Monday, July 1, 7-9pm: “Failing” Drawing Beautifully: strategies for freeing queer drawing Tuesday, July 2, 7-9pm: Drawing Queer Archives: from objects and pictures Wednesday, July 3, 7-9pm: Drawing Queer Memories: from your mind, ears and heart Saturday, July 6, 1-4pm: Interventions/Interruptions
All workshops held at Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Drive, St. John's.
Admission is FREE; pre-registration is appreciated, e-mail retroflexart@gmail.com to reserve a spot! Interested but not able to make it? You can contribute images via e-mail by sending them to retroflexart@gmail.com ! Or pop by the gallery during open hours from July 8 - August 3 to add your piece to the mural.
Sometimes the things we want to say are not always easy. It is hard to put them into words. Sometimes they appear as colours, drawings, abstract poems, music. Sometimes we don’t know how to express them at all. Coco Guzman’s series of free drawing workshops are designed to help give form to those experiences to make a huge, collaborative exhibition that reflects the ongoing queer histories of St. John’s. Coco is a queer and genderqueer artist raised in Spain and currently living in Toronto. They have a long history as a grassroots, community artist, and have led multiple workshops for trans, queer, and gender non-conforming folks to express complex experiences.
Main Gallery
Keepers of the Light
Curated by Emma Hassencahl-Perley June 1 - June 29, 2019
Featuring work from artists:
Emily Critch, Jerry Evans, Tara Francis, Meagan Musseau,
Shane Perley, Percy Sacobie, Nelson White, Oakley Wysote Gray.
Keepers of the Light is a group exhibition of Indigenous artists who have been influenced by the land, their people, and are responding to the first light and the “awakening”. The exhibition will be on display from June 1 – June 29, 2019at Eastern Edge Gallery to coincide with Petapan Indigenous Arts Symposium in St.John’s. Keepers of the Light will focus on the awakening of our identities, as we become conscious of our bodies, spaces, and histories – both social and cultural. Taking initiative to seek traditional knowledge, stories, and teachings – we are all are in the midst of unpacking and relearning our past. Realizing that there is tremendous richness in fusing the old with new mediums, technologies, and approaches, the exhibition will reaffirm Indigenous artists of the Atlantic region’s position in contemporary art. This exhibition will highlight Indigenous artists of the Atlantic Provinces who are making work that awakens their spiritual, cultural, visual, and political identities – combining traditional and contemporary ways of making.
rOGUE Gallery
Komqwejwi'kasikl
Michelle Sylliboy
Curated by Hannah Morgan June 13 - June 29, 2019
Having worked in various capacities related to art, activism and education, Michelle Sylliboy considers poetry, photography and sculpting to be her first love. Born in Boston, Sylliboy is a Mi’kmaq interdisciplinary artist who was raised in her traditional Mi’kmaq territory We’koqmaq First Nation, Cape Breton. While living on traditional unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations in Vancouver B.C. Michelle completed her BFA from Emily Carr University, and a Masters in Education from Simon Fraser University, Sylliboy is currently a PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University in Philosophy of Education (Curriculum and Implementation). Her educational pursuits is to reclaim her original written komqwej’wikasikl language through revitalization dialogues by planting seeds using art and poetry as a vehicle to share the Mi’kmaq people’s original written language.
What happens when our experiences are Too Big to talk about? When they resist the symbolic register of language? How do we transmit them, how do we hold them? The horrific, and the transcendent. Holes are scattered behind us, as we weave unevenly our collective history.
This exhibition addresses the Too Big by creating collective opportunities to draw from archives, memory, and personal narrative; by plunging us into a dynamic visual and audio installation built around local 2SLGBTQIA+ histories.
Coco Guzman’s painting and drawing practice deftly articulates personal and collective trauma, lacing the mundane and the disturbing together into complex, visually compelling scenes. Daze Jefferies is an artist, poet and trans historian, whose visual and audio practice tracks the voices of trans and queer Newfoundlanders and Labradorians through decades of trauma and transcendence. For A Hole So Big It Became The Sky, Jefferies and Guzman will work with a group of queer-identified St. John’s residents to represent defiant gaps in collective memory. In an immersive mural that spans the gallery walls, they will map the pain and ecstasy of our community. This surreal landscape is submerged in a sea of voices. Scraps of paper pulled from local archives drift on the waves.
In A Hole So Big It Became The Sky, the hole is both an overwhelming void and an object of desire. Here we revisit queer histories, as succulent and immediate as they are contradictory, intangible, unknowable; we bear witness to the intimacies and whispers that can only emanate from curled tongues.
Our annual Members' Show has moved from Winter to Summer!! This is your opportunity as a member of Eastern Edge Gallery to showcase what you have been up to this past year alongside other members of our talented community. EE's membership includes some of the best artists in the province, and we want to see what you have been making all year long!
This exhibition has an open theme - all mediums are welcome! If you are considering presenting new media, video, or kinetic work and require any technical assistance please contact the gallery in advance to see if we can help accommodate your needs. As well, please keep in mind that this is a members' show and the gallery could be showing upwards of 30-40 artists' work, we cannot take extremely large pieces from every person. For works larger than 4 feet in any direction please contact gallery staff in advance and we will let you know if we will be able to accommodate the work.
Exhibition dates: August 16 - September 14, 2019
Artwork drop-off dates: August 6th - August 10th 12-5pm
Any work submitted after this deadline will not be accepted. If anyone requires a drop-off time outside of these hours please email the gallery at gallery@easternedge.ca and we will try our best to accommodate you.
Submission guidelines:
- Limited to 1 work per member.
Along with your work, please include:
– Title, medium, and year of the piece
– Your full name, phone number, and e-mail address
Work should be delivered ready to display with all necessary hanging materials (magnets, hooks, etc.)
Wake Up Inspired is an annual exhibition of visual art (prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, etc.) by Newfoundland and Labrador artists aged 15-35. Wake Up Inspired is organized by For the Love of Learning, an arts-based education charity, helping Newfoundland and Labrador youth overcome social and/or economic obstacles. This year’s exhibition will be held at Eastern Edge Gallery from August 16-September 14, 2019. Artists are invited to submit up to three artworks for exhibition.
Feel free to contact Eastern Edge Gallery at 709-739-1882, or at gallery@easternedge.ca or FTLOL at 709-722-8848 or gemma@ftlol.org for more information or with any questions.
It's been a very full year since our move from Devon House to our new space at 275 Duckworth Street, and we're inviting you to come celebrate with us!
The Gallery will celebrate our anniversary with the opening of the Annual Member Exhibit, featuring pieces of over 30 artists. Also opening is Bittersweet, a Reminiscence of Newfoundland & Labrador in Pottery, the first of an annual show from the Clay Studio. During the opening reception, the Gallery will also present the annual Award for Excellence in Fine Craft.
We will also be having the grand opening of The Pantry, our Newfoundland & Labrador mercantile style food shop! Located on our Duckworth Street level, there will be tasting at our Sample Station all day, and complimentary treat bags for the first 25 customers! Within The Pantry space you can also visit The Hooked Nook - a dedicated rug hooking display.
Don Foulds: Flowers
June 14 - July 21, 2019
"Flowers by Don Foulds", an exhibition of ceramic tiles and painted sculptural reliefs, will be shown at the Memorial University Botanical Gardens, St. John's, June 14 to July 21, open daily 10:00am to 5:00pm.
The Leyton Gallery Presents: Signs of Summer
June 15 - August 18, 2019
Including work by: Jack Botsford, Michael Connolly, Malin Enström, Marcus Gosse, Peter Jackson, Bonnie Leyton, John MacCallum, Virginia Mak, Sue Miller, Lisa Moore, Michael Pittman, Andrea Pottyondy, Anita Singh, Louise Sutton, Anastasia Tiller, Frances Vardy Reddy, Margaret Ryall, April White, And Introducing Chris Batten.
Signs of Summer presents works in painting, ceramics, hooked rugs, printmaking and photography. The Leyton Gallery of Fine Art is located at 6 Clift's - Baird's Cove off Water Street.
Call for Proposals
Deadline: June 28, 2019
Clean St. John’s and The City of St. John’s are seeking visual artists to design and create innovative painted art for traffic boxes. These boxes are the green metal boxes at intersections throughout the City that control the operation of the traffic signals. The selected artists will receive an honorarium of $500.00 to cover fees and supplies. Paint will be provided.
Proposals should include: Artwork concept description with rough sketch of the design, 3 images of past painted work, artist bio, artist website link if available, and complete contact information including email address, mailing address and phone number.
Proposals must be received by June 28, 2019. Apply by email to karen@cleanstjohns.ca or by mail to Clean St. John’s, 10 New Gower Street, PO Box 908, St. John’s , NL, A1C 5M2. Attention, Karen Hickman.
VANL-CARFAC is excited to be launching our new ART=WORK toques!
The Art = Work initiative is a partnership with the Mary MacDonald Foundation. This joint fundraiser will support visual artists, curators, and art workers living in Newfoundland and Labrador through programs and awards distributed by our retrospective organizations.
Toques and other Art = Work merch is available now at the VANL office and online here.
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Membership continues to be an vital component of Eastern Edge Gallery. With your support, we are able to continue to bring you the best of local, national, and international contemporary art through the programming of our Main Gallery, the Rogue Gallery, and our newly re-named summer arts festival, HOLD FAST. Eastern Edge also facilitates over forty creative events annually, including artist talks, workshops, members’ events, music nights and much more!
