Category: Community News
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
In Memory of Lotti Thomas
"I first met Lotti Thomas through her work. I was volunteering at the art gallery at the Scarborough campus of the University of Toronto in the later 1980s and installed one of her amazing lithographs in a group exhibition of alumni. I actually ended up buying the work for my own nascent collection. Lotti would…
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
In Review – RMG Fridays: Young Minds
By Stephanie Pollard “I want all my children to have the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” -Phyllis Diller Wind and sputtering rain didn’t stop guests from enjoying May’s First Fridays at RMG, which celebrated Durham’s young people. From performances by the Durham Girls’ Choir and spoken word artist…
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Women in Art and Community
Women in Art and Community There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish. -Michelle Obama Alexandra Luke would be proud. While we can only speculate on how she saw the future of a small building on Simcoe Street that housed works by the Painters’ 11 and other Canadian artists, fifty years later…
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Monday, March 20, 2017
Jo Yetter: Dripping Faucets Are My Metronome
Jo Yetter: Dripping Faucets Are My Metronome Art Lab through March 30 Jo Yetter is a Toronto-based artist who explores space, interpersonal relationships, identity and growth through printmaking, book art and installations. “I like to say I work with space,” they said. “I make books but they are spaces to inhabit.” Yetter is using their…
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017
RMG Fridays: Origins
By: Stephanie Pollard RMG Fridays: Origins reminded Oshawa and Durham Region that we live-recognize, learn from, and honour- culture. As the first event to officially begin the Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s (RMG) 50th anniversary celebrations, Origins felt more like an opening night than get-together. A nervous excitement buzzing around the main floor had managers, media,…
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Monday, November 28, 2016
How Do People Find Them?: Stephanie Pollard on the Value of RMG Fridays
They’re artists in Oshawa…as in ‘GM town’ Oshawa? But they’re based in Toronto right? No?! So where do they get support for their work? How do people find them? (Do they even have an Instagram account?) Who comes out to see their work, do they know where to find them? RMG Fridays is where artists…
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