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Distillery Art Market 2011
Distillery Art Market 2011
Applications Now Available!
Attention Artists, Craftspeople, Designer/Makers and Food Artisans Weekend Outdoor Exhibition Opportunities
— Submission Deadline: March 11, 2011
The Call for Submissions and Application Form are available at: www.distilleryartmarket.ca
The Distillery Art Market will feature exhibitors in various outdoor spaces at The Distillery Historic District over the course of the spring, summer and fall starting April 15, 2011. The Distillery Art Market is an exhibition designed to produce a creator-to-market opportunity for artists, craftspeople, designer/makers and food artisans. The markets will take place for 27 consecutive weeks until the final market weekend of October 16, 2011.
Applicants can choose to participate in one weekend or a series of weekends for the Distillery Art Market’s duration. Artists, craftspeople, designer/makers and food artisans have the opportunity to utilize provided art carts (allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis pending jury approval) or a 10’ x 10’ tent.
Participants in the Distillery Art Market will be selected by a professional jury, with consideration to diversity of medium and quality of work being sold. Jewellery artists will not be considered at this time due to the abundant representation of jewellery available at shops on-site. Food artisans will be considered provided their product is unique from the existing businesses at The Distillery Historic District. All products must be handmade in Canada by the vendor.
For questions regarding the Distillery Art Market, please email: [email protected]
Best,
Aisha
Pictures At An Exhibition
On view at The Museum Of Contemporary Canadian Art
is LUIS JACOB’S PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION [Feb 04, 2011 – Mar 27, 2011]
Showing in three locations over 2010 through 2011, Luis Jacobs Pictures At An Exhibition features  early and recent work from Jacob.
The MOCCA purposes this exhibition to be a vision about vision. Upon visiting the exhibition I found that Jacob, much to the liking of Leo Tolstoy’s theory on the representation and responses to an emotion, places  Pictures At An Exhibition within the same school of thought. The smaller scaled pieces allow for examination of relation between the viewer and the work to take place.  I was reminded of the scene from The Matrix Revolutions, when Neo removes the bandages from his covered eyes, as Pictures At An Exhibition speaks to vision.
Luis Jacob has achieved an international reputation, particularly since his participation in Documenta 12 in 2007, with solo exhibitions at the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg and the Hamburger Kunstverein, and in Canada at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the Darling Foundry and Musée d’art de Joliette. In 2010 his work was featured at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in the exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, and in the Kunsthalle Bern in the exhibition Animism. Luis Jacob is represented by Birch Libralato, Toronto.
Up until March 27th and definitely worth checking out..
Best,
Aisha
XWEB Submissions Call
Call for Submissions: Web-based Media Artworks
Deadline: March 15, 2011
XPACE Cultural Centre is seeking submissions that explore the social and aesthetic possibilities of web space. As always we’re looking for artists that fit with our mandate of bridging emerging artists with their counterparts and the community.
The work must be web-based, and able to be viewed as a link from our website.
How to Submit:
Applications must be submitted in a URL link that can be linked to XWEB. The work must be able to securely upload to our server.
Submissions MUST include:
* A detailed project description (maximum 200 words)
* Your CV and artist bio
* A still of the web-based work (press quality, 300dpi)
* The URL address to link to our server
To view examples of past projects please visit: http://www.xpace.info/exhibitions-events/xweb
Email your submission package to: [email protected]
Please note, you will be contacted only if your work is displayed on XWEB.
Thanks and Best,
Aisha.
Bookbinding Workshop
XPACE Cultural Center Presents: A Bookbinding Workshop
On Friday, March 4th from 6-8pm Jennie Suddick will be demonstrating varied techniques in bookbinding, such as the 4-Hole Punch and as well the Coptic Binding, which are perfect to use for sketchbooks or journals!  We will provide paper, thread, needles and scissors needed but feel free to bring any of your own materials (ie. fancy paper) with you as well. A pen and paper, are great to have in hand if you’d like to take notes for future bookbinding as well.
Jennie Suddick is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, The United States, Germany and Italy. She holds both a BFA and Advanced Visual Studies Certificate from OCAD University,  where she was the recipient of multiple awards. She as well, holds a Masters of Fine Art from York University. Jennie creates work in print, photography and sculpture, while dealing with issues of Canadian identity, cryptozoology, museological display, and hyper reality. Recently, she has shown at Board of Directors, Blackwood Gallery’s ‘Drop Out’ 2009 Nuit Blanche exhibition, The Gladstone Hotel’s upArt and participated in Hallwalls’ Artists and Models: Stimulus in Buffalo, New York. She received the Award of Excellence at the 2009 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Jennie also oversees the programming of XPACE Cultural Center.
See you there!
-Aisha
Call for artworks by emerging artists in Ontario
Call for artworks by emerging artists in Ontario
theSHOW.11 is a renewed fourth installment of the biannual exhibition at Cambridge Galleries dedicated to promoting the work of emerging Ontario artists making contemporary artwork in a variety of media. We’ve changed some things this year by moving the dates and expanding the scope of the exhibition.
Cambridge Galleries is looking for artists who have been exhibiting professionally for less than 3 years or have recently completed their BFA, MFA or equivalent.
This year’s exhibition will take place over the summer months at Cambridge Galleries’ Queen’s Square location.
theSHOW.11 will spotlight up to 12artists that represent a snapshot of fresh talent from across Ontario. Submissions in all mediums are welcomed including off site projects.
Deadline for Submissions: Thursday MARCH 31, 2011 (postmarked)
Submissions should include:
1.Completed Application Form: visit: www.cambridgegalleries.ca > exhibitions or contact the gallery
2.1 page CV
3.10 PC compatible jpgs of artwork completed during the last two years on CD-ROM
4.Up to 5 minutes of video on DVD for time-based proposals
Please note: submissions that are incomplete, sent by fax or email will not be considered. The gallery assumes no responsibility for materials that have been damaged, lost of mislabeled. Submissions will not be returned. The gallery will contact successful applicants by May 1, 2011. All selections are final.
Forward completed application to:
theSHOW.11
c/o Iga Janik, Curator
Cambridge Galleries
1 North Square
Cambridge, ON N1S 2K6
For more info contact Iga Janik: [email protected]
Media Contact:
K. Jennifer Bedford, Audience Development Coordinator
Cambridge Galleries
Tel: 519.621.0460 X119
Fax: 519.621.2080
http://www.cambridgegalleries.ca
BENEATH
In The Unknown Craftsman, Soetsu Anagi says “To see is to go directly to the Core.... To know facts about, is to go around the periphery. Beauty is a kind of mystery, which is why it cannot be grasped adequately through the intellect”.
The student curated, exhibition BENEATH, follows the deconstruction of 11 individuals moving towards the essential.
The show is running until March 5th in OCAD University’s Transit space.                          Artist featured are: Matthew Del Degan, Sofia Escobar, Jennifer Gordon, Gabriela Hansen, Torin Ellery Hastings, Singithi Kandage, Megan Kee, Christopher Lim
Rishabh Varshney, Di Vy and myself Aisha-Zalika Simpson.
Transit Space is located on the 2nd floor, and is adjacent to the fiber studios.
New
Hey, this is Aisha, and I’m the newest addition to the XPACE team. I’m a second year, full-time student, majoring in Criticism and Curatorial Practice at OCAD University. I will be blogging for XPACE throughout the week-starting now.
Best,
Xeroxr Awarded FEAST Toronto Student Grant
reblogged from http://www.xeroxr.com/
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February 13th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
photo by: Sarah Beck
note: This post has taken way too long to put up because of all of the crazy things happening recently but this is long overdue. Sorry for the delay!
“FEAST (Funding Emerging Artists with Sustainable Tactics) is a community dinner and funding event. Artists and designers are invited to present proposals for art-or design-based, community-oriented projects during the dinner. Everyone attending the dinner votes on which project they would like to fund, and the project with the most votes is given a grant from the money that is raised from the dinner. FEAST is organized by Amber Landgraff and Deborah Wang, with chef Lisa Myers. Our first dinner is co-presented with XPACE Cultural Centre, sponsored by A Space Gallery and Amsterdam Beer, and supported by Fuse Magazine.†– FEAST T.O. Blog
photo from Xpace Facebook Page
On January 16th 2011, I went to the first FEAST to be held in Toronto and my first ever art community event. I was terribly nervous considering that I didn’t know anyone and had no real idea of what the protocols or social norms of this type of event were. Sitting through 10 amazing presentations while worrying about what I was going to say was quite the nerve wracking experience. If it wasn’t for Patti, Morgan and Nicole (the 3 people sitting at the same table as me) I would have spent the entire night freaking out. (thanks!)
photo from FEAST T.O. Blog
Finally I presented, opening with a tangent about how I started Xeroxr out of a need to get out of my home town, and everyone laughed but seemed to be interested. I explained the One For Each Hand project (more info to come in a later post), and finally wrapped up with my proposal for the grant. I sat back down, everyone voted, and the first grant was awarded. Then at the end of the night, they called my name and awarded Xeroxr with the Xpace funded student grant.
photo by: Sarah Beck
I would like to extend a big thanks to Amber Landgraff, Deborah Wang and Lisa Myers for putting on this fantastic event. I had a great time and really enjoyed all of the presentations. Also, the Vegan dinner was unbelievable. Coming from someone who has always had trouble eating his vegetables, I was honestly shocked that a vegan meal could taste so incredible. Truly amazing food and a truly wonderful event.
photo from FEAST T.O. Blog
I also wanted to mention that all of the presenters (Erica Brisson, David Frankovich, Ruth Kavanagh & Antonella Sigismondi, Sean Martindale, Morgan Mavis & Patti Robinson, Raja Moussaoui & Raha Shirazi, Nicole Schlosser, Cara Spooner, VSVSVS, and Jennifer Davis) had fantastic ideas and really great projects. It was an amazing feeling being in a room with a large group of people who are passionate about their projects, artwork and the art community here in Toronto and across Canada.
photos from FEAST T.O. Blog
I would like to give my thanks to Xpace as well for not only hosting the event but funding the student grant that was awarded to the Xeroxr Project: One For Each Hand. The people at Xpace are all unbelievably kind and the group really cares about not only the Toronto art community, but emerging student artists as well.
photo from FEAST T.O. Blog
Finally, I would like to send my biggest thank you to everyone who attended FEAST because you are all the reason that this project was chosen to be funded. It is such a phenomenal feeling to know that the majority of the people at this event felt that the project I proposed was worth the money and support.
photo from Xpace Facebook Page
Keep checking back in the coming weeks for an update on the project including full details, artists involved, dates and other great news.
– Matt Moreland
Xeroxr Founder
THIS WEEK (Feb14-20)
Made in US | Tibi Tibi Neuspiel and Sara Cwynar @ 107 Shaw. Feb 18, 7:00pm
Manifest Destiny | Liam Wylie and Jillian Ross @ Butcher Gallery. Feb 18, 7:00pm
See you at both!
THIS WEEK:
MANIFESTO @ 107 Shaw, Jan. 20th, 7pm. 15 artists share their declarations, intentions and plans for the future.
Old is the New New @ Triangle Gallery, Jan. 20th, 7pm. A one-night-only show featuring work by Liam Wylie and Jillian Kay Ross.
Who I Think I am | Ron Terada @ Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Jan. 20th, 7pm.
A Great Mystery | Ashley Guindon @ YYZ, Jan 21st, 8pm.
Moving Around | Alexandre David @ YYX, Jan 21st, 8pm.
The White Tortoise of Ch’u: A Collaboration between Artist and Author | JJ Lee @ Loop Gallery, Jan. 22nd, 2pm.
All is Vanity | Ingrid Mida @ Loop Gallery, Jan. 22nd, 3pm.
The OCADU Project | Continuum Contemporary Music @ The Music Gallery, Jan. 24th, 8pm. Tickets in advance or at the door.
