Toronto Craft Alert

Too Cool For School
Art & Science Fair

Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, May 8, 2010

The Too Cool For School Art & Science Fair is an interdisciplinary project in which people from all walks of life come together in a convergence of art and science. The event is structured just like a school science fair participants will display their projects on rows of tables, and will be on hand to discuss their work with the public. The difference is that this event is as much as art as it is about [...]

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Review by Tara Bursey

It’s A Big Deal!
Harbourfront Centre
January 23- April 4 2010

Curated by Melanie Egan, Head of Craft and
Patrick Macaulay, Head of Visual Arts

“How big is big?  What is big?  Is it big enough?”  These are the questions Melanie Egan and Patrick Macaulay ask of both exhibiting artists and viewers in their curatorial statement for It’s A Big Deal!, currently showing at Harbourfront Centre.  This exhibition focuses on new work by selected residents of Harbourfront’s Artist-In-Residence program.

Egan and Macaulay’s [...]

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SAVE THE DATE: THE ARTIST PROJECT TORONTO IS ALMOST HERE!

March 4-7, 2010 | Queen Elizabeth Building, Exhibition Place

•    Meet & buy from 175 juried contemporary artists
•    Explore Installation Alley presented by Heineken
•    Tour the Video ArtBox curated by Median Contemporary
•    See 18 of the country’s best emerging Untapped Artists
•    Enjoy free lectures & docent-led art tours

Tickets On Sale Now!
Opening Night Party $25
Adult Admission (Fri-Sun) $12
Seniors/Students (Fri-Sun) $8

Visit www.theartistprojecttoronto.com for special ticket offers and more information.

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EXHIBITION:
Let Them Eat Cake

February 4 – March 21, 2010 at the Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 4, 5:30 – 8:30 pm

An Exhibition of Fine Sterling Silver Objects to Adorn the Home and Body

Susan Watson Ellis and Todd Jeffrey Ellis together have over 50 years of experience in the metal working field. Jovially named Let Them Eat Cake, the exhibition shows off individual directions in their works as they have evolved since moving from their cramped Toronto Studio [...]

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Art Supply Exchange!
XPACE Cultural Centre presents our 2nd Wing Ding Friday – Art Supply Xchange!

Date: Friday, January 29th

Drop in anytime between 6-8 with any supplies that you don’t need/use anymore and check out what everyone else has brought, you never know what you’ll find!

Bring something, take something! Free!

XPACE Cultural Centre
58 Ossington Ave
Toronto, ON
www.xpace.info
416.849.2864

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Body + Object
January 5 – 31, 2010

Please join us for the opening reception on 
Wednesday, January 20, 5:30 – 8:30 pm

As a participant in the Toronto International Design Festival, the Ontario Crafts Council is pleased to present Body + Object, an exhibition featuring the work of seventeen artists who explore the relationship between the body and the many forms in which it can ornament, present and represent itself. The body is perhaps today’s [...]

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