Dream Guardians: The Blockhead Universe Solo Art Exhibition, May 12-23, 2010
52 McCaul (Well & Good Art Space) and Seedlings Design have come together to present:
Dream Guardians: The Blockhead Universe, a solo art exhibition by Danilo McDowell-McCallum. This exhibition deals with the motivations behind our dreams and desires.
Opening Night: May 12, 2010 from 7pm-11pm
Duration of Exhibition: May 12-23, 2010
Location: 52 McCaul Street, Toronto ON
The exhibition Dream Guardians: The Blockhead Universe explores the journey that occurs before we reach our personal dreams and desires. The colourful collection of paintings are created with oil and ink on wood. The exhibit examines the motivations that inspire us as well as the obstacles that prevent us from manifesting our inner goals. To investigate further Danilo takes us into the universe of the dreamers, their dreams and their dream guardians known as The Blockheads. Welcome.
Danilo McDowell-McCallum is a Toronto based visual artist. He works professionally as a painter, illustrator, graphic designer, muralist and art mentor.
A graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design, McCallum majored in illustration and also studied graphic design and painting. He has exhibited and curated several group exhibitions. Heavily influenced by graffiti art in his youth, his mural work can be found across Toronto. As a visual artist and mentor, he has worked for over ten years with various community groups such as The Remix Project and The LOFT. Danilo has cultivated his visual sensibilities working as a designer/illustrator with Seedlings Design. His current collection involves a series of paintings that explore the dynamic between humans and dreams. This premier solo exhibition is entitled “Dream Guardians: The Blockhead Universe.”
Further inquries:
info@dreamguardians.ca
647-988-3769
Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization? Feb 24th – May 23rd at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Beautiful People,
If you are a leader of a youth group, work with young people make sure you check out Wangechi Mutu’s work at the AGO. The content might be controversial but definitely a necessary discussion for young people. Might even be a March break activity.
peace,
Mark
Rexdale ProTech Media Center Open House
On Thursday February 23, from 6:00pm-8:00pm check out my peoples at Rexdale Pro Tech Media. They are doing some good things here, providing all kinds of positive experiences and building professional skills for young people.
Prefix Gallery @ 401 Richmond (Richmond and Spadina)
February 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM
The New Orleans–based artist and activist, Jackie Sumell discusses The House that Herman Built, her longtime collaborative project with former Black Panther and current Louisiana Penitentiary inmate, Herman Wallace. Moderated by Betty Julian, independent curator and an adjunct professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Presented by Prefix and Wedge Curatorial Projects in association with the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery.
Where do you find inspiration?
This is my first post and I hope it incites thought leading to further artistic creativity. Yesterday I lost a great source of inspiration in my artistic and academic life, Professor Rex Nettleford was a cultural and intellectual icon of the Caribbean and I can say that I am who I am as an artist because he created so much opportunities for me to practice my art and moreover he linked it to the cultural fabric that is JAMAICA. I have gone on to be taught by a teachers who worked Professor (as he was affectionately called), also to work with Garth Fagan (a personal friend of Mr. Nettleford). His academic work as author and vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies brought out the intricacies of how the Arts was informed by culture.
To loosely make a connection to some his work would be like this” The flow of the rivers and ebb of sea were in the brush strokes and the mountains stood tall like the most gracious dancer connecting to it’s ancestral past. Those very mountains were home to the Maroons, who despite being slaves, ran away to the mountains to create an independent community” Now its not about the drudgery of black movements of opposition or tagging on to Black History month. it’s about the Arts and culture and where you find inspiration regardless of cultural background. I am an artist first and foremost.
Inspiration should, I feel be informed by your cultural past but also your culture present..its about the subway, Toronto, the cultures with whom you share a space, an identity, a world view, places travelled. How else can someone understand you inspiration? It should appeal to a humanistic part of their being and senses referring back to who you are. I challenge all who read to seek different source of inspiration, languish in the process of creation because as I have learnt from one such inspiration like Professor Nettleford “this is where experience lives..in the process of creation and understanding”
I hope that we all can realize that: when we make our beats, when we paint, when we dance, sing, act, teach. That we too like those who practiced before us are inspiring a generation to come.Interview from the 2009 Commonwealth People\\\’s Forum with Prof. The Hon. Rex Nettleford (Respect and Understanding)
Time to Represent!–>Check out Canada CODE
What’s up beautiful people?
Wanted to put you up on an exciting project that is accompanying all the Olympic festivities. Here is your chance to get your shine on, and more importantly educate the entire world as to what it means to be Canadian in 2010. People need to know we don’t all live in igloos and that Black people live in Canada, here is our chance.
The Canada Code project is collecting digital content that represents Canadian culture to broadcast to the world during the Vancouver Olympics.
Like a digital scrapbook, Canada CODE invites Canadians to get together and create a giant online portrait of the country by uploading stories, words and photos taken from their daily lives and neighbourhoods. Selected Canada CODE content will be featured during Games-time on big public screens.
If you register today and upload content you could win a pair of Vancouver 2010 Red Mittens! Every day from now until Games-time a pair of Vancouver 2010 Red Mittens will be given away.
Help grow the CODE. Check out the site, register and upload content!
For more than three decades, they sang Mozart in Latin, Bach in German, and Cole Porter and Stevie Wonder in English, from Alice Tully Hall in New York to Royal Albert Hall in London.
Uniforms used by the Boys Choir of Harlem have been stored in the damp basement of the Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church in Harlem, the choir’s last home.
For the audiences that marveled at the Boys Choir of Harlem, it was an additional wonder that the young performers with world-class voices had emerged from some of the most difficult neighborhoods of New York. December was always a busy month, as the choir toured the country’s premier concert halls and appeared on television Christmas specials. But this year, the boys are nowhere to be found. Last week, Terrance Wright, a 39-year-old choir alumnus, picked up a microphone in front of the altar of Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church in Harlem, the choir’s last home, and delivered news that surprised few people but saddened many.
“Tell the people. Let it be known,” Mr. Wright said, glistening and exhausted after leading a Christmas concert by former singers in the choir. “There is no Boys and Girls Choir of Harlem.”
This is very sad to me.. ik
see the whole article here.. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/nyregion/23choir.html?_r=2
For more than three decades, they sang Mozart in Latin, Bach in German, and Cole Porter and Stevie Wonder in English, from Alice Tully Hall in New York to Royal Albert Hall in London.
Uniforms used by the Boys Choir of Harlem have been stored in the damp basement of the Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church in Harlem, the choir’s last home.
For the audiences that marveled at the Boys Choir of Harlem, it was an additional wonder that the young performers with world-class voices had emerged from some of the most difficult neighborhoods of New York. December was always a busy month, as the choir toured the country’s premier concert halls and appeared on television Christmas specials. But this year, the boys are nowhere to be found. Last week, Terrance Wright, a 39-year-old choir alumnus, picked up a microphone in front of the altar of Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church in Harlem, the choir’s last home, and delivered news that surprised few people but saddened many.
“Tell the people. Let it be known,” Mr. Wright said, glistening and exhausted after leading a Christmas concert by former singers in the choir. “There is no Boys and Girls Choir of Harlem.”
This is very sad to me.. ik
this is a piece of a larger article.. see the whole article here.. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/nyregion/23choir.html?_r=2
