The Art Gallery of Ontario is open all Canada Day long weekend: Sat 1 Jul: 10:30am-4pm / Sun 2 Jul, 10:30am-5pm / Mon 3 Jul: 10:30am-4pm.
Enjoy a fun-filled, family-friendly Canada Day on Sat 1 Jul 2017. Visit the Dr. Mariano Elia Hands-On Centre and participate in Canadian-themed activities inspired by the book Canada ABC by Paul Covello. Plus, explore the Gallery and join in on a FREE tour.

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.

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.
Jul 6: Future Perfect. Toronto's biggest art party celebrates the breadth and diversity of the Canadian experience with headliner Bear Witness (founding member of A Tribe Called Red), plus Esie Mensah, Manifest Destiny's Child and more. July's First Thursday offers a first look at the Canada 150 exhibition Every.Now.Then: Reframing Nationhood. Don't miss Esmaa Mohamoud and Qendrim Hoti's performative extension of the One of the Boys installation that is a part of the exhibition itself. The AGO's Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art Andrew Hunter and curatorial assistant Anique Jordan will offer their insights in pop-up talks. DJ Steph Honey will add sounds. Also on view: a special selection of works in our monthly Out of the Vaults installation, and ReBlink, a digital intervention by artist Alex Mayhew. Headlining set at 10pm in Walker Court by Bear Witness. http://bit.ly/2tgkknb.

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe.
Curated by Tanya Barson, Curator, Tate Modern with Hannah Johnston, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern. The Toronto installation of Georgia O'Keeffe is led by the AGO's Georgiana Uhlyarik, Associate Curator, Canadian Art.
Opening in Toronto on April 22, Georgia O'Keeffe marks the first full retrospective of this pioneering American modernist to be shown in Canada. Featuring over 80 paintings, including Jimson Weed (1936), Oriental Poppies (1927), and From the Faraway, Nearby (1937), this exhibition surveys her entire career and highlights her engagement with modernist photography and her trajectory west, opening with the moment of her first showings at the 291 gallery in New York in 1916 and 1917.
Organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with the AGO and the Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Georgia O'Keeffe will make its only North American stop in Toronto this spring.

The Decades Project: 1930-1939 is the fourth in a series of installations organized by the AGO and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra designed to bring together visual art and music to reveal how artists and musicians expressed the dynamism and exhilaration of their times. This spring and summer, visitors have the opportunity to view three preparatory drawings by British painter Stanley Spencer for his mural entitled Shipbuilding on the Clyde (1940-1946) while listening to Carmina Burana (1937) by composer Carl Orff.

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: Open Door Evenings 6-8pm. On the last Wednesday of each month, we open our doors 6-8pm. Tours of the centre are provided and works from the vault are on view.

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 –
Fri 8 Sep, 6pm: "The Rise of the Rock Poster and the Summer of Love" – Alex Greist, Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings. By the late 1960s, everything that was cool, young rebellious and experimental came from San Francisco – especially music. In the city, concert posters emerged as a new youth-driven art form. On the surface, with their trippy colours and illegible lettering, these posters provide an intriguing archive of bands. But a closer look reveals an art form at the intersection of important trends in politics, design, fashion and youth cultures.$15 members | $17 general public | $10 students.. http://bit.ly/2vLpUM5.

Art. Dine. Explore. Every Friday until 9pm. Visit the Gallery at a time that is convenient for you. Select Friday Nights offer special programming complete with live performances in Walker Court. Performances are FREE with Gallery admission. Plus, shopAGO and FRANK restaurant stay open late so you can have the full Gallery experience.

Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters.
From the fantastic to the frightful, don't miss this rare glimpse into the world of renowned filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and his cabinet of curiosities. Taking inspiration from del Toro's extraordinary imagination, At Home with Monsters reveals his creative process through his personal collection of art, artefacts, books, props, and ephemera, all culled from Bleak House, del Toro's creative haven located in Los Angeles. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by Insight Editions. Organized by the AGO, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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?"

Art Museum University of Toronto is open Canada Day.

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, bright, contemporary gallery showcases a constantly evolving collection of original artworks in a variety of styles and mediums. As one of the 11 Beauchamp galleries spread throughout Canada, we're proud to show a vibrant selection of the best in Canadian art.

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. View their work and vot for your favourite! The sculptures will be sold to sponsoring organizations or collectors. #noblankbrains.

The 150 (Canadian Celebration Exhibition). Sculptors Society of Canada and Medallic Art Society of Canada.
As Canada turns 150 years old in 2017, two of Canada's foremost art societies unite to hold a joint exhibition in recognition and celebration of this historic moment in time. Members of SSC and MASC have created new work in their individual, distinctive and varied styles in tribute of their nation's birthday.
MASC members: Holly Atkinson, Lynden Beesley, Angel Calderer, Walter Collins, Kenna Graff, Magdalena Lesniak, Janine Lindgren, Geert Maas, Deborah Maurer, Scott McKinnon, Richard McNeill, Judith Mills, Susan Taylor, Lorraine Wright; also special works by the founders of MASC: Dora dePédery-Hunt, Del Newbigging.
SSC members: Edward Falkenberg, Mary Ellen Farrow, Camie Geary-Martin, Marlene Kawalez, Janine Lindgren, J. Mac, Richard McNeill, Philippe Pallafray, David Ruben Piqtoukun, Peter A. Por, Marianne Reim, Dina Torrans, Angela Verlaeckt-Clark, Judi Michelle Young.

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.

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.

Reid Flock: Sweet Play (West Gallery).

Shuvinai Ashoona: Curiosities. We are thrilled to be highlighting Shuvinai Ashoona's recent drawings. Ashoona's fantastic narrative and inspired take on Inuit identity have caught the attention of Canadian and international admirers alike. Our exhibition will be taking place concurrently with the Esker Foundation's traveling exhibition Earthlings, which includes a number of Ashoona's drawings as well as the release of Dr. Nancy Campbell's book Shuvinai Ashoona – Life and Work.

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...

THE LANGUAGE OF GESTURE – A new body of work exploring the universal language of gesture found in the expression of hands. Installation created by deborah harris and Sae Kimura, photographs by Ayokah Beauchamp.

CONSTRUCTING AN IDENTITY – An exploration of identity through collages by Eron Boyd.

Artist's website: www.happyd-designs.com.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/happyDgraphicdesign.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/hyedie.

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.

Reinhard Reitzenstein: The Forest at 4am.

The Power Plant is open all Canada Day weekend, Jul 1-3, 2017.

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.

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.

Michael Zaharuk | Hot Air | North Gallery.
A collection of prints and paintings ranging from images of whimsy to works of social and political satire by Propeller member Michael Zaharuk.

Gordon Stamper | Here.for.Now. | South Gallery.
Acrylic abstract paintings in response to personal inquiry, by Propeller member Gordon Stamper.

Bruce Eves: INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUES (1976-2016). This exhibition is a little shocking, a little prescient, a little sexy, a little snotty, a little surly, but smart, with a couple of jokes ... and Elizabeth Taylor. It includes a newly discovered, never exhibited work of cultural criticism from 1976, and related archival documents. http://bit.ly/2lI3I03.

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.

Out of the Depths: The Blue Whale Story.

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.

Benjamin Freedman: Observations of Foreign Objects in a Remote Town.
Student Gallery.

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.

Jordan Browne: Sweet Dreams, Francis. 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!

Ryerson Image Centre is open Canada Day, 12noon-5pm.

The Faraway Nearby: Photographs of Canada from The New York Times Photo Archive.
Curators: Gerald McMaster and Denise Birkhofer.
Featuring photographs of Canadian subject matter from The New York Times Photo Archive, The Faraway Nearby examines a century of Canada's history and its representation in the leading American "newspaper of record." Taking an expansive view of the many stories that have shaped our national experience, the exhibition highlights images of major political events and conflicts, iconic landscapes across the nation, sports heroes, candid reportage on the lives of diverse communities, and portraits of notable Canadians. The exhibition draws from nearly 25,000 photographs preserved in The New York Times Photo Archive, known henceforth as The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection. This extraordinary new promised gift, made by Toronto entrepreneur Chris Bratty in honour of Canada 150, joins the renowned Black Star Collection to further establish the Ryerson Image Centre as a key international resource for the study of press photography.
The Faraway Nearby is accompanied by a heavily-illustrated book, to be distributed worldwide by Black Dog Publishing. Texts by an international team of authors explore how Canada's visual identity in the 20h century was constructed – from within and without – through the dissemination of images in this influential media outlet.

The Notman Studio 1858-1915.
Guest curator: Emily McKibbon.
This exhibition surveys the diverse production of celebrated photographer William Notman's bustling enterprise, from studio portraiture, to topographical landscapes, to genre scenes of prototypically “Canadian” pastimes. Emigrating from Scotland, Notman opened his first photography studio in Montreal in 1856 and found quick success. Expanding his business to various satellite locations, Notman employed and trained generations of photographers, studio assistants and retouchers. Together they presented a vision of Canada as energetic, young, sublimely beautiful, and deeply wintry, capturing the public's imagination in the years preceding and following Confederation.

Zacharias Kunuk: Dog Team.
Guest curator: Jesse Wente.
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall.
In nearly thirty-five years of video making, Inuk director and producer Zacharias Kunuk has used art to combat the encroachment of colonialism, chronicling his culture's history while reviving and maintaining many aspects of its customs in the production of his works. In Dog Team, a new commission for the RIC's Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall, Kunuk captures a traditional way of being from a distinctly contemporary perspective – offering a unique vantage point of perseverance and resistance.

Camille Rojas: System of a Gesture. Student Gallery.

Paul Swanson: Air of Uncertainty. Student Gallery.

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. We resume normal business hours with an opening reception for Larry Towell's Union Station exhibition. Please remember we're always open with inventory for sale at www.FFOTOIMAGE.com.

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.

Join us every Sunday at 2pm for tours hosted by TMC volunteers, featuring our exhibitions Huicholes – A People Walking Towards the Light. Wixarika Art by José Benítez Sanchez and Diligence and Elegance: The Nature of Japanese Textiles. FREE with admission.

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.

Dento Kogei Traditional Craft Screening Series. At The Japan Foundation, 2 Bloor Street East, Suite 300 (3rd floor of Hudson's Bay Centre, above Royal Bank). FREE admission; reserve: 416 966 1600 x229. In conjunction with Textile Museum of Canada's exhibition, Diligence and Elegance: The Nature of Japanese Textiles.
Mon 10 Jul: The Makie Technique of Lacquerer Naoji Tearai, 1988, 30min; and Masterly Skills Series: The Lustre of Edo-Kiriko, 2003, 24min.
Thur 13 Jul: Imaemon XIII, Infusing Colored Nabeshima Ware with New Beauty, 36min; and Saga-Nishiki Weaving: The Art of Koga Fumi, 2015, 30min.
Mon 17 Jul: Miyako Jofu, 1994, 41min; and Kyushitsu: The Art of Komori Kunie, 2013, 37min.
Thur 20 Jul: Setoguro: The Art of Kato Kozo, 2014, 37min; and Preserving Lifestyles through Costumes: The Mizushima Family from Meiji to Taisho and Showa Eras, 1989, revised 2010, 24min.
Mon 24 Jul: The Japanese Tenugui, 2005, 21min; and The Yuzen Silk: The Dyeing Art of Kakoh Moriguchi, 1989, 30min.
Thur 27 Jul: A Master of Earth and Fire, Uichi Shimizu, 1990, 31min; and The Art of Bamboo, Shokansai Iizuka, 1991, 30min.

The only gallery in Toronto specializing solely in artwork from the province of Quebec. Thompson Landry Gallery showcases the very best of the new generation of contemporary Quebec artists, as well as its great masters.

Late summer and early fall bring two exciting pop-up exhibitions to the Thompson Landry Gallery:

Labour Day weekend join us at the Gallery for the elusive urban graffiti artist Stikki Peaches. Keep your eyes open for where Stikki may leave his mark on Toronto as he blasts the streets with his multi-layered paste-ups, vibrant stencils and signature taglines. For more information follow us at @thompsonlandrygallery.

September brings an exclusive exhibition featuring select works by Norval Morrisseau, "the Picasso of the North", alongside his illustrious grandson, Christian Morriseau. The visual storytelling of these two renowned Woodland artists will be on display for only a short time in conjunction with the celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary. This beautiful, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition, entitled Canada 150, will honour and share the culture of Canada's Indigenous Peoples.

TSA's Summer Term runs through Sep 1 with upcoming week-long Intensives, 3-day workshops for adults and Youth Art Camps for ages 11-13 and 14-17 still open for registration! Experience exclusive and NEW Summer offerings like Acrylic Explorations, Resin Effects, Shoot! Digital Photography Workshop, Anatomy & Figure Drawing, Thick Over Thin in Acrylics, and more!

TSA's Fall Term: Sep 11-Dec 9 features a wide range of daytime, evening, and Saturday courses for all levels of experience. Join us for a 12-,8-, or 6-week studio course (3 hours, once a week), including our specialized courses: Portfolio Development, Youth Art Studio, and Professional Studio: The Practical Guide for Artists. See all courses on www.tsa-art.com.
Early-bird discounts valid through Aug 11 with the promo code: FallEarlyBird.
Expand or hone your sills in Drawing, Painting, Figurative Studies, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Digital Arts, Printmaking & Collage.

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.

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 Rita Letendre's career.

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

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

Canadian Masters. Krieghoff, Morrice, Cullen, Gagnon, Fortin, Harris, Jackson, Casson, Milne, Carr, Pellan, Dallaire, Borduas, Riopelle, Ferron, Lemieux, Town, Ronald.

René Richard (1895-1982), New Acquisitions. René Richard, a true man of the bush and Canada's greathuntsman-artist, carved a path through northern Quebec, depicting the raw untouched landscape.

Cities of Memory in Times of Endings. Featuring David Barnett, Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, Albert Franck and Jeff Willmore (including new paintings by David Barnett and Jeff Willmore). This exhibition displays cityscapes of both reality and imagination. David Barnett's paintings signify his continued fascination with the achromatic use of colour. Jeff Willmore's new paintings explore and combine the urban landscapes of Detroit and Havana, offering a socio-political commentary on both cities' economic recoveries and renewal through the arts.

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 25, 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 – Oh Canada! / Fine Canadian Art.

online auction – Urban Chronicles: A Selection of Works by John Little / Fine Canadian Art.

online auction – Quiet Revolution: Post-War & Contemporary Art in Quebec / Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art.

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.

Vivid Dimensions. This Summer, Odon Wagner Gallery is exhibiting a curated selection of paintings by contemporary gallery artists. The group show explores the realms of the physical and the metaphysical, exemplifying artists' insightful application of materials on their canvas. Viewers are invited to explore the sentimental nature of romanticized landscapes and experiences whether abstracted or not. Bold and colourful paintings stand next to striking hyper-surrealist work through painters John Ballantyne, Michael Burges, Yehouda Chaki, Pierre Coupey, Richard Thomas Davis, Zhang He, Peter Hoffer, Jan Kolata, Bruno Kurz, Ricardo Mazal, Harding Meyer, Malcolm Rains, Willy Ramos, Hans Sieverding and Treacy Ziegler.

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.

Sorel Etrog: The Existentialist.
Born in Romania, Sorel Etrog immigrated to Canada in 1963 and quickly established himself as one of North America's pre-eminent sculptors. With a career spanning over 50 years and collaborations with the likes of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, John Cage and Marshall McLuhan, Etrog developed a complex visual vocabulary which he used to express meaning in the human condition through abstract form.

Barbara Edwards Contemporary is open Canada Day, 11am-5pm.

Enigmatic Encaustics Exhibition.
Joya Paul and Ann Shier are encaustic artists who have complementary but different approaches to the medium of encaustic. They have been studio partners since 2008, exhibiting together in various shows in Toronto. They work out of Second Door Studio in the Distillery District where they impart their passion and knowledge of encaustic art through workshops.
Joya's work is a combination of imagery, both drawn or photo-based, with mixed media. Ann Shier produces colour fields with inspiration from Canadian Northern landscapes. Enigmatic Encaustics showcases the ethereal and dreamlike quality of this medium through two very distinct applications.

Gallery representing established and emerging local Canadian artists.
Summer arts camp for kids and teens; register now on our website! Art classes for adults and kids in a variety of mediums – register in August.

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.

The French Canadian Connection. The art of northern Quebec - Ontario's Marc André Labonté and New Brunswick's Gilles Arsenault. Curators: Nikolina Zanoski and Ellen Anderson.

Please note: The Creative Spirit Art Centre is undergoing a transition period in Fall 2017. Check our website for updates.

The Printmaking Show. With works by Elizabeth Forrest, Jyne Greenley, Noreen Mallory Hood, Christine Juric, Michelle Rodrigues, Aina Tilups, Lauren McKinley Renzetti, and Eszter Rosta.

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.

Absence of Colour, featuring works by: Jean Dubuffet, Eric Fischl, Alberto Giacometti, Robin Horsch, Michael Kenna, Robert Longo, Pablo Picasso, Eberhard Ross, Richard Serra, Aaron Siskind, Donald Sultan.

Visit our pop-up exhibition, Rukaj on Bay at Arbitration Place, 333 Bay Street, Suite 900, Toronto, and view works by Alexander Calder, William Perehudoff, and Luis Tomasello.

New works from Malcolm Liepke – October 2017 | opening reception Thur 5 Oct, 6-8pm.

Hand-selected works by colour field painter William Perehudoff – November 2017 | opening reception Thur 2 Nov, 6-8pm.

Art Toronto 2017 – Oct 27-30.

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.

The Rectory Gallery & Café is open all Canada Day weekend: Fri & Sat, Jun 30 & Jul 1, 11am-9pm / Sun 2 Jul, 11am-7pm / Mon 3 Jul, 11am-5pm.

Giants of the Deep – Francisco Castro Lostalo. Dramatic paintings inspired by magnificent ocean creatures.

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.

AGYU Vitrines. Otherness (Marilyn Fernandes and Pamila Matharu). A new commission entitled Taking a Page... questions the Canadian immigrant paradigm by offering up a historiographical lesson on notions of belongingness. By “taking a page” from a discarded social science textbook entitled The People We Are: Canada's Multicultural Society (Gage, 1980), the artist collective begins a process of re-imagining immigrant-settlers' positionality by framing education as a primary tool of colonial story-telling.

Audio Out – Our listening post is now a listening bench. Darren Copeland of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) curates the fall season featuring the work of Debashis Sinha (15 Sep – 22 Oct 2017) and Parisa Sabet (23 Oct – 3 Dec 2017).

NEW publication –

Marlon Griffith. Symbols of Endurance includes essays by Chanzo Greenidge, Gabriel Levine, Claire Tancons, and Emelie Chhangur. The book covers the artist's massively ambitious Toronto project, Ring of Fire, with a good grounding in his previous procession-based work from all over the world. This Japanese-based, Trinidadian artist is one of the most interesting processional artists at work today, and this is the first book that looks intensively at his work.

Joseph Flasko – mixed media.
Louisa Lau – acrylic on paper.

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.

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.

LOWER GALLERY / ATRIUM B – Variant Views – Brian Boyd.

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.

The Art Gallery of Mississauga is open Canada Day, 12noon-4pm.

Ken Lum: A Matter of Life and Death brings together three bodies of work by internationally established Canadian artist Ken Lum that take up the question of truth in representation, in forms that can be considered a kind of portraiture. The text-based paintings, prints, and sculptures in this exhibition reference obituaries and memorial busts – ways in which we recount, document and celebrate a life lived, but which are only produced and published upon its end. Often a simple recounting of dates, activities and people, obituaries and memorials invite questions: Is this how the deceased would have described themselves? Is this a true accounting of their stories? The viewer is invited to investigate the intersection of the fictive and the biographical, and what constitutes a representation of a life / death, through Lum's signature sly sense of humour.
Nam Phi Dang: Somewhere Else. XIT-RM Project Space. Somewhere Else is a photo essay resulting from Nam Phi Dang's recent trip to Vietnam, the country from which his parents fled years ago. With this series of dream-like yet documentary images, Dang confronts tensions felt by those raised in one country but with cultural ties to another, and explores the disconnect between the perception and reality of ideas of heritage and homeland.
Art of Words. Words of Art. Selected works from the AGM's Permanent Art Collection and the 5th Annual Ink Movement Mississauga Youth Anthology. Four participants from this year's Anthology competition were asked to engage with the AGM's collection and select a work that best reflected or spoke to their submitted piece of poetry or prose. The visual and verbal dialogues created by the four youth participants – Jordan Currie, Diya Jhuti, Abirami Sudharshan and Sonya Zhang – in this exhibition of selected PAC works by Bobs Cogill Haworth, Kim Adams, Carol Martyn and Paul Fournier, reveal that the creative mind has no limits in the connections it can make.

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Inner Dialogues: The Latcham Gallery Annual Juried Art Exhibition.
The Latcham Gallery is very excited to present this year's Annual Juried Art Exhibition. This event is a favourite among our gallery visitors and very much anticipated by the region's art community. This exhibition offers artists an opportunity to have their work evaluated by a group of jurors chosen from art educators, gallery professionals as well as professional artists. It also offers the public the opportunity to see the work of a wide spectrum of emerging Ontario artists.
This year's jury has selected 27 works by 24 artists from a field of 279 works by 160 artists. Selected artists are: Edward Abela, Peter Adams, Katie Argyle, Veronika Beaulieu, Wendy Bermingham, Vera Bobson, Susanne Clark, Luke Despatie, Teri Donovan, Iwona Dufaj, Sabrina Ebenreth, Diana Hillman, Bill Hornbostel, Jane Hicks, Momin Khan, Audrey Lawson, Jennifer Murphy, Jeannie Pappas, Tom Ridout, Afsaneh Shafai, Vicky Talwar, Sally Thurlow, Antonio Volpe, Carol Westcott.

Latcham Gallery is open Canada Day. 10am-4pm. Also, the Latcham Gallery will be at the Strawberry Festival again this year with an awesome art activity for all ages. Join us at Memorial Park to participate in our massive community art project, The Leaf Project! We are bringing new materials and showing new techniques, so stop by and create a leaf for our 1000-leaf mobile!

The Leaf Project.
Everyone is invited to participate in The Latcham Gallery's Leaf Project. The Gallery's goal is to collect over 1000 unique leaves to engage the community in a creative community project to mark Canada 150.
The leaf shape chosen is more graphic than organic and the tree's final form will echo this when the leaves are assembled into a huge mobile in the Latcham Gallery this fall. Each leaf will reflect the diverse ideas and motifs of artists and art lovers of all ages.
Go to www.latchamgallery.ca and use our leaf template to create the shape and size, or drop into 6240 Main Street, Stouffville to pick one up. Then draw, sew, paint, print, etc.! Create your leaf and mail it to us and we will add it to the mobile.

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.

Steve Driscoll & Finn O'Hara: Size Matters.
Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Primary Exhibition for Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
Size Matters brings together the work of painter Steve Driscoll and photographer Finn O'Hara for their first-ever exhibition at a public art gallery. These Toronto-based artists face a dichotomy familiar to many millennials: urban lifestyles combined with a love for the outdoors. The resulting images are moments of intervention on landscapes that are sharply foreign to the production and even the subject matter of the paintings themselves. Their work is a creative response to the need for a sense of scale.

The Group of Seven Guitar Project.
Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Curated by Dr. Sarah Stanners.
The Group of Seven Guitar Project explores the art of guitar making inspired by the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. This exhibition puts the spotlight on seven masterwork guitars commissioned by the McMichael from great Canadian luthiers Jean Larrivée, Tony Duggan-Smith, George Gray, Sergei de Jonge, William "Grit" Laskin, Linda Manzer and David Wren, along with an eighth guitar dedicated to Thomson. Accompanying the extraordinary handcrafted guitars is a curated show of paintings featuring works by the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, and a live performance film sceening in the interactive and innovative gallery space.

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.

Passion Over Reason: Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland.
Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Curated by Dr. Sarah Stanners.
Consider this exhibition a love letter to Tom Thomson and Canada – two subjects at the core of the 2017 year as the McMichael celebrates Ontario 150 and the centenary of Thomson's death. Passion Over Reason: Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland takes a critical approach to our fascination with Thomson and demonstrates how today's current culture of hipster fashion, as well as the cultivation of outsider creed, has confirmed what Joyce Wieland pointed to in the 1970s: Thomson is Canada.

Annie Pootoogook: Cutting Ice.
Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Curated by Dr. Nancy Campbell.
Annie Pootoogook: Cutting Ice celebrates the strength and contemporaneity of this Canadian Inuk artist while uncovering how it influenced her peers. Alongside Pootoogook's well-known pen and coloured pencil drawings, this exhibition includes works by artists Shuvinai Ashoona, Itee Pootoogook, Jutai Toonoo, Ohotaq Mikkigak and Siassie Kenneally, showing how Annie Pootoogook made it possible to begin a different conversation that celebrates Inuit art in new ways in Canada and the world. 

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.

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. Language is a universal and abstract system of sounds and symbols. Yet, the social, political and cultural contexts in which a language is spoken greatly affect its development and usages. In ever increasingly globalized societies, our sociolinguistic identity is not often singular.  The language we speak at home, or learned as a child – our mother tongue – may not be the same one used in our everyday lives. Mother Tongue invites us to consider the complex relationships that exist between language and identity; how it defines who we are and how it can inform visual artistic practice.

Jon Sasaki: Things Saved for a Rainy Day. As part of Present | Perfect | Continuous, a year-long exhibition celebrating the Varley Art Gallery's 20th anniversary, Jon Sasaki was invited to create new work in response to our archival holdings. An unused panel from F. H. Varley's studio left in stormy weather is a meditation on the depictions of atmospheric elements in Varley's paintings and on the physical environment in which they are stored and displayed. Varley's junk drawer of 1969 made useful in the present is an attempt to imbue a collection of random "bits and pieces" with a new purpose.

Present | Perfect | Continuous. To celebrate our 20th anniversary, a year-long rotation of our most popular works by F. H. Varley are on view in the Collections Gallery. In addition, selected interventions by contemporary artists bring new insights to the study of F. H. Varley's work from our collection.

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).

Our Cosmic Geometries: Images from the Two Worlds: Lesczek Wyczolkowski and Dermot Wilson. "The artists have worked in their studios to create art that will allow gallery viewers to see the world around them and within them as concentric spherical layers, each layer feeding and sending information on to the next."

Visual Arts Centre of Clarington is open Canada Day, 10am-4pm.

Artist talks on Sundays throughout the summer.
Jun 16: Luc Forsyth.
Jun 30: Terry Manzo.
Jul 9: Scott Wishart.
Upcoming dates TBA.

The Art Gallery of Burlington is open Canada Day, 12noon-5pm. Canada Day schedule: community celebration & BBQ at 1pm; chime painting and quilting demonstrations 1-4pm; Garden of Chimes Courtyard opening 2pm.

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.

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.

Joseph Hartman: The Artist's Studio. Co-curated by Melissa Bennett & Alana Traficante.

The Living Room: Self Made: Stylo Starr's 89 Dames.

Behind the Scene: The 19th-Century Studio Reimagined.

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.

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 exhibitions, Cultural Topographies: The Complexities of History and Identity in Canada. 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!

Please note: CCGG exhibition spaces will be closed for renovations during Sep & Oct 2017.

FIBREoptiks, contemporary fibre art group exhibition.
Ted Basciano, The Man With a Cloud Making Machine, mosaics.
Textiles: a selection of historic, ethnic and contemporary printed fabrics (The Barber Atrium).

The Art of Collage, new paintings by Chelo Sebastian.

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.

Celebrating Our Own: Selections from the Permanent Collection, guest curated by Senta Ross and featuring significant works dating from the early 1900s to the present that highlight Waterloo Region's artistic talent and patronage.

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.

The Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre is open Canada Day, 11am-4pm.

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.

Early Spring '17 Group Show. The promise of spring is highlighted by a wonderful burst of creativity on display at TAG Art Gallery, from exciting and talented artists new to the scene, and from several favourites of visitors to previous exhibitions. For the Early Spring '17 Group Show, TAG Gallery is pleased to welcome Carol Basciano, Barbara-Jean Lovell, and Stephanie Loback. Returning artists who always energize the walls at TAG with their imaginative creations are Prudence Smith, Marshal Foster and Sheldon Goldman. The range of Ontario and Quebec-based artists featured in the show means viewers can easily find pieces with strong personal appeal. And the Gallery offers an outstanding collection of art jewellery, glass and metal art, bronze, soapstone and limestone sculptures, and transfer art.

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.

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: Regional artist John Hartman will offer an insider perspective on his private collection of historic photographs.
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.

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.

Saturdays 10am-12noon, to Sep 1, 2017:
sTOMp! FREE family fun! The TOM invites families into the studio for a morning of art-making and fun with hands-on activities. Pre-registration is not required and everyone is welcome.

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

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre is open all Canada Day long weekend: Sat 1 Jul, Sun 2 Jul & Mon 3 Jul, 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.
Experience art during your lunch hour with our friendly informed Community Docent.
The tour topics are:
18 May: Road Trip and Northern Latitudes.
25 May: Alfred Bader Collects.
1 Jun: Les Levine: Transmedia and Absence / Presence.
8 Jun: Road Trip and Northern Latitudes.
15 Jun: Alfred Bader Collects.
22 Jun: Les Levine: Transmedia and Absence / Presence.
29 Jun: Road Trip and Northern Latitudes.
6 Jul: Alfred Bader Collects.
13 Jul: Les Levine: Transmedia and Absence / Presence.
20 Jul: Road Trip and Northern Latitudes.
27 Jul: Alfred Bader Collects.
3 Aug: Les Levine: Transmedia and Absence / Presence.
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.

At Home: The Interior in Canadian Art.

The Golden USB: Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens.

A form of formlessness: Teresa Carlesimo and Michael DiRisio.

Indigenous Art in the Atrium.

Season launch – At Home: The Interior in Canadian Art. The Golden USB: Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens. A form of formlessness: Teresa Carlesimo and Michael DiRisio. Indigenous Art in the Atrium.

FREE Family Care Drop-In.

Canada Day Open House. Join us this Canada Day for art-making fun. We've partnered with the New Canadians Centre to join in the Multicultural Festival in Del Crary Park. In preparation for MusicFest's Jul 1 headliner Kim Mitchell, we'll be making our own string of patio lanterns on the lawn. Head to the Studio to create an artwork inspired by the iconic Canadian images in Charles Pachter's work.

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.

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.

Photography in Canada: 1960-2000. Canadian Photography Institute Galleries.

PhotoLab 2: Women Speaking Art. Canadian Photography Institute Galleries.

Canadian and Indigenous Art: From Time Immemorial to 1967. Canadiana and Indigenous Galleries.

Masterpiece in Focus. Related Works: Ron Moppett and Damian Moppett. Gallery C218.

Canadian and Indigenous Art: From 1968 to Present. Contemporary Galleries B101 to B109 and B201 to B205.

Canadian Artists in Photographs. Library and Archives.

Our Stories – Connect with Art in Canada. Special Exhibitions Galleries.