by Eric Emin Wood
on March 14, 2013
At North Toronto Collegiate Institute grade 12 visual arts students will get to experience both.
Instead of an exam, the students are running the...(More)
by Eric Emin Wood
on March 14, 2013
Yet Toronto residents might be...(More)
by Eric Emin Wood
on February 6, 2013
“She was in her early 60s and had frontal lobe dementia,” Downie says. “You could see that she really wanted to communicate with us, and was struggling.”
by Ann Ruppenstein
on January 22, 2013
Minutes after Winnie Standish and Nicole Patel launched the website for their parent and tot activity studio Oaks ‘n Acorns, there was already community interest.
“We literally just added the bookings page and within five minutes we had a booking and almost fell over,” Patel says...(More)
“We literally just added the bookings page and within five minutes we had a booking and almost fell over,” Patel says...(More)
by Lori Connor
on October 9, 2012
Something will be a bit different at the shops at Yonge and Lawrence this October. But it’s not Halloween decorations — it’s art.
From Oct. 11 to Nov. 1, over 66 stores on Yonge Street will become impromptu art galleries as part of Artwalk 2012. The event, which runs between...(More)
From Oct. 11 to Nov. 1, over 66 stores on Yonge Street will become impromptu art galleries as part of Artwalk 2012. The event, which runs between...(More)
by Lorianna De Giorgio
on December 11, 2010
It’s not surprising to hear architect A.J. Diamond’s Moore Park home is filled with hundreds of sketches.
But they’re not all blueprints for future world-renowned buildings.
The founding principal of Diamond and Schmitt Architects, responsible for Toronto’s acclaimed...(More)
But they’re not all blueprints for future world-renowned buildings.
The founding principal of Diamond and Schmitt Architects, responsible for Toronto’s acclaimed...(More)
by Susan Wakefield
on July 24, 2012
The good news and bad news is the same: there’s a lot of summer left. It was just last month that the kids were pining for the end of school and now they’re wandering around the house looking for something to do. Camps are great but not every child likes them and most families can’t afford them...(More)
by Staff
on July 23, 2012
Grade 6 students from Whitney Junior Public School created life-sized images of themselves reflecting their interests and hobbies ranging from the arts to sports. The newly completed works now decorate the school’s recently finished playground.(More)
by Leigh Cavanaugh
on July 13, 2012
The corner of Yonge Street and Glengrove Avenue has been transformed with a splash of colour.
The intersection is no longer a “concrete canyon”, says mosaic artist Gerry Lavery, who has turned the graffiti tagged space into a spectacle that pedestrians and drivers alike are...(More)
The intersection is no longer a “concrete canyon”, says mosaic artist Gerry Lavery, who has turned the graffiti tagged space into a spectacle that pedestrians and drivers alike are...(More)
by Ann Ruppenstein
on July 3, 2012
When book artist Akemi Nishidera moved into her Broadview Avenue studio five years ago, she didn’t plan to open a retail storefront.
“This was my place to work and I had a window, so I thought I might as well put something nice in it, rather than put paper over the whole window,”...(More)
“This was my place to work and I had a window, so I thought I might as well put something nice in it, rather than put paper over the whole window,”...(More)
by Ann Ruppenstein
on June 15, 2012
Before opening Rustic Owl, Stacey Collrin spent months turning the former NDP campaign office into her boutique art gallery and café.
“I was here 10 hours a day doing renovations,” she says. “I had a business plan down pat but for the three months leading up to opening I mostly had...(More)
“I was here 10 hours a day doing renovations,” she says. “I had a business plan down pat but for the three months leading up to opening I mostly had...(More)
by Staff
on June 14, 2012
Illustrator and Leaside resident Michael Martchenko, left, and Childhood Cancer Canada CEO Megan Davidson unveil Words of Hope, created by Martchenko using as his inspiration words of encouragement from across the country to families dealing with childhood cancers. Martchenko is most famous for his...(More)
by Francis Crescia
on June 13, 2012
Grade 11 student Abudr Chatni, who will be attending the Art Institute of Chicago this summer on a scholarship, sits in his installation named: “the existence of non existent.”(More)
by Omar Mosleh
on May 15, 2012
Ask artist, photographer, jazz musician and carpenter James C. Swartz if he’s a jack of all trades, and he’ll answer your question before the words leave your mouth.
“A jack of all trades is a master of none,” he says with a steely gaze.
Swartz is no master of none....(More)
“A jack of all trades is a master of none,” he says with a steely gaze.
Swartz is no master of none....(More)
by Karolyn Coorsh
on May 1, 2012
Five months after it was apparently sold for $1.2 million, the deal for the historic York Mills home of Canadian artist C.W. Jefferys fell through and the house was put back on the market — and sold again.
Sandwiched between two Yonge Street office buildings north of York...(More)
Sandwiched between two Yonge Street office buildings north of York...(More)
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