Toronto Craft Alert

Attention Art Institutions!
Apply now for the Canadian Art Foundation Youth Arts Bursary
Receive a maximum $7,500 project grant for your education initiatives

The Canadian Art Foundation invites applications from art institutions across the country for its 2009 Youth Arts Bursary program.

The program awards a total of $20,000 in project grants to Canadian public galleries and artist-run centres to fund innovative visual-arts education initiatives for youths aged 5 to 18. A maximum of $7,500 is awarded to each organization.

To date, the Youth Arts Bursary [...]

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Learn how to use herbs, and ingredients from your pantry to create remedies for common ailments. Participants will leave with 5 products of their own creation to have on hand as a herbal first-aid kit. Lots of additional recipes and tips will be provided!

Sign up for the workshops through our products page, send us an email at info@sultrysuds.ca or call 416.209.3594.

Thursday July 9th, 6:30 – 8:30pm  ($35 + GST)
www.sultrysuds.ca

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Craft Studio courses: taught by the Craft Studio artists-in-residence, these beginner courses for adults are an excellent way for everyone to express themselves creatively.

Introduction to Jewellery – 8 weeks, 3 hrs/week (evening/weekends available), $310 (includes lab fee and cost of some materials)

Learn a wide range of jewellery techniques (piercing, soldering, drilling, filing, polishing, etc) to create samples and finished pieces. Call 416-973-4994 or email jewelleryclasses@harbourfrontcentre.com.

Intermediate Jewellery – 8 weeks, 3 hrs/week, $310 (includes lab fee and cost of some materials)

The next step once you’ve learned the basics. [...]

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Toronto School of Art
www.tsa-art.ca

Ryoichi Nakamura, a participant in the Independent Summer Residency, at work in his studio.

Register NOW for SUMMER courses:

8 week term: http://www.tsa-art.ca/Courses/Calendar/98

One week Intensives: http://www.tsa-art.ca/Courses/Calendar/94

New this year – Summer 3 day workshops

July 6 – 8, 613 Powdered Graphite and Acrylic Glazes with Brian Burnett
July 13 – 15, 617 Chinese Brush Painting with Norman Choo
July 20 – 22, 618 Colour Mixing with Martha Eleen
July 27 – 29, Life Drawing 2 – Structural Bodies with [...]

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Information via art cloth text

Artist Robyn Love, is looking for knitters and others who are interested in getting together to ply their craft and talk about their life in the suburbs. She is working on a new project titled, Knitting Sprawl, which is a multi-media project exploring issues around the idea of community in Canadian suburban neighborhoods. Love will be traveling across Canada over the next year and a half, organizing and connecting with knitting groups for a series of conversations about the current [...]

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Howard Public School is hosting an Arts and Crafts Showcase and Sale on December 3, 2009. There will be over 40 tables at this well attended event. Please visit www.HowardArtsCrafts.ca for details and application forms.

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