Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Celebrates 55th Anniversary with $5500 Award


Ricky Sosa, Revolucionario Design Co., Red Skull, Sculpture, 2014
Winner of Best of Exhibition at Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 2015

The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition recently announced a special award of $5,500 to the winner of Best of Exhibition for this years' 55th anniversary event.

Artists who apply to exhibit at the 2016 Exhibition are automatically entered into the awards competition. Professional jurors, comprised of industry leaders, will select the participating artists for the upcoming 2016 Exhibition. Award winners will be selected by a panel of critically acclaimed judges, on site during the event. The winners are granted direct entry into 2017 Exhibition.

The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is Toronto’s first, largest, and longest running outdoor art fair – providing fresh art, fresh faces, in the fresh air since 1961. Showcasing the works of over 320 artists, the fair attracts an audience of over 100,000 people annually.

This years event is taking place July 8-10, 2016. Applications are open until March 6, 2016
For more information click here:  http://www.akimbo.ca/91787

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

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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

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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



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

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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

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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:

https://www.universe.com/

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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.