Exhibition: Gallery 4 Annex

Poster design by Joy San

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Link to Gallery 4 Annex at HPL

 

 

­­Thousands and thousands of ideas, topics, and sources of inspiration are stored on the shelves of your library. Walk into your closest library, go to the 5th book stack, 3rd shelf from the top, 8th book from the left, and see what that uncovers!

This July and August, the Hamilton Public Library (HPL) has generously offered a two month exhibition to our group in partnership with another group, RevWear.

Both our clubs rooted out of McMaster University but have since evolved, each in their own way. While we have differences in style, intent, and purpose, we have things in common too; Like channeling ideas, whether simple or complex, into a physical presence (i.e. art - wearable or otherwise).

If you are in the Hamilton, Ontario, area this July and August, take a stroll to the Hamilton Public Library central branch at Jackson Square, go up to the 4^th floor, and take a look at our mishmash collection of art and fashion!

Join us
OPENING NIGHT
Friday, July 14
5-6pm
Hamilton Public Library
Fourth Floor - Gallery 4 Annex

To show our appreciation to the library for this opportunity, this exhibit is drawing inspiration from the Dewey Decimal Code; a group of numbers and letters designed to categorize and organize the legions of books in libraries based on topics and sub-topics. It’s a system used by all libraries (that I know of).

Each art piece displayed can guide you to a different place in the library where you can find your own ideas and interests. Each art piece is matched up to a topic, and each topic is matched up to the Dewey Decimal Code, and each code is matched up to a place in the library. If an art piece interests you, look at its tag and see what code or area of the library it is related to. Explore that area and see what new things you can learn about, read about, and find interest in!

The exhibition is called ‘Dewey it Yourself’.

RevWear is a group of people creating change, reusing everything and inspiring sustainability and social justice through wearable art and performance. RevWear held an exhibition at HPL last year and has more than 10 years running behind it!

Artists Anonymous is dedicated to the various forms of fine art and members are typically artists by passion not by profession. For more about us, explore this blog!

Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) 2015

Artists Anonymous is at At TCAF 2015!

What an awesome free event! So glad to see that the festival has kept its character and Toronto feel.

We're meeting artists from all over the world: Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong!

Rest in peace wallets.

We're also leaving our mark around the fest, give us a shout if you picked up a copy of our zine!

Love,

Artists Anonymous

V4: Issue 1

We got to the public library, madly tried to print the zine and realized a huge error had been made and one of the pages had been saved over, utilized the utmost creativity with Word and Internet Explorer to put together the remaining page again, cut, printed, and stapled using the worlds most finicky piece of machinery and got out of there before the library closed. This was a description of a very effective 30 minutes of time.

This zine was made to match the timing of Hamilton's annual Super Crawl. A weekend long art event which has quickly become the most popular free event in our parts (and I'm including Toronto). The crawl is still fine turing it's shape; it's art; it's music; it's food trucks; it's ruckus; it's people; it's mardi gras; who knows what it is. Whatever it might turn out to be, the crawl is a wild and exciting, so who wouldn't want to be a part. 

View the full issue under The Zine heading.

The Super Crawl that was...

MOT had a fantastic time during the 2012 Hamilton Super Crawl. We had so much fun that we chalked James St. North a unicorn in its honour.

For those unfamiliar with the event, the Hamilton Art Crawl happens every second Friday of the month. During this time art galleries and various speciality stores in the area are open to the public from 7pm until their heart's content.

The centre of Downtown Hamilton can be indicated by Jackson Square, which is a historical landmark for the city. It is essentially a building block housing a mall, the city's central public library, farmer's market, the Stelco Tower, the Sheraton Hamilton and more. The famous James St. N. stretches out from Jackson Square all the way straight to Hamilton's waterfront.

Art Crawl does run year round and it has been attracting local and international artists and visitors. The Super (Art) Crawl, on the other hand, is a once a year- late summer- all day art event that is curated and supported by local artists and community leaders. Not just galleries, this local event also showcases various live performances of music and dance as well as displays of commissioned public art installations.

It's not just that, what makes Art Crawl what it is - are the independent pieces appearing on the streets. These were the mysterious art pieces found (in this case) at a corner of a restaurant or on top of a mail box; they stand alone without a title, nor artists to identify them with.


You can find more information about the Art Crawl on its website and best believe MOT will enjoy more Art Crawl in the future.

Sz.

Pagkakataon

more to come soon ...

There are 310 small butterflies.

There are 550 large butterflies.

340 large butterflies are spray painted black.

130 small butterflies are spray painted black.

Kapisanan Kultura Festival 2012

Installation: Pagkakataon

At the Kapisanan KULTURA Festival
August 17th - 31st
The Kapisanan Philippine Centre
167 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 2L4

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At long last!  For the first time since leaving our old school club, we've set up a large scale art installation that is to be displayed in a gallery space.  We've been prepping this for months; working out conceptual details, feeling out the idea, fine tuning the technical details.  I wont spoil it, but tell you briefly that for the past three weeks we've been hand-tracing, hand-cutting, and mass spray-painting some 1000 individual pieces that will come together to form our final exhibition piece for the Kapisanan KULTURA Festival.

It's become common practice with us to create something from several smaller somethings.  But that's how our group has become so I guess it's not much of a surprise.  Pagkakataon means 'chance'.  Our meeting and coming together as a group can in a way be described as just that - as pagkakataon.  We're a mixed group of people in practically ever aspect that you could think of, including our disciplines at uni. That doesn't mean we can't all share an understanding of  themes and ideas.  

Kapisanan's theme for this year's KULTURA Festival was Pamahiin, meaning ritual.  

Did you know black butteflies mean death?

Did you know white butterflies mean wealth?

Do you think butterflies could mean anything at all? Do you want them to?

TCAF 2012

Did you, perhaps, pick up a copy of our zine at this year's TCAF?

Why not leave us a comment/criticism/didactic poem?

*nudge nudge *hint hint *puppy eyes

*No honey boys were harmed in the making of this tomfoolery.*

You can purchase your own honey boys 

at St. Lawrence Market.

More on TCAF: in this post