Jihee Min selected for Public Art Mentorship

OCAD University’s alumna Jihee Min is the selected artist mentee for a Public Art Mentorship launched by The Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Space (STEPS) Initiative, a charitable organization that works with large scale public artworks, along with Brad Golden + Co.  There were more than 125 applicants from across the country.

The Public Art Mentorship will run until December 2019, giving Jihee Min the opportunity to develop a full understanding of large-scale public artworks while gaining valuable portfolio-building experience. The program is managed under the mentorship of Steve Driscoll, a Canadian artist who has a contemporary approach regarding traditional Canadian landscape.

Jihee Min received a BFA with Honours in Sculpture & Installation from OCAD U in 2005. She uses her own experiences to explore the idea of identity and cultural dislocation. The artist works with a wide range of media such as drawing, performance and photography and has received many grants, awards and scholarships.

Click here to learn more about Jihee Min’s work.

Jennifer Fryer and Rosena Fung develop art panel in St. James Town

OCAD alumni Jennifer Fryer and Rosena Fung have developed an art panel for Tridel Corporation in partnership with The PATCH Project (under the STEPS Initiative) and the students of Art City, a charitable organization that offers after-school art programs to kids residing in St. James Town.

The project titled “Our City, Our Home” celebrates Toronto and the St. James Town’s neighbourhood. With joyful colours, the art panel celebrates the differences and similarities of residents and visitors of the area. The work is part of the St. James Town Cultural Plan,  that uses temporary public art initiatives to engage local residents.

Jennifer Fryer studied Illustration at OCAD U and her work has appeared in prominent news outlets such as the National Post and the Toronto Star. Rosena Fung is also an OCAD U Illustration graduate and her work has been included in major news outlets such as The Globe and Mail and The Boston Globe.

Click here to learn more about Jennifer Fryer and here for Rosena Fung’s work.

OCAD University has developed a number of initiatives to support the programming of Toronto’s first international Biennial of Art. The 72-day, free art exhibition will take place every two years.

Launching September 21, 2019, the inaugural exhibition, curated by Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien, will present local, national, and international contemporary art in a city-wide experience. The event will provide unique experiential learning opportunities and placements for OCAD U undergraduate and graduate students.

Programmed along the waterfront and grounded in the multi-layered history of Indigenous presence in what we now call Toronto, the inaugural Biennial asks us to re-examine the past to project alternative futures—Indigenous futurisms, Black futurisms, migrant futurisms, queer futurisms, animal futurisms—that expand our ways of knowing and becoming as a function of coming into greater relational awareness

Click here to learn more about the Toronto Biennial of Art.

Please join us for an end of year social and celebration of our First Year Drawing and Painting Student Self Portraits! 

FIRST SELF  

An Exhibition of OCAD University First Year Self-Portraits  

April 22^nd to April 28^th  

Hours: 8:30 am to 8:30 pm  

Ada Slaight Galleries  

Reception: April 25^th 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 

Second Floor 100 McCaul, OCAD University  

We invite you to an exhibition of highlights from our first-year students’ self-portraits This final project of OCAD University’s first-year Drawing and Painting students is entitled the Life-Sized Self-Portrait. This creative challenge offers time for students to reflect on their first year in art school and apply all the skills they have learned to their first large format painting. Conceptually, instructors provide students with several prompts that encourage the use of family memories, symbolic interventions, avatars, anthropomorphic approaches to archetypes, and shapeshifters or other substitutes for the human body. Come and explore this delightful display of compelling images by/of students embarking on the journey of discovering who they are as artists and creative thinkers.  

Impulseb launching Impulse Interviews 1978-1990 at Printed Matter / St Marks NYC May 14 6 pm.

With Interview Magazine's editor-in-chief Nick Haramis and Eldon Garnet interviewing each other and a rare screening of Winning by Ross McLaren of Impulse's 1978 International Dance Competition.

Natalie Majaba Waldburger participating in group show at the Gladstone Hotel.

Grow Op 2019

GROW OP 2019 created & produced by the Gladstone Hotel

Grow Op at the Gladstone Hotel celebrates its seventh year with an exhibition of art, design and ideas across a range of disciplines. The 2019 edition considers ENERGY; Clean energy, dirty energy, social energy, positive energy, negative energy, climate energy, embodied energy, resilient energy. Do we hoard, waste, commodify, burn it, or do we store, reuse, renew it?  How humans and other species live within and without natural systems of growth, change, abundance, scarcity, decay and life.

Curated by Christine Leu and Alan Webb of LeuWebb Projects, with Lee Petrie, Exhibitions Director, Gladstone Hotel.

www.gladstonehotel.com

STATEMENT

This project responds to the theme of Grow Op this year by considering the term energy in relational terms, as experienced by diverse organisms and social systems.  This biodegradable and consumable artwork simultaneously considers the energy required in the absorption of light for the production of chlorophyll, the nutrient energy of plants to humans and in their consumption, the social forces ascribing value to foods and fads, gentrification of communities, and the energy used in artificially controlling and maintaining plants.

Dates and times

Wed Apr 17: 7pm – 9pm

Thurs Apr 18: 11am- 10pm, Exhibition party 7-10pm

Fri Apr 19: 11am – 9pm

Sat Apr 20: 10am – 5pm

Sun Apr 21: 10am – 5pm

Admission

General admission $10

Family of 4 $25 (1 or 2 adults and 2 or 3 children age 12 and under)

School groups Free (sponsored by Victoria Taylor Landscape Architect. Advance

booking. Contact lee@gladstonehotel.com)

Students $5 with student ID

List of artists

Maria Thereza Alves*, Sally Ayre, David Ballantine, Bruno Billio, Sarah Carlson, Shaun de Rooy, Joseph Farrugia, Noni Kaur, Mary Kavanagh, Dana Korre, Justin Langille and Jennifer Martin, Peter Mettler, Sarah Moreau, Sarah Norman and Julia Smachylo, Cindy Norton, Leah Oates, Julie Pasila, Chrissy Poitras and Kyle Topping and Jennie Suddick, Leah Oates, Meghan Price, Jessica Rysyk, The Grove Public School, The Stomata Collective, Tosca Teran, Ryan van der Hout, Natalie Majaba Waldburger, Alicia Wright, Daniel Rotsztain, Native Land.

*presented in partnership with the Toronto Biennial

The participating artworks respond to, tackle, or pursue the structural approaches and components of Artificial Nature: a form of computational generative art creating artificial life ecosystems as immersive environments. The exhibition serves as a journal of how each artist brings their own stories in a new journey where they confront, tame, or react to their understanding of computation, natural systems, or immersive finesse.

OCAD University graduate Yechel Gagnon was recognized at the end of March as Creator of the Year in Montérégie, QC, a $5000 prize given by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ). The 17th edition of the award gathered more than 80 people from the Monteregian artistic community, along with partners and friends of the culture.

CALQ awards the prize to those whose achievements are distinguished by their quality and outreach. Members of the jury highlighted “the high quality of Yechel Gagnon's work and, more particularly, her fascinating work on texture and materials. This amazing artist, with a rich and original practice, enjoys an important influence, locally and abroad.” 

The artist also recently installed a large-scale public art piece at the Sorel-Tracy waterport, in Quebec, and was very honoured with the prize. 

Born in Longueuil, Quebec, she holds an AOCAD with Honours in Drawing and Painting.

Click here to learn more about Yechel Gagnon and her work.

The 15th Annual C Magazine Contemporary Art Auction includes more than 50 artworks generously donated by artists whose work reflects C Magazine’s mandate to advance our understanding of important ideas and practices in contemporary art. Funds raised at the auction will sustain a vital international forum for important conversations on art, led by talented Canadian writers and artists.  On Tuesday, April 23rd come support C Magazine at our annual fundraising auction of Canadian and international contemporary art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, with the support of our Artist’s Sponsor the Kavelman-Fonn Foundation, Auctioneer services provided by Perry Tung courtesy of Bonhams Canada, art framing by Superframe and DJ Luis Jacob. Complimentary catering, host bar and a subscription to C Magazine are also included. With work by Barry Ace, Lorna Bauer, Irene Bindi, Shannon Bool, Amanda Boulos, Mike Bourscheid, Sandra Brewster, Jennifer Carvalho, Patrick Cruz, Sarah Davidson, Erika DeFreitas, Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau, Myriam Dion, Emily Vey Duke &, Cooper Battersby, André Ethier, Liza Eurich, FASTWÜRMS, Mark Ferkul, Laura Findlay, Kaley Flowers, Nika Fontaine, Ben Freedman, Nadia Gohar, Mike Goldby, Angela Grauerholz, Destiny Grimm, Jessica Groome, Randy Grskovic, Iris Häussler, Colleen Heslin, Qendrim Hoti, Jeremy Jansen, Daniel Langevin, Ness Lee, Ginette Legaré, Micah Lexier, An Te Liu, Annie MacDonell, Niall McClelland, Abby McGuane, John Monteith, Kim Neudorf, Public Studio, Shakeel Rehemtulla, Jasmine Reimer, Brian Rideout, Jon Sasaki, Callum Schuster, Lou Sheppard, Sean Ross Stewart, Beth Stuart, Joani Tremblay, Renée Van Halm, Jim Verburg, Joy Walker and Kendra Yee. Funds raised at the C Magazine Auction directly support the publication of C Magazine and the presentation of related educational programming. C Magazine commisions art writing and projects from more than 100 contributors each year, presenting the work of hundreds of artists, curators and art professionals.

Please join the Faculty of Art for the premiere screening of In the Shadow of a Volcano, a short documentary film by Taymah Armatrading and Kasra Goodarznezhad chronicling the Global Experience Project (GEP) 2018 in Toronto and Naples, Italy.  

Premiere Screening:  In the Shadow of a Volcano

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

5:00pm doors - 5:30pm screening

OCAD University, room 258 (George Reid House), 100 McCaul St. Toronto

GEP 2018 artist-in-residence Maria Thereza Alves and the filmmakers will be in attendance. Light refreshments will be served.

About the Filmmakers:

Taymah Armatrading  Taymah is a Caribbean-Canadian artist currently completing their BFA in the Integrated Media program at OCAD University. Taymah’s work is dedicated to ideas of decolonization and analysis of contemporary intersections of race, sexuality and gender. Their work explores issues of representation, with a focus on reclaiming colonial spaces and reinstating power to silenced marginalized bodies, through media such as film, sculpture and installation.

Kasra Goodarznezhad  Kasra is a new media artist currently based in Toronto. He was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. After studying for his Bachelor of Design in Graphic Design at Azad University of Tehran, he decided to continue his studies abroad and is now majoring in Integrated Media at OCAD University. His recent practices are primarily focused on installation and video art.

Calling all animators! Join us for a presentation by Mariam Zaidi, Managing Director of Toronto Animated Image Society to learn more about their residency programs, membership and Anijam call for submissions. The Toronto Animated Image Society - TAIS’s Anijam call features 10-second-long animated films submitted under a theme, which are compiled and screened at the TAIS Annual Animation Showcase. The Showcase Jury’s pick for Best Anijam will be awarded a cash prize and in-kind studio use toward production of a short-animated project for presentation at TAIS Showcase in 2020. The 2019 Anijam is High Tension. Artists are invited to submit 10-second-long mash-up masterpieces, creative never-before-seen combos, or unique universes populated by well-known characters. Deadline: June, 23, 2019 (midnight) More information: http://tais.ca/programs/2019-anijam/ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT TORONTO ANIMATED IMAGE SOCIETY (TAIS) As a non-profit, charitable, artist-run production centre, TAIS is dedicated to exploring and promoting the art of independent animation through production, screenings, workshops, and exhibitions. Founded in 1984, today TAIS’ artistic vision is shaped by support for the ever-broadening multidisciplinary and global context of the animated arts. Annually, TAIS programming seeks to prioritize diverse, intersectional, and progressive artistic and community-based interests that maintain support for the traditions of the discipline while also reflecting an evolving, expanded definition of animation. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

ABOUT THE OCAD U CENTRE FOR EMERGING ARTISTS & DESIGNERS (CEAD) Established in 2013, the Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) sits alongside the other student-focused departments in the portfolio of the Vice-Provost, Students & International at OCAD U. The CEAD is committed to supporting the early-career advancement of all students and recent alumni at OCAD U. Our team delivers specialized programs and services that connect individuals to meaningful opportunities, communities of practitioners, skill-building resources and facilitated learning experiences. The work of the CEAD is delivered across our Career Development and Experiential Learning Program portfolios. We are located on level 3 of OCAD University’s newly renovated Rosalie Sharp Pavilion for Experiential Learning at 115 McCaul Street.