Grants Canada 2006 Subsidy directories (2006 EDITION)

Legal Deposit-National Library of Canada

The Subsidy Directory 2006 is now available, newly revised it is 

the most complete and affordable reference for anyone looking for

financing.

It is the perfect tool for new and existing businesses, individuals, 

foundations and associations.

This Publication contains  more than 3000 direct and indirect

financial subsidies, grants and loans offered by government departments

and agencies, foundations, associations and organizations.  In this 

edition

all programs are well described.

Canadian Subsidy Directory (All Canada, federal + provincial +

foundations)

CD-Rom (Pdf file)............................$ 69.95

Printed (430 pages)..........................$149.95

Also available for each province on CD-Rom only...........$ 49.95

Alberta 

British Columbia 

New Brunswick 

Newfoundland & Labrador 

Northwest Territories / Nunavut / Yukon 

Nova Scotia 

Manitoba

Ontario 

Prince Edward Island 

Quebec 

Saskatchewan 

To obtain a copy please call toll free 1-866-322-3376 or local

819-322-5756

Legal Deposit-National Library of Canada website link 

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/6/25/s25-200-e.html

Fibre City ( October in Toronto)

My last posting was done after going up to York University to see the installations of Kathryn Ruppert Dazai @ AGYU Vitrines, The Hill Series: You will be Alright; I will be OK. the next day was the beginning of the Textile Society of America’s Symposium “textile narratives + conversations”. Form beginning to end it was go go go and well worth price of admission. With an opening night reception held at the Bata Shoe Museum were participants and presenters gather for the proverbial meet and greet. It was an opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet new people and generally schmooze your butt off. Or wonder the galleries of the Bata. After speeches of welcome, the food table became the centre of attention and the chance to rub shoulders with a collection of Academics and artist from across Canada and the United States.

Who could this be attending the opening of Hands-mind-body at the Gladstone Hotel

I overheard “St Paul’s” and was drawn to a cluster of people sitting on the sidelines introducing themselves to each other. Having recently corresponded with Margaret Miller the executive director of the Textile Centre which is located in St Paul’s/ Minneapolis, about the Center’s connection to Manitoba textile artists, I was interested to meet these people. I introduced myself to Becky Peterson a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Minnesota there to deliver a paper, Jerry Bleem who is currently an adjunct assistant professor at the Art Institute of Chicago as well as a Franciscan Friar and Catholic priest, also there to deliver a paper. I was there to meet people, there was another woman in the grouping but I can’t remember her name. As it turned both Jerry Bleem and the other women knew about the Textile Center but Becky Peterson who is studying in the twin cities wasn’t aware of it or the Walker Art Center. The paper she was here to deliver was “Thread as carrier of Meaning: Ethnicity in the work of Annie Albers” (a co-founder of the Bauhaus School in pre-Hitler Germany and weaver)

Later Jennifer Angus and I officially met and she introduced me to Jerry Bleem for the second time in an hour. I left knowing that being at Harbourfront at 8:30 for the next three days meant an early night.

Frber City: October in Toronto (part2)

or this wearing another one of Andrea Vander Kooij

Balaclava For Kissing (Knitted wool yarn. 2006) at the Gladstone

It occurs to me the “Gossip Column” quality of this blog would be assisted by having photographs, I travel with out a camera and acquiring images is at best difficult and identifying the stratosphere is hard when you don’t have a starting point, there were several known artist curators and academics where attending this four day event. Looking at the name tags and putting names to work help me meet Matilda McQuaid head of the Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum, curator of “Extreme Textiles: Design for High Performance” and co curator along with Cara McCarthy of “Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles ” for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Two exhibitions I tried to see but due to bad timing missed, two weeks to early for one and three hours to late (flat tire between Kingston and Montreal were Surface and Structure was showing) But I get ahead of myself.

Janet Morton’s “ untitled as of yet” lace on Branches at the Gladstone

The Keynote speaker for this Symposium, anthropologist/ botanist, National Geographic Society’s Explorer in residence Wade Davis. His talk was refreshing, shocking, and mind expanding as well as informative to the extreme. Speaking of the human "ethnosphere" from his opening comments saying that with the death of one elderly person somewhere in the world another language dies he goes on to draw an amazing picture of people living with nature in a symbiotic relationship that is quickly disappearing. This talk set the tone for many of the papers or at least the intents of the others.

Locating, documenting and or examining stories of cloth production, traditions or technical innovation whether from the late roman period “A Study of Velvet Weaving: Past, Present, and Future in Dynamic Interaction” by Wendy Laundry (interdisciplinary doctorial studies in Humanities at Concordia) or contemporary laboratory experiments with spiders silk “Intimidate Textiles” written by Ingrid Bachman (Concordia) the broad range of papers presented had a common thread. Textiles are obliviously the result of humans imposing there ingenuity on the elemental structure of various plant and animal fibres and the imagination applied that has produce the many functional and decorative sheltering or containing objects that make up the vast vocabulary of fibre to textile processes. It is these varieties that are the subjects of these papers. Having to wait two years for the published collection of this symposium will be worth the wait.

Fibre City ( october in Totonto) PART 3

the out of focus woman sitting in the white chair is Hazel Meyer from Montreal her piece is just around that corner and is created from a collection of vintage handkerchiefs and is definitely a “must see” piece

While the papers were being deliver from 9 to 5 down at Harbourfront there were openings and exhibitions to be seen every night. These exhibitions were presenting the work of well over 50 different Canadian artists and as a bus took participants from the TMC to the Koffler Gallery to view Fray there were openings at the OCAD student Gallery and the Gladstone Boutique Hotel. “Small Talk” at the ODAC gallery is a sampling of student work from numerous post secondary textile programs from across the country showing the up and coming, while “hand mind body” is simply the best fibre based group show that has been put on in Toronto.

The images scattered through this blog are from these shows which are currently on display. ”HAND - FACE – BODY” : An Exhibition of Tactile Textiles at the Gladstone Hotel October 13 to November 26, 2006, 12-5pm Daily The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Allison Book, Anna Templeton Centre, She has sayings like, “If your vacuum was blue, you would be too”

“Small Talk” at OCAD at 285 Dundas Street West. Toronto, runs until November 4^th

This exhibit features works by students of ACAD (Calgary), Anna Templeton Centre for Craft, Art and Design ( St Johns, NL), Capilano College ( Vancouver), CENTRE DESIGN & IMPRESSION TEXTILE ( Montreal), Concordia University (Montreal) Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College, Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles (Montréal). New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (Fredericton) Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax), Sheridan College of Craft & Design ( Oakville), Sir William Grenfell College Memorial University (Cornerbrook NL)

This exhibition of student work will continue to tour after this Toronto stop

Early winter 07: Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles.

Early Spring: NB College of Craft and Design, Fredericton

Summer: Saint John Arts Centre, NB

November 07: NSCAD, Halifax

Read more about these exhibitions and other events that happened in and around Toronto in the up coming Winter 2007 fibreQUARTERLY Volume 3 Issue 1 ( due January 30/ 2007)

Websites for institutions, galleries and artist mentioned in this posting

Textile Society of America TSA http://textilesociety.org/

Bata Shoe Museum http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/

Chicago Art Institute http://www.saic.edu/

Textile Centre http://www.textilecentermn.org/ in St Paul’s/ Minneapolis

The Walker Art Centre http://www.walkerart.org/index.wac in St Paul’s/ Minneapolis

Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum http://ndm.si.edu/

Museum of Modern Art, New York http://www.moma.org/

Wade Davis http://www.nationalgeographic.com/speakers/profile_davis.html

School involved in Small Talk Exhibition

ACAD (Calgary), http://www.acad.ab.ca/

Anna Templeton Centre for Craft, Art and Design (St Johns, NL), http://www.craftcouncil.nf.ca/education/annatempleton.asp

Capilano College (Vancouver), http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/

CENTRE DESIGN & IMPRESSION TEXTILE (Montreal) http://www.designtextile.qc.ca/

,

Concordia University (Montreal) http://studio-arts.concordia.ca/progra/fibres/splash.html

Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College, http://selkirk.ca/programs/ksa/

Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles (Montréal). http://www.textiles-mtl.com/English/e_Main.html

New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (Fredericton) http://www.nbccd.ca/

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax), http://www.nscad.ns.ca/index.php

Ontario College of Art and Design ( Toronto) http://www.ocad.on.ca/

Sheridan College of Craft & Design (Oakville) http://craftsdesign.sheridaninstitute.ca/

Sir William Grenfell College, Memorial University (Cornerbrook NL)

http://www.swgc.mun.ca/

Gallery The Gladstone Hotel, http://www.gladstonehotel.com/handfacebody.htm

Artist

Jerry Bleem http://www.aronpacker.com/bleem2/bleem2.html

Jennifer Angus http://www.jenniferangus.com/

Andrea Vander Kooij http://andreavanderkooij.com/

Images from “small Talk” provided by Lino Ragno, Image Curator OCAD.

Allison Book, Anna Templeton Centre, She has sayings like, “If your vacuum was blue, you would be too”

All images of work at Gladstone by Magda Olszanowski.

Cuts to Museums and Gallery funding by Harper gov't

CMA Board Affirms Strategy
on Museum Cuts


Ottawa, October 16, 2006 —
An emergency meeting of CMA’s Board of Directors was held in Ottawa on October 12-13 to discuss the recent cuts to museums and to reaffirm the Association’s strategy to push immediately for a new museums policy, to be adopted by the new government in 2007. The meeting included a session with representatives from across Canada to brainstorm on the policy to adapt it to the new realities facing Canada.

CMA categorically rejects the negative connotation created by the government that spending on museums is “a waste and inefficient.” This is simply not true — and it is creating serious implications for museums in their fundraising abilities.

CMA will meet the Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Bev Oda shortly, and will appear before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. The Committee is also calling upon other organizations to address the impact of recent cuts and the need for new investment in museums, including the Alberta Museums Association, the Société des musées québecois, the Heritage Canada Foundation and various railway heritage museums.

Minister Bev Oda has stated “museums have been neglected for far too long.” She has affirmed the government’s intention to bring in a new museums policy. CMA expects this will be delivered sooner rather than later.

Finally, we understand various petitions are now circulating for the signatures of Canadians [www.petitiononline.com/MapCuts/petition.html]. CMA strongly encourages everyone, volunteers, board members, trustees, museum professionals, and the public to support museums in this time of need.

For more information:
Monique Horth
Director of Public and Professional Affairs
mhorth@museums.ca
613-567-0099 l225

FASHION SHOWS AT MOCCA

The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art presents:

FASHION SHOWS AT MOCCA !!!

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 8 p.m.

& Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 8 p.m.

featuring Dean Horn, Lydia K and others

with music by Buck 65

Join us at MOCCA on October 18th and November 2nd with Toronto fashion designers Dean Horn, Lydia K and others as they take charge of the runway and tell it like it is. Buck 65 will spin the tunes that shake their frocks.

These fabulous fashion shows will be presented smack-dab in the middle of the Unholy Alliance: art + fashion meet again exhibition in the MOCCA Mainspace Gallery. All the more reason to come out and see the shows!

Limited seating available.

October 5 - November 12, 2006

Unholy Alliance: art + fashion meet again
Nick Cave Lydia K Clemencia Labin Kent Monkman Matthew Vescovo Viktor & Rolf
The always cozy yet contentious relationship between art and fashion raises its well-coiffed head again! Delightful and socially charged, flamboyant and political, whimsical and severe, this version of the art vs. fashion discourse is played out by Canadian and international artists through the mediums of painting, photography, installation, couture and sculpture.

Sponsored by PUMA Canada and MAC Cosmetics.

Unholy Alliance and Tell it like it is are part of the Alphabet City Festival 2006: TRASH www.alphabet-city.org

Future Species: Steven Meisel | Makeover Madness
This photo-installation is an edited sequence from an editorial fashion story that was originally published in the July 2005 issue of Italian Vogue, entitled Makeover Madness.

Steven Meisel is fashion's pre-eminent image-maker. He has been prolific and innovative in his depiction of the trends and associations of every season in fashion since the late 1980's. Each season, he has also created some of fashion's most memorable ad campaigns including for Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, and Versace and influential editorial work for American and Italian Vogue. -Courtesy of Steven Meisel / Art + Commerce

Future Species: Steven Meisel | Makeover Madness is the fourth in a cycle of four exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art realized through the fundraising efforts of partners in art. www.partnersinart.ca

The exhibitions are sponsored by partners in art, UBS, Onex, BMO Nesbitt Burns, Donna and Robert Poile, AASTRA Telecom.

All exhibitions and activities at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art are supported by Toronto Culture, the Ontario Arts Council, BMO Financial Group, individual memberships and private donations.

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art 952 Queen Street West Toronto, ON M6J1G8

Public Information: (416) 395-0067

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Pay What You Can

For media information contact Camilla Singh: (416) 395-7430 or csingh@toronto.ca

Context like time is everything

(Remember when clicking on Links to use the Back Button in the Browser to return to Blog)

I have a confession to make. At the ripe old age of 13 I had a subscription to Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine as it was called then and got out of bed after my parents went to theirs to watch the Merv Griffin Show. In other words I was reared on Gossip and it occurs to me that a blog is in fact nothing other then my own personal tabloid. Which is something I would rather avoid. However the reality in and around Toronto at the moment it is the only way to pass on information as quickly as it comes in. It is Thursday October 5, 2006 and I have just come home from the nothing short of spectacular opening of the Unholy Alliance: art + fashion meet again at the MOCCA having attended the opening of “And now for something Completely Different” exhibition down the street at More then just a Deli. My timing sucks I missed the performances at the MOCCA but arrived in time to enjoy the eye candy and the Lydia K. outfits, not to mention the fashionistas / art groupies.

The chance to meet Nick Cave (it would have been a matter of less then six degrees of separation if he was in fact in the building which I assumed he was from the rather sketchy PR material I received from Akimbo and the total lack of information on the MOCCA’s website was right) was a bit intimidating, just the fact that I could return anytime in the next month to look at his stunning work was enough. And besides I had to rush home get on – line to write this and set my agenda for the two weeks. I get ahead of myself.

So with out missing a beat let me bring you up to speed in this frenetic month of Fibre Art in Fibre City (aka Toronto). A week or rather ten days ago I finally managed to get up to the Koffler Gallery to see the other half of the Fray exhibition in order to write a review of it for Selvedge (yes this is blatant self promotion) with conviction. The next evening I was at the TMC listening to three of the artist Mille Chen, Susan Schelle and Jeannie Thib talking about their work, museum policies and textile art (referred to as outsider art and a ghetto to be trapped in by one of the artist) and spent the next to days trying to sort all that out on paper. While considering what a brilliant job Sarah Quinton and Carolyn Bell Farrell did putting Fray together.

On Saturday September 30^th I went to the Art Gallery of Hamilton to see the work of Anna Torma, a show that you should make an effort to see and I will write about in more detail at a later date.

image: Red Flower 1, Anna Torma copyright 2006, 168 x133 cm, hand embroidery ( provided by Art Gallery of Hamilton)

I dropped in to Hamilton Artist Ink and saw the installation work of Marcia Huyer “Tune in, Turn On and Bleach Out”. Marcia Huyer creates large installations using Tyvek®, fluorescent lights and fans. Tyvek®, the material she uses, is a high-density polyethelene fabric used to increase air and water resistance in construction applications and to create what its manufacturer, Dupont, calls “limited use protective garments” worn either for ‘dirty jobs’ or in hazardous environments. There is an exhibition of Bev Pike’s work coming up in February and the galleries promotional card/ invitation has an interesting easy “Vista and Visera” by Annie Milne. [Visit the website and ask about getting hold of a copy]

Back home I have been getting the Fibre Quarterly 2006 Anthology CD ROM ready for duplicating and mailing out to the new subscribers. The Cyber Fibre tour Map of downtown Toronto is nearly ready to be posted and printed. Now after a bracing cup of coffee and a Dare Chocolate Chip cookie or two, it Wednesday Oct 4^th and I am on a yellow school bus full of artist and curators and on the way to York University to see Kathryn Ruppert Dazai @ AGYU Vitrines, The Hill Series: You will be Alright; I will be OK. These three crochet mountain climbing vignettes are whimsical with just a touch suspense and add to the list of her works currently on display in Fibreworks 2006 at the Cambridge Galleries and at the TMC in Fray.

Installation view of "Twin White, I Don't Love You" 2006 and "the Conversation" 2005 by Kathryn Rupert Dazai. Image provided by the TMC

That brings you up to tonight and the extravaganza at the MOCCA and “and now for something completely different” This is just the beginning of a very busy two weeks of art and scholarship at the TSA’s Symposium. All of the exhibitions above need to be written about in greater detail so if your interest in participate on this Blog, linking it up with your own or writing for fibreQuarterly please get in touch with me.

If that isn’t enough to think about it is all so officially fall and that means October is the busiest fashion month of the year in Toronto with both L'Oreal Fashion Week (Oct 16-21) and Alternative Fashion Week (Oct. 17-19) taking place!

For more information on this check out the Toronto Street Fashion website at http://www.torontostreetfashion.com/ for an alternative approach to information

To find out more about the exhibitions above you can find links to the websites on the September 28^th posting “just in case you where wondering what to do”

Images from these events will be added as soon as they are sent to me and I can get around to it

(Remember when clicking on Links to use the Back Button in the Browser to return to Blog)

Digital Threads: Textiles | Art | Technology.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA RECEIVES SECOND SIGNIFICANT GRANT FOR NEW WEB PROJECT!

TORONTO October 1, 2006 The Textile Museum of Canada (TMC) has received a significant contribution ($452,923) from Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Culture Online Program to create Digital Threads: Textiles | Art | Technology. The latest in a series of Web initiatives, Digital Threads will tell compelling stories of Canadian identity through the work of some of the country’s most important contemporary artists.

Digital Threads will provide access to 17 years of the TMC’s contemporary exhibition programming and present an innovative “idea space” exploring new artist projects by Jennifer Angus (Toronto/Madison WI); Joey Berzowska (Montreal); Kai Chan (Toronto); Ruth Scheuing (Vancouver); and Samuel Thomas (Niagara Falls). Appreciation of these works will be enhanced through technology, with some existing solely in the “virtual” world. Digital Threads will also make the Textile Museum ’s permanent collection fully available online, with the addition of 3,500 more artifacts to our publically-accessible database. Visitors will be able to explore the collection of the TMC 24 hours a day, from anywhere in the world.

Nataley Nagy, Executive Director at the TMC states:

“This is another major step forward for the TMC. At the conclusion of this project, we will have every artifact in our permanent collection available online with high detail zooming interactivity. More than 50 exhibitions and the work of 180 contemporary artists will also become publicly accessible on our Web site for the very first time.”

The TMC aims to offer an engaging experience to all visitors, both online and in-house. An exhibition gallery on the second floor will become a digital photography studio where visitors can get a behind-the-scenes view of the action and interact with project staff. Production begins in late September of 2006.

Since 2001 the Museum has made significant investments into online programming, artifact digitization and new media technologies. First with Cloth & Clay: Communicating Culture and then with Canadian Tapestry: The Fabric of Cultural Diversity, the TMC continues to win awards with its new media applications. John Dalrymple, Director of Development at the Textile Museum states that “the scale and quality of our Web projects, the public response and the awards we have won are a significant achievement for a mid-sized institution like the TMC.” Digital Threads is a follow-up to the previous Canadian Tapestry (www.canadiantapestry.ca) Web initiative, reuniting the award-winning team. Partners include: ecentricarts inc., Willoughby Associates Ltd., Arius3D, Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Toronto and Concentric Media. The TMC recognizes the financial support provided by the Department of Canadian Heritage via the Canadian Culture Online Program.

A day late and a year early; the Pink Quilt

fight breast cancer 364 days left until Quilt Pink Day!

Quilt Pink Day was Saturday, September 30, 2006, at a Quilt Shop near you.

Think what you can do next year

got to the website and start planning. http://www.quiltpink.com/

Find out what other awareness, fundraising and other social action textile and fibre projects are happening in your community and tell us about them.