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DISPATCH

Volume 22 - Issue 3 - September 2016

Public Art Commissions

Features: Interview with Elle Flanders from Public Studio | Best Practices:
Public Art Commissions
Plus: CARFAC Ontario Member Exhibition Listings | Grants Calendar |
Keeping you Connected... Local News from Across the Province

Content:
Executive Directors Report | P 1
Vice-Presidents Report | P 2
Interview with Elle Flanders of Public Studio | by
Caitlin Lapea | P 3

Your donations help keep us


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Best Practices: Public Art Commissions | by


Venessa Harris | P 5
Keeping you Connected ... Local News from
Across the Province | P 7

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for your donations.

CARFAC Ontario Member Exhibition Listings |


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Grants Calendar | P 15

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Executive Directors Report


invited to speak about CARFAC and artists rights
to the 15 finalists of the 18th annual RBC Painting
Competition at a symposium being organized by
Canadian Art and RBC this month.

I hope everyone had a


productive, relaxing and
rejuvenating
summer.
The CARFAC Ontario
office continued to be as
busy as ever, and as we
greet the cooler weather,
well be harvesting some
of the fruits of our labours
over the past few months.

We just wrapped up our Annual General Meeting


on September 25. In addition to reporting on last
years activities and finances, we were excited to
have lawyer and art agent Vandana Taxali and artist
Meera Sethi on our Draw More Income panel which
followed the AGM. The panel was part of a series
of cross-country discussions supported by CARFAC
National and Access Copyright Foundation on the
range of revenue streams that successful artists
draw their income from. Most visual artists are selfemployed and cannot live off sales or exhibitions
alone, leaving many to supplement their income
through various paid positions and contracts. The
Draw More Income series allows artists to share
stories of success, failure, and innovation, so that
artists at all stages of their career can learn from
each other, in order to survive and prosper as artists.
The series investigates how artists are making
money from their arts practice now, and what they
have learned along the way.

We look forward to announcing our line-up for


webinar Wednesdays, currently scheduled to begin
late October/early November. We are also getting
ready to launch our Best Practices Toolkits, which
were made possible through the support of the
Trillium Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, and the
Salamander Foundation through project partner
CANVAS. Please also look out for the 2017 Artists
Day Planner coming at the end of the year. Our
summer students Caitlin Lapea and Adam Greco
worked hard updating deadlines, finding advertisers,
and updating the layout for a new, improved day
planner. A big thank you to Adam, who returns to the
University of Toronto for his third year of law school,
and Caitlin, whose contract we were able to extend
thanks to the YES youth employment program.

We look forward to providing membership with a full


report on the AGM in our final issue of Dispatch for
the year in December. See you then!

Outreach also continued throughout the summer,


with a CARFAC Ontario booth at the Toronto
Outdoor Art Exhibition and visit with a group of
emerging video artists participating in the Drake AV
residency program. Im also pleased to have been

Regards,
Sally

Starving Artist
www.canvasfoundation.ca

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Presidents Report
There is something to be said
for extended summers. Our
heads are already engaged in
fall activities and the rhythms
of work, but we can still enjoy
the mellowing warmth of
sunny days. Individuals and
institutions can be enriched by
optimism and renewed energy
that a summer sun provides.

started and their working process. Her discussion


is articulate and very generous. Elle provides some
real life examples of how to avoid certain pitfalls
in public projects. She is speaking as an artist to
other artists considering following a similar path of
artistic endeavor. With our focus in this issue on
Public Art Commissions, we are supporting Elles
interview with information available in our toolkit,
a publication that will be available to all CARFAC
members through our office.

CARFAC Ontario is in such a place of hopefulness.


When you come to our Annual General Meeting
on September 25, you will hear about our current
projects, future plans and solid financial status.
Our board is strong with everyone contributing
ideas and opinions; and we have exceptional and
successful artists in the community participating in
an ad hoc way as advisors in our many programs
and activities.

This is the time of the year to formulate new


projects and re-evaluate the ways in which we work.
CARFAC is in the final stages of publishing several
best practices toolkits that could help you with
professionalizing your practice even further. That
is why we exist. As well, we are here to advocate
on your behalf for financial stability for artists. To
that end we are presenting a panel discussion
called Draw More Income after the AGM on Sunday
September 25 on alternative ways artists make
more income through their art.

One of these artists is Elle Flanders. In this issue


of Dispatch, Elle is interviewed about her practice
of public art commissions. As a partner of Public
Studio, the entity through which she and Tamira
Sawatsky collaborate with other artists to produce
major public installations, Elle discusses how they

I hope you will join us.


Best,
Yael

Email your MP about the Artists Resale Right.


For more information:
www.carfac.ca/initiatives/help-bring-the-artists-resale-right-to-canada

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Interview with Elle Flanders


of Public Studio
Interview by Caitlin Lapea
1. Please tell our members (your fellow
artists) something about Public Studio - some
work highlights and fundamental values and
approaches you take in your public art practice.
Elle Flanders: My partner Tamira Sawatzky and
I started working together in 2009 on a project in
Palestine. We had a good way of working together,
as an architect and filmmaker. Our practices informed
one another. We started working as a duo and also
in collaboration with other artists Public Studio
contracts and expands with each project. Some
of our interests turned towards public art because
we felt as there were more commissions becoming
available in Toronto, the more public art needed
addressing. We look at how art and architecture
can work together rather than separately. Toronto
doesnt have a great track record of long-term urban
planning, and as we see from the tangle of condos,
more thought needs to go into the planning process
which includes how we think about public art and
the role it plays in civic life. We wanted to combine
our skills in architecture and art to take on these
challenges.

Public Studio, We Are All Animals, Daniels High Park


Condominiums, Toronto, Ontario, 2015

what the public can and cannot be; challenging what


can be possible is important. Public art must move
in tandem with the direction of the art world they
are not separate spheres. Public art should relate
to technology and new uses. Keep your practice
flexible, and collaborate with other artists.

In 2011, we had the chance to produce our first


commission, Full Spectrum, on the corner of Church
and Maitland. This project worked with LBGT history,
a community I have worked with for years as an activist
and artist. This project gave us an opportunity to
reflect on the enormous changes that have occurred
within the community. This first commission along
with a series of successful installation works gave us
a chance to work within the sphere of public art as
well as a museum and gallery practice.

Artists need to be paid for our work, and as such we must


also advocate for fair pay. One of our best practices is
advocating for fair pay when it comes to making public
art. We need to make sure we are earning a living
wage, as we are making art for the community.

2. Do you have any general best practice advice


to offer artists who work on commissioned
public artwork?

3. Your project The Dialogues, which was


commissioned for the 2014 TUFF (Toronto Urban
Film Festival), was a series of commissioned
video works for a billboard at Yonge & Edward
St. and on all TTC monitors. What was it like
navigating municipal policy or by-laws when
drawing up contracts for this work?

EF: Thinking about the context of work over time is


very important. The site is intrinsic to the work; public
art needs to a have a relationship to the public. Often
we transport our gallery practice to the public sphere,
but the public isnt always familiar with the trajectory
of your work, so it cannot be made in isolation.
Research the location of the siteits history and
its uses. Sometimes there can be rigid ideas about

EF: This was actually all navigated by TUFF for


us. TUFF worked on this for a very long time with
Pattison Media, so I assume much of the regulations
were worked out between them.

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I have a vague memory that there is a section


on the TUFF website that outlines what you can
and cannot exhibit. I prefer not to read rules like
these because A. I think starting from a place of
what can or cannot be shown is not productive
within art making and B. it eventually leads to a
kind of self-censoring. My ideas never start from
a negative; I always start from a positive. As long
as you can make a good argument for what it is
you are saying as an artist, this shouldnt really
be a topic of conversation. One of the flaws we
have when we enter a conversation about public
art is thinking that there are rules. Work in your
own context and own practice and if there is some
issue, think of it as a negotiation rather than a
rule. Enter something thinking clearly about your
intentions and what your relationship is to the
public.

budget can disappear very quickly unless you


are very specific in your drawings, materials and
manufacturing costs. Always build in a contingency.
6. Are there any completed works of yours that
youd like to highlight as having been especially
challenging, or especially meaningful to you?
EF: The Daniels High Park project, We Are All
Animals, is a 23 foot LED screen in a public
courtyard. This project was both challenging and
meaningful. We had to deal with technology and the
outdoors. We travelled to Illinois to work with the
LED manufacturer, who had not worked with artists
before. We had a tour of the factory and learned
all about their process, and they about ourswe
really went into depth for this project.
Just because you know there are going to be many
challenges does not mean you shouldnt make
the work. Screens play a huge role in our culture.
Appropriating the language of advertising is a
natural move for us as lens-based artists. We were
lucky that the Daniels Corporation chose to accept
the challenge of a technologically complex piece
(it also built in gaming software and is a real-time
environment running off a custom built computer). I
think the piece is beautiful and it was great to work
with OCADU students working in digital art. We
Are All Animals reflects upon the site, High Park,
in thinking about our relationship to urban ecology
and technology.

4. What preparation and research do you


consider important when developing a project?
EF: We start by researching the history of the site,
how the site is used, and in what context. We look
very closely at the production side of thingswhat
works material-wise and how that relates to the site.
5. How do you typically facilitate administration
and fabrication of your large scale projects?
EF: Every project is different. We work with
different fabricators and collaborators. We worked
with OCADU Digital Futures students to collaborate
on a project in Daniels High Park Condominiums
called We Are All Animals about urban ecologies.
We created a course around this project, and there
was definitely a learning curve for the students on
how public art could work with the digital world. We
paid all our interns and students, and they also got
course credit we advocate for paid internships
and practice that too. It was amazing working with
OCADU students, it brought a whole new life to the
project and we hope it worked in the reverse that
the students got to make something in the public
realm, something with longevity.

7. What are some of the various projects you are


working on right now?
EF: We are just finishing a project called 120 Mirrors
for the North York Art Park with the City of Toronto.
The commission is with me, Anna Friz, and Tamira.
It encompasses a series of megaphones, horns,
and things that both transmit and receive sound.
The park was named in honour of the members
of Rush Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. The City
wanted to do a sound work. In this case, we went
in the opposite direction of the Daniels High Park
piece and thought something analog rather than
high tech made sense in relation to that park. We
wanted to build a piece that correlated to the space,
a series of works that are about public speech in
public space, listening to your surroundings, and
paying attention to the small details via sound.

We also work with mainstream manufacturers.


The project we are finishing now is in collaboration
with Anna Friz, and the City in North York.
Together with Anna we came up with the idea,
and then we worked with our studio manager, Lili
Huston Herterich and a fabricator. Tamira does
the architectural drawings for the projects. One of
the challenges for artists can be mounting costs
of a project if it isnt well defined in advance. Your

If you would like to learn more about Public Studio,


visit their website www.publicstudio.ca

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Best Practices: Public Art Commissions


by Venessa Harris
Over the past three years, CARFAC Ontario has
been working on a project called Strengthening
the Sector: Resources and Best Practices for the
Visual, Media and Craft-Based Arts Sector, which
focuses on researching and developing a range of
resources and tools to support these sectors. During
this time, we have created toolkits that establish
best practices for common activities in the sector.
We are excited to announce that we will be releasing
the toolkits later this fall. The following article
contains highlights from Public Art Commissions,
a toolkit designed to assist individuals, private
companies, community-based organizations, and
public institutions in the process of commissioning
artwork, while keeping the interest of artists at the
forefront.
What is a Commission? Public art is an integral
part of giving a city character. An artwork commission
consists of the hiring of an artist to design and
execute an original work of art as specified by the
commissioning body (12). There are a few different
types of commissions: permanent, temporary,
performance, and community-based. Regardless
of the type, every commission is created to serve
a specific purpose, such as urban revitalization or
community engagement.

Cover of upcoming toolkit featuring the work of Thom Sokoloski

commissioned works come from more than one of


these sources. Crowdsourcing is also a stream of
funding that has arisen in recent years.
Stages of the Commissioning Process: There
are two processes which can be used when
commissioning work: (i) an artist is selected
and awarded the commission; and (ii) multiple
artists submit proposals and are selected using
a competition format. A direct award requires
research on the part of the competitive body,
usually with the help of a consultant, to choose
a suitable candidate. This can sometimes be
problematic when public resources are concerned,
which is why a competitive element is usually
employed in selecting an artist or group of artists.
Competitions can either be completely open (i.e.
anyone can submit), invitational (i.e. only invited
artists are able to submit), or a combination of
both. Once a competition is set up, the stages
are as follows: (i) a Call-to-Enter notice asks
interested artists to submit resumes and images;
(ii) selected from an initial group of artists, semifinalists are asked to continue in the competition
by submitting concept statements and preliminary
sketches; (iii) finalists are selected to submit

Public Policy: Early in the process, the commissioning


body needs to take public policy into consideration.
There are many limitations, especially in regards to
using public space or public resources. For clarity on
bylaws and restrictions, commissioning bodies can
reach out to the municipal planning department or
property department in the city in which the art will
be located.
Funding: Sources of funding for commissioned works
depend largely on who the commissioning body
is, and where the art is located. Additionally, the
source of funding often restricts what types of work
can be commissioned, as well as the process by
which the work is selected. When public resources
are involved, for example, the selection process
has to be more public and open, whereas privately
funded work on private property is subject to
fewer limitations. Commissions funded by grants
for community-based projects have to serve the
community in some way. In most cases, funding for

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detailed proposals and maquettes; the winning


artist is selected from this group (27).

importantly being connected to the arts community


in some way so that they will be qualified to make
informed decisions. Because the jury process could
span days, it is important to consider compensating
each jury member appropriately. Following the
application process, the jury then meets to select
semifinalists and, eventually, a winner.

Setting Up a Competition:
Setting up a
competition for commissioned work requires a
great deal of initial planning. First steps include
setting a reasonable timeframe, appointing
coordinators to oversee the process, and putting
together a jury and/or curatorial team, as well as
a community advisory committee, when necessary.
Another important step in the process is, of course,
budgetingadministrative, proposal, and maquette
fees all need to be taken into consideration.

Legal Issues: Like all works of art, copyright is a


concern. This is an issue that needs to be detailed in
the contract and fully understood and agreed to by
both the artist and the commissioning body. While
there is a fair dealing exception in the Canadian
Copyright Act that affects traditional copyright
restrictions in regards to taking images of public
work, the artist will always retain moral rights that
need to be considered in terms of where, and for
what purpose, those images can be reproduced.
Insurance is also another important legal issue that
needs to be taken care of. Both these issues and
more can be ironed out during contract negotiations.

Soliciting & Securing Applicants: For open competitions, a call-to-enter notice is required to find
applicants. These notices take the form of either
an RFQ (Request For Qualifications), an EOI
(Expression Of Interest), or an RFP (Request For
Proposal). The call should include information such
as eligibility and location parameters, size of award,
date of first deadline, etc. The commissioning body
also provides a competition brief at some point
during the application process. This should include
the following: the commissioning bodys intentions
for the commission; the location or site of the finished
artwork; relevant histories of the site, community,
or commissioning body; appropriate materials and
restrictions; application process (such as number
of stages, deadlines, and required application
materials); selection process; and intentions with
respect to copyright. There is no standard model
for a Competition Brief, and the details included are
determined by the specifics of each commission
(36). Lastly, it is highly recommended that applicants
sign a participation agreement to ensure that rules
and conditions are being followed.

Collections Management: Once the work has been


created, new concerns need to be considered, like
maintenance and conservation. This is especially
necessary for outdoor works, as they will be subject to
changing weather conditions. Additionally, vandalism
may also be an issue. In either case, its important
to decide how repairs will be made according to the
preference of the artist. Furthermore, recordkeeping
is incredibly importantall steps should be properly
documented and the work conducted should be
cited accurately.
For more detailed information about best practices
relating to public art commissions, look out for our
Public Art Commissions toolkit, created as part
of Strengthening the Sector: Resources and Best
Practices for the Visual, Media and Craft-Based Arts
Sector. More details about the release date will be
available on social media, as well as though our
mailing list.

Juries & Selection Process: Often, especially in


cases of publically funded art, a knowledgeable jury
is desired in order to select the final project. There
are many traits jury members should posses, most

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Keeping you Connected ...


Local News from Across the Province
David W. Jones from Ottawa

Leesa Bringas from Sudbury

I recently came across the call for submissions


for the Diversity in the Arts Fund 2017 on the City
of Ottawa website. This program supports the
production and presentation of artistic activities and
events that represent Ottawas culturally diverse
communities. It is available for collectives and notfor-profit organizations, as well as non-arts groups
proposing an arts focus project and partnering
with a professional arts organization, collective
or professional artist/s. The deadline is Monday,
November 7, 2016 at 4 pm. More information is
available on http://ottawa.ca/en/liveculture/diversityin-the-arts. It is great to see the City of Ottawa
supporting diverse artists and communities through
this program!

I am celebrating my sixth anniversary living in


Sudbury, Ontario since moving from Southern
Ontario. In the time that Ive lived here I have
experienced a vibrant city that is very much about
collaboration, partnership and community. This past
August we experienced the second Up Here festival,
which paid and celebrated local to international
artists in the creation of murals and installations
in and around downtown Sudbury. Up Here and
ARC Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (GNO) opened
their exhibition season with Philippe Blanchards
Nouveaux Troglodytes, an enveloping and sensory
installation where he experiments with screen
printing and installation in order to impart a tactile,
spatial, and event-driven dimension to animation,
pushing it beyond the limits of the screen. Earlier
in May, FAAS (Foire dart alternative de Sudbury)
presented by GNO packed a downtown municipal
parking lot with their bi-annual event over four
days. Artist installations, performances and
interventions provided the public an opportunity to
stop in and talk with artists as they passed by on
the street.

Victoria Ward from the Peterborough area


It is another busy fall for the Peterborough art
community. OCAD professor Gordon Peterans
unique sculptures and drawings continue display at
the Agnes Jamieson Gallery in Minden into October.
SPARC, the Symposium for Performing Arts in Rural
Communities, has their event in late September
in Haliburton featuring diverse performers and
speakers such as David Sereda, Clayton Windatt
and Brigitte Gall. The Art Gallery of Peterborough
is showcasing Anishinaabe artist Bonnie Devine
in November. They have recently acquired works
from Carl & Ann Beam and will highlight this with
a talk by Ann Beam. Canadian Art favourite Evans
Contemporary will exhibit work by local artist and
writer Anne Jaeger of Trout in Plaid.

Susan Wallis of Prince Edward County


It has been a hot dry summer in Prince Edward
County and with cooler temperatures on the
horizon, this rural community is focused on the
harvest celebrated through the long-standing
county fair. Alongside these rural traditions runs the
Prince Edward County Studio Tour during the last 2
weekends in September. In its 23rd year, the studio
and gallery tour offers up a wide variety of both
emerging and established artists, many of whom
live locally, but exhibit internationally. Peeks into the
inner sanctum of the artists studio along with many
demonstrations of various mediums makes this tour
an exceptional experience against the backdrop
of the bucolic landscape of the County. For more
information go to www.pecstudiotour.com
Include in your visit a walk through the sculpture
garden at Oeno gallery (www.oenogallery.com),
the country gardens of Mad Dog Gallery (www.
maddoggallery.ca) along with a stop at the salon
styled Side Street Gallery of Wellington (www.
sidestreetgallery.com) as part of your visit.

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Susan Gold Smith from Windsor


Activity is ramping up this fall in Windsor with
upcoming exhibitions, new publications, awards
announcements, and progressive arts activities.
Artcite Inc, (www.artcite.ca) Windsors only artist
run centre for the contemporary arts, will exhibit
in November Chthonic Youth by locally based
artist Gus Morin. The exhibit will include a quarter
of century of his published and unpublished work
and construct an in-gallery working laboratory for
creation in conjunction with Bookfest Windsor.

Mills Hardware 95 King St. East, Hamilton

On September 17th , SB Contemporary Arts (www.


sbcontemporaryarts.com) opened The Story of
Things, highlighting a group of artists (including
CARFAC members) whose work explores and
manipulates photographic media. The Gallery of the
School of Creative Arts (SOCA) at the University of
Windsor will exhibit CARFAC member, Linda Renaud
Fishers Stories from Old Sandwich. Lindas work
for the last decade has been based on the historic
neighbourhood in Windsor, which is adjacent to the
University and site of the controversial international
Ambassador Bridge.

DOORS OPEN AT 7PM | TALKS START AT 7:30PM

A free monthly artist talk featuring local and


out-of-town artists exhibiting in the Hamilton
region. Presented by the Hamilton Arts Council
Visual Arts Committee.

SEPT

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Leamington Art Centre (www.leamingtonartcentre.


com), an active community gallery headed up
by Chad Riley, will hold the Far Out Show and
organize an Art Crawl at the end of September. And,
Vanguard, a youth collective organized by the Arts
Council Windsor Region (www.acwr.ca) will hold a
2nd Mess Fest in various locations around Windsor.

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Publications about Windsor based culture appear


regularly in SCOOP (www.scoopwindsor.ca) under
the new header, Not Only in May. MayWorks Festival
artists continue their creative cultural production
all year. TUSSEL Magazine (www.tusselmagazine.
com) has published an in-depth article on the
artists and current arts initiatives in Windsor (www.
tusslemagazine.com/sublime-city). The latest edition
of BARBED highlight many local Windsor artists and
their activities.

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The Windsor arts community is especially proud that


a visual artist has been named recipient of the 2016
Charles E. Brooks Award. Brian Brown will receive the
award at a reception on November 18th, sponsored
by the Windsor District Labour Council and the United
Fund. The award is given to acknowledge significant
lifetime contributions to the Labour Community which
for Brian has always included the arts, culture, and
education communities.

Carey Jernigan

Exhibiting at Workers Arts


and Heritage Centre
Sept.9 Dec.17, 2016

Owen Eric Wood


Exhibiting at centre[3] for
print and media arts
Oct.14 Nov.26, 2016

Jody Joseph

Exhibiting at Gallery
on the Bay
Nov.18 Dec.18, 2016

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CARFAC Ontario Member Exhibition Listings


Any CARFAC Ontario member can be included in these free listings. The deadline for inclusion in the
next issue is Friday, November 11, 2016 for shows running during January, February and March 2017.
Please submit listings for shows running only during these months through the on-line form: http://tinyurl.
com/dispatch-exhibitions
The listing should include: your name; title of your show; gallerys address and contact information; date for
which the show will be on display; and a brief artists statement or description of the work. Your exhibition
listings will also be posted to the members section on our web site: www.carfacontario.ca

Enriched Bread Artists presents:

are reflections on memory. Katherines subject matter


ranges from portraiture and still life to landscape.

Thursday, September 22 - Sunday, October 2, 2016


Reception: Thursday, September 22 at 6:00pm

Tina Newlove

Two-Four: Enriched Bread Artists (EBA)


24th Annual Open Studio

A Little Truth in Everything

Wednesday, November 9 - Sunday, December 4, 2016


Reception: Thursday, November 10 at 7:00pm
(Artist in Attendance)

Enriched Bread Artist Studio


951 Gladstone Avenue, Ottawa ON K1Y 3E5
Ottawas largest art studio cooperative is celebrating its 24th Annual Open Studio with a contemporary, two-floor art exhibition. A diversity of media
includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture
and digital media. Visitors can explore each studio
encountering the artists in an intimate context, and
discover how they create their work. Located in the
old Standard Bread factory the Enriched Bread
Artists (EBA) studios now house 22 artists. Check
our website for special events. www.enrichedbreadartists.com

Williams Mill Visual Arts Centre


515 Main Street Glen Williams, Halton Hills ON L7G 3S9
My latest paintings and collages are concerned with
the intersections of work and family, tradition and
technology, alienation in modern society and the
necessity of withdrawing into nature. #mechanizedbiologicalimpulses

Natalie Hatherell
Migraine

Saturday, November 19 - Wednesday, December


21, 2016
Reception: Saturday, November 12 at 1:00pm
(Artist in Attendance)

Norman Takeuchi
Of Two Minds

Friday, October 7 - Sunday, November 6, 2016


Vernissage: Sunday, October 9 at 2:00pm

Creative Spirit Art Centre


999 Dovercourt Road, Toronto ON M6H 2X7

Cube Gallery
1285 Wellington Street West, Ottawa ON K1Y 3A8
Two distinguished Ottawa artists are in this duo
show at Cube.

Natalie has been drawing migraine images. She


started to experience and see the images after
suffering a traumatic head injury.

Japanese Canadian Norman Takeuchis powerful


colours, flowing lines and thoughtfully rendered
drawing reflects a cross cultural tug running through
his veins. His beautiful paintings, reminiscent of
Jack Shadbolt, are strong yet sensitive, delicately
attuned and powerfully emotive.

Natalie says that some of the images produced a


feeling of pain but after looking at them over a period of time; they stopped having the same effect.
Some images she finds soothing. She describes the
images as being made of electronic energy. They
look like mandalas or an eye.

Katherine McNenly is interested in visual perception


and memory. Her realist atelier style paintings on linen

The images are drawn with coloured pencils on


coloured papers.

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Erella Ganon

moments when the location, plate glass and camera


lens intersect to capture reality arranging itself into
de-familiarized glimpses of surrealism.

Erella Ganon

Saturday, September 10 - Saturday, October 8, 2016


Reception: Saturday, September 10 at 1:00pm
(Artist in Attendance)

Dorothy Caldwell

From There to Here: Small Investigations

Creative Spirit Art Centre


999 Dovercourt Road, Toronto ON M6H 2X7

Thursday, December 1 - Friday, December 23, 2016


Reception: Saturday, December 3 at 2:00pm

In 1998 Erella was diagnosed with a brain tumour


caused by a usually fatal, disease called Cushings.
She uses art to document her world of living with an
invisible disability. Erella posts her art online and
delivers lectures with slides of her art, which offers
her perspective on how medical issues affect her life.

David Kaye Gallery


1092 Queen Street West, Toronto ON M6J 1H9
(entrance on Dovercourt)
This body of textile works is the result of Caldwells
residencies in the Australian Outback and the
Canadian Arctic. It is an ongoing study of how
humans mark the land even in the most remote
parts of the world.

Erella s visual diary inspires others dealing with


similar situations . Sharing her experiences provides
reassurance to others who feel voiceless; that they
are not alone.

Laura M. Hair

To Walk the River Flow

Pat Durr

Thursday, November 17 - Saturday, December 10, 2016


Reception: Thursday, November 17 at 7:00pm

Love Letters to Arts Court

Thursday, October 6 - Sunday, January 1, 2017


Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6 at 6:00pm

Campus Gallery, Georgian College


The Helen and Arch Brown Centre for the Visual Arts
1 Georgian Drive, Barrie ON L4M 3X9

Ottawa Art Gallery


2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2

Laura M. Hair incorporates artworks of various


mediums from her continuing investigation of in situ
organic form in this installation exploration of
Southern Ontarios watershed system. The viewer is
guided along a watershed reach path following the
architectural floor plan of a cathedral, a place of
reverence, awareness and advocacy.

This is a group show with 5 other artists, the last in


the present galleries. In 2017, OAG moves into a
new building.
My painting in the exhibition contains images which
reflect on images found in my previous paintings
and prints from the 80s to the present. Text on the
left and right side edges are my Love Letter.
Friends are to contribute notes to the Gallery which
will be displayed beside my work in a spider web like
formation on the walls.

Lilly Koltun

Headwaters
Arts
Festival
Anniversary Show and Sale

Creative Spirit Art Centre

This/ability, Canadian Art Brut and


Outsider Art

Saturday, October 15 - Saturday, November 12, 2016


Book Launch: Saturday, October 15 at 1:00pm

20th

Creative Spirit art Centre


999 Dovercourt Road, Toronto ON M6H 2X7

Friday, September 16 - Monday, October 10, 2016


Gala: Friday, September 16 at 6:30pm

This/ability Canadian Art Brut and Outsider Art is a


publication by CSAC Creative Spirit Art Centre;
funded by a grant from the Canada Council for the
Arts and Tak Yamasaki Limited. The launch is
accompanied by an exhibition of the art by the 20
Canadian artists in the book. This is the first
Canadian publication which acknowledges the field
of Canadian Art Brut and Outsider Art from CSACs

Alton Mill Arts Centre


1402 Queen Street West, Caledon ON L7K 0C3
The three works are from the Place Glass Lens
series of digital photographs. They are not double
exposures or digital constructions; rather, they are

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public art gallerys permanent Art Brut and Outsider


Art collection.

Black Future Month


Black Speculative
Toronto 2016

Arts

Movement

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Friday, October 21 - Saturday, October 22, 2016


Panel Discussion and Artist Presentation: Friday,
October 21 at 6:00pm

24th Annual Open Studio

Ontario College of Art & Design University


100 McCaul Street, Toronto ON M5T 1W1

Contemporary Visual Art

Vernissage:
September 22 2016, 6 to 9 pm

A two day community gathering at Ontario College


of Art and Design University. The event will be
focused on a Toronto/ Canadian centred dialogue
around the improvement of Black and Afrocentric
presence in Speculative and Science Fiction in all
creative forms and outlets. There will also be a
marketplace with a variety of vendors offering
goods and services to encourage supporting local
businesses and artists.

Open Studio continues on:


September 23, 6 to 9pm
September 24 and 25, 11am to 5pm
September 30, 6 to 9pm
October 1 and 2, 11am to 5pm
For special events visit our website.

www.enrichedbreadartists.com 951 Gladstone Avenue in Ottawa

Erin FitzGibbon

Ontario Society of Artist Emerging


Artist Juried Show

THE REGIONAL GROUP

Friday, October 7 - Sunday, October 23, 2016

Sophia De Francesca

Neilsen Park Creative Centre


56 Neilsen Drive, Etobicoke ON M9C 1V7

Hemlines The Fashion (R)evolution 1900


- 1960
September 24, 2016 - February 20, 2017

Erins piece Cherry Blossoms in Detroit will be on display along with the works of 40 other emerging artists.

Dundas Museum & Archives


139 Park St W, Dundas ON L9H 1X8

Sandra Hawkins
Zephyr Winds

Catch the Weave II

Monday, October 24 - Friday, November 4, 2016


Reception: Friday, October 28 at 5:30pm

September 29 - November 5, 2016


Opening: Thursday, September 29 at 7:00pm
(artists in attendance)

ASAP Gallery, Nepean Creative Art Centre


35 Stafford Road, Bells Corners, Ottawa ON K2H
8V8

Earls Court Gallery


215 Ottawa Street North, Hamilton ON L8H 3Z4

The title references the Greek god of gentle westerly winds, of spring and the interceder between
the world of the living and the underworld. The
paintings and prints in this exhibition are about
climate change and reinventions. I use amorphous ice floe shapes and in between channel
spaces as conceptual and visual motifs to discuss the changing dynamics of our relationship to
environments.

A group show. A Textile and Fibre Art Experience.

Art Toronto

October 28-31, 2016


Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building
222 Bremner Blvd, Toronto ON M5V 3L9
I will be represented by Galerie deBellefeuille.

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Eleanor Lowden

Toronto Watercolour Society


Annual Aquavision Show

Babar by Jean de Brunboff, a well loved childrens


book, triggered Westfall to begin research into her
fathers war experience. Thus, childhood memories
and deeply personal testimonies of war and conflict
are reflected in this exhibition.

32nd

Tuesday, October 18 - Monday, October 31, 2016


Reception: Saturday, October 22 at 1:00pm

Nancy Newton

Papermill Gallery
67 Pottery Road, Toronto ON M4K 2B9

SOUND SPACE

Wednesday, October 12 - Sunday, October 30, 2016


Opening Reception: Saturday, October 15, 1:00 4:00 pm

A juried show with over 90 works in water media;


watercolour and acrylic, representing the latest creations from the Toronto Watercolour Society.

Propeller
30 Abell Street, Toronto ON M6J OA9

Maria Saracino

DIMENSIONS 2016 Sculptural Exhibit

The drawings and paintings of SOUND SPACE


visually explore the intriguing musical sequences of
R. Murray Schafers recent composition entitled
Dream-e-scape.

Thursday, October 20 - Sunday, October 23, 2016


Vernissage: Thursday, October 20 at 6:00pm
Horticulture Building, Lansdowne Park
1015 Bank Street, Ottawa ON K1S 5J3

Blair Sharpe

A collection of over 100 sculptures in various mediums from stone and wood to glass, ceramic and
polymer.

Tell Me What You Really Think:


Selected Paintings 19752016
Thursday, January 5 - Sunday, February 5, 2017
Vernissage: Thursday, January 5

Lyn Westfall
A War Story

Ottawa School of Art


35 George Street, Ottawa ON K1N 8W5

Sunday, November 6 - Wednesday, November 30,


2016
Reception and Artist Talk: Sunday, November 6 at
1:00pm

An extremely compressed survey of my work over


the last 40 years in a gallery too small for a real
survey or retrospective. Consider it a kind of greatest hits package, complete with the usual problems of inclusion and exclusion. With a couple of
bonus works, previously unreleased material and
mash-ups in the mix.

St James Anglican Church - The Art Gallery


137 Melville Street, Dundas ON L9H 2A6
This exhibition reflects the theme of war and conflict, loss and remembrance. Westfall, as a 3-month
old child, lost her father, Flight Sergeant Wilfred W.
Lavers RCAF, while he was night flying a Wellington
Bomber over Germany. Years later, LHistoire de

Featuring piece in art time 19712016: 2016, the


only truly new, yet in some ways oldest, work created especially for this exhibition.

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Suzanne Morrison

Kal Honey

Wednesday, November 16 - Wednesday, November


30, 2016
Reception: Thursday, November 17 at 7:00pm

Saturday, October 1 - Sunday, October 2, 2016

Homeland

Queen West Art Crawl

Trinity Bellwoods Park


790 Queen St West, Toronto ON M6J 1G3

Arcadia Art Gallery


680 Queens Quay West, Toronto ON M5V 2Y9

I VALUE:
Beauty
Structure
Surprise
Wit
Impact
Simplicity
Nuance
Complexity
Craft

An exhibition of paintings following the artists


residency in Ireland and Denmark - the ancestral
homes of both her mother and father. Because so
little was known (other than geographical location) the search for what might feel familiar came
about through living and working with the landscape in both countries. This sense of connection
is featured in the large oil paintings that make up
the exhibition Homeland.

I ESCHEW:
Tedium
Ugliness
Pretension

Sandra Hawkins
ART + PARCEL

Tuesday, November 1 - Saturday, December 31,


2016
Ottawa Art Gallery, Art Rental & Sale
2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa ON K1N 6E2

I AIM TO:
Grab your attention.
Reward closer inspection.
Make you smile.

All works in this exhibition are $400. My semi


abstract paintings are inspired by Arctic travel and
sailing, and the inherent tensions in rapid climate
change. Contact: 613-233-8699 ext.234

Artist and erstwhile graphic designer Kal Honey will


be unveiling a bevy of new text-based paintings at
this years Queen West Art Crawl.

Ron Bolt

Brushfire Artists

Saturday, October 1 - Saturday, October 15, 2016


Reception: Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 4:00PM

Saturday, October 22 - Sunday, October 23, 2016

feel the passion

Transitions

Monora Park
500 Monora Park Road, Mono ON L9W 0E1

Loch Gallery
16 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto ON M5R 2E2

There will be 15 artists showing and selling original


paintings done in watercolor, oils and acrylics. We
have paining demonstrations. Free refreshments.
Hours are 10AM to 5PM.

The paintings in this collection hark back, in more or


less degree, to Bolts beginnings 50 years ago as an
abstract expressionist painter. They go beyond photographic reference into a world of evocation. They
are abstractions from nature, a distillation of its
essential elements.

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Patricia Moore

Ukrainian Banquet Hall


1000 Byron Avenue, Ottawa ON K2A 0J3

Selected Paintings

September 2016, November 2016, January 2017

Artworks by Sandra are from her visually evocative


photomontage series, Arctic Crisis and Ecology of
Narrative Space. Each giclee print is archivally
framed, 23h x 29w.

Studio Gallery, Gallery on the Bay


231 Bay Street North, Hamilton ON L8R 2R1
Patricia Moore will exhibit paintings in September
and November of 2016, and January 2017 at Gallery
on the Bay, Hamilton On. As part of the gallery
group of artists exhibitions, these shows are presented in the Studio Gallery. Moore will also exhibit
work in January, 2017, same venue at Gallery on
the Bay in Hamilton, ON. Paintings can also be
viewed at www.patriciamooreart.com

Sandras artworks are in collections across Canada


and around the world.

Art Gallery of Mississauga

Ed Pien | Shadowed Land and Mary Ma


| Eclipse
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - Sunday, January 1,
2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 22 at
7:00pm

Jamelie Hassan

Transformations: Light Upon Light

Tuesday, November 1 - Monday, November 28,


2016

Art Gallery of Mississauga


Mississauga Civic Centre, 300 City Centre Drive,
Mississauga ON L5B 3C1

Ismaili Centre
49 Wynford Drive, Toronto ON M3C 1K1

Ed Pien | Shadowed Land

This exhibition is part of a series curated by Zulfikar


Hirji of solo exhibits over 4 months, Sept. - Dec. 2016
at the Ismaili Centre in Toronto including artists, Ali
Kazimi, Faisal Anwar, Jamelie Hassan and Fareena
Chanda. For further information www.theismailicentre.org/ismailicentres or email: contact@the21st.ca

Sandra Hawkins

presents:

Shadowed Land features new installation and video


work in which Pien explores notions of sense memory and the irrepresentability of traumatic histories
and loss.
Mary Ma | Eclipse | XIT-RM

in exhibitions:

Mary Mas video-based installation, Eclipse, invokes


the seductive appeal of both celestial and terrestrial
bodies, and the otherworldly, transformative aspects
of our interactions with the stars and bodies of
water.

NFAL (Nepean Fine Arts League) Gallery


Exhibition
Friday, September 23, 2016 - Wednesday, January
4, 2017
NFAL Gallery
101 Centrepointe Drive, Ben Franklin Place
Ottawa ON K2G 5K7

Both exhibitions will be on view September 22, 2016


- January 1, 2017.

Paintings and photo-based medium artworks are


inspired by my experiences in the remote central
Arctic communities along the North West Passage,
and sailing. These are used as conceptual motifs to
discuss rapid climate changes, and simultaneous
shifts in identity and narratives. In he nexus of inner
and outer being one with the environment.

Member Exhibition Listings continue


on the back cover ...

Nepean Fine Arts League (NFAL) Fall/


Winter Sale
Friday, October 21 - Sunday, October 23, 2016
Reception: Friday, October 21 at 1:00pm

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Grants Calendar
The CARFAC Ontario Grants Calendar is published in every issue, allowing you to plan in advance for
grant deadlines. All the information published here has been edited for space, and is meant to give you a
general sense of the types of grants available. Deadlines and eligibility criteria are subject to change at any
time. Visit the funders websites to verify deadlines and to find out more about application requirements.
CARFAC Ontario makes every effort to provide information which is up-to-date and accurate. Neither
CARFAC Ontario nor any of its employees can be held responsible for any errors or omissions, or for
any losses, costs or claims which arise as a result of relying on this information.

CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS

350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047, Ottawa ON K1P 5V8


Phone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or at their individual numbers | Fax: (613) 566-4390
TTY (TDD) machine for hearing-impaired callers: 613-565-5194
www.canadacouncil.ca/grants

Deadline

Grant Name

Contact Person

Contact Information

1 October

Project Grants to Visual Artists

Pao Quang Yeh


Program Officer

613-566-4414 ext. 5094

15 October

Aboriginal Traditional Visual Art Jim Logan


Forms Program for Individual
Program Officer
Artists

613-566-4414 ext. 5266

31 October

New Chapter: Arts Program to


Mark the 150th Anniversary of
Confederation

Sue-Ellen Gerritsen
Program Officer

newchapter@canadacouncil.ca
613-566-4414 ext. 4008

1 November

Travel Grants to Professionals


in the Visual Arts

Jim Logan
Program Officer

613-566-4414 ext. 5266

15 November

Aboriginal Peoples
Collaborative Exchange:
National and International
Project Grants

Nol Habel
Program Officer

613-566-4414 ext. 4178

Anytime

Travel Grants to Media Arts


Professionals

Media Arts Section

613-566-4414 ext. 5914

Anytime

Travel Grants for Aboriginal


Collaborative Projects

Nol Habel
Program Officer

613-566-4414 ext. 4178

The last deadline for this


program.

Anytime before departure


until January 31, 2017.

Anytime before departure


until January 31, 2017.

Christian Mondor
Program Officer

CARFAC/ RAAV Launch New Copyright Fee Calculator!


A collaboration between CARFAC, RAAV and CARFAC Ontario, the
calculator is designed to become an essential tool in preparing a budget
for an exhibition, the publication of a catalog or any other type of use of
works in visual and media arts.
For more information: www.carfac.ca/news/2016/06/27/fee-calculator
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ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL


121 Bloor Street East, 7th floor, Toronto, ON M4W 3M5
Phone: 1-800-387-0058 (toll-free in Ontario) or 416-961-1660 | Fax: 416-961-7796
info@arts.on.ca | www.arts.on.ca/Page16.aspx

Deadline

Grant Name

Contact Person

Contact Information

18 October

Craft Projects: Creation and


Development

Caroline Cotter
Program Administrator

416-969-7455 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7455


ccotter@arts.on.ca

18 October

Craft Projects: Connections

Caroline Cotter
Program Administrator

416-969-7455 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7455


ccotter@arts.on.ca

18 October

Multi and Integrated Arts

Kateri Gauthier
416-969-7424 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7424
Interim Program Administrator kgauthier@arts.on.ca

1 November

Media Arts: Emerging

Anne Gard Gravestock


Program Administrator

416-969-7461 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7461


agravestock@arts.on.ca

22 November

Visual Artists: Emerging

Caroline Cotter
Program Administrator

416-969-7455 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7455


ccotter@arts.on.ca

15 November

Northern Arts

Terry Gitersos
Program Administrator

416-969-7401 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7401


tgitersos@arts.on.ca

Marilyn McIntosh
Northwestern Consultant

807-622-4279 | 1-866-391-2221
mmcintosh@arts.on.ca

1 December

Writers Works in Progress Comic Arts

Helen Floros
Program Administrator

416-969-7440 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7440


hfloros@arts.on.ca

15 December

Visual Arts Projects

Anne Gard Gravestock


Program Administrator

416-969-7461 | 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7461


agravestock@arts.on.ca

TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL

26 Grand Trunk Crescent, Suite 200, Toronto, ON M5J 3A9


Phone: 416-392-6800 | Fax: 416-392-6920
michelle@torontoartscouncil.org | www.torontoartscouncil.org

Deadline

Grant Name

Contact Person

Contact Information

17 October

Grants to Media Artists


(Individuals)

Peter Kingstone
Acting Visual/Media Arts
Officer

416-392-6802 ext. 208


peter@torontoartscouncil.org

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DISPATCH
V o l u m e 22, I s s u e 3, S e p t e m e b r 2016
ISSN 1201-0081

DISPATCH is published by
CARFAC Ontario

372-401 Richmond Street West


Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
416.340.8850 / 1.877.890.8850
carfacontario@carfacontario.ca
www.carfacontario.ca

Editor / Layout
Victoria Glizer

Copy Editors

Caitlin Lapea
Venessa Harris

Member Exhibition listings continued

The Sculptors Society of Canada presents:

FRAGMENT: A Solo Exhibition by BLAKE WARD


Thursday, September 15 Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 15 at 6:30pm
Canadian Sculpture Centre
500 Church Street, Toronto ON M4Y 2C8
Wards Fragment series is an extraordinary partnership
between tragedy and hope. The objective of the exhibition is
to raise public awareness, fund landmine clearance and provide survivor support.
Donation to The Canadian Landmine Foundation.

Contributors

CARFAC Ontario Staff, Victoria Ward, David


W. Jones, Susan Wallis, Leesa Bringas and
Susan Gold Smith.
The opinions expressed in DISPATCH are
those of the authors and do not necessarily
reflect those of CARFAC Ontario, CARFAC
National or its regional affiliates.

CARFAC Ontario Board of Directors

Yael Brotman (President), Kohila Kurunathan


(Vice President), Michelle Forsyth (Treasurer),
Kristen Fahrig (Secretary), Devon Ostrom,
Ashley McKenzie-Barnes, Sophie DeFrancesca,
Dave Kemp and Leesa Bringas.

CARFAC Ontario Staff

Sally Lee (Executive Director), Victoria


Glizer (Operations Manager), Diann Missal
(CARFAC Online Coordinator), Venessa Harris
(Membership & Communications Coordinator),
and Caitlin Lapea (Administrative & Archival
Assistant).
CARFAC Ontario is supported by the Ontario
Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the
Ontario Ministry of Culture, the Ontario
Trillium Foundation, and by our members.

an Ontario government agency


un organisme du gouvernement de lOntario

The beauty, grace and symmetry of traditional figurative


sculpture has always called to me. My language is the figure
and I feel the need to comment on the human condition,
sometimes distorted by demons, and other times enchanted
by all that is pure within us. However, my aesthetic ideals have
evolved: solid yet ephemeral, perfection transformed into the
beauty of the imperfect. B.W.

Amy Friend, Ken Giles, Susan Gold, Graeme


Skelton, and Carla Winterbottom
The Story of Things

Saturday, September 17 - Saturday, November 12, 2016


SB Contemporary Art
1017 Church Street, Windsor ON N9A 4V3
This exhibition highlights the photo-based works of these five
artists; in different ways these artists explore and manipulate
the medium of photography.

Kelly Cade and Candida Girling

fall, stream, wake and Shifting Landscapes

Saturday, September 10 - Sunday, October 2, 2016


Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 3:00PM
Loop Gallery
1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON M6J 1X8

CARFAC Ontario is the association of


professional visual and media artists in
Ontario, Promoting the legal and economic
rights of Visual and Media Artists for over
40 years. As an artist-run organization,
CARFAC Ontario knows the needs of artists
and has developed services and programs
to assist artists at every stage of their career.

Kelly Cades new work entitled, fall, stream, wake, explores


the visceral subtext of our experience in the context of our
relationship with the natural world. Her artistic process
involves locating and articulating the texture of intuitive space.
In Candida Girlings new work entitled, Shifting Landscapes,
she continues to explore the potential of enabling public space
as a site for interactive installations such as musical benches
and hydroponic, portable sculptural walls.

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