About Open Studio Open Studio is a creative space that inspires, supports and celebrates printmaking. We are an open-access printmaking studio with two galleries, providing an inclusive place for engaging with new ideas. Open Studio was founded in 1970 as a space created, governed and supported by artists who wanted to continue their printmaking practice…
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…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 11, 6-8pm at Open Studio The Garden In another country across an ocean, there is a garden. Where once I was in the garden, it now exists only within me, in my mind’s eye. Generations of a single family enjoyed this garden. Tended over lifetimes, a living constant. Captured through changing technologies,…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 11, 6-8pm at Open Studio Tracing What the Sea Alters begins with the sea as both a material presence and a site of ongoing transformation. Özge Dîlan Arslan’s installation engages with the stratified historical, geopolitical, and material conditions of the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, invoking entangled narratives of migration, forced displacement, maritime…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 11, 6-8pm at Open Studio Eighty fully dimensional cardboard houses were constructed to be photographed as illustrations for a picture book. The original shoebox-scale structures were detailed on all sides, yet nearly all would appear only face-on and no taller than one inch in the final publication. In Building Blocks, Claudine Crangle…
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 11, 6-8pm at Open Studio Elizabeth D’Agostino’s practice examines the tensions between biodiversity and urban expansion. In Woven Topographies, her prints and sculptures explore humanity’s connection to the natural world alongside the urgent realities of ecological disruption, considering the fragile balance between living and non-living systems. Drawing on scientific illustration, Canadian flora…
