Toronto Dark Water

You are invited! Below is the invitation to my solo show of new paintings about polar bears and climate change. Special Guest: James Kushny, a University of Toronto researcher, and Board Director for the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, the remarkable, Leed certified centre in Churchill, Manitoba, where scientists from around the world, study northern sustainability . A portion of sales will be donated to this independent, not for profit, Canadian research centre. 

An RSVP for the opening night would be appreciated. For more info, directions or to RSVP please click here. 

Call to Artists: Toronto, Mississauga & Elora Juried Art Shows

Immediate Calls to Artists! If you know of any other shows it would be great if you added them in the comments section. Thanks!

• Deadline Sept. 22. Insomnia. Red Head Gallery yearly salon specially created for Nuit Blanche. Theme is insomnia. Show runs Sept 28 – Oct 2. www.redheadgallery.org

• Deadline September 23.  Timeless An Exhibition Curated by Moses Znaimer. In collaboration with the Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts. Exhibition at Zoomer Show 2011 & Twist Gallery http://www.propellerctr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=230:call-for-submissions-timeless-an-exhibition-curated-by-moses-znaimer-deadline-september-23-2011&catid=29:submissions&Itemid=27
• Deadline Sept. 30. Canadian Federation of Artists 70^th Anniversary Open Juried Show. For members. Non- members & emerging/ student artists. http://artists.ca/submissions/index
• Deadline September 30. Colour and Form Society 59^th Annual Open Juried Art Show. Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery. Show runs Nov. 3 – 25, 2011. www.colourandformsociety.org
• Deadline October 4. Shirley Dilworth Jaychuk Competition. Elora Centre for the Arts. http://www.eloracentreforthearts.ca/index.cfm?page=gallery_dilworthCom

A bit more time to submit to these shows!

• Deadline December 1, 2011. 2012 OCAD University Alumni Exhibition: Open to all alumni from the Faculty of Design and the Faculty of Art. This juried exhibition & sale encompassing all of the university's twelve disciplines. Opens March 9, 2012 at the Gladstone Hotel.
2012  Jurors: 
Dr. Patrick Shaw Cable (Chief Curator and Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of Hamilton), Simon Glass (Associate Dean, Faculty of Art, OCAD University) and Tony Taylor (Multidisciplinary artist).
Submission deadline:  December 1, 2011. Contact http://www.ocad.ca/alumni.htm

• Deadline December 20, 2011 Visual Arts Mississauga 34th ANNUAL JURIED SHOW OF FINE ART. Art Gallery of Mississauga. http://www.visualartsmississauga.com/news.php
• Visual Arts Mississauga 4th Annual Juried Show. http://www.visualartsmississauga.com/news.php

• Deadline January 24, 2012. Ontario Society of Artists (OSA) 139th Annual Open Juried Exhibition. Theme: Darkness & Light”. John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Show runs March 6-30, 2012. www.ontariosocietyofartists.org

Have a story to share online?  Visit:

Peel Heritage Complex & Art Gallery of Peel: http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage/passages/#/l

Lakeshore Arts (Toronto) acts of arts http://1000acts-of-art.ca/category/acts-of-art/