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Front of House by Chris Foster and Layne Hinton transforms takeout lids – an everyday material that is normally discarded – into a shining beacon of light and motion that changes throughout the day with shifting sunlight. The work flutters freely, making visible the often unnoticed air currents in the exhibition space.

Exhibition Festival Feature

Jan 17

The Creative Technology Lab at FCAD showcases several projects that utilize the Kuka robots. Additionally, this exhibition features student-led projects and faculty research that ranges from AR/VR to carbon fiber structures, clay 3D printing, and projection mapping.

Creative Technology Lab @ FCAD

Creative Technology Lab @ FCAD

Jan 17

Part of the Dying. series, HollyJo’s The Wisdom of Ruins acts as meditations between the artist’s mother’s birthplace (in ruin after an earthquake) and the death of her daughter. Ruins, by virtue of existing, stand as a witness and marker of trauma and subsequent healing.

Dying.ruins 2020

Dying.ruins 2020

Jan 17

Dying.exhibits is an installation that invites participants to think about their relationship with life and death through engaging art and design works and participatory experiences. Featuring artists and designers: Mia Cinelli, Brileigh Hardcastle, Lynda Haywood-Munn, Laura Kay Keeling, Elinor Keshet, Clara Laratta, Elyse Krista Mische, Kristi Poole-Adler, Kathy Porter, David Salazar, Robert Santaguida, Max Suillerot

Dying.exhibits 2020

Exhibition Festival Feature

Dying.exhibits 2020

Jan 12

Join EQ3 at our King East showroom to experience the innovative lighting and home furnishing installations designed and produced by Toronto's Anony and Castor Design.

Installations by Anony & Castor Design

Installations by Anony & Castor Design

Jan 17

'Dying.threads' is a participatory installation inviting the public to reflect on death and dying. The installation asks participants to consider their hopes for end of life.

Dying.threads 2020

Dying.threads 2020

Jan 17

In conjunction with the dinner event ‘PLATED’, The Tempered Room hosts an exhibition of local design guest curated by Catherine Osborne, and crafted by Canadian ceramicists, glass blowers, sculptors, and artists.

PLATED at The Tempered Room

PLATED at The Tempered Room

Jan 19

In her solo exhibition, It Starts Out Rough, Julie Jenkinson juxtaposes two bodies of sculpture work made from unrelated collections of salvaged wood and found vintage objects.

It Starts Out Rough

It Starts Out Rough

Jan 16

18Karat Studio + Gallery is proud to present Linda Brown, a metalsmith whose work focuses on texture, line and form as it relates to natural flora structures. Discover her inspirations, process, and latest collection of hollow-formed jewellery and hollowware.

Anticlastic: New Jewellery & Hollowware by Linda Brown

Anticlastic: New Jewellery & Hollowware by Linda Brown

Jan 16

For 3 days only, the Gladstone Hotel is transformed by site-specific installations at the intersection of art and design. Artists are encouraged to take risks and test new ideas. Visitors can explore, discover and engage in conversation with the makers.

Come Up to My Room

Come Up to My Room

Jan 16

'100 Vases' is inspired by the possibilities presented when objects come together, and the dialogue that happens between them. Spearheaded by artists Michelle Organ and Dasha Valakhanovitch, the two day event is a showcase of diversity in contemporary clay design.

Exhibition Festival Feature

Jan 24

Join the Interdisciplinary Design Strategy students at the IwB as they explore how to contribute to the creation of ethical, inclusive, universal, intelligent and sustainable Smart Cities through a multimedia and interactive exhibition.

Toward an Ethical Smart City

Toward an Ethical Smart City

Jan 18

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