CSV: CALL FOR PROPOSALS/IDEAS/ARTISTS



Call for Proposals – CSV Maker Space

CSV is looking for artists, collectives, and curators interested in promoting dialogue and experimentation about media art. Through our maker space program we are facilitating an open door opportunity to engage with our space and resources.

To apply please send the following information to pam@charlesstreetvideo.com
  1. A short proposal including:
    1. A project description,
    2. How you plan to make use of CSV space/resources,
    3. A timeline for your project (We are open to both short term and long term engagement with our space and resources).
    4. Proposals should be no more than 500 words.
  2. A bio and CV for the lead applicant(s)
  3. A budget breakdown (optional)
Applications will be considered on an ongoing basis and there is a possibility of an honorarium for successful applications. We are interested in supporting projects with a focus on media art (creation, discussion, and exploration), creating collective artistic spaces, and experimental/dialogical work. We will give preference to projects that work in and engage with our space. We encourage artists from traditionally marginalized groups to apply.

If you have questions or would like to discuss a project idea please email pam@charlesstreetvideo.com


logo

Charles Street Video
65 Bellwoods Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6J 3N4

T: 416-603-6564
F: 416-603-6567
www.charlesstreetvideo.com
csv@charlesstreetvideo.com

SPARKBOX STUDIO RESIDENCY PROGRAM




LEARN MORE HERE
Spark Box Studio’s Artist Residency Program provides live/work space to accommodate both emerging and professional printmakers, photographers, painters, illustrators and writers. Artists-in-residence have access to our professional studio and resources. The Residency Program affords artists the space and time to support the advancement of their careers and to strengthen their practice. Our program also offers a variety of career building opportunities for artists including our Emerging Artist Guide, opportunities for business workshops with local professionals and consultations with local artists and curators.
Artists-in-residence stay with us, Chrissy and Kyle, in a charming century home located just outside the town of Picton in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. Interested artists may apply to live and work at Spark Box for a duration of one weekend to 2 months.
Spark Box Studio can facilitate up to three residents at any one time. Residents receive a bedroom and a dedicated semi-private studio space.
Check out our ‘Things to know FAQ’ for additional information.
PAST RESIDENTS
We love our residency program at Spark Box Studio. It has been an extremely rewarding experience to have artists stay with us from around the world. As the months go by the roster of alumni grows and we are very proud to have hosted so many great artists. Follow this link to a list of past residents.
ARTIST RESIDENCY PRICES
We strive to offer affordable accommodations and studio spaces for resident artists.
Weekend – $120.00 + tax
One week – $330.00 + tax
Two week – $525.00 + tax
Three week – $630.00 + tax
One month – $780.00 + tax
Two months – $1,350.00 + tax
* All prices are listed in Canada dollars (CAD) 
** Ontario’s current tax percentage is 13%

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CONTACT 918: THE DARK ROOM 4.0

logo Call for Submissions:
CONTACT 918:
The Dark Room 4.0

A crowd-sourced, group exhibition celebrating
alternative process and analog photography in the digital age.

image
Randy Grskovic, Demi-Verite A, 2014

Submission Deadline: Friday March 13, 2015, 5 pm EST
Submission form and requirements available at: www.918bathurst.com

918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts Media and Education is seeking submissions for our fourth annual The Dark Room 4.0. This exhibition celebrates analogue and alternative process photography, and the intriguing work these methods produce.

Photographers using analogue and alternatives to digital photographic processes are invited to submit their work. This includes film negatives, pinhole, collodion/wet plate, silver gelatin, platinum prints, camera obscura, lomography, photograms, or other experimental uses of the wet/dark room.

The exhibition consists of two distinct components: On April 23, all accepted submissions will be displayed at Gallery 918 in a public showcase and celebration. During this event, both the public and our invited jury will select the photographs to be shown during our official two-week exhibition from May 5 – 29. Artists selected for this exhibition will be eligible for awards provided by our sponsors and partners, including Rizzoli Books.

Call for Artist Submissions Deadline: Friday March 13, 2015 by 5 pm EST

Public Preview Celebration and Voting: Thursday April 23, 12 pm – 11 pm

Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 5 – Friday, May 29

Closing Reception and Awards: Friday, May 29

Location: Gallery 918 at 918 Bathurst, Toronto, 416-538-0868

Contact Us: submissions@contact918.com

Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/918bathurst
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/918BathurstCentre
Join the conversation: contact918.com

logo

Come Up To My Room 2015 at The Gladstone Hotel : Oliver Pauk & Michael Vickers
















Akin members Oliver Pauk and Michael Vickers will be featured in the upcoming Come up To My Room event at The Gladstone Hotel.

 See below for a video interview with the two artists about their plans, along with this article about their plans at insidetoronto.com

 Come Up To My Room opens this Friday (January 16) at 7:00pm.

 For more information and tickets click HERE







AKIN WINTER GALLERY CRAWL


















AKIN WINTER GALLERY CRAWL
FEBRUARY 7, 1-6PM.

1. MEET AT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART AT 1PM.

2. HEAD TO BIRCH CONTEMPORARY

3. HEAD TO GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS

4. HEAD TO SUSAN HOBBS GALLERY

5. HEAD TO DIVISION GALLERY

6. HEAD TO OSSINGTON STREET FOR DRINKS & EATS

Please join us for a private tour of the current exhibitions at some of Toronto's best and brightest galleries and a special walk through of the Douglas Coupland exhibition at MOCCA.

xo Akin Collective

 FACEBOOK EVENT

ARTBUS:SUNDAY, JANUARY 18!

ARTbus: Exhibition tour to the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre, Blackwood Gallery and Oakville Galleries

Sunday 18 January 2015, 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 by Trafalgar Brewing Company

For reservations, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402, ext. 24 by Friday 16 January, 4:00 pm

images


Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the winter’s best exhibitions in the GTA!

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre

The winter ARTbus begins at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre with a tour of Sign, sign, everywhere a sign by guest curator Sarah Robayo Sheridan. Drawing on the Hart House and UTAC collections, this joint-venue exhibition considers how signs and symbols have been observed, adopted and altered in the work of artists from early modernity to today. Commercial graphics are an omnipresent feature of urban landscapes, whether in the proliferation of billboards and screens, the identity programs of nations and institutions, or the visual logic of window display. In response, artists have initiated their own symbolic studies and counter campaigns, progressively infiltrating signs and symbols to their own ends. Featuring work by Berenice Abbott, Carl Beam, James Carl, Ian Carr-Harris, Lynne Cohen, Robin Collyer, Greg Curnoe, Robert Fones, Robert Frank, General Idea, Hadley+Maxwell, Richard Hamilton, Jamelie Hassan, David Hlynsky, Luis Jacob, Will Kwan, Ken Lum, Kelly Mark, Ron Terada, Jeff Thomas, and John Thomson.

Blackwood Gallery

The ARTbus continues to the Blackwood Gallery for a tour of Inside by guest curator John Armstrong. Inside includes work by eight artists who use the various technologies and traditions that painting offers to engage the Blackwood Gallery’s exhibition spaces and reflect on the established genre of interior painting. Several of the artists will paint directly on the Blackwood’s walls or floor while other artists will exhibit mural-sized or more intimately scaled easel paintings. All of these artists connect painting in its many guises—from illusionistic or schematic tableau to a celebration of paint’s physical nature—with built interior spaces in order to ask us to reconsider painting’s longstanding critical and poetic engagement with the rooms we inhabit. Featuring work by Mark Bell, Pierre Dorion, Dorian FitzGerald, Sara Hartland-Rowe, Maria Hupfield, Denyse Thomasos, and Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky.

Oakville Galleries

Next, at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square and Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, visit the opening of Depth of Perception. What once seemed like a clear division between “real" and “virtual”—tangible things/bodies and spectral images/platforms—has all but broken down in recent years. The screen image—whether cinematic, digital or otherwise—has proven to be transformative, readily altering our perception of environments, objects and ourselves, while taking on a presence and palpability akin to “solid” objects. Since at least the 1960s, artists have mined the relationship between sculpture and screen to explore what Kate Mondloch describes as "objecthood and illusionism in tandem.” Depth of Perception considers how one’s vantage point on the world—and the integrity of physical, sculptural objects—have been altered by the screen’s roles as frame, window, mirror, and interface. Featuring work by Trisha Baga, Peter Campus, Alex Da Corte, Anne de Vries, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Hadley+Maxwell, Marisa Hoicka and Johnny Forever, Oliver Husain, Vishal Jugdeo, Owen Kydd, Linda Quinlan, and Judy Radul.


SCHEDULE

11:45 am: Meet outside the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery for sign-in.

12:00 pm: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery followed by UTAC. Curator’s tour of Sign, sign, everywhere a sign.

1:30 pm: Blackwood Gallery. Curator’s tour of Inside.

2:45 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit Depth of Perception.

3:30 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Visit Depth of Perception. Opening reception with refreshments.

5:00 pm: Drop-off at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.

In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company.

logo


Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto
416.978.8398
www.jmbgallery.ca

University of Toronto Art Centre
15 King's College Circle, Toronto

Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga
905.828.3789
www.blackwoodgallery.ca

Oakville Galleries
Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square: 120 Navy Street, Oakville
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens: 1306 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville
905.844.4402
www.oakvillegalleries.com

Images (left to right): Robin Collyer, Crime Scene, 2000. University of Toronto Collection, gift of the artist, 2013 © the artist; Mark Bell, Preparatory Sketch for Reverse Obsolescence (Deerfield Hall), 2014. Photo: Mark Bell; Hadley+Maxwell, …Um, 2006. Courtesy the artists and Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto. Photo: Mark Woods.

Haliburton School of The Arts- Studio Process Advancement

image



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.


logo

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


image


UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR: EMERGING ARTIST RESIDENCY


image



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


logo

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.