Haliburton School of The Arts- Studio Process Advancement

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Studio Process Advancement
Graduate Certificate Program – starts in May at Haliburton School of The Arts

Is this you?
You are a working artist seeking an opportunity to focus exclusively on your work to re-invigorate your existing practice and challenge yourself intellectually.

You have a fine arts degree or arts diploma and you are looking for a creative and supportive environment to explore your talent and start your own studio practice.

Our intensive Studio Process Advancement program is designed with you in mind.

Spend the summer creating art at Fleming College’s Haliburton School of The Arts, renowned for offering innovative arts programming for over six decades. Apply now for classes starting May, 2015


Program Highlights:

  • During this four-month program, you will develop and complete one or more considered bodies of work
  • The program is not medium – specific and you may work on a number of different materials conducive to a shared studio space
  • Through individual and group critiques, guest lectures, exhibitions and gallery visits, you will be supported in the development of your work, portfolios, documents and submission processes for grants, exhibition preparation and applications to other institutions for advanced study programs
  • Present your work during an artist talk, along with a set of artist documents and a final portfolio
  • Learn from faculty who are professional artists in a dedicated, fully-equipped studio space

Minimum Admission Requirements:

A related Ontario College Diploma, or related Ontario College Advanced Diploma or a related undergraduate or graduate university degree. Artists with established practices and professionals with equivalent and related work experience will also be considered for admission on an individual basis. Successful completion of the selection process which will include both an interview and portfolio discussion.


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hsta.ca for more information
or contact program coordinator, Lisa Binnie lisa.binnie@flemingcollege.ca  |  1-866-353-6464 ext. 3


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UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR: EMERGING ARTIST RESIDENCY


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Call for Submissions: Emerging Artist Research Residency 2015

The University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts offers a one-month Emerging Artist Research Residency. This program is an opportunity for emerging artists to: cultivate new ideas through research and production, access the school’s resources and facilities, and explore arts and culture in the border regions of Windsor/ Detroit.

Resources available include; Sculpture Studio and equipment, Multi media, Woodshop, and much more. Each resident artist will present their work in the form of a public lecture for the Artist-In-Residence Speaker Series at the University of Windsor.

Application Deadline: January 15, 2015 (post marked).
2015 residency program dates: May 1- 29, 2015

Submission Materials and Guidelines:
  • C.V.
  • Artist Statement (1 page max)
  • Residency Intent (1 page max)
  • 10 Images on CD, Mac compatible (768 x 1024 dpi)
  • Image list
Residency program fee is $350. All applications will be considered. Individual application feedback will not be provided. Please note that the residency program does not include accommodation, although the Program Coordinator can assist with information.

Please send all application materials to:

Residency Program Coordinator
School of Creative Arts
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Ave
Windsor ON, N9B 3P4

For more information please contact: lucy@uwindsor.ca


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AKIN HOLIDAY OPEN STUDIO & MARKET- DECEMBER 13





















Happy Holidays!

Join AKIN Collective for our annual open studio, holiday sale and festive bash!

A seasonal showcase of recent work by members of the Akin Collective studios along with our annual holiday market/sale and general joyousness.

Mulled wine, ice cold brews and holiday treats to get you in the festive spirit and plenty of them.

Bring friends, family, strangers and your festive game face.

December 13, 12:00pm-5:00pm
Akin Landsdowne Studio, 87 Wade Avenue, Toronto.

F/B Event

Akin Collective Crit #28 at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art- Thursday November 27
















For the November edition of our monthly open art critique, AKIN Collective has been invited by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) and iconic Canadian artist Vera Frenkel to host Akin Crit 28 in the Transit Bar at the museum.
F/B Event

Thursday, November 27. 6:30-9:00pm.
MOCCA
952 Queen Street West.

Bring your work in progress, your friends, your ideas and your thinking cap. And snacks.

$5 drinks available at the bar all night long

Images from Akin's residency at The Drake Hotel

From Oct 4-16 2014, Akin Collective held residency in The Drake Hotel's Lab space.

Over the course of 12 days in the storefront space, Akin Collective invited past and present members to create new site-specific work in the The Drake's space.
Each day a new artist adopted the space as their studio and created work that not only built off of the works that came before them, but continued to explore the overarching theme of what constitutes a studio, what it means to have a shared working space, and how labour differs in different settings.

 These images were taken on the last day of the residency. Please see The Drake's website here for more details. Photographs taken by Jeff Rogers.













 

COCO GUZMAN OPEN STUDIO/ STUDIO SALE

COCO GUZMAN:OPEN STUDIO / STUDIO SALE

 

November 16th, 2014 from 2-4pm

 

#101, 87 Wade Avenue, Toronto

 

Walking in an art studio is entering the space where it all takes place: pencils get sharpened, inspiration may struck/die and papers either become wonderful wrinkly balls in the recycling bin, or acclaimed framed drawings. The studio is the space of the process, and it breaths that magical quality of potentiality. Coco is opening the doors of the studio for you.
For the first ever Open Studio, Coco will be showing a selection of earliest works and most recent pieces that have never been exhibited before in Toronto. All these drawings are original, unique and for sale. 

If you enjoy playing, there will also be 5 surprise drawings that will be covered (you bid without knowing the drawing) and auctioned! You discover the drawings at the end, when the auction is over. This is your opportunity to play, have fun and take a masterpiece home.
If you like some of Coco's drawings from Los Fantasmas, there will be limited-edition signed prints of some of them.
If what you want is to commission Coco for a drawing, mural, installation, feel free to ask in person or make an appointment.

AND ALSO:
Documentary filmmaker Serene Husni will be launching her film on Coco Riot’s sculptural process The Making of The Demonstration. Serene is a documentary filmmaker based in Toronto who holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University. Her directorial debut Zinco won the Audience Award for Best Documentary from the Franco-Arab Film Festival in 2013. She is one of the co-founders of Aramram.com, an Arabic speaking web television based in Amman. She is preoccupied with design, displacement and urban cultures. 
Herbalist Salma will be concocting a special beverage using herbs from her garden. Salma is a Syrian feminist, residing in Canada. When she isn't studying Herbal Medicine or Bookkeeping, she enjoys creating beverages and sharing them with friends.
As an artist using mainly drawing as a medium, Coco Riot work aims to tell stories, specially those that are not revealed to the eye but live within our everyday reality. These stories often reveal themselves in the words that are not pronounced or in the habits whose roots are unknown.
Coco explores secrecy, silence and how drawing may become a tool for revealing, and therefore, making the audience and the artist aware. Revealing, but without revealing too much… just enough to make it an interesting mysterious story where gaps are filled by each of us and secrecy remains at the heart of the piece.
Coco is committed to an art that is sensitive and critical, that plays with different layers of complexity, but remains accessible and open to all audiences. Coco's art pieces are playful and apparently simple, but they always contain different layers of meaning and references, which is a way for me to enable a multiplicity of readings and conversations with the audience.

Coco is the author of Llueven Queers, the first Spanish graphic novel on queer life. Genderpoo, one of Coco’s installations, has been shown and used by activist in South America, Europe, USA and Canada. Los Fantasmas, a 16m mural reflecting on contemporary Spanish silenced histories, will be showing soon in art galleries in Toronto and Montreal. Coco’s drawing have been published in activist magazines (Shameless, Bitch, Pikara) as well as in contemporary art magazines (HB, Art Actuel, .dpi). Coco’s murals and installations can be found in museums, community centres, schools, and events spaces.
Desnudo Rojo
52 cm x 25 cm
Acrylic marker and pencil on paper
Toronto 2014
Minotaura,
10cm x 5cm
Ink and Acrylic on paper
Montreal 2014

AKIN COLLECTIVE FALL GALLERY CRAWL
















 JOIN ON FACEBOOK

 AKIN FALL GALLERY CRAWL TIME

1. Come to Akin Collective Studio Unit 101, and enjoy some cold, free Kronenbourgs and some snacks at 1pm on Saturday, November 1st. 

2. HEAD TO SCRAP METAL GALLERY
3. HEAD TO DANIEL FARIA GALLERY
4. HEAD TO CLINT ROENISCH GALLERY
5. HEAD TO DIVISION GALLERY

Please join us for a private tour of the current exhibitions at some of Toronto's best and brightest galleries.

Yes, your friends can come along.

xo Akin Collective

ps. Yes, you can keep your Halloween costume on from the night before.

Gladstone Hotel: Call for Submissions

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CALL for SUBMISSIONS & NUIT BLANCHE AT THE GLADSTONE

GLADSTONE GROW OP 2015 / culture of landscape
16-26 April, 2015. The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Application Deadline: 5pm on Friday 17 October, 2014


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Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Gladstone Grow Op, a ten day exhibition celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape, gardens, art and place making under the theme: culture of landscape. Grow Op 2015 will facilitate a cross-disciplinary forum across a broad range of creative practices within the vibrant setting of Toronto’s West Queen West neighbourhood.

Grow Op 2015 seeks proposals from across North America ranging from horticultural initiatives to experimental and innovative landscape, art and community engagement projects. We seek proposals from individuals and/or new and existing collectives whose work engages with landscape, place and/or the natural world with the ultimate goal of creating an immersive exhibition that is both provocative and boundary pushing. Grow Op 2015 offers an exciting venue to engage a large audience in a dialogue about the qualities and meaning behind the designed landscape both in the private garden and in our civic spaces.

Grow Op explores new territories and seeks to uncover new ways of expression and meaning through proposals that represent a wide range of approaches from the prosaic to the poetic, the elemental to the ephemeral. The use of plant material is not a specific requirement. Submissions are encouraged from a wide variety of creative practitioners including the following: visual artists, fabricators, craftspeople, planners, historians, arborists, agriculturalists, landscape architects, cooks, ecologists, botanists, performance artists, musicians, filmmakers, scientists, sound artists, gardeners, writers, poets, designers, architects and enthusiastic urbanists. To find out more visit our website.

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NUIT BLANCHE AND 125TH BIRTHDAY!
September 5 to October 5, 12-5 daily, Second Floor Gallery
Plaque Presentation & Public Reception Sept 25, 7-9pm
Nuit Blanche Oct 4th Open All Night Long!

The Gladstone is celebrating 125 years this fall with an exhibition that reflects on the past and invites the public to contribute to the Hotel’s story, while inviting artists to propose the future. On September 25th, join us for an unveiling of our new historic plaque and join us as we look back on moments from the past 125 Years. On October 4th, for Nuit Blanche, artists take over the second floor with their propositional pieces for the space and help us interpret the future An international roster of artists who have made work that accentuate the magical qualities of the hotel, calling on the alchemy its site and recalling tales of its past.

In the BALLROOM: Sing Like No One’s Watching. Join Shameless Karaoke host Wil McLean for a special extended group sing-along karaoke. The words are on the big screen for everybody, so grab a hair brush on your way in and belt it out. Throughout the night we’ll also throw down some DJ sets if the room wants to dance. Extended liquor license means we’re serving & partying until 4am.

Nuit Blanche Featured Artists: Abstractus Collective, Adam Bialo, Andrew Choptiany, Apollonia Vanova, Ivan Buenader & Mary Dyja

Special Nuit Talk September 30, 6:30pm, Gladstone Ballroom
Walking Between Worlds - Navigating Issues of Migration and Exchange. Join A Walk Among Worlds artist Maximo Gonzalez and Stolen Portraits artist Ivan Buenader in discussion with Francisco Alvarez as they share insights on their practice.

About the Gladstone Hotel
The Gladstone Hotel is Toronto’s oldest continually operating hotel. In fact, this year, we’ll be turning 125 years young! Identifying as an art hotel since 2005, when local artists came together to transform our original 19th century hotel rooms into 37 unique rooms, and more like a gallery that never sleeps, we provide access to locally-made works 365 days per year. Our exhibitions and cultural programs host hundreds of artists, designers, craftspeople, musicians, performances, literary projects and social change events which illustrate Jane Jacobs’ assertion that ‘Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.’

Contact: Britt Welter-Nolan, MD Artistic Projects
britt@gladstonehotel.com
Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St West
Toronto, ON, Canada M6J1J6
gladstonehotel.com
416-531-4635

Workshop Series: The Story of the Lost Expedition- Paid to Participate!


The Story Of The Lost Expedition



6 Tuesday night workshops from Oct 07 thru Nov 11 / 2014

"When The Lost Expedition met they sat in a circle of twelve seats, one of which was always empty"
These workshops focus on using Story as a way to talk about something that can’t be talked about, to refer to something that can’t be seen directly, to bring unknowns (even unknowable unknowns) into relationship together. When used this way Story can become a framework to facilitate a change in consciousness for an individual within a group and, more importantly, to facilitate a change in consciousness for the group-as-a- whole. Participants in the workshops will be encouraged to take on a role within the story and to let the story evolve and inform their investigation.

Allen Morgan and En Burk have been working with the story of The Lost Expedition since 1986, with many other artists taking part over the years. Recently this work has taken on the form of a mandala. These workshops will take place within this mandala landscape.

Working with story can be particularly useful for artists of all persuasions. In order to take on a role in the story and sit on one of the seats in the circle of twelve, it is necessary for workshop participants to remember and then encourage a relationship with the unknown (and perhaps even unknowable) source that lies at the heart of their own personal work. Finding new ways to express and act within such a relationship is a primary concern for all artists.

There is a somewhat unusual fee schedule for the 6 workshops: $30 to be paid by participants before or at the first workshop. After they complete the second workshop $20 will be paid to participants at each subsequent workshop they attend. There are only 10 spaces available for these workshops.

For more info contact:



ART BUS: September 14!

ARTbus: Exhibition tour to the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Art Gallery of Mississauga and Oakville Galleries

Sunday 14 September 2014, 12:00 pm–5:00 pm
Pick-up and drop-off at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto)
$10 donation includes admission to all galleries and afternoon refreshments

For reservations, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402 ext. 27 by Friday 12 September, 4:00 pm.

Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the best fall exhibitions in the GTA!

Our fall ARTbus begins at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery with a tour of Why Can't Minimal by curator John G. Hampton. The ARTbus continues on to the Art Gallery of Mississauga for a tour of The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989. Lastly, at Oakville Galleries participants will visit Shary Boyle & Emily Vey Duke: The Illuminations Project and Aleesa Cohene: I Know You Know. For more information, please visit www.oakvillegalleries.com.

In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company and Whole Foods Market, Oakville



Canadian Art Review: Sunday Drive

An amazing review of Sunday Drive in Canadian Art can be found HERE

Well done Akin Collective members Tania Thompson, Oliver Pauk and Michael Vickers.






















For her Sunday Drive project, artist Hazel Meyer has turned the Cow Palace—the site of Warkworth’s Agricultural Fair—into an after-hours sports club for Muscle Panic, a rogue girl’s basketball team in need of a space in which to train, scheme, and otherwise spend time together, often at night. Photo: Sunday Drive Art Projects. - See more at: http://www.canadianart.ca/reviews/2014/08/28/sunday-drive-warkworth/#sthash.3V6rDwdi.dpuf

Colouring Book




Akin Collective is a shared art studio with locations in Parkdale and Bloordale Village that provide creative space to over 100 creative individuals. This publication contains 63 original works by Akin members as well as our nearest and dearest including contributions by significant members of the Toronto arts community including Scott Everingham, Georgia Dickie, VSVSVS, Alex McLeod, Jeremy Bailey & Kristen Schaffer, Melissa Fisher, Hanna Hur and more.
Each unique piece is reflective of the artist’s personal style, regardless of their usual medium or practice and each book itself is an original risograph edition. The book is yours to use as you please and we hope that you enjoy melding your own vision with theirs.

Colouring Book: A Project by Akin Collective is currently available at:

Articulations
Art Metropole - online purchase link
MOCCA - online purchase link
Likely General
Type Books - Queen West location


Scott Everingham, Dampland, scotteveringham.com


Alex McLeod, Skull Forest, alxclub.com


Stephanie Flowers, Echo, stephanieflowersart.blogspot.com


Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you be interested in a copy. Email us at akincollective@gmail.com or call Oliver at 416 823 2053.

SUNDAY DRIVE

WWW.SUNDAYDRIVE.ORG

ROAD TRIP WITH AKIN!
 

We are absolutely thrilled to be presenting a new large scale outdoor installation with Sunday Drive Art Projects. Join us on opening night as Akin Collective brings contemporary art to the small town of Warkworth, Ontario for this 16 day festival alongside Mercer Union, InterAccess, FADO Performance Art Centre, The Gladstone Hotel and many others from August 23- September 7.


NEED A RIDE? NO PROBLEM!
 

Take the Sunday Drive Express with Akin Collective - It's an easy way to get to the show and back and have a load of fun doing it. The Sunday Drive Express will leave Toronto's west end near Lansdowne subway station, from 87 Wade Avenue, at 4pm and return by midnight. $25 gets you a ride there and back for the opening party on August 23rd and includes beer, snacks and artistic surprises. If you do the math it all adds up to the best Saturday night you've had in a long time and a great deal.

Buy tickets here! http://www.uniiverse.com/sundaydriveart

Save 20%! Get discounted tickets by entering the code SUNDAYFRIEND when making your purchase.



WHERE IS WARKWORTH?


Warkworth is a quaint, beautiful, inspiring little town about 1.5 hours outside of Toronto that will be transformed by the work of artists chosen by artist run centres, collectives and alternative exhibitors that you'd never normally see outside of the city.


Facebook invite.


Just let us know if you have any questions: michael@akincollective.com and learn more about this amazing event at www.sundaydrive.org

#sundaydriveart #warkworth #artinunexpectedplaces

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: G44: NS

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Image: PH15, Buenos Aires, Argentina

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
NS (NORTH-SUR NORTE-SOUTH)
An online photographic pen-pal project commissioned by
Toronto 2015 Panamania

Take part in the 2015 Pan American/Parapan American Games!

Deadline: September 5, 2014

gallery44.org/nsphotoexchange


In celebration of the TORONTO 2015 PanAm/Parapan Am Games, Gallery 44 is inviting Toronto-based artists to participate in a six-month, online interactive exchange with artists in Buenos Aires. Artists from Toronto and Buenos Aires will create photo-based projects exploring connections between and within different locations that are oceans apart. The new works created will be exhibited at:
  • Gallery 44 in Toronto (July 10 - 25, 2015)
  • A community centre in Buenos Aires (location & dates to be determined)
  • Public locations throughout the GTA during the PanAm/Parapan Am Games (July - August 2015)
Through this project, artists will work together to create images that explore local culture/s in the age of globalism. This project encourages artists to consider the following questions:
  • How does the reality of the global era impact our daily lives locally?
  • In a time marked by rapid communication, how can we effectively know and connect to other parts of the world?
  • What does it mean to belong to a place or many places?
  • What is the legacy we wish to share with future generations?
The international partners will participate in online group discussions, video conferencing sessions, and independent online communication using a web-platform and other public social networking tools. Online communication will be at the core of the process.

NS is a collaborative and multi-platform project with partners Gallery 44 (Toronto), PH15 (Buenos Aires) and OCADU (Toronto). NS is funded by the Toronto 2015 Panamania Commission Fund, and other sponsors.



ELIGIBILITY
Toronto–based youth and artists with an interest in international collaboration, cross cultural exchange, and photography as a tool of social activism and community engagement.
  • Artists of all ages, and at all stages of their careers with an interest in participating in an international project. We highly encourage applications from artists with previous experience in collaborative art making.
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  • Youth (18-26) at the early stages of their artistic exploration with some experience in photography and an interest in international exchange.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Please apply online at www.gallery44.org/nsform

Submit:
  • 10-12 images of recent and relevant work. If you have participated in collaborative art projects previously, we recommend that you include this in your support material. Images must be submitted as jpgs. Max. 2 MB per image.
  • Image list and description (title, medium, dimensions in inches, year, and brief description of work) in PDF or DOC format.
  • A statement of intent including your interest in international collaboration, socially engaged art practices, photography as a tool for social change, advocacy and/or communication. Please describe your art practice OR include a statement outlining your interest in the project, in photography, and in international collaboration. (500 words maximum)
  • A curriculum vitae, resume, biography, or list of relevant experiences, in PDF or DOC format.
If you have any questions about the project or this call, please email ns@gallery44.org.


ABOUT G44
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to photography as a multi-faceted and ever-changing art form. Founded in 1979 to establish a supportive environment for the development of photography, Gallery 44’s mandate is to provide a context for reflection and dialogue on contemporary photography and its related practices. Gallery 44 offers exhibition and publication opportunities to national and international artists, award-winning education programs, and affordable production facilities for artists. Through its programs, Gallery 44 is engaged in changing conceptions of the photographic image and its modes of production.

ABOUT PH15
Ph15 is a non-profit organization, which aims to use photography to develop expressive, communicative, and technical skills in children and youth who live in vulnerable situations with the intent to stimulate social integration and the socialization of the artistic experience.

ABOUT OCAD University
OCAD University (Ontario College of Art & Design), located in Canada’s largest urban centre, offers a full complement of Art and Design programs, as well as focused Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, leading to BFA, BDES and BA degrees. Cross-disciplinary practices are key to OCADU’s environment and the International Collaboration Studio, initiated in the Photography program in 2010, embodies this philosophy, attracting students interested in international and collaborative experiences, in cultural exchange and online communication. The local and global are inextricably linked in today’s world and with OCADU’s commitment to exploring digital culture and its relationship to contemporary art, the Faculty of Art hopes to create direct experiences for students and forge ongoing networks of creative individuals.

North-Sur Norte-South is part of PANAMANIA, presented by CIBC. North-Sur Norte-South was commissioned by the Arts and Culture Program of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games.