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Moving 1n Welcome to Emily DiCarlo, joining the 401 community as the successful 401 Richmond 2020 Career Launcher Prize recipient in Studio 260. We wish you a wonderful year ahead in the residency!

401 is pleased to introduce Surface Impression into Studio 228, a digital development consultancy specializing in the cultural and charitable sectors. A great fit for our 401 community!

Moving on The Documentary Organization of Canada, the collective voice of independent Canadian documentary creators, is moving on from Studio 205 in 401. tma n

ha r 401 says goodbye to the Playwright’s o e j Guild of Canada in Studio 350, a John Scott in his studio (see Tenant Profile on page 4). national arts service organization promoting and protecting playwrights. We will miss you!

Miles Ingrassia wrapped up his year as the 401 Richmond 2019 Career 2 news Launcher Prize recipient at the end of August in Studio 260. Miles had a successful year in the residency and will 3 on the cover remain close to 401 with many existing and strengthened ties to the community.

4 tenant profile MOVING up/down Koyama Press, promoter and supporter of a wide range of emerging and 5 spotted & established artists, producing diverse projects including comics, art books and applauded zines, is relocating from the second floor to the fourth, as founder Annie Koyama focuses on becoming a patron to a 6 listings broader range of artists. JAYU, a charitable organization leading in the space where the arts and human 8 press check rights intersect, is relocating from Studio 354 to 205. 9 THE BACK PAGE

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oppo addresses covid app privacy concerns Canadaland’s OPPO podcast, a bi-weekly show about politics in Canada, hosted by journalists Jen Gerson and Sandy Garossino, explored Canada’s COVID-19 tracing mobile app in episode 70: ‘Who’s Afraid of the COVID Alert App?’. Citizen Lab’s Christopher Parsons was invited on to the show to discuss privacy concerns and/or irrational fears about the federal government’s new app u o to contain the COVID virus.

o beln o Dyana Ouvrard e th Dyana ouvrard takes the helm at le labo Dyana Ouvrard succeeds Barbara Gilbert and Carolina Reis, former co-directors of the organization, as the new Executive Director of Le Labo, Toronto’s francophone media arts centre. With extensive experience in the cultural sphere, Dyana will prioritize the organization’s administration and finance, supported by Cynthia-Laure Etom, responsible for the centre’s programming and communications. park people releases 2020 canadian city parks report The Canadian City Parks Report is an annual report on the trends and challenges facing city parks. As COVID-19 has thrown into sharp relief, parks form a critical backbone of community infrastructure, strengthening our resilience during times of crisis. Parks are places where we grow our own food, where we let anxieties melt away on a nature walk, where we create social support networks, and even where we may find shelter during a trying time. The 2020 report was built on feedback Logging Scars received from 25,000 people who visited the website and downloaded the 2019 report. This year the report wildlands league reveals dives deep into urban biodiversity as pressures on our widespread deforestation natural environment from urbanization and climate An updated image catalogue shows over 290 sites in change threaten the ecosystems that sustain us. Ontario deforested due to roads and landings imposed by forest operations. The satellite images provide 401 community anniversaries additional evidence to support the finding that far from Congratulations to an inspiring group of 401 tenants being the exception or limited, deforestation from reaching major milestones in this historical year of 2020! logging scars is widespread and systemic. These 50 years: Open Studio productive forest losses have profound implications for 40 years: TAPA, Vtape climate, renewal of boreal caribou habitat (a threatened 35 years: Hilditch Architects species) and long-term sustainable timber supply. 30 years: ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, Wildlands League is also showcasing the imagery in a Q Music, Red Head Gallery, Saman Design new public friendly GoogleMyMaps viewer, encouraging 25 years: Consulting Matrix, DECODE, VIBE Arts more exploration of these public forests. 20 years: ICA Associates, imagineNATIVE, www.loggingscars.ca Lisa Kiss Design, Red Sky Performance

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Looking back to Nuit Blanche 2019 with Constructive Interference by Wendat artist Ludovic Boney and curated by DAPHNE for A Space Gallery (Studio 110 ) as part of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Ludovic brought together multiple repeating elements to create a transformative space that amplified one’s relationship to and within the world, whether real or manufactured.

401 richmond career launcher prize Panel Discussion, Studio Tour & 2020 Recipient Announced

Celebrating the Career Launcher Prize this past July, Emily began working in Studio 260 in September. 401 hosted a Studio Tour + Panel Discussion event on The event recording is on 401’s YouTube channel: Zoom. Awarded annually by jury, the residency provides ‘401 Richmond’. a pivotal opportunity to occupy a coveted 500 sq/ft studio for a full year in 401 Richmond. The event began in Studio 260 for a studio tour and talk with the 2019 recipient Miles Ingrassia. 401’s close Jennifer Emily Bhogal DiCarlo friend and partner, Beanfield, the largest independent fibre-optic network in Toronto and Montreal, wired the Career Launcher Prize studio with high speed internet for the event. 401 Richmond is grateful to Beanfield for William Miles their crucial support of emerging artists and the Huffman Ingrassia communities they work in. Thank you, Beanfield! William Huffman then moderated a panel discussion with Miles, Anahita Azrahimi of the Toronto Online Art Fair, Ellen Bleiwas, the 2017 Career Launcher Recipient, and Anna Gaby-Trotz, Open Studio’s Technical Director. William spoke with the panelists about the importance of fostering emerging voices through resource sharing and mentorship. The hour came to a close with the exciting announcement of the 2020 Career Launcher Prize recipient: Emily DiCarlo! A recent graduate of the Master of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto, Video still from Emily DiCarlo’s The Propogation of Uncertainty

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John Scott, Spectacle, 2020, ss mixed media on rle a paper, 35 x 23 in. Courtesy Nicholas uren b

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Born in Windsor in 1950, artist John Scott signed the furthered this exploration with John scratching the entire lease on his studio at 401 Richmond in 1994, together with Book of Revelations onto the surface of the muscle car. artist collaborator Deborah Waddington (see the large- Three versions of the sculpture were created over a scale multi-media works by the pair in the building’s west 12 year span, the first being compacted into a cube and stairwell), and maintains the same studio on the 3rd floor destroyed, the second purchased by the National Gallery 25 years later. “I knew right away that this was the place,” of Canada, and the third in the collection of the Art John recalls when he was shown the studio for the first time. Gallery of Ontario. Starting at what was then the Ontario College of Art With a career spanning over 40 years, John has had (now the Ontario College of Art and Design University, exhibitions at The Power Plant , OCADU) in 1972, John eventually became an instructor Art Gallery of Windsor, Mercer Union, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, after graduating, and taught at the school for close to The Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Vancouver Art 40 years before retiring last summer. The building’s Gallery. His work is in the collections of the Museum of proximity to the school allowed John to continue to teach, Modern Art, New York, Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, even during difficult periods in his life, “I’ve been through Museum London, Hamilton Art Gallery, University of a lot when I’ve been here. Things have changed a lot. But Toronto and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. this has always been a safe harbour.” Shifting from his usual media of and John’s art practice is rooted in social commentary on , John is currently collaborating with another the dark side of politics, war, and human nature. Often artist, Joe Toole, on a photography project, working with repeated animal and figurative characters appear in projection to superimpose contemporary portraits onto John’s multi-media works, such as the Dark Commander historical, classical . and Terrified Bunny, representing evil and vulnerability in John is represented by the Nicholas Metivier Gallery in the human condition. His Trans-Am Apocalypse series, Toronto, with work on view at www.metiviergallery.com. festivals make successful imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts expectations with online sales for their transition online Festival, SummerWorks Performance artists; and imagineNATIVE shifted to Similar to their 401 counterpart Images Festival, and the Toronto Outdoor present the work of over 100 Indigenous Festival, three more tenant festival Art Fair (TOAF), turned to technology artists from around the world via the organizations quickly re-grouped to to continue their work. SummerWorks digital sphere, including live screenings, re-imagine their programming in an online postponed their 2020 season, and interactive engagements, and virtual format. Still dedicated to providing a instead filled the summer with free online exhibitions. space for the artists they work with to programming; TOAF quickly re-branded present their work to the public, as the Toronto Online Art Fair to blow

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CANADALAND TESTIFIES TO FINANCE COMMITTEE Since launching its podcast and website in 2013, Canadaland, and its founder Jesse Brown, have been critiquing Canada’s media industry and breaking major news stories, including the Jian Ghomeshi scandal in 2014, with investigative reporter Kevin Donovan and the Toronto Star. Now, Canadaland’s Jaren Kerr has blown the lid of the inner workings of the WE Movement’s WE to ME and WE Charity entities, releasing his first report in the fall of 2018, focusing on WE’s corporate partners’ ties to child labour. Further reporting by Canadaland, digging deeper into the organization’s activities and dealings, led Jesse to be invited to testify in front of the House of Commons’ Finance Committee this past July.

BEYOND EXTRACTION: COUNTER-CONFERENCE Every March, leading mineral explorers, miners, and service providers gather in Toronto for the meeting of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), the largest such gathering in the world. The Beyond Extraction Collective directs critical attention to the inner workings of the extractive industry and its global networks. Beyond Extraction hosted a multi-day series of events February 27 – March 4, concurrent to PDAC, including a Town Hall in the Urbanspace Gallery moderated by Allie Rougeot, #Fridays4Future, and including Joan Kuyek, author and form Co-Founder of MiningWatch, Dr. Shiri Pasternak, Research Director, Yellowhead Institute, Nigel Henri Robinson, Youth Engagement Lead, Indigenous Climate Action, and Dr. Anna Zalik, Associate Professor, York University.

rainbow railroad on canada’s drag race Helping LGBTQ+ people escape violence in their home countries, Rainbow Railroad was featured on Canada’s Drag Race this summer. Five individuals rescued by the organization, from Indonesia, Jamaica, Syria, and Uganda, were paired with the show’s contestants for a drag makeover. Their arrival changed the mood on set from a cutthroat competition to an appreciation for the serious challenges facing queer people around the world, as nearly 70 countries criminalize LGBTQ+ people, and six impose the death penalty.

prefix photo wins award canadaland editor Prefix Photo has been named ‘Best nomiated for an emmy Magazine: Art, Literary and Culture’ at Andréa Schmidt, Canadaland’s the 43rd annual National Magazine Managing Editor, received an Emmy Awards, held in June. One of the highest nomination for outstanding coverage of honours of the night, the award is given a breaking news story for The Weekly’s to the magazine that most consistently El Chapo’s Son: The Siege of Culiacán. engages, surprises and serves the needs of its readers, based upon its publishing activities of the past year.

5 listings September to November 2020

The Listings Board is your opportunity to communicate September 5 – 26 with other tenants and keep them informed about what is yumart Gallery happening in your organization. If you are having a sale, Gallery Artists: Resurgence exhibition, or event you would like advertised, email details to [email protected]. Listings are open to all tenants. September 7 – December 31 The Roastery Coffee House DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: Wednesday, October 15, 2020 Gloria C. Swain: A Celebration of Shapes and Colours Opening: September 24

GALLERY DIRECTORY September 11 – October 3 Trinity Square Video A Space Gallery (Studio 110) 2020 Emerging Digital Artists Award Exhibition: Jawa El Khash, 416-979-9633 www.aspacegallery.org Kanika Gordon, Alison Postma, Camila Salcedo, Lisa Smolkin

Abbozzo Gallery (Studio 128) September 11 – October 24 416-260-2220 www.abbozzogallery.com Gallery 44 Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (Studio 120) Main Gallery 416-979-3941 www.gallery44.org Elisabeth Belliveau: Alone in the house (Still life with Clarice Lispector) Open Studio (Studio 104) Production Gallery 416-504-8238 www.openstudio.ca Daniel He, Richelle Forsey, Sonya Filman: Light Gestures Vitrines Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Studio 124) Jennifer Ray: In Range 416-591-0357 www.prefix.ca Members’ Gallery Red Head Gallery (Studio 115) Huw Morgan: City in Motion 416-504-5654 www.redheadgallery.org September 12 – October 3 Ryerson Artspace (Studio B-106) Abbozzo Gallery [email protected] Heather Horton: Love Story: Recent Paintings www.ryersonartspace.com Opening: September 12, 5–9 pm

TAG (Tangled Art Gallery) (Studio 122) October 3 – 24 647-725-5064 www.tangledarts.org yumart Gallery Nina Amin Trinity Square Video (Studio 121) 416-593-1332 www.trinitysquarevideo.com

Urbanspace Gallery (Studio 117) 416-595-5900 www.urbanspacegallery.ca

yumart Gallery (Studio B-20) 647-447-9274 www.yumart.ca

YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Studio 140) 416-598-4546 www.yyzartistsoutlet.org

EXHIBITIONS Suzanne Nacha and Meghan Price at YYZ Artists’ Outlet continues to September 26 (October 3 – December 19) YYZ Artist Outlet Galia Eibenschutz: Red. Blue. Orange. Yellow. Line scapes October 3 – December 19 and Landscape. YYZ Artists’ Outlet continues to October 24 Suzanne Nacha, Meghan Price: Land Line Gallery 44 October 8 – 31 OUTREACH Online: Envision Abbozzo Gallery www.gallery44.org/envision Ron Eady: An Exploration of Line and Form: 20 Year continues to December 19 Retrospective Urbanspace Gallery October 31 – November 21 401 – 25 Years As A Hub Of Culture yumart Gallery September 4 – October 3 Y.M. Whelan: All Roads – new paintings Open Studio October 31 – December 12 Main Gallery Gallery 44 Richard Sewell: wHerOccurence Silvia Kolbowski: A Few Howls Again Project Space Andrea deBruijn: SHADE November 6 – 28 Feature Wall Abbozzo Gallery Micah Lexier: The Oscilloscope Marie Rioux: Temps Suspendu / Suspended Times

6 November 28 – December Top to bottom: Marie Rioux at Abbozzo Gallery (November yumart Gallery 6 – 28); Alice Burton at yumart Gallery as part of Gallery Artists & Invited Guests: 8th Annual Holiday Salon Resurgence (September 5 – 26); Elizabeth Belliveau at Gallery 44 in the Main Gallery (September 11 – October 24) December 5 –19 Abbozzo Gallery Katharine Burns: Sea Change

EVENTS

September 9 Vtape A Conversation: Yaniya Lee in conversation with Black curators Instagram Live Panel Discussion @vtapevideoart Time: 2 pm

Starting September 11 continuing Fridays through Winter 2021 Vtape The Curatorial Incubator v.16: Living in Hope Instagram Live: Curator’s Introduction, Screening Zoom: Curator/Artists Discussion @vtapevideoart

October 1 – 11 Inside Out LGBTQ+ Film Festival Online Screenings & Programming www.insideout.ca

October 7 – 19 Open Studio FUTURE PROOF: A Golden Anniversary Auction of Contemporary Art Online Auction www.openstudio.ca/event/future-proof

October 20 – 25 ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Online Screenings & Programming www.imaginenative.org

Calls for submission

November 2 Myseum of Toronto Deadline for Myseum Intersections Festival 2022 www.myseumoftoronto.com

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spacing magazine’s Shawn Micallef moderated the panel ICLEI-LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Cities Gone Viral: Assisting Canada’s FOR SUSTAINABILITY were Response to COVID-19 for Word spotted in the press a number of times On The Street, as part of the City over the past couple of months: Imagines 2020 series, with Thea Lim, – at buffalorising.com for partnering Nora Loreto, and Shree Paradkar. with a number of other like-minded organizations, to help see Buffalo designated a ‘United States Pioneer.’ – in Environment Journal as one of the founding members of the Cities WithNature Group which Glasgow joined. The group works to enhance the value of nature in and around cities across the world. – at collingwoodtoday.ca for working with Grey County to develop a Climate Change Action Plan. Architectural conservancy of ontario’s Jennifer Grainger was vibe arts was quoted by CTV News in a story about London, captured on toronto.com, Ontario, renaming Dundas Street, originally delivering the VIBE BLOOM named by John Graves Simcoe, who fought online arts education program, against abolishing slavery in the area. teaching young people how to make art with simple supplies from around one’s home.

INSIDE OUT LGBTQ FILM FESTIVAL made headlines in Variety announcing a North American LGBTQ film festival alliance – with several other festivals – committed to highlighting the works of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer filmmakers during the pandemic.

KRIS KNIGHT dished his pop culture recommendation to Toronto between the lines Life in their Culture section, was noted on rabble.ca for joining suggesting their readers try with 30 other social-justice focused Philippe Besson’s book Lie publishers in forming the Radical With Me. Publishers Alliance.

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BEN JOHNSTON JOINS 401 Studio 216

Ben Johnston is an artist and Creative Director Fortune 500 companies to working with a variety of specializing in art direction and custom typography for NGO’s, his main focus is on finding unique approaches advertising, murals, installations and events, helping to each opportunity drawing on inspirations from his bring to life to numerous types of projects. Raised in encounters throughout his travels. South Africa and currently based in Toronto, Ben has www.benjohnston.ca also been involved in various conferences and mural Above: Ben Johnston, It Was All A Dream, 2019. Designed festivals around the world. As a multi-disciplinary artist and painted for the Funhouse under the creative direction and designer winning numerous awards for projects with of Steph Payne and Dawn Laing. Courtesy Ben Johnston.

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