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Artists:  ARTIFACTS (Pam Patterson & Leena Raudvee), Margaret Dragu, Christine Brault. Event Guest Blogger & Writer:  Winnipeg media artist, academic and educator Joanna Black Blogger site:  http://babblebabelharthousetoronto.blogspot.ca/ Documentation Websites: For Nov: http://www.mikloslegrady.com/photo/artifacts/babble/artifacts/ http://www.mikloslegrady.com/photo/artifacts/babble/helena/ http://www.mikloslegrady.com/photo/artifacts/babble/berenici/ For Feb: http://www.mikloslegrady.com/photo/artifacts/babble/christine/ http://www.mikloslegrady.com/photo/artifacts/babble/dragu/ http://www.mikloslegrady.com/photo/artifacts/babble/artifacts2/ For map and directions to Hart House:   http://harthouse.ca/ maps-directions/ Accessibility entrance to Hart House off of Tower Road from Hoskin Avenue. Elevator provides access from 1st to 3rd floor. Performances are on 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. Lost ? Check in with the HUB at Hart House entrance and they will direc

In speaking to art and design education, one tends to reference curriculum, the students taught, the educational contexts, and teachers’ pedagogy; but what about our own unique experiences of, and affective, experiential and aesthetic responses to teaching and learning? Our process as artists inextricably intertwines art making and multileveled learning. We are responsive to and responsible for our own personal and project development and their realization. As art and design educators we reflect on our teaching moments and in doing so inform our art practice; this is a reciprocal and complex relationship. Two concurrent exhibitions at OCAD University and at OISE, University of Toronto strategically and evocatively map artist-teachers learning as process, as evocation and as provocation. Artists Teaching //Learning Zone, 122 St Patrick Street, OCAD University Opening Oct 30 th 12 - 2.30pm ǀ Artists Talk: 1pm ǀ Runs to Nov 29 Graduates of OCADU’s Art and Design Education L

Image of OCADU reflected on AGO by Rachel Nixon OCADU/AGO/CWSE OISE partnered symposium with think-tank sessions and gallery experience. Wednesday Oct 23 rd 11:30 am – 3pm Weston Family Learning Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario FREE & All are welcome! We are witnessing a rapidly changing globalized society in which our citizens experience a growing sense of uncertainty, exclusion and loss. Yet globalization exposes us to diverse images, representations and things cultural. These have literally taken over our lives and engaged us in provocative ways. Symposium presenters and provocateurs speak from their practices as artists, activists, museum researchers, or educators, and, like the AGO gallery educator(s) who will lead the gallery experience for this event, are acutely aware of the needs and creative potentials of our diverse population. This is reflected in their practice and in their contributions to educational change. Co-conveners: Pam Patterson & Carrie

Ever fallen? No matter. Fall again. Fall better…. July 17th 6pm  Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto Photo: Amy Sharrocks: Invitation to Fall http://sculptureshock-eorg.eventbrite.co.uk/eorg.eventbrite.co.uk/ A Time to Fall, a collective performance, has been developed by Amy Sharrocks in London, UK with a variety of people for whom falling has different resonances… able-bodied people, school children, over 60s ….etc. As Sharrocks writes, “This is a group performance which looks at how people move together.  The piece deals with the importance of care and the kindness of strangers.  It is about the shock that replays the event and the need to tell the story of each fall as a way of dissipating its power.   We look at ways of walking - and of veering off - and how experience, pain and ageing processes are accommodated into our bodies. The result is a measured, strange kind of dance with a gentleness that reflects an act of kindness and careful watching, capturing a moment

Student response postcard The Canadian Postcard Project challenged my Grade 11 Art/Tech students to respond to your work in a postcard form. The postcards are now finished and will be mailed out by the end of the week, so don’t forget to check your mailboxes!  Originally, I was going to have a new batch of middle school students involved; however, recently I accepted a teaching position at a school in Shelb urne. I was told their arts program was lacking and teachers did not particularly enjoy working with the at-risk art classes. (All high school students need an arts credit to graduate, so a lot of students do not want to be there.) One of my at-risk classes, who has students with severe behavioural issues, a history of dropping out of school, drug addictions, and a general disinterest in school, wanted to take on the postcard challenge. They were excited and felt validated to work with practicing artists. Pam Patterson's 2nd response postcard - from  a performance RE

Image of OCADU reflected on AGO by Rachel Nixon. March 5, 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM, Art Gallery of Ontario Seminar Room 1:  Weston Family Learning Centre Partnered mini-symposium sponsored by WIAprojects (CWSE, OISE/University of Toronto), OCAD University and the Art Gallery of Ontario Co-conveners: Pam Patterson, Director WIAprojects & Instuctor, Art & Design Education Lab (ADEL), OCADU & Lorrie Ann Smith,  Manager of Public Programs and Audience Development, AGO and Co-facilitator,  Art & Design Education Lab (ADEL). This mini-symposium acts as an extension of the AGO/OCAD Art and Design Education Lab (ADEL) partnership in learning, research, and teaching for art and design education. ADEL was initiated by an agreement between, and the committed actions of Vladimir Spicanovic, Dean of the Faculty of Art, OCAD U and Kelly McKinley, Director of Education, AGO. The “lab” has been active now for almost 5 years and over that time has offered training to futur

Leesa Streifler Cendres Lavy Co-curator s : Pam Patterson, Sevan Injejikian with Leena Raudvee Production Assistance: Jay Smith,    Hilda Hashimoto Installation & Catalogue Design: Leena Raudvee Exhibition Opening   & Artist/Curator Remarks (6 pm) at CWSE Gallery, 252 Bloor Street West, 2nd floor, OISE/UT:   March 4 th , 5.30pm - 7pm,  Exhibit runs to March 30, 2013. OCADU/AGO/WIAprojects  Perspectives for Contemporary Art & Design Education  Symposium : Tues. March 5, 11.00 am  -2.30 pm, Art Gallery of Ontario, Weston Family Learning Centre (Leesa Streifler, Amy Swartz & AGO/OCAD educators). University of Toronto Scarborough: Streifler Artist Talk :   Wednesday March 6, from 11am - 1 PM  in  the Arts Administration (AA) Buildiing Room 304 is   presented by Cultural Pluralism & the Arts, Department of Arts, Media & Culture (Yael Brotman) and Women’s Studies (Connie Guberman) on visual practice, body image, feminism and g