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Dispatch Format: 7,3” X 4,8” R02 Date De Parution: CARFAC Ontario’s quarterly newsletter D ISPATCH V OLUME 23 - I SSUE 1 - S PR I NG /S UMMER 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: | Grants Calendar P 15 CARFAC Ontario 414 - 401 Richmond Street West Toronto ON M5V 3A8 INSURANCE DESIGNED FOR VISUAL ARTISTS Coverage for artworks • at your studio, in transit, at fairs • worlwide coverage available Coverage for your tools, equipment, materials, etC. Coverage for your general liability • worlwide coverage available Coverage for Commissioned art and publiC art visual artists members of CarfaC-ontario assurart offers insurance brokerage services are eligible to a 15 % * to individuals and businesses in the art industry. group discount. toll-free 1 855 382-6677 | www.assurart.com *some admissibility criteria may apply. # dossier: 15049- ASS Client: AssurArt Dpi: 300 dpi. Date: 10/09/2015 Campagne: Automne 2015 Couleur: CMYK Pers Ress: Line Brochu Publication: CARFAC ontario dispatch Format: 7,3” x 4,8” R02 Date de parution: --/--/-- 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, Sally | 1 | President’s Message 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 Information Information for Artists: A Practical Guide for Visual and Media Artists is a for rtists ‘survival guide’ consisting of nineteen chapters covering a variety of subjects relevant to Canadian visual and media artists. It is an indispensable resource that an artist A Practical Guide for can refer to again and again. Visual and Media Artists Members Price: $53.00 (Book: $40 + GST: $2 + S&H: $11) Non-Members Price: $74.00 (Book: $65 + GST: $3 + S&H: $11) Published by CARFAC Ontario The Visual Artists’ Guide to Estate Planning examines the steps that you can take The Visual Artists' towards generating a strong artistic legacy that has persistent visibility and protection. Guide to It is meant as a guide to maximize the potential of your work, and to minimize the state Planning complications that come with the process. By Karilynn Ming Ho for CARFAC Ontario Members Price: $32.25 (Book: $25 + GST: $1.25 + S&H: $6) Non-Members Price: $48.00 (Book: $40 + GST: $2 + S&H: $6) Published by CARFAC Ontario For more information and to purchese visit: www.carfacontario.ca | 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.
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