Art School (Dismissed) celebrates artists who extend their creative practices into the realm of education. It takes place in downtown Toronto’s historic Shaw Street Public School, built in 1914, which feels frozen in time and forgotten since its decommissioning in 2000. The exhibition explores the rich interface between teaching and learning with wide ranging projects that are complex, witty, irreverent, nostalgic, haunting, and sweet.

When: May 14, 15, 16, 2010
Hours: 12:00 to 8:00 PM daily
Admission: $5.00 students, seniors, artists: $8.00 general public.
Where: The {decommissioned} Shaw Street School
180 Shaw Street, Toronto, Ontario
The school is located on Shaw Street at Lobb Avenue, on the corner of Argyle Street.
(East of Ossington Avenue, north of Queen Street West, south of Dundas Street)

Getting there: TTC -subway to Ossington, take Bus #63 south on Ossington,
get off at Argyle, walk left. Street Cars -Queen and Dundas lines to Shaw Street.

http://www.artschooldismissed.

I’m Just Ahead, the Print/Photo 4 exhibition at VMAC Gallery, opened on Saturday, March 6th.

Characteristic to our class critiques, food, drink, and conversation was abundant. The VMAC Gallery space worked well to support the large amount of work and the diverse themes.

The show includes digital prints and paintings by Khadija Amjad, and digital video work by Jennifer Chan, Edith Longuet-Allerme, and Matthieu Martin. Serina Bruce is showing a recent photography series, and Davida Goldenberg has an interactive photography installation. Genevieve Gardiner is showing one of her layered print works with cut paper and plexi-glass, and Mallory Hazlett has an assembled screen-print/collage work on plywood.

Along with the installed works, Matthieu Martin and Edith Longuet-Allerme did a live performance of Martin’s video The search.

Thanks to everyone who came out to support the artists and see the work. We hope to see you at the next opening for more fun.

This was the first of two receptions for this group show. The second one takes place on March 20th 2010 from 1-4 pm.

Check out the Facebook event here for more information or to contact anyone involved.




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Late Night in the Bedroom, Toronto’s freshest arts and culture talk show, is back! Profiled in our second episode, shot on September 7th in front of an even larger and more enthusiastic live audience than before, are a diverse range of artists and performers. The show’s live guests included Toronto based performance artist Zeesy Powers, and musical guest Whale Tooth with their unique brand of hyper-energetic indie pop. This show also includes an intimate interview with actor Charlotte Sullivan and writer/director Peter Stebbings who recently premiered their new feature film Defendor at the Toronto International Film Festival, + a feature on Bite Your Tongue, the newest event put on by Extermination Music. For further information on this episode’s guests, please see the mini-bios collected below.


“Late Night in the Bedroom” is a brand new late night live audience talk show, featuring Toronto’s freshest local artists, musicians and cultural players. A side project of Whippersnapper Gallery, the show takes place bi-monthly with the aim of expanding public dialogue around the art we see, hear, and create, as well as supporting the ongoing development of our creative community.

Late Night in the Bedroom is shot in front of a live audience in an intimate apartment next door to Whippersnapper Gallery.

If you would like to be a guest on the show, or would like to be a part of the live audience of Late Night in the Bedroom, or would simply like to get in touch with our production team please email latenightinthebedroom@gmail.com.

latenightinthebedroom.com

Whipper Snapper Gallery




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hi friends. the booth is currently in its shiny, new developing stage! A group of students have come together with the great help of Lisa Neighbour (Sheridan upper year print instructor) to make this site happen. so kudos Lisa!

We are currently working on gathering images to add to the archives page. Artwork from 2008/09 classes is being added as well as art from special events and shows such as the '09 grad show, the open house, middlechild 3rd year exhibition, etc. If you have images you would like to add please let us know!

We are also looking into being able to upload videos to the site. More info on this soon.

the booth will be hosting an ongoing collection of online art projects for students to create and/or collaborate on. Proposals for participation will be posted and we are also accepting proposals for online student project ideas as well. If you have your own online projects/art blogs going on, send us a link!

This site will also be a great student source for important art links and information. Hit up the links page to find sites about local events/openings, international art scene updates, job and internship opportunities, and exhibition opportunities! Also find program info and links to the U of T galleries: the Blackwood, Justina Barnicke, and UTAC.

This site will also be closely connected to the Sheridan Art and Art History Blog run by David Poolman, to the fine.art.student.association (fasa), and to our satellite student spaces at Sheridan and UTM.

Sheridan's student space is 'the booth', located in the Annie Smith building.

UTM's space is the 'student inset space', located in the North Building.

We're hoping to form a solid collective of spaces and organizations this year for the benefit of all students! If you have any ideas or suggestions for the site or for something you would love to see happen this year please feel free to let us know! We are here to make things happen. And if you would like to get involved (on a large, medium, or even small scale) talk to us as well!

Here is some current contact info:

the booth.
Mallory Hazlett - m.hazlett@utoronto.ca
Johnson Ngo - johnson.ngo@utoronto.ca
Jessica Vallentin - jessica.vallentin@utoronto.ca
Ryan Lord - ryan.lord@utoronto.ca

fasa.
Mallory Daiczun - mallory.daiczun@hotmail.com


thanks for your interest and support. keep posted!