city, from unexpected prototypes to immersive installations, January 20-26, 2014.

The Toronto Design Offsite Festival (TO DO) is a not-for-profit, independent design festival happening annually at the end of January. TO DO’s aim is to provide exposure for local and national designers; to foster public understanding and knowledge of the practice of design; and to create an ongoing presence that promotes Canada’s creativity, drawing on great thinkers, practitioners, and educators to a deliver an innovative celebration of art and design.
Schedule: CLICK HERE
Facebook Event: CLICK HERE




The Hart House Review: Submit!









The Hart House Review print annual is a nationally distributed literary and arts magazine. The Review also regularly publishes online content which may differ from its print counterpart. In some cases, online content may be considered for our print annual.

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN for our 2014 print edition. 
UPDATE: Deadline has been extended to January 22!

Submissions can also be made year-round for our website.
All inquiries: harthousereview@gmail.com

 LEARN MORE HERE


Please Note: Names cannot appear anywhere on the submission. Our selection process is a blind review. Submissions with names, or submitting more than the maximum amount of allowed work, will result in disqualification. (You may resubmit disqualified work in the proper format.) 

Print:
You may submit up to two prose pieces; three poems; or three pieces of artwork. Prose/poetry/art combinations are also welcome so long as they do not exceed a maximum of five pieces. Short fiction should not exceed a maximum of 2,500 words each; poetry should not exceed a maximum of 200 lines each. Please submit in either DOC, PDF, or RTF format.
For all artwork/photography, please submit images in JPG format with resolution of at least 300dpi. If images are too large to be e-mailed, please contact us at: harthousereview@gmail.com.

It is permissible to submit the same pieces to the Hart House contests and to the Review.

Online:
The online edition of the Hart House Review is open to submissions from anybody in the world. Please send 3-5 poems, prose that does not exceed 1000 words, or up to 3 pieces of artwork. We accept material all year round.

If possible, please indicate how you heard about the review.


AKIN FORGE WORKSHOP SERIES: MOVEMENT-BASED WALL DRAWING: JANUARY 15







































 FACEBOOK EVENT

 Movement-Based Wall Drawing w/ Mishi Foltyn

A one-time opportunity! FORGE workshops host a different facilitating artist each month.

January 15, 2014.
7pm-10pm
444 Dufferin Street, Unit E

$20 in advance (CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE)
$25 at the door

Or, RSVP to akincollective@gmail.com and please include your name, phone number, and tell us about your creative practice so we can tailor each workshop to its' participants

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Where lies the intersection between instinct and reason in our ability to understand and process our surroundings? we'll tap into our intuitive somatic knowledge to make a collaborative large-scale mixed media drawing installation.

Participants will leave with a new toolkit of mark making skills and dance-inspired processes.

Our facilitator, Mishi Foltyn, is a National Ballet dancer turned visual artist. Learn more about the intersections of body and art in this collaborative workshop for artists, writers, designers and performers.

G44: OFF THE WALL

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You are invited to Wall to Wall—OFF THE WALL!
print sale + party
Steven Beckly
Steven Beckly, Untitled (Somewhere), 2013, digital c-print, paper size 14" x 11", unframed, limited edition, $90, 3 available

Stop by Gallery 44 on Thursday, December 5, grab your favourite piece OFF THE WALL before someone beats you to it, and stay for the party of the season! Doors open at 6.

Sale continues to December 14
Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm
Admission is free

gallery44.org/walltowall2013 
With hundreds of collectable artworks at accessible prices, OFF THE WALL lets you build your collection while supporting artists at all stages in their careers. This print sale of photo-based work by Gallery 44 members boasts a diversity of photographic media including gelatin silver prints, chromogenic prints, archival pigment prints, alternative processes, many of which were created in Gallery 44's production facilities. 

Featuring works by: Mina Ao • Tobi Asmoucha • Kim Atkins • Sally Ayre • Neil Barbisan • Michael Barker •Steven Beckly • James Blake • Peter Bogaczewicz • Dean Bradley • Linda Briskin • Stephen Brookbank • Mirna Chacin • Nicole Croiset • Nathan Cyprys • Brandon Davis • Saman Deilamani • Sheryl Dudley • Sharon Erlichman• Adolfo Fernandez • Richelle Forsey • Michael Fraser • Sylvia Galbraith • Carlos Garate • Mary Elizabeth Grace •Shayne Gray • Jonathan Groeneweg • Toni Hafkenscheid • Tim Johnston • Bahar Kamali • Deborah Kanfer •Janet Kimber • Anthony Koutras • Kelly Lamorie • Alexandra Majerus • Virginia Mak • Steve Payne • Adrienne Marcus Raja • Kye Marshall • Christine Marshall-Smith • Duncan McLaren • Sanjay Mehta • Victoria Menelaou •Oliver Pauk & Michael Vickers • Jordan Nahmias • Marilyn Nazar & Brian Piitz • Jerzy Pawlowski • Peggy Taylor Reid • Tom Ridout • Darren Rigo • Branimir Ruzic • Chris Shepherd • Laurence Siegel • Anna Snyder • Jean Paul St. Onge • Barbara Staulus • Edie Steiner • Steve Stober • James Sutherland • Oz John Tekson • Jessica Thalmann • Sarah Tothill • Alex Turner • Louise Vezina • Monica Vichar • Abelardo Villalon • Richard Vincil •Shelley Wildeman • Drew Williamson • Joan Lillian Wilson    and more!
OFF THE WALL is a fundraiser for Gallery 44's award-winning education and exhibition programs. Committed to photography as a multi-faceted and ever-changing art form, Gallery 44 offers exhibition and publication opportunities to national and international artists, education and workshop opportunities, programming to students, youth, and community partners, and affordable production facilities for artists.
We hope you can join us for the print sale + party of the season!

- Lise, Noa, soJin, Stu, Robyn

Get social with OFF THE WALL:


Preview some of the available works on our tumblr: gallery44.tumblr.com
Join the event on facebook: bit.ly/offthewall13
Tag your instagram / twitter posts   #offthewall13