CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE!
Mind the date! Xpace’s bi-annual call for submissions is at 5 pm this friday, May 24th. Information on submission guidelines can be found here. Hurry up and get your proposals in!
XPACE FUNDRAISER!
Our annual fundraiser and sale brings together works from artists and designers who have developed a relationship with Xpace in the past, whether exhibiting in one of our many exhibition spaces, sharing their skills and knowledge through workshops and events, or working with us to make Xpace great.
This year’s fundraiser, taking place June 14- 29th, features a special installation by Rodrigo Martí.
All funds raised through the sale of work will go towards supporting Xpace’s ongoing programming.
For more information on participating artists, visit here.
OTHER SUBMISSIONS!!
The Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency – Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island.
The INTERGENERATIONAL LGBT ARTIST RESIDENCY will launch in August 2013. The aim of this residency is to help
create a vision and experience of LGBT longevity through shared practice, art career management training, and
community building via Canadian LGBT art and political histories.
The residency will take place with the support of the Ontario Arts Council, and the collaboration of Artscape Gibraltar Point,
on the Toronto Island August 12 to 26, 2013. Room and board is provided to each of the five residents, who will also receive
mentoring and studio visits from critically acclaimed artists and curators. Acclaimed art professionals Elisha Lim, David
McIntosh and Kathleen Pirrie-Adams will serve as the jury selecting our inaugural artists-in-residence.
Deadline: May 25 2013
For more information visit: http://www.queerartistresidency.ca/
Art Works on Queen St West: Site-specific/psychogeographic work, Toronto ON
The Queen St. West BIA is now accepting proposals from artists for the fifth manifestation of Contemporary Art Works on Queen Street West, an all-night exhibition curated by Earl Miller and presented by the Queen Street West Business Improvement Area. We are seeking installation, performance, dance, interactive, participatory, and psychogeographical works that conform to either work that is in some way site-specific/appropriate for the Queen Street West neighbourhood, or work that in some way reflects a theme of Walking Tours.
Proposals are screened for likelihood of successful execution and potential audience engagement. Selected artists will recieve a fee of $400.
Deadline for submissions: June 5, 2013
For more information visit: http://queenstwestbia.ca/
The exhibition takes place October 5, 2013
Big On Bloor Festival – Toronto, ON
In its 6th year, Big On Bloor celebrates arts, culture, community & small business with a unique community and city-building festival featuring hundreds of events, activities and exhibitions. Instutitions, collectives and artists are encouraged to apply for Culture Works for the Big on Bloor Festival.
Sign up to participate, volunteer, sponsor, rent a table online.
http://www.bigonbloorfestival.com
InterAccess 13th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition – Toronto, ON
Since its inception in 2001, InterAccess has organized an annual Emerging Artists Exhibition to showcase new media artworks produced by post-secondary students and recent graduates. Curated and organized by a selected emerging curator (or curators), this initiative offers young artists experience and exposure and aims to provide a productive space for the critical exchange of ideas among emerging arts professionals. Past exhibitions have been reviewed by The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and The National Post. Former participating artists and curators have gone on to work and exhibit at such institutions as the Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, The Banff Centre, Western Front, Space Media Arts (London UK), FACT (Liverpool) and Transmediale (Berlin).
InterAccess is currently seeking submissions from emerging artists in Canada that employ electronic and new media technologies, materials, methods and ideas within their practice. They are accepting submissions from post-secondary students, recent graduates or independent practitioners who identify as emerging. InterAccess welcomes new media works in the form of: sculpture, installation, video, audio, performance and interactive art. Web-based projects are also welcome. All works submitted must be exhibition-ready. Based on the works selected, the emerging curators will develop an exhibition theme and produce a curatorial essay.
This year’s Emerging Artists Exhibition will be co-curated by Nancy Webb and Natasha Chaykowski.
Each artist selected to exhibit will be paid standard CARFAC artist fees.
Deadline for submissions: May 31st, 2013.
For more information visit: www.interaccess.org
Zine Dream: Toronto, ON
The Sixth annual Zine Dream Small Press Art Fair will take place on Sunday, August 4th with additional programming happening on Friday the 2nd and Saturday the 3rd. Half tables are $15 (approximately 1.5′ – 2′ table space) full tables are $30 (approximately 4 – 5′ of table space.) Applications will be accepted until June 20th, a full list of exhibitors will be announced by June 28th. For more information visit zinedream.com