CARFAC Ontario’s quarterly newsletter D ISPATCH V o l u m e 23 - I s s u e 1 - S p r i n g /S u m m e r 2017
Emerging Artists & Collectives
Features: Interview with Michael Vickers of Akin | Forever Emerging: Con- fessions and Tips from a Recent Art School Graduate
Plus: CARFAC Ontario Member Exhibition Listings | Grants Calendar | Keeping you Connected... Local News from Across the Province Content:
Executive Director’s Report | P 1
President’s Message | P 2
Interview with Michael Vickers | by Elissa Pendergast | P 3
Forever Emerging: Confessions and Tips from a Recent Art School Graduate | by Dainesha Nugent-Palache | P 5
Keeping you Connected ... Local News from We moved to a new unit Across the Province | P 8 in the same building. CARFAC Ontario Member Exhibition Listings | P 10 Our new address as of May 1, 2017:
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Executive Director’s Report
Dear CARFAC Ontario On the advocacy front, we were disappointed to members, see no mention of the Artist Resale Right (ARR) in the recent federal budget announcement despite With spring comes change an explicit recommendation from the Standing and I’m excited to let Committee on Finance to amend the Income Tax you know that CARFAC Act and Copyright Act to provide for the ARR. We Ontario relocated into a continue our work on this issue as we consider the lovely new office space introduction of the ARR to Canada to be a matter in the same building. Our of if, not when. CARFAC National board member new unit is #414. The rest and past president Grant McConnell attended the of the address remains the same. International Conference on Artist’s Resale Right at the World Intellectual Property Organization in We would also like to welcome Elissa Pendergast Geneva this spring. We will be sure to share any as our new Membership and Communications important updates from him. Coordinator. Elissa originally came to us through the YES employment program, starting out as an Just as we were finalizing this issue of DISPATCH, we Administrative Assistant. She replaces Venessa received the good news that the Province approved Harris, who we wish all the best to in her future $20 million in additional funding to the Ontario Arts endeavours. Council (OAC) to be spread out over the next four years. This is the first increase in the OAC’s operating We were recently approved for a number of budget since 2008-09. The details of how the funding summer employment grants and look forward will be deployed have not yet been announced, to having some extra help at the office in the but CARFAC Ontario has already participated in a upcoming months. roundtable with Minister of Culture Eleanor McMahon and her staff where we made clear the importance By now, I trust you are all well aware of our 2017 of programs that benefit individual artists directly and membership drive, which we kicked off in March. ensure artists are paid fairly. Thanks to donations from other arts organizations and local businesses serving artists, we were able We continue to be engaged in ongoing to hold a raffle to encourage people to renew/join conversations with community members, groups through to the end of April. We announced the and organizations around various other issues winners of the raffle on our Facebook page and affecting artists. Recent discussions have focused in this issue of DISPATCH. If you’re on Facebook on best practices for artist residencies, fees for and haven’t yet joined our page, please do so! It’s art writing, fees for dance and performance art in a great way to get timely info that doesn’t quite fine art settings, the contribution of artists to the fit into the formats of a quarterly newsletter or mandate of organizations in other sectors, our the weekly CARFAC ONline e-bulletins members communities, and society as a whole, and the receive on Saturdays. economic status of artists in the context of income equity and decent work. This latter topic has seen I look forward joining Board Vice President Kohila a number of other issues of more general interest Kurunathan at the CARFAC National AGM in coming up, including gentrification, rising housing/ Edmonton in June. For those of you who are interested, real estate costs, taxation, guaranteed minimum attendance is open to all CARFAC members across wage, etc. CARFAC Ontario remains an important the country. This year’s theme is “Building Your voice at the table, reminding not only policy makers, Career” and speakers include former CARFAC but also other organizations in the arts and culture Ontario ED Kristian Clarke. For more information: sector that some of these issues affect individual www.carfac.ca/news/2017/03/20/building-your- artists in very specific ways. career-2017-agm-and-conference-edmonton- alberta/ Very best,
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Welcome new members and espouses: enabling artists to gather together to continuing members. We enhance their practice through communal support are pleased you are with us. and education. In challenging times such as We hope you will use all the these, when affordable studio and living space is services CARFAC Ontario scarce in Ontario’s cities as are jobs that support has to offer you to help you an artist’s art practice without completely sapping enrich and professionalize their creative juices, it is wise to gather in working your art practice, from our groups and collectives. While this is essential in recently streamlined online fee a practical sense for the development and survival calculator to our free legal services and our updated of artists and art communities, it also speaks to a and newly developed toolkit publications. broader political worldview.
As in our individual art practices, our organization I am pleased to announce ARCCO (Artist-Run sometimes has set backs. At CARFAC National, of Centres and Collectives of Ontario) recently which CARFAC Ontario is an active member, we honoured one of our members. Congratulations to were disappointed recently when the federal budget Susan Gold for a lifetime achievement award. Susan was tabled and the Artists Resale Right (ARR) is an artist as well as a former professor in the art was not included. This would have helped artists department at the University of Windsor. She is also financially with the receipt of 5% from the resale of a former president of CARFAC Ontario and has their work in the secondary market. But we are not been instrumental in the running of the high profile deterred: we will continue to speak to ministers and artist-run centre in Windsor, Artcite Inc., for many MPs to get the ARR included in the next budget. years. This award is well deserved and speaks to a life of tremendous commitment to the art community One object of our focus at the provincial level is of Windsor and Ontario. Susan, you are a great collectives and how we can assist them in supporting example to all the artists who are members of young the artists that are affiliated with them. In this issue collectives. Thank you. of Dispatch, Elissa Pendergast interviews Michael Vickers, one of the directors of Akin Collective and Akin Projects. It is so gratifying to hear from a young Yael artist who has actualized the core of what CARFAC
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| 2 | Interview with Michael Vickers
Interview by Elissa Pendergast
Tell us a bit about your artistic practice and career.
I’m a Toronto-based artist with a practice that really centres around working in the interstices between sculpture, painting and installation. My recent work investigates the limits of different materials and presentation methods - painted, curled and bent forms made of various painted aluminums and steels, etched and engraved stone and marble works, installations that activate the exhibition space in different ways. I hold close attention to process—looking at the way my work is made and how my process can act as a link to meaning. I have exhibited locally and internationally, including presentations at Volta Basel, Mercer Union, Clark House Mumbai, Division Gallery, Patrick Mikhail Gallery and installations at the Art Gallery of Ontario and The Gardiner Museum.
What medium/media do you prefer to work with?
I originally come from a painting background but for several years now my work has been toying with the sculptural object and most recently experimenting with various fabrication processes. More than ever, I’m looking lately at the poetry and the written word.
Did/do you have any mentors, and if so, can you Michael Vickers. Installation View at VOLTA Basel 12 tell us about them. (Detail), Spray paint on galvanized steel and neon, Dimensions variable, 2016. I’m not sure I’ve had any specific mentors but have been lucky to have had different people take me under their wing for shorts amount of time. During In what ways has your formal education helped my undergraduate degree Carol Wainio guided me you as an artist? a lot, and Barabara Fischer did the same during I think it’s helped a lot, but lived experience has my Masters. Peter McGill of Pace/MacGill Gallery helped much more- which would probably be the also shared a lot of art world wisdom (cynicism?) case if I had decided to study law or accounting when I was younger. I feel lucky that I’ve met three instead. I’d say that’s the case for just about anyone of my heros- the artist Robert Frank when I lived doing anything, wouldn’t you? Textbooks are good in New York, the musician Conor Oberst when a but conversations are great. I originally started friend snuck me backstage at a Blues Festival and school in journalism but my BA opened my eyes David Beckham when I waited outside Manchester to the art world and helped me find a place in it. I’d United’s stadium as a young boy. I’m currently say my MA continued that, but really improved my working on a book project where I’ve also been writing and theoretical knowledge which can be so fortunate to have long conversations about life important. I had also just moved back to Canada, with several artists and curators I really look up to. and it helped me get used to a new city.
| 3 | You’re heavily involved with Akin, which has been I see that you’ve presented at OCADU and doing some great things for individual artists Humber – what did you talk about and what was re: affordable workspace and opportunities for your impression of the students. What can the professional development and networking. Can visual arts community look forward to in the you tell us some more about your organizational coming years with this new generation? model and values? In both instances I was there to talk about my practice Thank you! Akin is a huge fan of you, as well. My studio and experience as an artist. What can we look mate Oliver Pauk and furniture designer Michael forward to with this next generation? I’d like to think Dellios began Akin Collective 8 years ago as a small we’ll see a more open minded, kinder generation shared loft studio shared by friends in Toronto’s west of artists that are exploring art making by pushing end. Since then (I moved here and began to help the their tools and mediums by making technology do machine run 5 years ago) we’ve grown to become the things it wasn’t made to do. Snapping things in half, largest provider of shared studio space in Toronto with putting them together differently and making us look about 170 artists, designers and creatives working at the world from a different angle. Beautiful glitches. across almost 20,000sf of studio space in 4 main hubs. We’re also seeing artists with practices that are more To be able to offer access to shared studio space for entreprenurial and diverse than ever, both good $60/th is something really good for our city, I think. things. I inevitably end up spending a good chunk A large part of my role is overseeing Akin Projects, of time also making sure they are aware of different our registered non-profit that provides free and low- resources out there to support during their studies cost programming for the public and professional and once they’re out there in the world. I really think development opportunities for artists- everything making the decision to be an artist is a brave, difficult from grant writing guidance and tax sessions to free and often solitary one- it’s important for people to museum tours and virtual reality workshops. So far connect with each other and know they aren’t going we’ve had over 3,000 members of the public attend it alone. well over 100 events so like the studio side of things, it’s growing quickly! It’s an amazing thing to be a part Are there any CARFAC Ontario resources you of, and help build with a small but mighty team of artist think are especially useful for emerging artists? staff that work with us! This recent Toronto Star article Other resources out there? What are some of the gives more insight as well! gaps?
We especially love that almost all Akin workshops I adore your CARFAC Artist Fee calculator, making are free – can you talk about some of the more it easier than ever to figure out a minimum fee for successful/popular/useful ones, what are some the work that you should be paid for something as of the hot topics, and what kinds of people are an artist, along with the different connections you coming out to these? How are you able to pull provide to resources for artists. I hope eventually this off? the advocacy work you’re doing means that artists will eventually be able to point to that fee and have Well, what we’re realising more than ever is that there legal backing. We’re getting there. Our friends at is a real need for some of the workshops we run and Xpace Cultural Centre are also doing amazing there really aren’t enough places providing guidance work providing resources, help and workshops for or resources for artists in the city. It’s pretty amazing to artists and I’d reccomend people look up anyone have close to two hundred people attend some of our they aren’t familiar with on our friends & resources Forge Professional Workshops at City Hall but at the page! If you have a particular problem you’re stuck same time you look at that and go ‘If this many people with, email me, we’ll have a cup of coffee at Akin and are looking for help, something is wrong and some break the big problem down into smaller ones that things need to be fixed on a much bigger scale’. All we can tackle together. of our events are open to anyone and everyone, and it’s exciting to see so many different people, artists or More information about Michael Vickers’ and on Akin otherwise, looking to engage with their creative side. Akin Collective events and Projects: Anytime registering for one of our events has a cost Instagram: @michaeljohnvickers @akinprojects associated with it, it’s because we’re making sure Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/akinprojects/ that artists are getting paid fairly. The work you are Website: www.michaelvickers.org all doing at CARFAC is so, so important on that front. www.akincollective.com | www.akinprojects.org Exposure doesn’t put food in the fridge. | 4 | Forever Emerging: Confessions and Tips from a Recent Art School Graduate by Dainesha Nugent-Palache
“Emerging artist” is one of those ambiguous terms that gets thrown around frequently and confidently, despite the mystery that surrounds it. The definition is not fixed to any age or specified duration of time, rather, it remains suspended somewhere between brevity and permanence. The fact that remains invariable is that each artist bears this title at some point in their artistic career.
Last summer, after graduating with a BFA from OCAD University and with several group shows under my belt, I began to consider my position as an emerging artist and what this actually meant upon leaving school. At the time, I perceived this title to be both humorous and ominous, which is why I chose to have it tattooed onto the front of my ankle. Whenever someone provides a long winded explanation for their tattoos it often takes a great deal of self-restraint to keep myself from screaming-a seemingly evolutionary skill acquired as a means of digesting the jargon-heavy fluff that is characteristic of art school critiques-so I will refrain from pretending that there’s anything too profound about a tattoo I decided to get, aided by post-graduation anxieties and a couple glasses of wine. However, in retrospect this tattoo now serves as a reminder of several things: the potential permanence of this role of emerging artist, as well as the weight the title holds. Branding myself permanently with these words holds me accountable to be seen and to act as such, and then (hopefully), to finally emerge-at which point I will have the ‘emerging’ crossed out, although I still haven’t decided if mid-career will be added or not.
Unlike a laughable tattoo, the choice to make a career out of art is not an easy choice to make. From the author’s Instgram account. There are many occupations that are infinitely less precarious than that of an artist, but the one thing all other jobs which sometimes have no connection professional creatives seem to have in common is that to the arts, while striving to maintain an active art there isn’t much else they can imagine themselves practice. Until recently, whenever this question was doing happily. The sentiment is as factual as it is posed to me, felt an overwhelming sense of dread; romantic: artists create out of necessity, whether how am I supposed to call myself an artist when they are immediately cognizant of the struggle which the majority of my income is generated from my accompanies their decision or not. day job? What I have come to accept is that what you do for work does not have to define you, nor When asked the question “what do you do?”, the diminish the validity of your artistic practice. Existing answer is never quite conclusive for emerging artists. is expensive, but existing while making art amplifies In order to survive, most emerging artists must work this cost exponentially. | 5 | Gone are the days when it was commonplace for up a substantial portion of their programming, and emerging artists to find affordable studio space and that CARFAC fees are paid to exhibiting artists. an apartment in a major city, while surviving solely Two ARCs I have found helpful in terms of the off the art they sell; now, sacrifices must be made assistance they provide to emerging artists are in order to survive as an emerging artist. What this Xpace Cultural Center and Whippersnapper Gallery. means for me personally is that I have chosen to The exhibition programming at Xpace is centered move back in with my parents in the suburbs, so that around the work of emerging artists and curators, I am able to afford a studio downtown and materials but the institution also provides many workshops to continue producing work. This is a luxury in its own that are invaluable to emerging artists, for example right, but it is a choice which infringes on my ability grant writing workshops and income taxes for artists. to easily maintain a secure sense of community. Whippersnapper stands out to me for their PEERS Access to art institutions and to my peers is now Program, which I was lucky enough to be part of. less immediately tangible than when I was located PEERS is a 3-month peer mentorship program for in Toronto. Although I am lucky enough to avoid the emerging artists, curators, arts-organizers, and rental crisis which plagues so many of my peers living cultural producers, as a means of developing your in Toronto, this option isn’t available to everyone. It practice. The program also provides an honorarium is for this reason emerging artists are often forced to to supplement time and travel, which is a nice work more than one job if they are to have a place incentive. Artist Run Centers & Collectives of Ontario to live and secure the means to produce. There is so (ARCCO) as well as its national counterpart ARCA much that can be said about the current economic also host online databases of ARCs across Ontario situation of young people and emerging artists today, and Canada. as compared to decades prior, but this is our reality. What needs to be considered is how to navigate this Artist Collectives: Artist collectives function similarly contemporary landscape accordingly. to ARCs, the difference being that collectives are typically self-sustaining and do not receive external One of the most instrumental pieces of advice I have operational funding in order to exist. Collectives ever received comes from my mother: “what’s for are formed when a group of artists who share you is for you”. It’s a phrase she has repeated to me similar artistic interests come together to exist as so many times over, despite the obvious aggravation an entity, although not necessarily working in direct it arouses in me. Incidentally, it is these same words collaboration. The formation of such collectives which I find solace in at times when I feel defeated. provides artists with a sense of community and Especially for emerging artists, it’s easy to fall into contributes to the validity of their practices, often the trap of perceiving the successes of our peers through the curation of their own group shows. Some as our own failures, without considering that each collectives in Toronto currently contributing to the individual’s relationship with art is personal. From richness of the arts community are OKAY Collective, how we come to be artists, what we choose to BAU (Black Artist Union), and Akin Collective. Both create, where this decision takes us, and at what OKAY Collective and BAU are collectives formed pace, these facts might run parallel to another artist’s mostly by OCAD University Alumni and emerging experience, but they will never be identical. artists, with BAU consisting solely of emerging artists who are black. These two collectives aim to carve Despite the individualized manner in which artistic out space for their work to exist through the creation careers take shape, there are many resources and of their own publications and hosting of group institutions that are accessible to all emerging artists, shows featuring the art of those in their collective. to be utilized in order to bolster their careers: Akin Collective, which has been around for longer, provides affordable studio space to artists, hosts Artist Run Centers (ARCs): Canada has a rich history workshops, and allows members to exhibit work in of ARCs-an institutional structure introduced in the their members’ gallery. 1960s, as a means of combating the exclusion many emerging artists and underrepresented artists faced Residencies: While there is no one single way that in the shadow of larger public galleries, museums, residencies function, art residencies are generally and commercial galleries. ARCs still uphold the meant to serve as a means of providing artists same function today, ensuring the needs of artists with the time and space to produce new work. remain central to their interests. Most ARCs have Some residencies are free to attend, while others mandates in place to ensure emerging artists make have costs associated for things like room and
| 6 | board, travel etc. Stipends can, in some cases, this reason that when you reach out to someone be attached to a residency, and these are often you admire artistically (and sincerely), they are the most appealing for emerging artists. The offer usually supportive in some way. Mentorship can of a stipend can often be a deciding factor when take shape in many forms, from direct advice or choosing which residencies to apply for. While critique regarding your practice, skill sharing, and most residencies tend to have some sort of acting shadowing. A mentor is someone whose artistic facilitator, their involvement in the actual production goals and interest resemble yours in some way, of participants’ artwork varies per residency. except they have more experience. Sometimes The Residency Unlimited website is an excellent mentor/mentee relationships happen organically resource for seeking out residencies which accept (where the mentor voluntarily chooses to invest applications. time into your practice), while at other times you will have to instigate the exchange yourself. Asking for Grants: Many artists rely heavily upon securing help is not an easy thing to do, but it becomes less grants in order to fund their practice, so if you are painful every time, and will have been well worth someone with an emerging professional practice, it the risk of being declined if it eventually leads to an makes sense to familiarize yourself with the granting opportunity to be mentored. A large part of being an institutions you have access to within your region. artist is centered around asking: asking for studio Since the funds available through each institution visits, asking for grants etc., so it makes sense to are limited, this process is quite competitive; become familiar with the act of asking. recipients are decided upon by way of a jury of peers and professionals. As the granting system CARFAC: in the same way that people will try to find relates to emerging artists specifically, there are ways to underpay artists, as emerging artists, it is often restrictions in place which dictate the amount sometimes difficult to suspend the notion that art is of time you should have been out of school, and you somehow disingenuous when there is a monetary might be asked to demonstrate a professional track exchange involved. Art is a real career, and artists record in order to qualify for a grant. It never hurts cannot survive off of exposure. If there is ever a to check in with the granting officer at whichever time when I’m put in a position where someone is institution you intend to request funds from; grant requesting my services without pay, or they attempt officers actually do want to help you! Reaching out to underpay me, I refer them to the CARFAC- to institutions directly when applying for grants often RAVV Fee Schedule, which lists minimum industry makes the process less confusing, plus it’s usually in standards and guidelines. CARFAC also provides a your favour to make an introduction. At the national useful fee calculator. level, the Canada Council for the Arts grants are available to Canadian artists who meet their eligibility It’s as though once you decide to make a career out guidelines. There are also granting institutions of making art, an invisible entity knights you with the which exist regionally by Province or Territory, like title of Emerging Artist, then sends you on confusing the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) in Ontario, or by journey without a map. While it’s true that there municipality, like the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) in isn’t one definitive direction an emerging artist must Toronto. The Artists in Canada database includes take, and the destination is different for everyone, Canadian granting institutions as well as some it’s important to know about the many tools and lesser known foundations. It also doesn’t hurt to do resources out there which are available to all artists a little Google digging. to ensure that they are able to pursue their work.
Mentorship: One thing that I’m coming to realize is that more often than not, people are willing to assist you if they are able to. Most people also enjoy being complimented, so it is probably for
| 7 | Keeping you Connected ... Local News from Across the Province
Leesa Bringas from Sudbury Box Studios artists Kyle Topping and Chrissy Poitras offer an affordable focused environment that Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure of encourages exploration, experimentation and the teaching in various contexts including the classroom, cultivation of new ideas with a focus on providing gallery as well as occasional offsite visit. In the artists with career-building material through their classroom context, I teach Business of the Arts at Artist as Entrepreneur package. Cambrian College and each year able to introduce students to the history of CARFAC, its tools, ongoing Unlike in the big city, networking with other artists in advocacy and use Information for Artists as our a rural environment can be challenging. To assist textbook. In the gallery setting, I work as a technician in this, the County’s Community Development at Cambrian’s Open Studio, where we frequently Department and the Prince Edward County Arts host school groups to view exhibitions. I find talking Council have come together to support Creative about CARFAC and wearing the “Has the Artist Rural Minds, a quarterly networking event designed Been Paid?” button, a great segue into an artist fee to stimulate conversation and collaboration. Check discussion. In all cases, students are interested a out the Creative Rural Minds facebook page for lot in learning, however I press the need for them to details. be involved in the art community as well as ongoing advocacy, including the work of CARFAC. The idea www.smallpondarts.ca | www.sparkboxstudio.com they can make an impact on all levels—eyes light up. Sophie DeFrancesca from Prince Edward County
Victoria Ward from the Peterborough area In 1993, Alice Mennacher and Peter Mennacher started Blizzmax Gallery in a restored barn in the The Art Gallery of Peterborough released their beautiful region of South Bay, not so much as a new strategic plan last month. After a rigorous business but with the idea to promote art in the consultation process the plan which covers the county. At the time there were only a handful of next five years (2016-2021) hopes to reinforce their artists who had ventured out of cities to have more foundation, engage their audience, tell their story, freedom. Over the years the artistic community has grow their revenue and strengthen their capacity. expanded incredibly and the county is becoming The city of Peterborough is inviting Canadian artists quite a centre for the arts. Alice and Peter were at and design teams to submit proposals to design a the forefront of this movement. UN Peacekeepers monument for a site downtown. Gentrification is a very hot topic in the city these Hosts to some of the most exciting contemporary art days as important artist run properties downtown shows between Montreal and Toronto, this season are being bought up by developers. Electric City opens on June 3rd with “Arte Povera Revisited”. Culture Council and concerned members of the art The show runs until June 25th. The heyday of the community are planning to address these concerns Arte Povera movement was from 1967 to 1972 this spring through public programming. and was closely linked to the political radicalism emerging across Europe at the time. For more info Susan Wallis from Prince Edward County visit Blizzmax.com
Looking for an artistic get-away? Artists Krista Dalby Clayton Windatt from the Nipissing region and Milé Murtanovski of Small Ponds Arts, host self- directed artist residencies on their beautiful 87-acre There are always things happening no matter where farm in the County. Surrounded by nature, visiting you are in Ontario. Business for the Arts has their artists are given the opportunity to concentrate on ArtsVest program launching right now with regional their craft, free from the pressures of daily life in a programs in 5 cities across Ontario including supportive and nurturing environment. At Spark North Bay and Thunder Bay. These programs are | 8 | offering arts groups matching funding to develop MayWorks Windsor Festival 2017, celebrating new relationships with sponsors giving out up to Labour, Arts, and Community . The Gibson Gallery $5,000 to each group or $30,000 to each region. The in Amherstburg will exhibit, “Artists of the Future”, focus deals with building healthy and sustainable featuring the art work of General Amherst and St relationships which is not a new subject for any Thomas of Villanova high school students. arts institutions but there are always more groups being created and needing these services. With a Intern, Harley Crow, from the University of Windsor bit of a shot in the arm for regional funding, it will VIP Coop Programme is set in place to work at the be interesting to see how these northern groups experimental artist studio, one ten park: a working manage to spend their new money. space. He will take part in the administration of the ongoing international correspondence project, Susan Gold Smith from Windsor MAKE : PUBLIC, as well as, a 5th Anniversary collaborative installation, “1-1-0”, and a publication. At the heart of Windsor Region’s broad ranging Harley will experience the projects from first opportunities for the next generation of culture discussion to preparation to documentation. workers and creators, is our artist-run-centre, Artcite Inc. The ideology and example comes from The University of Windsor School of Creative the space of artist- run-culture, where there is a Arts’ INCUBATOR hosted a major three day porous environment for participation in creation, interdisciplinary event, “Life in the Soil. The School administration, governance, and experiencing the also held an all day “Arts and Feminism Wikipedia best in Canadian practice and values. Artcite Inc. Edit-a-thon”. Both are free and unique opportunities regularly has had a number of interns and coop for exposure to current cultural practice. students who become familiar with the workings of emerging culture creation through their experience. Artists are not always struggling alone in the studio, In addition to the artist-run, Windsor has other the contemporary Canadian artist is an engaged opportunities. The Arts Council for Windsor and cultural worker who needs to access a lively, porous, Region has successfully trained a number of young welcoming cultural community. Windsor is that! As people who have later joined their staff. They a senior artist, I would encourage participation at all regularly announce interns and summer students on levels of a life in the arts, as it is socially engaging their website www.acwr.net. They organize regular and creatively productive. I have seen the young workshops on specific subjects (the March workshop artists that take advantage of opportunities for was Tax Information for Artists), a Vanguard Youth engagement become the pride of Windsor Region Arts Collective and Free Space. and the cultural leaders of their generation.
The ACRW ‘s accessible rentable space, Art Speak, In other news, ARCCO recently announced held the International Baccalaureate Exhibition recipients of 2017 ARCCO Awards: from Assumption High School and the UNIFOR 200 • ARCCO Mentorship Award: Bastien Gilbert sponsored, High School Juried Exhibition, “Working • Emerging Cultural Leader Award: Leila Timmins with the Environment”, as part of the 7th Annual • ARCCO Achievement Award: Susan Gold
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Teri Donovan Karen Bailey Predicament Mélange Wednesday, April 26 - Saturday, May 20, 2017 Tuesday, May 2 - Saturday, May 6, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, May 5 at 6:00PM Vernissage: Tuesday, May 2 at 5:00PM
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The experience of being constrained or limited by Themes of service and community inform my work perceived or actual restrictions, self-imposed or as a painter. In Mélange, a group exhibition, I docu- externally dictated, and the efforts to be free of them ment service dogs and puppies displaying exuber- is a familiar one. Donovan aims to tap into this expe- ant camaraderie as they unwind together in play. rience of circumscription and encapsulate a sense What happens when guide dogs dance? of the never-ending search for freedom in the face of limitations. Her obscured figures allude to a range Teresa Ascencao of constraints inside their metaphorical confines and Mind Set struggle to deal with and/or escape them. Monday, May 1 - Friday, May 19, 2017 Reception: Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 6:00PM Sorel Cohen Photography in Canada 1960-2000 Artscape Youngplace Friday, April 7 - Sunday, September 17, 2017 180 Shaw Street Toronto, ON M6J 2W5 National Gallery of Canada 380 Sussex Drive Text and Tongue attempts to dislodge the stronghold Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4 of patriarchal language within the artist’s uncon- scious mind, and as inscribed onto her body. These This work deals with the attempt to remove autobio- are visual poems comprised of bodily imagery and graphical and ritualistic activities from their normal layered text excerpts from decades of personal jour- context and place them within an art context in order nalling, including records of dreams and nightmares. to reconsider their meaning. This transformation is Here, the artist asserts herself as both photographer effected by the decision itself to subject these activi- (author of meaning) and subject (symbol of contes- ties to an aesthetic attitude and isolate them as tation) to explore connections and contradictions images. But more important is the transposition of between subjectivity, objectification and representa- real gestural activity in three-dimensional space onto tion. For a preview of the work, visit: TeresaAscencao. a two-dimensional surface, where it takes on a com/text-and-tongue. unique existence related to the brushwork of painting.
| 10 | Ruthia Pak Regis of mothers conveyed in original acrylic paintings and Life digital fine photography this Mother’s Day weekend! Sunday, April 16 - Thursday, May 25, 2017 Incorporating my own unique and bodacious flair I Reception: Friday, April 21 at 7:00PM bring together picturesque in energetic colour mean- ingful landscapes of our grand Nation next to beauti- The Church of the Epiphany and St. Mark ful floral elegance filled with emotion symbolizing 201 Cowan Avenue “Mom”. Visit www.pelhamartfestival.com/program. Toronto, ON M6K 2N7 html for details and admission.
A series of acrylic on canvas paintings depicting Marjorie Moeser domestic and landscape settings with young chil- Traces of Memory dren. Thursday, June 1 - Sunday, June 25, 2017 Reception: Saturday, June 3 at 2:00PM Gail Gregory in exhibitions: Beach Guild of Fine Art Members Show David Kaye Gallery Friday, May 26 - Sunday, May 28, 2017 1092 Queen Street West (entrance on Dovercourt) Toronto, ON M6J 1H9 The Gardener’s Cottage Kew Gardens Lee Avenue New semi abstract landscapes, reflecting the topog- Toronto, ON M4L 1J1 raphy of the southwestern desert. Vibrant palette, rhythmic lines, textured surfaces. Compositions Small works in watercolour and acrylic in a group evolve intuitively as the artist reflects her surround- show with members of the local art group. ing environment.
Central Connection Art Show Anne Barkley Saturday, June 17 - Sunday, June 18, 2017 Trio Saturday, July 1 - Thursday, August 31, 2017 Withrow Clubhouse, Withrow Park 250 Logan Avenue JOSEPH D. CARRIER Gallery Toronto, ON M4K 3C7 901 Lawrence Avenue West Toronto, ON M6A 1C3 Recent watercolours and acrylic paintings in a group show with the Central Connection Art Group. An eclectic mixture of recent work by three long-time artist friends. Abstract, representational and figura- Barbara Simpson tive works in a variety of sizes and using different My Home and Native Land, Together mediums including acrylic, oil and cold wax. With Mom Friday, May 12 - Sunday, May 14, 2017 Lauren McKinley Renzetti Recption: Friday, May 12 at 7:00PM Sacred Dot paintings Saturday, July 1 - Monday, July 31, 2017 31st Pelham Art Festival 1120 Haist Street Pelham Arena Sir Walter Stewart Library Fonthill, ON L0S 1E0 170 Memorial Park Avenue Toronto, ON M4J 2K5 Inspired by the original techniques of legendary Canadian painters Emily Carr, The Group of Seven, Sacred Dot Paintings investigates the nature of Tom Thomson, and Canadian photographer Neil making as meditation in the style of the Aboriginal Dankoff, come out to experience my message cel- Australian dot painting. Taking a single image & por- ebrating both Canada’s 150th and the magnificence traying it only in dots is challenging & liberating.
| 11 | susan gold smith June 8th to September 12th. Additional information MayWorks Windsor 2017 can be found at:www.theschoolofdance.ca/gallery200 Monday, May 1 - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Among the CARFAC members exhibiting are Yvonne Festival: Monday, May 1, 2017 at 7:00PM Wiegers and Maryse Maynard. one ten park: a working space Rowena Tolson 110 Park Street West Watercolour - Selection of Paintings by Windsor, ON N9A 7A5 Rowena Tolson Monday, May 1 - Wednesday, May 31, 2017 MayWorks Windsor 2017, the 8th Annual Festival Celebrating Labour, Arts, and Community, with Ottawa Public Library (Main Library) exhibits, theatre, round tables on the creation of 120 Metcalfe Street 120 Metcalfe Street workers co ops , and lots of solidarity. All in the Ottawa, ON K1P 5M2 month of May. Spearheaded by Windsor CARFAC members. www.mayworkswindsor.com Memory of the trips. A selection of watercolour paint- A MAY DAY after party at one ten park: a working ings depict the scenery of different places in Canada space will toast and host May 1st International Day or out side of Canada. of Workers Solidarity, readings, renegade poster- making, and MayWorks Window Installation. Johnnene Maddison Venice Abstracted Lise Melhorn-Boe Friday, June 2 - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 The RE Books Saturday, April 29 - Saturday, June 10, 2017 Rotunda Gallery City Hall 200 King Street West Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre Kitchener, ON N2G 4V6 370 King Street West, Unit 305 Kingston, ON K7L 2X4 My recent trip to Venice, Italy inspired me to paint, not the images or scenes, but the colours, atmo- The RE Books are a series of artist’s books: medita- sphere, emotions and character of this magical city. tions on memory, love, and new beginnings after There are 8, 30X30” acrylic paintings on canvas set-backs. These large fabric books will be sus- featuring my reaction to visiting Venice for the first pended from the ceiling of the State of Flux Gallery. time. Playing off the phrase “Reduce, reuse, recycle,” each book has three words, each word beginning with the letters RE. These words are formed from Merlin Homer Paddling Together stuffed tubes of reused t-shirts, and will spill out of Sunday, May 7 - Sunday, May 28, 2017 the suspended covers, forming a maze of brightly- Reception: Sunday, May 7 at 12:00PM coloured words. Saint Anne’s Anglican Church Maryse Maynard 270 Gladstone Avenue The Self-Portrait Show Toronto, ON M6J 3L6 Thursday, June 8 - Tuesday, September 12, 2017 Curator Michael Ormsby’s Paddling Together explores Gallery 200 the work of 4 indigenous artists: Sage Paul, Kevin The School of Dance 200 Crichton Street Lemure, Merlin Homer and himself - in response to Ottawa, ON K1M 1W2 Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations. The canoe is a central image: we are in it together, as we look for- Every June, Gallery 200 at The School of Dance in ward to our next 150 years. The exhibition will be Ottawa shows a highly diverse and fascinating the- accompanied by lectures, concerts, workshops and matic summer group exhibition. This year’s chal- panel discussions. Ormsby writes, “We need to lenge is Self Portraits (not Selfies) In the tradition of, refloat or right the canoe that is Canada, especially or perhaps, breaking the tradition of the artist’s as we work toward reconciliation.” portrait of his/herself.The exhibition will run from
| 12 | Becky Comber Patricia Moore, painter Her Space Summer in the City Sunday, May 21 - Monday, July 24, 2017 June 16 - July16, 2017 Artists’ Reception: Friday, June 16, 7:00PM-10:00PM Ysabel Sureth Privatgalerie Achterstädter Straße 11 Gallery on the Bay Achterstadt 26936 Germany 231 Bay Street North Hamilton, ON L8R 2R1 Photo-based artist Becky Comber and acrylic and mixed media painter Heidi Berger will be exhibiting Celebrating Canada’s 150th Anniversary, Gallery on exciting new work this May in Germany. Hosted by the Bay will be exhibiting 150 works by gallery art- Ysabel Sureth Privatgallerie in Achterstädter Straße, ists, depicting aspects of the provinces and territo- works will be on display from May 21, 2017 to July ries of Canada. Gallery on the Bay (905) 540-8532. 26th, 2017. An opening reception will be on Friday www.galleryonthebay.com. May 21st, beginning at 3PM. Visit heidiberger.com or beckycomber.com for further information. Jürgen Mohr New Works Paul Walty Friday, April 28 - Saturday, June 17, 2017 Noé, matelot? | The arc of an umbrella Friday, April 7 - Sunday, June 4, 2017 Alex Dufresne Gallery 107 Lansdowne St. East La galerie RIFT Callander, ON P0H 1H0 42, rue Sainte-Anne Ville-Marie, Témiscamingue, QC J9V 2B7 Northern Ontario has had a significant impact on my art over the years. There exists something elemen- This exhibition is an update of the artist’s long-term tal, raw and original in the north, a primordial and fascination with the power and resilience of myth. mystical quality that is not restricted to the northern Choosing from a rich selection of drawing, stop- landscape, but is continuously present and acces- motion animation, digital collage, paper sculpture sible to experience. The primal energy of the land, and installation Paul Walty plombs the richness of a its surroundings and our history bring me into con- narrative that is global in its sources, and relevant in tact with seminal and profound forces. I strive to its value as metaphor. convey the mysterious power of existence through a primitive style and symbolic form. Jaime Koebel Wapikwanew - blossom Loop gallery presents: June 22 - July 30, 2017 Loop gallery Vernissage: Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 5:30PM 1273 Dundas Street West Toronto, ON M6J 1X8 Karsh-Masson 110 Laurier Avenue West Lanny Shereck & Phillip Woolf: Ottawa, ON K2P2H9 Almost Human & The Edge of the Woods Saturday, May 20 - Sunday, June 11, 2017 In Indigenous and non-Indigenous floral cultures, the use of flowers in art objects becomes a marker In ‘Almost Human’, Shereck created over 30 different of cultural identity as well as a source of beauty and painted heads. that are arranged vertically in totems an act of elegance. Cultural identity through floral of three. Although mechanical-like in structure, he symbolism provides a source of distinct placement attempts to animate them by giving each a distinct and allows cultural mapping through art objects. character or personality. Curated by Jaime Koebel Artists: Christi Belcourt, Barry Ace, David Charrette, Kelly Duquette, Nathalie Woolf’s “The Edge of the Woods,” questions our per- Mantha, Myrosia Hemeniuk, Kirk Brant, Simon ceptions, our experiences and our memories as we Brascoupe look out the side window, driving along a ribbon of highway that cuts through a heavily wooded landscape.
| 13 | Fiona Freemark Aaron Murphy In-Between Aaron Murphy and Tara Bursey Thursday, May 11 - Sunday, June 4, 2017 Friday, June 9 - Sunday, July 9, 2017 Opening: Friday, June 9 at 7:00 pm Parts gallery 1142 Queen Street East You Me Gallery Toronto, ON M4M 1L1 330 James Street North Hamilton, ON L8L 1H2 Fiona Freemark is a cut-paper artist who lives and works in Toronto. At the core, her artwork is based on Exchanging poetic and critical visions, this exhibi- the exploration of personal memory. Photographs tion by artists Tara Bursey and Aaron Murphy fea- that are taken while on the move mimic the mental tures works that blur notions of sculpture, photog- snapshots that stick in the mind throughout the day. raphy, publication and drawing. TARA BURSEY is The layering of images is then used to reflect an over- an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, lap of memories, where the division between specific writer and arts worker with an interest in sculpture, thoughts and visuals is not always clear. Fiona performance, print, ecology, social justice, social received a BA Honours Studio Art from McMaster history and craft. www.tara-bursey.com. AARON University. MURPHY works with photography, text and audio. His landscape images have been described as Diana Rosa digital printmaking: an experimental hybrid of his- Riverdale ArtWalk 2017 torical and contemporary media and technology. June 3 - June 4, 2017, 11:00PM-6:00PM www.aaronmurphy.ca
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