Partner Organization Events

Exuberance: The Garden

March 1 – 27, 2012

Opening Reception Thursday, March 1, 6 – 9 pm

Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
990 Queen Street West, Toronto

Exuberance: The Garden is a group exhibition by Barbara Klunder, Elena Soní, Berta Biondic, and Eileen Kwan. Inspired by the beauty and the beasts of their private and intimate gardens, their presented work consists of paper, textiles, leather and glass that are transformed to create audacious handcrafted work celebrating vitality, joy and abundance.

Images: Elena Soní, It’s all right, we will have cake (detail, photo by Eugene Beck); Eileen Kwan, Clematis Florida, (detail, photo by Stuart Kirkpatrick); Barbara Klunder, OverLeaf (detail); Berta Biondic, Teal Crystal Chandelier (detail, photo by Russell Power).

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HERE AND THERE

Sheridan Craft & Design Graduate Exhibition
April 12-22, 2012
Opening Receptions Thursday, April 12, 7-10pm

Ceramics and Glass Studios
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
990 Queen St. W., Toronto

Furniture and Textile Studios
Propeller Center
984 Queen St W., Toronto

The 2012 Sheridan Craft & Design graduating class is taking over Queen Street West with HERE AND THERE, two simultaneous exhibitions presenting all four craft and design studios: Furniture, Textiles, Ceramics and Glass. Forty-six graduating students will be showcasing a diversity of work, including functional, decorative, and conceptual pieces.

Sheridan College is recognized as one of Canada’s finest craft education institutes. During the three-year intensive program, Sheridan students develop an in-depth knowledge of materials, technological expertise and an understanding of contemporary design and art practices. HERE AND THERE celebrates the results of this focused learning environment and positions Sheridan graduates as new professionals in their fields.

Members of the public are invited to meet these emerging designers and artists at our double opening on Thursday April 12th, from 7-10pm.

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Fleming College – Haliburton School of The Arts Open House Event

Saturday April, 14th, 10 am – 2pm

Join us at the Haliburton School of the Arts and explore your artistic options. Meet faculty, students, tour the campus and find out about our programs.

Apply now for programs starting in September:

Intensive 15-week Certificates
•    Artist Blacksmith
•    Ceramics
•    Drawing and Painting
•    Fibre Arts
•    Photo Arts

Full–time Studies, Visual and Creative Arts Diploma program

Plus, discover your future pathways to OCAD University, Emily Carr University of Art + Design and Nipissing University through our unique transfer agreements.

For more information contact:  Wendy Laduran@flemingc.on.ca
1-866- 353-6464

Haliburton School of The Arts  Summer Art Program

Throw it. Carve it. Craft it. Imagine It.

Our summer program is a nationally – acclaimed art experience. Create art in small classes, taught by some of the finest artistic talent in the country. Choose from over 350 week-long courses that will build your portfolio and add to your creative toolbox.

Location. Location. Location.
Expand your creativity in Cottage Country or the GTA. In addition to the full program offered in Haliburton, we offer select week-long courses in Huntsville during July. There are also learning opportunities at OCAD University in Toronto and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg. Visit www.hsta.ca for the full listing of courses, workshops and instructors. Questions?  Email us at createit@hsta.ca or call 1.866.353.6464.  Registration begins March 1.  Register early to make sure you get the course you want.

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twitter.com/fleming_hsta
www.hsta.ca

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Primary Sponsor Organization Events

Dare to Wear Love

February 8 – May 6, 2012

From February 8 to May 6, 2012, the Textile Museum of Canada presents Dare to Wear Love, a unique exhibition blending art, design, and social consciousness. Launched in 2009 by Jim Searle and Chris Tyrell of Hoax Couture, each year Dare to Wear Love has challenged leading Canadian designers to create unique couture using African cloth, designs then showcased on Fashion Week runways. The exhibition showcases over 40 of these pieces created by top Canadian fashion designers, including Brian Bailey, David Dixon and Linda Lundstrom, in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s work to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in Africa.

The exhibition is presented by the Textile Museum of Canada, in collaboration with Hoax Couture and the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Image: Linda Lundstrom, Dare to Wear Love 2009. Photo: Brian Summers.

Portable Mosques: The Sacred Space of the Prayer Rug

March 3 – August 6, 2012

This exhibition will feature prayer rugs from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and India, and will explore their history, function, meaning and symbolism as well as the designs and patterns specific to rugs from different areas of the Islamic world.

Image: Prayer rug, Turkey, Late 19th century, L 145 cm x W 124 cm, T90.0350

The Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
t. (416) 599-5321
info@textilemuseum.ca

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Support Organization Events

Collective Buzz

The Beehive Collective, a craft and urban homesteading collective based in Hamilton, Ontario will be presenting a short talk and leading a collective making activity as part of the reception following the Symposium.  Grab some treats, take a seat, and we’ll give you the lowdown on how the Beehive was formed, how to start a collective in your own community, and provide supplies and instructions for making English paper-pieced fabric hexagons. Participants can keep hexagons made during the session or contribute them towards a Beehive Collective-led public art project.

 

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The Toronto Hyperbolic Crochet Reef

GREG PAYCE: ILLUSIONS

Now – May 6, 2012

Celebrating the work of Canadian artist Greg Payce, this landmark solo exhibition will feature the large-scale ceramic installations for which Payce has received international acclaim, as well as more recent and critically-praised work that combines ceramics, photography and video. Don’t miss this visually stunning and playful exhibition!

LECTURE: PUBLIC CRAFT

Thursday March 8, 2012. 6:30 – 8 pm

Rory MacDonald discusses the importance of ceramics within the realm of public activism.  Examples of Rory’s public interventions are his street tags of traditional blue and white Willow pattern made during his residency at Medalta in Medicine Hat, Alta.  In another project called Curb Work, he drew attention to the deterioration of curbsides and sidewalks in downtown Regina. Repairing the fissures with exquisitely decorated ceramic patches, his strategic activism highlighted the deterioration but improved the urban streetscape.  His discussion on Public Craft will look at these projects as well his most recent works.

Ceramicist Rory MacDonald is currently Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the 2007 winner of the Winifred Shantz Award for emerging ceramics in Canada. Central to his current research is the exploration of the concept of public craft. His lecture will give an overview of both old and new works. $15

FORM AND FUNCTION: CERAMICS BY DESIGN

Tuesday March 27, 2012, 6:30 – 8 pm

Rachel Gotlieb, design scholar and Senior Curator at the Gardiner Museum, initiates the new Form and Function series with a lively talk about the important role of the designer in historical and contemporary ceramics. From Christopher Dresser, Susie Cooper, Keith Murray to Hella Jongerius and Marcel Wanders, she will discuss how designers enhance the functionality as well as foreground new styles and aesthetics in ceramic objects. $15

FOR TICKETS OR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT GARDINERMUSEUM.COM

 

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Stop, Drop, Repeat: THE PRINTED WORK OF MARLIS SAUNDERS

March 7 – April 23, 2012

Exhibition Hall – Paid Admission
Opening Reception – March 9, 2012, 6:00 pm

Stop, Drop, Repeat is the Design Exchange’s first major exhibition on pattern design and this country’s first look at the exceptional work by a Canadian Bauhaus pioneer. The exhibition gathers over a hundred works on paper that reflect the broad range of Saunders’ career. Through these pieces, the exhibition will trace the roots of the Bauhaus school from the early influences of the Arts and Crafts movement and Expressionism, to the design philosophy and international spread of the Bauhaus School. Themes in the exhibition will centre on the three main stylistic developments in Saunders career: The Bauhaus Style and Abstraction, Aboriginal Influence, and Flora and Fauna. Each section will explore related moments in art and design history, the work of her contemporaries, the technical aspects of her work, and give visitors the opportunity to develop their own patterns utilizing smart grid technology.

Today, pattern design is a flourishing industry with textile designers, artisans and crafters producing a multitude of work. Within this contemporary context, the exhibit will also showcase work by the installation artist Amanda McCavour, as well as the pieces by some leading German, Australian and Canadian pattern designers.

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Pre-Occupied. An exhibition of ideas, objects and occupations

March 11 – April 1
173 Macdonell Ave., Toronto
Opening reception: March 11 2012
Closing talk: April 1 2012

“Pre-Occupied” is a pop up exhibition featuring work that deals with various themes of occupation. This exhibition explores how our pre-occupations are manifested in objects. Some of the artists include: Kasia Czarnota, Hey Day Design, Hugo Dieter, Brothers Dressler, Public Displays of Affection (PDA), Sally McCubbin, and Amanda McCavour, among others.

STATEMENT
There is value in claiming space for expression, in allowing room for ideas to be discussed, to grow and to transform. While social media and the virtual have been credited with facilitating recent protests around the world, it is the occupation of physical space – the undeniable presence of the people and their encampments – that has captivated our attention and underlined the demonstrators’ commitment. This exhibition is about being pre-occupied: it is about concerns and desires, and how these occupy our minds, our work, our actions and interactions. This exhibition explores how our pre-occupations are manifested in objects. How do ideas occupy space? How they are shared and made tangible through the creation of objects, both as process and in final form? How do those objects act as catalysts to help transform and revitalize space and discussion?

Two slogans serve to organize the work: “Resistance is fertile” and “It’s not a protest, it’s a process.” By exploring a series of definitions of “occupy,” connections are drawn between the act of making objects, and issues of expression, communication, employment, community and production. How does making relate to being occupied, having an occupation, occupying space and ideas?