Exploring Community Arts and Culture in Etobicoke

Don’t miss today’s Artist Studio Visit with @toomanyphuongnguyens! This afternoon at 2:00 pm, Phuong will be taking us through a tour of her home studio and answering your questions on Instagram Live.

Phuong Nguyen is an artist that currently practices in Tkaronto, Turtle Island (Toronto, Canada). She is primarily a painter and has completed her Bachelor of Fine Art at OCAD U in 2014. Nguyen is interested in people and the complexities and simplicities that come with being human. Working with mostly representational subject matter, she aims to evoke emotion, nostalgia, connection, and empathy. She has shown work in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K.

To view the studio tour, follow @artsetobicoke on Instagram and tune in today at 2:00 pm. Just find the Arts Etobicoke account (@artsetobicoke) and then click on the AE icon in the top left corner, it will have a purple/pink circle around it and the word “Live.” Enjoy!

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Arts Etobicoke and artist @_khadija_a_ are holding an open call to first generation Canadians, immigrants, newcomers, and refugee residents living in communities across Ward 3 in South Etobicoke. You can apply now to be part of an exciting project called Sites of Significance - an immersive digital art project that combines public art, technology, placemaking, and food! If you have a favourite family recipe that you would like to share please visit https://bit.ly/3aONn6l and answer a few questions to express your interest. Selected applicants will receive an $100 honorarium to make one of their submitted recipes, share pictures, and have a conversation. Visit the link in bio to find out more and apply today!

📷 Khadija Aziz's favourite family heritage fish recipe, cooked by her mom.

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Don’t miss today’s Artist Studio Visit with @amnnaattia! This afternoon at 2:00 pm, Amnna will be taking us through a tour of her home studio and answering your questions on Instagram Live.

“In my work, I explore the relationship between myself and my Palestinian heritage. I attempt to reflect this in my textile work by using digitally manipulated traditional motifs executed through hand-stitched embroidery to physicalize the feeling of being disconnected from my heritage. I choose to incorporate dysfunctional excess threads from the region-specific motifs - these threads function as a documentation of what they once were and now are: functional threads that filled the empty spaces within the Aida cloth as well as the empty spaces in my heritage.”

To view the studio tour, follow @artsetobicoke on Instagram and tune in today at 2:00 pm. Just find the Arts Etobicoke account (@artsetobicoke) and then click on the AE icon in the top left corner, it will have a purple/pink circle around it and the word “Live.” Enjoy!

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Be sure to check out tomorrow’s Artist Studio Visit with @amnna.attia on Instagram Live. Tomorrow at 2:00 pm, Amnna will be taking us through a tour of her home studio, answering your questions, and telling us about this beautiful tatreez embroidery. You can let us know what objects hold cultural significance for you by posting with the hashtag #EtobicokeCreates to be included as part of our Exploring Community Arts and Culture in Etobicoke initiative.
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"Tatreez is the Arabic word for a style of Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery. Originating about 3,000 years ago, Palestinian women continue to embrace this form of art using different patterns, textures, and colours, passing it down from generation to generation. Although very beautiful, Tatreez often also tells a hidden story. Different patterns and colours are symbolic, and the tatreez patterns and designs that women wear, oftentimes signify their regional identities. The most important treasure that tatreez holds is national identity. Tatreez is more than just embroidery, it is Palestine and its people. It is the stories of our tetas (grandmothers). It is a piece of home. As a Palestinian-Canadian, I felt disconnected from my Palestinian identity. Tatreez is an amazing way to preserve and connect with Palestinian identity and hopefully a means to pass that identity on to future generations so we never forget about where we come from. Our history, our stories, our people’s resistance, and our mothers and grandmothers are embedded in each and every stitch.”

To view the studio tour, follow @artsetobicoke on Instagram and tune in tomorrow at 2:00 pm. Just find the Arts Etobicoke account (@artsetobicoke) and then click on the AE icon in the top left corner, it will have a purple/pink circle around it and the word “Live.” Enjoy!

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Arts Etobicoke and @ceyastudio are offering a FREE Intro to Illustration online workshop series for youth in the Capri Road community! Join @natalieveryb as she teaches you three distinct illustration styles to channel your inner voice. Visit the link in bio to find out more and sign up today. Priority registration will be given to community members from Capri Road, West Mall, East Mall and the immediate neighbourhood.

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Arts Etobicoke and @ceyastudio are offering a FREE 3D Animation online workshop series for youth in the Capri Road community! Join Melad Jajou @mjajou as he takes you through a step-by-step process of creating 3D characters and animating them using open-source 3D animation software. Visit the link in bio to find out more and sign up today. Priority registration will be given to community members from Capri Road, West Mall, East Mall and the immediate neighbourhood.

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Have you ever wanted to try curating your own art exhibition? Our Online Juried Art Show now includes an exciting interactive component that lets you be the curator! We want to see how you would curate your own exhibition from all of the amazing submissions we received this year. You can select up to 15 images for your exhibition, give it a title, write a curatorial statement and share it on our website. Your exhibition will be displayed alongside other submissions from community members to create a digital catalogue of exhibitions by visitors like you. Visit the link in bio to add your voice!

🎨 'Offworlding' by @ashleybeerdatart

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Don’t miss today’s Artist Studio Visit with @a_l_f_a_l_f_a on Instagram Live! This afternoon at 2:00 pm, Nicolas will be taking us through a tour of his home studio answering your questions, and telling us about this wooden carved leopard head from Colombia. You can let us know what objects hold cultural significance for you by posting with the hashtag #EtobicokeCreates to be included as part of our Exploring Community Arts and Culture in Etobicoke initiative. Visit the link in bio for more information.

“My object of cultural significance is a wooden carved leopard head from Colombia, is a traditional mask from the Barranquilla Carnival festivities but in a smaller size. I got it in Cali, Colombia, the second time I visited this city, where we arranged to meet for the second time with my partner and it was on this journey where we decided to take a step forward with our relationship. We first met a few months before that, in 2018 here in Toronto. For me is an amazing piece of memory and a powerful piece of art. Has travelled with me to Uruguay before coming to stay in Canada.”

To view the studio tour, follow @artsetobicoke on Instagram and tune in today at 2:00 pm. Just find the Arts Etobicoke account (@artsetobicoke) and then click on the AE icon in the top left corner, it will have a purple/pink circle around it and the word “Live.” Enjoy!

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Arts Etobicoke is thrilled to present this year’s Annual Juried Art Show! "Through the Window…" is a reflection of our collective experiences this past year as we strive to process and adapt to an ever-changing world while trying to stay safe indoors.

The online exhibition features art works from 17 local artists and will run from April 14 - May 29 with a virtual reception on Wednesday, April 28. We will also be launching an exciting interactive component where visitors can experience all of the incredible submissions we received this year and curate their own custom exhibitions to tell new stories. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter and follow Arts Etobicoke to stay tuned for updates!

While our Storefront Gallery remains closed to the public, we hope to make in-person viewings available by appointment once it is safe to do so. You can now see all of the selected works in our Online Gallery by visiting the link in our bio.

🎨 Empty Highway by @janes.art

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Don’t miss today’s Artist Studio Visit with @mirloy! This afternoon at 2:00 pm, Mirna will be taking us through a tour of her home studio and answering your questions on Instagram Live. She will also be talking about her recent project "Elegy for The Souls on Hold", a Community-engaged art project devoted to loss and grief in COVID-19 times.

The Elegy for The Souls on Hold is conceived as a new media installation that involves video mapping projection and augmented reality features to showcase our loved one's life stories in photos and griever's voices. The project exhibit aims to deliver a beautiful and unique posthumous memorial that will endure forever in grievers' memories and viewers while exposing the most tragic part of the pandemic restrictions: dying and mourning in isolation. Inspired by Jorge Manrique's Hispanic Renaissance Stanzas on the Death of his Father, this project revisits metaphors of life, memory and resilience.

To view the studio tour, follow @artsetobicoke on Instagram and tune in today at 2:00 pm. Just find the Arts Etobicoke account (@artsetobicoke) and then click on the AE icon in the top left corner, it will have a purple/pink circle around it and the word “Live.” Enjoy!

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Be sure to check out tomorrow’s Artist Studio Visit with @mirloy on Instagram Live. Tomorrow at 2:00 pm, Mirna will be taking us through a tour of her home studio, answering your questions, and telling us about this beautiful hammock. You can let us know what objects hold cultural significance for you by posting with the hashtag #EtobicokeCreates to be included as part of our Exploring Community Arts and Culture in Etobicoke initiative. See link in bio for more information.

“This colourful hammock was created in the small town of Tintorero (Venezuela) on a two-thread loom and pedals and woven with cotton wick thread and organic colours. It is big and heavy. We had to ship it from Venezuela within a big box and arrived four months after our landing. Since then, it is our inseparable companion during summertime. To me, as for many Venezuelan, a hammock is an essential part of my life. It connects me with my childhood memories and family. A white cotton hammock was my first sleeping cradle that mom swing while sang lullabies. I did it too with my siblings. There were always two hammocks in our backyard to play and swing or to lay down, read, talk, or escape the hot and take a nap. This hammock is home.”

To view the studio tour, follow @artsetobicoke on Instagram and tune in tomorrow at 2:00 pm. Just find the Arts Etobicoke account (@artsetobicoke) and then click on the AE icon in the top left corner, it will have a purple/pink circle around it and the word “Live.” Enjoy!

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Join us this Wednesday, April 14 from 9:30 am - 4:00 pm for a professional development workshop on Public Engagement and Your Collection hosted by @ontartgalleries. Executive Director Wendy Rading and Programs and Gallery Manager Akshata Naik will be discussing Bringing Art Collections to Life through Technology and presenting our upcoming Augmented Reality in the Village of Islington project.

Art galleries and museums have been notorious for being spaces where you can look but cannot touch. Housing thousands of works behind glass, institutions have been focused on preservation and collecting rather than being a space for public engagement. How can institutions engage the public in a meaningful and impactful way. This workshop will answer the questions such as, what is the balance between collection-based vs. independent programming? How can broad thematics be used to create a seasonal approach to content, and create dynamic, multiple entry points for new audiences, such as using digital to enhance and increase public interaction with artworks from their collections.

For more information and to register, please see the link in bio.

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Visualizing Deep Data

In July 2019, Arts Etobicoke started our 5-year story gathering and artist-led data collection project, through a grant awarded to Arts Etobicoke by the Canada Council of the Arts, as part of their Digital Strategies Fund. The project, entitled Visualizing Deep Data through its five phases, focuses on artist-led data collection and interpretation to better map and evaluate arts needs and delivery in Etobicoke.

We have partially completed the 1st phase of the project which was centred around developing and prototyping surveys, consultations, and initial workshops. We will be using all the information collected to help us discover methods to better understand the community, develop stronger more inclusive programming, visualize our findings, and share our information with the community at large.

Read below to find out more about our amazing team, projects to date, and how you can get involved.

How to Get Involved
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Meet the Team
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Button Collection
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Gallery Questions
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Beads at the Holiday Market
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Feast of Ideas
As part of our Digital Strategies project, Arts Etobicoke designed… More
Free Cider
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