Toronto Craft Alert

The Gladstone Hotel’s
That’s So Gay.
an exhibition of art that’s gay

Part of the Gladstone Hotel’s Alterna-Pride Celebrations!

June 22 to July 18, 2010
12-5pm Daily
Opening Reception: June 25, 7-10pm
Curator’s Tour July 3, 12pm
Forum Discussion July 8, 7pm

The title is a cheeky re-appropriation of the word “gay,” now that it’s become widely accepted slang for anything and everything uncool; and through that, a reflection on how queers have needed to constantly fight with language, appropriating and re-appropriating words [...]

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Opening Reception at MADE 7pm to 9pm, Thursday 17th June
867 Dundas St West
Exhibition continues to 31st July

MADE presents: Collection a ceramic installation by Susie Osler

Plate collections abound. Some collections serve as souvenirs of personal travels, others as repositories demonstrating wealth, taste, or sophistication. Susie Osler’s collection explores the fragments of memories of birds seen while driving around Mexico this past winter.

In 16th century Europe – an era of global exploration/exploitation and colonial expansion – the “Kunstkammer” or “Cabinet of Curiosity” was regarded as [...]

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Rose Bianchini & Jason Van Horne have invited us all to see an art show of magical and interactive miniatures. To peer into the private lives of an eclectic group of people as they dream, watch TV, stare out the window and ponder the lives of their neighbours. Neighbourhood Watch brings to life a cast of whimsical characters who live in ramshackle and darling little homes. It is a show about how where we live and our space defines as much as our work and family.

WHERE AND [...]

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Hey all you japanophiles (I know you’re out there!) go check out the tenugui exhibition at the Japan foundation, and maybe even check out the talk about tenugui design next Thursday.

Exhibition Talk: Design Miracle on 3:1 and Joyful Uses of Tenugui
by Kazuhiro Kato, Vice-President, Kamawanu Co. Ltd., Tenugui Distributor, Tokyo

Date: June 3, 2010 (Thursday), 6:30-8:30 P.M. (Doors open at 6:00)
Address: The Japan Foundation, Toronto, 131 Bloor St. W., 2nd floor of the Colonnade Building
Admission: Free
Language: [...]

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Project 165 is pleased as punch to announce Hey Come Inside: a weekend-long open studio art event featuring drawing, painting, installation, video, performance, photography and other work by Project 165’s studio artists, volunteers and other friends.

This is a unique opportunity to gain special insight into the vibrant culture of one of Toronto’s most unique artist-run spaces and to consider that, as art writer Sarah Thornton put it, the studio “isn’t just a place where artists make art but [...]

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Julia Prime – Arboretum
at The Japanese Paper Place

A collection of embroidered and printed trees on washi. On display in the Artist Resource Center at The Japanese Paper Place until May 28th.

www.juliaprime.ca

The Japanese Paper Place
9am-6pm Monday to Friday
77 Brock Ave.
Toronto, ON
416-538-9669
www.japanesepaperplace.com

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