FishNet: The Great Lakes Craft and Release Project

FishNet: The Great Lakes Craft and Release Project is a two-part project comprised of a craft phase and a release phase, transforms textile fish into real fish.

Part of Fresh Ground new works – Harbourfront Centre's National Commissioning Programme

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Accumulated Histories: Collections of Family Photographs

Jenna Edwards

Jenna Edwards investigates the unique way in which families and individuals amass memories and the physical space those images occupy.

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Accumulated Histories: Collections of Family Photographs, Jenna Edwards. Courtesy of Artist.

Untitled (auto mnemonic six nations), 2007, 30 x 30 inches toned silver print wave, 2006, video still from video and audio loop. Courtesy of Artist.

Disturbance

Greg Staats

Disturbance is a video and photographic project that provides a continuum of cultural remembrance.

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Mores Revealed

Pattie Chalmers, Kate Jackson, Kasia Piech, Danielle Crampsie, Brian McArthur, Karen Tam, Brad Copping, Cynthia Archer + Amy Johnson

Curated by Melanie Egan

Artists draw attention to the mores of their society and hold them up to the light of artistic scrutiny.

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Adjustable Landscape

Rob Cruickshank

Inspired by 19th century automata, driven by modern robotics, Adjustable Landscape is a constantly shifting slice of animated space. Earth, animals, and trees are hidden, revealed, or transformed.

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Sketches of Simple Beauty

Graeme Marrs & Sally McCubbin

Marrs (furniture design) and McCubbin (glass) join forces to examine process, design and uncertainty – those steps taken towards developing exciting production work.

Rocks of The Great Lakes, Gene Threndyle. Courtesy of Artist.

Rocks of The Great Lakes

Gene Threndyle

The Great Lakes are our Mount Fuji, our Amazon, our Grand Canyon, our Rhine. The geographical memory of these lakes is as old as the earth itself. Ontario is the only jurisdiction that touches 4 of the 5 lakes and every river and water course flowing between or from them.

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Visual Arts at York Quay Centre

Visual Arts at York Quay Centre is made up of 10 exhibition spaces which are both traditional and unique. These venues are located within and outside York Quay Centre proper and range in size from an exhibition gallery that is 1400 feet square to individual vitrines which are 9 feet square.

York Quay Centre exhibits the works of contemporary artists creating new works in fine art, craft, new media, design, architecture and photography. The exhibition schedule changes six times a year in all of the venues except the site specific spaces.

For school group programming including tours & workshops for kindergarten through grade 12, contact us at registrar@harbourfrontcentre.com or by phone at 416.973.4091.

All other inquiries, contact the Main Gallery, York Quay Centre at 416.973.5379.