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Come and see the results of the FAC residency!

22 International Feminist Artists open the doors to their studios to show you their finished works and works in progress!

ONE EVENING ONLY! May 20th 6:00pm to 10:00pm

Celebrate, meet the artists and socialize!

PWYC Donation at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Cash bar and party snacks!

*Venue is accessible // If needed please contact torontofac@gmail.com for accommodations

*Scent reduced event

Supported by our host Artscape Gibraltar Point

Facilitator: Ilene Sova
Coordinator: Jennifer McKinley

Participating Artists

Ilene Sova Residency  – Residency Facilitator

Jennifer McKinley –  Residency Coordinator

Anahita Jamali Rad

Lauren Brown 

Hannah Whisenant

Emma Reasoner

Susan Abbott

Regan Henley

Katrissa Singer

Shiva Moghaddasi

Katie Ott

Michaela Bridgemohan

Mia Johnson

Marlene Pfau

Michelle Dulce 

Deborah Eddy

Emily Norry

D Del Reverda-Jennings

Lauren McCartney

Kristi Poole-Adler 

R.Danielle Egan

Shelby Lisk

Adrienne Matheuszik


The FAC residency provides a platform to explore social justice issues through a feminist lens. The residency gathers artists together who focus on social justice issues such as rape culture, transphobia, ableism, racism, violence, media representation, cultural appropriation, environmental degradation and impact on Indigenous lands, violence against women, and Islamophobic policies. We aim to create a space that is celebratory, positive, intellectually engaging and provocative. We are committed to this space being trans-inclusive, anti-racist, and intersectional. The residencies include individual studio time accented with group discussions, readings, video, reflection, guest speakers, group and individual critiques. The resulting work will be presented in this exhibition at the end of the two-week residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point.

 

SHOW EXTENDED UNTIL OCTOBER 21st!

The Women’s Kit – REGENERATION
Opening Reception Thursday, October 5 @ 7 – 10pm
Panel Discussion / Tuesday October 17 @ 7pm
Ada Slaight Student Galleries, Second Floor
Hours 7:30 am to 12:00 am
OCAD University 100 McCaul St, Toronto
Contact: 647-919-7336
Email: torontofac@gmail.com
http://www.thewomenskit.org
http://www.factoronto.org

*Event is trans inclusive / transphobia will not be tolerated
*Venue has gender neutral washrooms
*Venue is wheelchair accessible
*Scent reduced event / no perfumes or colognes please

23 artists
drawing from the past
bringing to the present,
moment-by-moment expression
forty-two years later

a discovery
much has changed
and yet not enough

An intergenerational art exhibition and launch of The Women’s Kit website celebrating the history and visibility of feminist art in Toronto.

In 1973, The Women’s Kit was produced in Toronto at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) by researcher and artist, Pamela Harris, along with a team of fellow artists and educators. These women assembled a dynamic educational resource with over 150 items that relate to the socialization of femininity.

The Women’s Kit was distributed to high schools and colleges to encourage students to observe and question the limitations set on prescribed gender roles. Since its creation, The Women’s Kit has found its home at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE) at OISE as a subject of research and scholarly publication.

During a meeting in 2014, members of the Feminist Art Conference viewed the kit and were enchanted by the time capsule of the feminist art movement in Toronto. Through funding by an anonymous donor and hundreds of volunteer hours, they sought to immortalize the kit through a massive digitization project.

FAC is strongly motivated by a feminist imperative to document the pioneering work of the kit’s creators. This new website is as a testament to the importance of feminist history and the necessity of visibility. By publishing The Women’s Kit online, FAC is bridging the feminist generation gap. The creation of the digital platform also allows the kit to return to its origins as an educational tool for wide dissemination.

For the development of the website, FAC procured funding from a generous anonymous donor. The educational expansion on the project solidified with additional funding from OCAD University through the Ada Slaight Foundation and an Arts Education Projects grant from the Ontario Arts Council. This critical funding supported students in an exploration of the kit, culminating in the creation of artwork inspired by its contents. Outfitted with museum gloves, current Drawing and Painting students at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, along with recent alumni and local youth, dug through this rich archive responding with contemporary viewpoints on feminism today.

The resulting exhibition, REGENERATION, seeks to provide an in-depth and intersectional approach to The Women’s Kit, one that re-examines several critical conversations rooted in generations of feminism and fertilized by LGBTQ2S+ love, afro-futurist narratives, race politics, diasporic conversations, gender identity and sexual diversity. They explore new feminist realities and amplify artist narratives that were silenced at the time of the kit’s inception due to power and privilege at play. The arts-engaged youth do this through printmaking and zines inspired by pop art and the graphic arts movements contemporary to the kit.

The resurrection of the kit at this critical moment in the feminist movement and the ensuing conversation between past and present culminates with the launch of The Women’s Kit website and the REGENERATION exhibit of new artwork created by a current generation of storytellers.

Join the conversation through art and explore The Women’s Kit website at the opening reception on October 5th!

OCADU Drawing and Painting                                           
Current Students and Recent Alumni

Becca Wijshijer
Bethany Davis
Cristine Yunyk
Curtia Wright
Debora Puricelli
Iman Aziz Bhatti
Myra Merchant
Natalie King
Niloo Inalouei
Roxanne Curci
Wei Qi
Will Carpenter

Youth Participants

Anne Vo
Edan Maxam
Isabel Morris
Jessica Chang
Jessica Zhang
Kira Nguyen Do
Magda U-Falcon
Maude Christie
Mia Yaguchi-Chow
Rainier Magtalas
Tina Gong
Vicky Wang
Sophia Xavion Alexis

Project funded in part by the Ada Slaight Foundation and the Ontario Arts Council

PWYC Donation at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Cash bar and party snacks!

Facebook event here!

RECENT PAST EVENTS

FAC Residency Open Studio will happen at Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas Street East on May 24th. 

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FAC Call for Artwork About Feminism and Health

Curating Conversations through Creation

Call for Artwork for exhibition of 10″ x 10” artworks for the Truth About Healthy Lives Conference

Over the past five years of FAC programming, we have encountered many artists creating work about how patriarchy affects their health. Topics such as the politics around breast cancer, mental health, disability rights, menstrual health, reproductive rights and fertility are explored in our exhibitions and panels.

For some time, we have had the goal of creating a project that would focus on this topic as an anchoring curatorial theme. Recently, we have been invited to curate a conversation through art at the Truth About Healthy Lives Conference taking place at the Toronto Reference Library events space on April 8.

Organizers believe the work from our community will be both inspiring and provocative for their 500+ attendees. With the event space in mind, our curatorial team is asking for works of a standardized size of 10″ x 10”.  We are looking for intimate works that speak to the themes of health from a feminist framework.

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To get more details go to our facebook event page here.

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FAC Partners with Refashioning Masculinity  with a screening of James Knott’s video

“Keep lying to yourself, Pinocchio”

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Free and open to the public!

RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/refashioning-masculinity-fashion-show-tickets-24355782802

What:
Exhibit | 7pm – 10pm
Fashion Show | 8pm

When:
Thursday May 5, 2016
7pm- 10pm

FAC, CWSE, and WIAprojects Celebrate International Women’s Day with a panel exploring historical and contemporary graphic design for the Women’s Movement in Toronto, and an exhibition at OISE of Feminist Organizing posters dating back to the early 1970’s!

Wednesday March 9th, 7:00 pm – OISE UofT, 252 Bloor St. W., 2nd Floor, Room 295

Event details HERE!

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FAC members Kate Welsh, Neena Sharma, llene Sova, Jordana Franklin and Aldeli Alban Reyna will be speaking about Feminist Art Organizing on January 23rd!

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PAST EVENTS

Miss Hokusai- Reel Asian Film Fest November 2015

Artscape FAC Residency Exhibition-May 2015

You’re Not Here- March 2015

Exhibition at Her2- January/February 2015

NSFW Theatre Centre Exhibition- November 2014

FAC Culture Days- September 2013

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