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Grant Recipient | Community Arts Project, Spring 2015 - Platform A
I am so honoured to have received my first grant through Platform A community arts funding. I facilitated an indoor mural project with the Wellness Group from Toronto's South Asian Womens Centre this past April - June, 2015.
I have worked with the Wellness Group (women ages 50+) to brainstorm visual ideas to represent the centre, its values, and the importance of what it brings to their community. The resulting mural in their programming room has been a tree with beautiful flowers painted along the branches by the women participants.
I am so honoured to have received my first grant through Platform A community arts funding. I facilitated an indoor mural project with the Wellness Group from Toronto's South Asian Womens Centre this past April - June, 2015.
I have worked with the Wellness Group (women ages 50+) to brainstorm visual ideas to represent the centre, its values, and the importance of what it brings to their community. The resulting mural in their programming room has been a tree with beautiful flowers painted along the branches by the women participants.
Weekend Artist Residency | Royal Ontario Museum
Wildlife Themed Painting | Arts for Children and Youth | Dec 27-28, 2014
Wildlife Themed Painting | Arts for Children and Youth | Dec 27-28, 2014
Interview | NOW Toronto Magazine | Class Action | Oct 2014
"So you want to... Beautify the street"
An interview about schooling and what led to my work in murals and public art.
[Ultra Rare mural created with Alex Mackenzie, Diana Lynn
Vandermeulen, Julia Dickens, Lido Pimienta and Peter Rahul, OCAD U Student Gallery]
"So you want to... Beautify the street"
An interview about schooling and what led to my work in murals and public art.
[Ultra Rare mural created with Alex Mackenzie, Diana Lynn
Vandermeulen, Julia Dickens, Lido Pimienta and Peter Rahul, OCAD U Student Gallery]
Curator | Scotiabank Nuit Blanche | Seniors Art and Storytelling Project
Oct 4th, 7pm-7am | 2nd Floor, 401 Richmond, Toronto
I have had the pleasure of curating the first ever seniors-based community project - 'This Light of Mine' - for Toronto's Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2014. Nuit Blanche is all-night public art festival in Toronto, providing exposure of the senior artists from Belmont House seniors residency and care facility.
The project objective is to use art and storytelling to challenge the perception of aging. The project shows the value, talent, and ability of seniors on an international platform.This Light of Mine will feature a mixed media collage of over 50 pieces submitted by Belmont House residents. These pieces include: vintage photographs, poetry, creative writing and visual art, as well as a video/sound portion for verbal storytelling, song, and dance.
I was one of six artists creating a collaborative mural for...
ULTRA RARE: Placemaking Lab
An OCAD Student Gallery Exhibit
Opening Event: Thurs, Sept. 11th, 7-11pm
Ontario College of Art & Design: Student Gallery, 52 McCaul St, Toronto
Planned in partnership with OCAD University’s new Creative Placemaking Committee, ULTRA RARE is a collection of projects and events that beautify and animate our plot on campus, and model transferable strategies for nurturing community values in urban areas.
The exhibition’s chief focus is a collaborative mural on the south facing wall of 60 McCaul Street. A group of six artists, which includes both current students and recent alumni, have come together to paint a sixty foot landscape. Fantasy flora and fauna, magic pools and a psychedelic sunset transport viewers away from the concrete jungle. The piece is meditation on how cities can distort our connection to the natural world and each other. It’s a call to the wild, a celebration of what we can accomplish together, and a reminder to look for the magic that pulses beneath everything.
ULTRA RARE: Placemaking Lab
An OCAD Student Gallery Exhibit
Opening Event: Thurs, Sept. 11th, 7-11pm
Ontario College of Art & Design: Student Gallery, 52 McCaul St, Toronto
Planned in partnership with OCAD University’s new Creative Placemaking Committee, ULTRA RARE is a collection of projects and events that beautify and animate our plot on campus, and model transferable strategies for nurturing community values in urban areas.
The exhibition’s chief focus is a collaborative mural on the south facing wall of 60 McCaul Street. A group of six artists, which includes both current students and recent alumni, have come together to paint a sixty foot landscape. Fantasy flora and fauna, magic pools and a psychedelic sunset transport viewers away from the concrete jungle. The piece is meditation on how cities can distort our connection to the natural world and each other. It’s a call to the wild, a celebration of what we can accomplish together, and a reminder to look for the magic that pulses beneath everything.
Illustration Competition Winner | Toronto Parking Authority | Green P Grows Greener
My design was based on the whimsical drawings and painting by children given an environment and the city theme.
My design was based on the whimsical drawings and painting by children given an environment and the city theme.
Group Show:
Prachi Khandekar brings us "STUFF: The Culture of Obsolescence" from April 7 to 18, 2014
Samuel J. Zack's Gallery, York University
Closing: Thurs April 17th, 7-10pm
Facebook Event
The culture of obsolescence embeds us in a field of expiring objects.
Things that we take as direct markers of identity eventually break, become
passé, or have to be upgraded and we, immersed in the staccato of our material
culture, h...ave
somehow come to accept a fragmented sense of self.
This exhibit, through
the work of 15 artists, explores ways in which we assimilate the culture of
obsolescence. Selected entries are grouped to represent subconscious
negotiations and countless exercises in collapsing contradictions – things we do
everyday in an age driven by choice, innovation, lifestyle and
progress.
Group Show: MADE Exhibit 2013
Bending Spoons Gallery @ Vesuvio
3014 Dundas St. W & High Park
December, 2013
ARTIST RESIDENCY
AFCY (Arts for Children and Youth)
Eco-Awareness Campaign
Making "Up-cycled" art at Goodwill (Runnymede & St Clair)
Every Sunday in November, from 12-3pm
Residency recently featured in Fresh Print Magazine
Group Show: MOMENTUM
Project Gallery, September 2013
AFCY (Arts for Children and Youth)
Eco-Awareness Campaign
Making "Up-cycled" art at Goodwill (Runnymede & St Clair)
Every Sunday in November, from 12-3pm
Residency recently featured in Fresh Print Magazine
Group Show: MOMENTUM
Project Gallery, September 2013
ARTIST TALK Monday, April 8th at 12 noon
as part of Humber's L Space Gallery & Lakeshore Arts Speaker series SparkPlugs.
See full info on the SparkPlugs blog.
Off The Wall: The “Hidden” Assets Of Mural-Making
This talk will explore community engagement through public wall art, providing
examples of how mural-making projects can be an asset and thrive in cities
like Toronto. Using her own experience as both a mural artist and Program
Coordinator, Tara will explain how the process of creating a mural is impactful for
its community. Tara will explore the ways in which planning, implementing and
leading of a mural project can strategically make use of this potential.
as part of Humber's L Space Gallery & Lakeshore Arts Speaker series SparkPlugs.
See full info on the SparkPlugs blog.
Off The Wall: The “Hidden” Assets Of Mural-Making
This talk will explore community engagement through public wall art, providing
examples of how mural-making projects can be an asset and thrive in cities
like Toronto. Using her own experience as both a mural artist and Program
Coordinator, Tara will explain how the process of creating a mural is impactful for
its community. Tara will explore the ways in which planning, implementing and
leading of a mural project can strategically make use of this potential.
OPENING Thurs Nov 22 for Ms Jaded.
Featuring an installation of works by recent OCADU grads:
Kelly Stevenson, Emily Taylor, Emma Rose Laughlin & Tara Dorey
Transit Space, 2nd Floor, OCADU, 100 McCaul St,
Toronto, ON
Nov 21 - Dec 9, 2012
Using parody, humour, satire and nostalgia, transit space will be transformed
into a domestic and sentimental space filled with pieces that upon closer
inspection surprise, disenchant and critique the female experience.
Press / Featured in:
Platform A announces the recipients of 2015 Toronto Arts Council micro-grants to support community-engaged art-making in the city. from afcy.ca, Jan 2015.
AFCY Eco-Awareness through Art Making Residency in Fresh Print Magazine, Nov 2013.
MOMENTUM Exhibit, in snapd Beaches/Danforth, Oct 2013.
Two Oh Five: The Forgotten, in Hewitt`s Take on GSTONE Blog,
The Gladstone Hotel's Art Blog. 16 June 2012
50 More OCAD Graduates You Should Know,
in Toronto Creatives on Piccsy Blog. 8 May 2012
Filling Blank Spaces with Art for Community Improvement
and Youth Employment,
in The Toronto Observer by Ani Hajderaj. 26 April 2012
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