Friday

PATRICK MIKHAIL GALLERY is pleased to present STATE OF THE ART, a group exhibition featuring eight innovative, young Canadian artists exploring a range of contemporary issues and ideas.  The artists featured include LINDA CHALMERS, DAVE AND JENN (pictured: In the end, don't worry about me, I don't need you), KRISTOPHER KARKLIN, JENNIFER LEFORT, ANDREW MORROW, JAMES OLLEY, and AMY SCHISSEL.

MAY 25 TO JULY 20, 2011

ARTIST RECEPTION:
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011
5:30 P.M. TO 9 P.M.

UPCOMING SAW VIDEO GRANTS

Deadline: February 1st, 2011

ABORIGINAL VOICES FUND

The Aboriginal Voices Fund is a production support program for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit artists who wish to express themselves creatively through the medium of video. Up to three grants will be awarded. Applicants to the fund can be at any stage of their career: emerging, mid-career or established.

CULTURAL EQUITY FUND

The Cultural Equity fund is a production support program aimed at providing opportunities for visible minority artists to express themselves creatively through the medium of video. Applicants to the fund can be at any stage of their career: emerging, mid-career or established. Up to 2 grants will be awarded.

VIDEO VIRGIN FUND

The Video Virgin fund is a production support program aimed at providing opportunities for LGBT artists from the Ottawa/Gatineau region. This program is aimed at gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered and two-spirited artists who wish to express themselves creatively through the medium of video. Applicants to the fund must be new to filmmaking or have less than 3 videos to their credit. Only one award will be given.  As part of this award, the artist will receive a weekend trip to Toronto with an invitation to the opening celebrations of the Inside Out Festival in May 2011.

All grants consist of equipment access, a one-year producing membership to SAW Video, a small cash award and access to workshops. For specific information on each grant, visitwww.sawvideo.com. Please see the SAW Video Grant Guidelines and Application Form for more information on eligibility criteria, who can apply, the grant assessment process, formatting concerns and for what you should submit with your application.

Coming up May 1, 2011:  deadlines for the JumpstArt Mentorship program for emerging artists and the SAW Production Fund for mid-career and established media artists.

SAW Video is an artist-run-centre committed to support ground breaking artistic production, presentation and programming of media art. Our grant program is made possible by operating support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Adobe Foundation Fund of Tides Canada.

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Friday

On Friday November 5th 15:00-21:00, the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa will be opening its doors to the public to commemorate its 5th anniversary. Tour the darkroom, computer lab and studio spaces, and view displays, slide shows, demonstrations, live shoots and exhibitions of images by full-time students from Levels 1 and 2 of the SPAO Portfolio Program. Join us for this celebration of photographic achievement and education at SPAO, a creative domain for those with a passion for the image. 168 DALHOUSIE STREET

THE OTTAWA ART GALLERY PRESENTS
Friday 5 November at 12:30 pm
Talk with artist Marie-Jeanne Musiol (in French)
thelivingeffect
4 November 2010 to 30 January 2011
Contemporary galleries
Curated by Caroline Seck Langill
2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa

Donna Legault, "Cymatic Imprints" AND Lise Beaudry, "Bolerama"
Exhibition from November 3rd to December 5th 2010
Opening November 3rd 2010, 6:30 PM
The opening reception for François Chalifour and Jean-François Lacombe's creative residency at DAÏMÕN's STUDIO will be held at the same moment and location.
AXENÉO7 | 80, rue Hanson, Gatineau

SAW Video presents Voz Alta by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
in Galerie Saw Gallery’s Art Star IV: Video Art Biennial
Outdoor Screening
7-10pm, Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Clarendon Lanes Courtyard, between
20 and 24 York Street, Byward Market
Free admission

On Wednesday, November 3rd, a free artist talk titled Creative Language is taking place as part of the Electric Fields electronic music and media arts festival. Creative Language will bring international, national and regional artists and designers who straddle the worlds of commercial design and the media and visual arts. For this first edition we present keynote addresses from Adrian Göllner (Ottawa) and Tim Olden (Amsterdam, NL).
Wednesday, November 3rd - 8PM - 9:30PM | Arts Court Theatre, 2 Daly Ave. | Admission: FREE