Arts in
Barrie and Orillia, Ontario
 

September |October | November| | December |
2013: January | February | March | April | May |June | July | August |

To October 27
Frozen in Time – Nathalie Daoust
Orillia Museum of Art & History

Exhibit Opening: Thurs Aug 23 at 7:00 pm

These images are set in an ambiguous territory where dream and reality clash. In this altered state of reality, stillness and silence permeate each image, each is a moment frozen in time. Here memory and introspection create a labyrinth of illusion, mystery and fantasy. The narrative that evolves throughout the works is a personal one, a journey, steeped in self-scrutiny, towards coming to terms with one’s identity through life experiences, loss and sorrow as well as pleasure.

To October 27
Karen Brodie – Images Within
Orillia Museum of Art & History

Exhibit Opening: Thursday, August 23 at 7:00 pm

A second generation stone carver, Karen comes from Toronto, Ontario and now lives on a small farm. The peace and quiet is conducive to the creative process and the beauty of her natural surroundings is a constant source of inspiration. "When I create a sculpture I dream about the stone and then remove everything that wasn’t in the dream. I love the whole process of working with stone, from design to sculpting through to the polishing and finishing".

September 1 - November 4
John Hartman: Shore Line Over View
Curator: Jennifer Withrow and Ben Portis
MacLaren Art Centre, Joan Lehman Gallery and Molson Community Gallery

Shore Line Over View illuminates the ways in which regional artist John Hartman enlists diverse artistic methods and media to translate his lifelong engagement with Georgian Bay. Each stage of the creative process is addressed in this project, from photographs and preparatory drawings to sketch books and completed artworks. In addition to featuring some of Hartman’s most recent work, among them new watercolour paintings and a suite of six colour drypoints, Shore Line Over View includes his watercolour sketchbooks, large-scale watercolour studies, and graphite sketchbooks in Coptic and accordion-bound formats. Collectively, the elements in Shore Line Over View give viewers insight into Hartman’s translation of immediate vision into finished works of art.

September 1- October 9
STREETS ALIVE! LEACOCK CHAIRS STREET ART EXHIBIT
Downtown Orillia

Celebrating 100 years of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town! City streets are alive with chair sculptures modelled after a chair owned by Stephen Leacock, & fashioned into original works of art by area artists! Downtown Orillia, 329-2333 (Original chair in Leacock Museum)

September 1- October 22
FESTIVAL OF BANNERS: OUTDOOR ART CELEBRATION!
Downtown Orillia

Colourful banners themed Sunshine Sketches, designed & hand-painted by community members, transform our streets into a vibrant outdoor art gallery! Downtown Orillia, 326-2159

September 13 - November 4
Divided Horizon: Highlights from the Photography Collection
Curator: Jennifer Withrow
MacLaren Art Centre, The Carnegie Room

Divided Horizon features work by four contemporary photographers from the MacLaren’s Contemporary Collection who investigate the human imprint on the natural world, with particular emphasis on the horizon line. Each of the four main walls in the Carnegie Room is dedicated to a single artist. Seen together, these works create a 360° panorama, in which the horizon undergoes changes in perspective, punctuated differently by the human disruptions that each artist has engaged.

September 13 - November 4
Found in Translation: Highlights from the Contemporary Collection
Curator: Jennifer Withrow
MacLaren Art Centre, Janice Laking Gallery and Gallery 3

Found in Translation features contemporary works from the MacLaren’s Permanent Collection by leading regional artists Walter Bachinski, Ted Fullerton, Dennis Geden, John Hartman and Robert Marchessault, as well as distinguished artists from across Canada. This exhibition presents a unique opportunity to view highlights from the Collection in the context of techniques and traditions of abstraction.

September 13 - September 30
Community and Youth Exhibitions
Artists: A group show by MacLaren artist-instructors
MacLaren Art Centre, Rotary Education Centre

Enjoy this group show featuring work by the regional artists who teach MacLaren programmes. Many of the artists will be in attendance at the Open House on September 29. Come meet the artists and learn more about MacLaren art classes and VanGo!

September 27, 6:00 to 10:30 pm.
2012 MacLaren Legacy Dinner
MacLaren Art Centre Carnegie Room

Tickets $175

An evening of outstanding dining and discussion, with a special tribute to local businessman and community leader Tom McBride.

For tickets, please contact Sue-Ellen Boyes at 705-720-1044 ext. 236 or sue.ellen@maclarenart.com
Dress: Business Attire

October 1-9
STREETS ALIVE! LEACOCK CHAIRS STREET ART EXHIBIT
Downtown Orillia

Celebrating 100 years of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town! City streets are alive with chair sculptures modelled after a chair owned by Stephen Leacock, & fashioned into original works of art by area artists! Downtown Orillia, 329-2333 (Original chair in Leacock Museum)

October 5-8
29TH ANNUAL IMAGES THANKSGIVING STUDIO TOUR
Orillia, Barrie & surrounding area

A self-guided studio tour & juried presentation of works by some of the area's finest artists & craftspeople! 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Orillia, Barrie & surrounding area, 327-3363 (Brochure & map available at venues, Orillia District Chamber of Commerce & various locations throughout Simcoe County)

October 9- October 13
CRAFTS WITH CLASS ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW
Orillia Square Mall

A variety of artisans & crafters display their works throughout the mall! Orillia Square Mall, 325-2366

October 29 to November 3
Festival of Banners 2012
Orillia Museum of Art & History

Exhibit Gala: Saturday November 3

Sunshine Sketches is the theme for the 2012 Festival of Banners and your starting point to create a unique work of art that may line the street with other banners in downtown Orillia this summer. Everyone eight and over is invited to enter a design for the festival. The chosen designs will be painted by the designers themselves, and will hang on the city streets from May to October of 2012. This year we are trying something new with the festival of Banners. This year artists will select one of three templates to create their image with. We are excited to see the creative results.

December 6 - February 18, 2013
Leopold Plotek: Hue and Cry
Curator: Ben Portis
MacLaren Art Centre, Janice Laking Gallery

An éminence grise among Montreal artists, Leopold Plotek (born 1948, Moscow, USSR) excavates the passion of ideas against a declining Western Civilization. Hue and Cry comprises a tight selection of canvases from the 1990s to the present drawn from the largely figurative phase of Plotek's career. Plotek, however, never relinquished the abstract sensibilites from which his practice originated; he was a protégé of the illustrious Plasticien artist, Yves Gaucher, so these qualities remain evident.

December 6 - February 18, 2013
Workingman's Dead: Lives of the Artists, Selections from the SovFoto Archive
Artists: SovFoto Archive
Curator: Leopold Plotek and Ben Portis
MacLaren Art Centre, Gallery 3

The status of the artist in the Soviet Union from its advent in the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 followed one of the history's remarkable, unprecedented arcs. In the 1920s artists - including painters, sculptors, architects, novelists, playwrights, poets, composers, musicians, dancers, actors, dramaturges and filmmakers - were the vaunted designers of the new society. In the 1930s these same individuals met derision, obsolescence and ignominy, suffering the fullest abuses of the state if defiant. By the 1940s a morbid conservatism and bourgeoisie befell those who had toed the party line and survived to reap official accolates from a system to whic h they barely remained relevant.