LIGHT YEARS: THE PHIL LIND GIFT
Join us for a tour of one of the largest gifts of contemporary art in the AGO’s history donated by the Estate of Philip B. Lind, who died in 2023. The exhibit features 37 works from 24 Canadian and international artists, including photographs, lightboxes, sculptures, paintings, drawings, and editions that illuminate social and political histories. Our tour will be led by the Curator of this exhibition, Adam Welch, the AGO’s Associate Curator of Modern Art.
YAYOI KUSAMA’s INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM:
LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER
Following the Phil Lind tour, our group will be led on a tour of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room—Let’s Survive Forever. Following her blockbuster AGO show in 2018, this artist, now in her 90’s, returns with a new immersive room-sized installation. Our tour will be led by Nadia Abraham, an Interpretive Planner at the AGO.
DATE: Thursday May 8, 2025
TIME: 11:00AM to 12:30PM. Meet in the Walker Court on the first floor at 10:45AM.
PLACE: AGO, 317 Dundas Street West
COST: $15 Non-AGO Members may be required to pay an additional $30.00 (Note: An Annual Pass is $40.00). Please see NOTES below.
MAXIMUM ATTENDANCE: 25
ORGANIZED BY: Jeanne Banka, jbankalaw2@gmail.com, cell (416) 949-8597
Our perfect day ends with lunch (if you wish to join us) at the AGO Bistro at 12:30 (at your own cost).
REGISTER HERE
NOTES
Please contact Jeanne, after you have registered, to advise her:
– if you are an AGO member and the number, if any, of free guests your membership allows. Non-AGO members may avoid the admission fee if other AGO members can bring them as their guests.
– to advise her if you plan to stay for lunch
TTC
Subway – Take the Yonge/University line to St. Patrick Station and walk west along Dundas Street West
Parking
Indoor parking is available at Village By the Grange on McCaul Street, across from OCAD University.
Canadian Opera Company
DATES: Tuesdays: April 15, 22, 29, and May 13
TIME: 9:30AM coffee, 10AM lecture
PLACE: Cameron Hall, Yorkminster Park Centre,
1585 Yonge Street, at the N/E corner of Heath Street, just north of Yorkminster Baptist Church
PRICE: $200 for the series; $60/lecture for individual lectures
MAXIMUM ATTENDANCE: 100
ORGANIZED BY:
Lyn Westwood
lyn.westwood1@gmail.com 416-928-0436
Marcia McClung
marcia.mcclung6@gmail.com 647-284-7428
REGISTER FOR THE SERIES of four lectures
John Geoghegan
REGISTER FOR APRIL 15
Andrew Kear
REGISTER FOR APRIL 22
Philip Dombowsky
REGISTER FOR APRIL 29
Dr. Gerald McMaster
REGISTER FOR MAY 13
NOTE: There is no lecture on Tuesday May 6
April GALLERY WALK
Still room to join us for two exhibitions of contemporary art in the Cooper Cole Gallery, to be led by TFVA member, Sue Kidd.
Solo Exhibition
Nour Bishouty: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Nour is an interdisciplinary artist working across media including video, sculpture, works on paper, digital images, and writing. Her work is concerned with gaps in archival memory and the Western production of knowledge and fantasy.
Two Person Exhibition
Hangama Amiri and Melissa Joseph: Gathering
Through fibre, cloth and the intimacy of handwork, the artists trace the way memory lingers – how it eases with time, how it sharpens like the first taste of something long forgotten.
DATE: Wednesday April 16
TIME: 1PM
PLACE: Cooper Cole Gallery, 1134-1136 Dupont Street
PRICE: There is no charge for Gallery Walks
MAXIMUM ATTENDANCE: no maximum
ORGANIZED BY: Sue Kidd suemlkidd@gmail.com 416-454-9502
REGISTER
NOTES
Parking
Street Parking – the gallery is just east of Dufferin St.
MOCA
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
TFVA members will be visiting MOCA to view four solo exhibits, on a tour led by Artistic Director Rui Mateus Amaral.
The Squared Circle: Ringing
Jessica Stockholder, an American-Canadian artist is exhibiting her first major Canadian commission in 25 years.
Digital Futures Residency
Sondra Perry is the recipient of MOCA’S 2025 Digital Futures Residency, a platform that supports the creation of new digital artwork that focuses on Technology as a connective tool.
Blur
Justin Ming Yong is a textile artist whose handmade quilts transform the museums’ elevators into art spaces. Traditional quilt making, a craft passed down to him by his mother, is a practice rooted in centuries-old cultural traditions.
Shoes, books, hands, buildings and cars
Margaux Williamson’s cinematic compositions draw from intimate views and objects of her surroundings.
AND HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND
Ear Worm
Venezuelan American artist, Alex Da Corte, creates a vivid and surreal dreamlike environment which challenges us to rethink stories and protagonists that we love or despise. His work has been shown in Japan, Denmark, Italy, and the U.S.
DATE: Thursday April 17, 2025 (OPENING DAY)
TIME: 11AM to noon. We will meet in the lobby at 10:45.
PLACE: MOCA – MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
158 Sterling Road, South of Bloor St. West, West of Landsdowne Ave.
PRICE: $25.00
MAXIMUM ATTENDANCE: 25
ORGANIZED BY: Julia Foster julia@juliafoster.ca 647-646-9799:
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NOTES
Parking
Excellent parking under MOCA.
Lunch
For those interested, Forno Cultura is an excellent café on-site with sandwiches, salads etc. Perfect for a light lunch.
TTC
Subway: Lansdowne or Dundas West Stations on the Bloor Subway Line.
From the subway walk 10 minutes along Bloor Street to Sterling Rd. Then turn South on Sterling Road.
Streetcar: 505 Dundas and 506 Carlton streetcars. Stop is at Dundas St. West and Stirling Road. 5 minute walk north from the stop.
Check Member Chat for car-pooling or to make lunch plans.
TFVA PRIZE WINNERS TRIBUTE 2025
A Few Seats Available
Join fellow members of our visual arts community as we celebrate our 2025 Prize Winners and reconnect with past award recipients.
DATE: Monday April 28
TIME: 10:30AM for the awards program followed by a light lunch and refreshments.
PLACE: Cameron Hall, at Yorkminster Park Centre, 1585 Yonge Street
PRICE: There is no charge for this event.
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POWER PLANT TOUR
To Dream of Other Places
Emmanuel Osahor
Winner of the 2025 TFVA Artist Prize
Emmanuel Osahor’s exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints, ceramic sculptures, and a site-specific photographic wallpaper commissioned for the Fleck Clerestory gallery at The Power Plant.
DATE: May 1
TIME: 11AM. Please gather at 10:45AM
PLACE: The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West. Meet at the main entrance of the gallery.
PRICE: $20.00
MAXIMUM ATTENDANCE: 20
ORGANIZED BY: Miriam Kagan miriamkagan11@gmail.com 416-488-4347
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We are very privileged to have our tour conducted by head curator Adelina Vlas, together with the artist, our 2025 prize winner, Emmanuel Osahor. The curator will also introduce us to a second exhibition, Shelagh Keeley: Film Notebooks 1985-2017
NOTES
Parking
There is a paid parking lot entered from Lower McCall Street
TTC
Subway – 12 minute walk from St Andrews subway station or
Streetcar 509 from Union Station subway station, stopping at Queens Quay West – Harbourfront
Local amenities
Boxcar Social, Harbourfront is next door
You are invited to
an ART CANADA INSTITUTE presentation –
MONUMENTAL GRANDEUR:
Iconic Canadian Sculptors & Their Public Art
These public monuments, set in stone and metal, document history, remind us of a collective identity, and serve as symbols of Canadian memory, cultural heritage, figures, and values.
Gerald McMaster will present the revered Haida artist and activist Bill Reid. (Gerald McMaster is this year’s TFVA’s Founders Achievement Award winner.)
Alma Mikulinsky will present the internationally celebrated Romanian-born, Israeli-Canadian sculptor, Sorel Etrog.
Philip Dombowsky will present the creator of the acclaimed Vimy Memorial, Walter S. Allward.
Roald Nasgaard, will present the prolific Saskatchewan structurist, Eli Bornstein.
DATE: Wednesday April 30, 2025
TIME: 6:30 PM
PLACE: Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St West
COST: PAY WHAT YOU CAN
RSVP: click here RSVP@ACI-IAC.CA
MEET OUR NEW MEMBERS
Jill Davey
Jill spent her career in public relations and politics, where her work took her to Ottawa working with national leaders on the issues of the day. Jill ran her own communications practice for many years before retiring to pursue other interests. She took up painting and knitting about six years ago and more recently began to sew. Jill has joined the Internal Communications Committee for TFVA and is looking forward to getting to know many members. She counts herself extremely lucky to be a daughter-in-law of the incredible Dorothy Davey.
Jan Ruby
Jan has enjoyed the visual arts scene since her childhood. Recent studies in sculpture and drawing at OCAD and the AGO have expanded her knowledge and appreciation of different media that artists use to express their creativity. These studies have enhanced her enthusiasm for specific artists, periods and creativity when visiting galleries and exhibitions locally and while travelling.
Mary Thomson
Mary worked as a lawyer, and recently completed a LLM in Dispute Resolution. In addition to her law degrees, Mary holds degrees in European history and is interested in how visual art captures historical moments through a creative lens. Why do artists and their art matter to us? What do they say about us, and what can we learn from them?
Over the last 15 years she has combined her interest in art history with a focus on the legal challenges surrounding the acquisition, retention and management of that art.
Brenda Touzot
Brenda’s Bachelor of Arts in History and English enabled her to teach High School and to represent an Education Publisher and a Legal Publisher.
Brenda spent a quarter of a century in France married to a Frenchman. This period of her life was an incredible opportunity to be immersed in another culture, another political perspective and another way of life. She has been involved with the AGO as a volunteer and a docent and is interested now in golf, gardening and travel. Brenda is currently a member of the Internal Communication Committee.
Membership Renewal 2025/2026