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

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

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

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).

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 –

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).

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).

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).

Farhad Nargol-O'Neill: Animas Res – Soul Objects – solo exhibition. Curator: Anneliese Neumann.
This exhibition is comprised of works of sculpture, sculptural works in bas-relief, and examples of automatic writing. All works function as individual repositories of the soul of the creator – more than mnemonic devices, they exist corporeally and in multiple realms at once. They assert belief and the truth behind experience. They are objects which take into account the places the artist has been, experienced, the ideas and faith notions that have determined his art and the nature of his investigations. The nature of a work of art as a transubstantiated soul-object, the relationship between the artist and viewer and the the art object – these are all represented in both process and result.

(See Downtown Toronto for info on Animas Res – Soul Objects II exhibition at Gallery U @ 111, Nov 11-Dec 9; and for info on Fully Present group exhibition curated by Farhad Nargol-O'Neill at Gallery U @ 111, Sep 16-Oct 15 – click here).

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.

Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada c. 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.
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.