Akin Show & Tell #58: Ossington

Wednesday July 26 / 7-9pm / Akin Ossington - 888 Dupont St, studio 204

On the last Wednesday of every month Akin host’s a relaxed and fun ‘Show and Tell for Artists’ at one of the Akin Collective studios. This is a time for Akin members and other Toronto artists to show completed works or works in progress and get friendly feedback and answers from their peers in a casual studio setting.

Feel free to bring art to share, bring a friend or two, bring snacks or drinks or just bring yourself! Come for the conversation or just to meet other artists and makers.

This month we are meeting at our newest studios - Akin Ossington! Come see the new studios. Located at Ossington and Dupont - 888 Dupont St - Studio 204.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch! See you there!

Yellow House Celebrates 3 Years! Art Show and Birthday Bash: Tomorrow! 7-10pm

"High Mesa", John N.Inglis, watercolour on paper, 17"x22"

Help Yellow House Gallery celebrate their anniversary tomorrow night! The show brings together a diverse group of Canadian contemporary artists in celebration of Yellow House's Third Birthday!

Enjoy some music, art, divine treats, and great conversation as Yellow House thanks Toronto's East End community for its ongoing support.

Show Dates:
May 12th- June 10th 2017
 
Reception:
Friday May 12th- 7-10pm

Can't make it to the opening reception? Then join Akin Projects on Saturday May 13 at our Akin East-End Gallery Crawl! We will be visiting Yellow House Gallery along the way! Click here for details.

Call for Submissions - Creative Time Summit: Of Homelands and Revolutions

Creative Time, The Power Plant and The Art Gallery of Ontario invite artists, activists, and cultural producers in the Greater Toronto Area to propose ideas for breakout sessions for The Creative Time Summit: Of Homelands and Revolutions, a two-day convening for thinkers, dreamers, and doers working at the intersection of art and politics.

Following the first day of presentations at Koerner Hall, the Summit will offer a second full day of community driven, hour-long sessions designed to share tools, strategies, and actions with over 1000 international and local attendees. Sessions could take the form of roundtable discussions, workshops, panels, field trips, interactive performances, screenings,or other creative formats and may reflect on the themes ofthe larger Summit [see below]. At the same time, we encourage sessions that engage with the field of socially engaged art more broadly.

If you or your organization are interested in planning a to bring into focus pressing issues within your practice and communities, please submit a proposal for review by Wednesday, May 31 to summit@creativetime.org.

All selected organizers will receive a modest honorarium.

How to apply:

•     a brief 1-2 paragraph summary of your session idea
•     a title for your session
•     a short bio of all presenters (120 word max)
•     1-3 relevant links (website, blog, press, etc.) of your work.

All proposals should be sent via e-mail to: summit@creativetime.org with the subject line "CT Summit Toronto - Community Proposal." Sessions will take place on Saturday, September 30, 2017 at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Summit | Summary & Themes:
The 9th Creative Time Summit in Toronto will be co-presented by The Power Plant, with collaboration of the Art Gallery of Ontario, from September 28 to 30, 2017.

2017 is a year in which we commemorate two significant, but different historic events: the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation and the Centennial of the Russian Revolution. These two events serve as fluid axes for the title and overarching thematic of Summit 2017, “Of Homelands and Revolution.”

From here, we journey inside-out, moving to the hearth and realms of domesticity, the struggle for vibrant community life and sovereign homelands, and further, to the violent borders that produce exile, displacement, and refugeeism. On this path, we invite poetic, philosophical, and practice-based ruminations on belonging, sovereignty, security, and renewal. An urgent thematic throughline will be the ongoing struggles of indigenous peoples across continents and the multiple relations between home, land, culture, and community that they bring to bear.

For its part, despite a tragic end in violent and authoritarian regimes, the Bolshevik Revolution was an extraordinary event that, in the words of Leon Trotsky, one of its principal architects, allowed for the “direct interference of the masses in historic events.” 100 years later we look back at the contradictory legacies of the Marxist tradition and at the many forms of radical sociality, aesthetics and anti-capitalist organizing that it has inspired. A global turn to the right, as evidenced by the recent election of Donald Trump to the White House and the Brexit referendum increases the urgency of such reflection.

Summit 2017 invites participants to consider the many-layered political and aesthetic understandings of home alongside social movements—revolutionary ones at that—which have sought to summon a broader dream of social justice.

TCAF 2017 - The Toronto Comics Arts Festival - May 13 & 14

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) is taking place in On May 13 & 14 with corresponding events happening throughout May. The main event is a two-day exhibition and vendor fair featuring hundreds of comics creators from around the world and will be held at the Toronto Reference Library with readings, signings, panels, workshops, gallery shows, installations and more taking place in the surrounding Bloor/Yonge neighbourhood.

The first Toronto Comic Arts Festival was held in 2003. The Toronto Comic Arts Festival exists to promote the breadth and diversity of comics, and what is considered comics, as legitimate medium of literary and artistic worth. They seek to promote the creators of these works in their broad and diverse voices, for the betterment of the medium of comics and to reach as wide an audience as possible for them.

Main Exhibition: Saturday May 13 and Sunday May 14 at Toronto Reference Library

Some of the Other Events and Exhibitions (Full listing on the TCAF website):
Professional Development for Librarians and Educators: Friday May 12
TCAF Kick-Off: Celebrate 25 Years of Image Comics: Friday, May 12, Doors at 6pm
TCAF KIDS DAY: May 13, 10am-5pm @ St. Paul’s On Bloor
French Comics Framed Exhibition: May 2 -31 @ Toronto Reference Library
My Brother’s Husband – Artwork by Gengoroh Tagame: May 9-30 @ Toronto Reference Library
Guy Delisle: An Exhibition: May 2-31 @ Toronto Reference Library

All TCAF events are FREE and suitable for all ages.

The Salt Spring National Art Prize 2017 Call For Artist Submissions

The Salt Spring National Art Prize (SSNAP) is pleased to launch its second national juried competition of Canadian visual art.

The intent of SSNAP is to encourage artists whose practice demonstrates originality, quality, integrity and creativity—resulting in significant work with visual impact and depth of meaning. 

Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada who are eighteen years of age and older as of January 1, 2016 are invited to submit their two-dimensional and three-dimensional work for consideration.

Approximately 50 finalists will be chosen by an independent jury from across Canada. All artists' submissions will be anonymous to the jury.

SSNAP Awards Totaling $30,000

ISO: Student Night @ The Powerplant- Akin Collective

ISO: Student Night @ The Power Plant 

Featuring- Akin Collective

-Facebook Event-

Date and Time

6 October 2015 | 8:00 PM

Location

The Power Plant

Admission

FREE Students with ID, $12 Non-Students
Cash Bar

 Attention all post-secondary students: What are you In Search Of? Our third annual Student Night is for those seeking professional development opportunities and a chance to network with established artists and other professionals. Enjoy good times with art, music, food and performances by Tough Guy Mountain and Heretical Objects Cooperative and DOOMSQUAD. Throughout the evening there will be unique opportunities for cross-disciplinary skills exchange with established cultural producers. Interested in presenting your work at our Show and Tell? Visit our website for more details on how to apply. Be one of the first 100 post-secondary students through the door and you will receive a special complimentary one-year membership to the gallery courtesy of the new W. Bruce C. Bailey Student Membership Program.

CALL FOR STUDENT PRESENTATIONS – SHOW & TELL

Are you involved in a creative project? Share your work at The Power Plant’s third annual ISO: Student Night. We invite presenters from all disciplines and backgrounds to participate in our Show & Tell presentations. All projects are welcome and can encompass art projects, start-ups, community initiative, theses, performance and much more!

Presentations will take place on our Show & Tell stage and will be limited to 3 minutes in length. Presentations can include a visual, audio or performative component.

The Show & Tell presentations will are an opportunity for you to meet, network, exchange ideas and discuss your work in a public forum. Throughout the evening there will be unique opportunities for networking and cross-disciplinary skills exchange with established cultural producers.

ISO: Student Night @ The Power Plant is geared towards post secondary students seeking professional development opportunities. Be one of the first 100 post-secondary students through the door and you will receive a special complimentary one-year Membership to the gallery courtesy of the new W. Bruce C. Bailey Student Membership Program. With performances by Toronto-based artists Tough Guy Mountain, Heretical Objects Cooperative and music by DOOMSQUAD.

Submission and Entry Requirements

Please submit your application at the following email address: acostantino@thepowerplant.org
Or using our online form goo.gl/forms/t2r0G2OYDL.

Please include the following information:
• Presentation title
• A one-line description of your work
• 3-slide Power Point presentation or a 3 minute audio or video file of your work
• Your name and contact information

Submission Deadline

The submission deadline is midnight Sunday, 27 September, 2015. Accepted presentations will be notified by Thursday, 1 October, 2015. Presenters will be asked to submit their final presentations by Monday, 5 October, 2015.

Art Hear @ TOAE

Akin Collective

presents

ART HEAR

Akin Collective is  thrilled to present 

a unique series of free panel discussions and artist talks at The Toronto Outdoor art Exhibition 2015.

Talks will span topics and themes including the role of public art and the ownership of public spaces, shifts in the Toronto art world, the internet as artistic space, the benefits of outdoor art, and new methods of engaging public spaces all centered around the theme of “expectations”.

Art Hear Tent at City Hall! 100 Queen Street West.

Friday, September 18:

12:30 pm

: “Art and the Internet”

Alex Mcleod, Artist

Benjamin Bruneau, Artist and critic

Tough Guy Mountain, Artists.

4:30 pm

: “Claiming Public Space: Who does Public Art belong to?”

Ben Mills, Vice President, Public Art Management

Lilie Zendel, Manager, StreetARToronto (StART)

Laura Berazadi, Metrolinx Senior Advisor, Integrated Art

Lara Tarlo, City Planning, City of Toronto

Saturday, September 19:

2:00 pm

: “Outdoor Spaces: Activations, Interventions”

VSVSVS, Artists

Tania Thompson, Founder, 

Sunday

 Drive Art Projects

Sean Martindale, Artist

3:00 pm

: Performance Art: “Audiences and Attention”

Bridget Moser, Artist

Shannon Cochrane, Artist/Director of FADO Performance Art Centre

Basil AlZeri, Artist

Sunday, September 20:

1:00pm

: “Collectives and Collaborations: The Shared Spaces”

Oliver Pauk, Founder and Director, Akin Collective

Adil Dhalla, Director of Culture, Centre for Social Innovation

Ashley Proctor, Founder, Creative Bluerprint & Foundery

3:00pm

:“Popular Commentary: Topics in Toronto’s Art Scene”

David Liss, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

Shari Orenstein, Conversations from Toronto Art World

Jamie Angell, Director, Angell Gallery

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.torontooutdoorart.org/exhibition/art-hear

JOIN THE EVENT ON 

FACEBOOK

Sunday Drive 2015

If you didn't make it in 2014, get on the bus this year and join us for this awesome art fair. Tickets available here: Sunday Drive.

Surface & Stratagem @ Division Gallery

DIVISION GALLERY

TORONTO

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

SURFACE & STRATAGEM

Maryanne Casasanta

, 

Svea Ferguson

, 

Brendan Flanagan

, 

Mike Goldby

, 

Tyler Los-Jones

, 

Abby McGuane

, 

Dylin North

, 

Jade Rude

,

Michael Vickers

June 26

–

August 22, 2015

Opening reception

 Friday June 26 from 

6

 to 

9pm

StART: Call for Proposals, $500 Artist Fee

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: City of Toronto "Outside the Box" (Hand-painted Traffic Signal Boxes) Project

Deadline: Friday, May 8th, 2015, 5 pm

Please see full application guidelines (including details of confidentiality and copyright) on the website:www.toronto.ca/streetart/outsidethebox


ABOUT THE PROJECT

The City of Toronto invites local artists to submit proposals to create works of art on City traffic signal boxes throughout Toronto. There are over 2,200 traffic signal boxes located across Toronto. These boxes are often covered with posters and are a prime target for graffiti vandalism.

The Outside the Box public art initiative helps to create a vibrant, inclusive and interesting urban environment, reduces the impact of graffiti vandalism and postering, helps to beautify City infrastructure and streets, and supports local and emerging artists. Successful proposals will be innovative in design, counteract graffiti vandalism and contribute to a sense of community identity and pride.

This project is implemented by StreetARToronto, part of the City of Toronto's Transportation Services Division. Since the project's launch in 2013, 56 boxes have been hand-painted by local artists and transformed into works of art.


ARTIST FEE

The artist fee paid will be a $500 honorarium (including HST) for each completed traffic signal box.


LOCATION OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL BOXES

For 2015, Outside the Box aims to have 64 traffic signal boxes hand-painted by local artists.

14 of these boxes will be located within the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area, as part of a new pilot partnership project to increase the number of painted traffic signal boxes across the city.

A List of Locations on the website shows the locations of the boxes to be painted this year. If artists are interested in painting a particular box from the list, they should mention this in their application and describe how their design fosters a sense of identity for that specific location.

Please note that there is no guarantee that artists will be given their preferred location. The list of locations, as well as the total number of boxes to be painted, is subject to change at any time.


PAINTING WEEKS

For 2015, painting must take place in one of the two specified painting weeks:

• WEEK 1: June 22-26, 2015
• WEEK 2: August 17-21, 2015

A single traffic signal box generally takes two days to complete but is dependent on the intricacy of the design and other variables.

Artists must specify in their application when they will be available to paint. In some cases, depending on box location, some flexibility in painting dates may be required.


APPLICATION & DESIGN CRITERIA

• Artist applicants must reside in the City of Toronto.
• Use the template provided on the website (www.toronto.ca/streetart/outsidethebox) to propose your design concept(s). Be aware that some changes to the design may be required to accommodate site requirements. Designs must include all visible sides of the traffic signal box, unless where specified by the project team or on the list of box locations.
• When designing the artwork, artists are encouraged to think of the context of the area and the city as a whole.
• Designs must not contain:
  • any representations of traffic lights, signs or signals
  • advertisement or promotion for any business, product or viewpoint
  • vulgar, profane, offensive, or insensitive images or writing
  • any breach of intellectual property, trademarks, brands, images of illegal activity or involve the attachment of any object(s) to the box
• Finished artwork will be in the public domain and therefore may be vandalized. Although the City protects the artwork with a graffiti-resistant clear coat, it cannot guarantee that vandalized traffic signal boxes will be repaired to their original state. Artists should understand that the boxes are live infrastructure that may need repair or replacement in future. The City cannot guarantee how long each traffic signal box will be in use. Artists must accept the risk that their artwork may be damaged, altered or removed at any time.
• All designs will be subjected to City of Toronto review and approval.
• Artist signature and website cannot occupy more than ¼ of the base unit

HOW TO APPLY

Artists must provide a completed application form (available on the website) and all attachments requested on the application form. The deadline for applications is Friday May 8, at 5 pm.

Artists may submit more than one design proposal along with a statement for each design. No artist will be selected for more than 2 traffic signal boxes per year.

Do not send any materials not specifically requested (i.e. transparencies, DVDs/videos, etc.). If sent, they will not be reviewed by the jury. Submissions will not be returned.

PLEASE EMAIL SUBMISSIONS TO streetart@toronto.ca or MAIL HARD-COPY SUBMISSIONS TO:

Program Manager, Outside the Box
StreetARToronto (StART)
City Hall, East Tower, 23rd Floor
100 Queen St. West
Toronto, M5H 2N2

NOTE: The City of Toronto assumes no responsibility for lost or damaged submissions. Application contents will not be returned. The City reserves the right to discontinue this call at any time.


ARTIST SELECTION AND PAINTING PROCESS

• Applications must be received by Friday, May 8th, 2015, at 5 pm.
• Applications will be reviewed by a jury composed of staff and external jurors. References will be checked.
• Selected artists will be notified during the week of May 25th, 2015. They will be provided with their traffic signal box location and will be required to sign a service contract with the City of Toronto.
• Painting must take place on WEEK 1 (June 22-28) or WEEK 2 (August 17-21), as specified in the artist's application (some flexibility may be required). Artists will receive information about where they can pick up their protective safety equipment in advance of their painting week.
• Once painting is completed, boxes will be protected with a graffiti-resistant clear coat. Artists must accept the risk that their artwork may be damaged, altered or removed at any time after completion.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT StART, PLEASE EMAIL streetart@toronto.ca.

CANADIAN ART: EDITORIAL RESIDENCY

Call for Applications: 2015 Editorial Residency

Editorial and web staff at work at the Canadian Art office. Photo Stefanie Fiore.

We are now accepting applications for the 2015 Canadian Art Foundation Editorial Residency. The residency is a national prize awarded annually to a current undergraduate, graduate or other post-secondary student with an interest in developing expertise in the realm of professional art-magazine publishing. Now in its 11th year, the prize awards an 11-week summer residency at Canadian Art, along with a $7,000 prize. The winner will hone writing and editing skills while learning production procedures for online and print media atCanadian Art. This introduction to art-magazine publishing and writing is intended to foster new editorial and critical talent, and to provide hands-on experience working in the field.

The 2014 residency was won by emerging curator, writer and art-history student Natasha Chaykowski, who said of her experience:

Being the editorial resident at Canadian Art provided me with an unparalleled and rare opportunity to learn about the production of print media. Having only previously worked with online publications, I found this to be an incredibly formative and instructive experience. In addition to learning about magazine production, I was also able to further develop my writing style and hone editing skills—both of which are essential for working in publishing specifically, but also in the arts more generally. The skills I gained this summer at Canadian Art have already been and will continue to be proven invaluable.

To apply, send a 500-word review of a contemporary-art exhibition, a list of titles of recent academic and/or professional writing on art, a cover letter and a one-page CV.

Send applications to residency@canadianart.ca by 5 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 2, 2015.

Photopia 2015: G44

Brendan George Ko, ʻulu (Artocapris Altilis), 2015, 11x14 inch framed edition: 1/1, available in 16x20 inch edition of 4.

Photopia 2015
March 13 - 21

Opening reception and raffle draw
Friday, March 13
6 to 9 pm
Free Admission

Sale continues to March 21
Tues-Sat, 11 am - 5 pm

gallery44.org/photopia2015

We’re punching up Photopia this year with tropical drinks, new featured artists and extended exhibition dates.

Photopia is your chance to see the best and brightest from emerging and established photo artists, while celebrating Gallery 44’s 35th anniversary! With an exciting selection of framed and unframed artwork, affordable editions, and one-of-a-kind photo and lens-based pieces, you can treat your walls to new artwork, and yourself to a fun night out at Gallery 44!

Featuring artwork by: Tobi Asmoucha • Marc Audette • Sally Ayre • Jason Brown • Marco Buonocore • Jamie Campbell• Miles Collyer • Phillipa Croft • Robyn Cumming • Nathan Cyprys • Brandon Davis • Alice Dixon • Pete Doherty • Katyuska Doleatto • Ethan Eisenberg • Aaron Vincent Elkaim • Vid Ingelevics & Blake Fitzpatrick • Colwyn Griffith • Randy Grskovic • Felix Kalmenson • Alex Kisilevich • Brendan George Ko • Anthony Koutras • Jennifer Long • MarcLosier • Christopher Katsarov Luna • Peter Lusztyk • Matt Macintosh • Virginia Mak • Isabel Martinez • Sanaz Mazinani• Colin Miner • Steve Payne • Susana Reisman • Darren Rigo • Derek Shapton • Peggy Taylor Reid • Evan Tyler • Shelley Wildeman • and more to be announced!

For preview images and more follow along on Tumblr
Twitter & Instagram #photopia15



C. Badanjak, Photopia lottery, 2013

Photopia also features an exciting lottery, with over $6000 in prizes that will help you…

…TREAT YOURSELF
Mark Anthony Brands - case of wine ($225)
Front Door Organics - grocery delivery ($150)
Solo Bace Salon - salon services ($150)
Skyzone Indoor Trampoline Park - gift certificates ($130)
Mama Earth Organics - grocery delivery ($121)
Minimioche - gift basket ($100)
Union Social Eatery St.Clair - restaurant gift certificate ($100)
Deborah Kanfer Fine Art - keepsake jewellery ($100)
Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Co. - tickets ($95)
The Gladstone Hotel - restaurant gift card ($80)

…GET INSPIRED
CONTACT Photography Festival - Ken Lum print ($750)
CONTACT Photography Festival - Max Dean print ($1000)
The Power Plant - framed print by Candice Breitz ($1300)
The Power Plant - dual membership + publication ($150)
Black Dog Publishing - art books ($380)
Ryerson Image Centre - publications + swag ($340)
Anchorless Press - photobook: Luke Strosnider ($65)
PREFIX Photo - magazine subscription ($30)

…STAY ENTERTAINED
Sony Music Canada - vinyl record gift set ($300)
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto - workshop ($200)
Open Studio - printing workshop ($190)
Images Festival - passes + swag ($150)
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival - passes ($100)
Smokestack Studio - printing services ($100)

Lottery tickets are $10/each and are available at G44.

Thank you to our participating artists and prize donors. The funds raised at Photopia directly benefit artists by supportingProof, our annual exhibition of photo-based work by Canadian emerging artists, and OUTREACH, our photography program for underserved youth in our community.

See you at Photopia!





For more information please contact:
Robyn York, Head of Communication and Development
(416) 979-3941 ext. 4
robyn@gallery44.org

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
www.gallery44.org

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Gallery 44 is open Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 5 pm | Free admission

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to photography as a multi-faceted and ever-changing art form. Founded in 1979 to establish a supportive environment for the development of photography, Gallery 44’s mandate is to provide a context for reflection and dialogue on contemporary photography and its related practices. Gallery 44 offers exhibition and publication opportunities to national and international artists, award-winning education programs, and affordable production facilities for artists. Through its programs, Gallery 44 is engaged in changing conceptions of the photographic image and its modes of production.

ARTICULATIONS 2015 Sketchbook Challenge

2015 FILLER UP SKETCHBOOK CHALLENGE Registration Fee: $ 5.00 CAD THE CHALLENGE : March 1st-31st, 2015 Art making solidarity to get you through the winter slump! We’re back again for a fourth year to challenge you to get back in ‘sketchbook shape’ with us! Fill up your unfinished sketchbooks. Start sketching. Start painting. Start writing. Start making time for yourself to do anything that YOU choose to be your creative outlet.  And do it every day. Every. Day. How to participate: 1. REGISTER ONLINE. The challenge starts March 1st but don’t worry, we’ll remind you! 2. But why wait until March? Start sketching now! Make use of those half filled sketchbooks you have sitting around.  Beginning March 1st, we’ll post ideas, encouragement and pictures of your progress. 3. Drop off your sketchbook before 5pm on Friday April 3rd, 2015. Indicate a viewing format for your sketchbook: 1. Viewers can look through the entire sketchbook OR 2. Indicate a specific page to be open for display. 4. Become very inspired and feel the amazing effects of making sketching part of your daily life.   FILL’ER UP Group Exhibition in The Earl Selkirk Gallery DATES TBA By signing up, you are automatically included in the FILL’ER UP group exhibition. Come celebrate your hard work and meet the other awesome artists who took part in the challenge! NOTE: This is NOT an ARTiculations Workshop (there is no class).  This is an independent challenge for you to complete on your own time where and when you feel like it! We will check in with you via group newsletter to keep you motivated throughout the month! If you are registering for someone other than yourself, please follow up with an email so that we can match up Registrations to Paypal Payments!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THE BLACK CAT + THE GLADSTONE

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ATTENTION ARTISTS - WORKING IN ALL MEDIUMS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Black Cat’s 2nd Year Juried Exhibition x The Gladstone Hotel



Exhibition runs from April 16th – April 26th 2015
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 25TH, 2015

April 2015 marks the second anniversary of The Black Cat. During which time we’ve hosted over 65 exhibitions and openings, and had over 7,000 attendees walk through our doors. To mark the occasion we are hosting a juried exhibition on the main floor gallery at The Gladstone Hotel. A space that is over twice the size of our own!

We are looking for your submissions, spanning the diverse community of photographers, painters, sculptors, drawers, printmakers, new media, interactive and all other mediums.

Submission Here:
http://www.theblackcat.to/products/call-for-submissions-gladstone-exhibition

The result will be a curated exhibition that highlights the community surrounding The Black Cat as The Best Contemporary Art Gallery for Emerging Artists in Toronto. All those who have show at the gallery in the past and who are interested in the future will be considered.

The following Jury will review submissions, with specializations in various mediums, and with a diverse background in a variety of creative fields:

Tara-Lynn Bartolini, Agent and Curator, Boondock Agency.
Devan Patel, Curator and Co-Director of Project Gallery.
Daniel Neuhaus, Director of Photography, Toronto Life Magazine.
Kara Lynne Wark, Art Director, JWT Toronto.
Graeme Luey, Graphic Designer & Co-Director/Curator at #Hashtag Gallery

Those selected for the Exhibition, will also be invited to a private dinner party in the space prior to the opening reception.





PLUS: Two artists whose work are reviewed but do not fit the overall curatorial vision of the jury, will also beawarded a one-week show at The Black Cat.





Exhibition runs from April 16th –April 26th.
Opening reception: Thursday, April 16th, 2015, 7:00pm – 11:30pm
Gladstone Hotel - 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 12-7pm, Monday: Closed


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 25 TH, 2015

You may submit a maximum of 5x works, in one submission, for three dimensional work multiple images of one piece may be submitted:

Submission fee: $50 + HST

http://www.theblackcat.to/products/call-for-submissions-gladstone-exhibition


ON THE CHECKOUT PAGE:
Along with a digital submission of each of your piece(s),
Please include the following details as appropriate (not all are mandatory)

1.­ Title, medium, and date of each work submitted.
2. Artist bio, artist statement, description of project, resume or CV
3. Size of the work unframed, or framed and any specific installation criteria.
4. Suggested selling price. There will be a 35% commission on all works sold.

Technical specifications:
1.­ All submissions must be standard­ resolution jpeg files, sized at 72 dpi and a maximum of 2000 pixels in length.
2.­ All files must be named LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_IMAGETITLE.jpg

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/730822627030857/


Any questions regarding submissions, do not hesitate to email: contact@theblackcat.to

TheBlackCat Artspace
www.facebook.com/TheBlackCatTO
twitter/instagram: @theblackcat_to
web: http://theblackcat.to
(416) 388-7263

2186 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON Canada
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Mini MOCCA: Free Workshops for Children at MOCCA

MOCCA presents an engaging children's workshop series featuring exhibition-related arts, crafts, and play-based exploration   Workshops are led by professional artists and skilled arts educators from our local community Ages 4-12 Free (Suggested donation of $5) Drop-in (RSVP not required) Maximum 15-20 participants   *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 Douglas Coupland-themed Mini MOCCA workshops March 1: 9:00am-11:00am Canada in Collage! What does Canada look like to you? Cut, tear, stick and paste together your own portrait of our nation. Using magazines such as Macleans, Canadian Living and more, participants will explore what our country looks like and create their own unique collages of that vision. What is Canada? What are some uniquely Canadian ‘secret handshakes?’ Participants will use a myriad of arts and crafts materials to explore what it means to be Canadian and make their own collage landscapes to take home. This workshop is led by artist Jacquelyn van Kampen and the Collage Collective. March 22: 9:00am-11:00am Colour Coupland: Make Your Own Sketchbook What is a sketchbook for? How is a sketchbook like a diary? Participants will discuss these ideas and make their own unique sketchbook before practicing using everything from crayons to ink to markers and more. Let their imaginations fill its fresh new pages and then take the book home to explore their creativity further! This session is led by crafter and artist Steph Hung. April 12: 9:00am-11:00am Mini Modern Houses: Prints and Inks Inspired by Coupland’s piece, 345 Modern Houses, participants will design the layout for their ideal room – whether it’s a kitchen, library, bedroom, or playroom – then turn it into an edition of handmade prints! Using printmaking materials and brightly coloured inks and papers, these floor plan prints will be traded amongst participants then arranged to explore and create possible configurations for a MOCCA Mini modern house. This workshop is led by artist Elizabeth Underhill. April 19: 9:00am-11:00am Utopian Tower Time After a special access tour of Douglas Coupland: everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything, participants (and parents that secretly love lego) will look at famous buildings from across the country and then see how Coupland uses building blocks in his artwork. Then it’s time for participants to unleash their creativity and build their own dream constructions! Part architecture, part sculpture, part collaborative installation. Join the group as we create a complex and colourful utopian urban landscape! Mini MOCCA is generously supported by Special thanks to Action Potential Lab and Konrad Group.

What Creative Professionals Do That Separates Them from Amateurs

Brilliant article from Life Hacker:

What Creative Professionals Do That Separates Them from Amateurs

ART SPIN: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2015

Call for Submissions for the 2015 Art Spin season Art Spin is gearing up for its seventh season this summer and is looking for exciting and imaginative submissions for its three tours starting in June 2015. ​Art Spin is a curated bicycle tour of contemporary art in Toronto. Programming consists of commissioned, multi-disciplinary works, which range from art performances to installations, as well as visits to galleries (commercial, artist run & public) and to artists’ studios. Along with the monthly bike tours, Art Spin also curates and mounts an annual group exhibition at the end of each season which takes place in an alternative industrial space. Art Spin tours have become one of the city’s most anticipated events of the summer, attracting a diverse and enthusiastic audience of at least 300 people per tour. Central to Art Spin’s mandate and a big part of what makes our tours so exciting is our commitment to transplanting encounters with art from conventional, institutional spaces into more alternative and public environments. We believe that encounters with art truly come to life in a meaningful and engaging way when they are experienced in a communal context, in unique site-specific locations. In past years we have commissioned projects that have taken place in parking structures, empty lots, public parks, vacant factories and warehouses, alleyways, churches, schoolyards, community spaces, hockey rinks and construction sites. With this in mind Art Spin is looking for artist’s submissions that are able to respond to their urban and cultural environment. Submissions for art projects from all disciplines (visual arts, installation, sculpture, film & video, new media, performance art, dance, theatre and music etc.) will be accepted but only those that embody a site-specific vision will be reviewed.  This can mean work that responds to an environment in either a geographic, architectural, culture, or historical manner. Submissions that rely on a gallery type setting will not be accepted. Successful submissions will be considered for one of the three tours taking place on: June 18th, July 23rd, August 20th.  (All tours begin at 6:30 and run until roughly9:30pm). Submissions for time-based projects should last no longer than 15 minutes. Although we encourage site-specific proposals, locations and venues may be altered in collaboration with the artist in order to better accommodate our tour routes. Artists should keep in mind the large number of participants on Art Spin tours. Projects that can be easily viewed/experienced by larger groups are more successful, as are interactive projects. Artists' fees between $500 - $1000, depending on the scope of the project, will be awarded. Submission Guidelines: (please review carefully) project description (500 word maximum in attached .doc or PDF format only) up to 10 images (attached files under 1M each, jpg, tiff, png, or gif) of proposed project and/or past work or, for time-based projects, please include no more than 5 minutes of video-support material (attached as mov, m4v or wmf formats or link to vimeo or youtube in your project description). A mix of photo and video support material will be accepted as long as there are no more than 10 items total, and no more than 5 minutes total of video an up-to-date CV/Resume (in attached .doc or PDF format only) please submit proposals by e-mail to info@artspin.ca, due by Friday March 6th (inclusive) 2014. e-mailed submission must be titled “Art Spin submission 2015” and follow the guidelines above. All text and image files should be attached, not embedded in your e-mail. If you have a link (for vimeo or youtube video only) please be sure to include it in your project description and not in the body of your e-mail. We highly recommend having a look at past examples of projects featured on Art Spin tours if you have never attended one: http://www.artspin.ca/#!submissions/c13xz If you have any further questions about the submissions process, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@artspin.ca.

OMER ARBEL AT MONTE CLARK GALLERY

Love the new works by Omer Abel up at MCG in Vancouver.

More info HERE.

Akin Collective Crit #28 at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art- Thursday November 27

For the November edition of our monthly open art critique, AKIN Collective has been invited by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) and iconic Canadian artist Vera Frenkel to host Akin Crit 28 in the Transit Bar at the museum.
F/B Event

Thursday, November 27. 6:30-9:00pm.
MOCCA
952 Queen Street West.

Bring your work in progress, your friends, your ideas and your thinking cap. And snacks.

$5 drinks available at the bar all night long

AKIN COLLECTIVE FALL GALLERY CRAWL

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AKIN FALL GALLERY CRAWL TIME

1. Come to Akin Collective Studio Unit 101, and enjoy some cold, free Kronenbourgs and some snacks at 1pm on Saturday, November 1st. 

2. HEAD TO SCRAP METAL GALLERY
3. HEAD TO DANIEL FARIA GALLERY
4. HEAD TO CLINT ROENISCH GALLERY
5. HEAD TO DIVISION GALLERY

Please join us for a private tour of the current exhibitions at some of Toronto's best and brightest galleries.

Yes, your friends can come along.

xo Akin Collective

ps. Yes, you can keep your Halloween costume on from the night before.