EXHIBITIONS –

Discord and Harmony in the Art of the Baroque Era. Bader Gallery.

New Canadiana: The Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund and Art as Social History.

Collecting Visions.

PROGRAMS & EVENTS –

Third Thursday Tours. Join us for highlights of exhibitions. Admission is free for all on Thursdays.

Art Matters. Alicia Boutilier, Curator of Canadian Historical Art, tours the exhibition With Rasp and File: Inuit Sculpture and Stonecut Prints.

Culture Days.
Fri 24 Sep, 10am-4:30pm: A highlights tour of all exhibitions. Tours are free, and admission is free during Culture Days.
Sat 25 Sep, 1-5pm: The Big Draw – Kingston artist Dave Gordon leads an informal drawing workshop for all ages and skill levels. Drop in, try a range of materials and get some tips. Workshop and admission free.
Sun 26 Sep, 1-5pm: The Print Sprint – Kingston printmaker Rebecca Cowan will demonstrate how to create a drypoint print on our traditional etching press. Demonstrations are available on a drop-in basis.

Rita Friendly Kaufman Lecture – featuring Dr. Ruth Phillips followed by New Canadiana reception and publication launch. Join us for a reception, following what promises to be a fascinating lecture, celebrating this innovative exhibition and the accompanying catalogue.

Art Classes & Workshops for Adults at the Art Centre.
Classes and workshops are open to Queen's students and adults from the community, and include access to our exhibitions.
To register by phone: call 613 533 2190 and pay with VISA or Mastercard.
To register in person: visit our Reception Desk during regular hours and pay with credit card, cash or debit card. Space is limited; registration is confirmed with payment.

Art Rental and Sales Gallery – Thur 1-4:30, Sun 1-5 or by appointment. Tel: 613 533 2184 email: artgall@post.queens.ca.

Gallery Shop – Tues-Fri 12-4:30, Thur 12-9, Sat & Sun 1-5. Tel: 613 533 6913 email: artgall@post.queensu.ca.

Underground parking located at University Avenue and Stuart Street. Free aboveground parking available on Queen's campus on weekends and after 5pm weekdays.

Canadian Landscape Juried Exhibition.
Jurors: Virginia Eichhorn, Director / Curator, Tom Thomson Art Gallery; Rhona Wenger, Director / Curator, Grimsby Public Art Gallery; Laurie Carmount, Curator, Agnes Jamieson Gallery.
A call for submissions was sent out to artists in an attempt to rejuvenate this neglected genre, yet an essential part of Canadian culture. This exhibition takes a new approach by revisiting the aesthetic movement of traditional to the evolutionary non-traditional work of Canadian landscape art.
Artists: Al van Mil, Alan Glicksman, Alex Jack, Amy Bagshaw, Annie Sakkab, Aurora King, Barbara Amos, Bob Pennycook, Bruce Livingston, Cameron Kuntz, Daniel Durocher, Daniel Tofach, David French, Debra Lees, Denis Larouche, Dennis Austin Reid, Elaine M. Carr, Elizabeth Siegfried, Gunhild Hotte, Heather Carey, Helen Utsal, Ian Winton, Jachen Mueller, Janusz Wrobel, Jerre Davidson, Jessica Watchorn, Joel Sinclair, John Ashbourne, John Deal, John Graham, John Lennard, Judith J. Leidl, Judith McCarvell, Karen Bigelow, Kathleen Weich, Kim Atlin, Leanne Baird, Liz Menard, Lori Sokoluk, Maria Whiteman, Marie Timbers, Mark Marasco, Pat Hertsberg, Patricia Whittingham, Richard Watts, Robby J, Robert Achtemichuk, Rod Prouse, Ryan Szulc, Stefan Berg, Stephen Brookbank, Sybil Goldstein, Thea Jones, Teodora Pica, Wendy DesChene, Wendy Trusler.

Art at Work: Corporate Collecting Practices Today, Part II. Curated by Geraldine Davis.
A two-part summer exhibition (Jun 24-Aug 1 and Aug 5-Sep 12).
Peeking inside some of Canada's major corporations, Art at Work explores the shifting dynamics in the marriage of art and business. Does art still possess the ability to transform its audience even in its reluctant function as "office décor"? Is art's critical value diminished by its role as a tool to convey wealth and status? Or, conversely, is corporate art collecting really just astute investing disguised as self-reflection or critical thought? Corporate art collections once represented the majority of transactions in our art market; has this reduced art to mere dollar figures?
Can art in corporate collections provide social critique? In its short "collected" life at McMillan LLP, a Toronto law firm, Greg Staats' memorable 1994 silver print, Wesley Rheaume offers a different view, as a First Nations' youth looks defiantly back at the viewer. This haunting portrait of society's least privileged, now-marginalized outsider, whose people were once the only insiders, is ironically now welcomed within.
Art in corporate collections also highlights the human factor. The famously unpeopled wilderness landscape that once symbolized Canadian ideas of visual beauty is still powerfully present in Alex Cameron's Georgian Bay Aurora, 1998, from Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP's collection. But the current trend in corporate art collecting features a prevalence of human subjects and photographic media. Along with photographic images by Rebecca Belmore, David Buchan, Angela Grauerholz, Mitch Robertson and others in various corporate collections, the Royal Bank of Canada's recent acquisition of Geoffrey Farmer's figurative installation for its new building demonstrates the strong corporate appetite for images of people.
Catch Art at Work at the Art Gallery of Mississauga to see artwork not usually available for public viewing. See for yourself. How can art work when it's "at work"?
Artists in Part II – David Askevold, John Boyle, Roland Brener, Alex Cameron, Michael Earle, Gathie Falk, General Idea, Angela Grauerholz, Spring Hurlbut, Wanda Koop, Arnaud Maggs, John Massey, Amanda Reeves, Francine Savard, Otis Tamasauskas.

Julie Andreyev: Passages.

ARTbus. Tour departs 11:30am from OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) for Art Gallery of Mississauga, Blackwood Gallery and Oakville Galleries. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Cost: $10. To reserve a seat, call Oakville Galleries at 905 844 4402 x30 or email artbus@oakvillegalleries.com by Fri 17 Sep.

AGO general admission hours: Tues-Sun 10am-5:30pm, Wed 10am-8:30pm.
Jul 1 & Aug 2: 10am-4pm

Young Gallery hours (consistent with those of FRANK restaurant in N-E corner of the AGO): Lunch – Tues-Fri 11:30am-2:30pm. Dinner – Tues-Sat 5:30-10:30pm. Brunch – Sat & Sun 11am-3pm.
Jul 1: 11:30am-3:30pm and 5:30-10:30pm.

Permanent Collection admission: Members – free.

Permanent Collection admission: General public – $19.50 adults, $16 seniors (age 65+), $11 youth (ages 6-17) & students (full-time with valid ID), $49 families (2 adults and up to 5 youths). Free to children under 5 years of age.
Save on groups of 15 or more!

Permanent Collection: Free Wed evenings 6-8:30pm – Generously supported by Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation. (Excludes surcharged exhibitions).
Free general admission for Ontario teachers with valid ID from the Ontario College of Teachers. (Excludes surcharged exhibitions).
Free general admission Tues-Fri after 3pm for Ontario high school students with valid school ID. (Excludes surcharged exhibitions).

Special exhibition, Drama & Desire – admission: Members – free.
General public – $25.50 adults, $21.50 seniors (age 65+), $14.50 youth (ages 6-17) & students (full-time with valid ID), $65 families (2 adults and up to 5 youths). Free to children under 5 years of age.
Save on groups of 15 or more!

With a permanent collection of more than 79,000 works of art, the Art Gallery of Ontario is among the most distinguished art museums in North America. In 2008, with a stunning new design by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, the AGO opened its doors to the public amid international acclaim. Highlights include Galleria Italia, a gleaming showcase made of wood and glass running the length of an entire city block along the Gallery's façade; and the feature staircase, spiraling up through the roof of Walker Court and into the new contemporary galleries above. From the extensive Group of Seven collection to the dramatic new African art gallery; from the cutting-edge works in the Vivian & David Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art to Peter Paul Rubens' masterpiece The Massacre of The Innocents, a highlight of the celebrated Thomson Collection, there is truly something for everyone at the AGO.

The AGO is open Civic Holiday Monday, 10am-4pm.

Exhibitions & Related Events –

Toronto Now – Will Munro: Total Eclipse. Celebrating his life and work. "The works in Total Eclipse speak to Will's passion for music, performance, and pop culture, and reveal the keen interest in craft and do-it-yourself techniques in his artistic practice," says Michelle Jacques, the AGO's associate curator of contemporary art. "In his visual artwork, as in all of his many pursuits, Will brought together seemingly disparate individuals in a unique expression of creativity and community."

Julian Schnabel: Art and Film.
American art superstar Julian Schnabel has spent his life pushing the limits of painting and crossing artistic boundaries as an award-winning filmmaker. Now, for the first time, a major retrospective examines the connections between painting and film in Schnabel's work, tracing how his paintings exist in dialogue with the cinema and revealing the rich interplay between the two media. Julian Schnabel: Art and Film surveys Schnabel's work as a painter from the mid-1970s to the present and features more than 25 key works. The exhibition will occupy the entire fifth floor of the Art Gallery of Ontario's Vivian & David Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art. Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

AT WORK – Eva Hesse: Studioworks | Betty Goodwin: Work Notes | Agnes Martin: Work Ethic.

AT WORK features three unique exhibitions linked by a common exploration of process and labour, providing new insights into the remarkable work of three major international artists and their dedicated and focused work in the studio.
Eva Hesse: Studioworks brings together 50 of the artist's small "test" pieces to examine, for the first-time, how Hesse's experimental
practices and working method in the studio informed her larger sculptures.
Betty Goodwin: Work Notes will feature more than 100 of the artist's sketchbooks from the AGO's special collections, many never before exhibited.
Agnes Martin: Work Ethic presents The Islands, a series of seminal works on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, which invite the viewer to explore the subtleties of Martin's artistic vocabulary and her remarkable commitment to the work of painting.

AT WORK will occupy the entire fourth floor of the Art Gallery of Ontario's Vivian & David Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art.
Eva Hesse: Studioworks was organized by the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Betty Goodwin: Work Notes includes works from the AGO's permanent and archival collections; Agnes Martin: Work Ethic includes works on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Betty Goodwin: Work Notes is generously supported by smART women. Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Lucy R. Lippard on Eva Hesse. $15 members; $18 public; $12 students.

Shary Boyle: Winner of the 2009 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO.
Shary Boyle, one of the decade's most buzzed-about Canadian artists, was awarded the $25,000 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO in 2009 for her outstanding contribution to visual arts in Canada. Boyle is a multidisciplinary artist who works fluidly between drawing, painting, sculpture, projection, and installation. Featuring 28 works, including four large-scale installations, the exhibition will immerse the viewer in Boyle's fantastical, multifaceted vision. It will be installed in four of the AGO's major European galleries, and Boyle will be presenting selected works in conversation with a number of key works in the AGO's European collection.
Following its debut at the AGO, this exhibition will visit the Galerie de l'UQAM, Montréal, Jan 7-Feb 12, 2011, and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Jun 17-Aug 15, 2011.
This exhibition is organized and circulated by the Galerie de l'UQAM in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario. Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

The Grange Prize Exhibition 2010 – Josh Brand, Moyra Davey, Leslie Hewitt, Kristan Horton.
This special exhibition highlights the 2010 nominees for The Grange Prize, an annual partnership between Aeroplan and the AGO that recognizes the best in international contemporary photography. This year's nominating jury, led by AGO Assistant Curator of Photography Sophie Hackett, focused on artists who “challenge us to think about what a photograph can be.” The Grange Prize Exhibition 2010 will feature works by all four nominated artists – Canadians Moyra Davey and Kristan Horton, and Americans Josh Brand and Leslie Hewitt. The Grange Prize is Canada's largest photography prize, awarding $50,000 to the winner and $5000 to the runners-up – granting a total of $65,000 to photographic artists each year. It is the only major Canadian art prize voted on by the public, who can vote in person at the exhibition or online at www.thegrangeprize.com.
A concurrent exhibition of work by The Grange Prize 2010 shortlisted artists will be on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, 2010's partner institution, Oct 8, 2010 - Jan 30, 2011.
The Grange Prize, launched in 2007, is a partnership between Aeroplan and the AGO. Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Toronto Now – Allyson Mitchell is a Toronto-based "maximalist" artist working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film. Since 1997, Mitchell has been melding feminism and pop culture to play with contemporary ideas about sexuality, autobiography, and the body, largely through the use of reclaimed textile and abandoned craft. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals across Canada, the US, Europe and East Asia. Mitchell is creating new work for this exhibition, the fourth in the AGO's Toronto Now series, which is housed in the street-front Young Gallery and is free to the public.
Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto Now is generously supported by The Contemporary Circle. Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Henry Moore. Featuring more than 50 major works, most never before seen in Canada, Henry Moore re-examines the work of the 20th century's greatest sculptor. The exhibition focuses on works from Moore's early period – the 1920s and 30s. It was during this time that Moore created his most radical and experimental work, establishing his distinct vision of the human form and leading to one of the most celebrated artistic careers of the past century. “In contrast to the dominant view of Moore,” says Tate Britain curator Chris Stephens, “we propose that he presented the body as abject, erotic, vulnerable, violated and visceral.” The exhibition will be on view in the AGO's Henry Moore Sculpture Centre.
Organized by Tate Britain in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Inuit Modern: Art from the Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection.
A sprawling retrospective on the transformation of Inuit art in the 20th century, Inuit Modern will feature over 175 works from one of the world's most comprehensive privately held collections of Inuit art – the Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection. In response to a rapidly changing Arctic environment, Inuit have had to cope with the transition from a traditional lifestyle to the disturbing realities of globalization and climate change. Inuit art in the latter half of the 20th century embodies the evolution of a modern Inuit aesthetic that springs from an ancient cultural context, creating a new hybridized art form. Featuring work by David Ruben Piqtoukun, Kenojuak Ashevak, Karoo Ashevak, and Lucy Tasseor, among others.
On Sat 6 Nov, 2010, at the AGO, an international symposium will be held to celebrate the exhibition's opening, at which curators, writers, scholars, and artists will explore and discuss the exhibition's complex and divergent themes.
Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts.
This fall, the Art Gallery of Ontario opens its doors to the riches of India's maharajas. Organized in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts is the first exhibition to comprehensively explore the opulent world of the maharajas and their unique culture of artistic patronage. The exhibition spans from the beginning of the 18th century to the end of British rule in 1947, and concludes with a look at the legacy of the maharajas today.
Over 200 opulent objects are featured, including paintings of spectacular royal processions, royal costumes and traditional dress, ceremonial weapons, including daggers, swords, and matchlock guns, elaborate jewellery commissioned from the French house of Cartier and prized photographs by artists such as Man Ray and Cecil Beaton.
Key works include: The famed Patiala Necklace, Cartier's largest-ever commission, containing 2,930 diamonds and weighing almost a thousand carats; a life-sized model elephant adorned with textiles and trappings, accompanied by a silver howdah from the early 19th century; the Silver Carriage of Bhavnagar from 1900; and the Golden Throne of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre. Many of the greatest artists of the 19th century shared a profound fascination with the theatre and its themes of triumph and destruction, love and despair. This summer, the Art Gallery of Ontario gives centre stage to key artworks by these artists with Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre.
Conceived by Guy Cogeval, president of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the exhibition includes over 100 paintings, drawings and theatrical maquettes, by masters such as Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, William Blake, Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Édouard Vuillard. The works were selected from the collections of some of the world's greatest museums, including the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée d'Orsay, the British Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
The AGO has commissioned Gerard Gauci, set designer for Toronto's Opera Atelier, to make Drama and Desire an experience like no other. Visitors will enter the exhibition by walking "onstage" through a life-size 18th-century set; the works will be displayed using enhanced lighting, sound and video components as well as innovative theatrical devices; and a full-scale re-creation of an early 20th-century theatre maquette will mark the finale of the exhibition.
Drama and Desire is co-produced by MART – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, the Direction des Musées de Marseille, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. This exhibition features exceptional loans from the Musée d'Orsay.

Barbara Kruger: Untitled (It).
In partnership with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, the AGO presents a newly commissioned work by renowned American artist Barbara Kruger, installed along the signature glass skirt of the AGO's outer façade. The installation, which spans 650 feet, responds to CONTACT's theme for 2010, "Pervasive Influence", which considers how photography informs and transforms human behaviour, especially via the medium's connections to mass media, advertising, consumerism, and propaganda. Kruger's installation marks the first time the AGO has exhibited artwork on the exterior of its transformed Frank Gehry-designed building.

Canadian Girls Say... Girl Guides of Canada / Guides du Canada and the AGO are pleased to present a photography exhibition that speaks volumes about what girls care about in their communities.

Whispering Room: Janet Cardiff.
The AGO's presentation of this rarely viewed work coincides with Janet Cardiff's and George Bures Miller's new installation, Ship O' Fools, a specially commissioned work for Luminato 2010.

Frans Masereel (1889-1972): The Pulse of Paris.
Masereel was a celebrated printmaker whose bold black and white woodcut prints have inspired comic book iullustrators and graphic novelists. His prints, oils paintings and large, vibrant watercolours capture the frenetic pace, seedy nightlife and bright lights of the crowded streets, cafés and shops of Paris in the late 1920s.

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

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:
Prints and Drawings: Open Door program – Wednesdays 1-4pm. Enjoy behind-the-scenes tours and see your favourite prints, drawings, watercolours and photographs.
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.
Close Encounters 2010-2011 – an intimate first-hand experience with treasures from the AGO's collection of works on paper. For information call 416 979 6660 x261. Subscribe to the series and save: four talks for $65 / $55 members.
The Centre is closed Mon, Tues, Thur, Sat & Sun.

Current programming features:
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.

Gallery Art Courses for Adults.
How to register: By telephone – 416 979 6608.
In person – Visit the AGO Program Registration Office at 317 Dundas Street West, Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-8pm, Sat 9am-3pm, Sun 11am-3pm.
By fax – Send a signed written request with the name of the student, address, phone number, credit card information (card name, card number, your name, expiry date) and course and date selection(s) to 416 204 2717.
Please note: Registration is not confirmed until you have received written notification from the AGO Program Registration office. Members must provide their membership number in order to process requests. Telephone, fax, email and mail orders must include credit card information (VISA, MasterCard, AmEx); cheques also accepted for mail orders. There is a $4 handling fee per order.
For more info please email ticketing @ago.net.

The Art of Drawing: Summer Intensive. Instructor: Kelley Aitken. $195 general public, $155 members. HST will be applied to course fees.

Art Camp Summer 2010. Ages 6-13.

The Art Gallery of Peel and Peel Heritage Complex are currently undergoing an exciting renovation and expansion of our 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 are temporarily 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.
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.

Exhibitions –

Outdoor programming – Ayaadagon: Outdoor Art Installations in an Anishinaabe Garden. Curated by William Kingfisher. Three outdoor works of art by Ontario-based artists Michael Belmore, Jude Norris, and Jimson Bowler explore the concept of "ayaadagon", an Anishinaabe word that means, "to be in a certain place." This exhibition takea place outdoors on the gallery grounds in Del Crary Park in a garden of indigenous plants and medicine.

Instant Places – Laura Kavanaugh & Ian Birse.
In Transit: The Ongoing Journey from Here to There – Victoria Wallace & Eric David.
Spark: My First Art Show – Youth Art from the Art Gallery of Peterborough Children's Camp Program.

Exhibitions & Events –

Terrance Houle: GIVN'R.
Give'r: (Verb) Canadian, particular to rural areas, especially in the Western provinces, meaning 1.) to work very hard. 2.) to get wasted and rock as hard as possible. 3.) to finish a job or task in an efficient and quick manner.
AGYU is givn'r this fall with a rockin' survey of the past five years of work in film, video, performance, and photography by Calgary artist Terrance Houle.
Exhibition and tour organized by Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg.

Looking for a free ride?
Get OUT THERE on the Performance Bus with Darren O'Donnell departing from OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) at 6pm sharp en route to the opening reception of the GIVN'R exhibition, returning downtown at 9pm.

AGYU Vitrines – Take the pilgrimage to AGYU this fall as to see the bad girl of ceramics – Julie Moon's newly commissioned work transforms the niches into devotional altars to contemporary craft.

Studio Blog – Chance meetings and strange encounters inspire Colombian artist Daniel Santiago for his ongoing Studio Blog exchange – www.yorku.ca/agyu/studioblog/.
AGYU's summer curatorial intern Fiona Wright will be doing an exchange with Montréal-based musician, producer, composer, magician, filmmaker, and visual artist Josh Dolgin (aka Socalled) about his photography, drawings and films.

Artists' Book of the Moment – See all the submissions and the one book that has risen to the top of the ABoTM – the winner of this year's Book of the Moment! http://theagyuisoutthere.org/abotm/.

Audio Out – Sep 6-Oct 24: Atanas Bozdarov goes classical. Whether it's deconstructing passages of Nietzsche's text into a musical scale or finding rhythm in Bobby Fischer and Donald Byrne's [chess] “Game of the Century,” The Rebirth of Tragedy features four works developed using various procedures to extract and assign musical notes from non-musical sources. All of the compositions were translated and played by Stephen Kreuger on double bass.

Publications –
New Series – Pieces.
Conversation Pieces – Brendan Fernandes in conversation with Kenneth Montague.
Pieces of Paper – Astrid Bastin on Miler Lagos.

New:
no. it is opposition. (essays by Emelie Chhangur and Carla Zaccagnini).

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).

This is My Neighbourhood is an annual Toronto District School Board program presented in partnership with Arts Etobicoke, AGO and Inner City Angels. Working with elementary schools throughout the City, professional artists and teachers collaborate with children to create large-scale artworks as rich investigations of the children's view of their neighbourhoods. The project culminates in exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario and selected works at Arts Etobicoke Gallery.

(See also Calls for Artists – click here).

Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980.
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House; University of Toronto Art Centre, University College; Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga; and Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough.
Curated by Grant Arnold, Catherine Crowston, Barbara Fischer, Michèle Thériault with Vincent Bonin, and Jayne Wark.

Traffic is the first major account of the development of Conceptual Art in Canada from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. By far one of the most important and long-lasting art movements of the 20th century, Conceptual Art originated within the social and political turmoil of the 1960s – from feminism and gay liberation to anti-racism and anti-war movements – and presented a profound challenge to the institution of art. This exhibition focuses on specific manifestations of Conceptual Art practices in urban centres across Canada, with particular attention to the inter-regional and international traffic that facilitated fertile cross-pollinations and exchanges amongst artists in this country.

Vito Acconci, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Bruce Barber, Marcella Bienvenue, Robert Bowers, Wallace Brannen, Tom Burrows, James Lee Byars, Eric Cameron, Colin Campbell, Ian Carr-Harris, Tim Clark, Robin Collyer, Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, Michael de Courcy, Sylvain Cousineau and Francis Coutelier, Gary Coward, Kenneth Coutts-Smith, Stephen Cruise, Greg Curnoe, Max Dean, Tom Dean, Jean-Marie Delavalle, Jan Dibbets, Christos Dikeakos, Graham Dube, Brian Dyson, Dean Ellis, Michael Fernandes, Gerald Ferguson, Robert Fones, Vera Frenkel, Jeff Funnell, Charles Gagnon, Yves Gaucher, General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal), Raymond Gervais, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, John Greer, Hans Haacke, Noel Harding, John Heward (in collaboration with Alex Neuman), Douglas Huebler, Image Bank (Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov), Richards Jarden, Bill Jones, Donald Judd, Pat Kelly, Garry Neill Kennedy, Roy Kiyooka, Robert Kleyn, Joseph Kosuth, Michèle Lalonde, Suzy Lake, Gordon Lebredt, Les Levine, Glenn Lewis, Sol LeWitt, Lee Lozano, Ken Lum, Duane Lunden, Don Mabie, Allan MacKay and Lionel Simmons, Arnaud Maggs, Brian MacNevin, Barry MacPherson, John McEwen, Robin McKenzie, Albert McNamara, Ian Murray, N.E. Thing Co., Gunter Nolte, Dennis Oppenheim, Bruce Parsons, Andy Patton, Harold Pearse, Rober Racine, Yvonne Rainer, Clive Robertson, Ellison Robertson, Martha Rosler, Tom Sherman, Rebecca Singleton, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Jeffrey Spalding, Lisa Steele, Françoise Sullivan, David Tomas, Serge Tousignant, Bill Vazan, Bill Vazan with Ian Wallace, Robert Walker, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Theodore Wan, Douglas Waterman, John Watt, Lawrence Weiner, Irene F. Whittome, Joyce Wieland, Martha Wilson, Paul Woodrow, Jon Young, Tim Zuck.

Organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto) and the Vancouver Art Gallery, in partnership with the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Concordia University), and Halifax INK.

Financially supported by the Museums Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

ARTbus. Tour departs 11:30am from OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) for Art Gallery of Mississauga, Blackwood Gallery and Oakville Galleries. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Cost: $10. To reserve a seat, call Oakville Galleries at 905 844 4402, x30 or email artbus@oakvillegalleries.com by Fri 17 Sep.

International conference.

EXHIBITIONS –

Sin-Ying Ho – Courtyard Installation.
Sin-Ying Ho explores issues surrounding culture and identity in this site-specific installation. Ho decorates forms ranging from a life-sized ceramic lamp post to traditional Chinese vessel forms with symbols ranging from traditional blue and white ware to computer language to explore the clash of cultures, modernity and tradition.

Waterloo Potters – A Survey. Members of the Waterloo Potters Guild. Collection Corridor. Curators: Ann Roberts and Jonathan Smith.
Regional ceramic guilds are the backbone of the clay movement in Canada. Older members mentor the younger ones, who in turn pass this knowledge on to others. Using work from past and present members of the guild, this exhibition explores the elements that have distinguished the direction the guild has taken over the years.

Alight: Chris Bacon Selected Works. AIC Gallery. Curator: George Wale.
Meticulously rendered, luminous in subtle tone, imbued with great love, respect and knowledge of his subject matter, the avian paintings of Burlington's Chris Bacon have won worldwide recognition and acclaim. His sensitive vision encourages us to see, in these birds, beauty and mystery ... in all of life ... in ourselves.

GUILD EXHIBITIONS – F. R. Perry Gallery –

Burlington Hooking Craft Guild Annual Juried Exhibition.

Celebrations: Burlington Potters' Guild Juried Members' Exhibition.

FIRESIDE LOUNGE – Latow Photographers Guild –

Barbara Kater and Larry Feldman.

Frank Myers and Tom Stephens.

Kirk Johnston.

EVENTS –

Curators' Tour and Talk – Ann Roberts and Jonathan Smith on Waterloo Potters – A Survey.

Receptions for Alight: Chris Bacon, Waterloo Potters, and Hooking Craft Guild exhibitions.

Artist's tour & talk with Chris Bacon.

Closing reception for Burlington Potters Guild Juried Exhibition.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT –

Grant Information Workshop. An information session regarding Canada Council for the Arts grants for individuals, with a special emphasis on contemporary fine craft programs. Much of the information is suitable for both fine crafts and visual arts professionals. Presented by José Niaison, Program Officer / Agent de programme, Visual Arts Section / Service des arts visuels, Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des arts du Canada. Free. Call 905 632 7796 x307 to reserve your seat.

Exhibitions –

Fibreworks 2010. Jurors: Catherine Heard & David H. Kaye. The 12th edition of this popular biennial juried exhibition is open to fibre artists from across Canada. The exhibition honours the community's rich textile manufacturing history and the gallery purchases new works for its permanent collection of contemporary Canadian fibre art.
Multi-exhibition reception on Sep 11 for FABRICation, FibreWorks 2010, as well as KNIT camBRIDGE – a project organized by Sue Sturdy, 2010 Artist-in-Residence, Cambridge Centre for the Arts.

Events & Programs –

Wilfrid Laurier Concert Series 2010.
Free. Everyone welcome.
Wed 18 Aug, 7pm: Vivian Luong – solo performance of classical injected with a twist of jazz – a perfect combination of sounds for a warm August evening. This is the third concert in the Wilfrid Laurier Concert Series. The series began in 2009 to foster young regional musicians to foster their performance experience. Past musicians in the series include: David McEvoy, Duncan Macauly and Faeron Pileggi.
Wed 22 Sep, 7pm: Rebecca Leung, Canadian pianist. Canadian pianist, Rebecca Leung, recently graduated with Merit standing from the Master of Music degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England, under the tutelage of Russian pedagogue Tanya Sarkissova. Ms. Leung has also maintained an active teaching studio for over ten years, with students earning distinctive achievements in their examinations and various music festivals. Rebecca looks forward to upcoming solo and chamber engagements this year, and has been invited to give a recital in France to commemorate the 200th birthday anniversary of Frédéric Chopin.

Upcoming Day Trip. The Warrior Emperor and China's Terra Cotta Army at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Please call Margaret at the Gallery for more information at 519 621 0460 x127.

Cineseries: Canadian & International Cinema. Cambridge Galleries is a member of the Toronto International Film Festival and organizes screenings of Canadian, foreign and independent films. All screenings begin at 7:30pm (unless otherwise noted) at Galaxy Cinemas, Cambridge Centre, 355 Hespeler Road. Admission: $11 / $8 members of Cambridge Galleries. Subscribe and save with a Cineseries pass card.
See our Cineseries brochure for full film information or visit www.cambridgegalleries.ca.
Mark your calendar for our screening dates – Sep 30, Oct 14 & 28, 2010.

Fall Studio Art Programs – for youth, teens and adults. We offer courses for all ages at our four Cambridge Libraries and Galleries locations and the Design at Riverside Printmaking Studio. To view our full studio course listings please visit: www.cambridgegalleries.ca.

Exhibitions –

FABRICation: Studio Production Textiles for Interiors.
Multi-exhibition reception on Sep 11 – FABRICation, FibreWorks 2010, as well as KNIT camBRIDGE – a project organized by Sue Sturdy, 2010 Artist-in-Residence, Cambridge Centre for the Arts.
FABRICation features products and contract installations by 12 renowned Canadian textile designer-entrepreneurs whose work bridges the worlds of art and commercial fabrication. "Studio Production" refers to work that incorporates manufacturing processes and technologies, but are produced in limited quantities rather than mass produced.
Designers/studios: Bev Hisey, FELT Studio, Lily Yung, Joy N. Walker, Virginia Johnson, Arounna Khounnoraj, SERI+, MOTIF Textile, Institute of Everyday Life, ArchiTextiles Lab, Armstrong Fox Textiles, Laura Friedland Design.

Master Works 2010 – a juried exhibition that showcases an exceptional thesis project or projects by recent Masters of Architecture graduates of the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture.

12 X 12 – Riverside Print Group.
Participating artists: Amanda Chesney, Heather Franklin, Kari Mullin, Darryl Nunn, Betty Praught, Bill Praught, David Scott, Donna Stewart.

The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (CCGG) is a premier exhibition space for contemporary silica artwork, including ceramic, glass and enamel work. The Gallery also offers workshops, children's art programs, adult classes, tours, lectures, facility rentals, as well as a gift shop showcasing Canadian artists from all over the country.

CASTING & SLUMPING & BLOWING... OH MY!

Bruce Taylor: LUCID DREAMING – Inspired by his chidren's toys and computer games, Taylor's latest series of large-scale ceramic sculptures uses the crucible as a metaphor for self-definition and realization on personal, community, and societal levels. These works also reference the impersonal ideal of contemporary industrial efficiency while looking back to Victorian-era machinery that was built to last yet was ornamented with such details as lion's feet.
Alfred Engerer: AN "ALFRED" EXPERIENCE – showcases different processes of casting glass. A portion of Alfred Engerer's glass studio will be installed in the Gallery where visitors will explore various processes of glass-making, including blowing, casting, slumping and more. This exhibition explores what kinds of moulds are used, the various options available, and how a variety of artists who are using unique approaches to create work. Engerer's own work, some of his moulds, and technical examples showing the creation process from start to finish are complemented by photos and videos. These illustrate Engerer and other artists in action with hot glass. The intrepid artist's passion for glass is infectious.
Joni Moriyama: MEERKATS – Through her cast ceramic works, Joni Moriyama has captured a potent moment in a clan of meerkats, one of the most cooperative societies in the animal kingdom. These highly socialized beings are staring and intently focused on something they have just heard or seen. What they are sensing is beyond our awareness.
Joni Moriyama was also juror fo the Waterloo Potters' Workshop – EARTHBORN 2010 at CCGG Jun 13-Aug 22.

GLASS FACTOR: Luminaries in the Canadian Art Glass Scene. Curated by Christian Bernard Singer.
This exhibition brings together some of the best and most interesting artists from the contemporary Canadian glass scene. With approximately 100 works on view, the exhibition will feature over 15 artists including: Brad Copping, Laura Donefer, Susan Edgerley, Alfred Engerer, Catherine Hibbits, David James, Michèle Lapointe, Lou Lynn, Francis Muscat, Susan Rankin, Donald Robertson, John Paul Robinson, Tyler Rock, Karl Shantz, Orest Tataryn, Ione Thorkelsson, and more.

Gift Shop. Exquisite Canadian works in clay, glass and enamel

cedarridgegallery.tripod.com.

Cedar Ridge Permanent Collection.

Joyride in a Paint Box – with Joan Levy Earle, artist and author, works in oil, oil pastel and watercolour; plus her recently launched book, Train Ride to Destiny.

A Splash of Colour – mixed media. Salma Ataullahjan, Farida Dawood, Shirley Kwok, Guily Mirza, Jackie Nasso, Susan Paterson, Maureen Ricciuto.

Frank Glazier – mixed media.

Summer Art Camp: Expressions. Please call Cedar Ridge Creative Centre at 416 396 4026 for more information.

Dedicated to advancing the creative power in people with disabilities.
Public art gallery. Studio. Gift shop.
Resources and information on art and disabilities.
Outsider art, art brut, folk art, contemporary Canadian art.

Queen of Tears: The Art of Kristine Erglis.

Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980.
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House; University of Toronto Art Centre, University College; Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga; and Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough.
Curated by Grant Arnold, Catherine Crowston, Barbara Fischer, Michèle Thériault with Vincent Bonin, and Jayne Wark.

Traffic is the first major account of the development of Conceptual Art in Canada from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. By far one of the most important and long-lasting art movements of the 20th century, Conceptual Art originated within the social and political turmoil of the 1960s – from feminism and gay liberation to anti-racism and anti-war movements – and presented a profound challenge to the institution of art. This exhibition focuses on specific manifestations of Conceptual Art practices in urban centres across Canada, with particular attention to the inter-regional and international traffic that facilitated fertile cross-pollinations and exchanges amongst artists in this country.

Vito Acconci, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Bruce Barber, Marcella Bienvenue, Robert Bowers, Wallace Brannen, Tom Burrows, James Lee Byars, Eric Cameron, Colin Campbell, Ian Carr-Harris, Tim Clark, Robin Collyer, Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, Michael de Courcy, Sylvain Cousineau and Francis Coutelier, Gary Coward, Kenneth Coutts-Smith, Stephen Cruise, Greg Curnoe, Max Dean, Tom Dean, Jean-Marie Delavalle, Jan Dibbets, Christos Dikeakos, Graham Dube, Brian Dyson, Dean Ellis, Michael Fernandes, Gerald Ferguson, Robert Fones, Vera Frenkel, Jeff Funnell, Charles Gagnon, Yves Gaucher, General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal), Raymond Gervais, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, John Greer, Hans Haacke, Noel Harding, John Heward (in collaboration with Alex Neuman), Douglas Huebler, Image Bank (Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov), Richards Jarden, Bill Jones, Donald Judd, Pat Kelly, Garry Neill Kennedy, Roy Kiyooka, Robert Kleyn, Joseph Kosuth, Michèle Lalonde, Suzy Lake, Gordon Lebredt, Les Levine, Glenn Lewis, Sol LeWitt, Lee Lozano, Ken Lum, Duane Lunden, Don Mabie, Allan MacKay and Lionel Simmons, Arnaud Maggs, Brian MacNevin, Barry MacPherson, John McEwen, Robin McKenzie, Albert McNamara, Ian Murray, N.E. Thing Co., Gunter Nolte, Dennis Oppenheim, Bruce Parsons, Andy Patton, Harold Pearse, Rober Racine, Yvonne Rainer, Clive Robertson, Ellison Robertson, Martha Rosler, Tom Sherman, Rebecca Singleton, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Jeffrey Spalding, Lisa Steele, Françoise Sullivan, David Tomas, Serge Tousignant, Bill Vazan, Bill Vazan with Ian Wallace, Robert Walker, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Theodore Wan, Douglas Waterman, John Watt, Lawrence Weiner, Irene F. Whittome, Joyce Wieland, Martha Wilson, Paul Woodrow, Jon Young, Tim Zuck.

Organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto) and the Vancouver Art Gallery, in partnership with the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Concordia University), and Halifax INK.

Financially supported by the Museums Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

International conference.

The 7th Annual National and International Juried Exhibition – Latinoamerica 2010. Fundarte Latinoamerica is a not-for-profit cultural organization dedicated to promoting the Latin American community's artistic development in Canada. The group was founded to make the general public aware of Latin American cultural heritage and to integrate the Latin American community into the Canadian mainstream, thereby, enriching this country's cultural mosaic. The exhibition includes painting, drawing, sculpture and photography.

Exhibitions –

Natural History. Group exhibition in Galleries 1 & 2 – an exhibition of contemporary art works that examine our relationships to the captivity inherent in the display of wild animals and indigenous people in relation to the history of collecting, world fairs, museums and zoos, from the colonial past to the present. The artists focus on the representation of animals and the connection to empire, identity and evolution that is evident from 17th-century painting to early 20th-century natural history displays.

Perth Huron Exhibition. Group exhibition in Gallery 3, from an open call to artists in two counties. This exhibition promotes the work of regional artists working in all media. The exhibition has supported the presentation of local work for nearly 30 years.

GAC Main Gallery –

2010 KidzArt Showcase.

TEN IN TEN: Youth & Adult Juried Art Exhibition. Brochures available at the GAC and at www.gacag.com.

Winterlude.

The Art of Chantal Barber.

GAC Bruce Smith Gallery –

Cows, Cows, Cows & More – Albert Chiarandini, OSA-FIAL (1915-2007); Bruce Smith (1925-2005); Tom Zsolt, Photographer.

Phil Irish, Jane Adeney, Robin Hesse: Fire, Water and Air.
A three-person show explores the turning points in people's lives in relation to their physical environment through maps, the power of transformation and our celestial connections. Drawing, mixed media, fired clay.

Art Rental & Sales. Cottage Rental Gallery. Gift Shop.

(See also Calls for Artists for info on submitting work to Forces of Nature: 2010 Biannual Juried Exhibition – click here).

Exhibitions & Events –

(And) We All Fall Down: Cautionary Tales – Miklos Legrady & Kasia Piech. Guest curated by Laura Arseneau. This exhibition pairs two artists: photographer Miklos Legrady (Toronto) and ceramic sculptor Kasia Piech (Hamilton) who train the spotlight on the dualities of evil and innocence. There is trouble in the world for their protagonists: "Evil Ducky", the rubber duck as trickster, who Legrady snaps in enlarged Cibachrome glory, out and about and up to no good – "Look out! He's lurking in the kitchen sink among the teacups!"
His photographs wall is in a decisively different sort of playground – one peopled by ceramic sculptor Kasia Piech's wicked little girls, pretty in pink yet standing on kindergarten chairs, wielding hand-guns, sights trained at each others.
Welcome to the playground called (And) We All Fall Down: Cautionary Tales. As the title suggests, each present a version of cautionary tales, flipping the morality card on us just when we think we've read it right. Playground bullies and child warriors are ever-present, lurking behind the big-box aisles and Saturday morning T.V. jingles. (And) We All Fall Down unlocks the lid to expose what lies beneath in each and every one of our private toy chests.
"Husha, husha, we all fall down."

(See also Art Schools & Courses for info on Grimsby Public Art Gallery's classes & workshops – click here).

Environmental Music – Laura Culic, Dan Ryan, Carol Westcott. Curator: Gillian Reddyhoff.

Critical Mass – Sculptors Society of Canada celebrates its 82nd anniversary.

(See also Calls for Artists – click here).

Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980.
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House; University of Toronto Art Centre, University College; Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga; and Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough.
Curated by Grant Arnold, Catherine Crowston, Barbara Fischer, Michèle Thériault with Vincent Bonin, and Jayne Wark.

Traffic is the first major account of the development of Conceptual Art in Canada from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. By far one of the most important and long-lasting art movements of the 20th century, Conceptual Art originated within the social and political turmoil of the 1960s – from feminism and gay liberation to anti-racism and anti-war movements – and presented a profound challenge to the institution of art. This exhibition focuses on specific manifestations of Conceptual Art practices in urban centres across Canada, with particular attention to the inter-regional and international traffic that facilitated fertile cross-pollinations and exchanges amongst artists in this country.

Vito Acconci, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Bruce Barber, Marcella Bienvenue, Robert Bowers, Wallace Brannen, Tom Burrows, James Lee Byars, Eric Cameron, Colin Campbell, Ian Carr-Harris, Tim Clark, Robin Collyer, Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, Michael de Courcy, Sylvain Cousineau and Francis Coutelier, Gary Coward, Kenneth Coutts-Smith, Stephen Cruise, Greg Curnoe, Max Dean, Tom Dean, Jean-Marie Delavalle, Jan Dibbets, Christos Dikeakos, Graham Dube, Brian Dyson, Dean Ellis, Michael Fernandes, Gerald Ferguson, Robert Fones, Vera Frenkel, Jeff Funnell, Charles Gagnon, Yves Gaucher, General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal), Raymond Gervais, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, John Greer, Hans Haacke, Noel Harding, John Heward (in collaboration with Alex Neuman), Douglas Huebler, Image Bank (Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov), Richards Jarden, Bill Jones, Donald Judd, Pat Kelly, Garry Neill Kennedy, Roy Kiyooka, Robert Kleyn, Joseph Kosuth, Michèle Lalonde, Suzy Lake, Gordon Lebredt, Les Levine, Glenn Lewis, Sol LeWitt, Lee Lozano, Ken Lum, Duane Lunden, Don Mabie, Allan MacKay and Lionel Simmons, Arnaud Maggs, Brian MacNevin, Barry MacPherson, John McEwen, Robin McKenzie, Albert McNamara, Ian Murray, N.E. Thing Co., Gunter Nolte, Dennis Oppenheim, Bruce Parsons, Andy Patton, Harold Pearse, Rober Racine, Yvonne Rainer, Clive Robertson, Ellison Robertson, Martha Rosler, Tom Sherman, Rebecca Singleton, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Jeffrey Spalding, Lisa Steele, Françoise Sullivan, David Tomas, Serge Tousignant, Bill Vazan, Bill Vazan with Ian Wallace, Robert Walker, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Theodore Wan, Douglas Waterman, John Watt, Lawrence Weiner, Irene F. Whittome, Joyce Wieland, Martha Wilson, Paul Woodrow, Jon Young, Tim Zuck.

Organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto) and the Vancouver Art Gallery, in partnership with the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Concordia University), and Halifax INK.

Financially supported by the Museums Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

International conference.

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

The Karsh Award 2010. Artwork by the winner of the 2010 Karsh Award for photography is on display in this exhibition, organized by the City of Ottawa's cultural funding and awards unit. This award is presented every two years to an established local fine art photographer for outstanding work in a photo-based medium to honour the enduring legacy of Yousuf and Malak Karsh.

Mary Catherine Newcomb: Product of Eden 2010 – In a temporary garden outside the Gallery, the artist nurtures squash plants shaped into curious baby-like creatures.

sciencefictionsciencefair: Denton Fredrickson, Robyn Moody, Brian McKenna – Working with homemade electronics, the artists expose methodologies of science popularized when they were growing up.
Ernest Daetwyler: Reality in Reverse [barn raising] – With an inverted, reclaimed barn at its centre, the work explores the relationship between collective traditions and societal uncertainty.
A Boundless Moment – Like the Robert Frost poem, this exhibition of works from KW|AG's permanent collection captures the idea of a simple minute in time.

Curator's talk with Corinna Ghaznavi.

Curator's talk with Tarin Hughes.

Stay connected with the Tom Thomson Art Gallery. Follow us on www.twitter.com/kwartgallery and become a fan on Facebook at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.

(See Art Schools & Courses for info on KW|AG's Summer Art Program for children – click here).

Koffler Gallery Off-Site : Printopolis – Off-site at various venues. Please check Koffler website for exhibition locations and hours –

MIXEDFIT – Millie Chen, Emelie Chhangur, Hannah Claus, Stefan Hoffman and Dan Perjovschi. Curator: Mona Filip. Presented in partnership with Printopolis: International Symposium on Printmaking.

Bearing a written message, an iconic image, a familiar or an eccentric brand, the T-shirt makes a statement, expressing individual choice in creating a personal image. As a basic clothing item, the T-shirt has become established as one of the most ubiquitous identity-defining elements. Five Canadian and international artists are invited by the Koffler Gallery to explore notions of migration and displacement between geographical territories, cultures and identities, designing silkscreen-based T-shirts to be disseminated through several Toronto stores. The project is presented in conjunction with Printopolis, an international symposium in Toronto, organized by Canada's leading printmaking centre, Open Studio, in celebration of its 40th Anniversary.

Exploring the T-shirt as a medium for mass-communication, Millie Chen, Emelie Chhangur, Hannah Claus, Stefan Hoffman and Dan Perjovschi engage with issues of race, gender, immigration and social justice. Based in Ridgeway, Ontario, Millie Chen delves into her Chinese heritage, reinterpreting the motifs of Chinoiserie wallpaper, disrupting the fictional Chinese idyllic scenes as projections of European desire, and adapting these patterns for the T-shirt. With a text-based T-shirt design, Toronto artist Emelie Chhangur addresses inter-racial relationships and the history of discrimination practiced against those of mixed racial identity.

Montreal artist Hannah Claus manipulates decorative patterns to explore the intersection of her two cultural identities, Native and European-Canadian, highlighting areas of overlap and transformation.
Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi, who gained international recognition for his shrewd political cartoons that explore global events, contributes a T-shirt that comments on the immigrant condition. As a major destination for new arrivals in Canada, Toronto is a city where borders are constantly crossed between languages and customs.

Rotterdam-based Stefan Hoffman is the featured artist invited by Open Studio in conjunction with Printopolis. Hoffman creates work that ranges from site-specific wall and window interventions to object-based multiples, using silkscreen to layer images drawn from pictograms, urban signage, medical illustrations, and old heraldry books with visual elements derived on location. In a public event in-store during Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010, he will transfer his images to T-shirts brought in by the public, creating an original piece for each participant, re-emphasizing the democratic essence of this popular clothing item.

(See also Art Schools & Courses – click here).

Doris McCarthy – Celebrating 100 Years!
In honour of the 100th birthday of this Canadian icon, the Latcham Gallery celebrates the inspirational life and work of Doris McCarthy. McCarthy's landscape paintings capture the beauty and character of all parts of this nation and are loved throughout the country. You will have a rare opportunity of seeing paintings from private collections, not normally available for viewing by the public. In addition to her artwork, people love the artist, the teacher, the writer, the woman, and this exhibition includes an investigation into the many sides of Doris McCarthy's impressive life.

Biodiversity – New Work by Tania Love.
In this exciting exhibition Tania Love presents her newest body of work, which continues her examination of our contemporary natural world. Love looks to the minute to contemplate the large. She finds in small and quiet moments, experiences and knowledge that highlight life itself and give insight into the cycles and paradoxes of life. Through her daily observations of the world, she notices patterns, rhythms and matters of life and death, which she then enlarges in her artwork and presents in an Alice-in-Wonderful type of installation that seems to be alive. The viewer enters a world of disproportion that in its unusualness draws attention and, in its beauty, breeds care. On one small leaf, for instance, she will see life and death and all the small intricacies that come in between. In this body of work, leaves made out of paper will hang throughout the gallery and investigate life and disease, each fighting for survival; who is to say which should survive? Using hand-made paper and milk paint, walnut ink and beeswax as a drawing tool, she creates textile-like work that represents a microcosm of our whole world.

Mississauga Camera Club: Nurses at Work. Nurses at Work is an exhibition of photographs by fourteen members of the Mississauga Camera Club. Each artist was granted special access to the Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga to document the day-to-day lives of the nurses employed there. The images capture the joy, dedication, quiet confidence, and intensity experienced by the nurses while they interact with their patients and contemporaries. This diverse group uses a variety of photographic techniques and interpretive devices to craft a compelling statement on the complex nature of human relationships.
Participating artists: Wendy Baillie, Jim Calvert, Warren Davis, Anne Greschuk, Hilarie McNeil-Smith, Ina Miglin, Marcus Miller, John Moore, David Penty, David Simmonds, Karen Simmonds, Bob Warren, Suzanne Williams, Kay Woollam. Curator: Cole Swanson.

Exhibitions –

House Beautiful. This exhibition examines new aestheticism in contemporary practice through the work of Canadian artists Mary Anne Barkhouse, Drew Simpson, and Cole Swanson, among others. As an exploration of contemporary society and its decadences, the exhibition engages the visual, emotional, and kinaesthetic experience of art through sculpture, installation, and painting. Inspired by Oscar Wilde's concept of “the house beautiful,” this exhibition brings together works by artists who support and subvert visual decadence through the representation of domestic interiors and the furniture that occupies those spaces. Curated by Dawn Owen.

Building a Legacy, Curating a Collection. This exhibition features the work of contemporary Canadian artists who have contributed to and continue to define art in Guelph, including current and former faculty and graduates of the School of Fine Art and Music, as well as artists who have had significant influence in the shaping of our exceptional art community. This exhibition reveals the legacy of art in Guelph through the MSAC's commitment to building a contemporary collection that includes major works by Guelph artists, including: Jordan Broadworth, Greg Denton, Susan Dobson, FASTWÜRMS, John Kissick, Suzy Lake, Jean Maddison, Eileen MacArthur, Stu Oxley, Margaret Priest, Arthur Renwick, Tony Scherman, Ron Shuebrook, and David Urban, among others. Curated by Judith Nasby.

Beyond the Frame. This annual fundraising exhibition and art auction features works by established and emerging artists from Guelph and the surrounding region, including: Jane Buyers, John Kissick, Barry McCarthy, Scott Pattinson, Cheryl Ruddock, and Ehryn Torrell, among others. The live auction party takes place on Sat 13 Nov 2010 (Tickets: $60).

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

Exhibitions –

Donald Stuart: Homage.
For this solo show, acclaimed local designer Donald Stuart has created a series of necklaces that pay tribute to the lives of women in the arts, politics, commerce and sciences in Canada. Curator: Susan Benson.

Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak: ...bump in the night, Barrie. Large-format photographs by Canadian media artists Steele and Tomczak portray students entering a Barrie-area high school overlaid with text culled from interviews and displayed in Barrie bus transit shelters. Curator: Carolyn Bell Farrell. Part of Carnegie Days 2010.

Arnaud Maggs: Lost and Found. The solo show by this senior Canadian artist features two recent serial photographic works, Contamination (2007) and Scrapbook (2009). Curator: Ben Portis. Part of Carnegie Days 2010.

Andrew Hunter: The Burden of Proof. Rooted in local history, this collaborative project by Waterloo artist, writer and curator Andrew Hunter attempts to demonstrate the existence of an imaginary lake monster residing in Kempenfelt Bay. Part of Carnegie Days 2010.

Ed Pien: Enchantment. This new paper-cut work made for the MacLaren's upper gallery windows by Toronto artist Ed Pien celebrates the imaginative worlds of fairytale and myth. An extension of Haunting: The “Drawing” of Ed Pien, curated by Ted Fullerton for the Campus Gallery, Georgian College. Part of Carnegie Days 2010.

Titles 7. Organized by the WayUpWayDown Collective and presented at the MacLarenArtCentre and Kerry's Book Store, 25 Dunlop Street West, Barrie, Titles 7 comprises seventy bookworks created by artists, architects and designers. Part of Carnegie Days 2010.

Carnegie Days 2010. This annual festival of art and language in Barrie features exhibitions, public art projects, authors' readings, performances, gallery talks and tours, film and video screenings and workshops. Organized by the MacLarenArtCentre and presented in conjunction with Doors Open Barrie, Sep 19. Visit www.maclarenart.com for details.

MacLaren Legacy Dinner. An evening of outstanding dining and discussion with Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author Dr. Vincent Lam. Catered by Groovy Tuesdays and Cravings. Tickets $175. Part of Carnegie Days 2010. Ticket information: www.maclarenart.com.

The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt.
São Paulo-based artist / theoretical architect Alexander Pilis presents his 2004 video-work The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt as the “centrepiece” for a site-responsive installation. He will be working with Senior Curator Ihor Holubizky to develop and articulate a dialogue between the explicit and implicit visual texts in his video-work, and works from the Museum's European historical, modern, and contemporary collection.

Artist's talk by Alexander Pilis, in connection with his video work, The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt.

There Is No Limit to the Line.
This exhibition, including works from the McMaster collection by 20th-century European and Canadian artists, explores a range of strategic approaches to mark-making.

Shelagh Keeley.
Curated by Linda Jansma and Carol Podedworny. At a very early point in the debates that challenged and, ultimately, changed the global art world, Shelagh Keeley was investigating issues such as access, representation and diversity. This retrospective exhibition also includes recent work and was produced in collaboration with the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa.

Artist's talk by Shelagh Keeley.

Exhibitions –

McMichael at the Kleinburg Binder Twine Festival. Visit the McMichael in the Kids' Area at the Kleinburg Binder Twine Festival for hands-on art activities. For more information on the festival call 905 893 3083 or visit www.bindertwine.ca.

The Group of Seven: Revelations and Changing Perspectives – exceptional new installation of MCAC's renowned permanent collection. The collection has been arrayed in our galleries in new and dynamic ways, opening up new themes and ideas to explore.

Dorothy Knowles: Land Marks. Organized by Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery.
Retrospective exhibition offers an informed overview of the landscape artist's exemplary body of work. At first glance, the artist's humble and natural subject matter can be underestimated or overlooked. However, Knowles radically chose to document her own backyard during a time when abstract art was rapidly gaining ground. This exhibition celebrates Knowles' favourite subjects: the lush river valleys and prairie landscapes that characterized her rural childhood.

Traditional Stories: Unikkaaqtuat / Modern Stories: Unikkaat.
This exhibition explores storytelling as an essential element of Inuit oral cultural traditions as well as playing a significant role as a source for their visual imagery. Traditional stories, or unikkaaqtuat, which are retold from generation to generation may vary in the retelling but they provide narratives that address aspects of Inuit history, the spiritual nature of the people, and other beliefs. The modern stories, or unikkaat, are more recent. These stories may address an individual's experience or provide a commentary on changes within contemporary Inuit experience. Both of these narrative forms express the ethics, attitudes, and ideals of the culture.

Bruno Bobak: Love, Life and Death.
Take a closer look at Bruno Bobak's fascination with the human body and soul through his Expressionist images of lovers, family relations, life cycle, and portraits. His images contemplate our human condition from tender moments to despair.

Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven.
Examine the stylistic evolution in the landscape paintings of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, whose paintings were grounded in the elements of Canadian landscape but also took their cues from the modernist approaches to painting developed in Europe. This exhibition, organized by the McMichael, will show how the artists used a palette of modern techniques, blending Impressionism, Art Nouveau, and Neo-Impressionism, Synthetism and Fauvism.

Tom Thomson, Group of Seven and their contemporaries. First Nations and Inuit Collections. Outdoor sculptures include works by Piqtoukun, Saila.

Adult Programs, Tours & Studio Courses (call 905 893 1121 x2240 to register) –

ArtChat. Cost – General public: included with admission. McMichael members: free. Please register at admissions desk.
Jun 27: "Dorothy Knowles: The Land Before Us". This ArtChat highlights the exhibition, Dorothy Knowles: Land Marks, a retrospective of the artist's personal approach to her surrounding environment. Her depiction of the landscape has a timeless quality that evokes a time and place both specific and ephemeral. By using distinctive horizon lines, the picture plane addresses compositional questions that add to the expansive nature of Knowles' view, and this at a time when abstraction was the "hip" way to go.
Jul 25: "The Art of Travelling: Our Landscape as Muse". How often in your travels have you stopped in front of a magnificent vista and thought, "I wish I could capture this moment"? Our new website, Footprints: Legacy of the Group of Seven (www.groupofseven.ca) and exhibition, Following in the Footsteps of the Group of Seven, trace the travels of Jim and Sue Waddington as they passionately quested to find the exact locations where Group of Seven members felt compelled to stop and paint.
Aug 29: "The Painter's Palette". Can you characterize an artist by their colour palette? Join our docent leading you through the process of formal analysis of some of the best-loved Group of Seven paintings. This time the emphasis will be on the colour and its contribution to the final painting's design. Learn about different ways of using but also seeing a colour.
Sep 26: "Contemplating Women". The lower level of the gallery has a fresh, new look! You will see works that haven't been on our walls for a while, as well as some artists that may not be familiar. One theme being explored is that of the female figure. The Group of Seven, known for their paintings of the landscape, also examined the figure as a means of expression. Come and discuss some interesting ideas.

Canadian Stories Tours. Explore the narrative of the McMichael collection and your favourite artists in depth with these lecture-based tours. Expand your knowledge and participate in lively discussions facilitated by an experienced McMichael docent.
Cost – General public: included with admission. McMichael members: free. Please register at admissions desk.
Jun 20: Group of Seven – A Celebration.
Jul 18: Group of Seven – A Celebration
Aug 15: Group of Seven – A Celebration
Sep 19: First Peoples.

Art and History Classes. Back by popular demand – Emily Carr.
Sep 11: "Growing Pains"
Sep 18: "Klee Wyck"
Sep 25: "Modern Spirits"
Don't miss the returning series of lectures on Emily Carr. Led by Anna Stanisz, Assistant Curator, Education, this lecture series will discuss the life of Emily Carr. The lectures will be illustrated by archival photographs and examples of Carr's work in various collections across the country. It will be followed by discussions on Carr's paintings currently on view at the McMichael.
Run previously as Afternoon Tea with Emily Carr, this program returns as a series of three lectures for our weekend audience. The talks will be followed by a 15% discount for the McMichael Café's brunch.
Cost: $80 general public; $65 McMichael members.

Sunday Concert Series.
Sep 5: Christopher Lee, flute.
Sep 19: Kory Livingstone, jazz ensemble.

Family and Children's Programs & Events (call 905 893 1121 x2240 to register) –

Family Sundays: Kidsummer. Visit www.mcmichael.com for details.
Jul 11: Footsteps Adventure. Following in the footsteps of the Group of Seven, families can climb a wall with Black Rock Climbers, get creative with some hands-on art activities or become an art detective with the McMichael Scavenger Hunt.
Aug 8: Inside Out. Splash, spray, spin and blob! Celebrate summer with hands-on activities, family tours and a performance by Splash'N Boots.
Sep 12: Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes. Celebrate Grandparents Day at the McMichael with some hands-on art activities inspired by portraits and figurative work in the collection. Kids can play in the discovery space, explore the McMichael grounds or have a professional caricature done by our guest artist. To book reservations for a family brunch in McMichael Café, please call 905 893 1121 x2363.
Free with gallery admission.

Children's Classes & Workshops –

SAM: Saturdays at the McMichael. Ages 5 to 10.
Visit the gallery's exhibitions and explore the natural environment. Students work with a wide range of materials and methods in an atmosphere that's fun and rewarding!
Cost: $165 general public; $130 McMichael members.

SAM: Open Studio. Ages 11 to 16.
Students will work with a practicing artist to enhance their skills in drawing, painting, and sculpture.
Cost: $190 general public; $165 McMichael members. Includes $25 materials fee.

(See Art Schools & Courses for info on MCAC's Children's Classes – click here).

Museum hours –
The Collection: Tues-Fri 11-5, Sat & Sun 10-5.
Temporary exhibitions: Tues 11-5, Wed-Fri 11-9, Sat & Sun 10-5.
Holiday hours: Dec 24 & 31 open 11-4. Dec 26 & Jan 2 open 1-5.
Closed Dec 25 & Jan 1.

Admission –
The Collection: Free, however donations would be greatly appreciated.
Temporary exhibitions: $15 adults; $7.50 students (under 30 years old, with ID card); $10 seniors (over 65 years old); free to children 12 years old and under (accompanied by adult); $30 family (1 adult + 3 children 16 years and under, or 2 adults and 2 children 16 years and under).
Admission is half-price on Wednesdays, 5-8:30pm.

Exhibitions –

The Symbolist Muse: A Selection of Prints from the National Gallery of Canada.

Rouge Cabaret: Love, Death, the Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix.

Studio Glass: Anna and Joe Mendel Collection.

Global Warming: Scenes from a Planet Under Pressure.
Napoleon – Gift of the Ben Weider Collection to the MMFA.
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.

Exhibitions –

Borduas. Les frontières de nos rêves ne sont plus les mêmes.

With Glass, Under Glass, Without Glass.

Exhibitions –

David Hoffos: Scenes from the House Dream. Curated by Shirley Madill. Organized and circulated by the Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University, with the assistance of the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge and TrepanierBaer Gallery, Calgary.
David Hoffos' ongoing practice explores the uncanny and its relationship to the everyday; he creates narratives that transcend time and place. In Scenes from the House Dream, as with all previous work, Hoffos forms a pact with the viewer; he asks us to suspend disbelief and enter his world. What we find there may both disturb and delight.

Chris Chong Chan Fui and Yasuhiro Morinaga: HEAVENHELL. Curated by Andréa Picard. Presented in collaboration with the Toronto International Film Festival: Future Projections Program. Akira Kurosawa's perfectionism and determination are legendary. And yet, so dangerous were the brothel streets of Koganecho, Yokohama, that the director was forced to recreate them in a studio for a key scene in his classic noir, High & Low (1963). Heavenhell is a six-channel audio-visual installation that re-stages the scene in the once-untouchable location exhuming its spectres and its history.

Hours –
May 1-Sep 30: Open daily 10am-5pm, Thur 10am-8pm.
Oct 1-Apr 30: Tues-Sun 10am-5pm, Thur 10am-8pm.
Open Ontario Family Day, Victoria Day, Easter Sunday & Monday, Labour Day and Thanksgiving Monday.
Open Remembrance Day 12noon-5pm.
Open Dec 24, 10am-4pm.
Open Dec 26-30, 10am-5pm (including Mon, Dec 28).
Open Dec 31, 10am-8pm.
Closed Dec 25, Jan 1 and Good Friday.
The bookstore will be open Mon 21 Dec 2009 for holiday shopping.

Admission – Permanent collection: $9 adults, $7 seniors & students, $4 youth (ages 12-19), $18 family (2 adults & 3 youths). Free to children under 12 and Members of the Gallery. Free to general public Thursdays after 5pm (NGC Permanent Collection + CMCP exhibitions only).
FREE admission to NGC Collection on International Museums Day (Sun 16 May 2010), Doors Open Ottawa (Sun 6 June 2010), and Canada Day (Thur 1 July 2010).
Special exhibitions: Pop Life: Art in a Material World – $15 adults, $12 seniors & students, $7 youth, $30 family. Free to children under 12 and Members of the Gallery. (Special exhibitions rate includes admission to the NGC Collection).

Advance ticket sales – Beat the crowds and purchase your tickets by phoning 613 998 8888 or 1 888 541 8888. Service charges apply on purchases by phone.
Online ticket office – Visiting the gallery has never been easier! Purchase tickets in advance at www.shopngc.ca.

Exhibitions & Related Events –

EXHIBITIONS & RELATED EVENTS –

Pop Life: Art in a Material World. Special Exhibitions Galleries.

Angela Grauerholz: The inexhaustible image ... épuiser l'image. Galleries B102 and B103.

Take a tour of the exhibition, Angela Grauerholz, with the artist.

Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie. Prints, Drawings and Photographs Galleries.

Meet the architect Moshe Safdie, in conjunction with the exhibition, Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie.

INSTALLATIONS FROM PERMANENT COLLECTION –

Without a Camera... Photograms from the National Gallery of Canada.

Pierre Huyghe: A Journey That Wasn't. Gallery B106.

General Idea: One Year of AZT. Gallery B204.

Louise Bourgeois: Cell (The Last Climb). Gallery B109.

Exhibitions –

In the Galleries – Nancy Newton: Marking the Years – a retrospective.
Newton has been painting since she was a child. She paints mostly in acrylics and is known for her expressive landscapes. The 65 works in the exhibition, from her own and private collections, trace the development of her work over four decades beginning in 1967. Of her work Newton writes, “Over the years, my focus has always been on the exploration of different approaches to express a connection to nature's spaces. The works in this landmark exhibition reflect my changing views of the natural environment and many years of exploring my active imagination.”
She will be in attendance each weekend, 1-4pm.

In the Main Gallery – Pastel Artists Canada (PAC) – a members' exhibition of the work of the artists who work in the original medium, dry pastel. The vibrancy of the pigments, their endurance and easy application, are the medium's strongest assets, and the reason that this oldest of materials has been in constant use over the millennia. Visit their website for more information – www.pastelartists.ca.
In the Hall Gallery – Etobicoke Quilters' Guild Annual Challenge.

(See Calls for Artists for info on NPCC's gallery exhibition spaces available for rent – click here; see Art Schools & Courses for NPCC's studio courses – click here).

Diabolique – borrowed from the Dunlop Art Gallery – brings together twenty-two artists who address the impact of war and violence in a diverse range of media. An eclectic mix of dark scenes and narratives of human conflict, this exhibition includes works ranging from a "War Tourist" video documentary to romance novel interventions to over-sized army figurines. Featuring works by Bogdan Achimescu, Matilda Aslizadeh, Rebecca Belmore, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Dana Claxton, Douglas Coupland, Mario Doucette, David Garneau, William Kentridge, Wanda Koop, Fawad Khan, Emanuel Licha, Shirin Neshat, Michael Patterson-Carver, Dan Perjovschi, Raymond Pettibon, Nancy Spero, Althea Thauberger, Jason Thiry, Scott Waters, Balint Zsako. Exhibition is being presented both Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square.

Exhibitions –

Diabolique – borrowed from the Dunlop Art Gallery – brings together twenty-two artists who address the impact of war and violence in a diverse range of media. An eclectic mix of dark scenes and narratives of human conflict, this exhibition includes works ranging from a "War Tourist" video documentary to romance novel interventions to over-sized army figurines.
Featuring works by Bogdan Achimescu, Matilda Aslizadeh, Rebecca Belmore, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Dana Claxton, Douglas Coupland, Mario Doucette, David Garneau, William Kentridge, Wanda Koop, Fawad Khan, Emanuel Licha, Shirin Neshat, Michael Patterson-Carver, Dan Perjovschi, Raymond Pettibon, Nancy Spero, Althea Thauberger, Jason Thiry, Scott Waters, Balint Zsako.
Exhibition is being presented both Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square.

ARTbus. Tour departs 11:30am from OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto) for Art Gallery of Mississauga, Blackwood Gallery and Oakville Galleries. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Cost: $10. To reserve a seat, call Oakville Galleries at 905 844 4402 x30 or email artbus@oakvillegalleries.com by Fri 17 Sep.

Exhibitions & Events -

Louis Helbig: Beautiful Destruction – Alberta Tar Sands Aerial Photographs.
Louis Helbig's aerial images teeter between documentary and abstract. The tension between their beauty and what they represent – the man-made alteration and destruction of a landscape – stimulates both thought and imagination. The Alberta Tar Sands are a place of superlatives where exaggeration of scale and proportion seems almost impossible. This exhibition is one outcome of a 2008 aerial cross-country journey the photographer and his partner Kristin Reimer embarked on in their antique aircraft, a 1946 Luscombe.

Melting the True North – Susan Feindel and Paul Walde, with scientist Dr. Gita Laidler. Curated by Petra Halkes. Science and art are linked in this exhibition by a shared respect for the North, as a lived reality rather than an abstract idea. After separate journeys to Northern Canada and Norway, artists Susan Feindel and Paul Walde created artworks that show the fragility of the natural elements that make up the Arctic landscape. Dr. Gita Laidler's images reflect her experiences in collaborative sea ice research with a number of Inuit communities and environmental scientists.

SUMMER EXHIBITION –

Institutional Donor: Nancy McCain & Bill Morneau.
Primary Education Sponsor: CIBC Wood Gundy.
Corporate Leaders: BMO Financial Group, Morneau Sobeco, Rogers.
Government Funding: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council.

Adaptation: Between Species.
Featured artists: Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Cory Arcangel, John Bock, Olaf Breuning, Marcus Coates, Robyn Cumming, Mark Dion, FASTWÜRMS, Shaun Gladwell, Lucy Gunning, Nina Katchadourian, Louise Lawler, Hanna Liden, Hew Locke, Sandra Meigs, Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimãres, Jeff Sonhouse, Javier Téllez and Michelle Williams Gamaker.
Responding to the contemporary desire to go back to nature, The Power Plant's summer group exhibition highlights interspecies encounters. What happens when humans, animals, and the natural world meet? What forms of communication, miscommunication, intimacy, and exchange ensue? This exhibition presents the work of leading international artists alongside that of newer figures whose work has gained international attention. Ranging in tone from reverent to decidedly iconoclastic, and created with media including photography, film / video, sculpture, and painting, works in the exhibition examine the lure of primeval states and primitive behaviours, and the urge to understand oneself as wild at heart.
Curated by Senior Curator of Programs Helena Reckitt.
Support Donor: The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation.

Lindy Fyfe. Curated by David Aurandt. Fyfe explores markmaking, colour, the effect of the juxtapositions of collage and assemblage, as well as other formal concerns.

Don Maynard: Franken Forest. Curated by Linda Jansma and Jan Allen. Maynard explores nature as an invention, a potential foe, an anxiety-inducing monster of our own creation.

Eleven in Motion: Abstract Expressions in Animation. Curated by Madi Piller. Canadian animation commission that takes as its starting point the work of the Painters Eleven.

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.

FASTWÜRMS – Unicorn Tip.
To Jan 2011 in Niche Project Space.
To Apr 1, 2011 in Rodman Hall's garden.
In 1979 Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse created FASTWÜRMS, a union of two Ontario-based multidisciplinary artists who question nature, the environment and issues of power. Known for melding high and popular cultures, bent identity politics and social exchange, FASTWÜRMS transforms the grounds of Rodman Hall and the Niche Project Space into realms of commonplace magick that draw attention to the everyday fantastic.
FASTWÜRMS has exhibited and created public commissions and installations, performance, video and film projects across Canada, in the United States, Europe, Korea and Japan.

Duncan MacDonald – Little Revolutions.
Working in video, sculpture, performance and installation, St. Catharines-based artist Duncan MacDonald creates work that is fundamentally about sound. Combining new and obsolete technologies, MacDonald investigates the relationship of the visual to the aural, overturning the classical hierarchy of the senses and challenging conventions of perception. Through labour-intensive processes at once poetic and absurd, MacDonald draws on his experience as artist, professor, and father to explore the sonic stuff of everyday life, engaging in revolutions both formal and conceptual, in an attempt to gently tweak the world around him.

BGL – SOLOS.
Known for creating self-referential in situ installations that take over architecture and encompass a gallery's context, the artist collective BGL (Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière) will participate in a residency (Sep 13-29) and exhibition (Oct 1-Nov 20) project at Rodman Hall Art Centre. Living and working in and out of the gallery and the City of St. Catharines for a three-week period, BGL will engage with the physical space and grounds of Rodman Hall.
BGL's work speaks directly to contemporary culture and the nostalgia of memory. Their work is social process, not solely presentation, and the result is a public-spirited art built through experience in which a network of social relations results. By inserting themselves in the space, the public becomes part of their process. To a great extent the contemporary stage they work on includes mass media and their language of signs and symbols penetrates to include the stage of the public mind. Their thinking refers to what extends beyond them and includes participation from the environment in which they work. They raise issues about the role artists play in our culture. These roles are neither exclusively aesthetic nor political in practice, but rather seemingly opposite poles encompassed by a working relationship that is social in nature. BGL will not only work from location but also form the nature of their engagement with the congested, cacophonous intersections of personal interests, collective values, social issues, political events and cultural patterns that mark out civic life. Theirs is a process in which research, dialogue and experimentation take part and the final result is situated between reality and fiction.

Regular hours – Mon-Sun 10-5:30, Fri 10-9:30.
Holiday hours – Dec 24: 10-5:30.
Dec 25: closed.
Dec 26-Jan 3: 10-8:30.
Jan 1: 10-9:30.
The Museum remains open for all public holidays, except Dec 25.

General admission: $24 adults, $21 seniors & students, $16 children (4-14 years). Free for infants (3 years and under). Members: free. Persons with disabilities: full admission, 1 attendant free.
General admission to the Museum is free every Wed 4:30-5:30pm.
Half-price admission during ROM Friday Nights 4:30-9:30pm: $12 adults, $10.50 seniors & students, $8 children (4-14 years). Free for infants (3 years and under). Members: free.

Exhibitions –

El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa. Institute for Contemporary Culture.

Ragamala: Garland of Melodies.

World Culture Galleries –

Level 1 –
Bishop White Gallery of Chinese Temple Art
Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples
Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada
Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China
Gallery of Korea
Matthews Family Court of Chinese Sculpture
Prince Takamodo Gallery of Japan
ROM Gallery of Chinese Architecture.
Level 3 –
A G Leventis Foundation Gallery of Ancient Cyprus
Shreyas and Mina Ajmera Gallery of Africa, the Americas and Asia-Pacific
Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery
Wirth Gallery of the Middle East
Galleries of Africa: Egypt
Gallery of the Bronze Age Aegean
Gallery of Greece
Samuel European Galleries
Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles & Costume.

NEWS –

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.

EXHIBITIONS –

Whitby Through the Lens: Marjorie G. Ruddy Photographs, 1935-1948.
Mike Berube: Know Hope.
An exhibition of photographs by Whitby's first female commercial photographer, Marjorie Ruddy, will mark our fortieth anniversary. Also on view, works by photojournalist, Mike Berube, who has received much attention for his documentary photos of civil war, poverty and unrest in Africa. Know Hope features a suite of photographs which hit close to home. Just as Marjorie G. Ruddy documented her local surroundings in the Thirties and Forties, Berube's project is a meditation on regionalism in an increasingly globalized society.

Curator's walk & talk.

Reception 1-3pm; artist's + guest curator's walk & talk 1:30pm.

EVENTS –

WAVE: Summer Music Series. WAVE offers an eclectic array of some of the region's finest music for those young, and for those young at heart! Need a night out? Join us for the perfect night on the town, date night or mid-week celebration. Those 19 years and older can relax with vibrant music, fresh air, great friends and fine food. Proceeds support the Gallery's Youth Arts Education programs.
Tickets on sale now at Station Gallery. $15 members; $20 non-members.
Jul 21: Patrick Dorie.
Aug 18: The Campfire Boys.
Sep 24: In celebration of our 40th anniversary, join us for a FREE WAVE night on Fri 24 Sep, 2010.
Visit www.whitbystationgallery.com for details or call 905 668 4185.

Adrenalin: 40-hour Art-a-thon. Help celebrate 40 years of community arts and culture with an art installation competition, free art workshops and classes for all ages, live music, first-hand artist presentations and much more. Contact us for more information.

Exhibitions –

Over Easy: Metaphors in Series – Russell T. Gordon. Curator: Maurice Forget, C.M.

Conference with the artist Russell T. Gordon.

Art Rental | The New Collection 2011 – drawings, paintings, photography, prints, mixed media. Over 100 works of art by artists of the Montreal region.

Exhibitions & Related Programs –

Person Place Thing – featuring Lia Cook, David R. Harper and Stephen Schofield.
The artists create displays of intimacy, exploring portrait-based iconography as a lens to cast light on themselves and reflect it on the viewer. Person Place Thing – where textiles and sculpture meet. Cook, Harper and Schofield make work that is tactile, physical and large in scale – qualities that intensify a sensory encounter. They draw the viewer into embroidered, sewn and woven narratives of nature, identity and history.
Skin & Bone: David R Harper and Stumble: Stephen Schofield are curated by Sarah Quinton, Curatorial Director at the Textile Museum of Canada.
Faces & Mazes: Lia Cook is curated by Wendy Weiss and organized by the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Curator's tour – Join Sarah Quinton in the galleries for a tour of Person Place Thing.
Free with admission.

"Adam's Simple Ration" – seminar with Stephen Schofield.
Spend a day with the artist that includes an illustrated lecture, a walkthrough of the exhibition, and experimentation with eggs to produce temporary sculptures. Test the potential of food as an art-making material and consider the poetic transformations that takes place when “Adam's simple ration” is put to use.
$50 TMC members; $65 non-members; $40 full-time students. Materials $8.
Advance registration is required; class size is limited.
To register, call 416 599 5321 x2221.

Drawing with Scissors: Molas from Kuna Yala.
The graphic panels on the mola blouses – done in reverse appliqué and embroidery – depict everything the Kuna see around them, from ancient plant and animal spirits to reimagined television news and Disney characters. Drawing with Scissors includes nearly 200 molas that are among the earliest known and those that were made yesterday, some by Domitila De León de Fernandez, the granddaughter of the leader of the 1925 Revolution. Photos in the exhibition show the matrilocal Kuna world of the San Blas Islands where, in order to protect old and successful traditions from the negative impacts of globalization, no outsider may own property.
Drawing with Scissors is curated by Max Allen.

Screening of Michel Perrin's Molakana: Sewing the World.
French ethnologist Michel Perrin saw a mola for the first time in 1975 and became enthralled. Twenty-eight years later he made Molakana: Sewing the World, a film about molas and the Kuna people. Come see views of the San Blas Islands and bright scenes of molas being made in this homage to Kuna women and their artwork. Film length: 52 minutes.
Free for TMC members and full-time students; $10 non-members.
Advance tickets may be purchased in person at the TMC's front desk.
Please arrive early as seating is limited.

"Travelogue" – lecture by Peter Jarrett.
Come hear Jarrett's description of his travels and observations of Kuna Yala, where molas are made. His talk will be illustrated with the extraordinary photos he has taken over the last several years while living part-time on his boat off the coast of Panama.
Free for TMC members and full-time students; $15 non-members.
Advance tickets may be purchased in person at the TMC's front desk.
Please arrive early as seating is limited.

There Is No Bad Weather, Only Bad Clothing.
Orenburg shawls are much loved in Russia for being very warm. In rural areas, every elderly woman wears a furry grey shawl indoors and outdoors during the long Russian winters. In cities, lace-knitted goat hair shawls are worn as a fashionable winter accessory. In the gallery you will see an Orenberg shawl that was made in the late 19th or early 20th century. This shawl also appears in the Soft Light section of Social Fabric, the Textile Museum of Canada's brand new interactive website. Discover it for yourself, in real and in virtual space.
There Is No Bad Weather, Only Bad Clothing is curated by Natalia Nekrassova, curator at the Textile Museum of Canada.

Do You Love Me? Curated by Kim Fullerton.
Do You Love Me? explores the human-animal relationship in contemporary art with a focus on companion animals, otherwise known as pets. The relationships humans have with pets serve complex private and social functions in our culture. The artworks look at pets as status symbols, as symbols of our alienation from nature, and as human surrogates, soulmates who help to dispel loneliness and are beneficial to our health. We believe our pets love us unconditionally while providing us with an object upon which to lavish our love.

Hello My Name is Tom. Curated by Michelle Le Chien.
Tom Thomson's captivating images have inspired many artists in Canada and around the world. In this exhibition we delve into the influence of the artist and his works still felt today. Surrounded by the fascinating work of TOM and his contemporaries, visitors can listen to podcasts comprised of interviews with curators, artists and patrons alike, explaining why they are still inspired by TOM and how they were first introduced to Tom Thomson. Accompanied by a multi-media feature on our Facebook fan page and on Twitter, visitors will be encouraged to share stories and showcase their works all inspired by TOM.

George McLean: The Living Landscape.
Presenting Sponsor: TD.
Curated by Virginia Eichhorn, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, and Dr. Adam Harris, National Museum of Wildlife Art (Wyoming).
George McLean has painted the landscape and animals around his home in Grey County for over 30 years. This exhibition surveys the artist's painting career, drawing in major works from private and public collections across Canada and the United States. The artist has documented many of the natural denizens of the boreal forest, both mammals and birds. Paintings are in a range of sizes, but many depict the animal as life-size – some preparatory works and drawings will also be included to give audiences a sense of the artist's process.
In its analysis of McLean's practice, this exhibition focuses on McLean's prowess as an accomplished draughtsman and painter of the landscape. Although all of his paintings include an animal or bird, the artist takes great care to faithfully depict the dramatic light, colour and atmosphere of these wooded escarpment sites, not far from the shores of Georgian Bay. Working in an opaque casein, akin to gouache, on prepped masonite boards, the artist builds painted surfaces that are both complex and evocative in their treatment. Often depictions of flora and fauna are so finely worked it is difficult to see the evidence of the artist's hand in the application. Through his careful study, the artist is able to capture the atmospheric beauty of all the seasons in Grey County, from the misty early spring snows to the clarity of the dense early spring woods to the golden heat of high summer meadows.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a major publication consisting of almost 100 colour reproductions and essays by Eichhorn, Harris, Tom Smart from the McMichael Collection of Canadian Art, and by the artist, George McLean. The curatorial texts included in the accompanying publication give McLean's work its due attention and context in terms of contemporary Canadian painting. The book deepens the discourse around McLean's practice, setting him apart from his wildlife art contemporaries as a painter of note.
In this time of heightened concern about the natural world threatened by pollution and climate change, McLean's work conveys a subtle advocacy for people to reconsider how their activities impact on other creatures that share the landscape. McLean paints the animals and birds in their natural habitats, in scenes of action and drama that are a far cry from the “still life” type of painting one expects from his colleagues.
George McLean: The Living Landcape has been organized and circulated by the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound and will tour Canada and the USA through 2012.

Craft Practical Symposium. Presented by the Ontario Crafts Council and the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Craft Practical is a one-day workshop series offering artists and craftspeople the opportunity to explore, interact, inform and be informed in regards to the contemporary craft world.

Community Curators Select. Deadline for pariticaption: Fri 10 Sep 2010.
Have you ever wondered what it is like to wear the white gloves, examine or handle artworks from a collection of over 2000 pieces, select work to be part of an exhibition for a public audience? Does the idea of being a curator appeal to you, even if it is only one time? Community Curators Select is a unique opportunity to become part of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery's curatorial team and help choose works from the Permanent Collection to be exhibited in the Thomson Room, Oct 15, 2010 - Jan 9, 2011. For $100, you can participate in the special selection session on Sept 30th and make your personal choice of a work from the collection. At the exclusive exhibition preview on Oct 15th, you have the chance to converse with other participating curators over refreshments about your interest in art. All funds raised through Community Curators Select will be directed to our Collections Management Fund, which allows for the conservation, restoration and preservation of works in the collection. A tax receipt for the donation portion of the $100 fee will be issued. To become a participant in the Community Curators Select, contact the Gallery at 519 376 1932 before Fri 10 Sep 2010.
The Tom Thomson Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Don Johnston, North Point Investment Solutions, Inc. for helping to make this event possible.

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The TD Gallery is undergoing renovations. The gallery will be closed for an extended period after May 3, 2009.

Beside Myself – by Ted Bieler. An installation of five deconstructed sculptures of the human head cast in aluminium, each positioned on a bench, that invites contemplation between the act of mirroring and recognizing our own multiple profiles. Sculpture will be installed over time, with some heads on view May 17th and the remainder installed at intervals until opening day.

Exhibitions in the main gallery –

Kate Wilson | Curious Lights.
Curious Lights is an exhibition of several large-scale wall drawings by Toronto artist Kate Wilson. For the past several years Wilson has focused on large-scale drawing installations in an attempt to work toward a new kind of notional intimacy that includes degraded visual conventions while inscribing an array of catastrophic imagery. She incorporates a range of visual references, from architectural plans, botanical and molecular forms to iconic imagery from pop culture. These organic and industrial materials shape the form and content of her drawings. Wilson has exhibited nationally and internationally and is the recipient of many awards from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Exhibitions in the project room –

Lynne Wynick | Windsock, Cubism and Kingston.
Lynne Wynick offers another interpretation of scale and location through small photo-based works. In this current work, Wynick investigates through drawings, models and photographs of the models, a windsock found on the RC Harris Filtration Plant in Toronto. A constant in all her work is the sequential and a ricochet of ideas. This exhibition will be of particular interest to Kingstonians as she plans to incorporate aspects of Kingston architecture and history into the works. Wynick is a Toronto-based artist. Her work is represented in a number of private, corporate and public gallery collections in Canada and the U.S. Her multiples are represented by Art Metropole, Toronto. She is co-founder and co-director of the Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto.

Supporters: Queen's University, the AMS and SGPS at Queen's University, the City of Kingston and the Kingston Arts Council.