WHITE RABBIT RESIDENCY


























Red Clay Farm, Economy, Nova Scotia
August 10th-17th , 2014
Deadline: April 20th 2014
 White Rabbit is a week-long artist residency in which emerging and established artists set up camp at beautiful Red Clay Studios to practice, create and collaborate. The residency culminates in a public festival for the performance and exhibition of individual and collaborative works that have emerged over the course of the week.
White Rabbit Open Air Arts Project is an immersive outdoor experience.  We encourage artists from a broad range of disciplines (textiles, dance, theatre, ceramics, paint, poetry, philosophy, words, audio, documentary, film, performance, music, you-name-it!) to push the boundaries of their practice, and work together to create the environment that is formed collaboratively and individually in response to the unique landscape.
Red Clay is an Eden and thus, is not equipped with many infrastructural amenities (although there there is good access to internet and to technical resources). Artists-in-residence traditionally pitch tents in the apple orchard next to the organic gardens, and bathe in the pond, solar showers or take a dip in the Bay of Fundy.  (other accommodations are available – we aim to be accessible!).
The cost for participants is $285 and covers 8 days including workshops and presentations by senior artists, field trips, use of site facilities, all meals, and accommodation (camping or lofts). White Rabbit seeks to achieve culinary excellence: food is locally-sourced and prepared by qualified chefs.

Interested artists should submit the following by April 20th, 2014:

1. A brief description (max 1 page) of your proposed project while at White Rabbit – please include ideas/concepts you will be exploring, materials and any tools that you will need. We encourage projects that are harmonious with the environment, therefore please specify and justify the proposed use of any unnatural materials.
2. A brief artist biography including your current place of residence, previous work and media (1 page max).
Submissions should be sent by email or post:
email: whiterabbitarts@gmail.com
Postmarked before or on April 20th: PO Box 35, Bass River, NS. B0M 1S0

CEDAR RIDGE RESIDENCE PROGRAM

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Cedar Ridge Creative Centre
Artist in Residence Program
July 1 – August 31, 2014

DEADLINE FOR THE APPLICATIONS:
Friday, April 25, 2014 by 4:00 p.m.

Produced by the City of Toronto in collaboration with community partners, the inaugural Cultural Hotspot program features a region of Scarborough bordered by Lawrence Avenue, Highland Creek Village, Victoria Park Avenue and the lake. The Cultural Hotspot builds creative capacity through youth engagement, workshops and legacy projects and connects this vibrant inner suburban area with all of Toronto.

Cedar Ridge Creative Centre is a vibrant arts and cultural hub housed in a 1912 mansion and a featured Hotspot location. As part of the Hotspot initiative, Cedar Ridge will have an Artist in Residency Program during the summer months culminating in a September exhibit of the resident's work in the Cedar Ridge Gallery.


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The Gardener's Cottage, 2014 Residency Site

The competition is open to emerging and mid-career artists creating two-dimensional paintings or drawings. Applicants must be residents of the City of Toronto and must not be enrolled in any arts degree or diploma program. Our priority is to reflect the diversity of the community we serve. Women, young adults 18-30, people with disabilities, Aboriginal/First Nations people, and members of racial minorities are especially encouraged to apply.

The artist will receive:
  • The use of a Gardener's Cottage studio during centre hours
  • Exhibition space at the Cedar Ridge Gallery for the month of September (September 6 – October 7) for work already completed (subject to review) in addition to the work being produced onsite for this award
  • Promotion of final exhibition through established City of Toronto public relations channels
  • $500 in art supplies
  • Cedar Ridge's support should the recipient choose to pursue outside grants for the term of their residency

For further information and eligibility criteria, please visit our website and click Artist in Residence (on Homepage or Gallery page) or contact our office at 416-396-7043.


225 Confederation Drive
Toronto, ON M1G 1B2
toronto.ca/cedarridge

“Silhouettes and Signals”: A Danielle Meder Fashion Lecture at The Drake


 Akin Collective Member Danielle Meder!

“SILHOUETTES AND SIGNALS”:

 A DANIELLE MEDER FASHION LECTURE


How has sex, politics, money, youth, class and even taste shaped the silhouette? In a special performative lecture combining live fashion sketching on the iPad, fashion illustrator Danielle Meder presents a talk delving into the makings of fashion trends just before the official kick-off of World MasterCard Fashion Week.
Danielle Meder is a fashion illustrator specializing in live runway sketching and exquisite designer paper dolls. Sketching at fashion weeks in New York, Paris and London, using both traditional and digital media, she has developed a spontaneous, elegant style in the tradition of Joe Eula and Kenneth Paul Block. Her live runway sketches have appeared in Women's Wear Daily and FLARE, and she has been photographed in the act of drawing at fashion shows by The Sartorialist and The New York Times. Her paper dolls have been commissioned by New York Magazine, Bloomingdale's, and The Hudson's Bay Company.
  • Venue: The Drake Hotel- Underground. 1150 Queen Street West, Toronto.
  • Cover: $10
  • Time: March 16, 2014, 2 p.m.
- See more at: http://www.thedrakehotel.ca/happenings/2014/3/16/silhouettes-and-signals-danielle-meder-fash-talk/#sthash.5BlqHz1w.dpuf

GUELPH SHENKMAN LECTURE AND MFA OPEN STUDIO

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University of Guelph and the School of Fine Art and Music present:
8th Annual Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art

Featuring: Roberta Smith
Art Critic for the NY Times
Criticism in the Expanded Field

6:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, 2014
War Memorial Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario


Roberta Smith will discuss how she became an art critic, the responsibilities of art criticism as she sees them and the workaday nature of newspaper criticism. She will explore the ways that the job and her view of it have changed over time and how both have been affected by academia, by social media and by the globalized big-spending art world/market.

Roberta Smith was born in New York City in 1947 and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. She graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa in 1969. She has written art criticism for the New York Times since October 1986. She wrote for the Village Voice from 1981 to 1985 and in the 1970s, wrote for Artforum, Art in America and Arts Magazine. She worked on the Donald Judd Catalog raisonné and has contributed essays to museum catalogs on various artists, including Judd, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray and Cy Twombly. Smith has lectured widely and taught at the School of Visual Arts, NYC and the Rhode Island School of Design. She received art criticism grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1975 and 1980. In 2003, she received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism from the College Art Association.

The annual Shenkman Lecture was established in 2007 and is made possible through the support of Dasha Shenkman, a Canadian art collector who lives in the United Kingdom.

Please also plan to join us for the MFA Open Studios before and after the lecture:

3:00-5:00 p.m. and 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Blackwood Hall, Firehall, Alexander Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

The MFA students in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph are pleased to welcome the public to their annual Open Studios, offering a rare inside look at the development of new work within the hothouse environment of an art program and a chance to chat with artists about their work in progress.

Open Studios 2014 features work by graduate candidates:
Jen Aitken, Maryanne Casasanta, Stephanie Cormier, Rachel Crummey, Brandan Doty, Laura Findlay, Maegan Harbridge, Denise Higginson, MinWoo Lee, Maegan Mehler, Janine Miedzik, Jasmine Reimer, Matt Schust

Press contact:
Sandra Sabatini Ph.D., sabatini@uoguelph.ca 519-824-4120 x53869
Denise Higginson, Graduate Open Studios Student Coordinator, openstudiosmfa@gmail.com
Sandra Rechico, Faculty Coordinator, srechico@uoguelph.ca 519-824-4120 x52324

A free bus will leave Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West) in Toronto at 2:30 p.m. and leave Guelph to return to Toronto at 8:30 p.m. Email openstudiosmfa@gmail.com to reserve a spot.

A free shuttle service between Open Studio buildings is available between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. and again between 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Volunteers will provide directions and guided tours.

For more information on both events, visit www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/shenkman


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RBC CANADIAN PAINTING COMPETITION: NOW OPEN







2014 RBC Canadian Painting Competition Now Open

The 2014 RBC Canadian Painting Competition is now open and submissions will be accepted until 5 pm (EST), May 6, 2014. The 15 finalists will be announcedJune 14, 2014 and the winners October 1, 2014 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal.

PAPIRMASS










WHAT IS PAPIRMASS?

We are an affordable art subscription.
Every month subscribers to Papirmass receive a print with art on the front & writing on the back.
It’s mail made fun, and a great way to decorate
your home.

When Will My First Issue Arrive?

Subscribe by the 20th of the month to start your subscription with the next month's print.
Subscriptions received after the 20th will receive their first mailing the following month. 
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR AMAZING FRIENDS AT PAPIRMASS HERE

IMAGES FESTIVAL: VOLUNTEER MANAGER

 
The Images Festival is seeking a Volunteer Manager!
North America’s largest exhibitor of independent and experimental moving image culture is currently seeking a Volunteer Manager. The person in this position will work in a collaborative environment to plan and execute a successful 2014 festival involving multiple exhibition sites and events, and public, corporate and community partners. Images is a dynamic workplace and annual forum for excellence and innovation in contemporary media art.

The Images Festival, based in Toronto and in its 27th year, features artist-made Canadian and international film and video and related new media, installations and live performances. This 10-day festival combines theatrical screenings with gallery-based media art installations and live performances. Images also features symposia, artists’ talks, special curated programs, touring programs, year-round programming and publications alongside its annual competition selection of moving image artworks. For more info, have a look at the posting here!

ART SPIN 2014: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


Call for Submissions for Art Spin, 2014

Art Spin is gearing up for its sixth season this summer and is putting out its annual open call for submissions.

Art Spin takes place on the last Thursday of June, July and August and will see roughly 300 audience members/participants on their bicycles for each event. On each tour these enthusiastic groups will visit a series of curated stops that feature a mix of galleries, artists’ studios and commissioned artworks and performances, often site-specific and in unique and unconventional spaces throughout the city.

We are currently looking for submissions for art projects/performances from all disciplines (visual arts, installation, sculpture, film & video, new media, performance, dance, theatre and music etc.) to fit into our tour programming.

Projects being proposed will be considered for one of the three tours taking place on: Thursday, June 26th, Thursday, July 31st or Thursday, August 28th (all tours begin at 6:30 and run until roughly 9:30pm).

Time-based projects should last no longer than 15 minutes. Stops on the tour may take place in alternative venues. In past years we have commissioned projects that have taken place in parking structures, empty lots, public parks, warehouses, alleyways, churches, schoolyards, community spaces, hockey rinks and construction sites.

We encourage site-specific proposals, however locations may be altered in order to better accommodate our tour routes.

Artists should keep in mind the large number of participants on Art Spin tours. Projects that can be easily viewed/experienced by larger groups are more successful as well as interactive projects.

Artists' fees of $500 - $1000, depending on the project, will be awarded.

Submission Guidelines:

• project description (500 word maximum in attached .doc or PDF format only)
• up to 10 images (attached files under 1M each, jpg, tiff, png, or gif) of proposed project and/or past work
• or, for time-based projects, please include no more than 5 minutes of video-support material (attached as mov, m4v or wmf formats or link to vimeo or youtube in your project description)
• an up-to-date CV/Resume (in attached .doc or PDF format only)
• please submit proposals by e-mail to info@artspin.ca by March 7th, 2014.
• e-mailed submission must be titled “Art Spin submission 2014” and follow the guidelines above, all text and image files should be attached, not embedded in your e-mail. If you have a link (for vimeo or youtube video only) please be sure to include it in your project description and not in the body of your e-mail.

We highly recommend having a look at past examples of projects featured on Art Spin tours if you have never attended one, please visit the submissions page of the website at: http://www.artspin.ca/#!submissions/c13xz

If you have any further questions about the submissions process, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@artspin.ca.

www.artspin.ca

CALL FOR ARTIST SUBMISSIONS – 918 Bathurst’s The Dark Room 3.0: 2014 Scotiabank CONTACT




Calling all analog and alternative process photographers!

CALL FOR ARTIST SUBMISSIONS – 918 Bathurst’s The Dark Room 3.0:  An Open Exhibition of the 2014 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

Submission Deadline Friday March 28, 2014, 5 PM EST



Submission Form and requirements available at www.918bathurst.com/contact918 

The Dark Room 3.0 is a group exhibition celebrating analog and alternative process photography, bringing together emerging and established artists who are preserving the knowledge and practices of classic photography and testing the boundaries of this art form.  

Processes under consideration will include 35 mm photography or other film negatives, pinhole, wet plate, silver gelatin, platinum prints, lomography, photogram, and others.

An initial preview reception on April 24, 2014 will allow members of the public and an invited jury to vote and select the works to be shown during the official two-week exhibition from May 2-15.  Artists selected for the two-week exhibition will be eligible for cash awards, prizes and a solo gallery show generously provided by our sponsors and partners, and awarded at a closing reception on May 15.

Key Dates:

Call for Artist Submissions Deadline:  Friday March 28, 2014
Public Preview Celebration & Voting:  Thurs April 24, 12pm-11pm
Exhibition Dates:  Friday May 2 – Thursday May 15
Closing Reception:  Thursday May 15
Location:  Gallery 918 at 918 Bathurst, Toronto


Contact Us: submissions@contact918.com


ACTION POTENTIAL LAB: VALENTINE'S DAY


Action Potential Lab is celebrating Valentine's Day with an amazing workshop just for adults. Play scientist and chef as we turn Action Potential Lab into a laboratory-kitchen and extract DNA from Strawberries.

Read more about this incredibly fun workshop below
 


RSVP your spots by Monday Feb 10th
 
Valentine's Day Workshop
DNAiquiris: Strawberry DNA Extraction over Strawberry Daiquiris
In honour of Valentine's Day, trade your winter coat in for a lab coat, as you go through the step by step process from the breaking of cells to the making of extraction buffers and all the while sipping on strawberry daiquiris. You'll leave this workshop with a piece of this delicious DNA to take home and proof to show your friends and family of what a genius you are. Bring loved ones, mates, colleagues, and curious people of all kinds.

Thursday, February 13, 2014 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Ages 19 + | bring a valid ID

$25 + HST
READ MORE AND GET TICKETS HERE
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