exhibition oppurtunity

Hart House Art Committee visit to Sheridan to find art (painting, drawing, print, design, sculpture and photo) as well as performance works to present in Hart House

Thursday 28 January 2010

12:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Christopher Régimbal from the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House will visit both the Annie Smith Arts Centre and Hover, the 1st and 2nd year student exhibition, on Thursday 28 January from noon on. He will bring three members of the Hart House Art Committee with him, and they would like to do individual studio visits. Please sign up below.

call for submissions

Finalists Will have Their Films Seen By 2 Million People a Day! All filmmakers, young and old, established and aspiring, are invited to submit 90-second silent videos to the Every Day Heroes Film Competition. Enthusiastic. Remarkable. Inspiring. These are just a few words that describe the individuals and groups across Canada that are doing amazing things to reduce their impact on the environment in large and small ways. They've taken the three R's and made it a way of life. They're every day heroes whose stories need to be told. Inspire Canada this Earth Day. Tell the story of your every day environmental hero and their dedication to support of a healthier environment. Finalists will have their videos screened in Ivanhoe Cambridge Shopping Malls across Canada, on the Onestop Network of 270 monitors on the subway platforms of the Toronto Transit Commission, as well as hosted on Earth Day Canada's website and YouTube channel. Prizes will be awarded in four categories: Best of 'Under 18' years of age-13 inch MacBook Pro Best of '18 and Over'-13 inch MacBook Pro Best of Competition-Two economy airline tickets to any destination in North America with two nights Hotel accommodation AND two tickets to the Earth Day Canada Gala, including travel to Toronto and hotel accommodation for the nights of June 8th and 9th, 2010. The People's Choice Award-Bose SoundDock Portable Digital Music System. We encourage all genre of film, video and animation, and accept subtitled work. Judges include: Judy Gladstone (Executive Director of CTV's Bravo!FACT), Jennifer Baichwal (Award winning Documentary filmmaker and director of Manufactured Landscapes), Sharon Switzer (Media artist, curator, and founder of Art for Commuters), Keith Treffry (Director of Communications for Earth Day Canada and unabashed movie enthusiast). THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MARCH 15, 2010. Submissions received prior to February 15, 2010 will be entered into the raffle to win a Panasonic 60GB HDD/SD Camcorder. Visit www.earthday.ca/film for more details and a submission form.

artist lecture: Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan

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The Ontario College of Art & Design presents:

Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series

Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan
Tuesday, January 26, 6:30 p.m.

In their presentation Talking Back, Dempsey and Millan discuss the power of art and stories as resistance to violence, war and various stupidities that comprise the modern era. Talking Back includes live performance and video excerpts of recent works.

Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, otherwise known as Finger in the Dyke Productions, are internationally celebrated for their strident, irreverent and humourous performances. Collaborators since 1989, this Winnipeg-based duo gained national attention with the controversial performance piece We’re Talking Vulva. Since then, they have toured extensively having screened in venues as far-ranging as women's centres in Sri Lanka to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Their most recent concerns include fragile lesbian ecosystems as evidenced in their recent publication Lesbian National Parks & Services Field Guide to North America.

Ontario College of Art & Design
Auditorium (Rm 190), 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
416-977-6000 | www.ocad.ca

All are welcome; admission is free. Limited seating available; guests are advised to arrive early.

Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series continues with a talk by Ian Connacher, including a screening of his film Addicted to Plastic, on Wednesday, February 3, 6:30 p.m. Other speakers include Jamelie Hassan on Wednesday, February 17, 6:30 p.m., and Ryan Rice on Tuesday, March 9, 7 p.m.

Media inquiries:
Sarah Mulholland, Media & Communications Officer, OCAD
smulholland@ocad.ca , 417-977-6000 Ext. 327 (mobile Ext. 1327)

artist lecture: april hickox

Art and Art History Presents

April Hickox

Thursday 28 January 2010

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

April Hickox is a photographic artist, teacher and independent curator who has been practicing for over thirty years. Her photography, film and installation work often take the form of narrative to explore personal histories, the significance of gesture and environmental change.

Her work has been widely exhibited across Canada, most recently Revealing the Subject (Oakville Galleries), Peele Point (Art Gallery of Windsor), Landscape, and Memory (Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto). April is an active community leader and founding member and director of Gallery 44 Centre For Contemporary Photography, Tenth Muse Studio, and Artscape. She also continues to curate exhibitions for Contact Festival of Photography, which in the past have included: Illumination, Personal Stories Recent Photography, Film and Video, The Horizon is a Line, New Borders, A Small Dark Room, Modern Narratives and Other Tales, and Autobiography and the Work of Verant Richards.

April Hickox is the recipient of numerous awards including the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.

call for submissions

Academia Through the Senses

April 8- April 26, 2010
University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge

Do you do research that requires the ‘senses’ to create with and be responsive to all of life?

The University of Toronto Art Centre art lounge will be holding an exhibition and discussion for those engaged in, or interested in finding out about, University of Toronto students using the senses in their research to be responsive to life.

Some call this arts based research as a formal discipline. However the exhibit is open to any genre invented or otherwise.

Do You?
Do research that uses or borrows from art
Present your research as sensual
Do professional art that asks research questions

Questions We Can Ask:

• How do the senses allow your research to move amidst disciplines and in life inclusive of the ‘other than human’?
• How do the senses help eliminate cultural structures of power and segregation by being revelatory and co-creative?
• How do the senses make your research answerable to the researcher, participant and those using it?
• Is this research a requirement within your discipline or making demands on it?

Practicalities

• The exhibition is open to any format including performances (with restrictions set by the gallery staff). You don’t have to hang your work on the walls. The exhibition will be accessible through its use of space and by referencing the exhibit aurally.
  

• All submissions will be referenced in a text at the exhibit. Those chosen for inclusion in the Lounge exhibit will be varied in type and clearly representative of the research they are carrying out.
  

• A round table discussion and sharing session with presenting researchers is planned. If there is a lot of interest other sessions of researchers could be set up for presentation and discussion.
  

We accept submissions as: jpg photos, photos on paper, graphics, aural or video recordings with an abstract of up to 500 words and a few lines of biography
Send to susan.aaron@sympatico.ca

Deadline: February 14, 2010

Sunny Kerr
Student and Education Program Coordinator
University of Toronto Art Centre
15 King's College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
Telephone: 416-946-3029
http://www.utac.utoronto.ca/student-programs <http://www.utac.utoronto.ca/studentprograms>


Portrait of a Patron:

The Dukszta Collection

19 January - 13 March 2010

Presented with the support of the Scott Griffin Foundation, Peter Allen, Lead Supporter of UTAC’s Art with Insight program and many friends and family of Janusz Dukszta