JOIN US FOR Sense of Place
Featuring Alistair MacLeod and Iain Baxter& in a conversation facilitated by Nino Ricci
“It will make you happy, thoughtful people and enable you to spread goodness and wisdom throughout the land.”
Alistair MacLeod
Our three speakers need little introduction. They are internationally renowned, and we are incredibly delighted to present this event as part of the opening celebrations for the exhibition, Sense of Place, Organized and Circulated by the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum.
Alistair MacLeod is the author of No Great Mischief which has received multiple accolades including the 1991 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Trillium Award for Fiction. He is also internationally acclaimed for his collections of short stories The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and other Stories (1986). He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor.
Iain Baxter& an international pioneer of conceptual art has been nationally celebrated with the 2004 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, the 2005 Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, and the 2006 Gershon Iskowitz Foundation Prize. He is Professor Emeritus at the School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor.
Nino Ricci is the winner of two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction. His 1990 novel, Lives of the Saints was followed in 2008 with the award winning, The Origin of Species. Nino Ricci is the recipient of the 2006 inaugural Alistair MacLeod Award for Literary Achievement. He lives and works in Toronto.
The evening will also be the occasion for the launch of the Sense of Place exhibition catalogue which is co-published by the University of Toronto Art Centre, the University of Windsor and the Art Gallery of Windsor.
This is how our evening will unfold:
6:30 pm Cocktails: Meet the authors and artists
7:00 pm Alistair MacLeod and Iain Baxter& in a conversation facilitated by Nino Ricci
9:00 pm Exhibition Opening Reception (Cash Bar)
Tickets for complimentary cocktails and conversation: $10 for UTAC Members and $20 General Public. Limited Seating. Non-Members can take this opportunity to join and apply $10 of the ticket price to the UTAC Membership Fee. Cocktails are complimentary until the Opening Reception.
To purchase tickets please contact Maureen Smith 416-946-7089 or maureen.smith@utoronto.ca
Sense of Place Exhibition:
5 May to 1 August 2009
Sense of Place is a cross-border print exhibition organized and circulated by the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum and juried by Iain Baxter&, Nancy Sojka and James Patten. The show brings together works by 30 artists from Canada and Michigan exploring the theme of place through printmaking. Ranging across traditional print techniques on traditional surfaces (such as monotypes, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, and silkscreens) to digital prints and found objects, the show maps out the broad field of contemporary printmaking practice.
The works’ approach to the theme is largely conceptual. While there is some landscape imagery in the show, the works selected focus more on how our sense of place is linked to our sense of self. As cultural geographers explain, place is a way of describing meaningful space; one of the ways of converting space into place is developing a sense of belonging or connection. For some, a sense of place is inevitably connected to home, for others, who start from a fundamental sense of displacement; it entails movement and the search for a fit. This disjunction in the experience of place is foregrounded by the works’ engagement with printmaking. By drawing on printmaking’s capacities for reproducibility and circulation through the production of images by impression or transfer, the works in the show move from an engagement with rootedness and the anchoring of belonging to an evocation of loss, distance and longing. The use of reproduction to create a singular image or the creation of multiple and circulating images of an intense and personal engagement with the specific opens up the experience of place as an ongoing process rather than a fixed and natural given.
Participating Artists:
Joseph Banh, Nadine Bariteau, Mark Bovey,Yael Brotman, Dacia Celeste-Fauth, Patricia Coates, Meena Dhar, Lisa Driver in collaboration with Milky Way, Christopher Durocher, Erik Edson, Joel Fullerton, Sue Gordon, Dieter Grund, Libby Hague, George Hawken, Liz Ingram, Hannamari Jalovaara, Melody Krauze, Bill Laing, Tara Lynn MacDougall, Judy Major-Girardin in collaboration with Briana Palmer, Adam Medley, John Montminy, Rory O’Connor, Gary Olson, Terry O’Reilly, Kenneth Pattern, Shannon Phair, Dianna Rae Borel, Victor Romão, Carol Rowland-Ulmann, Dan Steeves, Michele Tarailo, Susan Turner, Terry Vatrt.
Photo Credit: LtoR: Kevin Kavanaugh Photography (A. MacLeod and I. Baxter&); Paul-Antoine Taillefer (N. Ricci)
The Sense of Place event and exhibition are supported in part by Peter A. Allen as part of the UTAC Art with Insight Series, Manulife Financial, UTAC’s 2009 Supporting Sponsor, the Ontario Arts Council and our Event Sponsor à la Carte Kitchen Inc.
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