port credit exhibition oppurtunity

The Credit Village Marina, a city owned and operated facility located in picturesque Port Credit (Mississauga), is the home of the Eleventh Annual Port Credit Outdoor Art Show. This non-profit, juried show was created to bring art to everyday people in an informal and fun atmosphere.


EXHIBITOR SPACE
The space is 10’x10’ and is restricted to one artist per space. Hydro is not provided. Artists are responsible for their own display equipment, including table, chairs and canopies. The number of spaces provided is limited.
All other pertinent information will be provided upon acceptance into the exhibition.

Canopies are mandatory and must be anchored in case of wind. (This will be checked at set up)


EXHIBITOR SET-UP AND TAKE DOWN
Artists must arrive between 1pm and 2pm on Friday for set up. Artists must not dismantle their display or commence packing up until the show closes (Advertised Hours). Artists have the option to stay opened until Dusk.


This is an outdoor show! In the event of inclement weather, artists must make their own provisions for shelter.














SELECTION OF WORK
To maintain a high quality exhibition, a panel of jurors made up of artists and art professionals will review all the applications. Submitted artwork will be judged based on originality in conception, design and quality of workmanship.
The exhibition is open to works of painting, sculpture, ceramic, glass, photography,
multi-media computer generated, mixed media, jewellery, wood, fiber and metal.
Only original art forms will be considered for display. Photo lithos, posters, cards and T-shirts are only allowed if it is of your original work
and makes up 20% or less of your display.

Decisions made by the jury of the Port Credit Outdoor Art Show are final.
Letters of the jurors' decision will be mailed on or before April 30th, 2009


CONDITIONS AND LIABILITIES
Artists must agree to be present at the show for all 3 days. No refunds are issued if you are unable to attend or in the event of poor weather. Port Credit Outdoor Art Show, the City of Mississauga, and volunteer workers are not responsible for losses or damages incurred at the
Port Credit Outdoor Art Show.
Insurance is not provided.


MAIL TO:
Port Credit BIA

For info call: 905-278.7742
Web Site: www.portcredit.com
Email: beatrice@portcredit.com







SUBMISSION CHECKLIST

• You must submit up to 3-6 photos or digital images of your work on CD Maximum 300dpi, appropriately labeled in sequence for CD.

• Completed application form.

• Include a 9”x12” self-addressed stamped envelope for return of CD and/or photos.

• Please sign and return the Letter of Indemnity on the reverse side.
This must be included with your submission.

ENCLOSE 2 CHEQUES:

1. Jury Fee (non-refundable)
$25.00 full time artists
$10.00 students
Cheque or money order payable to
Port Credit BIA

2. Application Fee (refundable)
$200.00 for full time artists
$100.00 for students with photo ID (must be a fulltime student in a post-secondary art program).This fee will be returned if you are not accepted into the show. Cheque or money order made payable to Port Credit BIA

NOTE: Artists previously selected
Do not need to submit pictures or Jury Fee.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
April 6, 2009


THE SHOW GOES ON RAIN OR SHINE!!!
NO REFUNDS ISSUED.






APPLICATION FORM


NAME: ____________________________________


ADDRESS: _________________________________


CITY: _____________________________________


POSTAL CODE: ____________________________


EMAIL: ____________________________________


HOME PHONE: _____________________________


BUSINESS PHONE:__________________________


__________________________________________


I hereby agree to abide by the rules of the show. By entering, the artist warrants the work submitted is their original creation.


SIGNATURE:

__________________________________________


DATE: ____________________________________











The Corporation of the City of Mississauga
Port Credit Outdoor Art Show,
Port Credit Business Association
Visual Arts Mississauga
Acknowledgement and
Indemnity Waiver


I, _________________________________________
(Name of artist)


Do hereby:


1. Acknowledge that the City of Mississauga, The Port Credit Business Association, Visual Arts Mississauga and The Port Credit Outdoor Art Show shall not be liable for death or injury or damage to property of the Registered Participant or of others including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any loss of or damage to any property of the Registered Participant or of others by theft or otherwise from any cause whatsoever. The Registered Participant waives all rights of subrogation against the City of Mississauga, The Port Credit Business Association and Visual Arts Mississauga.

2. Acknowledge and agree to hold harmless and indemnify the City of Mississauga, its councilors, officers, employees, agents and contractors and the Port Credit Business Association and Visual Arts Mississauga along with its officers, agents and employees from and against, any loss of, or damage to, property, personal injury or death, or any other losses, actions, claims, causes of action, damages, both direct or indirect, and such other costs and expenses, however and whatsoever incurred, suffered or sustained by the participant, its employees, servants, agents, or any of the participants invitees, guests, during or otherwise in relation to or in connection with the participants invitees, guests, during or otherwise in relation to or in connection with the participants invitees, guests, during or otherwise in relation to or in connection with the participants use of the Marina, Port Credit Memorial Park and all activities relating to such use, including that which has been caused or contributed to any negligence.



Signature Date





Outdoor Art Show




CALL FOR ARTISTS


Friday, July 17, 2009
4 pm – 9 pm

Saturday, July 18, 2009
11 am – 8 pm

Sunday, July 19, 2008
Noon - 5 pm


On the boardwalk of the
Credit Village Marina
12 Stavebank Rd. S.
Port Credit

editorial residency/oppurtunity @ canadianart

Canadian Art Editorial Residency, Summer 2009


This two-month Toronto summer residency is a national prize award for students of art and art history at Canadian universities and art colleges. The winning student will hone his or her writing and editorial skills while working at Canadian Art Magazine. This introduction to art-magazine publishing and writing is intended to foster new critical and editorial talent.

Application Requirements


1. Maximum 500-word exhibition review.

2. One recent sample of academic writing.

3. Maximum one-page C.V.


Award Value

$7,000

Contract Duration

June 15, 2009 – August 14, 2009


DEADLINE

April 1, 2009


SEND APPLICATIONS TO:
Canadian Art
Attn: Canadian Art Editorial Residency
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 320
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7

free tickets to sarah thorton lecture

geoffrey shea exhibition @ ineraccess

Geoffrey Shea: Drawing and Speech

InterAccess is pleased to present a special, four-day exhibition of new media art work by Geoffrey Shea, from March 25 to March 28, 2009.

Please join us for the reception: Thursday, March 26 at 8:00.



For over two decades Geoffrey Shea has been creating idiosyncratic video installations and interactive works laced with denuded language and stripped down technology to question not only the tales we tell ourselves, but the very telling itself.

In a recent essay, Michael Tweed observes, “The authority of the word, even the comforting sovereignty of the image, is revealed to be what it is: the elegant cloak of our still timid unknowing. Shea does not impose or catalogue the seemingly countless variations of melancholy and despair to which we are prone. What he does provide however is a sort of topography of courage, sketching the geography that stretches between optimism and resignation, hope and despair.”

With this exhibition Geoffrey Shea gives us three recent works that intersect language differently.

Speech (I Want to Know) is a video installation that looks at the artist’s three years as an elected politician. From a (literally) empty campaign speech to a flood of pointless motions and bylaws, language plays a stifling, muted role. But an oh-so-earnest song and a laugh track from some unseen performance turn the experience upside down.

Drawing of a Man is a series of 16-foot tall charcoal sketches with video projected on them. Shea created these drawings to illustrate a now-absent story. Just as in Speech, he appears in the work, performing as a politician, in Drawing we see him performing as an artist.

Writing Machine is an interactive, typewriter-like tool for making words and phrases into concrete poetry. Yet nothing is written—only spoken—and our impulse to create shifts to a rhythmic, musical one.


Geoffrey Shea is a media artist based in Durham, Ontario. Shea's artwork has been presented internationally and is represented in the collections of the National Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art. As well as producing, Shea curates and writes about art and film, most recently as a regular programmer for the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film. Currently his research is in mobile content and the creation of new wireless hardware and software platforms for art.



InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6J 2Y8
Canada
T +1.416.599.7206
F +1.416.599.7015
help(dot)me(at)interaccess(dot)org

Wednesday – Saturday, 12 — 5pm

Media Contact:
Jennifer Cherniack,
(416) 599-7206
jennifer.cherniack@interaccess.org

FADO Performance Art Centre presents International Visiting Artists Series: Tel Aviv Residency

FADO Performance Art Centre presents
International Visiting Artists Series: Tel Aviv Residency

BETI
New performances from Yaron David, Karin Mendelovici and Meir Tati

Friday March 27, 2009
The Theatre Centre
1087 Queen Street West, Toronto
8pm, $5

FADO is pleased to present BETI - new performance work from Tel Aviv, Israel.
FADO asked Yaron David to curate two other artists from Tel Aviv, and working together as a trio, to create a new performance in/for Toronto, using an invented collaborative working model. After a short residency in Toronto, the final work will be the culmination of a continuous improvised performance and working process that began for these three artists over a month ago. Since the start of their adventure together they met some people (one of them was Beti) and worked in various spaces. Combining video (documentation of the process starting in Tel Aviv and edited at the last moments in Toronto) and live actions, the work of these three artists speaks to the loss of, search for, and the production of meaning in a fragile and chaotic reality - the collaborative research of confusion.

About the Artists
Yaron David (b. 1970, Israel) works in video and performance art. He is also a curator and is active in the performance art scene in Tel Aviv, working with and organizing events with PAP (Performance Art Platform) including a monthly performance event (2004-2007), as well as the ZAZ International Performance Art Festival (2007, 2008). He is a writer and freelance editor, working with museums and cultural institutions. David's work has been presented at international festivals in Israel, Croatia, UK, Finland, Istanbul, Poland, France, and at the National Review of Live Art in Scotland, among other events and exhibitions. This will be David's first appearance in North America.

Karin Mendelovici (b. 1975) is based in Tel Aviv. She works in photography, video and performance. Her performance work has been primarily presented in Tel Aviv, especially in cooperation with PAP (Performance Art Platform). This will be Mendelovici's first appearance in North America.

Meir Tati (b. 1973, Israel) works in video and performance. Recent exhibitions have included the Moscow Biannual for Young Art (2008), and presentations at EPAF (Warsaw), ZAZ Festival (Tel Aviv) and other exhibitions and performances in Italy, Germany, Istanbul and Denmark. This will be Tati's first appearance in North America.

Upcoming at FADO
Not Waterproof
Julie Andrée T.

Monday April 27, 2009
The Theatre Centre
1087 Queen Street West, Toronto
8pm, $10

Lighting design by Jean Jauvin. Sound design by Laurent Maslé.

In Julie Andrée T's work, there is an unsettling blend of performance/installation and theatre. Her iconoclastic work is a hybrid of these two approaches in which dialogue, action and image are gradually distilled into poetry. Disconcerting, moving and unclassifiable, the artist deploys an astounding transformation of the body through a metamorphosis of the stage landscape. In Not Waterproof, the artist's body is subjected to a series of ordeals, is pulverized and dirtied, becoming a dreamscape. In exposing her vulnerability, she quietly conveys the impermanent and ephemeral nature of our lives.

Julie Andrée T.'s (Quebec) installations and performance works have been shown in Canada, U.S.A, South America, Asia and Europe. She was part of PME (experimental theater company directed by Jacob Wren) for many years and has collaborated with choreographers Benoit Lachambre, Xavier Le Roy, Dominique Porte, Martin Bélanger and the filmmaker Dominic Gagnon. Since 2003 she has been part of the performance group Black Market International. She worked with the collective PONI from Brussels as co-artistic-director in 2007. Julie Andrée T. is currently guest artist Faculty at the School of museum of Fine Arts in Boston (USA) where she is teaching performance art.

About FADO
Founded in 1993, FADO Performance Art Centre was established to provide a stable, knowledgeable and supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art works created by Canadian and international performance artists. FADO is the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. FADO's activities include presenting performances, artist talks and symposia, festivals, residencies, exchanges and workshops, as well as publishing in a variety of formats, including video and for the web.

FADO would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, Department of Canadian Heritage, Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council for their on-going support of our endeavors.

FADO Performance Art Centre
info@performanceart.ca
416-822-3219

Check out our new website: www.performanceart.ca
(Thanks Twig Design!)

volunteers needed at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto

VOLUNTEERS WANTED!

Exhibition Installation at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto

On April 2, 2009, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery will present a major exhibition exploring the intersections in the histories of Africa and South Asia. Exhibition works include photography, video projection, a large hand written wall text, and costumes.

Volunteer Slots available on:

Monday March 23, between 6:30pm - 9pm (painting is a major task this day)

Tuesday March 24, between 10 am - 6pm (painting is a major task this day)

Wednesday March 25, between 10am - 6pm (painting is a major task and other tasks - such as wall tracing - are added)

Thursday March 26, between 10 am - 6pm

Friday March 27, between 10 am - 6pm

Saturday March 28, between 10am - when possible (a curator will be around till 8/9pm)

Sunday March 28, between 10am - when possible (a curator will be around till 8/9pm)

Monday March 30, between 10 am - 6pm

Tuesday March 31, between 10 am - 6pm

Wednesday April 1, between 10 am - 6pm

Volunteers are needed for:

1) Gallery Wall Painting (from March 23 - 26 experienced wall painters are highly encouraged to enroll to help paint the entire Gallery white.)

2) Tracing a large wall based text piece (detail oriented volunteers are asked to trace and 'drawn-in' a large wall text that is composed of 46 paragraphs. Many volunteers are required for this. Hope you will sign up!!!)

3) Various tasks from painting to assisting with hanging photographs.

Please contact Katie Bethune-Leamen stating your availability and interested volunteer area.

WOULD REALLY REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELP WORKING ON THIS EXHIBITION.

THIS IS GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND THOSE INTERESTED IN EXHIBITION MAKING.

PLEASE CONTACT:

Katie Bethune-Leamen

katiebethuneleamen@hotmail.com

416 978 8017

THANKS SO VERY MUCH FOR YOUR INTEREST AND HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU :-)

Best,

JMB Gallery!

robert lendrum @ ryerson gallery

LIVING DOCUMENTS:
Dr. Frankenstein's Guide to Self-Portraiture

Robert Lendrum

Wednesday, March 18th - Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 19th, 6-9pm

Ryerson Gallery is pleased to present Living Documents: Dr. Frankenstein's Guide to Self-Portraiture, a video-based installation by Robert Lendrum. Manipulating information, documents, and research methods, Lendrum creates performative representations of identity and memory that highlight the disconnect between personal data and persona. Lendrum's project begins with a survey about his identity involving the participation of over 75 of his friends, family, coworkers, acquaintances and ex-girlfriends. Converting the information into an identity profile with statistics, pie charts and graphs, the raw data is brought to life in a series of performance videos with Dutch actress Jacqueline van de Geer. Lendrum also examines his own family photographs through a process of reenactment manifesting as durational video performances. Asserting his belief that identity is co-authored, Lendrum's work is both self-portrait and social experiment.

An essay by Gabrielle Moser accompanies the exhibition

Information about the artist:
Robert Lendrum (b. 1979) was raised between the suburbs of Toronto and the rural area hamlet of Fallbrook, Ontario. An emerging artist working in video, performance and documentary, his work explores the tension between perceived identity and self-perception. He received his BFA from the University of Western Ontario and his MA in Media Studies at Concordia University. Now completing his MFA in Documentary Media at Ryerson University, he currently lives and works in Toronto.

Image credit: Robert Lendrum Impostor: The Audition (2009) video. production still by John Londono.

For more information please visit: www.ryersongallery.ca .

Media Contact:
Sarah Burtscher,
Media Coordinator
sarah.burtscher@ryerson.ca

Ryerson Gallery
80 Spadina Avenue
Suite #305
Toronto ON
M5V 2J4

T: (416) 703-2235

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Saturday 12:00-5:00PM