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Author Archives: Ginger

Ginger Scott is an independent curator and writer based in Toronto. She is currently the Editorial Intern at C Magazine and operates her own blog which archives her own investigations into the Toronto art scene (practiceart.blogspot.com). She has a particularly research focus in the history of artist-run centres in Canada and has worked in centres across Canada. She is a recent graduate from the University of Toronto Masters of Museum Studies programme and has an undergraduate in Art History and Studio from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Back To: OCAD ; From: Banff, With Love

From Toronto I moved to Banff, AB to take the position of Curatorial Work-Study at the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre. From a large city with countless galleries, events, performances and talks I arrived in a town where I found myself working for the only institution of cultural significance. Imagine working for an [...]

December Top 5 Events! – Toronto

Of/By/For: A Dialogue on Representation @ OCAD Graduate Gallery
1 December 2009
Taras Polataiko, Bonnie Devine, and Leah Sandals moderated and organized by Rose Bouthillier

From the burgeoning curatorial talent in the Curatorial Studies graduate programme at OCAD came a substantially in-depth programme. The evening event involved the  screening of a couple of Taras Polataiko’s video [...]

Top 5 – November 2009

Hal Foster and Glenn Adamson at the Ontario College of Art and Design
Nomadic Residency and President’s Speaker Series
Even in Toronto, the country’s largest city (and by default, occasionally considered the cultural capital), my modest Canadian sensibilities still always induce surprise upon the visitation of significant international speakers along the lines of Hal Foster (writer, critic, [...]

Art’s Exposed Affair With the Computer: ‘Facing the Screen’

University of Toronto Art Centre (4 November – 19 December 2009)
Curator: Bogdan Luca
Artists: Shannon Dickie, Alex Fischer, Shlomi Greenspan, Hyoki Kang, Michael Lawrie, Meghan McKnight, Amanda Muis, Alex Sheriff, Jol Thomson, and Jeff Tutt
Facing the Screen addresses the medium of painting’s interrelation to technology by presenting paintings by student artists from across the GTA who [...]