call for submissions

Hello Art and Art History Faculty,

I am writing you to solicit student art work from your classes. I am currently working on a small installation piece in conjunction with the Blackwood Gallery for an event entitled “Art’s Birthday” taking place at the Erin Meadows Community Centre on Jan 16^th from noon - 5pm.

The work is called “Purposeful Purposelessness” and based on the work of Arman, a Neo- Dadaist French sculptor. In the spirit of his accumulation pieces, I would like to invite students to submit unfinished or abandoned work or research for the show. The purpose of this installation is to showcase the art that will never be showcased, art that has been considered a failure or incomplete or abandoned. Research is welcomed as well.

Multimedia art such video or audio art pieces will also be included in this installation.

Students must submit all work with their names clearly marked on the piece. Should any student submit video work, it should be placed on a CD in a .mov format or sent to the following e-mail address, Shell.c.johnson@gmail.com. Work should be dropped off by January 14^th by 5 pm at the latest at a location designated by faculty. There is some risk that work may be damaged in the process of installation, as in the nature of Arman’s work, the small display case will jammed full of all the submitted work. We will attempt to return work to students. All participants will have their names included in the exhibition labeling.

I thank you for your time,

In conjunction with the Blackwood Gallery,

Michelle Johnson

M.A. candidate in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies

Columbia University

lecture: richard rhodes

Art and Art History Presents

Richard Rhodes

Thursday 7 January 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

Richard Rhodes is an author, arts journalist, curator, educator, critic, painter and photographer. Rhodes regularly writes on contemporary artists working today, primarily for Canadian Art magazine where he is currently the Editor. He has written on art for more than 25 years. In the early 1980s, he served as Toronto editor for Montreal arts and culture magazine Parachute. In 1983, together with Dyan Marie, he founded C Magazine in Toronto, and ran it until 1990. During the late 1980s, he was also a regular contributor of reviews to Artforum magazine in New York.

In 1990, he was appointed curator at The Power Plant in Toronto, following project work as an independent curator, which included work as Commissioner for Canada at the 1985 Sao Paulo Biennale. He has been an adjunct curator for Oakville Galleries and has organized more recent independent projects that included a five-gallery exhibition of emerging artists from the Netherlands in 2002 and a series of one-day exhibitions called The News at Five for Toronto International Art Fair. Rhodes will curate the 7th Alberta Biennale at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, in 2010.

As a photographer, he worked with writer John Bentley Mays to illustrate the City Sites and Material World columns for the Globe and Mail. Rhodes has taught criticism at the Ontario College of Art and Design and photography at Ryerson University. In 2003, he received the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Achievement Award.

Rhodes’ paintings were included in the 2005-06 exhibition Weathervane, curated by Karen Love. His work has been exhibited at Dyan Marie Projects in Toronto (2006) and Galerie René Blouin in Montreal (2007). Rhodes is the author of a popular book on the history of Canadian art for young people, “A First Book of Canadian Art” (2001).

EXHIBITION: BREANN RICHTIE

RED: solo works of Breann Ritchie
Earth and Fire (second floor)
489 Queen St. W
January 4th until January 31st Opening: January 9th, 8pm-12am

graphic design contest

Time is running out! Submissions are due by

end-of-day Friday, December 4, 2009!

Attention students in graphic design, advertising and/or communication media programs!

The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum – Forum canadien sur l’apprentissage (CAF-FCA) is looking for the ‘look’ of its new, peer-reviewed journal: The Canadian Apprenticeship Journal – Journal canadien de l’apprentissage…

Can you help?

We are looking for graphic design submissions for the logo, print cover and web homepage of our new Journal.

Submissions should consist of two items: cover page of print version and homepage of web version, both of which should include the unique, designed-by-you logo of the journal title in Canada’s official languages: Canadian Apprenticeship Journal – Journal canadien de l’apprentissage.

The reward…

• The winning submission will be from a creative, full-time student in any college or university graphic design, advertising and/or communication media program in Canada. To ensure your program applies, please email danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org .
• The nationally renowned graphic design firm Sage Media Design will assist the Canadian Apprenticeship Journal’s Editorial Board in judging the finalists.
• You will be recognized and profiled in the Canadian Apprenticeship Journal.
• You will be able to add this design to your impressive CV and portfolio.

The challenge…

• You will need to include the CAF-FCA logo on the print cover and homepage:

Please email danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org for the CAF-FCA logo.

• You will need to use only the colours and shades of the CAF-FCA logo on the print cover design. Please use the four colour process (CMYK). The homepage may include additional colours and shades.
• You will need to make the ‘look’ of the Journal appeal to a diverse audience of apprenticeship stakeholders including researchers, employers and apprentices.
• You will need to include the Journal website address in English and French:

http://www.caf-fca.org/en/journal/

http://www.caf-fca.org/fr/journal/

• You will need to show where the volume, issue number and date should be displayed on both the print cover and online homepage.
• You will need to provide us with a paragraph explaining your rationale for the design.
• You may include the Table of Contents (again, please just show us where).
• You will need to be really creative because we are seeking submissions from across Canada!

The details…

• Submissions are due by end-of-day Friday, December 4, 2009.
• Submissions must be sent via email to danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org.
• For more information, please contact Danielle Matheusik at danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org or 613-235-4004 ext. 203, or visit our website at www.caf-fca.org.

Funded by the Government of Canada’s Sector Council Program.

Financé par le gouvernement du Canada dans le cadre du Programme des conseils sectoriels.

exhibitions: oakville galleries

Please join us for the opening of our winter exhibitions on Sunday 6 December 2009 at 2:30 pm at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square (120 Navy Street), followed by a reception at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens (1306 Lakeshore Road East) at 3:30 pm.

Therese Bolliger: Four Echoes 5 December 2009 - 28 February 2010 Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens This exhibition brings together a selection of recent drawings and sculptures by Toronto artist Therese Bolliger. Occupying the four gallery spaces, Four Echoes is an exploration of the essence of form, as Bolliger articulates memory’s place between past and present, translates mathematical and philosophical constructs into objects, and explores the outer reaches of the body. Curated by Shannon Anderson. Therese Bolliger, Interior Schema 5, 2009

Wendy Coburn, Untititled (buck), 2007 Uneasy Pieces 5 December 2009 - 28 February 2010 Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square Fretfulness, anxiety and apprehension are hardly new concerns in contemporary art, but they are quickly gaining currency in light of present global woes. Uneasy Pieces will showcase works from Oakville Galleries’ permanent collection that grapple with the fragile state of our world. From anxiety about economic recession, military warfare and global warming to concerns about consumerism, surveillance and the decentered world of global capitalism, the works in Uneasy Pieces examine states of uncertainty and unease in contemporary life. Curated by Marnie Fleming. Featuring works by Ed Burtynsky, Wendy Coburn, Colin Darke, Susanna Heller, Deirdre Logue, Ken Lum, Liz Magor, Kim Moodie, Monika Napier, Louise Noguchi, Ed Pien, Glenn Rudolph and John Scott.

fado performance

FADO Performance Art Centre presents

Escapist Action: Performance in Recession
November 23 – 29, 2009

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue, Toronto

Curated by Don Simmons

Daily media reports bombard us with the reality of the current worldwide economic situation. We are in the midst of a recession. Businesses are failing and offering discount prices on everything in the store, the stock market is volatile, companies are looking for bailouts, and government agencies are giving away bloated stimulation packages. Despite these tough economic times, some businesses are experiencing a boom. Alcohol sales are up; Hollywood movies are experiencing a surge in attendance and theatres are reporting a rise in audience numbers. During tough economic times, art relating to escapism prospers.

Escapist Action: Performance in Recession is a weeklong series of performance events that investigate personal and public economics by offering the audience alternative methods of exchange. The series culminates in three evening programs: Black Friday, Red Flag Saturday, and Grey Cup Sunday. These programs investigate the mixed emotions evoked by the volatile economic market with live performances that navigate fear, despair, laughter, and hope. The audience is transported from the dark emotions of Black Friday through the humour of Red Flag Saturday, arriving at celebratory Grey Cup Sunday!

Co-presented by InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre.

ARTISTS
John G. Boehme (Victoria)
Joanne Bristol (Winnipeg)
David Frankovich (Toronto)
Tomas Jonsson (Calgary)
Rodolphe-Yves Lapointe (Montreal)
Julian Higuerey Núñez (Venezuela)
Ignacio Peréz Peréz (Venezuela)
Claudia Wittmann (Toronto).

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FULL SCHEDULE DETAILS: www.performanceart.ca

BLACK FRIDAY @ 8PM: Performances from Joanne Bristol, Claudia Wittmann, Roldophe-Yves Lapointe, Julian Higuerey Núñez and Ignacio Pérez Pérez

RED FLAG SATURDAY @ 8PM: Performances from Tom Jonsson, John Boehme, Joanne Bristol, Julian Higuerey Núñez and Ignacio Pérez Pérez

GREY CUP SUNDAY @ 6PM: Grey Cup Party by David Frankovich

And more!
November 23, 2-9PM: Open Barter Market by Julian Higuerey Núñez & Ignacio Pérez Pérez
November 24 – 29, 9AM-9PM: The Artist and the Beanstalk by Julian Higuerey Núñez & Ignacio Pérez Pérez
November 27, 1-4PM: Association for Imaginary Architecture by Joanne Bristol
November 28, 1-10PM: Magpie by Tom Jonsson

See our website for full details, project descriptions and artist bios.

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About FADO
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Inc. (Performance Art Centre) is a not-for-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. FADO exists to provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art. Currently, we are the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. We present the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and new perspectives. FADO is grateful for the generous support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Department of Canadian Heritage.

FADO is grateful for the generous support of our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and Department of Canadian Heritage. We would also like to thank InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre for their support and contributions hosting and presenting this event.

artist lecture: jon sasaki

Art and Art History Presents

Jon Sasaki

Tuesday 24 November 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124
1430 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 2L1

Working in the vein of “romantic conceptualism,” John Sasaki utilizes primarily performance-for-video, objects, installations and interventions in work that mixes humour and pathos, often with gently antagonistic results. Cyni­cism, futility and tragedy are taken as starting points, then countered with dry, comic delivery. Often structured like the familiar “shaggy dog joke,” much of this work is a deadpan escalation of expectations, followed by an anticlimactic punch line. It is a celebration of futility and resignation.

Sasaki’s work has been pre­sented in solo exhibitions at Centre Clark (Montreal), Gallery TPW (Toronto), The New Gallery (Calgary), and Latitude 53 (Edmonton). He has participated in recent group exhibitions at VOX (Montreal), the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (University of Toronto), the Owens Art Gallery (Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB) Simon Fraser University Gallery (Burnaby, BC), as well as the 2006 and 2008 editions of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. Upcoming solo exhibitions will be presented at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (Toronto), The Doris McCarthy Gallery, (University of Toronto at Scarborough) and 126 (Galway, Ireland). Sasaki was an active member of the Instant Coffee art collective between 2002 and 2007. He lives and works in Toronto.



Image: Toronto's Official Y2K Mascot, Autumn (2008), HDV, 4:33, looped