Beach Arts Scene

The annual Beaches Arts and Crafts Show has for three decades brought the best in handmade creative work to Kew Gardens. This year’s show promises more of the same, including several East End artisans. Leslie Fruman runs Clayshapes Pottery in the heart of the Beach. Several years ago Fruman took a break from a television […]

Beach Arts Scene

Yellow House Gallery, 921 Kingston Rd., is hosting its first art installation. Let the Moon Guide You is a seven piece video installation by Maria Flawia Litwin. The common element in the videos is travel, encouraging viewers to “venture into the unknown … to position yourself as a traveller, a willing foreigner, a non-belonger.” The […]

Beach Arts Scene

Beach felt artist Sheila Thompson is one of 75 artists who will be exhibiting over the Labour Day weekend at Artfest Toronto in the Distillery District. Thompson trained as a biogeographer and ecologist, and uses her fabric-based art to revisit her science days. She writes on her website, “As a geographer and ecologist, I was […]

Beach Arts Scene

Gerrard Art Space is partway through the Annual Members’ Show, which runs until April 20. Featured artists include Max MacDonald, Joanne Filletti, Noreen Mallory, Judith Meeks, Bernadette Wong, Louis Doransky, Gord Smith, Jyne Greenley and Liane Odze-Silver. Once the members’ show wraps up, preparations will begin for a solo exhibition for Gord Smith, from April […]