Interested in being part of our Artisan Shop?
We are committed to showcasing and supporting artists and makers! Our handmade artisan market shop features up to 50 artists and makers at any given time, showcasing their unique, handmade or artist-designed items – including pottery, self-care products, jewelry, bags, art cards and souvenirs, hand crafted home decor, original art and prints, consumables (food items), gifts, wearables and more!
The Elora Centre for the Arts is a not-for-profit charitable organization that promotes and uplifts the work of artists. One of the ways we do that, is by selecting and featuring makers in our artisan shop.
The Elora Centre for the Arts welcomes submissions for our Artisan Shop from artists and makers!
To submit your work for consideration, please include the following information:
Please send all of the above information in ONE email package to gallery@ecfta.ca
To find out more about our artisan shop space please click here.
A fusion of interactive art, music and technology!
3D visual music experience in the gallery: February 1 – March 17, 2024
Admission is free!
Artist Opening Reception: Saturday February 3rd, 2024 from 2-4PM
The exhibition will run from March 21 to May 12th (Mother’s Day) 2024, presented by IMpower Wellness. An Opening reception event will take place on Sunday March 24th from 2 – 4PM.
Let’s celebrate women in the arts! The female artists who create, the women who inspire artists to create, the women in our community who need inspiration from other creative women!
This curated group exhibition in the gallery at the Elora Centre for the Arts, will feature paintings, photography, mixed media, textiles and sculpture – all in celebration of the female form, positivity, and strength.
Let’s encourage each other through the creative expression of these talented artists:
One day gallery show & sale: Elora Plein Air Festival
This is the culmination of the artists’ efforts and they are ready to share and celebrate! In the gallery, there’s a buzz of excitement as people come in to view and buy the beautiful works the artists created over the previous 3 days. Meet the artists, discover a piece you can’t resist, vote for your favourite for the People’s Choice award, and just enjoy the show!
Anne-Marie Olczak is an abstract painter based in Toronto, Ontario. Her work uses the grid as a parameter to explore colour and application of paint through its constructs. Working with grids, layers and pulling inspiration from colours in her family Kodachrome slides – she captures the nostalgic saturated hues from her father’s amateur photography of her youth.
Projections of images created from old slides featured within the gallery space will be a further nod to the inspiration of the colour, and the ways our memories and “old technologies” play into our modern techniques and perceptions.
Admission to the gallery is free.
An Opening Reception will be held in the gallery on Sunday May 26th from 2-4PM. Meet the artist, mingle and enjoy refreshments with community. All are welcome! Admission is free.
About the Artist:
THOUGHTS ON COLOUR: “There is something about memory that is intrinsically attached to our senses. The attachment of colour to a memory is what I am exploring through painting. It started with being given a sampler tube of cadmium red as part of a gift bag at an art event. Red has until this point not been a large part of my paint palette, but this red reminded me of a hat I had as a child, bought as a souvenir after a family trip to an amusement park. That memory and that colour sent me on a journey that pushed my perceptions and understanding of how colour works in memory and in art and in composition, in process and in our emotional response to a painting.
Using old family slides, the Kodachromes, I challenge my usual palette of colour. I am fascinated by the super saturated colour associated with this film development process and I set out to try to match these colours with my paints and pigments. What started as an exercise in exploring colour became more about memory and nostalgia. Working in the grid allows an order in which to explore these ideas: containing them in a structure that controls the emotion associated wit the memory associate with the colours and the inspirational slide. Composition starts with the image on the slide, but is blown up into larger version of those snaps shots in the slides. Layering of colour, slowly applied, of grids and lines, create a depth in these paintings that evoke an emotional response in the viewer, triggering memory or emotion associated with these colours. “
Anne-Marie’s paintings explore colour and composition through abstraction by distilling spaces and structures through the form of the grid. The grid provides a starting parameter where details are expressed through the colour and the intersections of layers of paints and glazes. Working in acrylic demands an immediacy in the process, working deliberately and meditatively as the paint is applied while maintaining the integrity of the details of the canvas. Process and colour are hugely important to how Anne-Marie works. Recent works (the Kodachrome series) use old family slides to pull colour inspiration and push beyond the comfort of a familiar palette as well as exploring memory through the layers of the grid.
She has selected works in numerous galleries around the Greater Toronto area as well as in collections in the US and Britain.
For more information about the artist, please visit her website.
‘Symbiosis’ means living together – a term used to describe a close, ongoing relationship between different species.
The exhibition will feature several rug hooked textile forms and paintings of various sizes including soft sculptures suspended in space by fishing lures and cords with marine hooks. Some of the objects will be placed on the floor and attached to the walls.
This visually captivating showcase merges traditional Newfoundland rug hooking techniques with contemporary interpretations, offering a unique and thought-provoking exploration of the symbiotic relationship between nature and humanity. This collection will engage and inspire visitors, fostering a deeper connection with the natural world.
DEER IN THE FOREST for FAMILIES!
OIL PASTEL for KIDS & ADULTS with Katherine Olenic
Sunday March 3, 2024 | 2 PM – 4 PM
Ages 6 +| Max. 8
$60 for 2 | Ticket price includes one child and one adult
Join artist Katherine Olenic for some art-filled together-time for YOU and your YOUNG ARTIST. This class is designed to bring kids and a parent, grandparent, or caregiver TOGETHER!
Each big and little will work on their own DEER IN THE FOREST oil pastel on paper. Learn some great techniques and make some Sunday afternoon memories together!
GLOWING FORESTS | LIGHT & SHADOWS
ACRYLIC PAINTING | with Vera Kisseleva
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2023 | 12:30 pm – 430 pm
AGES 16+ | MAX. 12
$120 plus hst
All materials provided
Join Artist Vera Kisseleva for a beginner-friendly workshop where you’ll discover the joy of painting vibrant forest scenes filled with luminous light! www.VeraKissArt.com
A personal journey of connection to a once forbidden culture | An exhibition of photography and short film by Wayne Simpson
Exhibition in the gallery: October 5 – December 23. 2023
Artist Opening Reception: Sunday October 15 from 2-4PM
EMBROIDERY BASICS with Ahmri Vandeborne
SATURDAY, OCT 7, 2023 | 1:30 pm-3:30 pm
AGES 12+ | MAX 20
$30 plus hst
*$10 kit fee is payable in cash to the instructor at the start of class.
Join Ahmri Vandeborne from Otherwise Studios for a beginners’ textile workshop! Participants will learn how to take their idea or source image from paper onto fabric in this introductory embroidery workshop. They will gain the knowledge of 8 hand-embroidery stitches that can be used to embellish their desired image on a 4” embroidery hoop.
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