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In Partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art

115 King Street East, Toronto

Deadline for proposals: April 15, 2019
Exhibition Dates: September 2019 - April 2020

From its opening in 1981, the Toronto Sculpture Garden (TSG) commissioned temporary artworks by over 80 artists, in a small City of Toronto park opposite St. James Cathedral on King Street east. Until 2014, it was operated as a partnership between the City of Toronto and the Louis L. Odette family, whose non-profit L.L.O. Sculpture Garden Foundation funded and administered the exhibitions. Under the direction of Rina Greer, the TSG provided artists with the opportunity to work experimentally in public space, explore issues of scale and materials, and engage with the local community as well as visitors to the neighbourhood. For some, the expansion of their practice beyond the studio led to major public artworks elsewhere.

Now managed by the City of Toronto's Economic Development & Culture Division, the TSG hosts two projects per year.

The Fall 2019 Sculpture Garden project will be presented in partnership with the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, which will take place along the waterfront and in other parts of the city from September 21 to December 1, 2019. The work for the Sculpture Garden will be connected thematically and practically with other artworks in the Biennial exhibitions.

The Biennial will feature works by Canadian and international artists in public spaces and unexpected locations. Many projects will be presented in collaboration with not-for-profit galleries, museums, community organizations, and educational institutions across the city.

For more information, please visit torontobiennial.org
Curatorial Direction
The curators for the 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art ask artists to consider "how can we be in relation?" This question is intended to decenter the individual in place of a multiplicity. What is our role when we imagine our position amidst an infinite constellation of beings, human and non-human, animate and inanimate? And might this be a future? The future's future? By focusing on relations, kinships, and interdependencies, we open ourselves up to ancient ideas, alternative histories, sacred belief systems, and ways of knowing. We also look further back, towards a deeper, geological sense of time. Measured in eons, not centuries. And by recalibrating the compass by which we view the past, we also direct our gaze to a multiplicity of futures: Indigenous futurisms, Black futurisms, migrant futurisms, animal futurisms.

The Biennial will take place primarily within an area framed by the original boundaries of the so-called Toronto Purchase (1805), which ran from Ashbridges Bay to Etobicoke Creek. For the First Peoples, who have maintained a presence here for over 15,000 years, this is a site of spiritual healing, trade, treaty, and gathering. In the current era, it has been deeply inscribed by much newer settler, slave and immigrant narratives, just as it has also been physically transformed by industrial, military and civilian use. In years to come, this line will be redrawn again by radical development and re-naturalization. Existing on the edge of Lake Ontario, part of the largest freshwater system on Earth, we view it in relation. And at each new magnification we get a different view of our role in a multitude of ecosystems: collaborative and destructive, ecological and capitalistic, civic and colonial.
Competition Process
The successful proposal will be selected by the TSG Selection Panel, which will include a member of the Biennial curatorial team. Preference will be given to new work that responds to the site and the curatorial direction; only in exceptional cases will existing work be considered.

Budget: $30,000.00 CAD (+HST), which includes all artists' fees, materials, installation and removal, transportation, insurance, and permits.
Timeline:
February 15, 2019: Call to artists for Expression of Interest
April 15, 2019: Deadline for submissions
Week of April 22, 2019: Selection panel meeting
September 11 - 18, 2019: Installation
September 19 - 21, 2019: Opening events
April 2020: De-Installation
General Proposal Requirements:

Project description.

Drawing(s) showing dimensions and materials

Plan showing the location of the work on the site.

Budget outline showing critical costs.

Annotated images of the proposal and any relevant previous work.

CV / Biography

For detailed information about proposal and submission requirements, please visit toronto.ca/publicartcompetitions Contact: publicartcompetitions@toronto.ca
Economic Development & Culture | City of Toronto
City Hall, 9th Floor, East Tower
100 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON, M5H 2N2

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Call for Proposals: Toronto Sculpture Garden - Akimbo

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115 King Street East, Toronto Tony Romano, Pigro (2018), currently installed in the Toronto Sculpture Garden. Photograph by Jimmy Limit Deadline for proposals: April 15, 2019 Exhibition Dates: September 2019 - April 2020 From its opening in 1981, the Toronto Sculpture Garden (TSG) commissioned temporary artworks by over 80 artists, in a small City of ...

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Using public art and technology to create a place for remembrance and reflection in Seattle about the AIDS epidemic

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The AMP uses public art to create a physical place for remembrance and reflection, utilizes technology to share stories about the epidemic and the diverse community responses to the crisis, and provides a call to action to end HIV/AIDS, stigma, and discrimination.

In This Way We Loved OneAnother

Cathy Hillenbrand Community Room, Station House Building

Created by Storme Webber, this piece restores the absent narratives of working class POC and women living and dying with AIDS through visual storytelling and text. Through these portraits we discover the ways in which everyday people found collective power in unity and together made change.

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The AMP uses public art to create a physical place for remembrance and reflection, utilizes technology to share stories about the epidemic and the diverse community responses to the crisis, and provides a call to action to end HIV/AIDS, stigma, and discrimination.

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Umbrella Projects Call for Proposals - Akimbo

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UMBRELLA PROJECTS is a collaborative venture of the Owens Art Gallery and Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre. It was initiated to facilitate new off-site programming during the pandemic and it seeks to support artists in reimagining their work outside the confines of the gallery.

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Create a call for public art for Halifax or the city you're located in. 

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Create a call for public art for Halifax or the city you're located in. 

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Research public calls. We will look at some in class as well.  Create a call for public art, or a public event,

installation, exhibition, policy, or artist in residence....  You are going to respond to one of the public calls for Assignment 6.

Details below.

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Create a call for public art in Halifax/the city you're located in.

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Assignment Details Below:  Public Art Proposal in Response to a Public Art Call 

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Assignment Details Below:  Public Art Proposal in Response to a Public Art Call 

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Call to Artists: Temporary Floating Public Art, Waterfront Toronto

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Call to Artists: Temporary Floating Public Art, Waterfront Toronto

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Call to Artists: Temporary Floating Public Art
Harbour Square Park Basin, Toronto
Opportunity
Waterfront Toronto is seeking to commission a professional artist or artist team to create a temporary floating artwork for Harbour Square Park Basin. Artists are asked to submit proposals for installation during summer 2020. The artwork will activate the basin by engaging with the local community and visitors to the waterfront.

Harbour Square Park is located on the shore of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes of North America. Containing one-fifth of all surface freshwater on Earth, the lakes are a vital source of drinking water and food. Throughout history these interconnected bodies of water have been critically important for trade, human settlement and migration. They are sacred to the First Peoples, who have inhabited the shores and fished in their waters since time immemorial. The lakes' unique ecosystems are host to a diverse array of plants and animals, and their shores and waters provide recreation for millions of people.

Today, multipoint pollution, climate change, over-extraction, invasive species, and wetland loss are all taking a toll on their watersheds. Water scarcity, often perpetuated by climate change, is one of the most pressing global challenges today, particularly in its relationship to migration. It is imperative we remain engaged with the importance of these waters and with the challenges they face.

With this context in mind, artists are asked to develop work that explores water as a connector. They should consider the history and importance of these waterways and their role as geographical, ecological, political, economic, social, and spiritual connectors.
General Submission Requirements
Waterfront Toronto is inviting practicing professional artists to include in their submission:

Artist statement

Images of proposed artwork

Proposed budget breakdown and schedule

Images of previous and relevant work

Artist CV

References

Submission Form

This is a one-stage competition. Submissions will be reviewed by an independent jury convened for this project. Waterfront Toronto intends to identify one successful Proponent to undertake this project.
Budget
The total commissioning budget is $45,000 CAD +HST. This includes all artist fees, design costs, materials, shipping, installation and removal, insurance and permits.
Timeline
Issue RFP - January 29, 2020
Deadline for Questions - February 28, 2020
Submission Deadline - March 16, 2020
Proponent Selection - Late March 2020
Contract Issued - Early April 2020
Fabrication - April-July 2020
Installation - Mid-July 2020
Artwork removal - September 2020

For more information about the opportunity, including detailed submission requirements, visit our website at:
https://waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/portal/waterfront/Home/waterfronthome/procurement and click on the "current procurement opportunities" tab.
Submission deadline is March 16, 2020 at 2:00pm EST
Please direct all enquiries by email to: procurement@waterfrontoronto.ca, to the attention of Sam Petralito, and reference the Opportunity number (RFP #2020-05) in your email. Responses to enquiries will be posted on our website at https://waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/portal/waterfront/Home/waterfronthome/procurement under the "current procurement opportunities" tab.

This page is a letter of introduction only. Please read in full the Waterfront Toronto Request for Proposals document RFP #2020-05 which contains instructions, evaluation criteria, submission requirements, site details and technical requirements, and terms and conditions.

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Call to Artists: Temporary Floating Public Art, Waterfront Toronto - Akimbo

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A+J Art+Design, SOS (Safety Orange Swimmers), Photograph by Nicola Betts Call to Artists: Temporary Floating Public Art Harbour Square Park Basin, Toronto Opportunity Waterfront Toronto is seeking to commission a professional artist or artist team to create a temporary floating artwork for Harbour Square Park Basin.

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Michele Larose – Osler Library Artist-in-Residence Programme

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Michele Larose – Osler Library Artist-in-Residence Programme

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Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Michele Larose, artist and paediatric neuropsychiatrist who trained in psychiatry and child psychiatry at McGill and in visual arts at Curtin University in Australia, the Osler Library of the History of Medicine has established an artist-in-residence programme.

The award supports visual artists visiting the university to create works that address contemporary and/or historical subjects in medicine and the health sciences that are inspired by the rich and diverse collections held by the Osler Library and/or other sources at McGill, which may include McGill faculties and hospitals. Possible projects can include, but are not limited to: painting; photography; performance; sculpture; and digital, video or installation art.

The Michele Larose - Osler Library Artist-in-Residence award, valued at $6,000, will be given annually to one or more deserving candidates with a degree in Studio Arts or a related field and/or a history of exhibiting artistic work in professional venues.

The recipient, who will be known as the Larose-Osler Artist-in-Residence, will receive assistance from the staff of the Osler Library and will have full access to the library's world-class historical and contemporary collections as well as other sources. Please note that the artist will be accommodated as well as possible, but that there is no dedicated studio space available. The award is intended to cover travel, materials, and related expenses incurred by the artist; the amount given is set at $6,000, from which taxes may be deducted, and will be paid upon completion of the residency requirements.

During the tenure of the Larose-Osler Artist-in-Residence, he or she will be responsible for:

1. Working on the project;

2. Giving a public presentation about the project;

3. Exhibiting or performing the work (see osler_exhibit_cases_and_spaces.pdf); and

4. Submitting a report on the project, suitable for publication in the Osler Library Newsletter.

5. Completing the work by 31 March 2024 (with preference for a residency that includes the fall semester 2023).

The Larose-Osler Artist-in-Residence will be encouraged to meet with students and faculty members and to take part in the life and culture of the University.

The work will remain the property of the artist, however, recognition of support should be given to Dre Michele Larose and to the Osler Library for the History of Medicine.
Please note: in this round, preference will be given to local applicants (Québec, eastern Ontario).
Interested artists should send the following information:

1. A project description (1 page);

2. A proposed timeline;

3. CV;

4. Two letters of recommendation; and

5. Samples of work (please reduce large files as much as possible while still making them legible).

The application information should be sent as ONE pdf file using the file name (your last name.LaroseOsler2023.pdf)
Application deadline: 30 April 2023
Applications should be sent to the Osler Library (osler.library [at] mcgill.ca ).

For more information, please contact the Osler Library at 514-398-4475, ext 09873 or osler.library [at] mcgill.ca .
Congratulations to our 2019 winner, Ana María Gómez López!

Ana María Gómez López is an artist whose practice centers on durational works based on self-experimentation and archival research in history of science. Her projects use botanical specimens, prosthetic implants, medical equipment, lens-based media, and recorded sound to expand understandings of corporeal selfhood. Ana María's works have been exhibited at the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, the Fonds d'art contemporain Genève, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and the American University Museum, among others. She has held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, and the Center for Experimental Museology of the V-A-C Foundation. In 2015, she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes (National Award in the Arts) by the Universidad de Antioquia and the Colombian Ministry of Culture. An anthropologist with undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Ana María completed her MFA at the Yale University School of Art and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was a former resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2017-2018), and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Previous winners: 2018

Travaillant à partir d'une position féministe, avec un intérêt marqué pour la santé - intime, publique, sociale et politique - Caroline Boileau crée des œuvres qui s'élaborent par une pratique multidisciplinaire à travers l'installation, le dessin, la vidéo et la performance. Depuis 1995, elle développe des projets en dialogue avec différents contextes : hôpitaux, bibliothèques d'histoire de la médecine, bibliothèques généralistes et de quartier, laboratoires de biologie, musées d'histoire et musées spécialisés, parcs et espaces publics. Ces contextes, les gens qui y gravitent, les collections et objets qu'ils abritent, deviennent des matériaux qui lui permettent de remettre en question ses façons de faire tout en explorant différentes stratégies de travail, dispositifs visuels et formes plastiques. www.carolineboileau.com

Working from a feminist perspective, with a strong interest in health - intimate, public, social and political - Caroline Boileau creates works that are developed through a multidisciplinary practice through installation, drawing, video and performance. Since 1995, she has developed projects in dialogue with different contexts: hospitals, medical history libraries, special collection libraries, biology laboratories, art and history museums, parks and public spaces. These places, the people who gravitate in and around them, the collections and objects they house, become materials that question and challenge her ways of doing things, enabling her to consider different work strategies, visual devices and plastic forms. www.carolineboileau.com

2017

Museums, libraries and local history are a frequent focus in Loren Williams' art practice. For this residency she explored Montreal's early medicinal gardens, locating the sites on old maps and researching the plants that grew in them. Using a 19th century photographic process called Cyanotype, she created deep blue coloured images of the plants that were evocative of X-rays and cellular structures. Most significant for the artist, was the unique context of the Osler Library which enabled her to pursue her work from a medical history perspective.
2016

Dr. Lucy Lyons received her PhD from Sheffield Hallam University. Her practice focuses on drawing within medical museums and working collaboratively to explore the beauty of collections. She is especially interested in the hidden, the overlooked, insignificant or in-between. This residency will allow her to push and explore her own practice and develop work in new ways whilst bringing new audiences to the collections.

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Michele Larose - Osler Library Artist-in-Residence Programme

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Colour mezzotint illustration from Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain, by Gautier Dagoty, 1759 Value: $6,000 Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Michele Larose, artist and paediatric neuropsychiatrist who trained in psychiatry and child psychiatry at McGill and in visual arts at Curtin University in Australia, the Osler Library of the History of Medicine has established an artist-in-residence programme.

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Or on Instagram: @iwearamaskforsydneymines

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Why did you choose to make this project solely online? Have you considered bringing it into physical public space?

What was the experience of corresponding with your participants like?

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Living the "Living Monument"

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Hi Bailee,

This is a great project that seems to have a good momentum so far.

Here are some questions .
1 - Have you thought of bringing your participants together in some ways once the pandemic is over? I.e. to engage them in the physical presentation of this project, or to exchange on their experience?

2 - Do you feel you were successful so far in creating that community, and bringing people together, as expressed in the TOGETHER APPART call?

3 - Will the people statement/reflexion be in the physical version of this project?

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Hi Hana,

This is an interesting call. I like the ephemerality of artworks made by walking. It makes us reflect on our own ephemerality and of the traces we leave in an environment.

Though your proposal is about creating a community through arts, it is also about ephemerality. Can you expand on this idea?

The selected design is intriguing. What was the process to select this design to draw in show and does it have a signification?

I didn't see any safety considerations, do you have a plan in case of injuries?

I would love to see the result of this project.

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while I really like the aesthetics of a unified bronze circle- I think it's important to consider accessibility into the space. Have you considered this? What would be a way of incorporating a more accessible feature?

The fact that this can be an event space for storytelling and drumming is really cool- are these events something you'd organize or others would organize or would you just let whatever happens happen organically?

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How do you see your work in terms of materiality? is the process of casting bronze and the material itself related to your site-specific work in any way?

besides the elements from the environment and the community of the site do you have any idea about the humanistic history of the land on your work and the story of people who lived there in history?

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Proposal, "Queer(y)ing the Halifax Citadel to Unsettle Place", Brody Weaver

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Proposal, "Queer(y)ing the Halifax Citadel to Unsettle Place", Brody Weaver

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Find slideshow for Tuesday here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lXFmYsm2rBXZilbRaUPvIV98nxR99UB5SYna59ASBsE/edit?usp=sharing

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MAED 6401, Project Proposal, Brody Weaver

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Hi, this is my final project.

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Hey Felix,

Thank you for the pictures and the write up. It was great to see the finished work. The door you made is really interesting and wonderful. It is really impactful in that location.

Questions:

1. Was your work left up for the two days, or had it been taken down by others when you returned to disassemble it?

2. I’m also curious if you were able to see any reactions to the door by those in the construction area (if anyone was on site) or those passing by when you were installing the work, or taking it down?

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Hey!

Thank you for the information and mock up of the project. It’s really interesting to learn about the meaning behind it from you, and then to see how it would look on site. I hope it can be possible!

Questions:

How would you go about getting permission to complete this work? Might it be possible?

Have you worked with concrete before? I love the design, because it is so large does it work to make it off sight and move it there, or would it work better to create it on site?

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Sign of the Times - submission for the Garden of Words / Sonia Chow

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Sign of the Times - submission for the Garden of Words / Sonia Chow

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Danan Lake Proposal Submission, Roadside Interventions

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Danan Lake Proposal Submission, Roadside Interventions

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Danan Lake ppt presentation for Proposal.

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Danan Lake ppt presentation for Proposal.

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Hi Felix.
Your work has left a deep impression on me. I used to frequent an antique shop, which is just across from the Duke campus, but it has been closed since Christmas last year and the contents were emptied, when I pass by that building my memories will come to my mind.

Question:

1.Things have been dismantled in the real world, but it still exists in some people's memories. I'm curious if you know Ian and other people who have visited this store's reactions and comments when they see the door.

2.What do you think about recreating and leaving a trace?
Thanks
Zen

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Thank you for your very interesting proposal. In the context of the 2020 , pessimism is like an epidemic. "When will it end“ reminds me of the state of the characters in the absurd drama "Waiting for Godot", people are waiting for something, But everything is unknown for the future. The colored light bulbs are visually positive.
my question:
1.Is this work will create a contrast or a way to heal ?
2.When you install works in a historic building, how to consider the protection of the building? Great proposal, I hope we will see it in Grafton Park! Zen

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Just saw this call for public art in Halifax!
I hope everyone is well :)
-bailee :)