Shop Window Installation: On Display from Sunset to Sunrise, Saturday, October 3, 2026. What is lost in mindless scrolling? To explore this question, Jules Dufresne recorded the timestamps of 15 minutes of Instagram scrolling, then took a 15-minute walk, photographing what they encountered at those same moments. Through screenprinting, these digital traces are layered over…
For 2026 Ontario Culture Days, visit our printmaking studio on Saturday, September 26, from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm, and try your hand at screenprinting. Inspired by the artwork of Claudine Crangle, whose installation will be on display in an Open Studio Vitrine from September 11 to November 21, 2026, this hands-on activity invites participants…
Open Studio is joining Doors Open at 401 Richmond on Saturday, May 23! As tenants of the building, we’re opening our studio for visitors to explore our facilities and try their hand at the Vandercook 4T letterpress from 10am-5pm. . .
We are grateful to have partnered with Waddington’s for their Editions auction, running online until October 30, 2 pm ET. The auction features prints from Open Studio’s archive and publishing program, with proceeds directly supporting our organization. A big thank you to Waddington’s for their partnership! .
Collector’s First Look & Opening NightThursday, October 23First Look – 4:00 pm – 6:00 pmOpening Night – 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Public DaysFriday, October 24 – 12:00 pm – 8:00 pmSaturday, October 25 – 12:00 pm – 8:00 pmSunday, October 26 – 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front…
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…
For 2025 Ontario Culture Days, visit our printmaking studio on Saturday, September 20, from 12:00pm to 3:00pm, and try your hand at screenprinting, led by artist member Arwen Giel. This hands-on activity invites participants to create and hand-pull their own screenprint to take home. Visitors are also welcome to explore the front-of-house exhibitions and tour…
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…
We are grateful to have partnered with Waddington’s for their Editions auction, running online until October 31, 2 pm ET. The auction features prints from Open Studio’s archive and publishing program, with proceeds directly supporting our organization. A big thank you to Waddington’s for their partnership! .
Collector’s First Look & Opening NightThursday, October 24Collector’s First Look: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pmOpening Night: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Public DaysFriday, October 25, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pmSaturday, October 26, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pmSunday, October 27, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West, Toronto, M5V…
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…
For 2024 Ontario Culture Days, visit our galleries on Saturday, September 28, from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm, and try your hand at screenprinting, led by artist member Arwen Giel. This hands-on activity invites participants to create and hand-pull their own screenprint to take home. Visitors are also welcome to explore the front-of-house exhibitions and…
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…