Discipline: Visual Arts

PLEIN AIR “LIVE”@55Brock is an open air studio gallery equipped with a model stand, professional artist painting station, two guest artists stations & a display of local artwork.    Models include musicians, comedians, representatives from charitable organizations, local celebrities, historical re enactors, etc.   Interaction between the artists, performers & models and the general public is encouraged.  Google calendar lists the guests who will be posing each week.  The portraits & other works are painted in full view of onlookers who get a rare look at the creative process live.  Live music will be used to enhance the creative atmosphere and help local musicians promote their events & work.  Collaboration between organizations include Martello on Brock, General Brock’s Commissary, BonEvents, AB3 Comedy, & numerous contacts for charitable works such as the Community Garden, Happy Tales Sanctuary, etc.

Skeleton Park Arts Festival Presents: Next Door

June 16–August 16, 2021.

Next Door is an annual temporary public art exhibition displayed throughout the Skeleton Park neighbourhood. This second iteration
of the project showcases the work of twenty-six artists based in Katarokwi/Kingston, taking shape in the form of sixteen eclectic
installations, from painting and sculpture to performance art and augmented reality.

The breadth of topics explored in this second annual rendition of Next Door offers a series of snapshots into the lives of artists working
through a global pandemic, finding the time to create, reflect, and simply be. Next Door 2021 speaks to a more expansive notion of
community, not only extending to artists across Katarokwi/Kingston, but further drawing attention to some of our oft-overlooked “next-door neighbours,” from community members who are rendered invisible to the undervalued and complex ecosystems that support our
ways of life. The artists offer an inherent invitation to question who or what makes up this community, how it takes shape, and how we
identify it. Some works further question the definition of “art” and “artist” through collaboration with nature and the audience. Others
offer a space for quietude and reflection, commemorating our losses or emphasizing ephemerality and joy in the face of a universally
challenging time.

Next Door 2021 features artwork by:

Jane Kirby, Erin Ball, Clelia Scala, Jane Derby, Chaka Chikodzi, Kemi King, GHY Cheung, Simon Andrew, Abolition City, Onagottay, Willa Molen, Hayden Maynard, Ying Lee, Kate Yüksel, Nicholas Crombach, Amelia Glancy Benjamin Nelson, John Wright, Jenn Norton, Matt Rogalsky, Laura Murray, Dorit Naaman.

Curated by Nicole Daniels

Selection Committee: Kristin Moriah, Jillian Glatt, Joanna Reynolds, Greg Tilson, Nicole Daniels

For more information about Next Door, visit skeletonparkartsfest.ca/next-door-2021 and be sure to follow us on social media for future updates.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works. 

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an “emerging artist”, please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.

Jurors

• Pavel Sokov 
• Denisa Prochazka 
• Iris Scott 
• Carina Francioso 
• Miriam Innes 
• Lorette C Luzajic 
• Fares Micue
  

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

Online, Tuesday 17 August 2021, 12:15–1 pm (ET) Free.
Sign up: https://agnes.queensu.ca/participate/talks-tours-events/deep-looking-17-aug-2021/

Slow down! Deeply observe works of art in select Agnes exhibitions. Guided by community facilitators, this contemplation practice allows for relaxation and new insights. Part of Agnes’s Wellness Program. We will send you the link to connect to this online program via Zoom.

Other Worlds is the third in a series of exhibitions organized by Amy Malbeuf and Jessie Ray Short exploring the work of Métis artists. In this iteration, Amy Malbeuf, Suzanne Morrissette, Tannis Nielsen, Jessie Ray Short and Tiffany Shaw-Collinge ground themselves within and move beyond the earth and solar system to ruminate on outer, inner, and deep space. With a particular focus on the ethereality of science and technology, the artists examine their relationships to unseen forces and concepts of spirit and in/visibility.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Steadman Foundation.

In partnership with The Witch Institute, Minor Hockey Curatorial is proud to present ~A Gesture, A Reading~ featuring virtual performances by Erika DeFreitas and Maggie Groat on Saturday, August 21, at 7pm EST. ✨✨✨

Exploring themes of gesture, touch, and incantation, this event will contemplate how haptic and oral rituals are taken up within the disparate realms of contemporary performance art and the occult.

Attendance is free but registration is needed.

Please register via The Witch Institute website:

https://witchinstitute.com/events/performances/a-gesture-a-reading/

✨ARTIST PRINTS:✨

In conjunction with their performances, Erika DeFreitas and Maggie Groat have created a limited number of physical artist prints to be mailed out in advance of the performances. Once you’ve registered, email minorhockeycuratorial@gmail.com with your name and mailing address to request your free prints!

✨ACCESSIBILITY:✨

Please email minorhockeycuratorial@gmail.com by August 1st, 2021 if there are specific accommodations we can implement to make this event more accessible.

✨ARTIST BIOS:✨

Erika DeFreitas is a Scarborough-based artist whose practice includes the use of performance, photography, video, installation, textiles, works on paper, and writing. Placing an emphasis on process, gesture, the body, documentation, and paranormal phenomena, she works through attempts to understand concepts of loss, post-memory, inheritance, and objecthood. DeFreitas’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including at Project Row Houses and the Museum of African American Culture, Houston; Fort Worth Contemporary Arts; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg; and Gallery 44, Toronto. A recipient of the Toronto Friends of Visual Artist’ 2016 Finalist Artist Prize, the 2016 John Hartman Award, and longlisted for the 2017 Sobey Art Award, she has also been awarded several grants from the Canada Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. DeFreitas holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto.

Maggie Groat is an artist who strategically mobilizes a range of media including works on paper, sculpture, textiles, site-specific interventions, and publications to interrogate methodologies of collage and salvage practices. Her current research engages a meandering and expansive interdisciplinary approach, surrounding possibilities of site-responsiveness, decolonial ways-of-being, gardens, slowness, margins, utility and beauty, the transformative potentials of found and ritual materials, domestic space and its relation to caregiving and becoming, powerful images, the double, the otherworldly, and the influences of the astronomical on the terrestrial. Her practice is informed by her Skarú:ręʔ and Settler backgrounds, her role as a mother, and the environmental impacts of the Anthropocene. She lives with her partner and three children on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Chonnonton, and Anishnaabeg.

✨IMAGES:✨

i. Erika DeFreitas, She may be moved and they multiplied most in exaggeration, digital Inkjet prints, 28″ x 18″, 2019

ii. Maggie Groat, flowers also gardens, gardens also seeds (detail), found paper printed textile, 2020

PLEIN AIR “LIVE”@55Brock is an open air studio gallery equipped with a model stand, professional artist painting station, two guest artists stations & a display of local artwork.    Models include musicians, comedians, representatives from charitable organizations, local celebrities, historical re enactors, etc.   Interaction between the artists, performers & models and the general public is encouraged.  Google calendar lists the guests who will be posing each week.  The portraits & other works are painted in full view of onlookers who get a rare look at the creative process live.  Live music will be used to enhance the creative atmosphere and help local musicians promote their events & work.  Collaboration between organizations include Martello on Brock, General Brock’s Commissary, BonEvents, AB3 Comedy, & numerous contacts for charitable works such as the Community Garden, Happy Tales Sanctuary, etc.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works. 

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an “emerging artist”, please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.

Jurors

• Pavel Sokov 
• Denisa Prochazka 
• Iris Scott 
• Carina Francioso 
• Miriam Innes 
• Lorette C Luzajic 
• Fares Micue
  

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

PLEIN AIR “LIVE”@55Brock is an open air studio gallery equipped with a model stand, professional artist painting station, two guest artists stations & a display of local artwork.    Models include musicians, comedians, representatives from charitable organizations, local celebrities, historical re enactors, etc.   Interaction between the artists, performers & models and the general public is encouraged.  Google calendar lists the guests who will be posing each week.  The portraits & other works are painted in full view of onlookers who get a rare look at the creative process live.  Live music will be used to enhance the creative atmosphere and help local musicians promote their events & work.  Collaboration between organizations include Martello on Brock, General Brock’s Commissary, BonEvents, AB3 Comedy, & numerous contacts for charitable works such as the Community Garden, Happy Tales Sanctuary, etc.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works. 

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an “emerging artist”, please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.

Jurors

• Pavel Sokov 
• Denisa Prochazka 
• Iris Scott 
• Carina Francioso 
• Miriam Innes 
• Lorette C Luzajic 
• Fares Micue
  

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

It’s Kingston’s NEWEST Art Event.

A Gallery Show will feature, but is not limited to, hundreds of 12×12″ format original artwork available from $250 just before the Holidays.

The reality of the pandemic made using online sales a must but people really still want to see art in person before they buy it so we are launching the first “Kingston Square Foot Show” as a hybrid. By Artists for Artists

A Great Fall Season Affair. Mark your calendar!

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works. 

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an “emerging artist”, please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.

Jurors

• Pavel Sokov 
• Denisa Prochazka 
• Iris Scott 
• Carina Francioso 
• Miriam Innes 
• Lorette C Luzajic 
• Fares Micue
  

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100