Toronto Craft Alert

Seminar: Adam’s Simple Ration with Stephen Schofield
Saturday October 16, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Spend a day with the artist that includes an illustrated lecture, a walkthrough of the exhibition, and experimentation with eggs to produce temporary sculptures. Test the potential of food as an art-making material and consider the poetic transformations that take place when “Adam’s simple ration” is put to use.

Members $50, Non-members $65, Full-time students $40. Materials $8.
Advance registration is required, class size is limited.
To [...]

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Art in the Park 2010 – Call for Entry

ONE WEEK LEFT TO REGISTER- Entry Deadline: Friday, May 21, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.

Annual Outdoor Art Show & Sale

Art in the Park is an annual juried one-day outdoor community arts festival that is held in the parkland surrounding the Scarborough Arts Council. Artists will have the opportunity to connect with the community, sell their work and discuss ideas [...]

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May Workshops at Wise Daughters

Paper Flowers
Sat, May 1, 1 – 4
Make a gorgeous eco-friendly bouquet of flowers out of coffee filters. $30.

Marbling on Paper
Tues, May 4, 7 – 8 pm
Learn to make beautiful patterns on paper. $30 includes supplies for 3 cards.

Baby Picasso for Infants and Parents
4 Thursdays, May 6 – 27, 10 – 11 am
Enjoy the benefits of early art stimulation as your baby explores using edible paint. For infants [...]

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It’s a Big Deal!

May 6 – May 28, 2010
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
990 Queen Street West, Toronto
Please join us for the Opening Reception on Thursday, May 6, 5:30 – 8:30 pm.

Micah Adams
Alisha Marie Boyd
Norah Deacon
Niko Dimitrijevic
Margaret Lim
Shuyu Lu
Amanda McCavour
Adriana McNeely
Rose-Angeli Ringor
Johanna Schmidt
Patrycja Zwierzynska
Curated by Melanie Egan, Head of Craft and
Patrick Macaulay, Head of Visual Arts at Harbourfront Centre

This exhibition strives to communicate new ideas and shape perceptions about contemporary craft. It is about the [...]

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MADE presents “Daydreamin’- a Grant Heaps remix”
A new installation by Grant Heaps

Opening Reception at MADE Thursday April 22nd, 7pm to 9pm
Exhibition continues to June 12th

Grant Heaps provides a visual extrapolation of the song Daydreamin’ by Lupe Fiasco. Shreds of fabric discards are stitched together by Heaps in his own lyrical tracing of the scraps of memory and feelings that describe a life.

Lupe Fiasco’s song Daydreamin’ is a record of contrasts: bliss and frustration, loud and soft, beautiful and ugly, reality and perception. Heaps chose to [...]

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REVELRY V: WHERE ARTISTS AND EMERGING COLLECTORS MEET

THE FIFTH ANNUAL ART AUCTION IN SUPPORT OF GALLERY 1313

Gallery 1313 presents Revelry V, its fifth annual art auction and fundraiser.

Attention emerging collectors: This year’s art auction offers you the opportunity to bid on the work of almost 30 artists working in a variety of mediums (sculpture, painting and photography).

We want you first time art buyers, those who have never experienced a live art auction and those who want to add to their collection to join us [...]

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