Harbourfront Centre - Fresh Ground new works

What’s your obsession? Do you live in a different world from everyone around you? Do you spend all your free time inventing, collecting, drawing, writing, theorizing, or somehow tinkering with your obsession? Whether its games, fashion, math puzzles, bicycles, insects, architecture, fantasy worlds or string theory ... WHATEVER your obsession is, we want you to share it with the rest of us at the Art & Science Fair.

Too Cool For School, Art & Science Fair and Exhibition encourages amateur exploration into art and science and celebrates the creativity of individuals who might not normally be involved with the gallery system. The project has two components: an Art & Science Fair and an exhibition in the main gallery featuring the work of five winners from the fair. Participants in the fair and exhibition will be selected on the basis of originality, depth of inquiry, creative innovation and the element of surprise. This project is a unique opportunity for visitors to Harbourfront Centre to engage with and explore creations by people who are inspired by their obsessions.

The Collaborators

Sally McKay
Nancy MacDougall
Von Bark

Commissioned in 2008

To be presented Spring & Fall 2010

Fresh Ground new works is made possible by the generosity of several major individual donors who have actively assisted in the creation of new Canadian artworks: Peter Allen, Lionel F. Conacher and Joan Dea, Margaret and Jim Fleck, John Kazanjian and Susan Soloway, Michael and Sonja Koerner, Judy and Wil Matthews, George E. Myhal, and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the J.P. Bickell Foundation.

Fresh Ground new works

Commissions

Too Cool For School, Art and Science Fair
Art & Science Fair and Exhibition

The Collaborators

Fresh Ground new works

Commissions

Too Cool For School, Art and Science Fair Art & Science Fair and Exhibition

The Collaborators

Too Cool For School, Art and Science Fair
Art & Science Fair and Exhibition