FREE ART BUS + EXHIBITION TOUR

Photo of animal skins on a white gallery wall
Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 5:00pm to 11:00pm

FREE ART BUS + EXHIBITION TOUR

Saturday, February 20, 2016
From OCADU, Toronto to Idea Exchange Art + Design, Cambridge
With Exhibition Tours Led By Sarah Quinton, Curatorial Director, Textile Museum of Canada

Travel round-trip between Toronto and Cambridge on a complementary art bus to view the Contemporary Textile Collection exhibitions at Idea Exchange Art + Design.

Enjoy travel time with others from the Toronto-area art community as you head to Cambridge where exhibition tours will be led at our three galleries by Sarah Quinton, Curatorial Director, Textile Museum of Canada. Light lunch will be provided.You will see work by Suzanne Carlsen, MAAD Instructor Meghan Price and many more artists from our community.

ART BUS ITINERARY
Pick-up and drop-off location: OCADU, 100 McCaul Street, ON M5T 1W1
Transportation provided by: Canada Coach
Cost: Free with a light lunch provided

12:00pm – Depart for Cambridge
1:30pm – Tour of the Design at Riverside Gallery
2:15pm – Light lunch in the Mary Misner Printmaking Studio
2:45pm – Tour of the Queen’s Square Gallery
3:45pm – Tour of the Preston Gallery
4:30pm – Depart for Toronto
6:00pm - Arrive in Toronto

Only 28 seats available! Registration is required to secure your seat. First come first served. RSVP to Cherie Fawcett at cfawcett@ideaexchange.org.

Don’t miss this one-time opportunity to view the collection with Canada’s leading textile art curator.

Not from Toronto but wish to join the tour in Cambridge? Click here for details.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Contemporary Textile Collection is a three-part exhibition providing access to the Idea Exchange Art + Design permanent collection of Contemporary Canadian fibre-based work. On display at all three of our gallery locations across Cambridge, this is the largest assemblage of works from our collection.

For nearly 30 years, Idea Exchange Art + Design (formerly Cambridge Galleries) has collected seminal works by Canadian artists working in textile and fibre-based mediums. This unprecedented three-part exhibition presents nearly a quarter of the specialized collection, from early to recent acquisitions, and showcases the diversity of artistic concerns from craft-based processes to conceptual frameworks.

ABOUT SARAH QUINTON
Sarah Quinton, BFA, Hon., MFA, has been with the Textile Museum of Canada since 1990, where she is now Curatorial Director. Quinton’s award-winning curatorial work explores contemporary and traditional handmade textiles as they intersect with sculpture, design and new media. She has taught and lectured at universities, colleges, galleries and museums in Canada, the US and internationally, and has sat on numerous volunteer boards, advisory committees and juries. She was recently invited as a keynote speaker at Strutts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick; Goldsmiths, University of London; the Institute of International Visual Arts in London (INIVA) (UK); and Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. She is Chair of the Advisory Board of OnSite, OCAD University’s Professional Gallery, and Adjunct Professor at York University.

Image: Jaime Angelopoulos. He Moved Just So, 2012. Daniel Manchego-Badiola. Guardian No.6Guardian No.7Guardian No. 8, 2014. Marianne Burlew. Studies (in crochet), 2013. Lyn Carter. Beacon, 2011. Installation at Queen’s Square Gallery. Photo by Cherie Fawcett.

QUEEN'S SQUARE GALLERY
1 North Square, Cambridge, ON N1S 2K6
T: 519.621.0460
Mon – Thurs 9:30am – 8:30pm
Fri – Sat 9:30am – 5:30pm
Sun 1:00 – 5:00pm

PRESTON GALLERY
435 King Street East, Cambridge, ON N3H 3N1
T: 519.653.3632
Mon – Thurs 12:00 – 8:30pm
Fri 12:00 – 5:30pm
Sat 9:30am – 5:30pm
Sun 1:00 – 5:00pm

DESIGN AT RIVERSIDE GALLERY
7 Melville Street South, Cambridge, ON N1S 2H4
T: 519.621.0460
Tues – Thurs 12:00 – 8:00pm
Fri 12:00 – 5:00pm
Sat 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sun 1:30 – 4:30pm

Admission is free and all are welcome.
For more information, visit ideaexchange.org/art, call 519.621.0460 or follow on Twitter @IdeaXchngART.

 

Venue & Address: 
Pick up at OCAD U Bus to Cambridge and return to OCADU
Website: 
http://ideaexchange.org/art
Cost: 
Free