Toronto Craft Alert

TORONTO SCULPTURE GARDEN
115 King Street East, Toronto

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Next Deadline: Submissions received by May 15, 2010

The Toronto Sculpture Garden has been a leader in Canada in the commissioning of contemporary sculpture since it opened in 1981. Located in an urban park in the downtown core, it serves as a testing ground for artists to explore public space and to address issues of urban context, materials and scale.

BACKGROUND:

The TSG is a non-collecting institution that is unique in its partnership between the City of Toronto, which owns and operates the [...]

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This February 2010, Spins & Needles, in collaboration with Ottawa’s National Capital Commission, is calling on artists, crafters and the public, individuals and groups, of all ages, and all creative levels to be part of the Winterlude Urban Cozy Project. Various warm coverings, or cozies, wrapped around trees, lampposts, and other urban elements will be installed on two major festival sites. The intervention will remix warmth, cold, art, craft, music and the city, and also play with traditional images and conceptions associated with a country known around the world for [...]

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FINAL VOTE ON BILLBOARD TAX FOR ART NOV. 30 / DEC 1

After seven years of BeautifulCity.ca Alliance campaigning, Toronto City Council will be voting on a billboard tax for art at its next meeting on November 30 and December 1.

The BeautifulCity.ca Alliance is seeking a tax on billboards with the funds going to art in the public sphere (e.g. murals, sculptures, festivals, accessible arts programming, outdoor performances, etc.) as well as enforcement of the new sign by-law that governs billboards. The proposal is endorsed by over 50 Toronto organizations, thousands of signatories and, [...]

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We the Magpie Collective invite you to participate via the internet with our free interactive public sculpture project.

On November 8th 2009 at the All Souls Procession in Tucson, Arizona the phenomenal pyrotechnic circus, Flam Chen will present and our gigantic 25′ electronic cocoon containing 4 enormous weather balloons and hundreds of handmade japanese paper moth kites.

Dedicate kite to a soul important to you and we will fly your kite with hundreds of others spirits both living and past. Write a letter, poem, or thought on our website [...]

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TORONTO SCULPTURE GARDEN
115 King Street East, Toronto

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Next Deadline: received by September 15, 2009
The Toronto Sculpture Garden has been a leader in Canada in the commissioning of contemporary sculpture since it opened in 1981. Located in an urban park in the downtown core, it serves as a testing ground for artists to explore public space and to address issues of urban context, materials and scale.

BACKGROUND:

The TSG is a non-collecting institution that is unique in its partnership between the City of Toronto, which owns and [...]

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Guerilla knit up, originally uploaded by miss.print.

Guerilla knit-up on Brock Street, between Queen and Dundas (toronto)

A little documentation of a lamp post sweater by local crafter, Martha Brown. You can read more about the project here and here. Or, if you’d like a spectator’s report, check out this post from makesomething.ca.

From the Craft Toronto photo pool on Flickr. You can join, too!

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