The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE), Canada’s largest juried outdoor art event, is pleased to announce its programming series for the 50th annual art exhibition scheduled July 8th, 9th and 10th at Nathan Phillips Square as part of the 50 Years of Art celebrations.

Admission: Free
www.torontooutdoorart.org

Victoria Street at Sherbrooke, Somerville and DeMaisonneuve.

The “Victoria Village Art Walk” is an outdoor studio and gallery featuring over 75 local and guest artists.

The objective of the Art Walk is to enhance appreciation and understanding of the visual arts while encouraging the public to purchase original art from local artists.

For artists it is an opportunity to gain exposure by sharing their art-making process and exhibiting their art.

This event is sponsored by the Sherbrooke-Victoria Merchant Association.

This group was extrememly creative and prolific. The techniques we worked with were mono printing (their favorite I think because of the surprise factor). Abit tricky with the amount of water to add to the glass plate to get the desired effects. We collaged found objects and made impressions with sponges, screen and various other materials. I stressed the use of contrast in value when using colors and also the use of the color wheel. An invaluable tool.

Collage, rice, bond paper and paint produce exciting results with my students. I had planned on 2 projects for the 5 hour workshop but they were so focussed and interested in continuing to work on one that we didn`t even begin the second one. The first workshop I gave back in October, 2010 I inundated the students with so many techniques I thought it was too much but reports from students were favourable. There are just so many interesting ways to make marks.

Come and see for yourself, amazing colours, shapes, forms… magical concepts and interpretations by canadian artists (new, emerging, established…).

Please Join us on Thursday, April 7, 2011 from 6pm – 9pm, at Latitude 44 Gallery for the private opening in celebration
of our exciting new show “Weatherproof” . RSVP’s appreciated. We look forward to seeing you.

Mary Ann and Janet

The Artist Project – March 3-6, 2011
http://www.artistsintoronto.wordpress.com/

Article about the Artist Project, 2011
Latitude 44 Gallery Blog posting, 2009