Toronto Craft Alert

Gladstone Hotel Presents
pieceWORK
A “Pop-Up” Sale Of Textile And Fibre Arts

Event Dates: Nov 26-28, 2010

The Gladstone Hotel is renting second floor exhibition spaces to individuals or
groups of artists interested in setting up three-day “pop-up” shops to sell textile and fibre based work including wearables, jewelry, and home décor items. We’re looking for a diverse group of artists who can produce high quality multiples or short run production work specifically in fibre based mediums.

•    Coincides with the opening weekend of Hard Twist, the Gladstone Hotel’s Annual Juried Show of Textile Based Art
•    Friday Night Opening Reception will be combined for the two exhibitions
•    Event Schedule:
Nov 26 – 8am-4pm Install
6pm-10pm Opening Receptions
Nov 27-28    11am-6pm
•    Showcase your wares in the bright, beautiful spaces and restored Victorian
grandeur of the Gladstone
•    Individual secure space for each participant
•    No sales commissions paid to hotel
•    No submission fee
•    Free admission to public
•    Dates coincide with the One of Kind Show, Toronto

pieceWORK Participation Fees & Display Opportunities:

Option #1: EXHIBITION ROOM- $550.00* +GST/HST room
10 Exhibition Rooms open on to the hotel’s main reception gallery space.
Artists and Collectives may collaborate to share space and rental costs.
Option #2: ASSIGNED FLOOR SPACE in Main Reception Gallery- $200* + GST/HST space
8 Floor Spaces accommodate individual artists w freestanding displays.

*Participation Fees are only paid if your work is selected to be part of the show.
50% deposit is due with signed contract by May 31, 2010.
Balance of participation fees is due Oct 1, 2010

pieceWORK Submissions: Deadline April 30, 2010
Submitting work for consideration is easy. Show us what you want to sell, and how you want to display it.

Submit:
•    Name or name of group
•    Contact information (mailing address, phone, email)
•    Website
•    Space preference (option #1 or #2)
•    3 – 5 images representative of your work in jpg format on a CD or as email attachments. Image files should be no larger than 640 x 480 ppi (72 dpi)
•    short bio
•    description of the work you will be presenting and how you wish to display it

Address your email entries to: pieceWORKshow@gmail.com

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Gladstone Hotel Presents
Hard Twist V – Chroma!
Fifth Annual Juried Show Of Textile-Based Art

Exhibition Dates: Nov 26, 2010 – Jan 30, 2011

For Hard Twist V – Chroma! Co-curators Helena Frei and Chris Mitchell invite artists to submit textile and fibre based works, which explore the expressive qualities of colour, colour symbolism, and/or the meaning, relationships and perceptions of colour.

There are only three criteria; work must:
♣    be textile or fibre based
♣    explore or express colour
♣    be designed to hang on a wall or be suspended from a ceiling – we are unable to accept free standing work due to the nature of the exhibition space

Hard Twist has become an important annual event within the Canadian textile art community as well as being a signature event for the Gladstone. For this fifth anniversary of Hard Twist, exhibition space will be expanded to include public spaces on all four floors of the hotel.

Hard Twist V – Chroma! Jurors:
Eva Ennist – Toronto artist and educator
Helena Frei and Chris Mitchell – Hard Twist Curators
Shaun Moore and Julie Nicholson, Owners – Made, Dundas St W

Hard Twist Hanging/Installation – Physical Criteria:
•    All pieces must be able to be hung/installed securely – gallery space is part of a fully functioning hotel
•    The security hardware supplied by the Gladstone is 2” x .05” (5.5cm x 1.5 cm), and needs a mount 0.5” (1.5cm) thick to accommodate the screws.
•    Artists whose work is accepted for the show and the nature of whose work makes this type of hanger impractical or undesirable will be encouraged to discuss alternatives with the curators.

Admin fee: $150 + GST = $157.50 to be paid to hotel only on acceptance
There is no submission fee

Hard Twist Entry checklist:
Please include the following in your submission:
•    Contact information including telephone number, full mailing address, email address and website.
•    Artist’s bio – max 75 words – Word document
•    Artist’s statement – max 75 words – Word document
•    Description of proposed work (new or existing), including size, material and type (ceiling or wall-hung).
•    3 – 5 images of representative work in jpg format on a CD or as email attachments – please do not send website links instead of images
•    Emailed image files should be no larger than 640 x 480 ppi (72 dpi) and must be numbered and named to correspond with the image list.  High-quality images on a CD are preferred.
•    Numbered image list giving size of works, medium, dimensions and any other relevant details.

Hard Twist Submissions: deadline April 30, 2010
•    There is no submission fee; the admin fee is paid to the hotel only on acceptance.
•    Entries may be submitted by email or surface mail
•    If sending your submission by email, please include your name as part of the file names of your attachments e.g. YourNameBio.doc, YourNameImage1.jpg.
•    If sending your submission by surface mail, please send hard copies of your contact information, bio, artist’s statement, details of proposed work and image
list along with your CD and include a SASE for return of entries. Entries which are accepted will be retained.

Address your email entries to: HardTwistChroma@gmail.com

Address surface mail entries to:
Hard Twist V – Chroma!
c/o The Gladstone Hotel
Attn: Chris Mitchell/Helena Frei
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON
M6J 1J