CreateSpace Webinar: Digitizing Your Art

Hear from artists Yung Yemi and Samar Hejazi and learn how to document your work, present it digitally, and share it virtually.

Do you know how to leverage your experience as an artist working in public spaces after the installation and performance ends?

Digitizing your art through photography and sharing your creation process helps make your work interactive and available online to those who can’t experience it in person. Hear from artists Adeyemi Adegbesan (AKA Yung Yemi) and Samar Hejazi and learn how to document your work, present it digitally, and share it virtually in this 1.5 hour hour webinar that will support artists of all disciplines who exhibit their work in public spaces, through shared learnings about documenting your work.

Event Date and Time:
Thursday, April 22, 2021
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EDT

Presented by STEPS and Toronto Arts Foundation’s Neighbourhood Arts Network, this workshop is offered as part of the 2021 CreateSpace BIPOC Public Art Residency through Neighbourhood Arts Network’s Making A Living Making Art program.

ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email eva@torontoarts.org by April 15, 2021 with any other accessibility requests. 

Artist Resources: Calls for Submissions, Webinars and More!

This week we have rounded up 4 artist resources in the Toronto GTA for initiatives and projects that can be worked on or attended from the comfort of your home. Click the link under each call for full details and application forms.

INsiders Artist Project, A Social Distancing Art Initiative by STEPS Initiative

In response to our current public health crisis and with the goal of supporting artists, connecting communities and exploring public space during this uncertain time, STEPS is excited to launch the INsiders Artist Project.

• Do you have a public-facing space in your home, garden, balcony or courtyard that could be the site of a creative intervention, installation or public artwork?

• Do you have an idea to build community, share creative ideas or connect with one another through art?

• Are you interested in creating work made from materials you have in your home, exploring DIY, upcycling or found object art?

• Are you interested in sharing your artistic process virtually? Providing insights into your practice or creative process?

Submit your ideas here: https://bit.ly/3esQUaG

Deadline: April 24th 2020 at 4pm

VITAMIN B: Live Zoom Webinar Series for Artists and Creatives
Rx to energize your artistic practice and build professional capacity during Covid-19

FREE Introductory Session – Monday April 20 | 1pm EST

Vitamin B1: Build Habits to Nurture Your Creativity and Professional Growth
Presented in partnership with The Steps Initiative CreateSpace Artist Workshops
This initial one hour webinar will help you identify and establish daily routines to develop your capacity, energize your practice and promote your self-care as a creative professional.

RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3eq6q72

Call for Submissions - Hard Twist 15: Agenda
Textile and fibre arts exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel

Hard Twist is a signature exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel, and an important annual event in the Canadian textile art community.

The 2020 edition asks: What’s the agenda? Or, what is an agenda? Or, what’s your agenda?

Hard Twist 15 – Agenda asks artists to submit textile-based work that speaks to meeting the challenges in navigating the myriad agendas of 2020, be it with resistance, passivity or passion.

Click here to learn more/apply: https://bit.ly/3a9ic27

Deadline: April 30th, 2020 at 11pm

Request for Proposals: Temporary Public Art at Erindale Park, Mississauga

The City of Mississauga Public Art Program, in partnership with Parks and Forestry, invites Canadian professional artists or artist teams to submit proposals to create an original public artwork, to be located in Erindale Park (1695 Dundas St W.).

Artists are asked to propose artwork that responds to the connection between land and water, focusing on aquatic ecosystems and how actions on land can affect (positively and negatively) the aquatic ecosystem.

Learn more here: https://bit.ly/2K5s2HJ

Deadline: May 11th, 2020 at 4pm