From Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, Zavitz Gallery exhibited the Grok Block show, a collaboration of four young artists from the University of Guelph School of Fine Arts. Rachel Crawford, Celine Etienza, Sean Abraham, and Victoria Day exhibited works a across four mediums: drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography. The show […]
Arts & Culture
The Ontarion’s arts and culture articles cover the local artistic scene, including news, interviews, and reviews.
Album Review: Jordan Raycroft
Hailing from the Niagara region, University of Guelph student Jordan Raycroft has, in recent years, developed an impressive resume as a contemporary folk singer-songwriter, and at 22 years old has just recently released his self-titled debut effort. In just the past three years, Raycroft has been featured as a performer […]
Art Hits the Street in Downtown Guelph
Highlights from this year’s Street Art Festival Cork Street in downtown Guelph was filled with many people sharing creative energy for the 2013 Street Art Festival. The event happened on Saturday Sept. 28 and featured over 20 graffiti and spray paint artists displaying their work, as well as creating new […]
Mind Over Matter at MSAC
Artefact Artefiction exhibit explores materiality What do portraits made of chewing gum, small-scale sculptures mimicking swirled confections, ornately framed illustrations, and a human-animal hybrid bust covered in fur, have in common? They’re all a part of the current exhibition, Artefact Artefiction, which aims to examine materiality and the use of […]
Taking Art to the Street
The merits of graffiti and urban art It’s bright, bold, imaginative, expressive, and urban – and comes from a spray paint canister. Street art, or graffiti art, takes public spaces as blank canvases and brings life to city streets. It’s a medium that encourages a more democratic, collaborative approach to […]
Talk, Text, Exhibit
Local art gallery showcases “phonographs” – photos taken with cell phone cameras and edited in apps On Friday Sept. 27, Ed Video hosted an extremely interesting and thought-provoking exhibit of cell phone photography. Titled “guelPhonography,” the gallery featured the 20 finalists in a contest to take the best photographs of […]
A to Zavitz
Dual Phenomenology From Sept. 23 to 27, Zavitz Gallery showcased the work of two promising young artists from the University of Guelph’s School of Fine Arts. Susannah Van Der Zaag and Mariah Hamilton collaborated in an exhibition called Dual Phenomenology, exploring the mediums of sculpture, photography, and painting to create […]
Sound Guelph
Documenting and reliving the music of 1970-2000 On Friday Sept. 27 at Silence on Essex Street downtown Guelph, the public was given a very special treat – David J. Knight launched his newest book, Sound Guelph, and brought back together bands from Guelph’s past. It was an honour to be […]
The Happy Making Project
Improvising music, without any regard for the general rules or on the capability of the musician involved, can induce happiness according to the Guelph “Happy Making Project.” This project is based within the Guelph community and includes the positioning of many pianos throughout the city. The idea matured due to […]
A to Zavitz
Architectonic From Sept. 16 to Sept. 20, Zavitz gallery held the exhibition Architectonic by Jazmyn Pettigrew. The exhibition illustrated a conversation between modern architecture and spatial and sculptural photography. Abstract folds were created within each photograph to negotiate the terrain between fiction and representation, illusion and abstraction. The exhibition invited […]
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