Lennart Maschmeyer Photography: Chris Harms, Akin Collective Part Two


 CHRIS HARMS- Akin Collective- Part 2
This is the second part of my portrait of Chris Harms of the Akin Collective, working on and finishing one of his larger-scale plexiglass sculptures.The previous post has more details about his work and his intentions.
Chris has just been invited to show his work in a solo show at Project Gallery this November.


FORGE Workshop: Grant Writing 101 with the Ontario Arts Council



FORGE IS BACK!

 FORGE: Grant Writing 101 with the Ontario Arts Council 

 September 2, 6:30pm
Ontario Arts Council- 151 Bloor Street West, 5th Floor Toronto, ON

 FREE


Writing grants is a significant part of many artist's careers- so let's how to do it properly! This interactive workshop will explore the process of planning, writing and submitting grant proposals to different governing bodies

 As a major funder themselves, the Ontario Arts Council provide clear examples of the grant writing process and the various the dos and don'ts of everything from creating your budget to organizing your support material and work plan.

 Afterwards, participants will form a 'mock jury' and look at real examples of successful (and unsuccessful) grant applications. Join us and learn how to get grants from the people that give them at their own office!

Bio:

Janice Lambrakos is Information Services Coordinator with the Ontario Arts Council.
Janice Lambrakos takes pride in having worked for the Ontario Arts Council for the past 25 years. She has provided administrative support in a number of program offices, including Community Arts, Film, Photography and Video (now Media Arts), and Literature, giving her an in-depth knowledge of many of the OAC’s granting programs. In 2000 Janice was promoted to Information Services Coordinator within OAC’s Outreach and Development section. This role has taken her to communities throughout Ontario, where she conducts information and grant application-writing sessions with individual artists. She also maintains relationships with other funders and business enterprise centres. Janice very much enjoys helping artists and arts organizations access OAC programs to support their activities. She is also a member of the OAC’s Disability Arts Committee.

AKIN COLLECTIVE OPEN STUDIO- SEPTEMBER 5























 It's time again for the annual Akin Collective Open Studio!

Join the event on FACEBOOK

Visit our studios at 87 Wade Avenue and see new work from members across all of our locations! Join in on our massive tie dye party! Grab some BBQ and cold Kronenbourgs! Booyah. 


Saturday, September 5
Akin Collective Studios- 87 Wade Avenue
1:00-6:00pm

Art work for sale! Open studios! BBQ! Drinks! Tie Dye Party!

GALLERY 44: OUTREACH


OUTREACH

2015 COMMUNITY PARTNERS  



SUPPORT THE PROGRAM HERE
+ LEARN MORE HERE
OUTREACH is our award-winning education program designed specifically for youth from underserved communities, using photography as a medium of creative self-expression. OUTREACH breaks down barriers to the arts and encourages youth to develop their creative voice and understand the power of the photographic image. Through OUTREACH, Gallery 44 works in collaboration with community organizations to offer black and white photography workshops to over 50 young people in the G.T.A. The workshops have a different thematic focus each year, which guides the youth from concept, through to production and exhibition at Gallery 44.
Every year, Gallery 44 awards two participants from our OUTREACH program, the David Barker Maltby Award in keeping with his commitment to education, community activism and documentary photography.  Award winners, nominated by instructors and selected by a committee, have excelled within the OUTREACH program.  Recipients are awarded based on their talent and commitment to continuing with their arts practice.
Through the OUTREACH program, Gallery 44 provides photography education outside of the formal school system and builds relationships with other non-profit community organizations by offering photography workshops free of charge to youth. These workshops are designed to meet the specific needs of each youth group involved, and are taught by qualified photographers who have a personal relationship with each community organization. 

Akin Collective X Drake Hotel: Gallery Crawl

Join Akin Collective for an afternoon of contemporary gallery tours, talks and beers.

The group will meet at Akin Collective: 444 Dufferin Street, Unit E at 12:00PM for

FREE Kronenbourg tall cans

before heading for special tours at the following galleries:

MOCCA

Paul Petro Contemporary

 Art

Angell Gallery

Katharine Mulherin

The Hop will end with a VIP tour of the Drake Hotel's current exhibition and permanent collection with curator Mia Nielsen.

Join us afterwards in the Drake's North Lounge. $4 Mill Street pints! Bring you friends!

All are welcome.

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



RBC Arts Access Fund

The Neighbourhood Arts Network and RBC Foundation announce an exciting new partnership and present the inaugural RBC Arts Access fund for newcomer artists. A micro award initiative offered in the spring, summer and fall.
Neighbourhood Arts Network RBC Arts Access Fund - Supporting Newcomer Artists - three deadlines per year.
The Funds will range from $500 to $1500 to support costs associated with community-engaged arts projects such as artist fees, art supplies, equipment rental, space rental and food costs for a workshop or event. 
In addition to community engaged arts projects, this fund also supports professional development, training and mentorship requests for newcomer artists looking to improve their skills in working in community.
Neighbourhood Arts Network is a strategic initiative of Toronto Arts Foundation. With over 1400 members, our online resources, partnerships and professional development events, help community engaged artists and organizations do what they do best: enrich Toronto and transform it into a more vibrant and liveable city.
INTERESTED? Here’s what you need to do.
1)   Sign up for a free Neighbourhood Arts Network membership.
Make your profile interesting, fill it with photos, links to your work, upcoming events, etc.
2)   Next deadline June 15, 2015 - Applications now open

Penelope Smart

Zachary Cummings | MIND THE GAP

There is awareness in these paintings that a great gulf exists between renderings of ancient structures as they once appeared, and their ruins that exist in the present. The expanse of time that elapses between original construction and eventual ruin is formless and empty; time constitutes a negative space.
Zachary Cummings, Double Ruins, 30" x 28", oil on glass in wood frame, 2014.
Zachary Cummings
Mind The Gap 
new glass paintings

NO FOUNDATION
1082 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON

Opening reception: Friday June 5, 6-9 PM

Gallery Hours:
Friday and Saturday 12-6 PM
Sunday 1-5 PM
or by appointment

June 5 - June 28 2015

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To see more works in the show please click here

A co-presentation by Penelope Smart & Katharine Mulherin

Exhibition text by Tony Iantosca. 
 
For all inquiries and to book an appointment please contact

Penelope Smart
647.459.5880 [Toronto]

Katharine Mulherin
info@katharinemulherin.com
416.993.6510 [Toronto]
347.406.3690 [New York]

WINIFRED SHANTZ AWARD FOR CERAMICS & RBC AWARD FOR GLASS: 10K

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$10,000 Awards for Emerging Ceramic and Glass Artists!
Are you an emerging artist? Do you want to develop your artistic practice? We have two opportunities for you!

The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery is calling for submissions to the 2015 RBC Award for Glass and Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics.

These prestigious national awards allow practising early career ceramic and glass artists to undertake a period of independent research, or other activities that advance their artistic and professional practice. The winner of each Award will receive $10,000. The selection is made by a jury comprised of respected contemporary glass and ceramic artists and other arts professionals. Winners will be celebrated and the awards presented at a gala event in Waterloo Ontario on November 14, 2015.

To be eligible for the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics or the RBC Award for Glass, artists must be Canadian citizens or have Permanent Resident status. They must have developed skills through training and/or practice in the field (not necessarily in academic institutions) and be recognized by other artists working in the same artistic tradition. Successful candidates seek payment for their work and actively practice their art. All applicants have maintained a professional practice for no more than 10 years prior to the date of application.


Application Guidelines:

To download the complete guidelines for the RBC Award for Glass or the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics, visit www.theclayandglass.ca/awards. In order to be considered, applications for either award must be received electronically by Monday, September 14, 2015.


About the Awards:

The RBC Award for Glass is supported by RBC as part of the RBC Emerging Artists Project. The Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics is supported by the Keith and Winifred Shantz Fund for the Arts, held at The Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation.

Past recipients of both awards truly represent the best of the emerging ceramic and glass artists in Canada. Christopher Reid Flock of Hamilton, Ontario was the winner of the 2014 Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics. Cheryl Wilson Smith of Red Lake, Ontario was the winner of the 2014 RBC Award for Glass.

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Contact Information:

For additional information, please contact Sheila McMath, Curator at curator@canadianclayandglass.ca

Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
Galerie canadienne de la Céramique et du Verre
25 Caroline Street North
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5
519-746-1882
www.theclayandglass.ca

Hours:
Monday to Friday 11 am to 6 pm  •  Saturday 10 am to 5 pm  •  Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm

Twitter: @CdnClayandGlass
Facebook: www.facebook.com/theclayandglass


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MINI MOCCA: FREE KIDS WORKSHOP THIS SUNDAY WITH OLIVER PAUK



Workshops are  led by professional artists and skilled arts educators 
Ages 4-12  |  Free (Suggested donation of $5)  |  Drop-in (RSVP not required)



Photo Journey: Photography on the Street with Oliver Pauk

MAY 24 @ 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Keeping in theme with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival’s month of photography, MOCCA will lead a photographic scavenger hunt in the museum and surrounding neighbourhood.
Participants will be supplied with disposable film cameras and upon completing the workshop, MOCCA will mail out the printed photos.
Workshop led by artist, Oliver Pauk.
Participants must be accompanied by a parent or guardian for the duration of the workshop.
For more information contact Michael Vickers mvickers@mocca.ca, 416-395-7436

Mini MOCCA is generously supported by
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CONTEMPORARY ART BUS TOUR
Sunday, May 24, 2015 | 12 – 5 PM | FREE

Tour starts at the Koffler Gallery (at Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street) and then departs for Blackwood Gallery and AGYU, returning to Shaw Street at 5 PM. Seating is limited.

Please RSVP by Friday, May 22, 2015 to: Sarah Munro | kofflergallery@kofflerarts.org | 647.925.0643 x 221

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KOFFLER GALLERY
Erratics
Martha Baillie | Malka Greene with Alan Resnick

April 16 – June 14, 2015 | Curator: Mona Filip

Featuring installations by Toronto author Martha Baillie and artist/curator Malka Greene with writer Alan Resnick, Erraticsexplores the tensions between memory and fiction, bringing together two archives where photography takes a central role in an attempt to uncover hidden narratives. Staged as museological displays conveying two personal stories, these collections of images, texts and records reveal both the impossibility of fully knowing the past and the effectiveness of literary imagination in grappling with history. A Featured Exhibition in the 2015 CONTACT Photography Festival.

kofflerarts.org


BLACKWOOD GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA
Sameer Farooq & Mirjam Linschooten, Artists-in-Residence

Residency: May 11 – June 14, 2015
Exhibition: June 14 – August 2, 2015

Talk with artists Sameer Farooq & Mirjam Linschooten

Artists-in-Residence Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten will talk about their exhibition in progress, which will take a step back from specific objects on display to reveal a complex space of social codes, ideological agendas, and decisions. Instead, the artists are assigning value to the places inside of the museum where an object is held: the vitrine, the plinth, the wall, the archival photograph, etc. These models of display provide a valuable glimpse into tactics of representation: the ideas and values of the exhibition’s arrangers, claims about what a cultural group is and ought to be, protocols of approaching an object, and an image of who the intended viewer is. Through a rigorous analysis of exhibition installations Farooq and Linschooten aim to observe the way knowledge is displayed, asking: What gets lost in the capture? And, Who is on display?

www.blackwoodgallery.ca


ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY (AGYU)
Rashaad Newsome: Silence Please, the Show is About to Begin
April 8 – June 14, 2015

Tour of exhibition by curator Suzanne Carte

Rashaad Newsome’s first Canadian exhibition, Silence Please, the Show is About to Begin, features recent video, performance, and collage works by this New York-based artist that explode constructions of gender, race, and class. With big, bright, and bold compositions, Newsome’s work bursts with light and colour; images drip with gold chains, diamond rings, and jewel studs. Through sampling, clashing, and choreographing the iconic works of hip-hop artists and the legendary moves of ballroom superstars with motifs from Baroque architecture, images of European heraldry, and tales from medieval poems, Newsome boldly proclaims a new vision of blackness and queerness.

www.theAGYUisOutThere.org

Image Credits: (clockwise from left) Malka Greene, His Father Over Time (installation detail – photo from the Estate of Morris Resnick), 2015; Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten, Something stolen, something blue, something borrowed and something new, 2013, courtesy of the artists; Rashaad Newsome, ICON (Video Still), 2014, courtesy of the artist & Marlborough Gallery, New York.

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Koffler Gallery
Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street, Suite 104-105
Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
647.925.0643
kofflerarts.org

Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. N.
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
905.828.3789
www.blackwoodgallery.ca

Art Gallery of York University (AGYU)
Accolade East Building
4700 Keele Street, Toronto
416.736.5169
www.theAGYUisOutThere.org

Al & Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre

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Al & Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre



at Toronto Western Hospital


The Al and Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre is a facility in the Family and Community Medicine Program at the Toronto Western Hospital offering free and often low cost healthcare options.
The Centre’s inter-professional team offers both medical and complementary care to professional creative and performing artists, and to students and staff at post-secondary arts institutions. The Centre’s mandate includes research, education, and outreach to the arts community.
The specialized expertise of our practitioners focuses on the specific health care issues and needs of artists, providing a holistic approach to health within an evidence-based framework. The knowledge acquired through the Artists’ Health Centre will benefit not only artists in the Toronto area, but also those across Canada and internationally through e-health communications and research.
The Centre includes an Acoustic Studio, and a Movement Assessment Studio with a sprung floor and video equipment to aid in diagnosis and treatment.
To book an appointment at the Artists’ Health Centre at Toronto Western Hospital, call 416 603 5263
The Al and Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre
Toronto Western Hospital, 3rd Floor, West Wing
399 Bathurst Street
Toronto, ON M5T 2S8

Penelope Smart

 Jon Claytor | WATCHERS

Our days are dull, and spent waiting for the age of affordable space travel: that time when we’ll be able to reach out and rub the galaxy.
Jon Claytor, The Night Watch, 66" x 83", acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 2014.
Jon Claytor
Watchers
new large-scale paintings
on view in Toronto as part of special travelling exhibition

87 Wade Avenue
#302
Toronto, ON
(access via main entrance)

Thursday, May 21 

11 AM - 4 PM
preview, by appointment please

5:30 PM - late
public opening 

performances and readings by:
Cappa Chow
Michael Feuerstack 
Erin Orsztynova
Ian Roy
and others

Friday May 22
viewing available, by appointment please

Print catalog available including exhibition text by Lindsay Bird.

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To see more works in the show please click here



 
For all inquiries and to book an appointment please contact Penelope Smart
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