News from the Nipissing District by Clayton Windatt

Things are going very well in the North and I am in the middle of regional research initiatives with several communities. This is part of a Chalmers Fellowship that I received to research similarities of Northern regions. After conducting Cultural Town Halls in both Sudbury and Timmins, I am very impressed with the level of community organization taking place and the enthusiasm that is coming from the people there. Everyone seems to be working collectively towards shared goals and pushing for common benefits to their perspective region. There seem to be many ground swells towards better infrastructures in each territory and its an exciting thing to behold. Northern Ontario is obviously on the verge or many great things and I am excited to travel to Thunder Bay, Hearst, Sault Ste. Marie and West Bay on Manitoulin Island. It will be fun to see what happens next!

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If a gallery receiving an operating grant does not pay fees at an appropriate professional standard, this issue is raised as a concern through the peer assessment process. OAC staff will provide this feedback to the organization. These concerns can result in lower assessment scores leading to reductions to an organizations operating grant level.

Project grant recipients are required to submit final reports which indicate they have met the requirements to pay artists. If needed, OAC follows up with grant recipients to make sure payments

are made. If they do not meet these requirements, organizations are not eligible to apply again and would be required to repay the grant.

Over four decades CARFAC Ontario has played a significant role in advocating for artists rights, and in the establishment of professional standards and fees, and in providing resources and information for visual artists, said Lisa.

CARFAC Ontario has valued this support from the Ontario Arts Council.

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Since 1968 CARFAC has issued schedules of royalties or fees, assigning value to the use of the copyrights of visual and media artists. The schedules were introduced by artists Jack Chambers and Tony Urquhart. These founding members of CARFAC believed strongly that copyright is the foundation of artists rights and that artists must assert their rights in order to earn from their work.

The Fee Schedule has evolved and expanded over the years. It is based on discussion with artists and users, on negotiation, and on factors like the cost of living. It is tested in the real world of licensing by CARCC, Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective, founded by CARFAC in 1990 to administer artists copyrights and to put the Fee Schedule to work for them. CARCC uses the Fee Schedule as the basis for its licensing negotiations. The Fee Schedule has drawn on the experience of other collecting societies as well. RAAV, founded in 1989 to serve the artists of Qubec, upholds the same principles that artists must be fairly compensated for uses of their works. RAAV has adopted the Fee Schedule and is now a partner in the management of CARCC. There is an annual vote to approve the Fee Schedule at CARFAC Nationals Annual General Meeting. Its general acceptance among artists makes it a standard for pricing uses of artists copyrights.

Most of the fees listed in the Fee Schedule are related to the wide variety of uses that might be made of artists copyrights a variety of exhibition types in a wide range of exhibiting venues, a great many cultural, educational and commercial types of reproduction in many media, including print and digital. There is also a short section of recommended rates for artists professional services, such as installation, preparation and presentation, which are unrelated to copyright. All fees are considered to be recommended minimum amounts.

A few things to remember when using the Fee Schedule: Some fees include the CARCC administrative fee and others do not the inclusion will be indicated as the fees are listed. If a listed fee includes CARCCs 20% administrative fee, we recommend that that a non-

CARCC artist doing his or her own licensing charge the full fee in order to cover the time and effort involved in negotiating a permission. If a user is doing the work of licensing, he or she may deduct the administrative fee from the amount offered, as the user in incurring the costs of licensing and there is no need to pay it to another party.

Copyright royalties / fees may be subject to sales tax. The rates listed do not include sales tax. All rates are in Canadian dollars. Please note that we do not put dollar signs beside every number. The fees listed are usually raised by 3% annually. If you are planning a project, please add the appropriate percentage for the year in which the project will take place, to be sure the budget is correct.

The Fee Schedule is not designed to recommend costs related to complex projects like curatorial work, commissions, or artists residencies, where time and expenses or an artists market might be big factors, and the use of an artists copyright is minor or may not come into play at all. The artist should be vigilant about copyright clauses that may be part of larger contracts in any case and factor the cost of copyright into quotes.

To consult the Fee Schedule, please visit www.carcc.ca, or use the links provided on any CARFAC website, or that of RAAV.

The Fee Schedule can teach us a lot about copyright and how it might work for artists, but artists should know the basics of copyright in order to effectively use the Fee Schedule. Here are a few principles.

Copyright Defined

Copyright is the right of a creator (or rightsholder) to authorize uses of his or her creations. Copyright includes moral rights which protect a creators reputation the right of association, the right of integrity and the right of paternity. The law allows a creator to permit or refuse a use, and to waive moral rights if he or she so chooses. Copyright permission can be contingent on payment for a use or other

The CARFAC/RAAV Minimum Fee Schedule Assigning Value to Artists Rights and Services

Written by Janice Seline, Executive Director of CARCC

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factors. There are some forms of remuneration that are adopted into law these are known as tariffs. They are set by negotiation at the Copyright Board and to use without paying them is a punishable offence. The CARFAC/RAAV Minimum Fee Schedule is not a tariff it is a schedule of suggested minimum rates. In the Canadian arts community there is general agreement that the fees are appropriate, but they are negociable. It is an infringement of copyright to use without permission, and an artist can resort to legal means to protect his or her rights should they be so violated.

Licensing

It is best that artists give their copyright permissions in writing. Such written authorization is otherwise known as a licence. A good, effective licence will outline who and what exactly the permission is for, to which work it applies, what the limits of the use might be, whether a time limit or a number of copies. It will state what the charge will be for the use and when payment is expected. It will grant non-exclusive rights, meaning that the artist may continue to make use of his or her own works without giving up all the rights in them. A bad licence might allow some general sort of use, such as for educational and promotional purposes or simply exhibition without detail about what kind of reproduction is to be made or what the exhibition entails. A bad licence might grant uses in perpetuity, in all media, including those not yet invented. A bad licence may include a grant of exclusive rights with no exit clause. It might require a waiver of moral rights. It is not unusual to see any of these things in a users copyright request. It is much too easy to sign away ones rights without any negotiation of excessive, unbalanced terms. There is a practice known as rights-grabbing, a bully tactic of leveraging away artists rights beyond what a simple use might require, often in the name of convenience, often with no offer of compensation. Artists can apply the brakes. Transfer of ownership and copyright

Transfer of ownership of a work does not mean a transfer of copyright, and licences do not transfer ownership of a work. This principle has to do with the fact that a work of art is physical property, while the copyright associated with it is intellectual property. These are separate items. When a work of art is purchased, or acquired by gift, the new owner is not the owner of copyright in the work, unless there is a signed agreement that transfers copyright from the creator to the new owner. Owners of works of art who do not hold copyright must negotiate uses like

reproductions or exhibitions with the artist or with his or her representative, such as CARCC. There can be misunderstanding on the part of owners of works of art of this principle and it is often incumbent on the artist to explain this, or to state the principle in a sales contract.

Exhibition right

Most copyrights are related to the making of copies, reproductions, by all sorts of means and the Fee Schedule treats these in some depth. The inclusion of the Exhibition Right in the Copyright Act, however, is unique to Canadian law and it deserves special mention. The Exhibition Right was adopted into the Act in 1988, after much lobbying on the part of CARFAC and other artists organizations. The Exhibition Right applies to the exhibition of works of visual art not presented for sale or hire (that means commercial shows are not included), provided the works were made after June 7, 1988 (the day the Act was reformed). Like all other forms of copying, transmission, or presentation, the permission of the rightsholder, usually the creator, is required in Canada for such exhibition of works of art. This includes eligible works that are owned by parties other than artists themselves, therefore works in permanent or private collections can be subject to the law if no other written agreement has been made. CARFAC and RAAV maintain that copyright is an important source of income for artists, and they encourage artists to charge the recommended fees when they grant permission to exhibit or reproduce a work.

Fair Dealing

The Copyright Act does not exactly define the concept of fair dealing. Fair dealing is related to exceptions to copyright that are granted in the Act when a work is used in certain ways - in other words, uses for which the creators permission is not required. Courts would look carefully at cases involving disputes over fair dealing exceptions to determine whether a use is in fact fair to both rightsholder and user. Canadian fair dealing includes copying for private study or research, for purposes of criticism, review or news coverage, or the limited use of small portions of a work (sometimes called incidental uses). Record-keeping is also excepted. Any claim for a fair dealing exception for educational uses should be carefully examined as to the fairness of the proposed use, as the education exception is new and in the process of being tested in the courts. In all cases work must be fully credited to the creator.

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Any CARFAC Ontario member can be included in these free listings. The deadline for inclusion in the next issue is Friday, May 15, 2015 for shows running during July, August and September 2015. Please send

listings for shows running only during these months to: bri@carfacontario.ca

The listing should include: your name; title of your show; gallerys address and contact information; date for which the show will be on display; and a brief artists statement or description of the work. The subject line of the e-mail should clearly request inclusion in the next issue of DISPATCH. You can also

post your exhibition listings on the members section on our web site: www.carfacontario.ca

caRFac Ontario Members Exhibition Listings

Lauren McKinley Renzetti in exhibitions:The Personal Sacred LandscapeFebruary 8-May 3, 2015

Neighbourhood Gallery North79 Hiawatha Road, Toronto ON

Abstract Show April 1-19, 2015Reception: April 10, 6pm - 8pm LucSculpture663 Greenwood Avenue, Toronto ON Abstract Show is a group show of acrylic paintings.

Salon ShowApril 9- 30, 2015 Reception: April 9 from 6-8pm

Art Works Art School 238 Jane Street, Toronto ON

It is a group show including student and faculty work.

Sketchbook Challenge Sho+wApril 10 - 26, 2015 Reception: April 10, 6pm - 9pm

Articulations2928 Dundas Street West, Toronto ON

Finding AbstractionMay 10 - June 29, 2015Reception: May 10, 12pm - 1pm

Neighbourhood Gallery79 Hiawatha Road, Toronto ON

Finding Abstraction is a group show. I am a participant and curator.

Paintings Rock May 1 - 30, 2015

Above Ground Art Supply 1842 Queen Street East, Toronto ON M4L 1G8

Paintings Rock is a solo show of acrylic paintings all derived form mineral samples.

Contemporary Miniprint of KazanlakJune - July 2015

Group show Gallery Iskra, Bulgaria, EuropeIt is a group show of small prints.

Ingrid MayrhoferHomeJanuary 20 - April 25, 2015Art Crawl on April 10, 7pm - 9pm

Workers Arts and Heritage Centre51 Stuart Street, Hamilton ON L8L 1B5

Group exhibition with Amelia Jimnez, Dmarys Seplveda and Farouk Kaspaules. Also on view dur-ing April will be works from community collabora-tions with New Canadians.

Donna Jean MayneSculpture Walk Sioux FallsMay 1 - October 5, 2015Reception on May 1: Craft Brew Street Bash

Outdoors (Central Program) and Indoors (Avera McKennan Hospital)Sculpture Walk300 S. Phillips Ave. #L104, Sioux Falls, SD 57104

Gift of Water is a series of 3/4 life-size, bronze sculptures created for waterside environments.

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These romanticized figures act as contemplative stewards of the water, caressing this life force with their fingers and toes. Brenna will be displayed out-doors while her sister, Adamaris, will be featured indoors in Avera McKennan Hospital

Joseph MuscatSimulacrumMay 9 - June 8, 2015Opening Reception: May 14 at 5pm

Le Centre dartistes Voix Visuelle 67 Beechwood Avenue, Ottawa ON K1M 1L8

An exhibition of mix media works combining painted collages superimposed over colour photographs.This series deals with photographic images of ste-reotyped ascetic poses often associated with devo-tion and sanctity partly covered by colourful tar paper collages painted in acrylic thus creating a whimsical or theatrical reality.

Joseph MuscatInterface 1 & 2May 21 - 24, 2015Gala Opening - Ticketed eventReception May 21, 6pm - 10pm

Art Vancouver 2015 at Vancouver Convention Centre East Exhibition Hall B - Ground Level 1055 Canada Place, Vancouver BC

Acrylic paintings on canvas and mixed media col-lages on canvas on the theme of Computers & The Human Brain. Abstract and representational marks and images interface and intermingle mirroring the similarities between the hardware of information technology and the anatomy of the brain. Art Vancouver 2015 website: www. Artvancouver.net

Jill Price and Jenna Faye PowellSlipMay 12 - 30, 2015 Opening: Friday May 15 at 7:30

Westland Gallery156 Wortley Road, London ON N6C 3P5

Jill Prices new series of mixed media sketches and paintings depict hills to symbolically visualize her journey as a maker. Illustrations of barriers, pitfalls, plateaus and imagery of ascension reflect the chal-lenges and successes of each day mid as Price

attempts to find time and space amidst the hectic demands of contemporary life.

Jill Price and Melissa RobertsonEmbedded NotationsJune, 2015

Double Door Gallery4004 Horseshoe Valley Road West, Anten Mills ON L0L 1Y0

Jill Price continues to explore the image of the hill as a metaphor for her personal journey as a maker in her ongoing series of mixed media sketches and paintings. Working with ink, oil, collage and now sculpture, Price is pushing her materiality to explore both the literal and abstract notions of space and time.

Tamaya GarnerDear DiaryMay 21 29, 2015Reception: Saturday May 23, 11am - 5pm

Ecclesiax Church Gallery2 Monk Street (at Bank and Fifth Avenue), Ottawa ON K1S 3Y6 Dear Diary, This exhibition portrays a heavy-hearted journey. How do you cope when a loved one has an illness? When days become years. Smiles and normality must be worn, so where do all those feelings go? Sculptures, paintings and poetry, is where mine went. You are not alone.

Ruby EwenOil Paintings 2015May 8 - 14, 2015 Vernissage: Friday May 8, 7pm - 10pm

Galerie LA PETITE MORT Gallery306 Cumberland Street, Ottawa ON K1N 7H9

Jeanette LucheseDeja Vu - Reconstructing the PerceptionFebruary 28 - April 25, 2015Reception: March 7, 1pm - 4pm

Aurora Cultural Centre Meridian and Blue Gallery22 Church Street, Aurora ON L4G 1G4

A solo exhibition of large paintings, sculpture and

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sound art by Jeanette Luchese investigating percep-tion, time and reality. www.auroraculturalcentre.ca

Andrzej Maciejewski in exhibitions: Garden of EdenApril 3 - August 7, 2015

Turchin Center for the Visual Arts423 West King Street, Boone NC 28608, USA

Series of colour still-life photographs, loosely based on Old Masters paintings, but showing the 21st Century fruits and vegetables from supermarket, with label stickers or wrapped in plastic.

Garden of EdenApril 2 - May 3, 2015Reception: April 2

Culture Shawinigan - Centre dexposition Lo-Ayotte2100, boulevard des Htres, Shawinigan QC G9N 8R8

Series of colour still-life photographs, loosely based on Old Masters paintings, but showing the 21st Century fruits and vegetables from supermarket, with label stickers or wrapped in plastic.

V.I.P. Portrait Gallery May 26 - September 5, 2015Reception: May 26t, 5pm - 8pm

The University of Mississippi Museum,University Avenue and 5th St.,Oxford, MS 38655, USA

Black and white photographic portraits of pota-toes. It is a study of form, a collection of diverse shapes and textures. I have created many such collections and I often choose mundane objects, like in this case potatoes. This gives me the free-dom to look at them in an abstract way or to inter-pret them on my own, without being limited by the overwhelming context, which often happens when you choose objects that are too obviously impor-tant or unusual. What drew me to potatoes in particular, was their commonly unappreciated diversity created by nature, not by human artful-ness. For my potatoes, I chose to make portraits rather than simply still-lifes and I gave them names - not in order to suggest that they look like people, but simply to emphasize their individual uniqueness (names individualize, like numbers standardize). I used the large format camera and

I printed them much larger than the life-size to show them like they were looked at through the magnifying glass with attention to all the tiny, but meaningful details.

The Sculptors Society of Canada presents: Canadian Sculpture Centre500 Church Street, Toronto ON M4Y 2C8

Earth Matters a solo exhibition by Judy Raymer IvkoffApril 9 -25, 2015 Reception: April 11, 2pm - 4pm

The work in Earth Matters centres on elements of the natural physical environment within the context of movement, order, time, energy, rhythm and regeneration. The materials I use are wood, stone, clay and metals, and are worked in combinations. - Judy Raymer Ivkoff

20th Annual Juried Graduating Sculpture Student Exhibition June 11 - July 3, 2015Reception: June 11, 6:30pm - 8:30pm with awards presentation at 7pm

The Sculptors Society of Canada (SCC) is pleased to present an Annual Juried Graduating Sculpture Student Exhibition at the Canadian Sculpture Centre. Each year the SSC sponsors, organizes and invites jurors from the art community to select participants and awards for this exhibition. Jurors: Joshua Burston, Flavio Belli, Barbara Fletcher.

Dale M ReidDejeuner - a photographic presentation of the oyster mushroom as fine artApril 1 - June 30, 2015

Online at www.dejeuner-photo.com

The portrayal of food as an art form is deeply rooted in cultural history. Photographer Dale M Reids exhi-bition Dejeuner seduces the viewer with provocative images of the oyster mushroom. Through traditional composition, lighting and dark room development, Reids skilled execution of each photograph cap-tures the texture and allure of the oyster mushroom.Dejeuners examination of this sacred and mystical symbol inspires reflection about the arts communion with food, nature and beauty.

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Brianna Hilly World at Toronto One of a Kind Spring ShowMarch 25 - 29, 2015

Booth H24 at Direct Energy Centre100 Princes Boulevard, Toronto ON M6K 3C3

An exhibition of contemporary acrylic folk art paint-ings along with an offering of gicle archival prints and greeting cards. Brianna creates folk art that is fun and whimsical, with a little bit of funk. Sweet characters inhabit a charming hilly land. Her use of vibrant colours creates an enchanting world that draws you in. One of a Kind Spring Show is Canadas largest show and sale of works from over 450 artisans and designers.

Collette Broeders and Susan Gold in group show: MayWorks Windsor FestivalMay 2015

On May 1st as part of the Windsors May Day Bread and Roses event in Landspeary Park, one ten park artists, Broeders and Gold will represent their inter-

national MailArt project, ROSES for WINDSOR II. For more information: www.onetenpark.com onetenpark : a working space will install their col-laborative work, Factory Threads, with emerging artist Melissa Marchant in the WINDOWS of 110 Park Street West. Reception and Party on May 15th with DJ Stephen Pender.

Vivien TytorCrer pour lutter: lart au service de la rsistancePermanent Art Exhibition

Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa12th Floor, 120 University Street, Ottawa ON K1N 6N5

In the painting inertia, I endeavour to express the vulnerability of humanity with the body posed in a fetal position. Rather than leaving the figure naked, I covered it with paint leaving enough of the original image to indicate the form and shape.The theme for this piece is my visual rendition of homelessness, and mental health. Crer pour lut-ter: lart au service de la rsistance is a juried group show of 20 artists, initiative of the Association for Undergraduate Students in Social Work at the University of Ottawa.

Elaine WhittakerShiverApril 1 - 25, 2015 Reception: Friday April 10, 6:30pm - 9pm

Red Head Gallery201-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto ON M5V 3A8

Shiver an installation of beauty and terror, up and down your flinching unhinged spine.

Holly McClellan Chemical WorldApril 1 - 30, 2015 Reception: April 2, 7pm - 10pm

Gallery in the Attic140 1/2 Hunter Street West, Peterborough ON K9H 2K8

Holly McClellans Chemical World is a show of colourful, topographical, painterly looking images. Hints about subject matter used to create the photos

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are given through the titles of individual works. The venue housing the show is the original Roy Studio and Darkroom, Canadas longest continuously run-ning darkroom.

Shirley V. Ting in exhibitions: The Personal LandscapeFebruary 8 - May 3, 2015

Neighborhood Gallery at NUUC 79 Hiawatha Road, Toronto ON

Shirley V. Ting is a visual artist participating in an Invitational Group Show at the Neighborhood Gallery.Curatorial Statement: We humans have such varied views about interpretations of words like Sacred and Landscape. Many themes in this show are reoccur-ring; Nature, Trees, Paths, Water and Stone. The wonder in the journey, the path, is a common thread. If you can, allow yourself time to view the works in this show Hopefully, you can step into the moments of these artists and see if your own land-scapes resonate with these artists Personal Sacred Landscape. For more information http://nuuc.ca/about/visiting-us/introducing-neighbourhoods-art-galleries/current-art-shows/

Spring Juried Show April 1 - 12, 2015Reception: April 1, 6pm - 8pm

Papermill Gallery at Todmorden Mills67 Pottery Road, Toronto ON M4K 2B9

Shirley V. Ting has two encaustic works in the Spring Juried Show of the Willowdale Group of Artists. Founded in 1947, the Willowdale Group of Artists aims to bring together people with a desire to paint, and to provide them with inspiration and opportuni-ties for learning, and support.

The IRIS GroupFILMICMay 23 - July 5, 2015 Opening: Saturday, May 23 at 1pm

Station Gallery1450 Henry Street, Whitby ON L1N 0A8

The original idea for this exhibition evolved out of conversations about fridge filmthose chilled canisters of developed and undeveloped 35mm

film rolls in refrigerators. This notion of preserving image artefacts from the pre-digital age enters this exhibition and extends to other ideas of the word filmic. The adjective can relate to movies or cin-ematography.

Patricia Moore in solo exhibition: Selected Paintings 2014 - 2015July 21 - August 3, 2015Opening Reception: July 22, 6pm - 8pm

The Guild Gallery111 Queen StreetCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island. 902-620-3474

The paintings are like fragments through time with echoes of music and remembered places.

Patricia Moore with gallery artists:March - July 2015

Studio Gallery at Gallery on the Bay231 Bay Street North, Hamilton ON L8R 2R1 905-540-8532

Yael Brotman in a group exhibition:Bring to LightFebruary 8 - April 26, 2015 Reception: April 26, 2pm - 4pm

Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University5795 Lewiston Rd, NY 14109 USA

Three of my installations are included in the exhi-bition Bring to Light, where every three minutes there is a transition from incandescent to black light. My pieces are constructed of foamcore, etched Japanese paper and sequentially pat-terned lights. The themes relate to construction, deconstruction and wonder.

Margaret Lindsay Holton in a group show: Artists of Halton Peel Counties March 15 - April 19, 2015

Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre1086 Burnamthorpe Road, North Oakville ON

Juried Group Exhibition - 50 diverse artists from the rural districts of Halton and Peel Counties in southwestern Ontario Canada are on display for

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one month at the fabulous Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre. Wide variety of subjects and techniques on view.

Margaret Lindsay Holton in a solo show: Carpe Diem! - Solo show by MLHSeptember 20, 2015

Location: Community Hall - HBRUHamilton Beach Rescue 316 Beach Boulevard , Hamilton ON

Please join Golden Horseshoe artist & author, Margaret Lindsay Holton, for a second solo show at the Hamilton Beach Rescue Community Hall on the Hamilton Beach Strip - one day only - Sunday, Sept 20th, 2-5pm. Free lemonade.

Susan Jephcott in exhibitions: Four FriendsMay 16 - 17, 2015 (open 12pm - 5pm)

Three Owls Studio & Gallery151 Main Street East, Vankleek Hill ON Exhibiting Artists: Robin Hutchinson(ceramics), Susan Jephcott(Paintings),Donald Liardi(Sculpture), Maggie Roddan(Ceramics). For more information contact Susan Jephcott at 613-678-3049. This exhi-bition is in conjunction with Victoria Day in Vankleek Hill; formely known as The Annual Vankleek Hill May Show an art festival that includes the whole town and has been running since 1982. The Garden Sculpture 2015 ExhibitionMay 24 - October 31, 2015

The Skelly Gallery160 County Road 10, St.Eugene ON

This is a group show in which I have an outdoor installation titled Herd of the Apocalypse. For more information contact Phillippa Lesniak at 613-674-2987. A Mid-Summer Afternoon of ArtJune 21, 2015

201 Burnside Drive, Toronto On

This is a solo exhibition by invitation only, featuring paintings by Susan Jephcott. For more information contact Diane Richard at 416-898-1998.

Dream Blankets and Other Works by JephcottOctober 3 - November 22, 2015

Centre Culturel Le ChenailMaison de Lille, 2 rue John, Hawkesbury, ON

This is a solo exhibition featuring a body of work based on a dream I had in July 2014 about ancestor women and blankets, as well as some other paint-ings from earlier series that I have explored. For more information contact Lynda Clouette-Mackay at 613-632-9555.

Jane Martin in group exhibition:Getting NakedMarch 6 - May 31, 2015

The Museum10 King Street West, Kitchener ON

Jane Martins 1982 oil painting Dickson Suite #3 (Coll. The Canada Council Art Bank and part of the series The Eighties) will be included in the exhibition Getting Naked at The Museum, in Kitchener March 6 May 31, 2015.

Deb WilesWidening the Cycle: A Menstrual Cycle & Reproductive Justice Art Show June 4-6, 2015

Suffolk University Law School120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108

Widening the Cycle: A Menstrual Cycle & Reproductive Justice Art Show is a 3-day social justice art show addressing the complex issues per-taining to menstruation and reproductive justice. The exhibit will be held at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts in conjunction with the bien-nial meeting of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. Following the 2013 biennial conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research (SMCR), artist and menstrual designer Jen Lewis was inspired to curate a visual exhibit that would further enrich, inform and strengthen the interdisciplinary event. Menstruation is a human right that must be made

Members Exhibition Listings continues on the back cover ...

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Deadline Grant Name Contact Person Contact Information

15 April Artists and Community Collaboration Program in the Visual Arts

Franois DionVisual Arts Section

613-566-4414 ext. 5268

15 May Aboriginal Peoples Collaborative Exchange: National and International Project Grants

Nol HabelAboriginal Arts Officer

613-566-4414, ext. 4178

1 June Travel Grants to Professionals in the Visual Arts

Franois DionVisual Arts Section

613-566-4414 ext. 5268

1 June1 September1 November

Travel Grants to Professionals in the Visual Arts

Genevive LandrevilleProgram OfficerVisual Arts Section

613-566-4414 ext. 5109

1 June Governor Generals Awards in Visual and Media Arts - 2013 Awards

Michel GabouryProgram Officer Visual Arts Section

613-566-4414 ext. 5265

Anytime*Apply minimum of 8 weeks before travel date

Travel Grants for Aboriginal Collaborative Projects

Nol HabelAboriginal Arts Officer

613-566-4414, ext. 4178

Anytime*Apply minimum of 6 weeks before travel date

Audience and Market Development Travel Grants

Koba JohnsonAudience and Market Development Officer

613-566-4414, ext. 4216

Anytime*Apply minimum of 10 weeks before travel date

Travel Grants to Media Arts Professionals

Media Arts Section 613-566-4414, ext. 5914

Anytime Capacity Building Initiative: Travel Grants

Equity Office 613-566-4414, ext. 4102

The CARFAC Ontario Grants Calendar is published in every issue, allowing you to plan in advance for grant deadlines. All the information published here has been edited for space, and is meant to give you a general sense of the types of grants available. Deadlines and eligibility criteria are subject to change at any time. Visit the funders websites to verify deadlines and to find out more about application requirements. CARFAC Ontario makes every effort to provide information which is up-to-date and accurate. Neither CARFAC Ontario nor any of its employees can be held responsible for any errors or omissions, or for

any losses, costs or claims which arise as a result of relying on this information.

Grants calendar

CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047, Ottawa ON K1P 5V8

Phone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or at their individual numbers | Fax: (613) 566-4390TTY (TDD) machine for hearing-impaired callers: 613-565-5194

www.canadacouncil.ca/grants

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Deadline Grant Name Contact Person Contact Information

15 April Mid Career & Established Media Artists

Anne Gard Gravestock Bilingual Program Administrator

416-969-7461 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7461agravestock@arts.on.ca

15 April Projets darts visuels, arts mdiatiques et mtiers dart Grant

Franois Boivin responsable adjoint des arts francophones

Nina Charestadjointe des programmes

416-969-7400 | 1-800-387-0058 poste 7400fboivin@arts.on.ca

416-969-7417 | 1-800-387-0058 poste 7417ncharest@arts.on.ca

1 May Access and Career Development (Aboriginal professionals and professionals of colour)

Maya BedwardBilingual Program Administrator

416-961-1660 ext. 51351-800-387-0058 ext. 5135mbedward@arts.on.ca

1 May Established Visual Artists Caroline CotterBilingual Program Administrator

Anne Gard GravestockBilingual Program Administrator

416-969-7455 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7455ccotter@arts.on.ca

416-969-7461 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7461agravestock@arts.on.ca

15 May Northern Arts Terry GitersosProgram Administrator

Marilyn McIntoshNorthwestern Consultant

Laurie McGauleyNortheastern Consultant

416-969-7401 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7401cakrong@arts.on.ca

807-622-4279 | 1-866-391-2221 mmcintosh@arts.on.ca

705-673-5812 | 1-877-265-8842lmcgauley@arts.on.ca

2 June Chalmers Professional Development Grants

Carolyn GloudeAwards Coordinator

Virginie LesperanceBilingual Program Administrator

416-969-7423cgloude@arts.on.ca

416-969-7416vlesperance@arts.on.ca

16 June Chalmers Arts Fellowships Carolyn GloudeAwards Coordinator

Virginie LesperanceBilingual Program Administrator

416-969-7423cgloude@arts.on.ca

416-969-7416vlesperance@arts.on.ca

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ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL151 Bloor Street West, 5th floor, Toronto ON M5S 1T6

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Chinese-Canadian Arts Council of Canada Group Exhibition May 16 - 18, 2015 Reception: May 17 refreshments at 10:30am and Chinese Banquet at 6pm

Mother Teresa440 Longfields Drive, Ottawa ON K2J 4T1

Detailed and refined style of birds, and grotesque free-brush style mountain scenery are employed in Rowenas paintings.

Spring Flowers, Birds and Sceneries May 1 - 31, 2015

Ottawa Public Library120 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa ON K1P 5M2

Her subjects included landscapes and wildlife. The themes of her work captures the beauty of nature in the Ottawa area as well as depicting classical oriental settings of mountain villages shrouded in a morning mist. The City of Ottawa and Private Sector have the collections of her work.

Rowena Tolson in exhibitions:

DisPatchVo l u m e 21, Is s u e 1, ma r c h 2015

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visible in order to become part of the broader gender equality dis-cussion. This radical thematic collection brings together artworks from artists residing in 10 countries to disrupt the current cultural narrative and replace it with one that reflects the real thoughts, emotions and experiences of menstruaters. - Jen Lewis

The Colborne Art Gallery presents: Colborne Art Gallery51 King Street East, Colborne ON K0K 1S0

Now by Gallery Member Pat StanleyThrough April 12, 2015

Now is a visual dialogue about the tensions generated by the interaction of man-made and natural landscapes. Pats work explores primal issues about the environment, the universe and our place in it.

Talking to Myself by Gallery Member Susan McDonaldApril 18 May 24, 2015Opening Reception: Saturday April 18, 2pm - 4pm

Big. Small. Functional. Non-Functional. Then. Now. Beyond. These topics are all explored in the show Talking to Myself, both in clay and on paper, by Susan McDonald. The conversa-tion is endless, engages the viewer as a participant in the dis-course, and provides a possible glimpse of the future.

Northumberland Faces by Guest Artist Oliver SteinsMay 30 July 5,- 2015 Opening Reception: Saturday May 30, 2pm - 4pm

Steins, resident of Port Hope is pleased to be exhibiting his photographs of Northumberland Faces. Involved in many com-munity events, meeting local characters he brings them to life in his revealing photographs.

Marjorie Meister aka Moonfire Perception and Illusion: Finding Common Ground in Diverse RealitiesSaturday, May 2, 2015 through Saturday, June 20, 2015Public Reception: Saturday, May 2nd, 2-4pm

Alex Dufresne Art Gallery, 107 Lansdowne Street EastCallander, ON P0H 1H0

My photographs of light-waves intend to bring the question to the viewer, What am I really looking at? Different people see different things through their personal processes of perception. This exhibition explores, What is illusion, what is reality? Where is common ground in community and global contexts that increases understanding of diverse perceptions, and increases harmony and peace? We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

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