AMOMO presents fine art photography and digital art. Its inaugural show features the work of photographer Eric Weiner entitled Who Am I? a look at what is the "self" and whether photography can ever capture it.

Main Gallery – We Came in Droves – Insoon Ha, Jimm Tran. Curated by Reena Katz.
We Came in Droves features the sculpture and performance of Insoon Ha and the self-portrait photography of Jimm Tran. Both artists approach the body as a dynamic site of history, culture, gender and power. In Tran's images, wounds become hardened scars, sexy selves and kindred spirits. His photographs birth a stunning multiplicity of identities. Ha explores her connection to American military presence in Korea as a youth with visceral repetition and metonym. Her sculptural forms are at once removed and deeply visceral. Curator Reena Katz pairs these artworks as reflections on the internal workings of subjectivity, and power of artwork to refuse social borders.

A Space Windows – Caitlin Erskine-Smith: The Tugged Warp.
The Tugged Warp explores the transformative process wherein autonomous agents became collaborative partners through the sruggle of bound weaving. The performance and remnants on exhibition bear witness to the negotiated processes of production.

Nicole DeBrabandere: In Beautiful Disguise – emerging ceramic artist DeBrabandere's first show at the Alison Smith Gallery.
Using a variety of materials, from majolica to constructed paper, DeBrabandere examines the human impulse to collect and fetishize objects, playfully subverting aesthetic conventions that include kitschy salt shakers, high-end designer goods, and the fine-art trope of the sculptural bust. The works, as quirky and humorous as they are, are executed with sophistication and élan – worthy collectibles in their own right.

She – Female Images in Art.
In the exhibition She, more than 40 international contemporary artists present their works in the collaborative theme of modern female images. The exhibition joins different media such as art dolls, contemporary paintings, photography, sculpture and graphic drawings etc. uniting all media pieces with one magnificent theme.

Artist submissions for future exhibitions and shows are welcomed.

Giuseppe Penone: The Hidden Life Within. Sculpture installation in the Galleria Italia.

King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs.

Thirty years after the wonders of King Tut had their celebrated Canadian debut at the Art Gallery of Ontario, an even bigger exhibition – King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs – will make its sole Canadian appearance at the AGO.
With an almost entirely different selection of treasures and more than twice the number of artifacts as were displayed in the 1979 exhibition, King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs features more than 100 remarkable pieces from the tomb of King Tut and ancient sites representing some of the most important rulers throughout 2,000 years of ancient Egyptian history. Derived from royal and private tombs and temples from 2600 B.C to 660 B.C., most of these artifacts had never before been seen in North America prior to this exhibition, which is currently breaking venue attendance records in Indianapolis.

Organized by The National Geographic Society, Arts and Exhibitions International and AEG Exhibitions with cooperation from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. Northern Trust is the proud cultural partner of King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs at the AGO. American Airlines is the official airline of the exhibition. Funding support provided by the Government of Ontario.

The state-of-the-art Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre is dedicated to the study of prints, drawings and photographs, and houses a collection of over 15,000 works on paper which date from the 13th century to the present day. Find out more about the AGO's Prints and Drawings Collection.
To make an appointment, please call: 416 979 6660 x250 or email: Brenda_Rix@ago.net.

The Study Centre offers a variety of opportunities for visitors:
Striking Impressions Talks – 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month, 11:30am. Join informal talks on a variety of topics. View works in an intimate setting. To take part in the talk, sign up in the Works on Paper Hub on the day of the talk.
Prints and Drawings: Open Door program – Wednesdays 1-4pm. Enjoy behind-the-scenes tours and see your favourite prints, drawings, watercolours and photographs.
Outside-the-Box program – Wednesdays 6-8:30pm. A series of rotating exhibitions.
Prints and Drawings: Visits by appointment – Fridays 1-4pm. For individuals interested in studying the collection in depth. Please call 416 979 6660 x250 to make an appointment.

Current programming features:
Love Bites: Amorous Works on Paper. On view Wednesdays 6-8pm, a selection of prints and photographs from the permanent collection that explore how artists over the centuries have visualized the universal feeling of love. It is part of the Outside-the-Box program in the Marviln Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre.
King Tut: Connect with the AGO Collection. Enrich your King Tut experience by visiting two installations from the AGO collection. Coupled with the King Tut exhibition, they invite us to reconsider our understanding of ancient Egypt. Until April 2010, in the Esther and Arthur Gelber Treasury, gallery 142, just outside the Melvin Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre, discover Egypt in the Western Imagination, a collection of etchings, lithographs, watercolours and photographs of the people, places and landmarks that have inspired artists and imaginations for centuries. In the Betty Ann & Fraser Elliott Gallery, see Views of Egypt: The Album as Souvenir. Increased travel to Egypt starting in the late 1800s produced a rich array of souvenir photographs.
American Prints of the Great Depression, Jan-Mar 2010. This exhibition in gallery 140 features thirty prints that take viewers from the roaring 1920s through the dirty 1930s, from New York to the American Midwest, through a time of great political and social change in America. Featuring works by American artists such as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, George Kenneth Hartwell, as well as the iconic "Four Freedoms" posters by renowned artist and Saturday Evening Post illustrator, Norman Rockwell.
Collection X: The Art of Collection Building. This exhibition explores the evolution of the print and drawing collection through the personalities, artworks and stories that make it unique.
Close Encounters 2009-2010 – a four-part series of intimate first-hand experiences with treasures from the AGO's collection of works on paper. Wednesdays at 7pm – Oct 28, Nov, 11, Feb 17 & Apr 21. $15 members, $18 non-members, $12 students.
Subscribe to the series and save: four talks for $55 members, $65 non-members. https://tickets.ago.net or 416 979 6660 x261.

Rembrandt / Freud: Etchings from Life.
This exhibition creates an opportunity for dialogue across the centuries between two great masters of the human form, Rembrandt van Rijn and Lucian Freud. Both artists regarded printmaking as an integral part of their art practice and created extraordinary images using the etching process. Uncompromising and direct, their etchings of the human face and the human body go beyond surface appearance to the underlying "truth". The exhibition juxtaposes self-portraits, naked portraits (nudes) and portraits of family and friends. Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Françoise Sullivan: Inner Force – Winner of the 2008 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO.
Pioneering multi-media artist Françoise Sullivan (born 1925) is the recipient of the 2008 Gershon Iskowitz Prize and is the focus of this exhibition. Among the featured works is a remarkable series of photographs dating from January 1948 when Sullivan, who had just returned from New York where she had studied dance with Martha Graham, staged her famous Danse dans la neige – a self-choreographed performance in the wintry landscape of Quebec. Plunging down slopes and striking dramatic poses, her footwork traced in the snow offers a parallel to Jackson Pollock's full-body movements that were required for creation of his monumental drip paintings. At root, Sullivan is a painter, and in this exhibition her recent majestic abstract works are the focus. Sullivan's ongoing Homage series has yielded a remarkable tribute to her artist colleagues such as Jean Paul Riopelle and her husband of several decades Paterson Ewen. In respiring and rhythmic fields of colour, Sullivan finds movement that conjures the memory of creativity's first spark. Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Wed 10 Feb, 7pm: Dance performance choreographed by Françoise Sullivan. In Walker Court. Free with admission. Two of Sullivan's choreographies from 1947-48, as well as two later works from 1981 and 1993, will be performed by Ginette Boutin, Rober Racine and Daniel Soulière.

Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?
The alluring, stunningly intricate collages of Wangechi Mutu draw the viewer into narratives of beauty, consumerism, race, identity, and gender politics. Focused upon imagery of the human body, Mutu's work offers a radical deconstruction of traditional figuration, supplanting convention with a dazzlingly complex oeuvre that bridges her Kenyan upbringing with contemporary American reality. This You Call Civilization? surveys Mutu's oeuvre by featuring both video and large works on paper produced since 2001. Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Sculpture as Time: Major Works. New Acquisitions.
The exhibition explores the subjectivity of time and how it is experienced through various art works by considering a group of artists who use common material to realize their work that unfolds in time. Sculpture is no longer an inert mass but rather an interactive machine-activated form, an object that
implies actual use, or a work that reflects the passage of time. Video artists use the medium of film to evidence and even foreground the passage of time. Artists will include: Joseph Beuys, Geoffrey Farmer, Robert Fones, Micah Lexier, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Kelly Mark, Kelly Richardson and Tino Seghal. Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Anselm Kiefer: Palmsonntag.
Anselm Kiefer ranks among the most important artist to emerge from post-war Europe. Palmsonntag (Palm Sunday) is a monumental installation consisting of a 30-foot-long palm tree cast in fiberglass resin, its roots clotted with mud, surrounded by a cycle of 44 large paintings encased in glass and framed in lead. Overwhelming in scale and sweeping in content, Palmsonntag conveys the operatic scope of Kiefer's creative enterprise that cross through spiritual, religious and mythical cultural territory.

Art Rental + Sales Gallery features original artworks by contemporary Canadian artists for purchase and rental, provides art consulting, delivery and installation, as well as AGO Memberships & Gift Cards.

Sylvia Tait: Allegories. Fascinated by music and time notations, Sylvia Tait creates unique, moody abstract compositions that are a delight for the senses. Tait's paintings have been exhibited since the 1950's, and are represented in corporate and public collections in Europe, North and South America, and Hong Kong.
Eszter Burghardt: The Wooly Sagas. Eszter Burhgardt is a BC-based artist originally from Budapest, Hungary. Burghardt's method includes immersing herself into any location she travels to, paying close attention to the effects of light, colour, sound and emotion. This method helps her develop wonderfully inspired painted stories about land, sea and sky.

Eamon Mac Mahon: Landlocked. Since 2004, Eamon Mac Mahon has ventured on extended journeys via bush plane deep into the northern Canadian back country, producing stunning aerial photographs depicting the captivating wilderness between lonely settlements. Mac Mahon shows that the north is not an endless expanse of homogenous forest, lakes and tundra, but a breathtaking variety of complex landscapes. Mac Mahon's work has appeared in several publications, and has been exhibited internationally.

Will Gorlitz: new / old / new.
Just as the title indicates, this exhibition at Birch Libralato includes an installation of new works, some revisiting older imagery and others very new.
Do not miss Will Gorlitz's survey exhibition, nowhere if not here, Feb 4-Mar 28, 2010, at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (952 Queen Street West, Toronto). The exhibition, with accompanying catalogue, includes paintings from the past 20 years of Gorlitz's career, as well as an installation of new animal-themed paintings, Always Ready, in the MOCCA Project Room. Organized by the Kitchener | Waterloo Art Gallery, and in partnership with the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, nowhere if not here is a nationally touring exhibition. For more info: www.mocca.ca.

Ed Pien: Vanishing.
Vanishing plays out Ed Pien's fascination with light and shadow, presence and ephemerality. Vanishing celebrates enchantment and imagination while exploring the potentials of paper-cut-based art. The gestures in each piece enact ambiguous narratives, inviting viewers to participate in formulating their own interpretations of the inexplicable while variations of depth of field and movement hint at a cinematic experience, touching on the realm of the uncanny. Continually innovative, Pien combines drawing, digital image manipulation, and diverse materials to his cutouts, evoking dreamlike states and visions.

HEAD TO TOE. Capturing the essence of the human body and form. Featuring works by John Clinton, Eamon, Barbara Fletcher, Roger Golden, Marina Guglielmi, Elaine Jaques, Karen Stoskopf Harding, Saulius Jaskus, Marlene Kawalez, Richard McNeill, David Paolini, David Salazar, Robert Tannahill.

Corkin Gallery presents the work of international contemporary artists in its five exhibition spaces. Our program is defined by a concern for contemporary issues crossing the boundaries of all media.
Environmental issues run through the work of veteran conceptualist Iain Baxter&, who creates provocative installations and was a pioneer of conceptual photography, and Thaddeus Holownia, who comes from a strong photographic tradition. Their interest in both the environment and sense of place are shared by William Christenberry, who produces serial photography of southern architecture over long periods of time.
Similarly, Barbara Astman, in her recent digital photography, addresses the role of the accumulation of images in our media-obsessed culture. Several of our artists work across different media, including Ramón Serrano, who paints stark images of Havana architecture after photographs, questioning the veracity of information and the double-life of contemporary Cubans under Castro, and Marc Séguin, whose large-scale contemporary history paintings based on news images of plane crashes verge on abstraction.
Painters David Urban and François Xavier Saint-Pierre work between abstraction and landscape, while Frank Mädler's large-scale photographs seem to confront painterly tradition. Issues of identity run through the photography and video installations of artists Lori Newdick, Anastasia Khoroshilova and Sharon Switzer.
The gallery maintains a dynamic exhibition program and participates in international art fairs. In addition to our contemporary program, the gallery presents photography from both the 19th and 20th centuries which demonstrates the ongoing dialogue between contemporary artists and their historical precedents.

Eva Ennist: A Curious Development – new mixed media sculpture.
This new series of mixed media sculptures has developed through Eva's exploration of both industrial materials (concrete and wire mesh) and organic fibres, namely bamboo, reed and handmade paper pulp. The contrasts and similarities of these chosen elements reflect the influences and observations from Ennist's latest travels to Southeast Asia. The dualities of heavy and light, dense and open, natural and manmade, inherent in her materials, have also been compelling motivators in the development of this new work. (West Gallery).

Representing Kathryn Bemrose, David Bolduc, Napoleon Brousseau, Gerardo Ramirez Castro, Susan Collacott, Shirley Dean, Audrey Garwood, Sybil Goldstein, David Hlynsky, Geoffrey Hunter, Rae Johnson, Elzbieta Krawecka, Richard Mongiat, Dimitri Papatheodorou, Dale Reid, Milly Ristvedt, Erica Shuttleworth, Shirley Yanover.

Edward Day Gallery artists showing elsewhere:
Melissa Doherty is exhibiting in the group show, Big Small, at Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), Jan 23-Apr 4, 2010. http://bit.ly/9r2tVt, http://melissadoherty.com.
Dan Kennedy is exhibiting in the group show, Sequential Desire at Thames Art Gallery (Chatham ON), Feb 26-Apr 4, 2010. A catalogue will accompany the show. See http://www.sequentialdesire.com.
Andrew Morrow is the University of Ottawa's 2009 Michel Goulet Award recipient for Excellence in a Master of Fine Arts Thesis.
Chrysanne Stathacos was recently reviewed in The New York Times for the group exhibition, Compassion, along with other artists, including A. A. Bronson, Yoko Ono, Terence Koh and Scott Treleaven. Read the article here: http://bit.ly/8EZ8in.
Steven White: The Combine Project (Nov 27, 2009 - Jan 17, 2010 at Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound ON) has been written up in Mountain Life Magazine. Read the article here: http://bit.ly/6avjse.

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition: Best of 2009. Don't miss First Canadian Place's annual presentation of innovative works by award winners from the 48th Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Congratulations to the represented artists, including: Dave Hind, Reuben Looyenga, Dan Driscoll, Scott Everingham, Alex Anagnostou, Jennie Suddick, Julia Hepburn, Min Hyung, Lesley McInally, Carmen Schroeder, Emily Gill and more. www.torontooutdoorart.org.

Works by Bedros Aslanian, William John Beatty, Ginette Beaulieu, Christian Bergeron, Cynthia Blair, Serge Brunoni, A J Casson, Marie Claire, Bruno Cote, Maurice Cullen, E L Elliot, L L Fitzgerald, V Gebauer, Lawren Harris, A Y Jackson, Franz Johnston, John Joy, Louise L Kirovac, Jason Kronenwald, Gilles Labranche, G Pelletier, Claude Langevin, Yvon Lemieux, Nathan Letovsky, A P Lipman, Arthur Lismer, Fred N Loveroff, Helen Lucas, J E H Macdonald, Henri L Masson, Mario Mauro, David Mazal, David Milne, William E Morris, Norval Morrisseau, Jean E Nerfin, Joseph Norris, Sophie Paquet, U Ringleb, Goodridge Roberts, Paul Rodrik, Albert Rousseau, Allen Sapp, Peter C Sheppard, Henry Simpkins, E Spence, Victor Stampatori, T Stone, Frederick Bourchier Taylor, Armand Tatossian, Andre Turenne, K Woodman, David Wright...

Gallery 533 deals in contemporary art, Japanese prints, international fine prints, ceramics and estate art.

Gallery 533 is pleased to present selected artwork from our Gallery Collection. GIVE A GIFT OF ART! International prints, acrylics, Japanese prints, oil on canvas and more... Celebrate with us the start of the Holiday Season on Sat 28 Nov, 2-5pm, and receive a 10% discount on any purchase.
Artists include: Jean Arp, Enrico Baj, Andrea Bolley, Charles Despiau, Eric Freifeld, Charles Keller, Rene Marcil, Charles Maurin, Rick McCarthy, Jack Nichols, Philip Pearlstein, William Perehudoff, James Rosenquist, Jack Shadbolt, Harold Town, Kiyochika, Hasui, Hirokage, Koitsu, Kogyo, Koson, Kunichika, Kunisada, Yoshitoshi and more....

Kate Domina – The Day They Blew Away. In her newest series of oil paintings, Kate Domina's unique whimsical style and childlike subjects find a narrative to call home, as Illustrations for a children's book titled, The Day They Blew Away.

William Ronald. Important Late Paintings.

Group Show – Karel Appel, John Anderson, Oscar Cahén, Ken Danby, Scott Ellis, Sorel Etrog, Dennis Geden, Robert Hedrick, Gershon Iskowitz, William Lazos, Evan Levy, Sandra Manzi, Jean-Paul Riopelle, William Ronald, Tony Scherman, William Scott, Thaddaeus.

Canadian Olympic Athletes: A Dialogue in Art – Portrait Society of Canada.

Gallery is closed for renovations.

Extra-Curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy.
Part I: Between Institutions (Feb 15-19, 2010).
Part II: Beyond Institutions (Mar 8-13, 2010).
Location: Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto.
Presented by Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. Organized and curated by Maiko Tanaka, Curator-in-Residence, JMB Gallery.
Open to the public; registration required for panel discussions. Free admission.
www.extra-curricular.info.

Extra-Curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy, is an international conference and curatorial project exploring the relationship between art, education, audience development, and activism. The conference will be accompanied by special projects, installations, workshops, and residencies with internationally renowned artists, educators, and researchers, with keynote guests: Annette Krauss (Utrecht, Netherlands), Xu Tan (Guangzhou, China), and Carmen Mörsch (Zurich, Switzerland). Collaborating organizations include Gendai Gallery (Toronto), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou, China), and Toronto Free Gallery.

The event will bring together practitioners working at experimental, critical, and radical crossings of art and education. Propelled by research on pedagogical art practices by Maiko Tanaka, the conference and exhibition aim to develop new and critical models of exchange between the two fields and cultivate dialogical, affective, physical confrontations and meetings between artists, learners and publics. The two-part conference will be held at Hart House, at the University of Toronto. Focusing on "supplemental," "extra-curricular," and "in-between" spaces of the formal curriculum of academic institutions, the project will explore the various ways critical and radical pedagogy is employed by artists working through these spaces and beyond.

The conference includes art installations by Xu Tan and Adrian Blackwell, as well as performances, workshops, and film screenings at Hart House and off-site locations. Guangzhou-based artist Xu Tan will be developing a new phase of his ongoing participatory project Keywords School, scheduled to take place during Part I: Between Institutions. His project will be followed by an experimental architectural installation, Model for a Public Space (Speaker), produced by Toronto-based architect and artist Adrian Blackwell. The latter project will function as a site for the roundtable discussions and presentations for Part II: Beyond Institutions, and will continue as a platform for open-ended public forums by student and community groups through to the end of March 2010. Part II also takes place in conjunction with Utrecht-based artist Annette Krauss's Visiting Artist Residency at the JMB Gallery. (Stay tuned for information on Part II, coming soon).

Part I: Between Institutions. Presented in conjunction with Visiting Artist Xu Tan's Keywords School installation and participatory project (Feb 15-19), as well as a book launch for Documenta 12 Education, the first part of the conference will focus on practices by artists, curators, researchers and educators moving within, between, and across institutional structures. It will include the following lectures and panel discussions:

Tues 16 Feb, 7-8:30pm, in Debates Room: Keynote lecture: Carmen Mörsch – "extra-curatorial? documenta 12 education and its research between autonomy and assignment". Carmen Mörsch is the Art Director of the Institute for Art Education (Zurich). She will give an overview of the Documenta12 Education Programme, its advisory board and research projects. Also discussing the development of the Documenta 12 Education books, the talk will touch on the project's achievements and challenges. Co-presented by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG).

Wed 17 Feb, 10am-12:30pm, in Debates Room: "between classroom and studio": Artists who blur the lines between their teaching and art practice within the traditional and extended notions of the classroom. Panelists: Amos Latteier, Stephanie Springgay (on the work of Diane Borsato), Daisuke Takeya. Moderator: Carmen Mörsch.

Wed 17 Feb, 2-4:30pm, in Debates Room: "between art and knowledge": Art as knowledge production addressing questions of what, why, and for whom. Panelists: Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez, Srimoyee Mitra, Darren O'Donnell. Moderator: Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández.

Thur 18 Feb, 10am-12:30pm, in East Common Room: "between curating and curriculum": Curators working with artists to create "educational curriculum" as exhibition, or curators on creative ways of working through institutional structures to support / produce pedagogically oriented exhibitions. Panelists: Andrew Hunter, Christine Shaw, Milena Placentile / The Pinky. Show moderator: Maiko Tanaka.

Thur 18 Feb, 1:30-4pm, in East Common Room: "between the gallery and imagined audience": A variety of perspectives on "learning outcomes" – how they differ in the educational and art contexts and the ways of negotiating the contradictions, difficulties, and challenges of reaching "desired audiences / students" and outcomes expected from both instituting and individual bodies. Panelists: Carmen Mörsch, Srimoyee Mitra, Kim Simon. Moderator: Michelle Jacques.

The Extra-Curricular conference, installations, screenings, and events are open to the public and free for all with registration required for specific events. To register, send an email to info@extra-curricular.info with your full name, organization / position, phone number and sessions you plan to attend.

Part II: Beyond Institutions.

Exhibition – Mar 3-31, reception Thur 4 Mar, 5-7pm: Adrian Blackwell – Model for a Public Space, [knot]. In Reading Room, Hart House, University of Toronto.

Conference – Following the vigorous and contentious proceedings that took place during Extra-Curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy – Part I: Between Institutions in February, this second part of the conference, titled Beyond Institutions, is structured as a meeting of collectives, artists, and activists working on creative initiatives in a variety of locations using explicitly pedagogical models, formats, and tools in their work. Although diverse in background, the invited groups carry common points of reference and characteristics: investigating new formats for knowledge production with critical analysis of power relations at play; investing in local communities; cultivating learning environments that produce new social relations; and making these processes and outcomes public.
The conference features representatives from collectives including the Center for Urban Pedagogy (NYC), colourschool (Vancouver), Dodolab (Waterloo ON), La Lleca (Mexico City), Radical Education Research Collective (RERC) (Toronto), The Pinky Show (Honolulu, Hawaii), Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry, and Ultra-Red (London UK). The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery's international artist-in-residence, Annette Krauss (Utrecht, Netherlands), will present the opening keynote lecture to kick-start the proceedings. Collaborating organizations for Part II include Gallery TPW (Toronto), Ontario College of Art & Design, The Centre for Media and Culture in Education (CMCE), REV-, and Toronto Free Gallery.

The setting of the Reading Room, an open student space inside Hart House, provides a context for discourses that can potentially be mobilized to diverge from or intervene in the "main curricula" of the larger educational institution. Roundtable discussions will take place in Adrian Blackwell's anti-hierarchical seating structure, Model for a Public Space [knot], while public workshops, a book launch, and film screening, will be held in various rooms in Hart House and off-site locations.

Mon 8 Mar, 7-8:30pm, in Music Room: Keynote lecture: Annette Krauss – "Towards critical links between art, education and activism".

Tues 9 Mar, 10-11:30am, in Reading Room: Roundtable 1 – "between word / image / action". Participants: colourschool and Annette Krauss.

Tues 9 Mar, 11:30am-1pm, in Reading Room: Roundtable 2 – "between autonomy and heteronomy". Participants: La Lleca and Toronto School of Creativity and inquiry.

Tues 9 Mar, 2-5pm, in Committees Room: Workshop – "Extra-Curricular Colour Study" with colourschool's Kristina Lee Podesva.

Wed 10 Mar, 10-11:30am, in East Common Room: Roundtable 3 – "between community & collaboration". Participants: Center for Urban Pedagogy, and The Pinky Show.

Wed 10 Mar, 11:30am-1pm, in East Common Room: Roundtable 4 – "between critique as theme". Participants: Ultra-Red, and Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry.

Wed 10 Mar, 2-5pm, in Committees Room: Workshop – "Feminist Pedagogy as Artistic Intervention" with La Lleca.

Thur 11 Mar, 9am-5pm, in Room 12-274, OISE (252 Bloor Street West, Toronto) & Fri 12 Mar, 9am-5pm, in Room 5-240, OISE: 2-day workshop –"D.I.Y. Learning-Weapon" with The Pinky Show.

Thur 11 Mar, 7-10pm, at Toronto Free Gallery (1277 Bloor Street West, Toronto): Reception & book launch for Recipes for an Encounter, published by Western Front and REV-).

Fri 12 Mar, 2-5pm, at Gallery TPW (56 Ossington Avenue, Toronto): Workshop – "What is the Sound of the Pedagogy of the Border?" with Ultra-Red. Pre-registration is advised, but all are welcome – info@extracurricular.info – for approximately 20 participants.

Fri 12 Mar, 7:30-9pm, in Reading Room: Workshop – "Concrete Dreams: A Fantasy School" with RERC.

Sat 13 Mar, 1:30pm, at Gallery TPW (56 Ossington Avenue, Toronto): Screening – Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given (2009, 80min.), a film by Petra Bauer and Annette Krauss. Discussion with Annette Krauss and Janna Graham.

The Extra-Curricular conference, installations, screenings, and events are open to the public and free for all with registration required for specific events. To register, send an email to info@extra-curricular.info with your full name, organization / position, phone number and sessions you plan to attend.

Installation by Adrian Blackwell – Model for a Public Space, [knot]. In Reading Room, Hart House, University of Toronto.

JMB Gallery presents: You Can Have It All, a two-part performance by Mammalian Diving Reflex with the Council of Expertly Aging Experts on Aging. 595 collective years navigating the perilous waters of love, sex and death. In Hart House, 2nd Floor, University of Toronto. www.mammalian.ca.

"how good are your dwelling places" – Rita Bakacs, Susan Lakin, Ross Racine, Allan Topolski. Guest curator: Cyril Reade.

"how good are your dwelling places" brings together four artists from diverse backgrounds, who often examine architectural and domestic environments, attempting to decode cultural specificity within a homogenizing context. Although they themselves are not Jewish, Rita Bakacs, Susan Lakin, Ross Racine and Allen Topolski were invited to reflect on the fluidity of Jewish identity in North America. Taking as departure points shared experiences of community, individuality, displacement, continuity and assimilation, they examine connections and differences.

The title of the exhibition is derived from an exclamation of the non-Jewish prophet Balaam: "How good are your tents, Jacob, and your dwelling places, Israel! (Numbers 24:5). Balaam had been sent to curse the Israelites camped on the east side of the river Jordan after their forty years of wandering in the desert, but upon seeing their encampment, the prophet could not but utter his wonderment. This declaration was incorporated into the Mah Tovu morning prayer, recited upon entering the synagogue. Decoupled from the Biblical source, the statement becomes equivocal, shifting from a pronouncement of praise to a question about the moral, ethical and ecological environment provided by the home.

Berlin-based Hungarian filmmaker Rita Bakacs takes us to the European origins of many North American Jews with a new video piece about the Schloss Börnicke, a former residence of the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy family situated in a Berlin suburb. New York-based artist Ross Racine digitally renders bird's-eye views of suburbia, orderly and prosperous at first glance but revealing limited choice upon closer observation. Rochester photographer Susan Lakin leads us inside the home where she takes portraits of the inhabitants as reflections in one of North America's ubiquitous appliances, the television screen. Sculptor Allen Topolski transforms found domestic items, marrying the familiar and the uncanny while using humour to remind of religious ritual embedded in the everyday.

The building hosting the exhibition is a former residence, later transformed into a commercial space and now planned for redevelopment. A few doors down is the childhood home of architect Frank Gehry, born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, who recently renovated the Art Gallery of Ontario just up the street. The row of houses is slated for demolition to make room for new constructions; the inhabitants of the early 20th century have long gone, soon to be replaced by yet other residents. The art works gathered here offer a snapshot of one of the trajectories of North American city dwellers – where we have come from, how we have lived, and how we live now. This space and the images and objects created by these artists can lead us to ponder on how good we make our dwelling places.

Margins. Contemporary art unraveling the Dead Sea Scrolls. Curators: Francisco Alvarez and Mona Filip. Presented at the Royal Ontario Museum by the Institute for Contemporary Culture and the Koffler Gallery of the Koffler Centre of the Arts.
Concurrent with the ROM's major exhibition, Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World, Margins (Jun 27, 2009 - Jan 3, 2010) is a newly commissioned installation and the first Canadian exhibition by acclaimed New York-based artist Joshua Neustein. Engaging visual art in a poetic reflection on writing, religion and archaeology, Neustein's project shapes a dialogue with the historical and cultural contexts of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among these ancient manuscripts are the oldest-known copies of the Hebrew Bible, hymns, prayers and other writings providing a link to the origins of Judaic, Christian and Islamic faiths.
Positioning the thematic of the Scrolls within a contemporary discourse, Margins references prominent Jewish poet Edmond Jabès and his critical texts concerned with the nature of writing, of silence, of God, and the Book. Jabès's mysterious meditations, the revealed knowledge of the historical texts and Neustein's own visual vocabulary converge in an installation that conveys the passion and impossibility of writing.
Through drawing, sculptural and textual elements, Neustein's installation re-enacts the emergence of the word piercing the silence with luminous presence. A sumptuous chandelier embedded into the gallery wall radiates as the core of the work – a strange archaeological relic excavated into visibility. Unraveling towards its brightness, transparent acrylic sheets lie collapsed on the floor, bearing shimmering texts. Drawn out by light, handwriting becomes typography, coalescing words into crystallized form. The script escapes the page, crossing margins into the space where writing struggles to uncover the unwritten.
Archaeology unearths dormant traces of history. Writing pushes at the edge of silence to bring forth the unsaid. Similarly, Margins explores manifest and concealed ideas of the Dead Sea Scrolls, exposing them to the light of our times.
Margins is presented on the ROM's Level 3, Centre Block.

Tara Cooper: Off-Season. Tracing the route that 95-year-old Doris Rittinger has taken for the past forty years, from Southern Ontario through Ohio, Kentucky and Alabama to Panama City Beach, Florida, this exhibition looks at the migratory habits of the retired along with the impact of aging.

Elizabeth D'Agostino: Artifacts of the Self-Made – investigates the transitional place, and the various stages that surround the transformations and adaptations of an object and the rooted structures that have formed their environment displayed as objects of curiosity.

Mercer Multiples – Our latest series of artists' multiples are by Johanna Billing, Jonathan Monk, and Scott Rogers; also available: the CD compilation, Mercersound 09.

Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here.
Organized by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in partnership with Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is pleased to present Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here. Spanning a period of nearly twenty years, nowhere if not here presents a comprehensive cross-section of the work of contemporary Canadian artist Will Gorlitz. In conjunction with this exhibition, MOCCA will present a new, previously unseen body of work by Gorlitz in the project room.
Through a rigorous painting practice, Gorlitz has examined a range of iconographic subjects. His choice of subjects – as seen in his Road Paintings, Numerals, and Not Everyone series – broadly evoke considerations of place, both within the internal context of the painting but also in terms of geographic, social and theoretical positioning. Curator and writer Peggy Gale has observed: "For Will Gorlitz, perception is both visual and physical: image and touch. The technology of handling and representation – form, structure, medium, texture – is always at issue." To examine the practice of Will Gorlitz is to carefully consider the specific purpose of representation, presentation and interpretation in the world of images and image-making.

Noelle Hamlyn: Uncovering – The Blanket Form. The blanket form is one of the most basic of all human creations; it covers, it comforts, it warms and it celebrates. We are swaddled in it at birth and shrouded in it at death. When crisis or trauma strikes, the blanket is one of the first objects to be offered – considered essential to human survival. Yet today the blanket is mundane and unrecognized. The intent will be to offer the opportunity to pause and consider the simplest of textile forms under which we conduct a great deal of our lives.

Denyse Thomasos.

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Open Studio Gallery – Janne Laine: Silence.
George Gilmour Members' Gallery – Lucinda Chen: Scrolls of Memories.
Print Sales Gallery – group show featuring Lorène Bourgeois, Ryan Price and Pawel Zablocki.

Wedgwood: Artistry and Innovation.

Hamra Abbas: Read. Institute for Contemporary Culture.

Canadian Content: Portraits by Nigel Dickson. Institute for Contemporary Culture.

East Asian Paintings & Prints: Recent Acquisitions.

Kings of Punjab – Two life-size oil-on-canvas portraits by Manu Kaur Saluja, offering contemporary imaginings of two significant historical figures – Maharaja Duleep Singh (1838-1893) and Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780-1839) – are depicted alongside artifacts from the Punjab. In the Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery (Level 3).

Fakes and Forgeries: Yesterday and Today.

Dan Perjovschi: Late News. Institute for Contemporary Culture.

Stitching Community: African Canadian Quilts from Southern Ontario.

Island Views – Rosslyn Berot-Burns, Julio Ferrer, Leonel Jules, Tamara Natalie Madden, Shastri Maharaj, Pascal Smarth.
The gallery presents its Caribbean collection in a group show with artists originally from various Caribbean islands. Six artists bring the perspective of their cultural heritage to bear in their presentation of memory, nostalgia and abstraction. The diversity of the works helps us appreciate the distinctiveness and some similarities among the islands.
Rosslyn Berot-Burns presents images and symbols that are evocative of Trinidad and island life in general. Julio Ferrer's urbanscapes of Cuba are cluttered with a diversity of people and the ubiquitous classic cars. Tamara Natalie Madden conjures memories of rural working-class Jamaica with colourful mixed media pieces. Originally from Haiti, Leonel Jules and Pascal Smarth produce abstract works.

Toronto Calling: Photographs of the British New Wave. Never before displayed, these photos offer a front row perspective on the underground Punk era in Toronto's music history. Images shot by former Torontonians Simon and Nick White, these photos capture a moment in time before the internet and before corporate sponsorship; a unique and exciting time which still seems to resonate with a raw energy and passion. Included are some of Punk's most iconic bands, including The Clash, The Ramones, Johnny Rotten, U2, The Specials, and many more.

Benoit Aquin: Chinese Dust Bowl.
In Chinese Dust Bowl, Benoit Aquin documents one of the largest conversions of productive land into sand anywhere in the world. Today, deserts cover 18% of China and of those, 78% are natural, while 22% were caused by ecologically damaging human activities such as the over-exploitation of arable land, over-grazing and increasingly, deep drilling for water. China's situation is quickly becoming the world's most massive and rapid conversion of arable land into barren sand dunes. The resulting dust is picked up by the wind and transported, in the form of giant sandstorms, all over China and into Japan, Korea and even North America. In an effort to reverse the situation, the Chinese government has initiated the largest environmental restoration initiative the world has ever seen and has begun a mass exodus of "environmental refugees," displaced by the advancing dust.
Aquin's photographs explore the impact of this great environmental disaster on the Chinese people and landscape. Sepia and subdued in colour, the images depict a landscape that is normally vibrant and colourful. He finds beauty in the destruction of the land, while also raising awareness about the environmental state of our world.

Kaleidoscope: Antique Quilts from the Collection of Carole and Howard Tanenbaum presents 43 dazzling quilts collected, over a 4-year period, by Carole and Howard Tanenbaum. Many of the quilts, from England, Canada and the United States, were made by individuals working alone. Others were created collectively, by groups of women who contributed individual sections to create a textile journal of the life and times of the 19th century. Curated by Max Allen.

In Touch: Connecting Cloth, Culture + Art is an exhibition based on our newest web project. In Touch explores how textiles are created and the characters that bring them to life. Visitors have the opportunity to come face-to-face with some of the website's featured objects, as well as compare them to their digitally rendered and animated counterparts.

Fashionably Wrapped: The Influence of Kashmir Shawls. This exhibition traces the origins of the shawl from the noble courts of India, where finely woven pieces were made and worn for several centuries, to the high-fashion market in Europe, where shawls were desired for their unusual beauty and exquisite weaving. With 32 beautiful examples from the Textile Museum's permanent collection, the exhibition examines how in Europe the shawl became a symbol of femininity, integrating the romantic exoticism of the 18th century with the Victorian values of innocence and decency of the mid-19th century. With their warm colours and luxurious softness, the Kashmir shawl and its European imitations embody a cross-cultural phenomenon with roots in India but identified with France and Great Britain.

The Thompson Landry Gallery specializes in the very best of Quebec art. With locations in Toronto and Calgary, you can find both the internationally acclaimed contemporary artists and sculptors of Quebec as well as the "Masters" of Quebec.

Contemporary artists include: Besner, Carrier, Case-Fox, Chénier, Corno, Dalceggio, Deguy, Durocher, Jou-Lee, Lafrance, Maranda, Millet, Monet, Nerbonne, Petit, Ruel, Rivière, Samson, Taillefer, Tremblay and Zen.

Dean Drever: Bear Hunt. Explores power as it is represented in one of the natural world's most impressive creatures. Acid-orange bears move in communion, towards and through a wall, and disappear.

Selected Gallery Artists – Paintings by Norah Borden, Corinne Duchesne, Ruth Dwyer, Hans Engel, Christopher Estridge, Pat Fairhead, estate of Telford Fenton, Charles Gibbons, Christopher Griffin, Karoline Varin-Jarkowski, Miro Korsic, Anne-Marie Kornachuk, Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo, Shirray Langley, David Peacock, Arthur Potts, estate of Theodore Rieger, Hanna Ruminski, Ewa Stryjnik, Ernestine Tahedl, Katya Trischuk, Jodi Wheeler, Mary Wright.
Sculpture by Yeon-Tak Chang, Don Liardi, Frank Vondrejs, Gisela Wittenberg & selected Inuit carvers.

The Art of Devotion: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Icons.
This exhibition, drawn from the University of Toronto's Malcove Collection, is organized around two central themes: icons dedicated to Mary and the Christ Child, and icons representing Christ and important saints in the Christian tradition.

From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Material Culture from the Malcove Collection.
Among the earliest objects in the Malcove Collection are a small sculpture from the Anatolian Bronze Age (ca. 4000-2000 BC) and a tiny Assyrian sealstone decorated with a winged sphinx (ca. 1300-1200 BC). Other ancient works include fine glassware, bronze lamps from the Greco-Roman period, and stone and bronze images of Sarapis, Isis, Cybele, and Zeus.
Many pieces in the Collection come from Early Christian, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine contexts. Two displays highlight secular and sacred objects from these epochs, including pilgrim flasks and tokens, reliquary, pectoral and processional crosses, metal icons, and liturgical implements such as a polycandelon with hanger, censors, spoons, bread stamps and an ossuary.

Portrait of Patron: The Dukszta Collection. Curated by Gordon Hatt.
Janusz Dukszta first commissioned a portrait of himself from Olaf von Brinkenhuff in 1953, and has repeated this exercise on a regular basis since that time. Portrait of a Patron comprises approximately 60 to 70 works from a collection of almost 100 portraits. By examining Toronto art through the lens of one collector, the exhibition offers a somewhat alternative view of Toronto art practice, and also underscores the importance of the patron in shaping collections, and through them, public institutions and the collective understanding of art history. Equally, it presents an opportunity to explore the nature and varieties of portraiture, and provides a fascinating foil to the extensive collection of “portraits of record” held by UofT.
Portrait of a Patron is supported by a benefactor group of close to 70 individuals and foundations. The exhibition catalogue is supported by The Scott Griffin Foundation and UTAC's educational program, Art with Insight, by Peter Allen.

Master of Museum Studies Graduate Exhibition – ArtiFACTS of Belief: The Collection of Charles Denison Aldridge. Curated by Carri MacKay, Erika Wilson and Yael Filipovic. In UTAC lounge.
Drawing from the tradition of institutional critique, ArtiFACTS of Belief challenges visitors' notions of the authority and objective knowledge presented by the museum. Presented through the personal collection of Charles Denison Aldridge, an affluent Victorian gentleman, this exhibition invites questions about the trustworthiness of the traditional display methods used in natural history museums.
An archetypical collector, Charles Denison Aldridge's fascination with the natural world led him to the four corners of the globe in search of unusual and unbelievable specimens. This unique natural history collection includes zoological and geological specimens as well as extraordinary skeletons.
The presentation of these specimens within the constructed narrative of this collector, challenges our perception of natural history displays. ArtiFACTS of Belief reveals the questions that remain prevalent within museum practice: how are artifacts valued, what is objective knowledge and who has authority? For more information please call the University of Toronto Art Centre at 416 946 3029 or email questions to projectkringle@gmail.com.
This exhibition was created by Master of Museum Studies graduate students with support from the Faculty of Information.

Doris McCarthy: Oil Paintings, Watercolours and Prints.

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Art and Cold Cash, edited by Ruby Arngna'naaq, Jack Butler, Sheila Butler, Patrick Mahon and William Noah, combines transcribed interviews, critical essays and artworks produced by the Art and Cold Cash Collective over a four-year period and tells the story of how capitalism was introduced to Inuit culture through the development of indigenous arts and crafts industries. ISBN: 978-0-920397-53-4. $29.95. English & Inuktitut.

decentre: concerning artist-run culture / à propos de centres d'artistes (Edited by Elaine Chang, Andrea Lalonde, Chris Lloyd, Steve Loft, Jonathan Middleton, Daniel Roy, Haema Sivanesan). A group of us working in the artist-run milieu instigated this book as a beginning of what we hope will become a wide-ranging discussion about the current state and future of artist-run culture. ISBN: 978-0-920397-55-8. $29.95.

Performance, [Performance] and Performers by Bruce Barber (Edited by Marc James Leger). "Bruce Barber is the quintessential dissident theorist / artist. Navigating the history of contemporary performance and performative conceptual art with ease, he maintains the position of the artist, the maker. His unique approach is dense and rewarding, a virtual intervention into the standard social performance narratives. Barber's subtle iconoclasm – aimed at the generalizations (we) critics have promulgated – expands the context in which performance is considered and creates in the process a new kind of criticism that tackles the contradictions embedded in postmodernism and political art activism. Barber zeroes in on the function of the work, monitoring a kind of chain reaction as it "acts on culture," rather than as "an enactment in culture." These two volumes contain the most intelligent treatment of performance phenomena to date." – Lucy R. Lippard (author of Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change). ISBN: 978-0-920397-49-7. A two-volume set. $50.

Pro Forma: language / text / visual art (Edited by Jessica Wyman). What are the ramifications, expectations, developments, and directions of text in visual art? What personal, social or political motivations inspire its use? What have been the conditions of its appearance, its evolution, and the climate of its reception? How does it become a limiting or liberating factor in production and interpretation? How does text function as a formal medium? ISBN: 978-0-920397-37-9. A three-volume set. $39.95.

afterthoughts by Gordon Lebredt. A monologue with Robert Smithson (deceased 1973) in nine sections, or nine stops which, as well as dealing with certain key critical works (Eliminator, Enantiomoprhic Chambers, Site-Nonsites, Spiral Jetty, Monuments of Passaic, Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan), also touches on the question of the institutionalization of art, the controversy with Michael Fried, language, film, photography, writing, spacing, and the issue of time. ISBN: 978-0-920397-47-6. Paperback. $20.

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EMILY WARDILL | SEA OAK.
YYreZidency | SARAH JANE GORLITZ & WOJCIECH OLEJNIK.
Co-presented with the IMAGES FESTIVAL.

Emily Wardill's Sea Oak was developed from a series of interviews conducted with the The Rockridge Institute, a left-orientated think tank located in Berkeley, California. From 2001 until its closure in April 2008, the Institute researched contemporary political rhetoric with special emphasis on the employment of metaphor and framing.
Sea Oak puts trust in rationality, enlightened thinking and the frames of reference in which facts are made to appear transparent and up for discussion.
In the sole spotlight of the space, only the apparatus can be seen, the film projector, staged like a sculpture.
Emily Wardill is a London-based British filmmaker. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including at the ICA, London (2008), Fortescue Avenue / Jonathan Viner, London (2005 and 2006), STANDARD (OSLO) (2008) Grizedale, Lake District, and PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York (2004). She is currently working towards solo shows at de Appel, Amsterdam and The Showroom, London.

YYZ, which turned thirty this year, responds to contemporary discourse about the breadth of artist support at artist-run centres by working beyond the crate and offering Sarah Jane Gorlitz & Wojciech Olejnik a six-week residency this spring.
In their collaborative videos, Gorlitz and Olejnik present fictional, fabricated environments, with the help of models, sets and stop-motion animation. These invented spaces are constructed intuitively with materials at hand, and refer to generic and familiar, yet emptied social spaces.
Sarah Jane Gorlitz & Wojciech Olejnik's collaborative work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Eyelevel Gallery (Halifax), Struts Gallery (Sackville), Neutral Ground (Regina), Optica, Centre D'Art Contemporain (Montreal), and Kapitalisitischer Realismus (Berlin), and in recent group exhibitions at The Soap Factory (Minneapolis), 6 Picoles Cycliques (Lyon), Kunstverein INGAN (Berlin), and Truck (Calgary). They have received funding from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Arts Council and in 2008 were awarded the Joseph S. Stauffer prize for emerging artists.

For more information please visit www.imagesfestival.com.

BILL BURNS | YYZUNLIMITED.
YYZUNLIMITED invites artists to imagine and reinvent the organization as a site of opportunity through a series of interventions, the presence of which will serve as material evidence of building a lasting community that is not determined by the duration and protocol of the regular exhibition structure at YYZ.

YYZ is pleased to announce the publication of Bill Burns's latest book, Two Boiler Suits and a Playlist: A Primate Guide. Published as part of the YYZUNLIMITED initiative, the elegant guide describes the chattels given to prisoners and the music that is played to them at the prison camps in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The 52-page guide includes 18 line illustrations and two colour plates. The book is designed by Shannon Griffiths.

Two Boiler Suits and a Playlist: A Primate Guide is part of a trilogy alongside Bird Radio, published in 2007 by KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, KW|AG in Kitchener and Walther Koenig in Cologne; and 0.800.0FAUNA0FLORA published in 2008 by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London UK. All three books will be available in a limited boxed edition in Fall 2010. Limited edition inquiries are welcome at animalsafety@gmail.com.

Burns thanks the Leon Levy Foundation in New York for its generous support of this project.

Bill Burns's work about animals and civil society has been shown and published widely including solo projects at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London UK (2008); KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2007); the Wellcome Trust in London UK (2002); and 303 Gallery, New York (1994) and group shows at the Kunsthallen Nikolaj in Copenhagen, Denmark (2009); Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland (2006); Museum of Modern Art in New York (2005-06); the Seoul Museum of Art in Korea (2002); and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1995).

This March Break, “Tall Tales” rule the Avenue Road Arts School! Join the Avenue Road Arts School for a March Break adventure exploring the very best in children's fables, tales, animal lore, myths, and legends from around the world! Kids will discover the hidden messages, wisdom, and stories behind many unique and special tales from Canada, India, China, Japan, Russia and many other countries.
In the integrated arts adventure camps, children in JK-Grade 4 will explore the "tall tales" theme through visual arts, music, creative movement and drama projects.
For kids and teens in Grades 4-9, we offer specialized arts classes in drama and musical theatre, drawing, painting and clay.

Winter Group Show – Prospects 2010. Prospective selection of work in 2010, including most recent work of Jiri Ladocha.
Selection of gallery artists' and guest artists' work, including Harold Town, Jack Payette, David Bierk, Walter Bachinski, Sky Glabush, Balint Zsako, Peter Byrne, Paul Campbell, Virginia Mak, Stefan Berg, Sven Hennze and Jiri Ladocha.

Ningeokuluk Teevee. This is the second solo exhibition for Cape Dorset artist Ningeokuluk Teevee. Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present a collection of her newest ink and coloured pencil drawings. The opening reception will also launch the artist's recent book, Alego, which has been nominated for the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature – Illustration.

Canadian Abstract Expressionists – Group show: Garen Bedrossian, Pierre Gauvreau, Gershon Iskowitz, Serge LeMoyne, Jean-Paul Jérôme, Rita Letendre, Neal McLeod, Harold Town, Pierre Patry, William Ronald & Jeff Willmore.

Spring Group Show – gallery and guest artists' work.

Gallery One is exhibiting their collection of American and Canadian masters including (but not limited to), Jack Bush, Wolf Kahn, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Lawrence Poons, Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler, Douglas Haynes, Stanley Boxer, Anthony Caro, Alice Teichert, Barry Oretsky, Graham Peacock, Roy Lerner and Hans Hofmann. Please note that this ongoing exhibition will be displayed on a rotational basis. Not all of the above listed artists will be displayed at the same time. We will also be showing work by newly acquired artists Yury and Tania Darashkevich. Both painters demonstrate excellence in the realist tradition.

For more than a decade, Leonardo Galleries has been building a reputation among art collectors for the exceptional quality of its original art and photography, as well as for museum-standard custom framing and expert restoration services.
Located in the Yorkville district of midtown Toronto, Leonardo Galleries participates in regularly scheduled group exhibitions and events, such as the Yorkville Art Gallery Walk, and the CONTACT Photography Festival.
Equipped with state-of–the-art technology, the gallery can be rented for exhibitions, workshops, conferences and other events. For details, please contact the gallery.

Automated Re-Growth – Molly McCracken, Katherine Verhoeven & Abraham Nelson.
Three illustrators from the Ontario College of Art and Design explore the dichotomy between the natural and the fabricated.
McCracken's use of a large mix of media, combining photography, ink, acrylic, and personally crafted Japanese papers creates unique textures and layering.
Verhoeven paints in a variety of media and strives to marry mystery and beauty into melancholic scenes and depictions of emotion.
Nelson works towards a character-driven story. Falsely innocent and consistently chaotic, the creatures and persons and living dead things come to life in the imagery he creates.

Maslak McLeod Gallery also features works by Norval Morrisseau, Christian Morrisseau, Carl Beam, Goyce Kakegamic, Kov Takpaungai, Ahmoo Angeconeb, Adam Alorut (Inuit Artist of 2008 – Canada Council).

Inuit Art – Lucy Tasseor and Floyd Kuptana (Canada, USA, Switzerland).

Norval Morrisseau within the milieu of his contemporaries. In addition to several outstanding early Morrisseaus dating from the 1960s, other artists featured include Carl Ray, Goyce and Josh Kakegamic, and Roy Thomas.

[It's time for an update on your collection appraisal.]

Copper Thunderbird: The Art of Norval Morrisseau – A Retrospective, at Elmwood Spa (18 Elm Street, Toronto), Jan 27-Apr 23, 2010 – RSVP Emily Simek at 416 323 4275.

Odon Wagner Gallery, established in 1969, is Toronto's premier gallery for historical art, specializing in 18th and 19th century European paintings, as well as paintings by Modern Masters.

Odon Wagner Contemporary is one of Toronto's foremost contemporary galleries, featuring leading Canadian, American, Chinese, and Spanish artists in painting, photography and sculpture. Please contact Rafael Wagner with your artist submission.

On-site conservation studio offers: Restoration and conservation of painting, sculpture, prints and frames. Appraisal and authentication for individuals, corporations and insurance companies. Sell your fine painting outright or on consignment with a name you can trust. Contact Nicholas Wagner for further details.

Days of Winter – Paintings by Glen Priestley.

Musings – Asoudeh Novin & Marilyn Chapman.
Asoudeh Novin, originally from Tehran, says her greatest inspiration has come from several years of travel in Europe while she was based in France in the 1990s. Experiencing art as part of life on a daily basis made a lasting impression on her, causing her to begin painting professionally. Novin's compelling figurative works show her subjects in their most contemplative state, allowing us to experience the intimacy of a quiet moment. While the subjects may appear one way to us, we can never know the true complexity within.
The expansion of these "musings" is evident in the intricate movement and colour renderings of Victoria-based artist Marilyn Chapman. Her work is a culmination of the cloudscapes she watched in the Manitoba skies of her youth and the organic flow of the BC coast where she now lives. Chapman believes that life moves through us and through all that is living. Her work explores the delicate, yet complex life systems upon which we all rely.

Face Value – Shoot With This collective in collaboration with Andrea Marcus. The Al Green Gallery presents an exhibition of portrait photography by the artists from Shoot With This, an arts-based film mentorship collective in the Jane / Finch community.
Mike Adoma, Jessica Agnew, Marshan Beals, Sarah Bertie, Alex Brazeau, Shelby Brown, Jade Clarke, Cordell Farmer, Jancy Dong, Tanisha Evans, Naura Fathi, Noterlee Johnson, Sean Kanhai, Jade Khiev, Justine Khiev, Marie Kim, Curtis McCleary, Jayson N., Jessica Nguyen, Kim Nguyen, Emmanuel Obuobi Jr., Daniella Palmer-Mark, Danielle Scott, Luxshanaa Sebarajah, Jenny Thich, Ricky Tran, Kevin Williams, Jenny Wu.

On Common Ground – curated group show. Works made with the theme of portraying "Urban 'Scapes", from the realistic to total abstraction.

Historical Canadian Painting – Arbuckle, Beatty, Borduas, Britton, Challener, Coburn, Cullen, Gagnon, Ferron, Fortin, Group of Seven, Krieghoff, Lemieux, MacDonald, Milne, Morrice, Pellan, Pilot, Reid, Riopelle, Roberts, Suzor-Coté, Walker, Watson and others.

New Acquisitions: Contemporary Canadian Painting – Nihan Basak, Don Besco, Martin Blanchet, Serge Brunoni, Simon Carmichael, Yehouda Chaki, Tim Daniels, Gérard Dansereau, David Disher, Laura Den Hertog, Thérèse Joannette, H. Jou-Lee, John Joy, Jean-Pierre Lafrance, Sam Lam, Claude Langevin, Louise Lauzon, Guy-Anne Massicotte, Angela Morgan, Milan Obradovic, Athanase Pell, Teodora Pica, Claude St-Jacques, Nicole St-Pierre, Roch Therrien.

Selections from the Art Brut & Outsider Art Collection – art by Barry Woo, Peter Smith, Joan La Mantia, Martin Owen, Glen James, Kristine Erglis, Gilles Arseneault, and Gabe Anderson.

Goal! Miniature Soccer Game – Selections from The Hanni Sager Mexican Folk Toy Collection.

Creative Works Studio is a community art program of St. Michael's Hospital which operates in partnership with the Good Shepherd Non-Profit Homes Inc. It offers healing and recovery through creative arts. Our mandate is to provide an oasis from the rigors and challenges of life for people living with long-term mental illness or addictions. The studio believes in educating the public to reduce the stigmatization of mental illness.

Representing: Steve Armstrong, Christopher Arnoldin, Tony Calzetta, Robert Chandler, Tien Chang, Joan Frick, Gillian Frise, Michael Gerry, John Howlin, Steve Rockwell, Rochelle Rubinstein, Lanny Shereck, Michael Warren-Darley, Y. M. Whelan.

Guest curator: Barbara Shadbolt. Exhibition TBA.

The AGO SHOW: Artists of the Gallery – 4th Annual Exhibition by Staff and Volunteers of the AGO.

Eden Bender: Bearing Weight – sculpture / painting.
Eden Bender's sculpture is both conceptual and figurative; it often relies on scale to draw the observer into a surreal world of transformation, metamorphosis, a world where unusual juxtaposition of static and dynamic is the norm. Eden's work has been influenced by the adversity of the human condition. This series of work will also include Eden's paintings.
"This particular body of sculptural work, Bearing Weight, focuses on the human capacity to endure mental or physical load and the significance of its impact. The pieces evoke both a feeling of light and darkness and the jagged layered surfaces invite you to touch."
Eden studied at George Brown and at York University where in 1990 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honours. She has received numerous awards including the L. L. Odette Sculpture Award and the Ontario Arts Council Award.

Eberhard Ross and Robin Horsch.

Rouge Concept is a gallery of contemporary art and design representing artists at various career stages, in various mediums including painting, photography, lighting, glass, ceramics and furniture design. Shown in a layered environment, visitors get a sense of how art can transform a home.

Please visit our new website for more information.

A collection of recent works by Vicki Carruthers, Matt Durant, Julia Hepburn, Scott Johnston, Ryan Kerr, Sean Kerrigan, Sophia Muller, Angela Petardi, Janet Potter, Kerry Shaw, Donna Zekas.

Group exhibition of works by Ian Amell, Pierre Bouchard, Ken Cosgrove, Sandro D'Ulisse, Alfred Engerer, Robert Farmer, Kathleen Finlay, Renato Foti, Larry Hahn, Michael Harris, Kevin Kelly, Jean-Christian Knaff, Lee L'Clerc, Sylvia Lo, Elaine MacNeill, Sophia Muller, Kagame Murray, Francis Muscat / Fly Freeman, Sean Carl Newman, Tina Poplawski, William Porper, Tyler Rock, Dave Sheppard, Patrice Stanley, Jens Sturup, Kate Taylor, Wendy Walgate, Miguel Deras Zapata.

DNA – group exhibition. Join us at the opening for fine wine, fine art, fine company!

J. Bonnet, Borduas, Brandtner, U. Comtois, Dallaire, Daudelin, de Tonnancour, Ferron, Fortin, Gaucher, Gauvreau, Goodwin, Hurtubise, Knowles, F. Leduc, Lemieux, Letendre, Lyman, McEwen, Mousseau, Molinari, Pellan, Riopelle, R. Roussil, A. Savage, Surrey, Tousignant, etc...

Nancy Oakes: Drawing in Ten Seconds or More – vigorous yet sensitive line drawings in pen and graphite. Portraits as well as studies of people in the urban environment, including "walking drawings" whereby the artist walks and draws simultaneously, letting the motion of her own body animate the lines.

Studio Blog – NEW RSS FEED! An ongoing series of online conversations between artists and curators. Visit: www.yorku.ca/agyu/studioblog.

New:
Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman: Project for a New American Century (essay by Philip Monk).

and while I have been lying here perfectly still: The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files (by Philip Monk).

Projecting Questions? Mike Hoolboom's Invisible Man: between the art gallery and the movie theatre (includes contributions from Mike Hoolboom, Philip Monk, Chris Kennedy, Yann Beauvais, and an online component from Steve Reinke).

Recent:
Carla Zaccagnini, Catalogue Traduit (consisting of ten French essays on themes bifurcating from and illustrated by, works by the artist).

Matthew Brannon: To Say the Very Least (essay by Philip Monk).

Oliver Husain: Hovering Proxies.
You are surrounded by the late summer in Tandun's garden in downtown Jakarta where two dogs, Ziggy and Uma, scuffle on the dry grass. Ziggy, the husky, is a bit crazy from the heat. Elegant wrought iron furniture balancing on thin legs, withered vines, broken flowerpots: this is the set for a tropical drama. You are part of the action: invited to step behind the flapping curtain where you might find yourself in the position of an understudy, waiting for the star's fatal slip... As always, the really exciting part happens backstage. Or rather, the really exciting part is that one step through the curtain, that thin in-between space, that slice of a moment.
Make the familiar trip out there stranger on the one and only Performance Bus with Toronto performer Mantler (a.k.a. Chris Cummings). Mantler's tour bus is your free ticket to Oliver Husain's and Brendan Fernandes' opening night and your serious comic relief for the evening! Part tour guide and part musician, this "childman" is all entertainer! You don't want to miss this performance! The free AGYU Performance Bus departs OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) on Thur 21 Jan at 6pm sharp and returns downtown at 9pm.

Alex Wolfson and Bojana Stancic: And so, the animal looked back...
Shuttle out there on the Performance Bus to the Jan 28th and Mar 11th presentations of And so, the animal looked back... departing OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) at 6pm sharp and returning downtown at 9pm. Seating is limited; please call 416 736 5169 to reserve free tickets. Jan 28th & Mar 11th tickets are reserved for individuals on the free Performance Bus. (There is no bus for Jan 29th & Mar 12th performances).

Writer / Director: Alex Wolfson. Set Designer and Visual Concept: Bojana Stancic. Costume Designer: Vanessa Fischer. Sound Designer: Matt Smith. Actors: Amy Bowles, Lindsey Clark, Vanessa Dunn, Nika Mistruzzi, Liz Peterson, Evan Webber.

One day Max begins to speak. Then to write. The primatologists are unsure of what to do with this new development. Soon Max begins to compose a long essay on the subject of the separation between man and animal, chimpanzee and animal, man and chimpanzee. Word leaks out to the world at large about Max. People become frenzied. Strange things begin to occur as the world starts slowly to fall apart. Pairs of animals, both human and otherwise, begin to congregate around the laboratory. Finally it becomes clear, Max's essay is the last words to be spoken before a new flood, a new apocalypse, but unlike the deluge that occurred before the first play, this flood does not simply destroy, it also reconfigures new identities, new share subjectivities. The play ends not with a prescription of what must come but simply with an understanding that things must change, and what will come is a mystery to them all.

And so, the animal looked back... is a unique venture of the AGYU into the world of experimental theatre, a theatre that has its roots equally in the art world and queer performance. The AGYU has commissioned two new plays under the overall title of And so, the animal looked back..., the performance of which opens and concludes an installation that will retain props, performance elements, and projections from the first play.

Foreign Agent series continues with a trip to Colombia as our cultural attaché Astrid Bastin brings you the latest from Bogotá in her feature report.
Visit: http://theagyuisoutthere.org/everywhere.

Audio Out – Under the musical direction of Janice Gurney, Outside Our Doors is a recording that meditates on The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, with translated readings in numerous languages outside the door of the speakers' homes to the outside of ours.

AGYU Vitrines – Brendan Fernandes: Relay League.
Flashing from the wings, Relay League signals sympathetically to the AGYU's current exhibitions and is staged as a choreographed light performance. As well, it spills out there onto the York University campus acting as a primitive communications device.
• • • - - - • • • Relay League is a chain of forwarding optical telegraphs used to convey messages of distress or celebration. • - - - • • • Pulsing within the AGYU Vitrines, SOS messages are sent and received. - - - - - Morse Code patterns pulse softly and slowly. Neon African mask vibrates more rapidly. The flashes of this optical trance are less scientific than supernatural, less advertising seduction than Voodoo probe. A searchlight manoeuvering through an unidentified space adds to the mystery.
A text by Kenneth Montague accompanies the exhibition, published in another coded format as a free take-away item at the AGYU.
Make the familiar trip out there stranger on the one and only Performance Bus with Toronto performer Mantler (a.k.a. Chris Cummings). Mantler's tour bus is your free ticket to Oliver Husain's and Brendan Fernandes' opening night and your serious comic relief for the evening! Part tour guide and part musician, this "childman" is all entertainer! You don't want to miss this performance! The free AGYU Performance Bus departs OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) on Thur 21 Jan at 6pm sharp and returns downtown at 9pm.

Red Dot Rental – Affordable Art for Your Home or Office.
Arts Etobicoke is pleased to present Red Dot Rental, an ongoing exhibition featuring a selection of artwork by the acclaimed artists of Arts Etobicoke's Art Rental and Sales Program. This show highlights a sampling of the more than 60 artists who are involved in the program and who work in a wide variety of media, including photography, painting, mixed media and sculpture.
Visit www.artsetobicoke.com to view more samples from our growing collection and for more information on renting or buying art.

Erik Bennink – mixed media.
Josef Kursky – acrylic on canvas.

Peter Smith: You May Find Yourself. Curated by Ann MacDonald.
Peter Smith thoughtfully receives the overabundance of information swirling around us in our modern world. He grapples with and translates the inherent complications and idiosyncrasies of life, representing the macrocosm in prints and assemblages that are comprised of the detritus of our days – scrap wood, dollar store surplus, stickers, plastic globes, and building blocks. His works unite throwaway culture with aspirations for comprehension and transcendence.
Organized by the Doris McCarthy Gallery in partnership with the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

Echo Stone Sculpture Studio – Classes and Independent Studio Time.
Echo Sculpture Studio is a student-run, non-profit cooperative which is the only public studio in the GTA offering pneumatic, electric and hand tools with 24/7 studio access. Stone, clay and wood sculpture classes are available. Safe, creative and collegial environment.
Beginners to advanced and professional sculptors are welcome. To register for classes and / or studio time call 416 630 7200 or visit online at www.echosculpture.com.

Echo Sculpture Studio Exhibition – 16 sculptors / artists' first exhibition in our new studio, 3906 Chesswood Drive, Toronto. www.echosculpture.com for info and directions.

SAGAMIE – L'imprimé numérique en art contemporain. Curator: Marc Audette. Group exhibition: Yvan Binet, Marcel Blouin, Mario Duchesneau, Jocelyn Philibert, Catherine Sylvain.
This exhibition showcases the work of five photographers with the intention of benefiting from the reflections developed by the art centre on the evolution of modes of visual expression. This coincides with the launch of a publication through which artists, curators and theorists share their reflections on current challenges and the effects of new digital design tools in the art world.

Cape Dorset: Celebrating 50, 1959-2009. 50th Anniversary Print Collection.

Celebrated gallery artists: Bedros Aslanian, Robert Genn, Brent Heighton, Alex Janvier, John Joy, Jim Logan, Maxine Noel, Daphne Odjig, R.C.A. (limited edition prints), Athanase Pell, Michael Robinson, Roy Thomas (1949-2004), and recent drawings from Ningeokuluk Teevee and Shuvinai Ashoona.

Gallery Phillip continues to offer an extensive collection of Inuit sculpture, drawings, prints, and graphics; First Nations sculpture and Woodland Indian art; as well as Woodland Indian and Northwest Coast masks.

In the Hall Gallery, original work by the Twenty Ten Collective.

In the Main Gallery, Springtime Hope – The Golden Age Academy / Accademia Età d'Oro – a mosaic of cultural diversity – 17th annual arts and crafts exhibition featuring the work of seniors who use their skills, knowledge and experience in the creation of art works.

Cal Lane: Sweet Crude. Organized and circulated by Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec.

Beginning in March 2010, the Peel Heritage Complex will embark on an exciting renovation and expansion of our archives, art gallery and museum facilities. The expansion will establish a regional centre of arts and heritage expertise, and create a new Art Gallery of Peel with increased exhibition, community and storage spaces. As a result, the Complex – Art Gallery, Museum and Archives will be closed to the public between March 1, 2010 and April 2011.
While we are closed, staff will be working to improve programs, exhibitions, resources and community connections. Also please note: our popular Annual Juried Exhibition will be on hiatus until 2012.
For more information about the expansion, updates on construction and outreach programs, please visit our website at www.peelheritagecomplex.org or contact Judy Daley, Acting Curator, 905 791 4055 x3631.

Beaux-Arts Brampton includes three distinct galleries, ten artists' studios, plus a variety of classes / workshops for both adults and children.

The Eden Art Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery and possesses many kinds of paintings and sculptures.

Canadian artists: Armand Tatossian, Luc Deschamps, Jack Reppen, Donald Jarvis, Albert Rousseau, P. C. Sheppard, A. M. Urquhart, Serge Lemoyne, P. V. Beaulieu, William Ronald and more.

Canadian Native artists: Norval Morrisseau, David Morrisseau, Eugene Christian Morrisseau, Allen Sapp, Jane Ash Poitras, Moulton and more.

International artists: Sangnam Lee (Korea), Duckhyun Cho (Korea), Yeohyun Kwon (Korea), Hangryul Park (Korea), Insun Choi (Korea), Soocheon Cheon (Korea), Geneuk Choi (Korea), Namnong (Korea), Woonbo (Korea), Yonngja Yoon (Korea), Yongmyun Kang (Korea), In Yoo (Korea), Seok Kim (Korea), John Orth (USA), Gordon Chabot (USA), Gus Nall (USA), Sue Coe (USA), Paul Henlie (USA), Jean Nerfin (Switzerland), P. W. Millenaar (Germany), Jacob Wexler (Israel), P. LeBoeuff (France), Chienshih Lin (China), Tsengying Pang (China) and more.

Artists represented: Abraham Anghik Ruben, Joseph Capicotto, Francesca DiCarlo, Michael Close, Daniel Diaz, Giuseppe Pivetta, Bernice F. Martin (1902-1999), Langley Donges (1901-1992), Peter C. Sheppard (1882-1965), Johnathan Ball, Ernesto Manera, Sam Paonessa, Robert Potvin, David Ruben, Manasie Akpaliapik, Elijah Michael, Iola Ikkidluak, Temela Okpik, Jaco Ishulutak, Lucy Tasseor, Bart Hanna, Lukie Airut, Manasie Atsanik, George Arluk, Simon Tookoome, Abe Ukuqtunnuaq.

New works of Abraham Anghik Ruben.

Hockey Town – Liz Pead, Liss Platt, Leah Modigliani.
Since Canada's early days, ice hockey has been closely tied to ideas about our national identity and it continues to be an important forum for community spirit. In much the same way that hockey creates a sense of unity in communities across the country, the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson sought to express our diverse nation by painting the wilderness. Artists and athletes embody a lifestyle that revolves around play, passion and an innate gift or genius. They represent dreams of greatness in our society, and as such reveal expectations for individual achievement and the power of collective identity. In this exhibition, three artists combine their passion for hockey with their passion for making art, while challenging the stereotypes that surround gender, class, sport and culture.
This exhibition was curated by Sandra Fraser and organized and circulated by the MacLaren Art Centre.

HINDSIGHT: 2010 Resident Artist Exhibition. In the premier 2010 exhibition HINDSIGHT, The Living Arts Centre resident artists re-examine the artistic triumphs of the past through the lens of the present. Each artist has been challenged to choose a movement from art history in order to update it with their own creative sensibilities. HINDSIGHT presents a remarkable collection that reinvents iconic works through a variety of media.
The Resident Artist Program is an innovative resource for emerging and mid-career artists. Applicants are accepted based on the merit of their studio practices and may work across eight professional studios including glass, flameworking, wood, textiles, photography, ceramics, sculpture and painting & drawing.

Woodland School.
This exhibition examines the vibrant artworks of Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Carl Ray, Alex Janvier, Blake Debassige, Saul Williams, Martin Panamick, Goyce Kakegamic and other Woodland School artists.

Tom Forrestall: Paintings, Drawings, Writings.
Organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Explore the "magical realism" of Tom Forrestall's paintings, drawings, and journal sketchbooks by examining themes of nature and tensions between reality and the imagination. This retrospective exhibition chronicles the artist's curious observation and exploration of his surroundings, the nature of his creativity, and the source of his visions, through his works.

Maurice Cullen and His Circle. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
Comprised of nearly forty oil paintings, this exhibition features works by Maurice Cullen together with those of some of his contemporaries, James Wilson Morrice and William Brymner, and the future generation of artists he inspired, including his stepson, Robert Pilot, and future member of the Group of Seven, A. Y. Jackson. These works reveal the complex relationships between the urban and rural boundaries which existed around such cities as Montreal and Quebec in the late 19th and early 20th century.

ArtChat.
Jan 31: "Fleeting Moments: Maurice Cullen and Impressionism". Inspired by the exhibition Maurice Cullen and His Circle, this ArtChat will discuss the principles of the Impressionist movement and its lasting influences on the works of Maurice Cullen and the many young Canadian artists Cullen inspired.
Feb 28: "Canadian Inspirations: Setting the Scene for the Group of Seven". Learn the connection between the Group of Seven and inspirational Canadian artists of the preceding generation who painted in Canada, Europe and North Africa: famous names such as Maurice Cullen, William Brymner and James Wilson Morrice.
Mar 28: "Tom Forrestall: In Focus". Learn interesting facets of Tom Forrestall's artistic career. Discuss his methods of working in egg tempera, magical realist style, shaped paintings, and the importance of drawing.

Peter Sager: Rediscovered. Curated by Linda Jansma, this exhibition is part of a yearly series that explores early Canadian abstraction. Peter Sager was born in Vancouver and was the youngest person to have a solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery (at the age of 17 in 1937). Taught by Painters Eleven member Jock Macdonald, Sager produced prints, sculptures, paintings and drawings that would be shown internationally.

Shelagh Keeley. Curated by Linda Jansma and Carol Podedworny in collaboration with the McMaster Museum of Art. Shelagh Keeley came to prominence in Canada, and subsequently, in the U.S. and internationally, in the early 1980s. At a very early point in the debates that challenged and, ultimately, changed the global art world, Keeley was investigating issues such as access, representation and diversity. The retrospective includes work from Keeley's most recent bodies of work.

Family Art Day. Experience the wonders of art as a family! A professional artist leads participants through fun, hands-on art activities. Each workshop features a different artistic medium, an interactive Treasure Hunt and a self-guided tour of our current exhibition. Our CIBC Children's Performance Series will be scheduled at 2pm, allowing families to choose 1pm or 3pm for the hands-on studio activity. Fee includes materials – programs from 1-3pm or 2-4pm.
Sun 31 Jan: Faces.
Sun 28 Feb: Mixed Media.
Sun 28 Mar: Natural Creations.
Visit www.whitbystationgallery.com for full details.

This year Station Gallery celebrates 40 years of providing the community arts experience. Drop in for 10 minutes or stay and explore, Station Gallery has something for everyone. Admission is free.

NEWS –

Register now for an array of educational, interactive and fun arts education programs for children, youth, adults and families. Winter programs on now – visit www.whitbystationgallery.com for details.

Located in the heart of downtown Oakville's renowned arts and culture scene. The gallery features an exceptional collection of original works of art by both established and emerging Canadian and International artists presenting a wide variety of subject and media.

Representing painters and sculptors: Monika Aebischer, Denise Anderson, Erika Baempfer Deery, Sacha Barette, Ilona Biernot, Tadeusz Biernot, Israel Broytman, Peter Colbert, Nancy DeBoni, Iosif Derecichei, Claude Dorval, Jean Gaudet, Narelle Gibbs, March Gregoroff, Jack Grunsky, Christopher Hayes, Heather Haynes, Sonja Hidas, Vladan Ignatovic, Karoline Varin-Jarkowski, Yuri Kaplunovich, Julia Klimova, Louise Laroche, Myriam Levy, Hugh Malcolm, Gilles Marcou, Dina Shubin-Panov, Igor Panov, Peter Panov, Andrew Pawlowski, Francoise Petre, Provenzano, Amin Rehman, Dan Ryan, Linda Schneider-Granatstein, Shwan, Dragan Sekaric Shex, George Turia, Susan Valyi, Susan Wallis, Susan Wilde, Mary Wright, Roman Zuzuk and others...

John Dickson installed a large sculptural work entitled Lands End on the grounds of Soper Creek Park in October 2009 as part of this annual project.

Anastasia Tiller.

Anthony Randall.

Liz Parkinson: Field Work: Pattern and Preoccupation. Prints on Japanese paper and large installation work. Parkinson is interested in the display, collection and categorization of the natural world. She is a master printmaker who is closely affiliated with Open Studio in Toronto.

Anne Garrett.

ARK. Collection Corridor. Ann Roberts (Conestogo ON), Irit Lepkin (Toronto ON), Laurie Rolland (Sechelt BC), Danuta Weisenbluth (Toronto ON) and Judi Dyelle (Victoria BC). Curator: Jonathan Smith. This group exhibition explores the symbolic nature of the boat (vessel) form that appears in the work of five women artists. Themes of birth, life and death – the voyage of time – are examined from a feminist viewpoint.

Linda Towart.

Pars Pro Toto – Ceramic works by Catherine Paleczny. AIC Gallery. Curator: George Wale.
Artist's statement: My work is devoted to the microcosm of the organic world and through my personal hybridization, I am to create a new visual language. The sculptural [ceramic] installations fuse organic crossbreeds in order to establish a new environment that focuses on the integration of bulbous shapes, projections and carved incisions.

Lorne Toews: Figurative Painting. AIC Gallery. Curator: George Wale.
A survey of the figurative paintings by this senior regional artist. Toews has been painting, teaching and mentoring for over thirty years.

Winter Studio Art Programs.
We offer courses for all ages at our four Cambridge Galleries' locations and the Design at Riverside printmaking studio.
To view our full studio course listings please visit: www.cambridgegalleries.ca.

Fausta Facciponte: Reliable.
Following on the heels of her inclusion in this year's Showcase.09 exhibition of emerging artists to keep an eye on, Reliable marks the second presentation of a body of work that focuses on images of found dolls. The artist uses digital photography as a means of reclaiming these common childhood playthings, many of which have been found or purchased second-hand on ebay. Her luminous enlargements capture the fine details of each doll's expression, revealing their individual quirks and personalities. Facciponte's images function as memento mori – a Latin phrase that translates as “remember that you are mortal”. Her images are both haunting and nostalgic.

Snow, Rain, Light, Wind: Weathering Architecture by Filiz Klassen is an investigation of material innovation that is intended to generate awareness of issues in architecture related to climate change. The exhibition documents the application of weather-sensitive, textile-based prototypes onto various built structures and the response of these "building skins" to weather elements. The interior exhibition included multiple video projects, lenticular photographs and textile prototypes. The exterior installation consists of a multi-layered 10' x 20' light reflective "skin". The work, affected by the shifting of light levels, is comprised of notes from a weather diary written by the artist, as well as 100 years of weather data gathered from the City of Cambridge.

Selections from the Permanent Collection. An annual showcase of select works from Cambridge Galleries' extensive permanent collection of contemporary Canadian fibre art. The collection also represents an important link to the textile heritage of Waterloo region.
Work by Ellen Adams, Ilse Anysas-Salkaukas, Margaret Ballantyne, Sharon Buchanan, Tom Burrows, Dorothy Caldwell, J. Lynn Campbell, Karen Chapnick, Barbara Cohen, Carole Gauron, Freda Guttman, Tamara Jaworska, Arounna Khounnoraj, Sheila McMath, Janet Morton, Gordana Olujic-Dosic, Andrew J. Smith, John Andrew Schweitzer, Chrysanne Stathacos, Ursulina Stepan, Yvonne Wakabayashi, Susan Warner Keene.

INTROSPECTIVE EXPEDITIONS: JOURNEYS TO THE SELF.
Jane Adeney: TRANSUBSTANTIATION – Fire and the Search for Meaning. Focusing on controlled states of transformation and alchemical metamorphisis Adeney is fascinated with clay's various stages of being. Using fire imagery to explore the uniquely human search for transcendental meaning, this exhibition reaches into the depths of our inner selves, and touches the internal worlds of our desires and, possibly, our fears.
Louise Pentz: BROKEN... BUT STILL STANDING. Celebrating the human experiential dimension, Louise Pentz uses smoke-fired ceramic sculpture to take us to the world of contradictions embodying the legacy of mothers. Conceived in the headwaters of our ancestors, these vessels shape and transport personal gifts of identity and unique knowledge along the voyage of existence guiding us through the challenges of today.
Sin-Ying (Cassandra) Ho: ONE WORLD / MANY PEOPLE. Describing the path of encounters between cultures that collide, Ho is influenced by contemporary post-colonial theory. She examines 21st-century politics, technology, and economic globalization, resulting in the merging of people from many nationalities and cultures.

Also available: Lustre ware by Scott Barnim.
And European and North American historical works.

Representing: Wesley W. Bates, Andrea Blanar, Ronald Boaks, Victor Cinti, David Laing Dawson, Michael Dobson, Patricia Gagic, Catherine Gibbon, Barry Hodgson, Trevor Hodgson, Jody Joseph, Heather Keenan, Karen G. Kulyk, Duane Nickerson, Tibor Nyilasi, Marla Panko, Janice Peshke, Elena Roginsky, Chelo Sebastian, Toby Snajdman, Holly Sneath, Petra Zantingh, and the Estate of Conrad Furey.

The Extra Ordinary World of Conrad Furey – acrylics from the Estate of Conrad Furey 1954-2008 – "His people work and play and dance, with courage, humility, and wonder, reflecting, as great art always does, the artist's own life and heart."

Recent paintings by Gallery artists.

SPEAK FOR THE TREES: Prints from the Permanent Collection.
Featuring works by acclaimed First Nations artists Carl Beam, Norval Morrisseau, Shirley Bear and Brian Marion, the exhibition explores the relationship between humans, animals and the environment.

Family Art Sundays. Free art activities!

DROWNING OPHELIA poses several questions such as: How do artists tell stories in their work? How does contemporary art reflect and reveal narrative traditions? How does the art of today record and describe the world around us? And must "the real" be fictionalized in order to be thought? This group show delves into the timely and timeless allegory of Ophelia's loss of judgment and her subsequent watery demise, in an exhibition of new media, video, photography, painting, and sculptural works by contemporary artists, provoking an exploration and analysis of the influence of water in our time, as well as the possibilities and potentialities found throughout literature and art. Janet Bellotto, John Dickson, Janieta Eyre, Sue Lloyd, Paulette Phillips, Mélanie Rocan, and Sharon Switzer.

WATER MARK is composed of works by three artists who explore the Grand River and the surrounding organic environments, exploring the appearance of water in the natural world and its contemporary representation in an array of printmaking techniques and styles. Gerard Brender à Brandis' work, Water: The Great Giver and the Great Taker-Away, derives from a series of images of the Grand River. Brian Holden's series, Water in the Wilderness: Northwestern Ontario, comes from his fascination not only with landscape, which is a prominent component in many of his images, but also from the structures and forms found in the many varieties of organic life. In Experiencing Water, Lucinda Jones' approach to evoking underwater scenes viewed during aquatic passage recalls Islamic Art, where repeated patterns and forms constitute an infinite pattern that extends beyond the visible material world.

These exhibitions were curated by Carla Garnet.

EXTRAVAGANCE and PRUDENCE – MEDIA with MESSAGE – Susan Detwiler and Fiona Kinsella.
Susan Detwiler creates installations and videos based on her interaction in the natural environment. Using head-cam technology carried by her dog – currently working with a horse – she creates intriguing explorations of the terrain. In her sculptural pieces she invites the viewer to explore ideas of minimalism by using suitcases to create transient living spaces.
Fiona Kinsella's cake works appeal to the viewer on a subconscious level. Cakes garnished with such relics as teeth, quills, and cicada wings evoke notions of ritual and consumption. In a second body of work, the fat 3D layered surfaces of her oil paintings rise into peaks and swirls – almost edible – certainly spiritual.

The New American Century Project – Tobey Anderson. In The New American Century Project Anderson seeks to expose the cultural vacuum surrounding the current "War on Terror". Since the events of 9/11, he has looked to the media as inspiration for this on-going body of work, using appropriated images and colours inspired by the glow of television to cast a new light on the subject.
As commentary on the "War on Terror" Anderson started painting individual portraits of the dead and wounded from both sides; the portraits are presented in an ever expanding, wall covering grid that brings a systematic and solemn order to the chaos of war, but also reflects the death toll that continues to rise. Several of his larger scenes, again based on images appropriated from the media, are also included.

Shi Le – Painting.
Erin Dolman – Jewellery.

Being Magnified: Heroes and Villains from KW|AG's Permanent Collection. Works that depict the fully realized being: those who through exceptional ability in the physical, intellectual or spiritual realms, are considered heroic by the multitude.

Pandora's Box. Guest curator: Amanda Cachia. Organized and toured by Dunlop Art Gallery with the financial assistance of the Regina Public Library, The Canada Council for the Arts and the Saskatchewan Arts Board.

International artists challenge myths and fairy tales to make them a more accurate mirror of female experience in new contexts. We are invited to reflect on larger human issues such as birth, death, parenthood, relationships, rites of passage and multiple identities through an engagement with other worldly creatures and everyday environments. Artists: Laylah Ali, Ghada Amer, Shary Boyle, Amy Cutler, Chitra Ganesh, Wangechi Mutu, Annie Pootoogook, Leesa Streifler, Kara Walker, Su-en Wong.

Ground Level: Works from KW|AG's Permanent Collection. Organized by KW|AG. Works are assembled around the subject of "terra firma" and are either "of the ground" or "from the ground". Artists: John Chalmers, Richard Lanctot, Stanley Lewis, Graham Peacock, Don Proch, Gordon Rayner, Jim Reid, Klaas Verboom, Peter von Tiesenhausen.

Sculpture Park. Open daily from dawn to dusk. Featuring 35 permanently sited outdoor sculptures, including, Short Life, Long Branch by Michael Davey.

Gunilla Josephson: E.V.E. Absolute Matrix.
Gunilla Josephson's video, E.V.E. Absolute Matrix, is constructed from 86,400 frames selected and manipulated from footage of a studio performance by Toronto musician Eve Egoyan playing Inner Cities, a contemporary five-hour epic for solo piano by composer Alvin Curran. Josephson focuses on Egoyan's face for the duration of the video, as an examination of the unbridled emotion of the musician's performance. This is the first showing of E.V.E. Absolute Matrix at a public art gallery. Co-curated by MSAC assistant curator Dawn Owen and Scott McGovern of Ed Video Media Arts Centre.

Risking the Void: The Scenography of Cameron Porteous.
Risking the Void features the work of Cameron Porteous, who is one of Canada's most distinguished stage designers. A master of design technology, Porteous employs both projections and architectural structures in his work. This touring exhibition features extraordinary stage and costume designs, props, and set models from major productions across Canada. The exhibition is a collaboration between Theatre Museum Canada, the University of Guelph's L W Conolly Theatre Archives, and the Shaw Festival.

Natalka Husar: Burden of Innocence – features the work of Toronto artist Natalka Husar, who takes her lifelong obsession with painting and with Ukraine, her ancestral home, into new territory and presents three interwoven, though unresolved, narratives in the form of a history play in three acts. Organized for circulation by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, the exhibition is co-produced by the MSAC, McMaster Museum of Art, and the Tom Thomson Art Gallery.

Fierce: Women's Hot-Blooded Film / Video. Curated by Janice Hladki. A group exhibition of video and experimental film works by Maureen Bradley, Dana Claxton, Allyson Mitchell, and b h Yael.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Fashion and Mimesis. Curated by Gary Genosko.
Cardoso is a Sydney-based multi-media artist who was born in Colombia. Her best-known works involve video and photo-sculptural installations that deal with the lower orders of creatures, namely, insects. In her work, mimesis plays a vital role as a lens through which inter-species relations may be examined. In this exhibition Cardoso uses emu feathers to construct unique women's fashions and home accessories, while accompanying pieces reference stick-insect mimesis.

Adad Hannah: Cuba Still (Remake).
Born in New York in 1971, Adad Hannah lives and works in Montréal. Cuba Still (Remake) can be seen as a continuation of his series of video-recorded tableaux vivants, begun in the early 2000s. The artist calls these videos "Stills". Starting with a publicity photo for a banal and forgotten film purchased in Havana in 2003, Hannah re-stages the scene, filming individual sequences of each of the six characters from the original photo. The resulting six videos are then simultaneously projected so as to fabricate a single cinematic scene, a tableau vivant, from the separate and apparently motionless video images. An ingenious method of projection – six crafted wooden stands with a system of cutout masks – plus the original photograph and the images of the six characters complete this installation, which crystallizes the notions of the photographic moment and of duration, the contrasting merits of the fixed and the moving image, and the particular nature of photography and film.
This exhibition is part of the MOMENTUM series, a touring project from the Collection of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.

Simon Frank: View.
Incorporating elements of action and performance, the natural world has been Frank's frame of aesthetic reference for the past ten years. The idea of the scenic view, of "landscape" as such, and the use-value it creates are all central points of enquiry in his work. Using a log marking hammer – designed to brand logs destined for the lumber mill with a proprietary symbol – Frank creates a ghost-like dream forest in the Niche Project Space at Rodman Hall.

Group Show. – features selected works by Hagop Khoubesserian, Howard Day, Sean Yelland, Beverley Hawksley, Kate Grigg, Barker Fairley, Leonard Brooks, Lawrence Nickle, Michael Clay, E. B. Cox, Michael Kiriakis, Andrew Olscher, Shao-Pin Chu, Tony Leung, Patrycia Zwierzynska, Pamela Lauz, plus numerous historical prints. For more info call or email Tom Goldspink at tom.goldspink@tagartgallery.ca.

Revolving Group Exhibition – featuring Doug Dolman, Scott Pattinson, Aidan Urquhart.

Steve Mazza – New ceramic work.

Gallery artists: Michael Allgoewer, Robert Creighton, Michael Davidson, John W. Ford, Don Jean-Louis, Laurie Kilgour-Walsh, Fiona Kinsella, Harold Klunder, Steve Mazza, Andrew McPhail, Martin Pearce, Leslie Sorochan, Matthew Varey, Pearl Van Geest.

Florence Carlyle Gallery. This permanent gallery features the rotating works of Post-Impressionist Florence Carlyle, supplemented by family artifacts and photographs.

KEEP'N IT REAL – Cathy Groulx & Mary Anne Murphy. Our first exhibition in 2010 features an array of artworks by two Woodstock artists, Cathy Groulx and Mary Anne Murphy, which offers viewers an opportunity to explore the genres of realism or representational art.

Mindscapes & Landscapes – Abstractions of Potential – Valerie Nichol, Marieke Niemeijer, Lorne Wagman and Vera Dernovsek.

Tony Romano: Notary Moon.
Much like a laboratory for experimentation, Roman's exhibition of audio and installation work focuses on a playful and engaging exploration of language. Curator: Sandra Fraser.

Janet Jones: DaDa Delirium.
Toronto painter Janet Jones probes our fascination with the future, her imagery inspired by sterile public spaces such as the lobbies of multinational corporations or hyper-lit passages on the Las Vegas casino strip-along with the destabilizing yet ecstatic blur of technology. Curator: Stuart Reid.

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(See Calls for Artists for submitting to The Question of Peace, a juried exhibition of videos made by youth from Canada and around the world – click here; see Art Schools for info on the MacLaren's studio courses for children, youths and adults – click here).

Donald Woodman: The Selling of the West.
Landscape is a subject to which Woodman has repeatedly returned over the years. The photo tradition he comes from has been characterized as the "Ansel Adam School" of the idealized landscape. Of course, nowadays, one has to travel to areas with sparse population that are inaccessible by motorized vehicle in order to find unobstructed vistas like those in Adam's photographs. The works on view record the landscape as it is: being sold, closed off and/or developed, complete with trash, weeds, roads and powerlines. In doing so he has had to shed the mantle of the tradition of landscape photography, instead revealing the real world we live in.

Alan Glicksman: What It Is.
Glicksman roots his work in a personal exploration of his life and self, often embedding intimate language and private symbols in his worked compositions. His drawings are playfully totemic, and channel the frenetic energy of a classroom doodle as much as the earnest expressionism of Picasso and Dubuffet. His work may also be seen as a long trail of clues about the churning imagination at the centre of this process of image-making resulting in an endless, fractured, fragmentary narrative of psychological inquiry involving text, image, color, line. In terms of composition, color and sheer vitality of visual and literary language, there is probably no artist in Canada who does this kind of thing better than he does.

Spirit, Idea, Symbol: The Image of Canada.
Selections from our permanent collection of historical and contemporary art exploring the myriad of ways that Canada has been represented by her artists.

Poet, Priest, Dauber: The Renaissance and Baroque Arts. Bader Gallery.
This selection from the permanent collection explores the cultural and social roles attached to the art of painting during the 1500s and 1600s. Some of these works show the ambition to compete with established arts like poetry, others the desire to serve the Church or the layperson in the religious turmoil of the Reformation. Still others aimed to supply the steady market for genres like portraiture which despite their aesthetic achievements still had to contend with the former status of painters as artisans, or "daubers".

Of Human Concern. Frances K. Smith Gallery.

Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control – Contemporary Feature and Davies Foundation Galleries, Etherington House and an off-site installation at the Union Gallery Project Room.

The Sorting Daemons Symposium (Jan 16 & 17) is held in conjunction with Camera Surveillance in Canada: A Research Workshop (Jan 14-16) hosted by the Surveillance Camera Awareness Network (SCAN) and The Surveillance Studies Centre. Selected sessions of this workshop are open to the public. For information on the Camera Surveillance Workshop, see www.surveillanceproject.org/projects/scan.

Sorting Daemons is curated by Jan Allen and Sarah E. K. Smith. This exhibition and its associated programs and publication are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council (an agency of the Government of Ontario), the City of Kingston and the Kingston Arts Council through the City of Kingston Arts Fund, The New Transparency SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, Queen's University, the Rita Friendly Kaufman Lecture Fund and the Department of Art.

William Brymner: Artist, Teacher, Colleague. R Fraser Elliott, Historical Feature and Samuel J Zacks Galleries.

Thursday Tour. These 45-minute gallery tours cover highlights of Art Centre exhibitions. Tours are free and admission is free for all on Thursdays.

Visit Galerie d'art Jean-Claude Bergeron's booth at the Toronto Art Expo, Toronto's premier fine art and cultural event. Celebrate art at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre during the 8th annual TAE, one of the most successful art fairs in North America.
www.torontoartexpo.com.

Gallery ArtPlus solo exhibition – Ivan Unwin: Do Least Harm. Included in this collection is a set of political and environmental activist works, with human rights and land abuse as subjects.

Representing: Simon Andrew, Bonnie Brooks, Tim De Rose, Frank Edwards, Grace George, Heather Haynes, Jordan Hicks, Alana Kapell, Harold Kaufmann, Michael Minthorn, Maureen Sheridan, Peggy Morley, Verna Vowles, and Gerry Wright.

New works by Valerie Ashford.

Natasha Doyon: Héros & Héroïnes. Some famous, some not, these images represent different people and places throughout history. The artist's use of different source materials has resulted in paintings that are metaphorical constructions of identity which embody the meaning we give them, rather than objective representations.

Indigenous Art Collection. Canadian, Contemporary and Inuit Galleries.

Part II: Rethinking Abstraction from an Indigenous Perspective. In Gallery B104.

Douglas Gordon: Play Dead: Real Time. Gallery B106.

Contemporary Art Collection. Contemporary Galleries.

General Idea. One Year of AZT. Gallery B204.

Maurice Denis: Journeys. Library and Archives.

Ottawa Collects Edward Burne-Jones. Galler C218A.

Nicolas Baier: Paréidolies. Galleries B102 and B103.

19th-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada.

"Gathie Falk (born 1928), Eight Red Boots, 1973" – mini-talk by Stephanie Williams.

The Oeno Gallery represents more than 40 contemporary artists. Visit our website for complete list.

What Keeps You Sane? New sculptures by Sophie DeFrancesca, Edward Falkenberg, Po Chun Lau and Camie Geary-Martin. New paintings by Christopher Langstroth, Scott Pattinson, JT Winik. Mixed media by Nancy Zboch. New series of photo-based works on steel by Sylvain Louis-Seize. At Oeno Gallery.

Exploded View. Curator: Emily Falvey.
Artists: Aganetha Dyck (Winnipeg), Howie Tsui (Ottawa), Diana Thorneycroft (Winnipeg), Wim Delvoye (Ghent, Belgium), Jennifer Angus (Madison, Wisconsin).
This exhibition explores the re-emergence of grotesque motifs from historical periods, such as the Renaissance, in the work of contemporary artists.

Subjecting Figures. Curator: Catherine Sinclair.
Artists: Edmund Alleyn, André Biéler, Jacques Bussière, Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, Paraskeva Clark, Joyce Devlin, Clarence Gagnon, Melanie Garcia, Chantal Gervais, Lawren P. Harris, Edwin Holgate, Henri Masson, Louis Muhlstock, Philip Surrey, York Wilson.
Subjecting Figures displays a sampling of the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art's holdings of over 150 drawings of nude models, including anatomical studies by Clarence Gagnon, models posed as prototypes of actions or emotions by Philip Surrey, and nudes placed within narrative scenarios by Edmund Alleyn, placed in the context of contemporary work by artists Chantal Gervais (Ottawa) and Melanie Garcia (Montreal), both of whom address issues pertaining to the body.

Open Collection. A changing exhibition of established and emerging visual artists from across Canada. Featuring new works by our core of artists, pieces culled from past exhibitions and new works by artists new to our gallery.
Robert A. Blenderman (Kingston)
David Bayly (Sydenham)
Peter Coffman (Halifax)
Sandra Davies Corrigan (Kingston)
Frank Danielson (Sudbury)
Krzysztof Doniewski (Montreal)
Andrew Danson Danushevsky (Change Islands NL)
Jeremy Ennis (Kingston)
L. W. Foden (Galiano Island BC)
Hersh Jacob (Kingston)
Diane Laundy (Halifax)
Molly McClung (Kingston)
Bruce Millen (Kingston)
Elias Mina (Toronto)
Teresa Mrozicka (Sydenham)
Jacqueline Staikos (Belleville)
Stanzie Tooth (Toronto)
Susan Wallis (Toronto).

Cecily Jane Taylor and Andrea Por | The Breath of It All. Cecily Jane Taylor and Andrea Por's works examine the human emotions of fear, isolation, and anxiety. Both artists are current BFA students at Queen's University.

Representing contemporary Canadian artists – Michael Adamson, Barbara Babinski, Rose-Aimé Belanger, David Bolduc, Mark Cartile, Paul Chester, Teresa Cullen, Hugh Cunningham, Blaise DeLong, Jennifer Dickson, Patricia Doyle, Dale Dunning, Gabryel Harrison, Paul Healey, David Peter Hunsberger, Duncan de Kergommeaux, Brian Kipping, Jaya Krishnan, Karen Kulyk, Danièle Lemieux, John Macdonald, Robert Marchessault, Neil McClelland, Shelley Mitchell, Tobe Muir, David Pelletier, Joe Plaskett, Valerie Roos Webster, Daniel Ross, Blair Sharpe, Kelvin Smith, David Sorensen, John Webster.

Sacred Africa: Ancient Art from Sub-Saharan Africa – works from the collections of the Cirque du Soleil, the MMFA, and the Redpath Museum, McGill Univ.
Pre-Columbian Art – one of the largest collections in Canada.
French, Dutch and Flemish 17th- and 18th-Century Prints – includes recent donations made by Andrew Molnar.
The Body in Glass – Gift of the Anna and Joe Mendel Collection to the MMFA.
Napoleon – Gift of the Ben Weider Collection to the MMFA.

Global Warming: Scenes from a Planet Under Pressure – Works from the Montreal Museum of Fine Art's Collection of Contemporary Art.

Collection Loto-Québec, 1979-2009.

Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour.

Cubes, Blocks and Other Spaces. Exhibition of works from the Collection sets out to dscribe the role of art in our perception of the world. Artists: Josef Albers, Alice Aycock, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Ian Carr-Harris, Fischli & Weiss, Gilbert & George, Peter Gnass, Pierre Heyvaert, Joan Jonas, Kurt Kranz, Guillermo Kuitca, Suzy Lake, Sherrie Levine, El Lissitzky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alex Morrison, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Gunter Nolte, Anders Oinonen, Nam June Paik, Giulio Paolini, Mary Pratt, Richard Prince, Keith Sonnier, Haim Steinbach, Lotte Stam-Beese, Paul Strand, Françoise Sullivan, Joanne Tod, Serge Tousignant, Ian Wallace, Weegee, Gordon Webber, Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky, and Bill Woodrow.

Projection Series – Karl Lemieux.

Montreal Reflections on Art and Aesthetics Workshop. Selected Wednesday evenings in the Museum's foyer.
Wed 2 Dec, 6pm: Keith Moxey and Michael Ann Holley.
Wed 10 Feb: Jean-Pierre Cometti and Jerrold Levinson.
Wed 10 Mar: Alex Neill.
Wed 24 Mar: Daniel Townsend.

Marcel Dzama: Of Many Turns.
Etienne Zack.
Luanne Martineau.

The Raza Group: Full Circle – Francis Caprani, G. Scott McLeod, Gerald Pedros.

In the Project Room, PSUKHÔ – Jean-François Laporte.

Screening of Si Sullivan m'était contée.

online auction – Canadian Post-War and Contemporary Art.

Art Classes for all ages and abilities.
We offer adult classes during the day and evening, from beginner to advanced.
We offer classical drawing and oil painting as well as contemporary approaches to portraiture, life painting, abstract painting, colour and composition, seniors studio, singles art classes, sculpting, printmaking, watercolour and drawing at all levels.
We also offer a drop-in life drawing on Thursdays 7-10pm with a $10 fee.
Our classes are small and our new space is equipped with an art store, gallery and library. Courses are 9 weeks in length. Contact us at art Works art School.

Short on time, but big on creativity?
Check out the wide-ranging roster of engaging, hands-on workshops for kids, teens and adults, such as Getting to Know your Digital Camera, Magic, Journal Making or Creating a Garden Sculpture. Workshops run from 1 to 3 sessions – in small classes that allow for individual attention by our practicing artist / educators.
A number of programs are designed specifically for families, singles, and couples.

For more information or to enroll in any of our programs, please visit us at www.avenueroadartsschool.com or call 416 961 1502.

Echo Stone Sculpture Studio – Classes and Independent Studio Time.
Echo Sculpture Studio is a student-run, non-profit cooperative which is the only public studio in the GTA offering pneumatic, electric and hand tools with 24/7 studio access. Stone, clay and wood sculpture classes are available. Safe, creative and collegial environment.
Beginners to advanced and professional sculptors are welcome. To register for classes and / or studio time call 416 630 7200 or visit online at www.echosculpture.com.

Drawing and Painting with Inspiration. For ages 7-12. Students will develop their drawing and painting skills while exploring the work of some of the great Master Painters. Fundamentals of drawing including line drawing, shade and shadow, texture and colour will be explored. Students of any ability are welcome to have fun and learn in this creative class environment. $85 Gallery members; $95 non-members. All materials supplied.

Printmaking for Teens & Adults – with Lucinda Jones. The January exhibition, Water Mark showcases the work of local printmakers. Inspired by this creative medium, this class will explore a variety of printmaking techniques including monoprints and relief prints. No experience necessary; all are welcome. $120 Gallery members; $135 non-members. All materials supplied.

Docent Training. This six-week training will teach you how to be a Gallery Stratford tour guide. No experience necessary, only a desire and enthusiasm to learn about art and to work with people. Sponsored by New Horizons for Seniors. FREE.

Drawing from the Costumed Model – with Chris O'Hoski. $50 members, $60 non-members.
This three-session course offers artists the opportunity to work from a model in costume under the guidance of an instructor. As with our regular Open Studio format, quick studies to extended poses will be explored. A materials list with suggestions will be provided but artists are free to choose their own media. No materials are provided by the gallery. http://chrisohoski.org/index.html.

Watercolour for Beginners – with Chris O'Hoski. $40 members, $50 non-members.
A course designed for those who have never painted with watercolour (or any painting medium) and for those looking to further understand the wonderful medium of watercolour. Participants will be shown step-by-step how watercolour has been used by various contemporary artists, as well as simple techniques used for drawing and creating paintings. This course is designed to help participants be creative, have fun, and be comfortable learning how to paint. A materials list will be provided upon registration. http://chrisohoski.org/index.html.

Art Classes for Everyone – Spring classes begin in March & April. See www.maclarenart.com for details.

Children's art classes include:
Kinder Artists with Jenn Guerin at the MacLaren (Saturdays, ages 3-5).
Kinder Artists with Jenn Guerin and Jacqui Swanek at Innisfil's Knock Community Centre (Tuesdays, ages 3-5).
Art Start with Julie Robb (Saturdays, ages 6-9).
Art Club with Julie Robb (Saturdays, ages 10-13).
Creative Cartooning with Bob Kain (Tuesdays, ages 8-12).