THE DARK ROOM 3.0















The Dark Room 3.0: a crowd-sourced, group exhibition celebrating alternative process and analog photography in the digital age

SAVE THE DATE!

Come to 918 Bathurst on Thursday April 24 from 12 noon to 11 pm to vote for your favourite works from our selection of submissions for The Dark Room 3.0!
The Dark Room 3.0 is an Open Exhibition of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, showcasing and celebrating the art of analog and alternative process photography.
We’ve gathered 150 works from emerging and established artists who are preserving the knowledge and practices of classic photography and testing the boundaries of this art form.  Processes on display will include 35 mm film, pinhole, uranotype, Polaroid, wet plate, silver gelatin, cyanotype, platinum prints and more!
Our Preview Celebration on April 24 will be your chance to decide which of these works get to be displayed during our official two-week exhibition from May 2-15! Artists selected for the two-week exhibition will be eligible for cash prizes and awards generously provided by our sponsors and partners.

Public Preview Celebration & Voting:  Thurs April 24, 12 noon – 11 pm
Exhibition Dates:  Friday May 2 – Thursday May 15
Gallery hours 11 am – 4 pm, and to 8 pm on Fridays
Closing & Awards Reception:  Thursday May 15
Location:  Gallery 918 at 918 Bathurst, Toronto

AKIN COLLECTIVE SPRING GALLERY CRAWL


Hope you were able to join us for our Spring Gallery Crawl on Saturday. 

 If not, see what you missed below and be sure to join us for our next event!

 Keep track of them all by joining the Akin Collective Facebook Group or following us on Twitter

 Huge thanks to Mercer Union, Daniel Faria Gallery, Scrap Metal and Division Gallery!
A special thank you as well to Kronenbourg Brewery for keeping our livers happy. You're the best.







RESIDENCY: DARLING FOUNDRY MONTREAL

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY

DETAILS

- The residency takes place at the Darling Foundry in Montréal
- The program accommodates an artist who is from outside of Canada
Dates:
- Application opens: April
- Deadline: 1 June for residency starting the following year
- Residency Dates: 1 January to 30 June
- The successful candidate will be selected by a committee composed of visual arts professionals and will be announced approximately a month after the deadline
 
The residency includes:
- a live-in studio with internet connection and access to wood and metal workshops
- a global $23,000 scholarship for travel expenses, weekly stipend, and production costs
- the organization of studio visits and artist talk for the public
- mentoring, networking, excursions etc during the residency period
 
To apply:
Send the following: a CV, portfolio, letter of intent, two letters of recommendation, and online application form (which will be available on this page when the application opens) to the Darling Foundry. 
 
Past recipients:
 
This program is funded by The Canada Council for the Arts






OCAD ALUMNI EXHIBITION: THURSDAY, APRIL 3-6
































FACEBOOK EVENT

Join us for the 3rd OCAD University Alumni Exhibition! This exhibition gives viewers a glimpse into the type of work produced by OCAD University graduates spanning six decades.

FEATURING MEMBERS OF AKIN COLLECTIVE

GLADSTONE HOTEL
1214 Queen Street West

Exhibition Runs: April 3rd to April 6th

Opening Night: April 3rd, 7-10pm.


This year’s distinguished jurors:
OCADU faculty member, Barbara Astman
Former OCA instructor, John Inglis
Writer, cultural administrator and arts advocate, David Silcox

List of Featured Artists:
Robert Anderson
Kirista Arnold
Katherine Bellman
Donna Blanco
Stella Cade
Ozzie Ciliberti
Michelle Crockett
Alea Drain
Pat Dumas-Hudecki
Sandy Fairbairn
Eric Field
Adrian Fish
Stephanie Flowers  
Natasha Gouveia
Marina Hanacek
Jill Harmer
Kate Hogg
Nicole Kagan
Jessamyn Khan
Hyun Mi Kim
Elaheh Koneshlo
Joe Han Lee
Zhan Ni Li
Erin Loree 
Joseph Medwecki
Romena Mohammadi
Alfred Ng
Stan Olthuis
Jeannie Pappas
Carol Pasternak
Michael Rachlis
Amita Sen Gupta
Jacquelyn Sloane Skilos
Elly Smallwood
Anna Snyder
Cortney Stephenson
Keijo Tapanainen
Michelle Tourikian
C.A. Way

Akin Collective: SPRING GALLERY CRAWL



















FREE EVENT! Open to the public!

 Saturday, April 19: 12:00-5:00pm
Akin Collective- 87 Wade Avenue, Unit 101

 JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT

 Join us for an afternoon of gallery tours, talks and beers.

We'll meet at Akin Collective Landsdowne: 87 Wade Avenue- Unit 101- at 12:00pm for a few beverages (courtesy of Kronenbourg) before heading to the following galleries and patios for art and drinks in the spring sunshine. Brings your friends! All welcome. Special talks provided by the gallerists and curators.

Akin Collective- Landsdowne- 87 Wade Avenue
Mercer Union
Stella
Daniel Faria Gallery
Scrap Metal
Division Gallery


Can't join the group until later? Call and see where we are at: 647-883-8295.

AKIN COLLECTIVE
www.akincollectivecom

FORGE Collaborative Workshop Series: LIVED BODY Movement + Multimedia

Wednesday, April 9: 7-10pm.
Akin Collective- 444 Dufferin St. Unit E

 Facebook Event HERE



















Using simple gestures and postures we'll choreograph creative movements that form a basis for engaging in our own practices. Based on our experience as “movers”, we will create 
collaborative multimedia works that play on the idea of the moving body in space and time to gain a deeper understanding of our owncreative processes.

Lisa Meschino has been making art for over 25 years and works with at-risk youth. Expand your
creative toolkit in this collaborative workshop for artists, writers, designers and performers.

AKIN COLLECTIVE PALS SPECIAL: Bring a member of AKIN Collectiveand get 25% off the advance ticket price by signing up together and using the code "AKINPALS". This means you can get in for $15! WOW DEALS. To receive the discount, be sure to mention the name of the Akin member and which studio they use.

ONLINE TICKETS ARE LIVE! Book your advance ticket atwww.uniiverse.com/FORGE.

Here's Lisa Meschino's description of this practice-changing workshop:

Visual art is as much an embodied practice as dance, yoga, or meditation. This workshop will explore in a collaborative way the expressive potential of movement for creating visual works of art. Through a series of guided group activities, we will examine the questions: What is the embodied experience of one’s sense of self? What does that look/feel/move like? Using simple everyday movements in the form of gesture, gait, and posture, we will choreograph sequences of creative movement. Through these movement sequences, we will gain greater awareness of how our bodies naturally move and build empathy and connection with other “movers”. These movement activities will become the basis for engaging in a creative visual process. Based on our experience as “movers”, we will create collaborative and individual visual art works (using a variety of visual art materials) that play on the idea of the embodied self or the moving body in space and time. The format will be a playful, responsive process of co-creation, easily adaptable to an individual participant’s particular interest and experience level in visual art. Given the interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to this workshop, participants can expect to gain:a deeper understanding of their own individual creative processes; the supportive benefit of shared learning and interpersonal awareness; broadening of their creative toolkit; and opportunities for social/creative networking.

LIVED BODY: MOVEMENT+MULTIMEDIA
w LISA MESCHINO
APRIL 9th 2014 | 7-10PM
444 DUFFERIN AVE – UNIT E- TORONTO
$20 online, $25 at the door

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.