In conjunction with regular City of Craft programming, our ambitious (or possibly crazy) new installation co-ordinator, Tara Bursey, has taken the expanses of blank wall space offered in the Great Hall's cafe space as an invitation to curate a ten day art show around the stretching concepts of 'home'. The themes within come from themes overwhelmingly present in the installation programming (mostly selected from submissions).

Opening Reception:
Friday, December 4th.  7-11pm
Exhibition runs December 3-13, 2009
(on facebook)

Location:
Cream Tangerine Café
At the Great Hall
1087 Queen Street West, Toronto

Artists:
Lizz Aston, Fiona Bailey, Amy Borkwood, Leah Buckareff, Marta Chudolinska, Heather Fagan, Meags Fitzgerald, Sara Guindon, Melinda Josie, Genevieve Jodouin, Serena McCarroll and Tyler Brett, Laurie McGregor, The Misanthrope Specialty Co., Jen Spinner, Gillian Wilson and more.

The Exhibition:
Craft processes and acts of making have a way of rooting people to their surroundings.  People make or purchase craft items to enhance their domestic spaces and make themselves “at home.”  Alternately, people take comfort in craft and art making when they find themselves in unfamiliar territory or when situated in transitional spaces such as on planes and buses and in waiting rooms.  Home and Away (and In-Between) is an exhibition that strives to explore how the act of making enables us to relate to where we are.

Home and Away (and In-Between) is a thematic group exhibition of selected vendors, organizers and installation artists involved with this year’s City of Craft event.  The exhibition also includes a few invited special guests artists. Home and Away will serve as a pre-fair party as well as a public preview of the wares in store at this year’s City of Craft.  Please join us in celebrating our third awesome year!