Onsite Gallery is Hiring Student Monitors

Onsite Gallery is currently recruiting international and IWSP-eligible students to join their on-call Student Monitor team. These students would work as special event assistance and on an as-needed basis.

Onsite Gallery is Hiring Student Monitors

Onsite Gallery
Thursday, November 23, 2017 - 12:45pm

Onsite Gallery is OCAD University’s flagship professional gallery and experimental curatorial platform for art, design and digital media. Fostering social and cultural transformations, Onsite serves the OCAD U community and the general public. A completely new Onsite Gallery opened in September 2017 at the centre of OCAD University's Creative City Campus. The expanded Onsite Gallery is a stunning 8,000 square-foot space located at 199 Richmond St. W. 

 

Onsite Gallery is currently recruiting international and IWSP-eligible students to join their on-call Student Monitor team. These students would work as special event assistance and on an as-needed basis. When shifts become available, the team of on-call Student Monitors are emailed with a list of shifts available, which are then assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

Reporting to the Programs Coordinator, Onsite Gallery, the Onsite Gallery on-call Student Monitor will

  • Provide staffing assistance for public programs and events, such as the opening reception, where duties may include: setup and takedown of chairs and tables, serving food, selling drinks and taking photographs.
  • Assist with installation and de-installation of exhibitions, as needed, which may include: light lifting and moving of objects, installing hanging material, moving plinths, patch/repair and paint walls and hanging wall labels.
  • Greet visitors as they enter the gallery and provide information on present and upcoming exhibitions, public events and general gallery and OCAD U information.
  • Supervise the entrance and all areas of the exhibitions to enhance visitor experience, encourage conversation and engagement and enforce gallery rules and etiquette.
  • Replenish gallery material, such as exhibition brochures, at the front desk and other areas as needed.
  • Attend Student Monitor orientation meeting prior to the opening of an exhibition, and any other meetings as called by the Programs Coordinator or Curator. 
  • Perform other tasks as assigned by the Programs Coordinator and senior management. 

Requirements

  • Eligible for either the Institutional Work Study Plan (ISWP)* or International Student Work Experience Program (ISWEP)**
  • Currently enrolled as an OCAD University student
  • Interest in contemporary art and design
  • Ability to work under general direction and in a team environment
  • Strong interpersonal skills; enjoy working with the public
  • Must be able to work flexible hours for public event shifts 

Assets

  • Ability to operate audio/visual and office equipment
  • Smart Serve certified 

*Institutional Work Study consists of part-time employment for students on or near campus while they are enrolled in a program of instruction, to supplement OSAP assistance received by students, or to assist other students with demonstrated financial need.

Students must meet the following criteria in order to apply for the IWSP:

  • Be a full-time Undergraduate or Graduate student at OCAD U during the 2017/18 academic year (as defined by OSAP)
  • Be a Canadian Citizen, Permanent Resident, or Protected Person
  • Be an Ontario resident and have submitted an error-free OSAP application for 2017/18
  • Demonstrate financial need (priority is given to OSAP students; out-of-province students will only be considered if funds are available)
  • Note: if you are an out-of-province student, you must attach a copy of your loan/student aid assessment document showing the
    federal/ provincial funding for the 2017/18 academic year

**The International Student Work Experience Program (ISWEP) is a work/study program designed to provide international degree-seeking students with financial assistance through part-time paid employment on campus.

To be considered for the ISWEP, you must:

  • be an international degree-seeking student (Exchange Students and Special Students are not eligible)
  • have a valid Study Permit issued by Immigration, Refugees & Citizenship Canada
  • be registered in full-time studies in 2017/2018 fall/winter session

Duration: early January until April 2018, with possibility of renewing for the following exhibition period 

Rate of pay: including benefits in lieu - $15.68/hour (anticipated, dependant on OCAD U's confirmed 2018 Student Monitor rate)

Vacancies: 3-6 on-call Student Monitors for special event assistance and on an as-needed basis 

Please submit the following to Linda Columbus, Programs Coordinator, at lcolumbus@ocadu.ca:

  • a cover letter
  • resume

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 p.m., December 7, 2017

The Sunshine Eaters

The Sunshine Eaters
Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 8:00pm to Sunday, April 15, 2018 - 5:00pm

The Sunshine Eaters
January 10 to April 15, 2018

Shary Boyle
Nick Cave
Robert Holmes
Jim Holyoak
Brian Jungen
Jessica Karuhanga
Alexandra Kehayoglou
Nina Leo and Moez Surani
Tony Matelli
Alanis Obomsawin
Ebony G. Patterson
Winnie Truong

Curated by Lisa Deanne Smith

 

The Sunshine Eaters exhibition highlights how contemporary artists and designers look to the land, plants, flowers and trees as a means to imagine and conjure hope in the face of crises. The exhibition brochure is available online here.

The Sunshine Eaters

Free Public Events

  • Wednesday, January 10, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
    Nick Cave and Ebony G. Patterson in Conversation
    100 McCaul St., Auditorium, Rm 190
     
  • Wednesday, January 10, 8 to 10 p.m.
    The Sunshine Eaters Exhibition Opening Reception
    Many artists and designers will be present
     
  • Thursday, January 25, 1 to 2 p.m.
    Shary Boyle Artist Talk
    Presented by the MAAD Speakers Series
    100 McCaul St., Room 230
    Light reception at Onsite Gallery following talk
     
  • Wednesday, February 28, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
    Tony Matelli Artist Talk
     
  • Wednesday, March 14, 7 to 9 p.m.
    *CANCELLED* Exile Series = Rising Sadness - Ali Asgar Performance and Artist Talk
    Presented by Art and Social Change, The President’s Office and Onsite Gallery
     
  • Wednesday, March 28, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
    Treaty No. 9 and Daniel MacMartin Diary Discussion with Alanis Obomsawin
     
  • Wednesday, April 11, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
    True Stories Toronto
    Inspired by themes in The Sunshine Eaters, storytellers share true, personal stories of nature as a symbol of hope. Part of the ongoing True Stories Toronto event series. Organized and hosted by Storytelling Coach Marsha (of YesYesMarsha.com).
     
  • Confirmed date will be posted on our website
    *CANCELLED* Gallery Conversation with Brian Jungen

All events are at Onsite Gallery, 199 Richmond St. W., unless otherwise noted.

 

Shary Boyle’s practice integrates the personal and the political; the emotional and intellectual; the expansive and focussed; and the abject and mainstream. A winner of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Boyle was shortlisted for the 2009 and 2011 Sobey Art Awards and has exhibited at the Centre Pompidou; the National Gallery of Canada; the Art Gallery of Ontario; the 2010, 2014 and 2017 Canadian Biennials; and represented Canada at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

Nick Cave is an artist, educator and foremost, a messenger, working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. Cave exhibits internationally and recently presented a massive immersive installation Until at MASS MoCA (MA). His works are found in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian. Cave is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery.

Robert Holmes (1861 – 1930), a botanist, flower painter and master of watercolours, spent a lifetime drawing and painting Canadian wildflowers. The collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario include notable wildflower watercolours by Holmes. He taught for eighteen years at the Ontario College of Art.

A member of the Doig River band of the Dane-zaa First Nation, Brian Jungen employs repurposed materials with contemporary and traditional techniques. The resulting works often prompt viewers to consider the distances and proximities between cultures and between humans/nature. Jungen won the inaugural Sobey Art Award in 2002 and received the Gershon Iskowitz Prize in 2010. He has exhibited internationally including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario and at dOCUMENTA 13. Jungen is represented by Casey Kaplan (NY) and Catriona Jeffries (BC).

Jessica Patricia Kichoncho Karuhanga is an artist working through drawing, movement and video. She has presented her work at the Art Museum at University of Toronto (2017) Art Gallery of Ontario (2016) and Goldsmiths, London (2016). She has performed lectures for The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Royal Ontario Museum as well as Harvard University and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU’s Black Portraitures Series. Her writing has been published by BlackFlash Magazine and C Magazine.

Alexandra Kehayoglou creates wool carpets in large immersive formats. Her work investigates and documents the landscapes that the artist has once visited—forests, desert islands, Patagonian glaciers, and pastizales (grasslands), which she desires to preserve throughout time. Kehayoglou has made a carpeted runway for fashion designer Dries Van Noten and has exhibited at NGV Triennial 2017 in Melbourne and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her work became established worldwide as an outcry against deforestation and devastation, calling for environmental awareness, as well as a forensic document for massive landscape changes in the Anthropocene Epoch.

Nina Leo’s work explores the sentient nature of the human condition and has been shown internationally in the Beyond/In Western New York, 2010 Biennial, Kunsthaus Santa Fe (Mexico) and Lobby Gallery (IL). Over the past five years, her olfactory research has developed through associations with the Monell Chemical Senses Center (PA) and the Institute for Art and Olfaction (LA). This art and research has been presented/published in Canada and abroad.

Moez Surani’s writing has been published internationally, including in Harper’s Magazine, Best American Experimental Writing 2016, and the Globe and Mail. He has been an artist in residence in Burma, China, Finland, Italy, Taiwan and Switzerland. He is the author of three poetry books: Reticent Bodies, Floating Life, and most recently, Operations. In investigating language and perception, he is collaborating with Nina Leo on a collection of work, including their Heresies project.

Tony Matelli's sculptures exhibit a sophisticated technical execution and aim to create psychological spaces that draw our attention to the sentient where wonder, sadness, empathy and hope develop. He has had solo exhibitions at Leo Koenig (NY), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Uppsala Konstmuseum (Sweden) and a mid-career survey at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (Denmark). Matelli is represented by Marlborough Contemporary (NY).

Alanis Obomsawin is one of Canada’s most distinguished documentary filmmakers. Obomsawin’s award-winning films address the struggles of Indigenous peoples in Canada from their perspective, giving prominence to voices that have long fallen on deaf ears. An Officer of the Order of Canada, she has received multiple Governor General’s Awards, lifetime achievement awards and honorary degrees.

Jamaican-born artist Ebony G. Patterson’s works employ opulent surfaces and brightly colored patterns to seduce the viewer into confronting the profound social realities contained at their core. Often addressing the use of feminine gendered adornment in the construct of urban masculinity within popular culture, Patterson embellishes photographic tapestries by hand with beading, sequins, fabric and jewelry. Patterson’s aesthetic pulls the viewer in and forces them to bear witness to problematic social conflicts experienced by her subjects. Her works command the viewer to look past the façade – of their rich formal characteristics, of the fabricated fantasies increasingly traded in our consumer and social media-centric culture – and to acknowledge the realities of those not touched by the glitter and gold. The paradoxical means the artist uses to convey this message only emphasizes its urgency and weight. Patterson has had solo exhibitions and projects at many US institutions including The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2016); Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, GA (2016); Museum of Art and Design, NY (2015); and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2016). In 2018, Patterson will have a large-scale solo exhibition at Pérez Art Museum, Miami. She is presented by Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago (IL).

Winnie Truong is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, W.O. Forsythe award, the 401 Richmond Career Launcher prize and the BMO 1st! Art Award for Ontario. Winnie has exhibited internationally in galleries across Toronto, Los Angeles, Copenhagen and in New York where she was also featured VOLTA, NY Art Fair. She is in the collection of The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (KA). Truong is represented by Erin Stump Projects (Toronto).

 

Support
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

The Sunshine Eaters is also produced with the support of Nexus Investments.

Onsite Gallery gratefully acknowledges that the new gallery construction project is funded in part by the Government of Canada's Canada Cultural Spaces Fund at Canadian Heritage, the City of Toronto through a Section 37 agreement and Aspen Ridge Homes; with gallery furniture by Nienkämper. Onsite Gallery logo by Dean Martin Design.

Venue & Address: 
Onsite Gallery (199 Richmond St. W., Ground Floor)
Email: 
onsite@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x456
Cost: 
Free
The Sunshine Eaters
Keywords: 

Plaza Dance

Thursday, December 7, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Plaza Dance is on the move on Thursday, December 7th for its weekly noon hour of choreographed simple line dancing and collective joy.

Come and get your groove on with Dean Dori Tunstall and friends to celebrate the last days of the 'raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015)' exhibition at Onsite Gallery

Bring your dancing shoes or moccasins. Everyone welcome. 
 

 

raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000 - 2015)
Curated by Ryan Rice, Delaney Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture, OCAD U

Barry Ace, Sonny Assu, Carl Beam, Christi Belcourt, Rebecca Belmore, Christian Chapman, Dana Claxton, Ruth Cuthand, Wally Dion, David Garneau, Tanya Harnett, Faye HeavyShield, Greg A. Hill, Mark Igloliorte, Jimmy Iqaluq, Elisapee Ishulutaq, Alex Janvier, Piona Keyuakjuk, Myra Kukiiyaut, Rachelle Lafond, Jim Logan, Kayley Mackay, Qavavau Manumie, Ohotaq Mikkigak, Lisa Myers, Nadia Myre, Marianne Nicolson, Lionel Peyachew, Tim Pitsiulak, Annie Pootoogook, Barry Pottle, Pitaloosie Saila and Tania Willard.

raise a flag presents selected works from a national heritage collection representing First Nations, Inuit and Métis art. Housed in Ottawa, managed by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, the Indigenous Art Collection is one of the most important and comprehensive art collections of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada and beyond. In light of and in tandem with Canada’s 150 commemorations, raise a flag represents alternative discourses and uncovers missing narratives from the framework of a national identity. The works in raise a flag focus on recent acquisitions, obtained from 2000 to 2015, which chronicle recent significant national narratives reflecting upon Canadian heritage, diversity and collective memory.

 

Onsite Gallery
Onsite Gallery, located at 199 Richmond St. W., is the flagship professional gallery of OCAD U and an experimental curatorial platform for art, design and new media. On view at the gallery are two inaugural exhibitions in our new expanded space: raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015)and For This Land: Inside Elemental.

Venue & Address: 
Onsite Gallery (199 Richmond St. W., Ground Floor)
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1515648385187784/
Email: 
onsite@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x456
Cost: 
Free
Plaza Dance

Indigenous Art Today: Lindsay Nixon & Ryan Rice

Sunday, December 3, 2017 - 2:00pm

Indigenous Art Today: Lindsay Nixon & Ryan Rice

Sunday, December 3, 2017
2 p.m.

Onsite Gallery
199 Richmond St. W. (Ground Floor)

Free

Lindsay Nixon, Indigenous editor-at-large at Canadian Art Magazine, in conversation with Ryan Rice, Delaney Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD U and curator of raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015), offer a lively dialogue and their perspectives on critical issues facing Indigenous art today.

 

Lindsay Nixon is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator, editor, award nominated writer and self-loathing art history grad student. They currently hold the position of Indigenous Editor at Large for Canadian Art, and are the editor of mâmawi­-âcimowak, an independent art, art criticism and literature journal. Nixon’s writing has appeared in Malahat Review, Room, GUTS, Mice, esse, The Inuit Art Quarterly and other publications. Their forthcoming creative non-fiction collection, tentatively titled nîtisânak, is to be released in spring 2018 through Metonymy Press. Nixon currently resides in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyaang, unceded Haudenosaunee and Anishinabe territories (Montreal, QC), where they co-founded the Black Indigenous Harm Reduction Alliance and Critical Sass Press.

Ryan Rice, Kanien’kehá:ka, is an independent curator and the Delaney Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD University. His curatorial career spans 20 years in museums and galleries. Rice served as the Chief Curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and also held curatorial positions at the Aboriginal Art Centre (Ottawa, ON), named curatorial fellowships with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, BC) and the Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff, AB), and Aboriginal Curator-In-Residence at the Carleton University Art Gallery. He received a Master of Arts degree in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York; graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and received an Associate of Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Rice’s writing on contemporary Onkwehonwe art has been published in numerous periodicals and exhibition catalogues, and he has lectured widely. Some of his exhibitions include raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015), ANTHEM: Perspectives on Home and Native Land, FLYING STILL: CARL BEAM 1943-2005, Oh So Iroquois, Scout’s Honour, Hochelaga Revisited, Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Counting Coup, and Stands With A Fist: Contemporary Native Women Artists. Rice was also a co-founder and former director of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective and currently sits on the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Education Council, Ontario Association of Art Galleries and the Native American Arts Studies Association board.

 

raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000 - 2015)
Curated by Ryan Rice, Delaney Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture, OCAD U

Barry Ace, Sonny Assu, Carl Beam, Christi Belcourt, Rebecca Belmore, Christian Chapman, Dana Claxton, Ruth Cuthand, Wally Dion, David Garneau, Tanya Harnett, Faye HeavyShield, Greg A. Hill, Mark Igloliorte, Jimmy Iqaluq, Elisapee Ishulutaq, Alex Janvier, Piona Keyuakjuk, Myra Kukiiyaut, Rachelle Lafond, Jim Logan, Kayley Mackay, Qavavau Manumie, Ohotaq Mikkigak, Lisa Myers, Nadia Myre, Marianne Nicolson, Lionel Peyachew, Tim Pitsiulak, Annie Pootoogook, Barry Pottle, Pitaloosie Saila and Tania Willard.

raise a flag presents selected works from a national heritage collection representing First Nations, Inuit and Métis art. Housed in Ottawa, managed by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, the Indigenous Art Collection is one of the most important and comprehensive art collections of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada and beyond. In light of and in tandem with Canada’s 150 commemorations, raise a flag represents alternative discourses and uncovers missing narratives from the framework of a national identity. The works in raise a flag focus on recent acquisitions, obtained from 2000 to 2015, which chronicle recent significant national narratives reflecting upon Canadian heritage, diversity and collective memory.

 

Onsite Gallery
Onsite Gallery, located at 199 Richmond St. W., is the flagship professional gallery of OCAD U and an experimental curatorial platform for art, design and new media. On view at the gallery are two inaugural exhibitions in our new expanded space: raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015)and For This Land: Inside Elemental.

Venue & Address: 
Onsite Gallery (199 Richmond St. W., Ground Floor)
Email: 
onsite@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x456
Cost: 
Free
Lindsay Nixon Canadian Art Gallery Hop tour

Land Claims: raise a flag Pennant Workshop with an Artist Talk by Susan Blight

Saturday, December 2, 2017 - 2:00pm

Land Claims: raise a flag Pennant Workshop with an Artist Talk by Susan Blight

Saturday, December 2, 2017
2 p.m.

Onsite Gallery
199 Richmond St. W. (Ground Floor)

Free
All materials provided

 

Re-map the land in this pennant making workshop. Artist Susan Blight will present on her practice and the Ogimaa Mikana project. Presented as part of the exhibition, raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015).

 

Susan Blight is Anishinaabe from Couchiching First Nation. A visual artist, filmmaker, and arts educator, Susan’s films and video work have been screened nationally and internationally at such venues as Media City International Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, and the ImagineNative Festival. In addition, Susan has exhibited at Gallery 44, The Print Studio, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, and the Art Gallery of Windsor. Susan is co-founder of The Ogimaa Miikana Project, an artist/activist collective working to reclaim and rename the streets and landmarks of Toronto with Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) and in July 2013, she became a member of the Indigenous Routes artist collective which works to provide new media training for Indigenous youth. Susan Blight received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor in Integrated Media, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography, a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Manitoba and is a currently a PhD student in Social Justice Education at the UofT. She is a Presidential Appointee to the Hart House Board of Stewards, co-chair of the co-curricular Education Subcommittee of the University of Toronto’s Truth and Reconciliation Steering Committee, organizes the annual Indigenous Education Week at the UofT, and is the recipient of a 2014 IDERD award for her anti -racism work.

 

raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000 - 2015)
Curated by Ryan Rice, Delaney Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture, OCAD U

Barry Ace, Sonny Assu, Carl Beam, Christi Belcourt, Rebecca Belmore, Christian Chapman, Dana Claxton, Ruth Cuthand, Wally Dion, David Garneau, Tanya Harnett, Faye HeavyShield, Greg A. Hill, Mark Igloliorte, Jimmy Iqaluq, Elisapee Ishulutaq, Alex Janvier, Piona Keyuakjuk, Myra Kukiiyaut, Rachelle Lafond, Jim Logan, Kayley Mackay, Qavavau Manumie, Ohotaq Mikkigak, Lisa Myers, Nadia Myre, Marianne Nicolson, Lionel Peyachew, Tim Pitsiulak, Annie Pootoogook, Barry Pottle, Pitaloosie Saila and Tania Willard.

raise a flag presents selected works from a national heritage collection representing First Nations, Inuit and Métis art. Housed in Ottawa, managed by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, the Indigenous Art Collection is one of the most important and comprehensive art collections of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada and beyond. In light of and in tandem with Canada’s 150 commemorations, raise a flag represents alternative discourses and uncovers missing narratives from the framework of a national identity. The works in raise a flag focus on recent acquisitions, obtained from 2000 to 2015, which chronicle recent significant national narratives reflecting upon Canadian heritage, diversity and collective memory.

 

Onsite Gallery
Onsite Gallery, located at 199 Richmond St. W., is the flagship professional gallery of OCAD U and an experimental curatorial platform for art, design and new media. On view at the gallery are two inaugural exhibitions in our new expanded space: raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015)and For This Land: Inside Elemental.

Venue & Address: 
Onsite Gallery (199 Richmond St. W., Ground Floor)
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/123615371743189/
Email: 
onsite@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x456
Cost: 
Free
Land Claims: raise a flag Pennant Workshop with an Artist Talk by Susan Blight

Inuit Artist Database Edit-A-Thon

Thursday, November 16, 2017 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm

Thursday, November 16, 2017
Noon to 4 p.m.

Onsite Gallery
199 Richmond St. W. (Ground Floor)

 

The Inuit Art Foundation is partnering with Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD University to host the first ever Inuit Artist Database Edit-A-Thon at Onsite Gallery on Thursday, November 16, 2017. 

The Inuit Art Foundation’s Inuit Artist Database features historical and contemporary artists from across Inuit Nunangat and southern Canada. The database is a work in progress, with new artist profiles added regularly. 

You are invited to contribute to this important resource. Inuit Art Foundation staff and supporters will be on hand to show you how to contribute to the database, then provide individual assistance as you write about the artists. 

Bring your own laptop please! Wi-fi provided.

To learn more about how to create a biography, please see our comprehensive database guide.

Register and access the database here -
https://iad.inuitartfoundation.org/register

About the Inuit Art Foundation
https://iad.inuitartfoundation.org/

The database highlights the contributions of historical and contemporary Inuit artists to the cultural and artistic heritage of their communities, Canada and the world through a centralized online resource. A key goal of the database is to broaden public awareness of the history of Inuit art and to connect interested researchers with artists and artworks while providing artists a supportive platform through which to showcase their CVs. 

For further information contact Ashley McLellan the Inuit Artist Database Program Coordinator at amclellan@inuitartfoundation.org or 647-498-7717
Or
Ryan Rice, Delaney Chair, Indigenous Visual Culture – rrice@ocadu.ca

Venue & Address: 
Onsite Gallery (199 Richmond St. W., Ground Floor)
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/359534564503071/
Email: 
onsite@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x456
Cost: 
Free
Inuit Artist Edit-a-Thon
Keywords: 

Tree temporality: multi-species research on time, territory and public art practice

Saturday, November 25, 2017 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm

Tree Temporality: multi-species research on time, territory and public art practice

Presented by Onsite Gallery

Curated by Ala Roushan and Maiko Tanaka
In collaboration with Patricio Davila, Ali Qadeer and Shaheer Tarar

With support from Public Visualization Lab

Featuring performances and talks by Tsēma Igharas, Natasha Myers with Ayelen Liberona and Zoe Todd; with contributions from Natalie Jeremijenko and FRAUD (Fran Gallardo & Audrey Samson)

View one aspect of the Tree Temporality project, its digital platform, here.

 

Public event:

Saturday, November 25, 2017
1 to 5 p.m.

OCAD University’s Great Hall
100 McCaul St., Second Floor

 

Tree Temporality is a speculative project exploring more-than-human considerations of public art in our natural and urban environments, practicing methodologies that unlearn colonial, academic and scientific approaches to research. Through the tree and other intelligent entities, we hope to acknowledge existing sentient relations and agencies, from soil and skin, to technology and synthetic-life, to animals and organisms, to law and territory. 

The project has been initiated through a series of internal gatherings led by a group of artists that presented their perspective on this topic and its critical role in their practice, addressing the research questions: If we reflect on the tree’s relation to time and territory, might it perform as precedent in how we regard resilience, permanence, ephemerality, legality and land within public art practice? How does thinking through time of a tree address other temporalities that may exist?

The content and connections that emerged from these sessions have shaped the performative public event through which recommendations for a more-than-human public art practice will unfold.

Collectively we will continue to reflect on the boundaries between the artificial and the organic implied by shifts in technology, impacting connectivity, perception and more-than-human interactions.

 

Join us for our public event on Saturday, November 25th from 1 to 5 p.m, to experience and participate in the following happenings:

  • Generative projection, animating multi-species characters through live-sensors
  • Live publishing of recommendations, producing responsive prints 
  • Performative artist contributions by Tsēma Igharas, Natasha Myers and Zoe Todd (between 1 and 4 p.m.)
  • Panel discussion with the artists and curators (4 p.m.)

Order of presentations:

  • Zoe Todd
  • Natasha Myers
  • FRAUD (Fran Gallardo & Audrey Samson)
  • Tsēma Igharas
  • Panel Discussion

 

Audiences are welcome to come and go as they please during the public event.

 

Onsite Gallery gratefully acknowledges the Ontario Arts Council for their support through the Culturally Diverse Curatorial Project program.

 

Image credit: Patricio Davila

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U's Great Hall (100 McCaul St., Second Floor)
Email: 
onsite@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x456
Cost: 
Free
Tree temporality

Onsite Gallery closed today

Onsite Gallery will be closed today for repairs and is expected to re-open on Saturday, November 4. Please contact Linda Columbus (onsite@ocadu.ca) with any questions.

Ka’nikonhrí:yo Gatherings: Indigenous Tattoo Resurgence Panel

Thursday, November 16, 2017 - 6:00pm

Thursday, November 16, 2017
6 p.m.

Onsite Gallery
199 Richmond St. W. (Ground Floor)

Free

Presented by Native Women in the Arts in partnership with Onsite Gallery at OCAD University

 

On Thursday, November 16, Native Women in the Arts will host the Indigenous Tattoo Resurgence Panel with Holly NordlumMaya Jacobsen, and Jay Soule, moderated by Aylan Couchie.

The talk will focus on revitalization, ancient traditions, design, health & safety, technique, and the importance of preservation. Holly will also be giving us a sneak peek of her up and coming documentary Tupik: Inuit Ink.

The Ka’nikonhrí:yo Gatherings connect cultural leaders to the Indigenous community in Toronto. Leaders discuss identity, wellness, language revitalization, traditional arts, ceremony, and history, as well as issues that face our communities such as climate change and the environment, decolonization, reconciliation, and sovereignty. Through monthly presentations, based on each leader’s own distinct nation and culture, the gatherings strengthen, empower, and support our community. Ka’nikonhrí:yo means to have a good mind in Kanien’kéha (Mohawk).

 

Holly Mitotique Nordlum is an Inupiaq artist, born in Kotzebue, Alaska. Throughout her childhood Holly developed an appreciation for her culture, art, and life in the arctic. A couple of great art teachers throughout high school, (Susan Mason in Kotzebue, and Cindy Yarawamai at Hawaii Preparatory Academy), encouraged and inspired Holly.  Her mother, Lucy, is also an artist and led her by example. Holly attended the University of Alaska, Anchorage and completed a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in Graphic Design and Photography. While in school she also explored jewelry making, printmaking and sculpture Holly opened Naniq Design soon after graduation in 2004. She works full-time as a graphic designer and artist and Traditional Tattooist. She lives in Anchorage.

Maya Sialuk Jacobsen is Inuk from Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland, currently living in Svendborg, Denmark. Maya Sialuk is a Culture Bearer, researcher and educator, with 16 years of tattoo experience. The first ten years of her career she practiced western tattooing, and the last six she has spent solely committed to Inuit Tattoo Traditions. She is co-owner of two tattoo shops in Oslo, Norway, and has 5 years experience from the Norwegian Tattoo Union, negotiating legislation with the authorities in Norway on health and safety in tattooing. When Maya is not tattooing in her home studio, she is travelling in Inuit countries and teaching traditional tattoo methods to Inuit women, or working with research and culture preservation.

Jay Soule is a Chippewa/Lebanese multimedia artist from the Chippewa of the Thames First Nation in Southern Ontario. Soule creates art under the name CHIPPEWAR; a play on words “Chippewa” and “warrior.” Splitting his time between several styles of artistic work from tattooing, body piercing, painting, sculpting, installation work, music as well as his line of CHIPPEWAR war clothing. From spring to fall can find him on the Pow Wow trail selling his art, clothing and other. He has been working as a professional body piercer for the last 17 years and tattooing for the last 13 year in professional shops in the USA, England, Australia and Canada. In 2005, Jay established his company Armoured Soul Tattoos – Piercing & Art Gallery currently located 721 Queen St. West, Unit B Toronto. The studio’s walls are covered with his painting and carry his clothing line and a huge selection of piercing jewelry. You can visit www.chippewar.com to see his artwork and clothing, go to www.armouredsoultattoos.com to see his Tattoo & Piercing portfolio or book an appointment in this Toronto Studio.

Aylan Couchie is an interdisciplinary Anishinaabe artist and writer hailing from Nipissing (Nbisiing) First Nation in Northern Ontario. Though now based in Toronto, she received her BFA with a major in sculpture from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is currently an MFA Candidate in the Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design program at OCAD University where she is pursuing her graduate studies with a focus on Indigenous monument and public art. Her work explores ideas of colonialism, land and First Nation realities and histories from her Two­-Spirit, feminist perspective. While serving as director of marketing for The Front Room Gallery, she initiated and lead Barrie’s “Who New?!” Downtown Art Crawls as well as several other events in partnership with local organizations. She’s community­ driven and asserts an Indigenous presence on arts advisory committees and juries. She’s been the recipient of several awards including “Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture” through the International Sculpture Center and the Inaugural Barbara Laronde Award from Native Women in the Arts. Most recently, Aylan won a Premier’s Award through Ontario Colleges which allowed her to create and establish a 5 year scholarship in support of single Indigenous mothers excelling in a post­-secondary program at Georgian College.

Venue & Address: 
Onsite Gallery at OCAD U (199 Richmond St. W.)
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/875940665906340/
Email: 
onsite@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x456
Cost: 
FREE
Ka’nikonhrí:yo Gatherings: Indigenous Tattoo Resurgence Panel

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