Grieving Empire. Curated by Rachel Gorman.
Grieving Empire features six artists – Khadija Baker, Livia Daza-Paris, Michael Greyeyes, John Halaka, Siamak Haseli, Gita Hashemi – whose works reveal the violence of the settler colonial state, its imperialist adventures, and its proxy wars. The artists anchor their work in their bodies, on the land, and in unfolding transit and return. The works in this show reject aesthetics of postcolonial catharsis, in which we are asked to pity, and then purge our knowledge of imperialism's victims. Rather, these works animate aesthetics of revolutionary grieving, which demand that we "apprehend the policies creating unlivable, ungrievable conditions." (Byrd, 2011, 38). The works include animation for a child injured in the Syrian war created from the artist's cut hair (Khadija Baker); dance and ritual on the land where the artist's father was executed in 1960s Venezuela by state agents trained at the US School of the Americas (Livia Daza-Paris); site-specific dance moving through the past and present terror of Canadian residential schools (Michael Greyeyes); testimony of a Palestinian woman recounting the 1982 disappearance of her sons during the time of the Sabra and Shatila massacre (John Halaka); a child's nightmare of the Iraq war (Siamak Haseli); and postcards inscribing past and present exile sent from the artist's journey along the Balkan refugee trail (Gita Hashemi).

The AGO is open all of Easter weekend – Fri 14 Apr, 10:30am-4pm; Sat & Sun, 15 & 16 Apr, 10:30am-5:30pm; and Mon 17 Apr, 10:30am-4pm.

Manasie Akpaliapik.

European Sculpture from the Collection of Murray Frum (1931-2013).

In/visible Bodies: Baroque Sculpture and Modern Painting.

Idea Lab: Research at the AGO Investigating the Works of Benjamin Cheverton.

SuperReal: Pop Art from the AGO Collection.
SuperReal, curated by Kenneth Brummel, the AGO's Assistant Curator of Modern Art, features eight paintings and sculptures by leading Pop artists including Andy Warhol, George Segal, Jim Dine, Robert Rauschenberg and James Rosenquist. A highlight of the exhibition, displayed in the Edmond G. Odette Gallery, is the return of Claes Oldenburg's famous "Floor Burger" (1962). This is the first showing of the Oldenburg work at the AGO since its extensive restoration work in 2013 by the AGO's conservation team. A selection of rarely seen works on paper by Pop artists is also exhibited in rotation in the adjoining Robert and Cheryl McEwen Gallery. http://bit.ly/1RawZgo.

AGO Tours –
Artful Conversation – 2nd Friday of the month at 1:30pm. Meet in Walker Court. Sep 9: "Av Isaacs" – Val Fairclough. Oct 14: "Orange is the New Black" – Anne Fleming. Nov 11: "Conflict and Resolution" – Dolores Steinman. Dec 9: "Winter Wonderland" – Dolores Steinman. Jan 13: "Indigenous Art" – Pat Ward. Feb 10: "Heartfelt Art" – Debbie Kennedy. Mar 10: "Indigenous Art" – Pat Ward. Apr 14: "Good Friday" – Mary Henderson. May 12: "The Story in the Portrait" – Tina Urman. Jun 9: "That Amazing Century" – Fran Bleviss. Jul 14: "The Impressionist Revolution" – Linda Spiegel.
AGO Highlights Tours – 45-60-minute tour explores the highlights of the AGO collection and architecture; daily on the hour: 11am, 12noon, 1pm, 3pm, and Wednesdays & Fridays: 7pm. Begins in Walker Court.
On the Dot Talks – 10-minute art chats! daily on the half-hour: 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm, and Wednesdays & Fridays: 7:30pm. Look for "On the Dot" signs on the Gallery floors.
Themed Tours – Join a Gallery Guide for a themed exploration of the AGO collection. Daily at 2pm. Meet in Walker Court.

Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989.
Curated by Wanda Nanibush, AGO's Assistant Curator, Canadian and Indigenous Art.
Exploring the experimental energy of an era, Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989 brings together more than 100 works by 65 artists and collectives to highlight an innovative period in Toronto art history. Amidst the social and political upheavals of their time, the generation of artists that emerged in Toronto during the 1970s and 1980s pushed the boundaries of conventional painting, sculpture and photography, exploring new ways of art making, including video, installation and performance.
Intended as an evolving display, many of the works in the exhibition were rotated in January 2017.

AGO FREE Wednesday Nights. A longstanding tradition at the AGO – FREE admission to our collection galleries every Wednesday 6-9pm. To avoid queues, arrive after 6pm and refrain from bringing backpacks.

AGO First Thursdays.
19+ (ID required). Cash bar.
First Thursdays admission: advance tickets $13 non-members / $11 AGO members; at the door $16 non-members / $14 AGO members.
Advance ticket purchase is strongly recommended.
Oct 6: We Do Us. October's First Thursday celebrates the opening of the landmark exhibition Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989, that features a dynamic collection of artists and collectives responsible for the development of our city's wide-ranging art scene. We have invited the next generation of makers to reflect on their stories – Kardinal Offishall headlines with a DJ set at 10pm; Dainesha Nugent-Palache, Krafty Queers, and AGO's artist-in-residence Walter Scott present work. In addition, don't miss pop-up talks by AGO Assistant Curator, Canadian and Indigenous Art, Wanda Nanibush and others, and a special selection of Out of the Vaults. *SOLD OUT.
Nov 3: Be Magik. November's First Thursday celebrates the opening of the blockbuster exhibition Mystical Landscapes: Masterpieces from Monet, Van Gogh and more, with a roster of local artists working in performance that bring their own magik to the night. Exploring alternative terrains are Edwin Huizinga and Jennifer Nichols, No Object collective, and don't miss an opportunity for a reading by various artists on topics of self. Music headliner is Witch Prophet and 88 Days of Fortune collective.
Dec 1: What Now. December's First Thursday looks back at the year that was. Has it been the worst year of our lives? How to move forward? How to find hope? How to heal? Bringing together Zebra Katz and a group of local artists, including Lisa Smolkin, ReBaie by Rebée, and Yuula Benivolski, we'll think and feel our way toward new realities and new beginnnings. First Thursdays partners with Canadian Art for a series of talks. Speakers inlude Kai Cheng Thom, Erdem Tasdelen, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Merray Gerges. On display: a special collection of artwork in our pop-up Out of the Vaults installation. Spinning: DJ New Chance.
Feb 2: Shapeshifters. The February First Thursday launches the year by bringing together artists who envision spaces of potential, transformation and audacity. Our headliner is the Toronto-based singer-songwriter, artist and force Lido Pimienta. Additional sounds will be provided by DJ DurtyDabz and DJ Ace Dillinger. The night will also feature artist projects by dancer-choreographer Ellen Furey, and music producer and performer SlowPitchSound with collaborator Libydo. On display: a special collection of artwork in our pop-up Out of the Vaults installation.
Mar 2: Still Nasty. The future is feminist. This March, the AGO partners with OCAD University to present a special edition of First Thursdays, guest curated by OCADU's graduate class in Criticism and Curatorial Practice. The night's program aims to explore, through a feminist lens, a future that imagines possibilities for diversity of representation and experiences – a future that is more open, more free, more feminist, and non-deterministic. Headlining with a live performance is the celebrated queer Black feminist artist – and Toronto legend – d'bi.young anitafrika with her band The 333. The program features installations and performances by Toronto-based artist Hazel Meyer, interdisciplinary artist Mariam Magsi, and Iranian-born emerging photographer and installation artist Zahra Saleki. In addition, interactive projects by Golboo Amani and Coco Guzman, and pop-up talks by artist Aylan Couchie, and curators / writers Genevieve Flavelle and Robin McDonald, and a special collection of artwork in our pop-up Out of the Vaults installation. Additional sounds will be provided by DJs CL and Mary Mack.
Apr 6: Mobilize. In our world where foundations are shifting, we mark the start of spring with movement, mobilizing ourselves toward an unseen goal. Our headliner is the Toronto-based DJ Yung Bambii. Fresh off a tour with with Mykki Blanco, Bambii is supported by members of Yes Yes Y'All collective, who are taking over Walker Court and Galleria Italia. The night features dancer-choreographer Zoja Smutny's Rosé Porn, and a project by Toronto artist Erika DeFreitas. In addition: hands-on collective art projects, pop-up talks including Hooded Fang's April Aliermo, a special collection of artwork in our Out of the Vaults installation, an artist-designed program edition, and delicious food and drinks.
May 4: Gender Trouble. Toronto's biggest art party celebrates the legacy and influence of Georgia O'Keeffe. Headlining is Toronto's beloved and fierce Maylee Todd, who brings her multimedia Virtual Womb project to life in Walker Court. The night will also feature artist projects by Catherine MacTavish and Madelyne Beckles. Author Julie Cameron Gray and illustrator Kendra Yee will present hands-on interactive projects. There will also be a series of pop-up talks, including a representative from the Canadian Synesthesia Association, our monthly Out of the Vaults installation, DJs, drinks and dancing.
Jun 1: Pride Month Launch Party. Pride Toronto 2017 celebrates its official launch at the AGO with a visionary program created by Syrus Marcus Ware and Kyisha Williams on behalf of Blackness Yes, who have programmed the legendary Blockorama stage for nearly 20 years.The night brings together DJs Durty Dabz and Craig Dominic, artist projects by Melisse Watson, Rodney Diverlus and Ella Cooper, a special installation of artist-designed banners created for the Blockorama stage, pop-up talks by artists, activists and curators including Barak adé Soleil, hands-on interactive art-making. Headlining set at 10pm in Walker Court: Jungelpussy.
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Francis Alÿs: A Story of Negotiation.
Curated by Mexican curator and historian Cuauhtémoc Medina, and coordinated at the AGO by Kitty Scott, Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art.
Creating art that is equal parts poetic, political, beautiful and absurd, Francis Alÿs (Belgian, born 1959) engages directly with urgent social issues, from the war in Afghanistan to border politics around the world. Organized in conjunction with the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City and making its only Canadian stop in Toronto, A Story of Negotiation surveys some of Alÿs's most significant projects of the last two decades.

Anthony Caro: Sculpture Laid Bare.
Curated by Kenneth Brummel, AGO's Assistant Curator, Modern Art.
Sir Anthony Caro (British, 1924-2013) revolutionized the medium of sculpture in the 1960s when he moved away from making elaborately modelled, figurative works cast in bronze, instead creating large, abstract assemblages out of prefabricated steel and aluminum elements that he installed directly on the ground. Anthony Caro: Sculpture Laid Bare honours the legacy of this titan of modernist sculpture with four of his late works.

The Artful City: Mapping Toronto's Public Art Landscape 1967-2015. In Community Gallery.

The Art Gallery of Ontario is open Victoria Day 10:30am-4pm.

The state-of-the-art Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre is dedicated to the study of prints, drawings and photographs, and houses a collection of over 70,000 works which date from the 13th century to the present day. Find out more about the AGO's Prints and Drawings Collection – www.ago.net/prints-drawings.

The Study Centre offers a variety of opportunities for visitors:
Prints and Drawings: Open Door Wednesdays 1-4:30pm. One day a week, enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at our world-class Print Room. A selection of original works from our vault will be on view, and you can view works on request! FREE with admission; no appointments necessary.

Prints and Drawings: Visits by Appointment – Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. For classes and individuals interested in studying the collection in depth. Please contact us one month in advance: Alexa_Greist@ago.net or 416 979 6660 x535.

Prints and Drawings: Friday Morning FREE Talks. On the 2nd Fridays of every month 11am (arrive at 10:30am to view the works on display!), one of P&D's knowledgeable volunteers will give a talk that explores an area of the collection. FREE with admission. RSVP not required. Capacity limited to 50 people in order of arrival. Jul 14: "Epic Visions: The Prints of David Blackwood" – Phyllis Couzin. Sep 15: "Summer of Love: 1960s Rock Posters" – Mary Kirby.

Close Encounters Talk Series 2017-18 – TBA. http://bit.ly/2rwJLQF.

The AGO Art Rental & Sales offers the best in Canadian contemporary art on display in one place! Choose from a curated selection of the best artwork from over 40 of Toronto's top galleries and more than 50 independent artists.
Our expert staff and volunteers will guide you with a FREE consultation to ensure the artwork that you select suits your space and your style.
To book an appointment with AGO Art Rental & Sales, please contact us at 416 979 6660 x346 or art_rental@ago.net.

Currently on view at FRANK social space, through AGO Art Rental + Sales and courtesy of Art Works Consulting: Sarah Letovsky – a series of paintings, a continuation from her first solo exhibition, GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS. Sarah Letovsky focuses on the expressive nature of paint to explore ideas of subjectivity, tension, and hidden thought and feeling. Letovsky uses the painting process to create a force of opposites; her brushstrokes are at once gestural and deliberate, spontaneous and confined, bringing the figure forward with an empathetic gaze and pushing it back into abstraction with explosive colour, flat space, and restrained texture.

at Jackman Humanities Institute, 170 St. George Street, 10th Floor, University of Toronto. FREE. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm: All This Time.
Curated by Jaclyn Quaresma.
Organized for the Jackman Humanities Institute's 2016-17 research theme, Time, Rhythm and Pace, the exhibition All This Time brings together geologic samples and texts alongside artworks in diverse media by Carl Beam, Eric Cameron, Kelly Jazvac, Faith La Rocque, Micah Lexier, Ken Nicol, Tamiko Thiel, to consider multiple ways of thinking about and representing time. [...]. Including Canadian and international artists of diverse generations and cultural backgrounds, the exhibition tends to the marks and measures that pace the human experience of time, from the brevity of a minute to the passage of a day, from the duration of centuries to millennia, and from the languid rhythm of geologic, deep time to a possible future. It asks "How do we account for time?"

Kent Monkman: Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience. A project by Kent Monkman. At UTAC.

Edge: Youth Art Show. Arts Etobicoke celebrates 20 years of student achievement in the visual arts with arts education, featuring paintings, drawings, photographs and fibre works from youth representing close to 20 different schools and social agencies across Toronto.

Specialized in Inuit sculptures from Cape Dorset & Iqaluit, we always have over 500 to choose from – the largest selection of Inuit sculptures under $500. in downtown Toronto – great for corporate gifts! Contemporary and older pieces; young and famous artists; something for every budget. In addition, we carry West Coast art; original paintings by renowned Native artist Jane Ash Poitras; & original sketches by celebrated Canadian painter Clarence Alphonse Gagnon. Our Gallery also includes works by Nuna Parr, Davie Atchealak, Axangayu Shaa, Judas Ullulaq, and more. We ship worldwide. Over 30 years experience.

Featuring one of the largest collections of Canadian First Nations art in Toronto.
The Gallery showcases a must-see collection of original paintings, prints, hand carved masks, totem poles, and sculptures.
Artists: Daphne Odjig, Norval Morrisseau, Carl Ray, Alex Janvier, Haida artists from the Pacific West Coast.
Contemporary and historical Canadian art: Ted Harrison and more.
For over 22 years, Bay of Spirits Gallery has been adding value to our clients' expansive art collections. Explore and celebrate the history, creativity, and diversity of the First Peoples of Canada.

The Beauchamp Family welcomes you to their art gallery in the heart of downtown Toronto's King Street East Design District.
Our large gallery has an airy feel and showcases a constantly evolving collection of original artworks in a wide range of styles: from classic to contemporary, and to stimulate all art lovers: from first-time buyers, to discriminating collectors.

27.5: Gallery Artists Group Show.
Featured artists include: Cathy Daley, Martin Golland, Toni Hafkenscheid, Micah Lexier, James Nizan, Louise Noguchi, Andy Patton, Ed Pien, Nicholas and Sheila Pye, Kelly Richardson, Mitch Robertson, Richard Storms, Renée Van Halm, Janet Werner.

Mind the Gap: Birch Contemporary Artists+. At First Canadian Place Gallery, 100 King Street West, Toronto. Featured artists include Cathy Daley, Martin Golland, Luis Jacob, Micah Lexier, Howard Lonn, Louise Noguchi, Ed Pien, Jaan Poldaas, Kelly Richardson, Mitch Robertson, Sean Stewart, Richard Storms, Renée Van Halm, Janet Werner. Viewing hours are 11am-6pm when Gallery is not in use for private rentals. For viewing by appointment Mon-Fri, please contact FCP Arts & Events at 416 862 6858.

The Brain Project is back!
100 new brains – 100 new artists – still one great cause.
In its inaugural year 2016, The Brain Project raised $13 million for Baycrest Health Sciences, a world leader in brain health and aging. We are thrilled to return this summer to some of downtown Toronto's most-visited locations, including the Distillery District, Union Station, Nathan Phillips Square at City Hall, and more. This year's roster of talent includes both emerging and well-established artists – stay tuned for our official artist announcement! The sculptures will be sold to sponsoring organizations or collectors.

The Sculptors Society of Canada presents... New Members. Join us in welcoming: Art DiLella (Toronto ON), Paul Duval (Saint-Georges QC), Marie-Josée Roy (Trois-Rivières QC), Jonathan Edwin Simpson (St. Catharines ON).

Marilena Isacescu Carlea is a participating artist in Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 2017, Ontario Society of Artists' Booths 37 & 38 in South Mews, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto. www.torontooutdoorart.org.

Ron Martin // Lost Works.

To open our new group exhibition, David + Goliath, Corkin Gallery hosts a roundtable discussion with David Urban, visual artist; Kenneth Brummel, Assistant Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario; and Jane Corkin. Seating is limited; RSVP: info@corkingallery.com or 416 979 1980.
David + Goliath. Group exhibition includes Brassaï, Constantin Brancusi, Thaddeus Holownia, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Frank Mädler, Carol Marino, Sondra Meszaros, Barbara Morgan, Irving Penn, Max Regenberg, Gina Rorai, Giancarlo Scaglia, Ramón Serrano, Françoise Sullivan, David Urban.

Now also showing works of George Brown College student artists; in association with George Brown College School of Continuing Education.

Works by Paul Lipman Andre, Sir Frederick Grant Banting, John William Beatty, Ginette Beaulieu, Christian Bergeron, Cynthia Blair, Daniel Bombardier, Patricia Bourque, Serge Brunoni, Ralph Wallace Burton, Hélène Caron, A. J. Casson, Marie Claire, Bruno Côté, Toller Cranston, Maurice Cullen, Jean-Guy Desrosiers, Lloyd Fitzgerald, Clarence A. Gagnon, Vladimir E. Gebauer, Rogue Goat, Bradley Goff, Frederick Stanley Haines, Lawren Harris, Peter Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, John Joy, John Kasyn, Michael Khoury, P. Kinger, Jason Kronenwald, Gilles Labranche, Claude Langevin, Clément Lemieux, Yvon Lemieux, Arthur Lismer, Frederick Loveroff, Helen Lucas, J. E. H. MacDonald, Henri Masson, Mario Mauro, David Mazal, Natasha Miller, David Milne, Joanne Mitchell, William E. Morris, Norval Morrisseau, Rita Mount, Jean E. Nerfin, Lawrence Nickle, Joseph Norris, Jean Ouisius, Lawrence A. C. Panton, Sophie Paquet, Pauline Paquin, Randolph T. Parker, Gilles Pelletier, Gordon E. Pfeiffer, Robert Wakeham Pilot, Goodridge Roberts, Thomas Keith Roberts, Paul Rodrick, William Ronald, Yuri Rudney, Daniel St-Amant, Allen Sapp, Peter C. Sheppard, Henry Simpkins, Ron Simpkins, Eldon Spence, Victor Stampatori, Tom Stone, Armand Tatossian, Frederick Bourchier Taylor, David Thauberger, D. Thompson, André Turenne, Homer Ransford Watson, A. B. White, Alicia Wishart, K. Woodman, David Wright...

Leopold Plotek: No Work, Nor Device, Nor Knowledge, Nor Wisdom.
Guest curator: E. C. Woodley.

Conceived as Leopold Plotek's first survey, this exhibition spans five decades, including the debut of his most recent paintings alongside pivotal earlier canvases that establish the artist's formal investigations and his intellectual rapport with Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and Adrian Stokes.

Born in 1948 in Moscow to Jewish parents, Plotek later moved to Warsaw with his father who became an economic attaché to the Polish Embassy in Moscow during the late Stalinist period. Living and working in Montreal since 1960, he has created a substantial body of work that has been extensively exhibited and collected, carving an essential place in Quebec's artistic history. Initially a protégé of prominent Plasticien artist Yves Gaucher, Plotek became a teacher and major influence himself, forming a new generation of artists who are at the forefront of Canadian painting today, including Allison Katz, Etienne Zack, Martin Golland and Ben Klein.

While staging a picture of Plotek's evolving subject matter and existential world-view, this exhibition foregrounds his drive to forge a studio production of unique works. The discordance of form and genre that Plotek favours and explores invests his oeuvre with a depth and complexity that defies both modernist traditions and contemporary art market pressures.

Plotek's radical, immersive works mine the territories of memory and experience, the subconscious and the intellect, the abstract and the figurative. Positioning pictorial space as a vehicle for both narrative content and emotional exploration, Plotek re-imagines architecture and objects, artists, philosophers and gods, displacing the cultural pantheon onto precarious grounds and offering poignant commentary on the current state of Western civilization, its enduring folly and persistently dark psyche.

SPACE: Deborah Edmeades.

FEMINISTRY IS HERE. Buzz, Jazmine V. K. Carr, Victoria Cheong, Marcelline Mandeng, Lido Pimienta, Zoe Solomon, in collaboration with Cameron Lee, and including a text by Laurie Kang. The opening includes a special performance by Marcelline at 8pm.

The Power Plant's Winter 2017 season launches a year of unique programming that reflects both Canada's 150th and The Power Plant's 30th anniversary year. Consider who and what existed on the land before Canada's confederation in 1867 through the lens of artists Jonathas de Andrade, Latifa Echakhch, Maria Hupfield and Kapwani Kiwanga as each considers how their nation's history of migration, slavery and colonization has impacted its present multicultural population.

STROLLER TOURS. FREE. Parents, guardians and caregivers join us for insightful toddler-friendly tours of our current exhibitions.

For the second iteration of the Fleck Clerestory Commission Program, Latifa Echakhch confronts visitors with a sky that is literally falling, a state of a ruin that underscores the uncertainty of the present.

The Power Plant stays open late on Thursdays, until 8pm. Exhibitions on view: Maria Hupfield: The One Who Keeps on Giving | Jonathas de Andrade: On Fishes, Horses and Man | Kapwani Kiwanga: A wall is just a wall | Latifa Echakhch: Cross Fade.

Art Lucs | Time, Light and Memory | South Gallery.
Exhibition of work from Propeller member Art Lucs. "This most recent series has a common theme of Generative Art. This work is photo-based from hundreds to thousands of photographs taken daily from the same location or moving through space that are algorithmically processed to create an average. Like much of my work it deals with objective decision-making processes."

Jacob Yerex | Forming Influence | North Gallery.
Paintings that explore the semi formed or deformed maquettes of the French sculptor Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, referenced from photos of a display of maquettes at Musée d'Orsay. The figures have been enlarged emphasizing the malformed shapes and transforming the interiors of the display cabinets into architectural interiors. The serigraphs are an exploration of the medium itself working with silk screening as a monoprint medium. Investigating traditional graphic applications as well as experimental textures leading to non-objective colour studies.

clean-cut evil one obscures. New bio-art installations by Nicole Clouston together with photo-based work by Bruce Eves and a one-time performance piece by Lily Eng. Startling and eerily of-the-moment, "Clean-Cut Evil One Obscures" is an anagram of the names of the two artists Nicole Clouston and Bruce Eves.

Jane Ash Poitras: New Acquisitions of Contemporary First Nations Art.
Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples, Level 1.

Art, Honour, and Ridicule: Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana. Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles and Costumes.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Level 4, Roloff Beny Gallery.

Isaac Julien: Other Destinies. Level 3, Centre Block.

Attica, USA 1971: Images and Sounds of a Rebellion.
Main Gallery.
Curated by Philippe Artières with Le Point du Jour (Cherbourg, France).
Including extraordinary photo-reportage alongside a range of popular art, this exhibition recounts the notorious 1971 insurrection at Attica Correctional Facility in western New York State, and the multivalent cultural response that followed.

Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey / Black Star.
University Gallery.
Curator: Gaëlle Morel.
This two-part exhibition presents twelve photographic portraits by American artist Dawoud Bey commemorating the victims of the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Alongside this artistic act of remembrance, a selection of prints from the Ryerson Image Centre's Black Star Collection of photojournalism provides historical context for the notorious bombing, recounting the political and social turmoil that placed this U.S. city, and the burgeoning American Civil Rights Movement, in the international media spotlight during the months leading up to the explosion.

Adam Pendleton: My Education: A Portrait of David Hilliard.
Salah J. Bachir New Meda Wall.
Guest curator: Andréa Picard.
Revisiting a 1968 gun battle between California police and America's Black Panther Party, Adam Pendleton's video draws on eyewitness accounts to raise questions about an event that continues to reverberate deeply today.

From the Collection: Sister(s) in the Struggle: Angela Davis and Kathleen Cleaver.
Great Hall. Guest curator: Julie Crooks.
This edition of From the Collection features photographs culled from the RIC's Black Star Collection of photojournalism, showing Angela Davis and Kathleen Cleaver, leading female figures on the Black Panther Party.

Scotiabank Photography Award: Suzy Lake.
Main Gallery.
Curator: Gaëlle Morel.
This exhibition celebrates the career of Canadian artist Suzy Lake, 2016 Scotiabank Photography Award winner, renowned internationally for her work on self-representation, female identity and the aging body. This survey of more than fifty objects, made between 1976 to 2014, brings focus to Lake's artistic process and methodologies. Including never-before-seen photographs, maquettes and working materials, the exhibition examines this important artist's career of experimentation and unwavering efforts through the years to push the boundaries of the photographic medium. Presented by Scotiabank, organized by the Ryerson Image Centre and a primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

Max Dean: As Yet Untitled.
Curator: Gaëlle Morel.
Max Dean's As Yet Untitled (1992-1995) explores issues surrounding the viewer's responsibility for culture and memory, through an interactive experience where gallery visitors can instruct a factory automaton to save endangered family photographs. Composed of an industrial arm, conveyer belt, paper shredder, and two silhouetted hands, Dean's mechanized robot is programmed to pick up a 4" x 6" photograph from a hopper and present it to the viewer as a final step before it is discarded – allowing the audience to decide which images will survive, and which will be lost to history. A primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

Souvenir: Kent Monkman, Caroline Monnet, Jeff Barnaby, Michelle Latimer.
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall.
Souvenir presents four short films addressing Indigenous identity and representation through reworked material from the National Film Board's archives. Using montage, intercutting and juxtaposition, First Nations and Métis artists Kent Monkman, Caroline Monnet, Jeff Barnaby, and Michelle Latimer explore and deconstruct cinematic stereotypes and interrogate history. These short collage films, each derived from a distinct artistic vision, explore Canada's complicated past – recasting documentation into critical inquiry and shining a harsh light on official inhumanity, appropriated iconography, and the politics of representation. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada and a primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

Alexa Phillips: Cyborg Clones. Student Gallery.

Spotlight Canada: Faces That Shaped a Nation. North and west façades of Ryerson Image Centre.
On the occasion of Canada's Sesquicentennial, the RIC honours the country's culture with this photographic mural highlighting key figures who helped establish our national identity through their endeavours and resilience. These 14 portraits, arrayed across the RIC's west and north façades, mark the arrival of a new promised gift to Ryerson University – nearly 25,000 photographs of Canadian personalities and events from the 20th century, preserved in The New York Times Photo Archive. Acquired by real estate entrepreneur Chris Bratty and donated as an act of cultural repatriation, the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection further establishes the RIC as an important destination for the study of press photography.
This historical panorama (including images of Margaret Atwood, John Candy, Leonard Cohen, Viola Desmond, Chief Dan George, Wayne Gretzky, Yousuf Karsh, k. d. lang, Marshall McLuhan, Oscar Peterson, Mary Pickford, Buffy Sainte-Marie, David Suzuki, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau) symbolizes the diverse generations who have exemplified Canadian achievement. When the RIC first opened in September 2012, the building's façade depicted important North American and European cultural icons. These portraits were drawn from the Black Star Collection of photojournalism, which, despite its rich representation of 20th-century history, includes few images of Canada. The recent arrival of these Canadian photographs from The New York Times Photo Archive provides an ideal opportunity to exchange the first mural for a new one – a glass vista that celebrates the primacy and eminence of our nation's own history and culture. Curated by the Ryerson Image Centre, designed by Kelsey Blackwell and presented in partnership with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and Ryerson University.

Shelley Niro: Battlefields of My Ancestors.
Curator: Bonnie Rubinstein.
Flower bed alongside Egerton Ryerson statue, Gould Street at Bond Street.
In her ongoing photographic series, Shelley Niro (Mohawk, Turtle Clan) documents the historic battlefields that hold significance for her people. Following the migration route of the Six Nations from upstate New York to southern Ontario – which began during the American Revolutionary War – she captures signs, memorials and landscapes. Situated alongside pre-existing plaques that describe Ryerson University's origins, her images offer a complex perspective on "official" histories. A two-venue installation presented in partnership with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and Fort York National Historic Site.

Lori Blondeau: Asiniy Iskwew.
Curator: Bonnie Rubenstein.
Lake Devo, Gould Street and Victoria Street.
In these large-scale self-portraits, Saskatoon-based Cree / Saulteaux / Métis artist Lori Blondeau poses statuesquely on the sites of significant Plains Indigenous rock formations. Adhered to the ancient stones in Devonian Square – imported from the Canadian Shield – the installation is a powerful reminder of Toronto's pre-colonial history and the continuing importance of ancestral gathering places created for sacred ceremonies and for recording histories. Presented in partnership with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

Ryerson Image Centre is open late every Wednesday, until 8pm, and admission is always FREE!

Geoffrey James: Canadian Photographs.
For the past six years Geoffrey James, one of Canada's pre-eminent photographers, has travelled the country confronting the many realities of Canadian life. Canada is glimpsed from a train window, seen at a demolition derby, or a high-school prom. The photographs bear witness to Canada's past as a dominion while also looking at the sometimes provisional way the future is being built. James's colour photographs display an uncanny wit that isolates innocent moments and seemingly banal locations, and speak volumes about our nation's precarious identity.

FREE Saturday screenings 3pm at CAMERA, Toronto's premiere lounge, screening room and gallery venue, located within Stephen Bulger Gallery.
May 13: The Eighth Day / Le huitième jour, Dir. Charles Gagnon (Canada: 1967), 14min; and R69 [Unfinished / Inachevé], Charles Gagnon (Canada: 1969), 53min.
May 20: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dir. Stanley Kubrick (USA: 1968), 139min.
May 27: Soylent Green, Dir. Richard Fleischer (USA: 1973), 97min.
Jun 3: No, Dir. Robert Lepage (Canada: 1968), 85min.
Jun 10: After Life, Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan: 1999), 118min.
Jun 17: Pierre Mercure 1927-1966, Dir. Charles Gagnon (Canada: 1970), 33min; and The Sound of Space / Le son d'un espace, Dir. Charles Gagnon (Canada: 1967-68), 27min.
Please note: Film schedule may be subject to change. Please contact the gallery at 416 504 0575 to confirm. www.bulgergallery.blogspot.com. www.camerabar.ca.

Please note: Stephen Bulger Gallery is moving! On Sep 9, 2017 we open the doors of 1356 Dundas Street West to welcome visitors in a purposefully designed space of over 11,000 square feet. Designed by architect Michael Boxer, the new space dramatically increases our exhibition space. Our first exhibition at our new location will highlight Larry Towell's photographs of the Union Station construction project.

Exhibition – Unpredictable Patterns. Artists Nahúm Flores, Erik Jerezano and Ilyana Martínez formed Z'otz* Collective in 2004 meeting weekly to collaborate on works that incorporate drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and site-specific installations. As individual artists and as members of Z'otz* their work tackles themes of migration, displacement, transition and transformation. Their anthropological aesthetic language combines mythology with a collective imaginary helping grasp the multi-layered unpredictable complexities of contemporary life.

Brendan Fernandes: Lost Bodies.
Lost Bodies brings a world-renowned Canadian artist's work into dialogue with two of the country's most distinctive collections of African art: the Justin and Elisabeth Lang Collection of African Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario and the collection of the Textile Museum of Canada. Brendan Fernandes offers multiple points of connection that draw upon traditional African textiles, costume and masks, gestures of Western ballet, and elegant, poetic dance choreographies within the museum vault, filmed in the archive of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
With this fresh approach to re-presenting African artifacts in formal museum displays, Fernandes reconsiders museum conventions in a set of new video, print and sculptural interventions. The artist's montage of Western classical dance and the collected object is concentrated around precise body language that raises questions about visual and discursive practices that shape understandings of African art within public collections.
On Fri 11 Nov, 7:30pm, in conjunction with the opening reception and catalogue launch, Brendan Fernandes will present a special performance of In Touch, danced by Lua Shayenne within the spaces of the exhibition.
This project is made possible by the Justin and Elisabeth Lang Foundation Fund and George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, Queen's University. The exhibition is curated by Sunny Kerr, and has been developed in partnership with the Textile Museum of Canada.

Kind Words Can Never Die: A Personal Collection of Victorian Needlework. Curated by Anna Richard. Kind Words Can Never Die presents the extraordinary collection built by Jane Webster (1919-2009) of Victorian needlework mottos stitched by anonymous women and girls in the mid- to late-19th century.

Katherine Knight: Portraits and Collections.
Curated by Sarah Quinton.
Portraits and Collections is the culmination of an ongoing project by Toronto artist Katherine Knight. Her multi-dimensional documentation of Jane Webster's highly personal textile collection (see companion exhibition: Kind Words Can Never Die: Personal Collection of Victorian Needlework) and its rural Nova Scotian setting examines the idiosyncrasies of a handicraft craze that was all the rage in Canada 150 years ago. A Primary Exhibition of the 2017 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

From Jan 27 through Mar 12, as part of the Toronto Light Festival occurring at the Distillery District, the Thompson Landry Gallery is taking a portion of its Cooperage Space to celebrate the use of light and shadow in the luminous works of Laurence Nerbonne and Ognian Zekoff.
Joining our talented roster of Quebec artists, Thompson Landry is proud to introduce the sculptural works of brother and sister team, White et White. Working together as one creative entity, White et White's conceptions are the product of two basic premises: water is the source of all life and water is its peril. The remarkable duo's bronze figures are all inspired by the beauty of nature and the fragility of our planet's ecosystems. Not intended for passive observation, White et White's three-dimensional renderings are meant to be interactive. Utilizing the communicative techniques of realism and metaphor, each work encourages the viewer to participate in a moment of inquiry and reflection.

The Thompson Landry Gallery is the only gallery in Toronto specializing solely in Quebec art, showcasing the very best of the new generation of contemporary Quebec artists, as well as its great masters.

Zoey Zoric is a participating artist in Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 2017, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto. www.torontooutdoorart.org.

Works available by – Mélanie Authier, Kim Dorland, Martin Golland, Doug Kirton, John Kissick, Harold Klunder, David Urban.

Historical Canadian Painting – Beatty, Cullen, Gagnon, Fortin, Group of Seven, Krieghoff, Lemieux, Milne, Morrice, Pellan, Pilot, Surrey, Suzor-Coté, Les Automatistes, Painters Eleven, and others.

New Acquisitions: Contemporary Canadian Painting – Michel Beaucage, David Cheung, Byron Hodgins, Christopher Knights, Ian McLean, Geneviève Pratte, Daniel Solomon, Mark Stebbins, Lan Zhenghui.

Hommage à Rita Letendre. In honour of her retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario, CFA features important works for sale from all periods of Letendre's career.

Important Canadian Masters. Small paintings of interest to collectors of turn-of-the-century Canadian art. Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Percy Woodcock, John Young Johnstone, Harry Britton.

Canadian Figurative Paintings. This exhibition features the paintings of established Canadian figurative painters Karo Alexanian, Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, Sylvia Lefkovitz, Stuart Reid, Harold Town, Carol Wald, Henry Wanton Jones, Scottie Wilson.

Gallery Phillip specializes in Inuit drawing and sculpture, Cape Dorset graphics, and Woodland Indian art. Artists: Daphne Odjig, Kenojuak Ashevak, Carl Beam, Kananaginak Pootoogook, Alex Janvier, Ningeokuluk Teevee and more.

We are currently looking for consignments for our Nov 22, 2017 live auction of Fine Canadian Art and Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art – deadline: Aug 31, 2017 – and for our monthly online auctions of Fine Canadian and International Art.
Artists of special interest include: S. Andrews, M. Bates, B. C. Binning, D. Blackwood, P.-E. Borduas, J. Bush, F. Carmichael, E. Carr, A. J. Casson, F. S. Coburn, A. Colville, M. Cullen, J.-P. Dallaire, M. Ferron, M.-A. Fortin, C. Gagnon, L. Harris, E. Holgate, E. J. Hughes, Gershon Iskowitz, A. Y. Jackson, F. Johnston, C. Krieghoff, W. Kurelek, J. P. Lemieux, R. Letendre, A. Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, J. Macdonald, D. Milne, J. W. Morrice, P. Peel, W. J. Phillips, R. Pilot, B. Reid, J. P. Riopelle, G. Roberts, A. H. Robinson, W. Ronald, A. Savage, J. Shadbolt, G. Smith, M.-A. Suzor-Coté, H. Town, T. Thomson, F. H. Varley, W. P. Weston and many others.

online auction – West Coast Modern: The Collection of Jane Rule and Helen Sonthoff / First Nations and Inuit Art / Canadian Contemporary Photography / Fine Canadian Art.

online auction – Oh Canada! / Fine Canadian Art.

Impression: Canadian Printmaking.

Impression features the release of rare and new to market aquatints by Nicholas Hornyansky (1896-1965). Accompanying these masterful urban scenes are a variety of subject matter and methods of printmaking from our contemporary and historical roster. Contemporary artists David Michael Scott, Jessica Levman, Rachel Berman and Ryan Price hang alongside the historical works of Carl Schaefer, Edwin Holgate, Ken Danby, Florence Vale and others.

Odon Wagner Gallery is Toronto's premier art gallery for the sale, purchase, restoration and framing of important 19th- & 20th-century European traditional and modern art. Artists include: Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Ivan Choultse, Édouard Cortès. With over 7,000 square feet of custom-built exhibition space, a visit to the galleries offers you the opportunity to experience over three centuries of fine art.

Pine and Bamboo Ceramics specializes in fine contemporary handcrafted and hand-painted ceramics from China and Korea, offering a carefully curated collection of porcelain and stoneware studio vases and vessels, teaware and tableware from artists working in the historic ceramic centres of Jingdezhen and Longquan, as well as some remarkable modern studio works from Taiwan. The gallery also currently represents seven outstanding Korean artists from the ceramic centres of Yeoju and Icheon districts, primarily offering tea- and tablewares in modern Buncheong and celadon styles, as well as the Japanese-style wood-fired work of Canadian potter Chris Sora. The owner, Andrew Chase, searches particularly for potters who are consciously and critically inspired by the refined traditional ceramic cultures of East Asia while striving for a personal contemporary and international style.

A new curated retail art gallery on Toronto's east side representing established and emerging local Canadian artists.
We also offer art classes for adults and kids in a variety of mediums in our art studio. Summer arts camp for kids and teens registration open now on our website!

Creative Spirit Art Centre is a unique public art gallery that was created "to advance the creative power in artists with disabilities". For 25 years CSAC has continued to help artists with disabilities create, exhibit and sell their work. CSAC collects, exhibits and sells Canadian Art Brut and Outsider Art. These are important categories of contemporary visual art which have continued to inform and influence the evolution of art over the last 150 years.

Dana Green: First Solo Show.

Gerrard Art Space is a community-focused, membership-driven, dedicated art space showcasing local visual artists and musicians each month.
Regular programming includes workshops, classes, and shows that engage neighbourhood residents and the Toronto art community. GAS prioritizes accessibility, inclusivity, and open dialogue in both its programming and outreach, working to build and sustain a creative, vibrant community.
Please refer to our website for info on how to become a member, upcoming exhibitions and classes: www.gerrardartspace.com.

Works by Joseph Albers, Milton Avery, Francis Bacon, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Jack Bush, Alexander Calder, Nicolas Carone, Mary Cassatt, Giorgio Cavallon, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Eduardo Chillida, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Christo, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Edgar Degas, Sonia Delaunay, Joseph Drapell, Jean Dubuffet, Raoul Dufy, Friedel Dzubas, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, Hans Hartung, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Hans Hofmann, Robin Horsch, Alex Katz, Rainer Lagemann, Fernand Léger, Malcolm Liepke, Robert Longo, Aristide Maillol, Robert Mangold, Conrad Marca-Relli, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Russell Monk, Claes Oldenburg, William Perehudoff, Pablo Picasso, Eberhard Ross, Jerry Schatzberg, Julian Schnabel, David Shapiro, Aaron Siskind, Frank Stella, Donald Sultan, Luis Tomasello, Van Dongen, Christine Vaillancourt, Jacques Villon, Andy Warhol.

In the Absence of Colour.
Artists working in black and white.
Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Richard Serra, Aaron Siskind, and others.

As well, visit our art installation Rukaj on Bay at Arbitration Place, 333 Bay Street, Suite 900, Toronto.

The Rectory Gallery & Café remains open all Victoria Day weekend: Fri & Sat, May 19 & 20, 11am-9pm; and Sun & Mon, May 21 & 22, 11am-5pm.

Francisco Castro Lostalo: Giants of the Deep – Dramatic paintings inspired by magnificent creatures that roam our oceans. Potpourri – Vibrant florals in acrylic and resin. Metamorphosis in Marble – Carrara marble sculptures created by re-purposing panels from the façade of First Canadian Place office tower.

Elisa Morera: Faces – Striking portraits in acrylic and resin.

Margaret Glew – Initial Conditions – Mixed media works return to old ideas in a very literal and material way. Drawings made five years ago are torn up and repurposed as part of a new body of work. The older work becomes the impetus for a re-examination of both content and process, thus reinforcing the idea that there is no beginning and no end point.

Illusion of Process. Marvin Luvualu Antonio, Miles Collyer, Maggie Groat.
It seems as though we are surrounded by a never-ending construction site. Not only is the city in a constant of building and re-building, but also the artists who inhabit it.
While Maggie Groat, Miles Collyer, and Marvin Luvualu Antonio's work draws upon different sources and techniques – from actual concrete to the concretization of concepts and beliefs, for instance – their work does share a strategy. Even if it is an illusion of process, all draw upon the construction site (the rebar and concrete of Miles, the chain and brick of Marvin, the detritus of cultural-products past of Maggie) in order to mine the site's philosophical potential, liberating it from the profane cycle of the commodity and inventing it anew on its (and their) own terms. The so-called stasis of their finished work in the gallery reminds us that permanence is always ... impermanent.
In this exhibition, as in the artists' work, the abstract collection of matter and objects is transformed through use and proximity, articulating the complexities of built space and the never-ending construction of meaning. Political discourse is inherent in all of these artists' work without the articulation of overt narratives, allowing the power of the conditional material to do the heavy lifting.
Get on the the Performance Bus – before it stops! 2017 marks the last year of the Performance Bus as we usher in a new era with the AGYU Subway opening early 2018. For the 3rd-last iteration of this 14-year-long project, we welcome writer and philosopher Kevin Temple as host. Temple treats riders to a performative critique of Graham Harman's Object Oriented Ontology (OOO). In fact, Kevin maintains that Harman's philosophy is better understood as performance art – that Harman is secretly an artist performing the role of philosopher as an art practice. For Kevin, the only answer to Harman's seamless, decade-long philosophical charade is to risk a performance of his own, as an art critic. The FREE Performance Bus departs OCADU (100 McCaul Street) at 6pm sharp on Thur 19 Jan, en route to the exhibition opening of Illusion of Process, and the performance Death is a Tunnel by Marvin Luvualu Antonio at 7:30pm, and returns downtown at 9pm.

AGYU Vitrines. Sheri Nault arranges still lives composed of elements from the natural world. Grounded in the necessity of growing alternative knowledges, her work cultivates an intimacy and sensitivity to the changing environment through imbedded ecological sensibilities, shared stories, and relayed connections, re-framing dichotomatic power structures.

NEW publication –

Is Toronto Burning? New book by Philip Monk from the fall 2014 exhibition, Is Toronto Burning? 1977 / 1978 / 1979: Three Years in the Making (and Unmaking) of the Toronto Art Scene. Designed by Black Dog Publishing.

Susan Avishai – fibre sculpture.

Expressions: Children's Summer Art Camp. For more information, please call 416 396 4026.

Heather Hart: Northern Oracle.
Northern Oracle is an ambitious rooftop installation that emerges from the floor of the Gallery, and is accompanied by a series of mixed media drawings. Through her work, Heather Hart considers Black histories, access to ownership, taking up physical space, and the significance of having a place to call home.

Spoken Word Workshop & Showcase.
Co-presented with RISE Edutainmanet & ARTSIDEOUT.
Workshop: 3:30-5pm; reception & performances: 6-8pm.
Randell Adjei of RISE will facilitate a FREE workshop that will focus on storytelling, spoken word and hip hop. In the evening, we're celebrating local arts talent with a public reception and series of performances.

Gunma Hanga Artists Association: Contemporary Japanese Prints.
This group of Japanese printmakers exhibit their etchings, lithography, screen prints, and woodcuts around the globe. Don't miss this rare opportunity to view the artwork that is travelling here from the Gunma district in Japan!
Please join us for a walking tour of the exhibition Fri 24 Mar, 12:15-12:45pm. Masahiro Arai, exhibition convenor and artist, will provide insight and commentary on this very special exhibition.

ATRIUM A/B – In-Between the Lines – Yehuda Lang & Simma Sudaley.

Joseph Muscat: SCrude / Jusqu'à la dernière goutte, 2016 - 2017, acrylic on paper, 5' x 50'.

An installation mural representing a narrative, loosely based on the theme of renewable energy as a solution to our dependence on climate altering fossil fuel. // Une installation murale adressant notre dépendance aux combustibles fossiles, les changements climatiques et le thème des énergies renouvelables présenté comme solution possible.

The artist would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. // L'artiste tient à remercier le Conseil des arts de l'Ontario, un organisme du gouvernement de l'Ontario, de son aide financière.

Ephemera: The Searchings of an Adopted Daughter. Mixed media and stained glass by Kate Greenway.
Begun as a doctoral investigation, I counter a lack of artworks about adoptees, birth mothers and adoptive mothers who have experienced the lingering effects of an earlier culture of secrecy and sealed records. In my works of paper and glass art I use my own archival ephemera, including photographs, records and letters, as documentary evidence of my – and others' – adoptive experiences, and as a literal / symbolic connection to the ephemera of adoption. The process of fusing, shattering, layering, collaging and piecing together shards of glass into a cohesive whole is another metaphor for the multiple and layered challenges that affect all touched by adoption.

Teachers' Talkback – annual group exhibition featuring artworks by NPCC's very own instructors! This multi-media exhibition highlights our programs by showcasing work that best represents our instructors' artistic practices. Our instructors are not only educators but they also have vital roles in building our creative community. Participating artists: John Bingham, Toni Calderone, Malcolm Cullen, Kal Honey, Bareket Kezwer, Jacintha Krish, Kim-Lee Kho, Veronica Loi, Helen McCusker, Eric Spence, Brenda Sturino, Steve Rose, Bruce Sherman, Louise Zych.

Paint What You Love Show at the Kent Farndale Gallery, Port Perry, Ontario. Ajax Creative Arts celebrates love in "a visual valentine", paying court to Cupid through artworks in a variety of styles by Club members. The works will be accompanied by a statement by the artists on why they painted each specific piece. Opening reception & awards presentation: Sat 4 Feb, 2pm at the Kent Farndale Gallery, Scugog Memorial Library, 231 Water Street, Port Perry. The Library is handicapped-accessible. Admission is FREE. For more information, please contact the Kent Farndale Gallery at 905 985 7686.

Trusted by sculptors for 50 years – Artcast offers complete services to sculptors – casting bronze, stainless steel, aluminum, pewter and silver / enlarging, mold making, polishing, patinating / repairs and restoration / wax and sculpting tools. Free estimates and tours available.

The Sedulous Selfie Art Exhibition. Living in the time of the "selfie", we are viewing this social phenomenon of the day, every day. With careful yet diligent perseverance, contemporary artists display their self-portrait and cinematic self-story of creative expression, illustrating their self-reflecting viewpoint, taking the audience deeper than just the surface level.

Cindy Stelmackowich: Anatomical Remix.
Cindy Stelmackowich's practice explores the terrain between art and medicine and questions the way we think about medical history, its ways of working and how its knowledge is organized. We feature a series of recent sculptural works that incorporate mannequin limbs that are displayed on vintage medical gurneys and stands and whose muscle, tendon and tissue are made from the rolled coloured pages of old books. Also on view is a series titled Biospecimens, which are made up from slices of books and pages that are pressed inside glass domes and / or scientific glassware that the artist says are "allegories of human flesh."

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is open Victoria Day, 10am-5pm.

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is open on Good Friday and all Easter weekend, including Monday, 10am-4pm.

A Foundation for Fifty Years: McMichael Masterworks.
Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Curated by Sarah Stanners.
The McMichael owes its existence and collection to the generosity of donors. A Foundation for Fifty Years presents some of the most significant donations made for the McMichael gallery's founding year (1966) by Signe and Robert McMichael, as well as by their peers, who wanted to gift the public with beautiful Canadian masterworks. Installed in the main gallery, this collection celebrates the works of the Group of Seven and their contemporaries. Artists on show include Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris, David Milne, and Emily Carr, to name a few. The exhibition space has been restored to its 1960s modernist style, in a manner that the McMichaels intended: traditional materials with modern lines.

Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven: Destinations.
Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Curated by Chris Finn.
Many of the wilderness landscapes depicted in artworks by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven were interpretations serving as symbols or metaphors of place. However, writers who positioned and promoted Thomson's and the Group of Seven's work within a geographical and Canadian nation-building narrative, created a sense of authenticity while aligning their imagery with political as well as commercial interests. This exhibition presents a selection of the artists' paintings and prints depicting their renderings of the "North", including masterworks such as Mount Robson by Lawren Harris, and Byng Inlet, Georgian Bay by Tom Thomson.

Once Upon a Time, Deep in the Dark Forest.
Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Curator: Sharona Adamowicz-Clements.
In the landscape art of the Group of Seven, the viewer has been conditioned to recognize the picturesque beauty of the Canadian forest. Fierce, strong, and often unspoiled, it reflected a sense of character for a developing nation. This exhibition presents historical and contemporary art – including that of the Group and their associates – that suggests the forest is no symbol of glory; it is where beauty, mystery, fantasy, and darkness collide.

Lawren Harris: Leaps and Bounds.
Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Curated by Dr. Sarah Stanners.
The leading member of the Group of Seven, Lawren S. Harris has become one of the most recognizable figures in landscape painting in Canada. A lesser known side of Harris's story is that he spent the second half of his career as an abstract painter. This exhibition demonstrates the breadth of Harris's oeuvre using works drawn entirely from the McMichael's collection, and includes personal photographs of the painter and some of the tools and materials he used to create his masterpieces.

Higher States: Lawren S. Harris and His American Contemporaries.
Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Curated by Dr. Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens.
This selection of approximately 70 paintings takes a new Canadian perspective regarding the exciting and spiritual body of abstract work by Lawren Harris and his US counterparts. Higher States frames the iconic Canadian landscape painter and member of the Group of Seven in the larger North American context during his years in New Hampshire and New Mexico, and features an important presentation of his US contemporaries, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Emil Bisttram, and Marsden Hartley.

Arctic Echoes: Sound, Stories and Song in the New North.
Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Curated by Nancy Campbell.
Music, storytelling, poetry, and dance are essential expressions of Inuit cultural identity. This series of Inuit art exhibitions is themed to sounds and activities associated with sound as manifested in the Arctic environment, Inuit songs, instrumental performances, and other aural / oral sources represented in Inuit visual art. This exhibition also includes some works on paper by Inuit women artists selected from the recent Museum of Inuit Art acquisition.

Morrisseau at the McMichael.
Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Curated by Dr. Sarah Stanners.
A bold and colourful journey unfolds at the McMichael with the return of the work of ground-breaking artist Norval Morrisseau. Morrisseau at the McMichael takes visitors back to the summer of 1979, when the gallery was honoured to host Morrisseau as artist-in-residence. During this time, the artist worked on sixteen commissioned works, including the masterpiece Shaman and Disciples. This exhibition is drawn entirely from the McMichael's collection, and includes works from the 1979 commission as well as intimate photos of the artist at work in the Tom Thomson Shack on the McMichael grounds.

Water and Pigment: Mysterious Interactions.
Cuated by Gerrie Loveys.
An investigation of the complexities of painting with watercolour in celebration of over 90 years of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour.

Heading to Palookaville: Seth and the Art of the Graphic Novel.
Curated by Tom Smart.
This exhibition considers the complexities attached to the issues of self-identity in the holistic artistic practice of Seth who is at once an author, artist and cultural commentator, as well as one of the foremost graphic novelists working today.

Hurontario Street: Linking Peel. In Tunnel Gallery. Hurontario Street is the main artery that links Peel with all of its communties. This exhibition shows the historical importance of Hurontario Street, from Lake Ontario to Caledon, and its cultural significance to the development of the Region of Peel.

What Makes This Country Tick? Community Art Project.

Durham Reach – The most comprehensive public exhibition of artists from the area to date and showcases over 70 artists, surveying work from emerging, mid-career, and established artists through four distinct, yet complementary exhibitions. Curated by Linda Jansma and Sonya Jones.
Durham Reach: Narratives of Reaction and the Body.
Durham Reach: Narratives of Place and Geography.
Durham Reach: Narratives of Materiality, Optics and Abstraction.
Durham Reach: Narratives of History and Memory.

Together We Rise. SG celebrates Black History Month. This exhibition brings together community artists whose works reflect rich artistic content, tell the story as well as pay tribute to and celebrate the contributions of Black Canadians and the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Featured artists include: Amira Alamary, Getachew Fantu, Georgia Fullerton, Ian Grant, Sheryl Keen, Charmaine Lurch and Sherry Prenevost.

Good on Paper: Selections from the Neville Clarke Collection. There's an acclaimed private collection of vintage early Canadian prints, drawings and watercolour paintings in our midst. Celebrated artist and collector, Neville Clarke, has collected an impressive array of historical works over recent years. This dossier exhibition will focus on outstanding works on paper. Good on Paper gives historic perspective on the diversity and rich artistic legacy of this country from pre-Confederation to the interwar period.

Paul Fournier: Worlds of Wonder. Launching the Varley Art Gallery's 2017 season is a solo exhibition by Markham-based painter Paul Fournier. With a career spanning more than 50 years, Fournier's creative production has evolved through a careful balance of spontaneity and intuition. Through expansive abstracted compositions, the artist uses painterly strokes and gestures as a means of expressing his personal observations of the natural world. These dramatic and colourful works reveal lush tropical greenery, underwater geological formations and distant celestial phenomena. Ultimately, they are a testament to Fournier's decade-long experimentation of his medium and his ongoing quest to depict the poetic and spiritual dimensions of nature.

Present | Perfect | Continuous. To celebrate the Varley Art Gallery's 20th anniversary, a year-long rotation of our most popular works by F. H. Varley is on view in the Collections Gallery. Both the exhibition and accompanying publication highlight 20 years of acquisitions, acknowledge the role of the Varley-McKay Art Foundation in the development of the collection, and many donors who have contributed to its growth. Grammatically, the "present perfect continuous" is used with actions that began in the past but that are still continuing in the present. Symbolically, it implies the passing of time, something that is not fixed but always evolving. In this view, selected interventions by contemporary artists bring new insights to the study of F. H. Varley's work from our collection.

Susana Reisman: Standardizing Nature. Paired with F. H. Varley's "Second Growth, Lynn Peak" (c. 1932-1936), Susana Reisman's photographic series Standardizing Nature explores the transformation of trees into building materials used in the construction industry. With this work, Reisman encourages us to question and understand the reasoning and decision-making behind the "shape" of things. Specifically, she is concerned for the natural resources we harness from the earth and the form, function, and role they play in our everyday lives.

Mother Tongue: Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Raafia Jessa, Jihee Min, Yvonne Singer, Shellie Zhang, Alize Zorlutuna.

Jon Sasaki: Things Saved for a Rainy Day.

Present | Perfect | Continuous

Public tours. We offer FREE public tours. Led by our talented and highly trained docents, you can learn more about our current exhibitions, Mother Tongue. // Present | Perfect | Continuous. // Jon Sasaki: Things Saved for a Rainy Day (May 13-Sep 4, 2017). There is no need to register – simply join us in the Gallery lobby.

Beverly Caswell (Room Gallery).

Debbie Aristone Jeans (Hall Gallery).

Artist talks on Sundays throughout the summer.

The Burlington Art Centre is open Canada Day, 12noon-5pm.

On Paper. Paper is given life through the works presented in the two shows A Safe Haven: Raphael Vella and Visual Poetry: Contemporary Woodcuts. As a time honoured medium for artists, paper allows for the expression of thoughts, observations, reflections and statements. Artists Raphael Vella (Malta), Tom Hammick (United Kingdom), Donna Ibing (Burlington, ON) and Naoko Matsubara (Oakville, ON) use this medium to explore a variety of subject matter from contemporary politics to everyday life.

Serendipity: When God Gives You Lemons. Serendipity, or the happy accident, where one recognizes that the unforeseen result is as good as if not better than the expected result, has a long history in the world of ceramics. While one must be able to recognize the unforeseen, there are artists who have encouraged this result. Drawn from the Permanent Collection of the AGB, see some of the surprises that artists have found when they opened the kiln door.

The Body Thieves: Lisa Jayne Irvine & Andrew McPhail. Who has stolen your body? Illness has many metaphors, from possession to warfare, and the theft of the body by spirit or disease is central to many. Since the Middle Ages and well into the modern era, there has been a long history of body snatching, primarily to enable anatomical research in the name of science. In our work we question these paradigms, moving towards a gesture that is cumulative, cooperative, industrious and that augments identity. We steal our bodies back, reclaiming them and their terrible catastrophes.

Art Gallery of Burlington is open Good Friday, 14 Apr, 12noon-5pm; open Sat 15 Apr, 10am-5pm; closed Easter Sunday, 16 Apr; and open Easter Monday, 17 Apr, 9am-6pm.

The Art Gallery of Burlington is open Victoria Day, 12noon-5pm.

Sculpture Park. Open daily from dawn to dusk. Featuring 39 permanently sited outdoor sculptures, including a new commissioned sculpture by Don Russell (unveiled Sep 15, 2016).

Contrarieties and Counterpoints: Recent Paintings by Mélanie Authier.
Guest curated by Robert Enright and circulated by Thames Art Gallery, this exhibition presents recent work by Mélanie Authier that explores complex art historical legacies, intermingling Modernist abstraction with elements of Baroque aesthetic style.

A Sense of Wonder.
This exhibition highlights interdisciplinary practices and performances engaging d/Deaf youth, providing new insight into deaf and disability arts through an exploration of the presence of deafness over the absence of sound.

Colin Carney: Presence.
Featuring new work by artist Colin Carney, this exhibition incorporates large-scale photography, audio, and immersive video in a layered exploation of the specificity of place and the poetics of space.

Kim Adams' "Bruegel-Bosch Bus".

Works by Douglas Bentham, Lynn Chadwick, Kosso Eloul, Sorel Etrog, Augustin Filipovic, Keith Haring, Barbara Hepworth, Peter Hide, Jef Lambeaux, John McEwen, Leo Mol, Giuseppe Pierotti, Francisco Zuñiga.

Staging Abstraction: Paintings from the Collection. Co-curated by local painter Daniel Hutchinson and AGH Curator of Contemporary Art Melissa Bennett.

Evolution of Form: 150 Years of Sculpture from the Collection.
Co-curated by local painter Daniel Hutchinson, and AGH Curator of Contemporary Art, Melissa Bennett.

Collection Classics.

Saga of a City: Hamilton at 200 Years.
Curated by Devin Therien, Adjunct Curator, European Art, and Bill Manson, Hamilton historian.

Last Folio: Yuri Dojc.
Curated by Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art.

The Living Room: Subject, Object, Verb. The Living Room is the name for a new interactive, evolving installation in the Young Gallery on the main level of the AGH. Subject, Object, Verb is the Living Room's first manifestation, anchored by photographs by artist Susan Kealey, to which poet Gary Barwin has responded, and wherein visitors may also contribute.

The Shifting City.
Presented by AGH Art Rental + Sales.
With featured works by Paul Elia, Stephen Brookbank, Gord Leverton and more, this exhibition presents a range of perspectives on our city's urban spaces, and the delicate, beautiful balance that often exists between its industrial vestiges, heritage architecture, and civic revival.

Expanding the Circle: Robert Davidson and the Ancient Language of Haida Art. Organized and circulated in part by the McCord Museum, Montreal.

Sara Angelucci: Piece Work. Curated by Alana Traficante.

Women's Art Association of Hamilton 121st Annual Juried Exhbition.

Kenojuak Ashevak & Tim Pitsiulak: Drawing Life.

Carving Home: The Chedoke Collection of Inuit Art.

Barry Pottle: The Awareness Series.

Hazel Meyer: "no pressure, no diamonds."
A public art project in the Queen's Square lobby that includes large-scale window drawings and a banner that explore the diagrammatic relationship between gesture, instruction, and judgement. Using repetitive techniques that replicate routine, even mundane process of skill acquisition familiar to both athletics and craft, the work considers drawing's connection to other embodied rituals of practice and competition.

Cineseries.
Join Idea Exchange as we present the best in film as part of the Toronto International Film Festival's Film Circuit.
Films are screened seasonally on scheduled Thursday evenings at Galaxy Cinemas, Cambridge Centre Mall, 355 Hespeler Road, unless otherwise noted. All screenings begin at 7:30pm.
Admission: $9 adult members; $12.50 non-members; $9 students with valid ID; $8 children 14 and under; $6.75 child member (HST included). NEW this year: Cineseries Loyalty Card!
Advance tickets and memberships are available at all Idea Exchange locations; or you may purchase by phone (519 621 0460) with a credit card. Tickets at the door, subject to availability, are cash only. More info: 519 621 0460 or http://ideaexchange.org/contact/email.
Sep 15: Love & Friendship.
Sep 29: Captain Fantastic.
Oct 13: Our Little Sister.
Oct 27: The Last Cab to Darwin. Co-presented with the Grand River Film Festival.
Nov 10: Spirit Unforgettable.
Nov 17: The Dressmaker.
Jan 12: The Eagle Huntress.
Jan 19: It's Only the End of the World.
Feb 2: Manchester by the Sea.
Feb 16: Maliglutit (Searchers).
Feb 23: Moonlight.
Mar 9: I, Daniel Blake.
Mar 23: The Salesman.
Apr 27: Burn Your Maps.
May 11: Lion.
May 18: Black Code.

Diana Lynn VanderMeulen: ´*crystal, rest. Diana Lynn VanderMeulen's practice is fluid between collage, painting, sculptural installation, and digital media. For her solo exhibition, holographic and shimmering materials are used to transform an unlikely space into one of effeminate luxury. A hallucinatory sensation is created, similar to seeing a mirage in an unfamiliar landscape. Lingering in a purgatory between reality and illusion, ´*crystal, rest rejuvenates energy as the body becomes enveloped in a new world.

Artist Residency with Gary Kirkham.
Open studio: Thursdays 2-4pm, Jun 8, 15 & 22.
Closing reception with live performance and artist talk: Thur 29 Jun, 7pm.
Cambridge-based artist Gary Kirkham is fulfilling a one-month residency at our Preston Gallery location. Fascinated by pre-digital special effects, where worlds were created using miniatures, painted glass and optical illusions, Kirkham will be experimenting with various methods to project live onto 3D objects, floors, and bodies. In blending reality and illusion, his residency research will focus on projection as a performative action, rather than as a residual documentation.

Twenty + Change: NEXT GENERATION Project.
Twenty + Change is an ongoing exhibition and publication series dedicated to promoting emerging designers working in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design in Canada. As the fourth edition of the series NEXT GENERATION, it presents a litmus of concerns and approaches across the country as represented by 13 emerging practices from Vancouver to St. John's.

Christopher Reid Flock: Integration / Disintegration.
As an experimental ceramic artist, Christopher Reid Flock is profoundly influenced by the significant time that he spent in Japan and the mentorship that he received from some of Canada's most respected potters. Among other accolades, Flock was the recipient of the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics in 2014. Although this ambitious exhibition includes some works from his earlier career, it features more prominently his large-scale, installation-based works that whimsically "play" with notions of function while merging rapid prototyping with classical clay process.
Companion exhibition: works by Flock's mentors Bruce Cochrane, Diane Nasr and Kayo O'Young.

On the last Friday of each month, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery stays open until 9pm. Visit our exhibition, Cultural Topographies: The Complexities of History and Identity in Canada, and shop in our Gallery Shop! On Final Fridays, everyone is invited to explore the arts and the cuisine of the City of Waterloo's core. Each Final Friday has something new to experience in uptown Waterloo!

New paintings and collages by Fuad Hamdi.

Paintings, prints, sculpture by gallery artists.

The Gallery Series. The HPO String Quartet returns for a FREE concert at Gallery on the Bay. The Gallery Series presents stimulating 60-minute concerts, giving you the opportunity to experience the beauty of chamber music in a unique and intimate setting. Guests are invited to meet the musicians at a reception following the performance.

Open by appointment only. (Closed for renovations & annual inventory).

Representing: Scott Abbott, Wesley W. Bates, Andrea Blanar, Robert Creighton, David Laing Dawson, Michael Dobson, Patricia Gagic, Catherine Gibbon, Hélène Goulet, Fuad Hamdi, Barry Hodgson, Trevor Hodgson, Jody Joseph, Jim Maunder, Iris McDermott, Patricia Moore, Duane Nickerson, Chelo Sebastian, Brianne Service, Toby Snajdman, and Holly Sneath.

Across This Mighty Land: A Visual Debate: Carl Beam & Frederick Hagan.

Wine, Water, and Oil: Domestic Vessels from the Greek and Roman World. Curator: Dr. Spencer Pope, McMaster University Department of Classics. This new display of antiquities is on the Museum's 4th floor Togo Salmon Gallery.

Unapologetic: Acts of Survivance.
Curator: Rhéanne Chartrand.
Selected works from the 1980s by Carl Beam, Bob Boyer, Robert Houle, Gerald McMaster, Shelley Niro, Ron Noganosh, Jane Ash Poitras, Edward Poitras, Pierre Sioui, Jeff Thomas and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.

Kuniyoshi vs Cvetich: Gangnam Style. Recent works by Hamilton-based artist Paul Cvetich with woodblock prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese 1797 – 1861).

The Age of Enlightenment: The Pierre Conlon Book Collection. Curator: Renu Barrett. 18th-century books and art from McMaster's collection.

Pumphouse Instructors' Show. Featuring the artwork of some of our talented instructors. This group exhibition offers a glimpse into the diversity and creativity of our instructors. This year's participants include: Mike Gagnon, Philip Gebhardt, Win Henstock, Sandra Iafrate, Valerie Martin, Beata O'Connell, Ruth Pallek, Tamara Plugers, Julie Ponesse, Anne Reimer, Beverly Sneath, Susan Sparrow Mace, Diane Vogel, Susan Wintrop.

Members' & Students' Show. The artworks in our Members' & Students' Show range in media, subject matter and scale but reflect the variety of classes offered at the Pumphouse and the originality of the Pumphouse members and students. You will be amazed by what they have accomplished.

The Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre is an art gallery and studio housed in a heritage building (c. 1891) and is Niagara Region's oldest surviving pumping station. Our mission is to engage, enrich and celebrate our diverse and growing population through the visual arts.

Winter '17 Group Show. Discovering the warm and welcoming atmosphere of TAG Art Gallery is a perfect outing on a mid-winter's day. The current group show features wonderful landscapes by Greg Dow, Robert Amirault, Scott White and Brita Housez. We are also pleased to be able to offer whimsical still lifes by Prudence Smith and fine works In the traditional style of Dave Froude and Kapil Harnal. In addition, we have excellent work from many other Ontario and Quebec-based artists. And the Gallery offers an outstanding collection of art jewellery; glass and metal art; bronze, soapstone and limestone sculptures; and transfer art. There are also a number of paintings ideal for larger-than-usual wall spaces.

Dr. Leonard Reeves Permanent Collections Gallery: Miss Carlyle's Success.
Curator: Roberta Grosland.

Roberta Bondar: Windows onto the Wild.

Devona Paquette: A Bold Approach.

Dr. Leonard Reeves Permanent Collections Gallery: Printmaker's Passion.

What is a Bully? features illustrations and poetry created by local artist Pat Herlovitch that comprise the book of the same name. This unique and interactive exhibition is supported by an artist walk and talk on Family Day, Mon 20 Feb, 12noon.

Dr. Leonard Reeves Permanent Collections Gallery: Character Sketches – portraits from the Woodstock Art Gallery's Permanent Collection, and Portrait Gallery of Canada.

Informal tours of our current exhibitions are available for visitors on request during gallery hours. On weekends between 10am and 4pm you'll find our Gallery Attendants upstairs; they are happy to lead you on a tour and answer any question you have!

Gallery tours may be booked for groups of all interests and sizes, including camp, school, special interest and families, and are available year-round (except statutory holidays). To book a tour or for more information, please contact us at 705 721 9696 or email maclaren@maclarenart.com.

Again and Once More, Again: Kristie MacDonald, Myfanwy MacLeod, Mitch Robertson.
Kristie MacDonald, Myfanwy MacLeod and Mitch Robertson work with archival and found photographs as starting points to address failed or incomplete histories, troubling outdated assumptions while generating new narratives.

In Every Direction: Jessica Hein, Sylvia Matas.
Jessica Hein and Sylvia Matas explore the crossover between psychological landscapes and the natural environment with works on paper that evoke the Earth's topography and meteorological systems.

IAIN BAXTER&: Guarding Landscape.
Challenging conventions of landscape and still life genres, IAIN BAXTER& incorporates seemingly disconnected images in highly graphic, Pop Art-inspired monoprints from the MacLaren Collection.

Look Once, Look Twice: Altered Photographs from the Sovfoto Archive.
Many of these Soviet-era press photographs from the MacLaren's Collection were retouched for print legibility, alterations that remain a cogent reminder that the "truth" of a photograph isn't always fixed in photochemistry.

Art for Lunch 2017.
Treat yourself to Art for Lunch and learn about a variety of art-related topics in this Friday afternoon speaker series. Admission: FREE. In the MacLaren's Rotary Education Centre. (Call ahead at 705 720 1044 x250 to pre-order lunch at the Gallery Café. Please note: For groups, please notify the Gallery one week in advance as seating is limited).
Jan 20: "Inside the Archive" with Dr. Travis Doucette, founder of the Barrie Historical Archive.
Feb 24: "Engaging Communities" with artist and art educator Sean George.
Mar 24: "The Art and Life of Arthur Shilling" with independent curator and artist of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation William Kingfisher.
Apr 28: Author Marion Paquet on her book Val-Cartier: History of Perseverance.
May 12: "An Inside Look at Lee Contemporary Art" with artist and gallery owner Tanya Cunnington.
Jun 16: "Responding to the Call: Art as Truth and Reconciliation" with artists Xavier Fernandes and Nancy King.
Sep 29: "Collecting Photography" with John Hartman.
Oct 20: "The Wandering Life of Edith Watson" with author Frances Rooney.
Nov 24: "Meet the Gallery Shop Artisans".

Tom Thomson Art Gallery is open Victoria Day, 12noon-4pm.

Tom Thomson Art Gallery is closed Good Friday, 14 Apr; open Sat 15 Apr, 12noon-4pm; closed Easter Sunday, 16 Apr; and open Easter Monday, 17 Apr, 12noon-4pm.

Canadian Spirit: The Tom Thomson Experience continues.
The TOM's important collection of objects, photographs, documents and artworks by Tom Thomson gives visitors an educational and entertaining introduction into Tom Thomson's life, his connections with Owen Sound and Grey County, and the factors that led him to become one of Canada's greatest artists.

Gallery Night at the Movies. Mondays at 2pm, 4:30pm & 7:15pm, Sep 12, Oct 3 & 24, Nov 14. Jan 16, Feb 13, Mar 6, Apr 3, May 1 at Galaxy Cinemas, Owen Sound. In conjunction with TIFF® Film Circuit, and Galaxy Cinemas, the Gallery is pleased to present the 21st season of Gallery Night at the Movies, bringing the best of Canadian, foreign and independent films to the region. We offer nine films from Sep to May. Single tickets for individual films are available in advance in our Gallery Shop – $13 each. Tickets may be available at our table in the Galaxy foyer before each screening. Passes are on sale now! http://bit.ly/146vGdI.
Sep 12: Captain Fantastic, Director: Matt Ross.
Oct 3: The Dressmaker, Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse.
Oct 24: Love & Friendship, Director: Whit Stillman.
Nov 14: The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, The Touring Years, Director: Ron Howard.
Jan 16: The Eagle Huntress, Director: Otto Bell.
Feb 13: Manchester By the Sea, Director: Kenneth Lonergan.
Mar 6: I, Daniel Blake, Director: Ken Loach.
Apr 3: 20th-Century Women, Director: Mike Mills.
May 1: Maudie, Director: Aisling Walsh.
Our 2016-17 Presenting Film Sponsor is Shannon Deckers, RE/MAX Grey Bruce Realty Inc.
The 21st season of GNATM is sponsored by Paul Boulter, Scott Kocher, TD Wealth; Doug Cameron's Owen Sound Subaru; Well in Hand Health Food Store.

Sundays 1-3pm, Sep 18, Oct 16, Nov 20, Dec 18, 2016; Jan 22, Feb 19, Mar 19, Apr 23, May 21, Jun 18, 2017:
sTOMp Sunday TOM Projects. FREE family fun! The TOM invites families into the studio for an afternoon of art-making and fun with hands-on activities. Pre-registration is not required and everyone is welcome.

Michael Markowsky: The Persistence of Doubt. Using documents that have been in the Tom Thomson Art Gallery's care for several decades and never yet released to the public, Vancouver artist Michael Markowsky presents a series of sculptures, drawings, and paintings that investigate the facts and theories surrounding the mystery of Tom Thomson's death. The Persistence of Doubt explores untold stories and possibilities inviting the viewer into a world of discovery about the mythic man and artistic maverick, Tom Thomson. Curated by Heather McLeese.

Clare Langan: The Winter of 13 Storms. Dublin artist Clare Langan presents film and video works created in the last two years. Her poetically evocative films have been described as being a contemporary meditation on the Romantic Landscape in its entire beautiful, haunting and melancholic splendor, as she takes us on a journey through multiple geographical locations both real and constructed, allowing us access to dreamlike visions of the potential chaos that exists in nature and in our cinematic memories. Curated by Virginia Eichhorn.

Centennial Spirit. This selection of works from the Gallery's Collection reflects the diversity of visual arts in Canada during the 1960s, the time when the Tom Thomson Art Gallery was built. This was a decade of upheavals and change in Canadian society, and Canadians were thinking about life and art in new and different ways. Curated by David Huff.

Canadian Spirit 2017: Someday they will know what I mean... marks the 100th anniversary of Tom Thomson's death, the 150th anniversary of Confederation, and the 50th anniversary of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery. The Canadian Spirit Series (2012-2017) focuses on ideas and questions around Canadian identity, its past and its evolution, while balancing the honour owed to the past with the needs of the present, and always looks forward to the future.
Featuring the TOM's Off-site Multi-Arts Projects Program curated by Heather McLeese, with projects by Jacques Deshaies, Robert Hengeveld, John White and others.

Agnes Etherington Art Centre is open Victoria Day, 1-5pm.

Group tours may be arranged by calling the Program Coordinator at 613 533 6000 x77053. Fees apply for custom tours.

Stories to Tell: Africans and the Diaspora Respond to the Lang Collection.

Picturing Arctic Modernity: North Baffin Drawings from 1964.

The hold: studies in the contemporary collection.

The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Paintings.

Two of a Kind: Pendant Prints in Eighteenth-Century France.

Key Works Unlocked: Peel and Suzor-Coté.

45-minute Art Conservation Lab tour. *TOUR FULL.

Les Levine: Transmedia.

Road Trip: Across Canada with Alan C. Collier.

Northern Latitudes: Landscape as Identity in European and Canadian Painting.

Absence / Presence: Contemporary Works in Dialogue.

FREE gallery tours. Tours schedule at www.agnes.queensu.ca/learn/tours-groups/.

Guided tours: Rembrandt and Highlights. Fees apply. Call 613 533 2190 to register. $10 adults / $7.50 members & children / FREE to children 5 years and under.

Lyn Carter: 11th Line. Curated by Sarah Quinton. Organized and circulated by the Textile Museum of Canada. Titled after the rural road where artist Lyn Carter lives and works, 11th Line explores one of the most fundamental textile design elements – the stripe – and its graphic relationship to the landscape, evoking horizon lines, road grids, and furrowed fields through drawing and sculpture.
Also on exhibit: Steven Vero: Inland and That's Kinda Like What It Was Like: From the Permanent Collection, with Ron Bloore, Gregory Downs, Robert Finch, Micah Lexier, Kristi Malakoff, Janet Martin, Jean Nind, David Partridge, Ted Rettig, Gordon Smith, Jeannie Thib, Andy Warhol.

Representing: Bonnie Brooks, Jane Colden, Tim De Rose, Liz Devries, Frank Edwards, Grace George, Mark Graham, Jordan Hicks, Sarah Hunter, Harold Kaufmann, Michael Minthorn, Peggy Morley, Evelyn Rapin, Lori Richards, Maureen Sheridan, Beth ten Hove, Verna Vowles, Gerry Wright.

Joseph Beuys. Galleries B2016 and B207.

Alex Janvier. Special Exhibitions Galleries.

PhotoLab 1. Canadian Photography Institute Galleries.

25 x 25: Twenty-Five Years of Exhibition Announcements from Twenty-Five Indigenous Artists. National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.

Striking the Line | various artists.
The Union Gallery is delighted to present a juried exhibition of student work from Queen's University. Interested in the affective quality of our surroundings, the artists in Striking the Line explore how the spaces and places that we inhabit both produce and retain meaning. From the architectures of the city, to uninhabited landscapes, this exhibition engages with our sensitivity to the material and form of our surroundings, asking how values, culture, and experiences impact how we relate to our surroundings.
Artists featured in the exhibition: Daisy Barrette, Biba Esaad, Carrie Emblem, Julia Fast-Grass, Austin Henderson, Daisy Jin, Chanpreet Khangura, Angel Lin, Madison Tyrell, and Emma White.

The Union Gallery stays open until 8pm on Wednesdays. On view until May 19: Groundwork – paintings and prints by Nicole Emond, Sonya Fesiak, Kaitlin Groat, Alison Kruse, Emma White, and Jeremy Kerr's Islands and The Woods.

Sculpture Garden. This year an imposing sculpture by Armand Vaillancourt has been added to the other works by David Altmejd, César, Aaron Curry, Jim Dine, Kosso Eloul, Sorel Etrog, Joe Fafard, Barry Flanagan, Elisabeth Frink, Antony Gormley, Claude Lalanne, Fernand Léger, Henry Moore, Mimmo Paladino, Jaume Plensa, Jean Paul Riopelle, Rodin, and Colleen Wolstenholme.

Chagall: Colour and Music.

Pierre Ayot: Work in Progress.

Leila Alaoui: No Pasara.

Adel Abdessemed: Conflict.

For Time is the Longest Distance Between Two Places. Pictures for an Exhibition.

Emanuel Licha: Now Have a Look at This Machine.

Teresa Margolles: Mundos.

Hajra Waheed: The Video Installation Project 1-10.

Module Operandi. Randall Anderson, Philippe Chabot, Guillaume La Brie, José Luis Torres, Sherry Walchuk, Tom Watson.

We are currently looking for consignments for our Nov 22, 2017 live auction of Fine Canadian Art and Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art – deadline: Aug 31, 2017 – and for our monthly online auctions of Canadian and international art.
Artists of special interest include: S. Andrews, M. Bates, B. C. Binning, D. Blackwood, P.-E. Borduas, J. Bush, F. Carmichael, E. Carr, A. J. Casson, F. S. Coburn, A. Colville, M. Cullen, J.-P. Dallaire, M. Ferron, M.-A. Fortin, C. Gagnon, L. Harris, E. Holgate, E. J. Hughes, Gershon Iskowitz, A. Y. Jackson, F. Johnston, C. Krieghoff, W. Kurelek, J. P. Lemieux, R. Letendre, A. Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, J. Macdonald, D. Milne, J. W. Morrice, P. Peel, W. J. Phillips, R. Pilot, B. Reid, J. P. Riopelle, G. Roberts, A. H. Robinson, W. Ronald, A. Savage, J. Shadbolt, G. Smith, M.-A. Suzor-Coté, H. Town, T. Thomson, F. H. Varley, W. P. Weston and many others.

This summer, come join the Avenue Road Arts School and get to know all about Canada from the past to the present!
Campers JK to Grade 4 will see how the arts, history and story come together in this fun, creative and engaging program. Using the rich history, landscapes and stories that make Canada so great, children will draw, paint and sculpt, creating a variety of unique art works. Half-day and full-day options are available. Co-operative games and outdoor play round off the camp day (full-day camps only). Snacks are provided. Full day campers provide their own lunch. Before camp and after camp care is available.
Children 2 to 5 years will enjoy a week of art, drama, music and fun while exploring the incredible arts, history and landscapes of Canada with a parent or caregiver.
Kids and teens in Grades 3 to 12 can choose from a wide range of engaging classes like Abstract Painting, Acting for Film & TV, Architecture & Design, Comic Book Studies, Creating A Graphic Novel, Drawing & Painting, and more!
Adults and teens 15+ will enjoy participating in stimulating and challenging programs like Classical Drawing, Painting for Beginners, Drawing for Beginners, Digital Photography for Beginners, Perspective Drawing, Painting Water, and other options in drawing, painting, and illustration.
Spaces will go fast, so register today!

Spring 2017 Workshops & Mini-Classes are here!
Feeling time-strapped or want to try your hand at a new technique or style but don't want to make a full-term commitment?
Sign up for a workshop!
We have a fantastic selection of workshops for you. If you've always wanted to learn about working with clay, silverpoint drawing, colour mixing, pastel portraits, or drawing fundamentals but have not had the time, our 1-6 class workshops for adults and teens 15+ are the perfect fit!

To Jun 30: Open Life Drawing / Painting (without instruction) is held Monday & Friday evenings, 6-9pm weekly. From Jul 6: Monday & Thursday evenings, 6-9pm weekly. $15 or a 5-session pass for $60.

SUMMER 2017 TERM: Jul 4-Sep 1 | Featuring a series of 8- & 6-week courses, plus 3-day workshops, exclusive 1-week intensives, and youth art camps for ages 11-13 and 14-17!
Choose from our longtime favourites like Intro to Painting, Figure Sculpture, Intro to Life Drawing, Experimental Drawing Concepts, Abstraction in Acrylics, or new and special offerings like Acrylic Explorations: Resin Effects, Video Editing, Painting Urban Parks, Shoot: Digital Photography Workshop, and more!
For our young artists: Enrol in one or more of our week-long Youth Courses like Drawing for Animation, Sculpture Explorations, Youth Art Studio, and Life Drawing for Teens.
To see all courses and to register, visit www.tsa-art.com or drop by the office. Save $40 on any summer course with promo code SLATE40.

Agnes Etherington Art Centre classes and workshops for youth, adults and families are sure to inspire and engage. Enjoy exploring themes in current exhibitions and learning hands-on skills in various media. http://agnes.queensu.ca/learn/courses-workshops/.

Open Studio. Join us for a FREE drop-in open studio of family art activities in the GWD Foundation for Kids' Creative Hub at the Art Gallery of Burlington. All are welcome!

Garden of Chimes. This community outdoor installation celebrates Canada's 150th anniversary by inviting the public to contribute to this exibition by making wind chime pieces during Open Studio Chime Workshops Jun 11 & 25 in the AGB Creative Hub.

For details on classes, please visit www.AGB.life.

Fri 16 Jun 2017, 10-11am: AGM Tot Spot. FREE & open to the public. Bring your little ones to the AGM Tot Spot for an hour of fun art activities that are sure to get your weekend off to a creative start! Rest assured parents and tots, our fun is delivered with simple materials so you can take home your masterpieces with no mess! The AGM recommends 1 parent for every 2 children.

The Weston Family Learning Centre allows visitors to experience the power of art to transform how we understand our world and ourselves. The facility, which opened in October 2011, comprises approximately 35,000 square feet of renovated and new space, and increases the AGO's ability to provide stellar art education in dedicated spaces for instruction and workshops.
This hub for community creativity and learning – a gathering place for hands-on and online exploration of the creative process – sets a standard for museums around the world, with fully integrated technology that includes broadcast and video-conferencing capabilities, and meeting spaces for educational and private functions.

Family Sundays. In the Weston Family Learning Centre. Included with regular Gallery admission.
Nov 6, 13, 20 & 27: Little Things. Join us for the kick-off to our 2016-2017 season of Family Sundays as we explore the wonder and awe of "little things", and the fascinating practice of making tiny objects and miniatures – all inspired by the Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures exhibition. Make a "Museum in a Box" – create your own tiny miniature art gallery. In the Hands-On Centre, we are playing with and making little things ... handmade beads, digging in our sensory sand box, I Spy-ing, drawing, and more.
Dec 4, 11, 18, Jan 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29: Super Stars. The fun gets astronomical in Dec & Jan when kids explore the mystery and magic of the night skies, constellations and stars. It's cosmic, intergalactic "super stars" fun! Join us for otherworldly play and sparkly night sky art-making activities inspired by the Mystical Landscapes: Masterpieces from Monet, Van Gogh and more. Dec 26-Jan 8, 11am-3pm: Pop-Up Planetarium, presented in partnership with the University of Toronto. Tickets available from Nov 21.
Feb 5, 12, 19 & 26: Snow Walkers. Come on an adventure and explore the WFLC trails! We are making snowshoes!!!! Family Sundays gives a Canadian twist to Francis Alÿs's work Don't Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River where children make sailboats out of flip flops. Call all snow walkers! Join us!
Mar 5, 12, 19 & 26: Art Bingo. Come join in the fun and play bingo with your entire family! Kids can decorate their own bingo cards and there are prizes for everyone! Bingo games at 2pm & 3pm. Join us!
Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30: Play Café. Come make cookies, cakes and treats for Play Café! Children can sculpt and decorate their treats and then show off their baked goods. Role playing at the Play Café is encouraged! http://bit.ly/2oQIiQu.

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FREE After Three. The AGO's FREE After Three programming is the place to be for youth ages 14-25. Participate in tie-dying, sticker-making, silk-screening, skateboard-building, mix tape-making, movie screenings and break-dancing workshops. Plus, there are ping pong tables out in the Commons every Friday! Please note: No programs during March Break, Mar 13-17, 2017. For more details, like our Facebook page – http://bit.ly/2k324u7 – or follow us on Instagram – http://bit.ly/2knPvrR.
Tuesdays 4-6pm, Jan 17-Mar 28, 2017: Podcasting Workshop with Immony Men. Learn how to produce, record and upload a podcast to AGO YOUTH Radio. In partnership with OCADU's Digital Futures Program. Come and bring friends! FREE.
Wednesdays 4-7pm, Jan 18-Mar 29, 2017: Break Dancing Workshop with Unity Charity. Bust a move and break it down! Learn the 101s of break dancing in a safe and supportive atmosphere. Beginners welcome. Open practice 4-5pm; workshop 5-7pm. FREE.
Thursdays 4-6pm, Jan 12-Mar 9, 2017: Clay & Ceramics with Ness Lee. Workshops include brooch making, pinch pots, coil cups, plates, figurines and plaques! Bring friends! FREE.
Access to the Weston Family Learning Centre is totally FREE. No need to purchase entrance to the Gallery. There's also a café and FREE wifi.
Attention all high school students with valid ID: you can visit the AGO for FREE Tues-Fri after 3pm.
http://bit.ly/2jYBsW0.

AGO COURSES –

Express yourself! Summer courses on sale now. Register today and learn from the best contemporary artists and dynamic instructors the city has to offer! Register online – http://bit.ly/2rnJFXE – or by calling 416 969 6608 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm.

Join us this summer. Get out of the heat and away from your local sidewalk café for a few hours. You'll find a great selection of hands-on courses and workshops. Whether an art enthusiast or just want to try something new – painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and more – there's a wide range for all ages and abilities. See all the courses available – http://bit.ly/2rnJFXE.

Looking for an indoor activity for the little ones? Enjoy time with your tots and babies in yoga workshops. Learn more – http://bit.ly/2rns16p.

Members get great discounts off class registration prices. Not a member? Join today! http://bit.ly/2riTgny.

Family Sundays. Join the fun in the studio at the Art Gallery of Peterborough for guided art activities with local artists. There is no fee or registration required. Just drop in! Children must be accompanied by an adult.

A new curated retail art gallery on Toronto's east side representing established and emerging local Canadian artists.
We also offer art classes for adults and kids in a variety of mediums in our art studio. Summer arts camp for kids and teens registration open now on our website!

The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery provides supportive education programs for children, teens, families and adults. Our public programs offer multiple pathways for engagement with contemporary artworks and art-making practices. Using Gallery exhibitions as a starting point, individuals develop arts vocabulary, arts appreciation, and cultivate confidence in their interpretations of contemporary artworks. For more information about our educational programs, please contact Nadine Badran, Manager of Public Programs – tel: 519 746 1882 x233; fax: 519 746 6396; nadine@canadianclayandglass.ca. www.theclayandglass.ca/education/education-information/.

Play with Clay Family Program – a drop-in open clay studio experience designed for families, friends and couples! Over two Sundays, you make an object out of clay and paint it with our glazes. It gets fired in our kiln and then you pick up your colourful and unique object!
Sundays 1-2:15pm and 2:30-4pm, Feb 5 & 19, Mar 5, Apr 16 & 30, May 14 & 28, Jun 11 (glazing only).
$10 per participant. Glazing included at subsequent session.
Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult.
Space is limited to 30 seats. First-come, first-served. No group reservations.

Cedar Ridge Creative Centre offers ten-week arts courses as well as shorter-term special interest workshops for adults, youth and children. The diverse roster of art programs includes Drawing & Painting, Folk Art, Weaving, Pottery, Sculpture and Watercolours for adults. Children's classes include Fine Art, Creative Art and Creative Clay. http://bit.ly/2eJpW1t.

Expressions: Children's Summer Art Camp. For more information, please call 416 396 4026.

Open Life Drawing – Sundays 10am-1pm, from Jan 15, 2017. $15. Easels and boards provided.

Yoga – Wednesday evenings 7-8:30pm. PWYC.

For more information on all classes & workshops, please refer to the GAS website: www.gerrardartspace.com.

Fiddle and painting classes will resume in the fall!

Second Sundays. Grimsby Public Art Gallery dedicates second Sundays to family fun. A hands-on art activity based on the current exhibition or a seasonally inspired theme will engage the creativity of visiting kids. Trained volunteers guide visitors through the exhibition. Drop in any time between 2pm and 4pm. Admission is FREE; all are welcome! For more information, please contact the Gallery at 905 945 3246 or gpag@grimsby.ca.
Jan 8: White Out! Celebrate the season of snow by making a white-on-white painting or collage! How many shades of white are in your palette?
Feb 12: I Heart Canada. Draw or print an image of the Canadian landscape and animals you love. What a great way to start the sesquicentennial year!
Mar 12: Across This Mighty Land. Create a colourful Canadian landscape artwork using tape!
Apr 9: Awesome Accordion Books. Make and illustrate an accordion book!
Second Sundays are made possible by the generous support of Grimsby Hyundai.