Wednesday, October 22, 6pm at Open Studio. To request access to the video, please email us at office@openstudio.ca. To print or not to print? Join us at Open Studio on October 22 at 6:00pm for an artist talk with Dr. Ruth Pelzer-Montada, exploring the relevance of printmaking in contemporary, multi- and interdisciplinary art. She will discuss…
Shop Window Installation on Display from Sunset to Sunrise, Saturday, October 4, 2025. Rocky Dobey’s monumental copper plate, Smash…Crash…Gambit, shows a giant etching press surrounded by fragments of text that unfold like a fairytale about printmaking and the sharing of knowledge. The image recalls the story of Sleeping Beauty : a kingdom lying dormant, overgrown…
Saturday, September 20Gallery hours: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Print Activity: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm For ONCulture Days, Open Studio will host a fun, interactive screenprinting activity! Members of the public will have the opportunity to hand-pull a screenprint and take it home. Visitors are also welcome to explore the front-of-house exhibitions and tour…
Join Open Studio for Doors Open Toronto 2025!Saturday, May 24Gallery hours: 12pm – 5pmPrint activity: 12pm – 3pm Experience our exhibitions, explore our printmaking facilities, and take part in an exciting print activation! 🔹 On view in the Main Gallery: Other (please specify) by Victoria Day. [Read more]🔹 In the Project Space: glitch addiction by…
FUTURE PROOF 2025A Virtual Auction in Support of Open Studio VIRTUAL AUCTION DATES / TIMESMay 15 – 12:00 pm ET online auction launchesMay 22 – 7:00 pm ET online auction closes . FUTURE PROOF is back this spring, May 15–22, 2025! The online fundraising auction in support of Open Studio will launch at 12:00 pm…
Saturday, May 3Gallery hours: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pmPrint Activity: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Open Studio is taking part in the 2025 Canadian Art Hop! The Canadian Art Hop spotlights the diverse and dynamic tapestry of arts across the country through commercial galleries, artist-run centres, and public museums and galleries. As part of this…
The sale continues until December 21st! Open Studio’s Holiday Print Sale & Shop EventFREE to attend! Opening night: Thursday, November 285:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Live Printmaking Demo at 6:00 pm Can’t make it to opening night? Stop by anytime—the galleries will feature a rotating selection of new artworks through December 21.Mark your calendars! Join…
Main Gallery Installation on Display from Sunset to Sunrise, Saturday, October 5, 2024. For Nuit Blanche, on October 5th, Open Studio will be responding to the two large framed linocut prints from Jeannie Thib’s Tabula series that are installed in the corridor outside of Open Studio’s entrance in the 401 Richmond Street building. A series…
Saturday, September 28Gallery hours: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Print Activity: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Experience the art of screenprinting at Open Studio! Watch artist Arwen Giel in action during a live screenprinting demonstration in our front-of-house galleries. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about screenprinting techniques and gain a deeper appreciation for…
Open Studio is Suite #104 Open Studio is a part of Doors Open Toronto!Suite #104 Saturday, May 2510:00 am – 5:00 pm Visit Open Studio at 401 Richmond, Suite 104, for Doors Open Toronto! Explore the building and the community of tenants, and observe the Three ‘C’s – community, culture, and commerce – at work. Join…
May 25, 10:00 am – 5: 00 pm at Open Studio . Join artist Cleopatria Peterson and collaborate on their Security Blanket. Using linocut and relief printing we will use this workshop to collaborate and create prints that will be stitched into a makeshift quilt. The final product will be showcased in their show Bestie Mart at…
May 11, 10:00 am – 6: 00 pm at Open Studio . Open Studio Instructors are launching a grassroots fundraising event Print Tease 🫣 😋 They are donating their time and skills so you can come get inky with them at the studio for a print workshop extravaganza ✨ Make a sliding scale donation between…
THE AUCTION IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you for your support! We will notify all winners when the artwork is packaged and ready for pick-up or shipping. FUTURE PROOF 2024A Virtual Auction in Support of Open Studio VIRTUAL AUCTION DATES / TIMESMay 2 – 12:00 pm ET online auction launchesMay 9 – 5:00 pm ET online…
Thursday, April 25 – Saturday, April 2712:00 pm – 5:00 pmPlease note that we are not open on Sunday, April 28th. Open Studio is taking part in the 2024 Canadian Art Hop! The Canadian Art Hop spotlights the diverse and dynamic tapestry of arts across the country through commercial galleries, artist-run centres, and public museums…
OPENING NIGHT PARTY: Thursday, December 7, 6-9 pm at Open Studio Get ready for Screen-O-Rama, Open Studio’s exciting holiday fundraiser! Join us for the opening night party on Thursday, December 7th, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, featuring immersive printmaking activities, incredible art for sale, and a festive atmosphere. Our front-of-house galleries will transform into an…
Friday, October 6, 2-4 pm at Open Studio. We are pleased to welcome Lili Boshevska, Director of the Cultural and Information Center (CIC) in Bitola, Macedonia, to give a talk at Open Studio. In her role at the CIC, Dr. Boshevska has organized and supported numerous projects and exhibitions of fine artists from all over the…
Shop Window Installation on Display from Sunset to Sunrise, Saturday, September 23, 2023. The Deceiving Eye is an experimental animation composed of cyanotype prints. The video features a non-narrative series of short, looping vignettes inspired by phenakistoscopes (early analog animation devices that were circular). These abstract sequences play on motifs related to nature, the body,…
Shop Window Installation on Display from Sunset to Sunrise, Saturday, October 1, 2022. Thinking through Soviet filmmaker and theorist Sergei Eisenstein’s reflections on animation as a plasmatic medium, one that is forever unstable and with the “ability to dynamically assume any form“, while also considering the utopian, immersive, Expanded Cinema experiments of the 1960s (Stan…
List of participating artists here.View the Murmuración card catalogue here. On behalf of Open Studio, artist members Andrea deBruijn and Heather J. A. Thomson invited national and international printmakers to create an edition of slotted cards. These cards are the foundation of Murmuración: an expansion of Open Studio’s Murmuration exhibition that would have travelled to…