Author Archives: Arts Administrator

• Elora En Plein Air Show & Sale

  April 14, 2019 4:31 pm Leave a Comment

  The Elora en Plein Air festival is coming soon! Artists and visitors are welcome to participate or observe this wonderful weekend event (May 16 – 19). The weekend wraps up with a Show & Sale at the Elora Centre for the Arts on Sunday May 19 from 1-5PM. For more information visit http://www.elorapleinair.ca

   

• See the Forest Through the Trees: a Planet Youth exhibition in support of mental health

  April 13, 2019 4:00 am Leave a Comment

  This is a student art gallery show at the Elora Centre for the Arts, featuring juried work that draws upon trees as creative inspiration. We will celebrate the strength, healing and resiliency found in trees and highlight how we can learn, grow and face challenges like they do, despite the storms that come.  High school students and elementary students are invited to submit work.  Selected juried submissions will be featured in the exhibition.  Prizes will be awarded for top entries.  

   

  Students interested in submitting work or finding out more about the criteria, please click here.

  Teachers can view and download program guidelines here.

   

  A free opening reception will be held in the Minarovich gallery at the Elora Centre for the Arts on Saturday June 1st from 2-4PM.  Everyone is welcome to attend!

  This is a collaborative project with Neighbourwoods Tree Mapping Project, with assistance and support of YouthTalk , Upper Grand District School Board and the Centre Wellington Community Foundation.

• Handmade Artisan Market & Eco-Friendly Pop up Shop

  April 9, 2019 4:26 pm Leave a Comment

  Our pop up shop features local, handmade and unique items for home and gifting.  The shop is always transforming and adding new products!  Right now, the shop features sustainable and eco-friendly home decor, beauty products and gifts to compliment the H20 for Good exhibition: handmade reusable shopping bags (with cork trim!), all-natural handmade beauty products, eco-friendly water bottles, recycled glass from Spain, natural hand-dyed clothing, handmade macrame plant holders, water-inspired jewellery, Water is Life T-shirts and more!  Our collection of Wendy Tancock designed Canadian treasures is also back!

  Come see what is fresh, new and creative!

• Bubblegum Landscapes by Frances Hahn

  April 8, 2019 4:42 pm Leave a Comment

  “All my dreams fall and form a bridge of memory where I can get back”. Frances Hahn doesn’t attempt to paint a clear representation of the landscape, but takes from both reality and her best wondering about the place. She assembles these much like a puzzle into a simplified interpretation of beauty. While her visual work is either figurative or abstract landscape, the common subject is imagined memory. Future, past and fantasy have equal weight.

   

  Special thank you to the BLACK DRESS EVENT for helping to present this exhibition!

   

  Frances Hahn‘s studio practice is based in Guelph. She has been painting since 2012. While figurative art has been a mainstay, Frances is currently exploring landscapes and abstraction in both paint and collage. Her work is collected widely across Canada, the US and UK and is part of the public collection of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

• Fabric of Memory Exhibition: Pam Lobb & Tammy Ratcliff

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  Fabric of Memory: Perforations and Passages in printmaking and fibre arts. Featuring the work of Toronto artist Pam Lobb and Guelph artist Tammy Ratcliff.

  In Fabric of Memory both artists are using print and textiles to explore narratives of nostalgia and memory that develop through the deconstructing, editing and reconstructing of materials.

  Pam is working from a regional perspective, collecting handmade textiles from Huron and Perth counties.  She uses both handmade papers and a process of pouring paper pulp to encapsulate the textiles.  An effect that references porcelain is created by layering a series of monoprints on the surface.  The imagery is drawn from Victorian ceramic patterns and in combination with the patterns of the lace, a non-representational portrait of her home town emerges.

  Tammy is inspired by the botanical world and its many examples of imperfection and impermanence.  From this viewpoint she uses traditional textile techniques to manipulate her etchings and monoprints on handmade paper, creating renditions of functional textile pieces.  Items whose utilitarian value might be lessened as they become threadbare and fragile through use are thus transformed into artifacts of shared memories and the passage of time.

  This exhibition marks the second show that Lobb and Ratcliff have collaborated on.  The two began working together in Tammy’s studio as artist and assistant.  Pam was studying printmaking and sculpture when they first met and shortly after, Tammy became her mentor in 2007.  After Pam graduated, her position developed beyond the mentorship into that of professional studio assistant for the next five years. Pam’s practice was influenced by Tammy’s love of print and handmade papers and her interest in pushing the limits of this material. During this period of working in the studio, Pam’s sculptures were an influence on Tammy’s work and since then she has been exploring sculpture more in her practice. Their first show together, Paper and Lace at Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art in 2012, marked the first time they worked together as peers and the end of their mentorship relationship.

  To read more about the artists, please click on the links for Pam Lobb or Tammy Ratcliff.

   

• Submission Criteria for Exhibitions

  March 25, 2019 12:33 pm Leave a Comment

  The Elora Centre for the Arts considers submissions from artists and curators for solo and group exhibitions. We accept proposals from emerging and established artists working in all styles and mediums and across disciplines.

  To submit your work for consideration, please include the following information:

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• THIS WAY OUT: Contemporary Landscapes by James Ridyard

  October 1, 2018 3:15 pm Leave a Comment

  THIS WAY OUT: Contemporary Landscapes by James Ridyard

  Toronto-based artist James Ridyard uses images of Elora and its iconic surrounds as aides-mémoire to produce richly layered, atmospheric landscapes at once familiar and foreign. Curator Micaela Campbell

   

   

   

   

   

   

• FINDING THE NEST: SELF-IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS

  August 14, 2018 7:01 pm Leave a Comment

  GRAZYNA ADAMSKA AND NORMAN BUSSE

  Finding the Nest: Self-Identity and Otherness captures the ambiguous connections between our understanding of oneself and our striving for wider forms of acceptance and recognition. The exhibition features the paintings of Grazyna Adamska and Norman Busse. Exploring the relationship between power and positionality, both artists’ works show an intense commitment to the human form as vehicle for interpretation of self and other within the diversity of contemporary realities. Curator Micaela Campbell

• Portraits & People: An Assembly of Forms

  December 6, 2017 4:10 pm Leave a Comment

  Featuring the work of:  Judy Anderson, Cindy McKenna, Frances Hahn, Nadine McEwen, Heather Murray, Grayce Perry, A. Linda VanWyk, Fuzzy Mall, Alisa McRonald.

  Curators Bear Epp & Micaela Campbell

  Opening Reception October 12th, 7-9pm in the Harris Exchange Gallery

   

• Elly MacKay: Chasing Shadows

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  The Minarovich Gallery at the ECFTA transforms into miniature worlds of paper and shadow with the arrival of Chasing Shadows. Taking inspiration from Victorian inventions like tunnel books, stereoscopes, magic lanterns and zoetropes, Elly MacKay crafts rich cut-paper dioramas in shadow boxes layered with atmospheric detail and peopled with whimsical characters and ethereal flora and fauna.

  An artist, author and illustrator, MacKay works from her home studio in Owen Sound. She was recently commissioned to produce the cover art for the new edition of the Anne of Green Gables book series.

  Creative Direction Bear Epp & Micaela Campbell

  Sponsored by the Black Dress Event