Adrienne Crossman / Austra Video

Awesome video for Toronto band Austra by Adrienne Crossman.

Akin Projects - Place Setting at the Gardiner Museum

PLACE/SETTING is happening June 28 to July 8 at the Gardiner Museum

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ABOUT PLACE/SETTING
Over the course of two weeks, Akin Projects will deliver a series of all-ages clay-making workshops and community events. Drawing inspiration from Judy Chicago’s iconic work The Dinner Party, visitors will interact with ceramics in a more social, contemporary way. (for more information about Judy Chicago please visit: www.artsy.net/artist/judy-chicago ) Contemporary ceramists will lead workshops with visitors in which they will create a functional object. As they are created and prepared for display, the works will slowly set the table for a community celebration and active installation. The walls of the space will be covered to create a living sketchbook that documents the project and the planning of each unique piece. The closing event will be a community celebration for all of the participants. Visitors will be allowed to share and trade the tableware created, reinterpreting the value placed on functional objects.

ABOUT THE MAKE IT REAL PROJECT
The Gardiner Museum works with community and cultural partners to enhance the richness and diversity of the cultural sector. This summer, we’re hosting a Community Arts Space in our exhibition hall. Through an open call for proposals, the Gardiner selected five partners to explore four themes—interactivity, performance, community-engaged arts, and city building. There’s something for everyone . From fort building to clay hand building, and from experimental theatre to participatory workshops, experience the best the city has to offer at the Gardiner.

EVENTS:

Tuesday June 28, 1 - 3 pm
Mythical Mug Making Clay Workshop
Open to all ages, hand-build a mug based on your favorite animal or mythical creature with artist Lindsay Montgomery using slabs, coils, and pinching techniques.
REGISTER (FREE)                               

Wednesday July 6, 6:30 - 9 pm
Still Life/Real Life: Drawing + Ceramics
All artists are welcome to join Akin for this evening of uninstructed still-life, and real-life drawing.
REGISTER (FREE)

Thursday June 30, 6 - 8 pm
Tabletop Planter Clay Workshop
In this workshop, artist Janet Hinkle will guide participants through the process of hand building their very own unique planter.
REGISTER (FREE)

Thursday July 7, 6 - 8 pm
Face Plate Clay Workshop
In this workshop with artist Juliana Neufeld, participants will use clay to transform a functional dinner plate into the face of a unique character or creature from their imagination.
REGISTER (FREE)

Saturday July 2, 1 - 3 pm
Slab-Built Side Plates with Texture or
Stamped Decoration
Learn how to roll out an even slab of clay and experiment with simple slump molds with artist Andrea Ciccone. Add texture or stamp detail using materials provided, or bring an object or textured fabric of your own and create a completely custom, one-of-a-kind, and personalized plate.
REGISTER (FREE)

Friday July 8, 6 - 9 pm
Closing Community Reception
Join all of the Akin Project artists and workshop participants to celebrate the artworks created and transformation of the space as a complete living sketchbook.
REGISTER (FREE) 

Monday July 4, 6 - 8 pm
From Cloth to Clay: Handbuilt Slab & Coil Bowls
For those who like to build and play with patterns, this workshop with artist Natalie Waddell will focus on creating textured bowls of various shapes and sizes.
REGISTER (FREE)

FORGE: FREE Tax Workshop for Artists and Creatives

July 6, 6:30-8:30pm, Committee Room #1, Toronto City Hall (100 Queen St.W)

Presented by Akin Projects and Xpace Cultural Centre

Register HERE:
www.universe.com/forgefreetaxworkshop

Be better at doing your taxes next year! What can I claim on my taxes? How do I deal with donating artwork? How do I handle my grants and T4s? What receipts do I hold onto? Led by ArtBooks, participants will discuss financial management, getting organized for next year's tax season and then preparing yourself for the future!

Participants will learn how to organize T4 slips, deal with RRSP receipts and investments to save for the future; various book keeping strategies, expense declarations and write offs; tax installments and much more to help get you organize your finances and focus on your passion.

Questions? michael@akincollective.com

Akin Projects at the Toronto Art Book Fair

Join us at the inaugural Toronto Art Book Fair at Artscape Yongplace (180 Shaw Street). Akin will be in Studio 107 - stop by and say hello and check out all the amazing stuff we have to share with you from our incredibly talented members!

OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW PARTY:
THURSDAY, JUNE 16 | 6pm - 9pm

FAIR HOURS:
FRIDAY, JUNE 17 | 11AM - 7PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 18 | 11AM - 7PM
SUNDAY, JUNE 19 | 11AM - 6PM

The Toronto Art Book Fair (TOABF) is a free public event taking featuring curated exhibitions, 75 Canadian and international vendors, and community programming that includes a speaker series, readings, talks, launches and workshops. In its inaugural year TOABF will highlight over 150 national and international artists, publishers, designers, curators, bookmakers, writers, and performers.

More details: http://www.torontoartbookfair.com/

AKIN CRIT 45: DUPONT

Wednesday, June 29, 7:00pm
1485 Dupont St - Studio 204

SHOW & TELL FOR ARTISTS

Ideas + Discussion + Brews + Food + Debate

Discuss what you're working on and get useful, friendly feedback and answers from Toronto's creative community and fellow artists. Or, just come listen and hang out.

*Free for all and open to the public*
BYOA - Bring Your Own Art
BYOI - Bring Your Own Ideas
Also, feel free to BYOB ;)

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www.facebook.com/groups/akincollective/
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Call for Submissions - Youth Arts Programming - CAMH Summer Program

AKIN COMMUNITY & CAMH:
Call for Submissions - Youth Arts Programming - Summer Program

Akin Community and CAMH invite artists and arts organizations to submit proposals for arts-related programming for small groups of youth aged 14-21. Possibilities include workshops, performances of dance, music or theatre, presentations, films, artist talks or demonstrations, or anything else you can dream up!

Activities or events will take place on Thursdays from 11am-12pm (1 hour long) at CAMH facilities on Queen Street West between July 11, 2016 and August 19, 2016 and will involve groups of between four and ten individuals. We are looking for a diverse range of volunteer-led programming. Single session events/activities are welcome as well as longer-term projects.

On site facilities include art supplies and materials, large work-space, computers, projectors, musical and sound equipment, a large outdoor space and video/electronic equipment. Proposals are welcome from individuals, collectives, established cultural organizations or institutions, performers, visual artists, community arts organizations, and more.

If you would like to submit a proposal for this volunteer opportunity please send a brief description of your programming idea to jen@akincollective.com. Please also include a short description of yourself or your organization, and include a list of any supplies or equipment needed. We look forward to hearing your proposals!

About Akin Community:
Akin Community aims to cultivate and strengthen Toronto communities by providing access to unique arts programming, workshops and projects that explore the psychosocial impact of engaging with the creative side of life. We facilitate opportunities for marginalized groups to connect, grow, and be inspired outside of the traditional learning models by forming collaborations between local artists and community groups. We provide transformative experiences, engagements and educational opportunities through the arts in communities that creatively change the fabric of social services and offer positive change in new ways.

About CAMH Child, Youth and Family Program:
The Child, Youth and Family Program is committed to client-centred care, providing intensive and specialized services for young people with mental health and/or addiction problems. We work with and welcome clients from all backgrounds and cultures. In addition to our clinical services, we are involved in research, education, prevention and health promotion for child and youth mental health and addictions.

*TONIGHT* Everything You Thought You Knew / Celia Moase & Julianne Ess

Join Julianne Ess of Akin Lansdowne and Celia Moase of Akin Dupont for an evening of
short films and poetry on the back patio of Tango Palace Coffee Company.

Wednesday June 8
Short film screening @ 9:30 (after nightfall)

Featuring
Analogue collage works by Julianne Ess

Animations and video work of
Julianne Ess, Celia Moase, and Dason Johnson

Poetry by
Ulysses and Ryan Van Winkle


Tango Palace is located on the corner of Queen St East and Jones, across from the 7-11. Also, this venue is not licensed, but plenty of coffee, tea, and delicious treats are available for purchase. Everyone is more than welcome to come by as early as they like, and the cafe's regular closing time is 11pm. Oh, and attendance is free.

Radiance in Uncontrollable Worlds / Jordan MacLachlan at the Art Gallery of Burlington

Radiance in Uncontrollable Worlds is an exhibition of sequential terracotta figures by Jordan MacLachlan of Akin Dupont with an accompanying stop motion film commissioned by the Art Gallery of Burlington.

Exhibition: June 11 - September 5, 2016
Opening Reception: June 15, 5:00 - 7:00pm

Preview the film here: https://vimeo.com/169172312.

Art Gallery of Burlington, Perry Gallery
1333 Lakeshore Rd

Andrea Ciccone & The Local Potter

Congratulations to Andrea Ciccone of Akin Dufferin on the launch of her beautiful new website The Local General Store.

Akin at The Collage Party

Saturday June 4 / 2-4pm / Division Gallery - 45 Ernest Avenue / everyone welcome! / FREE

This Saturday come join Akin at Division Gallery for THE COLLAGE PARTY. Scissors, tape, glue and all other collage materials are provided. Come out for a casual afternoon of cut-and-paste, create and enjoy in Paul Butler's beautiful collage paradise!

Akin Collective members and friends will be gathering between 2-4pm but feel free to show up earlier and stay later as it is the LAST DAY to enjoy the collage fun at Division Gallery.

ABOUT PAUL BUTLER'S COLLAGE PARTY:
The Collage Party is a touring studio open to the public, where people come together and make art in a social setting. Over the past two decades, Butler has staged The Collage Party throughout North America and Europe, in museums, private residences, public schools, universities, hospitals, department stores, and community centres. Butler considers The Collage Party as his studio, where he is able to draw from participants’ ideas, energies, and more specifically, the scraps they produce. Butler invites participants (friends, artists, community groups), supplies materials (magazines, scissors, adhesives), and leaves out instruction. Display and production synchronize in a choreography of tearing, pasting, shuffling, searching, tacking and ripping that negates the precincts of personal space or private ownership. For this iteration at Division Gallery, Butler has restaged his Winnipeg studio in the gallery so that disparate realms—Winnipeg and Toronto, studio and gallery, labour and commerce—are folded into one another, cancelling the gulf that once maintained their seeming separation.

Forge: DIY Tote Bag Screenprinting w/ Alicia Nauta

Join us for a fun evening of screen printing with artist Alicia Nauta. Learn new (or improve) screen printing skills and techniques (screen preparation, ink mixing, printing and clean up) to create your own unique designs on two tote bags using fabric ink!

$25 per person.

Purchase tickets here:
www.universe.com/forgescreenprinting

*Materials and two tote bags included!*

June 22, 6:30-9:30pm.
AKIN Collective Dufferin- 444 Dufferin St. Unit E

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Alicia Nauta is a Toronto based artist whose practice is made up of collage, art prints, bookworks, posters, screenprinted wallpaper and installation, costumes and a growing collection of found oddities for a future museum. She is a member of Punchclock, a Toronto screenprinting studio and has taught DIY workshops, including screenprinting, at the AGO.

www.alicianauta.com

Samantha Robbie-Higgins | TO Rocks Artist Interview

Samantha Robbie-Higgins of Akin Lansdowne talking with TO Rocks about her art, influences and studio life. 
 

BEES (& the Birds) at Graven Feather Gallery

BEES (& the Birds) is a salon style art show to raise funds and awareness for our bee friends. A group of 38 artists coming together to use their art to help the bees including Jen Pilles of Akin Lansdowne.

The second annual show is once again at Graven Feather Gallery. The show runs from May 18 to 29, 2016 and the OPENING Reception will be held on Thursday, May 19 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Each of the artists participating in the show want to make a difference and help the bees. The works are bee inspired pieces that explore the role of this alchemist insect in our world.

These artists felt their work could play a big role in raising awareness and money - offering solutions for individuals - for our community - and for our world.

That's why 10% of all show proceeds - including sales - will go to the David Suzuki Foundation's efforts to save the bees.

Organized by artist Christine Pensa (Art That Moves) and Erin Candela and Pam Lobb (Graven Feather) the show features painting, prints, drawings, and photographs on the theme or bees and other pollinators.

Carolyn Tripp at Art-Athina in Athens, Greece - May 26-29, 2016

Carolyn Tripp of Akin Lansdowne will be joining a team of Canadian and International media artists at the Ed Video booth at this year's Art-Athina event in Athens Greece happening May 26-29, 2016.

Launched in 1993 by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association, Art-Athina stands today as one of the longest lasting contemporary art fairs in Europe and as the largest annual visual arts event in Greece. A meeting point for international artistic creation, Art-Athina brings together significant Greek and international art galleries, cultural institutions, curators, collectors, art critics and art lovers.  Ed Video is excited to showcase a selection of recent media art to a large, international audience of over 40,000 people.

The Ed Video booth, curated by Scott McGovern, will be displaying video work by Iris Fraser & David Hanes, Adriana Martinez, Sam Noseworthy, Zachariah Tatham, Zouassi as well as Carolyn Tripp. Displayed on flatscreens, these videos redefine how we think about time and space, at once shrinking and expanding our perception of the world and our reality.  Presented together, the work suggests that time and space are flexible concepts without much influence on how people can relate to each other and with progressive ideas.

Follow Carolyn via her Instagram account while she travels in Greece, and explores Art-Athina.

Registration for Art in the Park: Birkdale in July 2016 is now open

The 6th Annual Birkdale Art in the Park will take place on July 9, 2016. This year, Scarborough Arts joins the Midland Park Community Association to execute this important event that supports the growth and visibility of Scarborough’s vibrant artistic community.

Midland Park Community Association representative David Barnes notes:

“What began five years ago continues to grow with many local artists and artisans who produce and sell original works of art including jewellery, photographs, mixed media, cards, oil and acrylic paintings and handmade crafts in our indoor and outdoor juried art show.”

Thesis Award Show

About The Show
The Thesis Award Show is a collaboration between ARTiculations, Graven Feather Studio and Akin Collective in support of graduating post secondary students. In early 2016 a call was sent out across the Province for applications in search of students demonstrating a coherent body of work unique in both concept and execution. Overwhelmed by the response, we extend a huge thank you to all of the applicants and congratulate this year's winners, Annunziata Morant & Jennifer Byrnes for their achievements. In addition to solo exhibitions, Morant & Byrnes each received studio credit with Akin Collective as part of the award. 

Annunziata Morant
Forget Me Not
May 2nd-15th
Reception: Thursday May 12th, 7-9pm
Location: Graven Feather, 906 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M6J 1G6
 
‘Remember Death’ warns the Latin phrase Memento Mori and so too are we elegantly reminded, by the recent work of artist Annunziata Morant. In Morant’s delicate and haunting series, we are forced to confront our own mortality through the memorialization of others. Functioning as physical, artistic reminders of our own eventual passing in fitting with the latin theory on the reflection of death, the ghostly victorian figures whisper that for us too, clocks will continue to tick. In these intimate, moving digital prints, acrylic seeps and colourfully trickles down the page (lifelines, tear streams perhaps) instigating discussion of personal histories and the transience of our lives. These works are as much mirrors for the viewer as they are windows onto lives already lived. Through an extensive and obsessive research process, Morant’s vast archive of Victorian mourning ephemera from the Victorian serves as an entry point for such contemplation and conversations in a contemporary setting. Nudging and prodding, the artist’s lovingly altered memorials remind us to be mindful- our day will also come.

Morant is a recent graduate of the Ontario College of Art And Design University BFA Program. 
 
Jennifer Byrnes
Negative Forty
May 1st- 15th
Reception: Wednesday May 11th 7-9pm
Location: ARTiculations, 2928 Dundas St West, Toronto, ON, M6P 1Y8
 
Vast and powerful while detailed and delicate, Jennifer Byrnes series of prints’ offer varying perspectives and approaches to landscapes both natural and, perhaps, somewhere beyond. Through the  laborious and historically expansive process of copper plate printmaking, the artist explores and expands upon the relationship between natural and geometric forms and ratio. Ink pools and holds in the sunken areas of Byrnes’ incised lines on the copper to create, curiously and conversely, scenes unbound by the limitations of reality or physical grounding. Mountains float and hover tied through delicate light lines. As worlds are inverted and mirrored in mythical, spiritual visions and scenes.  Like the artist’s process itself, we are reminded about the delicate balance between opposites- lightness and weight. Telling of the artist’s interest in the concept of infinity, perhaps if something is both positive and negative concurrently it simply floats on forever.

Byrnes is a recent graduate of the University of Waterloo BFA Program. 

Artist Talks by both artists will be held at ARTiculations on Sunday, May 15th at 3pm

CONTACT Gallery Crawl // AKIN & MOCA /

Akin Projects and Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada invite you to attend a special CONTACT edition of the Akin Gallery Crawl.

Saturday, May 28, 12 - 4 pm
All are welcome, open to the public.

Afterwards, join us for drinks at the AKIN Collective Dupont location (1485 Dupont Street, Second Floor).

1. Meet at Cooper Cole at 12:00pm
2. Visti Angell Gallery together
3. Visit Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects
4. Visit Erin Stump Projects
5. Visit AC Repair Co.
6. Visit Division Gallery
7. Reception/drinks at Akin Dupont.

www.akincollective.com
www.moca.ca

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