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Window Box: Pamela Dodds – Swimmers

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Pamela Dodds’ practice explores the complexities of human relationships, drawing from a lesbian, feminist sensibility that embraces and explores the inter-connectedness of humanity across time and space, with a focus on women and women’s agency as a core perspective. In relief print media of linocut and woodcut, she employs the gesture of the human form, mirrored or counterpointed within an expressive environment, to describe complex and layered moments and encounters. In her recent installations of Undertow – tall scroll-like prints evoking swimmers in the ocean – viewers are encouraged to walk among the prints. For the Window Box Gallery at Gallery 1313 she has created a version of her ocean-inspired woodcut print installations. Pamela Dodds’s work is exhibited regularly in Canada and USA. Reviews include Globe and Mail, Art New England and Boston Globe. Her work resides in collections such as Cleveland Museum of Art, Purdue University, Boston Public Library, Carleton University

Location, Location, Location Mary Kainer at WIA@1313

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Mary Kainer's work will be in the Window Box Gallery until the end of the month at Gallery 1313, 1313 Queens Street West, Toronto. http://g1313.org/6286/location-location-location-mary-kainer-sep-26-oct-23/

Curious Glimmers with Julia Louise Pereira & Carpos Collective

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CWSE Hallway Gallery, OISE 252 Bloor Street West, 2 nd Floor Toronto.  Opening: Tues. Sept. 18, 2018, 5.30PM - 7PM and running until Jan 1, 2019. Many of us are curious about the unknown, wonder about all that glimmers in the firelight. Something magical preys on those of us who have wandering minds. This is the place of folklore. I’ve been fascinated with monsters and magic since I was a young child, as most of us are, but I did not grow up and away from this fairy-tale mind. If anything, I grew more deeply committed to the “enchanted” story as a writer, an illustrator, and a translator of the emotions and thoughts. The satyr, once a lustful, male-dominated mythical creature, is now a wistful spirit who is unregulated by common understandings. She is air. “A child of nature, pure, tame and fearless, but with the brutal instincts necessary to enable [her] to defend [her]self against threats.” The selkie, usually a hapless maiden of the sea who is coerc

Tiny Homes: Everyone Is Downsizing, WIAprojects@1313/The Window Box Gallery

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ARTIFACTS (Pam Patterson & Leena Raudvee) ever cognizant of gender politics and cultural mores, engages in deconstructing various contemporary societal issues by exploring women’s bodies across speculative edges and in liminal spaces. Here, in Tiny Homes , ARTIFACTS playfully references the contemporary tiny homes movement but here the “homes” are uninhabitable. The installation speaks to real (and oftimes painful) issues for many of Toronto’s seniors: the lack of accessible affordable housing and the fear of losing, and the need to discard, a lifetime of belongings. The Window Box Gallery is open during Gallery 1313 hours -  Wednesday – Sunday, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm  ,  1313 Queen Street West Toronto, ON.   Tiny Homes opens August 1 and runs until Sept 30 2018.

Changes at WIAprojects!

WIAprojects will be leaving the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education at OISE UT on Dec 31, 2018. The Centre is closing and it is with much regret that our program must leave. We are deeply grateful to the Centre for 14 years of office, storage and exhibition space, research and workshop opportunities, the collegiality of fellow associates, and the extraordinary support of many Centre Heads. WIAprojects will be continuing to develop projects – in research, publication and exhibition - on an ad hoc basis at different sites across Canada. We will however have an ongoing presence in Toronto thanks to the support of Phil Anderson and Gallery 1313. WIAprojects @1313 will present monthly exhibitions in the gallery courtyard window at Gallery 1313. These exhibitions may be accompanied by courtyard performances. For 2018 WIA Directors, Leena Raudvee and Pam Patterson will, as co-curators, present a series of 4 window exhibits by artists and designers opening with an ARTIFACTS wind
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THE CANADIAN POSTCARD PROJECT Mallory Diaczun On daily 10-5pm to Sept 2018  CWSE Hallway Gallery, 2nd floor 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto.  The Canadian Postcard Project is a nationwide community initiative which connects young individuals (ages 12-20) with Canadian artists. Emerging and established professional artists from across the country participate in a postcard exchange. The project begins with each student choosing an artist/artwork s/he admires and then creating a postcard in reaction to that chosen piece. Once the student artwork is made and mailed, the Canadian artist sends a new artwork, in the form of a postcard, back in response. Through a variety of classroom lessons that teach the act of looking, describing, analyzing, interpreting, and critiquing, students engage in cooperative learning and collaboration that results in an authentic visual dialogue between young and practicing artists. The Canadian Postcard Project brings Canadian artwork into the

Lillian Allen & Joanna Black: Learning for Social Change

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(Joanna Black) Work by Scott Boyko (Lillan Allen) Photo of HYP by Martin Reid Opening Feb. 5, 5.30 - 7 pm. Conversation 6 pm Exhibition runs from Feb 6 - May 4, 2018 9 AM -8 PM daily. CWSE Hallway Gallery OISE/UT, 252 Bloor Street West (just east of St. George & Bloor), 2nd Floor, Toronto FREE and accessible. Link to images from the opening as photographed and reinterpreted by Miklos Legrady:  http://www.mikloslegrady.com/joanna_black/social_change/index.html While socially engaged art, as a category of practice, is still a working construct, the artist who identifies as such is an individual whose specialty includes working professionally with/in society. Writes Pablo Helguera (2011) in Education for Socially Engaged Art , “Standard education practices – such as engagement with audiences, inquiry-based methods, collaborative dialogues, and hands-on activities – provide an ideal framework for process-based and collaborative conceptual [creative] practices (p.