Thesis Award Show
Super excited about this new opportunity with Articulations & Graven Feather. Please have a read below.
Ceramics
Location: 444 Dufferin St., Unit E (just north of the bus shelter)
Regularly Scheduled Firings: Every weekend!
Drop off: Thursdays, 5:00-8:00pm
Pick up: Sundays, 5:00-8:00pm
Kiln Specifications: Cone Art Electric Kiln, 10 Cubic Feet, (28” wide x 27” deep)
To Schedule: Please email ceramics@akincollective.com and specify amount of space required, type of clay body, brand of glaze used and firing temperature.
*Please note that the Akin kiln is available for additional firings outside of this schedule (extra charges may apply)*
Pricing:
$10 Half Shelf (26” diameter 1/2 circle, 8” max height) or $8 Half Shelf with additional kiln space.
$15 Full Shelf (26” diameter full circle, 8” max height)
$55 Full Kiln (26” diameter max, 25” maximum height)
StreetARToronto 2016 Program Information Session
The City of Toronto's StreetARToronto (StART) program is embarking on its 5th year! StART is a proactive program that aims to support, and increase awareness of street art throughout the city. StART's mission is to see Toronto as a 'living work of art' by creating partnerships (between the City, residents, businesses, and the creative community), reducing graffiti vandalism, encouraging civic discussion about public art, using art to foster place making, and providing grants, materials, and mentorship opportunities.
StART will be holding the following 4 information sessions highlighting what to expect for this year's programs (updated guidelines, deadlines, etc.):
Downtown Toronto
Monday, January 18, 2016 from 3:30-6 pm
Location: The Drake Hotel (1150 Queen St West, Toronto, ON M6J 1J3)
Scarborough
Monday, January 25, 2016 from 4-6 pm
Location: Y+ contemporary (1345 Morningside Ave, Unit 15, Toronto ON M1B 5K3)
Etobicoke
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 from 3-5 pm
Location: Arts Etobicoke (4893A Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M9A 1B5)
North York
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 from 3-5 pm
Location: Toronto Centre for the Arts (5040 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M2N 6R8)
If you are an artist or non-profit arts/community organization interested in creating street art projects in the city, this is the time to learn more! Help spread the word and get involved in StART's exciting 2016 opportunities!
Please RSVP to an information session (specifying the session you will be attending) by email to streetart@toronto.ca
More information about StART is available at:
www.toronto.ca/streetart
Simon Zsolt Jozsef
“When I’m sculpting, a casual onlooker probably thinks I’m massaging or dancing with my clay. If somebody watches me during sculpturing he or she says it looks like massage or a dance with clay. When I teach movement or I do movement, I feel like sculpturing with the space around me. I don’t want to catch the forms but the process of forming. Not the fruit or the flower, which are always changing and growing but the growth and change itself, which will form the material.” – Simon Zsolt Jozsef
More info and images HERE
More info and images HERE
ARTbus: Exhibition tour to Mercer Union, the Blackwood Gallery and Oakville Galleries- JANUARY 17
Sunday 17 January 2016, 12:00 pm–5:00 pm
Pick-up and drop-off at Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto)
$10 donation includes admission to all galleries and afternoon refreshments by Trafalgar Brewing Company and Whole Foods Market, Oakville
For reservations, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402, ext. 24 by Friday 15 January, 4:00 pm
Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the winter’s best exhibitions in the GTA!
Mercer Union
The winter ARTbus begins at Mercer Union with Liz Magic Laser: Kiss and Cry. The exhibition presents a new video work commissioned by Mercer Union with leading support from Partners in Art. This is Laser’s first solo exhibition in Canada. Laser works across performance, video and installation. Emerging from an interest in movement and the body, her work explores the processes instrumental in forming opinion, engaging with the mechanisms of how we perform and how we are performed to through multiple modalities. She stages situations, dialogues, monologues or plays and uses the urban environment and its population as the context for her work.
Blackwood Gallery
At Blackwood Gallery, visit Maryam Jafri: The Day After. The exhibition takes root in the artist’s ongoing project Independence Day 1934-1975 (2009–present), an installation composed of photographs taken on the first independence day in former European colonies across Asia and Africa, between 1934 and 1975. Images are juxtaposed according to a broken grid around categories of events, emphasizing the generic character of the rituals and ceremonies that took place during that 24-hour twilight period when a territory transforms into a nation-state. The Day After takes this rare "collection of collections" as a starting point to question various artistic, historical, and political issues arising from these images and their historical and institutional backgrounds. The Day After was conceived by Bétonsalon - Centre for art and research, Paris, France and co-produced by Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain.
Oakville Galleries
Next, at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, visit the opening of The Green of Her. The exhibition features works that map out landscapes in unlikely sources—a fur muff, a floral carpet, the folds of a napkin—and imagine what new forms of life could be hiding within them. Like Loch Ness as described in Patricia Lockwood's “Nessie Wants to Watch Herself Doing It"—the poem from which the exhibition takes its name—these strange environments sustain their creatures, isolate them, and depend on them in turn, proposing new ways of understanding how we relate to the worlds we inhabit. The Green of Her is drawn from the permanent collection of Oakville Galleries.
Finally, at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens visit the opening of Sky Glabush: What Is a Self?, curated by Jon Davies. Glabush draws on a wide variety of practices—including painting, drawing and sculpture—to work through pressing questions of identity, history, faith, and the role of the artist. Charting a broad path through varying forms, materials and styles, Glabush's practice is anchored in ideas of autobiography, modernism and metaphysics. ForWhat Is a Self?, Glabush presents new mixed-media sculptures and dyed weavings. With each gallery in the show conceived as a distinct vignette juxtaposing the artist's 2D and 3D works, What Is a Self? explores architecture as a structure capable of ordering the self in all its manifestations.
SCHEDULE
12:00 pm: Mercer Union. Visit Liz Magic Laser: Kiss and Cry.
1:30 pm: Blackwood Gallery. Visit Maryam Jafri: The Day After.
2:30 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit opening of The Green of Her.
3:30 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Visit Sky Glabush: What is a Self?. Opening reception with refreshments.
5:00 pm: Drop-off at Mercer Union.
In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company and Whole Foods Market, Oakville
Mercer Union
1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto
416.536.1519
www.mercerunion.org
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 (clockwise from top left): Liz Magic Laser, Kiss and Cry (video still), 2015, single-channel video. Featuring figure skaters Anna MacKenzie and Axel MacKenzie and coach Marie Jonsson MacKenzie; Maryam Jafri,Independence Day 1934-1975 (detail), 2009–present. Installation photo at Bétonsalon, 2015. Photo: Aurelien Mole; Wendy Coburn, The Divers (detail), 2006, fur muff, figurines and plastic. Collection of Oakville Galleries; Sky Glabush, Local Colour, 2015. Cotton weaving stained with acrylic and ink. Courtesy of the artist and MKG127, Toronto.
Arts & Business Management
FORGE: Arts & Business Management Workshop
January 14, 6:30- 9:00pm.
Committee Room 2, Toronto City Hall- 100 Queen Street West
Tickets: $10 (To cover presenter fee)
Purchase tickets here:
In this workshop, Ben Benedict (Benedict Creative Communications) will provide guidance on art career management and operating a small business. Topics for discussion will include effective marketing, sourcing private and public funding, exhibition opportunities, proper artist fee payments, effective tax and bookkeeping methods and professionally documenting your artwork and accomplishments.
Following the presentation, there will be a Q&A and group discussion.
The session will be divided into the following sections:
-Artist Marketing and Publicity (Print, Social media, online, networking)
-Exhibition Opportunities (OAAG, Artist Run Centres, Venues, Commercial Galleries)
-Getting Paid/Funding (CARFAC Fees, Copyright, Grant applications)
-Business Structure & Bookkeeping (Income Tax, Federal/Provincial Sales Tax, Insurance, Bookkeeping)
-Curriculum Vitae (Documenting your artwork and career).
Bio: Ben Benedict of Benedict Creative Communications is recognized as one of Ontario’s leading culture workers as a writer/editor; visual artists/curator; public relations and corporate communications professional and educator; and a sought out public speaker on The Business of the Arts, with the most recent presentation being Marketing 2.0 as part of a CARFAC: Webinar Series for Visual Artists across Canada in October 2014
This workshop is made possible by the support of the Ontario Arts Council.
Akin Ceramics!
Check out the new "Akin Ceramics" tab at the top of the page ^^ for info on our studio kiln. This service is open to the public, feel free to email ceramics@akincollective.com for more info.
AKIN CERAMICS
Regularly Scheduled Firings: Every weekend!
Drop off: Thursdays
5:00-8:00pm
Pick up: Sundays
5:00-8:00pm
Kiln
Specifications: Cone Art Electric
Kiln
, 10 Cubic Feet, (28” wide x 27” deep)
Please email
to schedule your firing and specify amount of space required, type of clay body, brand of glaze used and firing temperature.
*Please note that the Akin
kiln
is available for additional firings outside of this schedule (extra charges may apply)*
Pricing
$10 Half Shelf (26” diameter 1/2 circle, 8” max height) or $8 Half Shelf with additional kiln space.
$15 Full Shelf (26” diameter full circle, 8” max height)
$55 Full Kiln (26” diameter max, 25” maximum height)
Kiln
(26” diameter max, 25” maximum height)
AKIN COLLECTIVE- DUPONT STUDIO LAUNCH PARTY
AKIN Collective is thrilled to announce its expansion into the Lower Junction neighbourhood with the opening of three new artist studios as an anchor tenant of the new mixed-use building at 1485 Dupont Street.
Member Exhibition Opening + Booze + DJ + Partying in industrial building.
Saturday, November 28: 6:00pm- Late.
1485 Dupont Street, Studios 204, 205 & 206
Come celebrate with us and check out the three new studios!
ps. Looking for studio space? info@akincollective.com
No Flyers Please
AKIN has started a new project called No Flyers Please. We're sick of cleaning up flyers that we never use but, that get dumped everyday on our doorsteps. So... we thought we'd get 12 000 static cling vinyl No Flyers flyers designed by our dear Nicole Tarasick and printed by our also dear Casey (both former Akin members) at Lithocolor Services. These pieces of thin vinyl and their cardboard backings were themselves headed for the garbage can as they were excess material from another printing job, but Casey managed to salvage them. By the magic of static cling they stick to any flat surface... So they're now visible on many peoples' mailboxes around our city so that they can avoid having flyers dumped on their doorsteps. Here are some examples:
Here is the design by Nicole Tarasick that's been printed on all 12 000 of our No Flyers Please clings.
If you like our idea and would like to help you can:
a] click on the image above, print it and put it on your mailbox or front door,
b] get in touch with us and we can send you clings,
or...
even better
c] get in touch with us and help us distribute these No Flyers Flyers around the city.
Thanks,
AKIN Collective
Here is the design by Nicole Tarasick that's been printed on all 12 000 of our No Flyers Please clings.
If you like our idea and would like to help you can:a] click on the image above, print it and put it on your mailbox or front door,
b] get in touch with us and we can send you clings,
or...
even better
c] get in touch with us and help us distribute these No Flyers Flyers around the city.
Thanks,
AKIN Collective
CAMILLE HENROT
We're still a bit obsessed with Camille Henrot's Gross Fatigue- she opens a new exhibition this evening at Metro Pictures.
Recent work from Camille below:
Recent work from Camille below:
CHRIS HARMS: "RISE IN FALL" AT PROJECT GALLERY OPENS NOVEMBER 12.
Project Gallery Studios presents: “Rise in Fall” – An Exhibition of New Sculptural Works
OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday November 12, 2015 from 6-10pm at Project Gallery Studios (184 Munro Street*)
OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday November 12, 2015 from 6-10pm at Project Gallery Studios (184 Munro Street*)
EXHIBITION DATES:
November. 12 – December 2, 2015
Facebook Event
Chris Harms’ artwork explores the relationship between our city’s constant state of construction and its citizens. Creating vibrant and elegant sculptures with plexiglass that resemble earth-moving excavators, Harms invites the viewer to enjoy the unique reflections, surfaces, and layering his works produce while considering the transformative time between what was and what is to come. Harnessing light and colour, Harms’ work is intended to build a feeling of expansion and possibility, and functions as an exploration of space and physicality through refined aesthetic sensibilities.
Chris Harms is a self taught artist living and working in Toronto.
www.chris-harms.com
*Project Gallery Studios is located at 184 Munro St, and accessible through the back entrance at the southeast corner of Blackburn St. and Mount Stephens St. The studio exhibition space is open for receptions and by appointment only.
November. 12 – December 2, 2015
Facebook Event
Chris Harms’ artwork explores the relationship between our city’s constant state of construction and its citizens. Creating vibrant and elegant sculptures with plexiglass that resemble earth-moving excavators, Harms invites the viewer to enjoy the unique reflections, surfaces, and layering his works produce while considering the transformative time between what was and what is to come. Harnessing light and colour, Harms’ work is intended to build a feeling of expansion and possibility, and functions as an exploration of space and physicality through refined aesthetic sensibilities.
Chris Harms is a self taught artist living and working in Toronto.
www.chris-harms.com
*Project Gallery Studios is located at 184 Munro St, and accessible through the back entrance at the southeast corner of Blackburn St. and Mount Stephens St. The studio exhibition space is open for receptions and by appointment only.
Akin Collective photographed by Lennart Maschmeyer
As part of an ongoing project photographer Lenart Maschmeyer has been (and will continue to) photograph some of the amazing members of Akin Collective and the spaces they work in.
See more of the series HERE and a few of the amazing shots so far below:
Stay tuned for more updates!
See more of the series HERE and a few of the amazing shots so far below:
Stay tuned for more updates!
FORGE: Artist's Health: Stress, Self Care and Studio Safety
A huge thank you to everyone that attended our FORGE workshop on Artist's Health: Stress, Self Care and Studio Safety at the Al and Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre (AHC) at Toronto Western Hospital.
Akin Collective gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council.
Follow Akin Collective on Facebook to stay up to date on future workshops!
Akin Collective gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council.
Follow Akin Collective on Facebook to stay up to date on future workshops!
AKIN FALL GALLERY CRAWL- THANK YOU!
A huge thank you to everyone that attended the gallery crawl on Saturday and to COOPER COLE, Angell Gallery and ESP for showing us their new gallery spaces and current exhibitions.
Please see photos below and follow AKIN Collective for upcoming programming news!
The Story of The Lost Expedition- Workshop
The Story Of The Lost Expedition
6
consecutive Wed night workshops from Oct 28 thru Dec 02/ 2015
"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 investigation
has taken on the form of a mandala. These workshops will take place within this
mandala landscape.
Working with the Story Of The Lost Expedition 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 will be
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 1st workshop.
After they complete the 2nd
workshop $20 will be paid to participants at each subsequent workshop they
attend.
There are only10 spaces available for these workshops. For more info
contact: allenmorgan@sympatico.ca
VISUALIZING ABSENCE- TANGLED ART GALLERY
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AGM FREE BUS TOUR- OCTOBER 3
Free Bus Tour
AGM | Hamilton Artists Inc. | AGH
Saturday, October 3, 12 – 6 pm
Meet at the AGO (317 Dundas St W) at 12 pm sharp
Free | Registration Required | RSVP at agm.connect@mississauga.ca
artgalleryofmississauga.com
The AGM is excited to partner with Hamilton Artists Inc. and the Art Gallery of Hamilton to offer a free bus tour to all three institutions, leaving from and returning to downtown Toronto.
First Stop | Art Gallery of Mississauga
Beyond the Pines: Homer Watson and the Contemporary Canadian Landscape
Jason Brown, Jennifer Carvalho, April Hickox, Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, Gavin Lynch, Reinhard Reitzenstein, and Monica Tap
Homer Watson is considered to be one of the founders of the Canadian landscape painting tradition. He aimed to give a ‘truthful representation’ of the Canadian wilderness in his work, as distinct from the more romanticized style found in depictions of the English and European countryside. Contemporary Canadian artists looking at landscape must also find a way to access the ‘truth’ of a subject that is not only strongly represented in our national artistic history, but one that is both deeply political and personal. Placing contemporary work by emerging and established artists alongside that of Watson illustrates the universality of the quest to appreciate and capture the landscape in which we live.
Second Stop | Hamilton Artists Inc.
Into the Wild
Sonny Assu, Jason Brown, Leisure (Susannah Wesley and Meredith Carruthers), Duane Linklater, Alex McLeod, Darren Rigo, Elinor Whidden, Daniel Young & Christian Giroux as well as select works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre’s permanent collections
Into the Wild explores expectations of Canadian wilderness— the fictitious narratives and mythology surrounding a hyper-aestheticized Canadian landscape—how it is romanticized, and its role in the construction and perpetuation of a unifying national identity. The eight artists in this exhibition contrast idealized representations of Canadian wilderness and northerness with charged works highlighting the affects of colonial, infrastructural and environmental interventions as well as Canadians’ continued efforts to domesticate and insert themselves into these constructed mythologies. Into the Wild illustrates the political and contested nature of landscape in this nation. Landscape is political. It is framed. And most importantly, it is never neutral.
Last Stop | Art Gallery of Hamilton
are you experienced?
Nadia Belerique, Jessica Eaton, Olafur Eliasson, Dorian FitzGerald, Hadley+Maxwell and Do Ho Suh.
The AGH strikes out into our next century with a massive contemporary art exhibition. Bringing together artists from across the globe, the show offers works that appeal to the senses, making a point that an engagement with art can sometimes occur more readily if one does not have preconceived notions of what it should be. In this exhibition, experience creates meaning. Through immersive and interactive installations, photography, video, painting, sculpture and sound art, the artists engage viewers and invite participation. Familiar objects and images are presented in new contexts, suggesting alternative modes of understanding. The artworks appeal to the viewer’s psychological and intuitive senses, or memory, with the goal of promoting visual and aural awareness and engagement.
ABOUT THE ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA
The Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) is a public, not-for-profit art gallery located in the Mississauga Civic Centre right on Celebration Square across from Square One Shopping Centre. The AGM is proud to admit people free of charge, serve communities, and provide positive visual art experiences for all visitors.
Engage. Think. Inspire. This phrase opens the dialogue at the AGM. The Gallery connects with the people of Mississauga through the collection and presentation of relevant works from a range of periods and movements in Canadian art. Expressing multiple ideas and concepts, this visual art translates into meaningful cultural and social experiences for all audiences. The AGM employs innovative education, artist projects and other forms of dialogue to advance critical enquiry and community connection to the visual arts. The mandate of the Gallery is to “bring art to the community and the community to art.”
CONTACT
Shellie Zhang – Communications
905-896-5893
shellie.zhang@mississauga.ca