Shenkman Arts Centre, 245 Centrum Boulevard, Orléans (Lower Level)
Trinity Art Gallery
Salon A
Keith Burnett:  Storm Watch: the Inevitability of Change
Shifting skies come to life with colour and movement, the viewer compelled to ponder the forces of nature and our place within it. The images are powerful, foreboding while conveying hope and renewal in a process of continual change.
March 25 - April 27, 2010

Salon B
Susan Gardiner Bourlier: Construction Anxiety
This series explores the challenges of modern construction by embracing the electrical outlet as both a tool and central motif in the work. Its functional role is subverted, calling into question common practices and assumptions about the process of architecture.
March 25 - April 27, 2010

Promenade Arteast
The ABCs of Art by Arteast members From A-D
March 25 - May 25, 2010
http://www.arteastottawa.com
613-796-6861
Meet the artists! Reception for Arteast and Trinity artists on Sunday, March 28 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.

CALL TO ARTISTS
NEW DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 2010
Blink Artist Collective is currently accepting submissions for the 2010 exhibition season.  Blink Gallery can be found in Header House, a small, stone NCC heritage building in Major's Hill Park, across the bridge from The National Gallery.
Blink will be mounting another exciting series of one-week shows from June to September, which will feature the work of Blink artists, as well as showcase a variety of guest artists.
Blink is encouraging artists of all disciplines to apply.
Please apply with a non-refundable application fee of $25.
-10 images & image list
-72 DPI jpg (750 x 900 pixels)
-Artist statement/proposal (max 500 words)
-CV/Bio
-Contact information
-Include a SASE
For any questions regarding application go to: jeanjewer@rogers.com
All submissions will be juried by Blink.
Please mail applications to:
Blink Gallery for the Arts Inc.
PO Box 53070
RPO Rideau-centre
Ottawa, ON.   K1N 1C5
NEW DEADLINE – March 31st 2010
Change of deadline is due to a deadline discrepancy.
NOTE: If you must send application through e-mail (jeanjewer@rogers.com) please mail the application fee.

Yasmina Reza's play "Art" is now running at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, until April 10th. Here's the Globe and Mail review. And here's an interview with one of the leads, Colin Mochrie.

We discussed Reza in this blog last year.

Friday

La Petite Mort Gallery presents
FIVE DAY EXHIBIT
JANE BURNSTEIN, "Bound in Banyans - In Black & White"
Vernissage: Friday March 19, 2010 / 7 -10pm
306 Cumberland

Community Labyrinth Walk: Join us for an evening seeking balance between the melodic and the rhythmic to find completeness within.
We welcome Violinist Janice Mah and Percussionist Benilda Formoso to blend the melody of the strings with the beat of the drum to form an original soundscape to accompany your walk in the labyrinth.
Friday March 19th at 7:00 pm| Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa | 420 Sparks Street
An introduction to the labyrinth as walking meditation will be provided. No experience necessary. Suggested donation $20.
For information contact: barbara.brown1@sympatico.ca

The Block by Matthew Higgins, documents in chilling detail, weapons made by the inmates of Kingston Penitentiary. Vernissage: Friday March 19th, 2010, 17:00 - 20:00
On View: March 19th - March 30th, 2010
Viewing hours: Mon - Fri 10:00 -18:00, Sat 10:00-15:00
Sundays and late evenings by appointment or by chance.
The Red Wall Gallery is located in SPAO at 168 Dalhousie, at the corner of Bruyère, in the Byward Market.

Art Centre L'Imagier - Call for Submissions 2011
Deadline: April 1st, 2010
The Centre d'exposition L'Imagier invites interested artists to submit their exhibition proposals for the 2011 programming year by April 1st, 2010. The regular exhibition season runs from January to December.
This year, special attention will be given to the diversity of artistic practices, and works integrating new media are welcome.
L'Imagier offers artists two architecturally distinctive exhibition spaces, each with its own "feel." The Centre asks that artists submit project proposals that can be shown in one or both of these galleries. Group exhibition proposals of two or three artists are also accepted.
Submissions will be reviewed by a peer jury.
Required material:
Curriculum Vitae
Ten pictures of recent works on CD or DVD (jpeg) + short descriptions
Artist statement
Description of your project
Press kit (if available)
Self-addressed stamped envelope
Deadline: April 1st, 2010
Send your material to the following address
Centre d'exposition L'Imagier
9, rue Front
Gatineau (Québec) J9H 4W8
Information
Phone: 819-684-1445
E-mail: info@limagier.qc.ca
Web site: www.limagier.qc.ca

Exhibit and Sales Opportunities for Fine Artists and Craftspeople.
Date: Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: Gladstone Clayworks, 949b Gladstone Ave
Contribute to an information sharing session of Ottawa, Gatineau and surrounding area exhibit and sale opportunities - a session facilitated by Lisa Brunetta (sculptor), and presented by the Working Creatives group and HarryNowell.com.
Join us to compare notes about the opportunities in our region to show and sell our work. Lisa Brunetta, a sculptor and fine craftsperson based in Gatineau, will moderate this session where all are invited to give their impressions and ask their questions. Thinking about doing a show? Maybe you'll pick up some good feedback from someone who has done it already. Already done a show and have some comments? Bring them on!
If you are already a member of the Working Creatives group and are planning to attend the session, please RSVP to Lisa at lbrunetta@yahoo.ca. You can also contact Lisa if you have any questions about the session.
Working Creatives is a free group designed to share information among people working full time in their creative field. We have been offering free monthly info and network sessions to support fine artists, illustrators, designers, photographers, writers, etc. This is our third season. Sessions are organized and run by the 170 members - themselves full time working creatives. Need more information about the group?
Our seasonal social:
www.harrynowell.com/blog/2009/12/17/393-creatives-networking-hits-the-ice/
Or contact Harry@HarryNowell.com

We are currently seeking art donations for an art auction to raise funds for Beverley Sunday and Joseph Sayer and their three children. The auction will be held in April, so please contact Caroline if you can donate artwork. We are accepting all mediums of artwork, preferably framed. Contact Caroline for further information at cgophoto@gmail.com

FYI: Accident Leaves Olympic Dancer and Her Husband in ICU, Family Needs Assistance
Ottawa - Local aboriginal health and wellness instructor Beverley Sunday, 30, and her husband Joseph Sayer, 35, were badly injured in a single-vehicle accident just after 11:00 a.m. on Feb. 19th while driving on Lucerne Boulevard in Gatineau.
The couple both sustained serious brain injuries and multiple broken bones. Both are in intensive care at the CHVO in Hull. Their three young children - ages five, six and 12 - are currently being cared for by extended family. Sunday, originally from Alberta, is a prominent local aboriginal who participated as a dancer in the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Olympic Games on Feb. 12th in British Columbia, both she and her husband Sunday were Olympic Torchbearers in December.

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Sunday was set to open the city's first Aboriginal fitness studio - HAWK Studio - in the west end this April. She is the creator and founder of REZFIT which is fusion fitness that incorporates Aboriginal dance throughout the world.

The Abbey for the Arts is seeking submissions from visual artists for its 2010 season, beginning in May and running through December, 2010.  Artists may submit their own themes for group or solo shows in one of our magnificent galleries. Deadlines begin April 1, 2010.   For more information visit:  www.theabbey.ca

AVAILABLE LIGHT SCREENING COLLECTIVE: CALL FOR CURATING PROPOSALS FOR THE AUTUMN 2010 - SUMMER 2011 SERIES

Available Light Screening Collective (AL for short) is an Ottawa, Ontario-based volunteer organization committed to curating and presenting experimental film and video artworks within the local community. From its inception in 1995 as a Super 8 production group, AL has functioned as a non-incorporated artists' collective, a democratic and flexible form of governance in keeping with the shifting character of the dynamic experimental media artworks it is dedicated to presenting.

Available Light Screening Collective is currently seeking written proposals for media arts curating projects for its 2010-2011 season. The series is scheduled to begin in September 2010 with most programs presented at our primary exhibition venue in Ottawa, Club SAW at Galerie SAW Gallery. Proposals for other venues in the region, including outdoor sites, will also be considered. A professional curator's honorarium, as well as individual artists' fees for each work screened, will be paid upon the successful completion of the project.

Call to Local Artists
Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery is now accepting submissions for a Group Show. Please send samples of your art work to the gallery (postal submissions only). Video, painting, poetry, drawings, installations, sculpture, anything.... crazy is good. The more interesting the art is the better.
Going Local. Group Show.
April 1st - 24th. 2010
Meet the Artists: April 1st, Thursday 6 - 9 pm.
Deadline for Submissions: March 18th.
Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
286 Hinchey Ave, Ottawa, Ontario. K1Y 1M2.
www.PatrickJohnMills.ca
No email submissions
Submissions will not be returned and only accepted artists will be contacted.

The Ottawa School of Art (OSA) is now accepting proposals of current or proposed work for the 2011 exhibition season for both its downtown campus gallery and Orleans campus gallery.
Artists working in all media are invited to submit proposals. Group exhibition proposals are also accepted. Artists should submit only one proposal and should indicate the gallery in which they wish their work to be exhibited (i.e. downtown or Orleans). Exhibition proposals can be submitted for consideration at both galleries.
The deadline for submitting artwork is Friday, April 23, 2010. All work must arrive no later than 4:30 p.m. local time (EST) in order to be considered for submission.
Mail or deliver (submissions will not be accepted via email) your submission to:
The Gallery Committee, Ottawa School of Art
35 George St. Ottawa, ON K1N 8W5
For more information, contact OSA Gallery Coordinator Cathy Brake at 613.241.7471 x 27
Download the 2011 Call for Exhibition Proposals and Guidelines for Support Materials online at www.artottawa.ca or stop by the OSA to pick up your copies in person today!

Why limit your gallery openings to one night a week?

GCTC's FRITZI gallery presents:
Eric Sze-Lang Chan (eepmon)
March 4 ~ April 11
A visual art dialogue with “blood.claat"
Meet the Artist Reception (free)
Thursday March 4   6-8pm 1233 Wellington Street West (at Holland Avenue), 2nd Floor Level

Brian Jungen: Thursday, March 4 at 6 pm
Brian Jungen will discuss his artistic practice. A bilingual question period will follow.
Brian Jungen creates thought provoking sculptures through the reconfiguring of familiar objects. His work comments on a range of issues, from mass production and globalization to the consumption of Aboriginal imagery through museum practices. He first came to prominence with Prototypes for New Understanding (1998–2005), in which he reconceived Nike footwear into objects that suggest Northwest Coast Aboriginal masks. Since then his work has been exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally including at the Vancouver Art Gallery (British Columbia), Tate Modern (London), the New Museum (New York), the Biennale of Sydney (Australia), and Vienna Secession, (Austria).  The National Gallery of Canada collection currently holds four works by Jungen including Peoples Flag, 2006; Vienna, 2003; Vernacular, 1998-2001; and Shapeshifter, 2000.
In the National Gallery's Lecture Hall. Free admission. 380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa

CALL TO ARTISTS
Blink Artist Collective is currently accepting submissions for the 2010 exhibition season. Blink Gallery can be found in Header House, a small, stone NCC heritage building in Major's Hill Park, across the bridge from the National Gallery. Blink will be mounting another exciting series of one-week shows from June to September, which will feature the work of Blink artists, as well as showcase a variety of guest artists. Blink is encouraging artists of all disciplines to apply.
Please apply with a non-refundable application fee of $25.
Please go to www.blinkgallery.ca and look for the application form - all the necessary information for application can be found on the form.
For any questions regarding application go to: karina_kraenzle@sympatico.ca
All submissions will be juried by Blink.
DEADLINE - March 15, 2010
Please mail applications to:
Blink Gallery for the Arts Inc.
PO Box 53070
RPO Rideau-centre
Ottawa, ON   K1N 1C5

Galerie SAW Gallery presents / La Galerie SAW Gallery présente :

FREE SCHOOL / ÉCOLE LIBRE

A new initiative proposed by members of the Board of Trustees of Galerie SAW Gallery, Free School is a free workshop and lecture series geared toward professional visual and media artists working in the Ottawa and Gatineau regions. Providing an exceptional opportunity to delve into a curriculum that few learning institutions deliver, Free School features leaders in various fields related to the arts, who will speak to artists in practical terms on subjects ranging from crating and conservation to working with curators and running a studio. Informative and accessible to a wide range of artists from emerging to established, this series is meant to enrich your artistic career all the while providing a unique networking opportunity.

Call to Artists
THE NEW ART FESTIVAL 2010
(formerly known as Art in the Park)
Saturday, June 5th & Sunday, June 6th, 2010
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Central Park, The Glebe, Ottawa
Application deadline: Monday, March 8th, 2010
Information & Application Process: www.artinfoboy.org
The New Art Festival is a celebration of original, one-of-a-kind art & fine craft and the artists who create it. This unique event is geared to strengthen the connections among visual artists, craftspeople, art educators, galleries and the public.
Ottawa's hugely popular outdoor art exhibition is a free, family-oriented event in a beautiful park setting. This exhibition attracts thousands of visitors annually (previous years' estimate: 10,000 over two days).
Participating artists are selected by a jury comprised of practicing artists and arts professionals. We invite local food vendors to participate, provide shaded rest areas, do excellent publicity and work hard to make sure that the two days are fun and comfortable for the artists and the public. We know that art does sell at this show and that it is a tremendous networking opportunity.
Prizes are awarded in several categories.

RENT AND SELL YOUR ART as an artist member of ART LENDING OF OTTAWA
Next jury date is Tuesday, April 27, 2010.
More information on the News page of our website.
Or telephone: 613-224-8028

Friday

THE OTTAWA ART GALLERY PRESENTS
Friday 26 February at 12:30 pm
In the context of the exhibition "Exploded View," Jennifer R. Angus will present and discuss her work.
Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue

Research Fellowship Lectures: General Idea
Friday, February 26 from 2 pm to 5 pm
Three presentations by Fellows from the 2009/10 program focus on the Canadian artists' group General Idea. The Research Fellowships Program encourages and supports advanced research. The Fellowships emphasize the use and investigation of the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, including those of the Library and Archives.
In the Lecture Hall of the National Gallery (380 Sussex Drive). In English with bilingual discussion. Free admission.

OAG | GAO : Subjecting Figures (from the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art)
The official opening will take place on February 25 at 5:30 p.m.
Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue

Spring Thaw Craft Fair is looking for vendors for an upcoming event at the Routhier Community Centre on Guiges Ave. The event takes place on Saturday March 27th from 10am-5pm. We're searching for about 20-25 vendors. The tables are 6 feet long, and you are welcome to share a table and the fee ($30) as long as you can make the space work for you.
Please e-mail the following information to kate@operationcomehome.ca
Name
Company Name
Contact Info (e-mail and phone)
Brief description of your product and some sample photos.
Kate Greenland
BeadWorks Staff
613-230-4663
www.operationcomehome.ca
kate@operationcomehome.ca

The Abbey for the Arts is accepting submissions from visual artists for its Opus Five Fine Art Show:  Artist and Religion: a glimpse of the visual artist as iconographer and promoter of religious ideology.  We are seeking work on consignment from visual artists which incorporates traditional iconography and/or artwork that supports the ideology of the artists religious faith with new symbolic representations.  Work depicting belief in any and all faiths will be considered.  Please visit the Abbey for the Arts website for complete details: www.theabbey.ca

Deadline for submission:  April 1st, 2010

Call for Artist Submissions.
Bloom n' Art 2010:  A festival of Art and Nature
Deadline for Submissions:  March 15th, 2010
Beyond the House will be hosting the second edition of our art and garden festival on July 17th and 18th 2010.
This juried outdoor art festival is held at our display gardens 40 minutes south east of Ottawa.
An artist's information package and submission form can be downloaded at:
http://www.beyondthehouse.ca/bloomnart/artist/Invitation2010.pdf
We look forward to welcoming both new and returning artists to this year's expanded festival!
cindy@beyondthehouse.ca