Anyone who attends art events in Ottawa has witnessed photographer Ming Wu working the room. As much as I get out to almost everything, Ming actually gets out to EVERYTHING. His coverage of music, visual art and other cultural events in Ottawa can be seen on his blog – ...
Congratulations to the many talented people who received awards from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) last night at the ceremony held at the Harbourfront Centre, Toronto. (view short list) I was thrilled to see raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art ...
This past week Barry Ace has been attending at artist residency at the University of Windsor that is taking place in tandem with the World Indigenous Law Conference held in Windsor this year. Barry is their first Indigenous artist-in-residence. (read Barry’s ...
Recently I arrived back from a research trip in Berlin and Warsaw, part of a cultural exchange course between PhD students from the Technical University in Berlin and Masters and PhD students in Ottawa at Carleton University. While in Canada, the students from Germany, many ...
The month of October was spent travelling to significant sites of memory, locations where the movement of time and what we call history is in various ways marked in stone. The journey started at Manitoulin Island on a last minute road trip with Barry Ace. Barry is working on ...
LE PARTY 2018 is this week! Tomorrow evening’s Silent Auction for LE PARTY at the Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) includes the Critics’ Choice Award Winners. Client Jeff Thomas‘ work Imposition of Order, is one of the five works selected by the Critic Panel ...
Tonight it’s that time of the year again for Galerie SAW Gallery’s SKETCH which will be hosted this year at AXENÉO7 in Gatineau. As per usual, many local artists have donated work for the silent auction. Clients Barry Ace (www.barryacearts.com) and Cindy ...
Tonight Home Lands opens at Cube Gallery a commerical gallery in Ottawa. The exhibition features the work of Rosalie Favell (www.rosaliefavell.com) from her new photographic portrait series Artists in the Landscape. These beautiful portraits are of Indigenous artists in ...
With one of the busiest schedules of any artist I know Barry Ace has already had a jammed packed 2018. Building on his momentum in 2017, Barry continues to be a prolific artist. In order to share all his latest news we launched a news section on his website. Nigig is the ...
Barry Ace (www.barryacearts.com) has wrapped up his residency at Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) in Toronto. His residency began with a Buffalo Stew Lunch and Artist Talk which I was fortunate to attend. Over the years, I have appreciated his gift as a ...