UPCOMING EVENTS:


Call for Submissions - SUMMER ART FEST 2013.

Deadline for EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: JULY 5, 5:00PM



Artcite Inc. Presents our SUMMER ART FEST 2013 Call for Submissions

Artcite is currently seeking proposals from Windsor/ SW Ontario and Detroit/ SE Michigan
artists, collectives, and independent curators for inclusion in our
SUMMER ART FEST 2013 series of off-site installations and exhibitions:

Deadline for EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: JULY 5, 5:00PM
This is for proposals only; actual art works are not required until later!

A short description of what you want to do/ submit and a short introduction to who you are
is sufficient. (Please do not send links to a web site full of past works - pick a few and propose
them). Email or mail us, or call for further advice and information.

SUMMER ART FEST RUNS July 19- August 3, 2012
(show dates may be extended, subject to availability of off-site spaces and storefronts).

This year we are looking for site-specific storefront installations; process-oriented and time-based art
projects – That means video, projection, sound, light, interactive sculpture – work that can be seen all day and night through a store window, as well as performance, and other non-traditional works!

The cttee will also consider traditional presentations: painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography, though space is limited.

We are also seeking children’s workshop presenters for our Saturday, July 27
afternoon-long sessions that coincide with our walking tours of the exhibitions.

2013 will be our second annual Summer Art Fest, following on four previous "Visual Fringe" events. So this is our 6th annual Summer Art Visual
Fringe-like Fest celebration! (It was fun being part of the Windsor International Fringe Festival, but they are taking a break!) Last year's SUMMER ART FEST 2012, invited artists to team up with downtown Windsor businesses and/or were placed in vacant storefront spaces and associated galleries to showcase their art works/site installations during this exciting, FUN summer festival.

Over 115 Windsor-Essex, Detroit area and U.S. artists in over 28 downtown galleries, businesses and storefronts participated from July 20 through August 4, 2012. This year's SUMMER ART FEST 2013 will feature open, unjuried and curated off-site exhibition; mixed media site installations, interventions and performances. Exciting and cutting edge contemporary art by local and international artists coming to a downtown storefront near YOU! For the last 5 years, with the generous project support of downtown Windsor landlords, business owners and the City of Windsor, Artcite has placed a variety of art in a wide range of storefront, in-store and available-for-rent retail spaces. Artists from Windsor and surrounding areas, including the Detroit area, exhibited their artwork in non-traditional, storefront venues.

ARTCITE'S SUMMER ART FEST 2013 will be located in sites throughout downtown Windsor! Admission is free. Programs include storefront exhibits, mini galleries, performances, children's workshops (free!) and (free!) walking tours. ARTCITE'S SUMMER ART FEST 2013 provides an excellent opportunity for the folks in Downtown Windsor and visitors to see new works by numerous emerging and established artists in an accessible, fun (non-gallery) setting.

We look forward to seeing YOUR proposal soon! Retailers and Landlords, please contact us for info on how you can participate in this event!

Call for Proposals - ARTCITE’S 9th FAHRENHEIT FESTIVAL OF FIRE SCULPTURE

Deadline for proposals: July 5, 2013


Yup! They MOVED! J. LePage's "scissors" from our 2008 FFFS


Artcite is seeking proposals for works to be exhibited/ burned at ARTCITE’S 9th FAHRENHEIT FESTIVAL OF FIRE SCULPTURE

Date of event: The evening of September 28th 2013 with a rain date of September 29th.

Venue: The Vollmer Culture and Recreation Complex in the town of LaSalle west of Windsor Ontario.

Proposal deadline: July 5, 2013.

“Fire Sculpture” harnesses the ritual, ancient history and primal power of fire as a creative, performative act.

“Fire Sculptures” are large scale outdoor works constructed primarily of wood and straw that burn for approximately ten minutes. 

Fire sculptor Ed Janzen on what excites artists about Fahrenheit Festival:
“Just the idea of making art that doesn’t last. That is, ‘here for the moment.'  Working with very primitive materials. Letting the elements work with the materials. The expected and unexpected things that happen to the sculptures.”.   

It’s HOT stuff!

See highlights of a previous (2008) event at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1eFHFXqXto

Past Fahrenheit Festivals on our web pages:

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2011.html#fahrenheit2011

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2009.html#fahrenheit2009

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2008.html#fahrenheit2008

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2006.html#fahrenheit2006 and http://www.artcite.ca/fahrenheit/2006/index.html

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2005.html#fahrenheit2005

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2004.html#fahrenheit2004 and http://www.artcite.ca/fahrenheit/2004/index.html

http://www.artcite.ca/fahrenheit/2003/index.html

http://www.artcite.ca/fahrenheit/2002/index.html


The Fahrenheit Festival is presented by Artcite Inc., The LaSalle KinClub, and the Town of LaSalle.  We pay artist fees. For more information describing the event and outlines of requirements please contact Artcite at info@artcite.ca 519 977 6564 or the committee head, Steve Daigle 519 253 5510 or daigle@mnsi.net. 

Summer 2013 through 2015
"FREE FOR ALL WALLS - DOWNTOWN WINDSOR STREET ART PROJECT"
Curated and organized by Dan (D3N!@L) Bombardier (Windsor ON)

Call for participation - Yes, you can be a part of F4AW!

Interested in being a part of this project? Great! Applications are open to everyone, but we’re specifically looking for artists with experience in alternative forms of public art. Applications are not limited to individuals, groups or collectives are encouraged.

Applicants will be required to demonstrate experience working on large scale, outdoor pieces.

VISIT: http://www.freeforallwalls.com/#join for more information!


The test wall for the street art project - looks impressive!

see also http://www.freeforallwalls.com/#about

F4AW (Free For All Walls) is a large-scale public mural project that will commence during the summer of 2013 in Windsor, Ontario.

Artcite Inc., Windsor's artist-run center and gallery for the contemporay arts will host a project curated and organized by local entrepenuer/artist Daniel (D3N!@L) Bombardier to feature, fifteen street-art murals that will be created in Windsor’s downtown core (and surrounding areas).

Dynamic murals will replace dull walls that were subject to vandalism (or ‘tagging’), neglect or disrepair. Works will be completed in high traffic, high visibility areas to be experienced by the largest audience possible. Each work will be geographically dependent, reflecting the individual site and a specific community. These works created by internationally recognized street-art muralists will serve as positive gestures to the community, bringing long lasting character, energy and beauty to the city, and placing Windsor on the forefront of the international street-art movement.

F4AW Lead Artists so far:

Nychos - Austria - http://www.rabbiteyemovement.at/ Tentative paint date: June 22, 2013
BASK - Florida, USA - http://www.knownasbask.com/bask/ Tentative paint date: July 15, 2013
Sizeo & Globe - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht9zbJcN4to Tentative paint date: July 11, 2013
Ben Frost - Australia - http://benfrostisdead.com/ Tentative paint date: August 1, 2013
XRAY - Montreal - https://www.facebook.com/misterxray?fref=ts Tentative paint date: July 15, 2013
Elicser - Toronto - http://www.elicser.com/ Tentative paint date: August 15, 2013
DENIAL - Windsor/Detroit - http://www.enjoydenial.com
High 5 - Toronto - https://www.facebook.com/jasondearyart
Above - USA - http://www.goabove.com/ Tentative paint date: October 15, 2013
Omen - Montreal - http://omen514.com/ Tentative paint date: August 9, 2013
David Ross (Persue) & Niko Burke (Nekoes) - San Diego - http://cargocollective.com/nekoburke Tentative paint date: October 1, 2013


Presented by ARTCITE INC.; D3N!@L; I Was Here and Twentieth Century Design Co. with generous project support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.



Artcite also acknowledges the generous support of

 

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L'an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l'art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

the Ontario Arts Council


The City of Windsor

. . . and members and volunteers like you!

July 19 - August 3 2013
"ARTCITE'S SUMMER ART FEST 2013"
Located in sites throughout downtown Windsor!

Open Show! Participation is open to all area (Windsor- Essex County & Detroit- S.E. Michigan)
See above for the CALL TO PARTICIPATE (est. mid-may- June2013)





1) Send us a proposal - who you are, what you want to do, show etc by July 5

2) We get back to you, ask you to bring in the work

3)If it is complicated, you help us set it up in a store window. etc

4) We give you publicity materials, and hope you can make it for the walking tours,
Saturday July 27, so you talk talk with the public!

READ MORE BELOW!




ARTCITE'S "SUMMER ART FEST" Located in sites throughout downtown Windsor!

Artcite Inc., Windsor's only non-profit, artist-run centre for the Contemporary Arts, presents its 6th annual ARTCITE'S SUMMER ART FEST (previously Visaul Fringe) featuring the works from Windsor-Essex, Detroit area and U.S. artists in downtown galleries, businesses and storefronts from July 19 - August 3, 2013.

For the sixth year , Artcite will bring area artists to businesses and storefronts in Downtown Windsor. We take in the works and place them into Downtown Windsor businesses in preparation for opening day on Friday, July 19. Visitors were encouraged to drop by Artcite Inc, 109 University Ave West for a map/ brochure of events and participating venues, and keep their eyes peeled for works popping up in windows and on the walls of their favorite downtown businesses.

The following Saturday, July 27 people will beinvited to drop by our FREE Children's workshops running 12:00 - 5:00 PM (location TBA) and assemble at Artcite for our FREE Summer Art Fest 2013 walking Tours at 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM. During the tours they can see all the works in Summer Art Fest and talk with participating Artists!

Please visit our history pages to see details of our past SAF/VF events!

Summer Art Fest 2012

Visual fringe 2011

Visual Fringe 2010

Visual Fringe 2009

Visual Fringe 2008

September - November 2013
“30X30 – ARTCITE 30th ANNIVERSARY SHOW pt 2 ”
An Invitational Group show featuring works by emerging artists nominated byArtcite alumni and members.


Artcite Inc., Windsor's non-profit, Artist-Run Centre for the Contemporary Arts, celebrated its 30th year in the community with a world-class roster of Artcite alumni, featuring recent works from award-winning artists from Canada, the United States and Europe. Artcite pioneered the showing of cutting-edge performance, video, installation and public art in our region, and through our member-juried selection process, has led the way in bringing the newest and best of contemporary art to local and national attention.

Our anniversary group shows have been split into 2 extra big, extra long-running exhibitions. Part 1, highlighted the works of some of our favourite alumni through the years of our programming. In September, we present pt. 2 of the 30x30 project with new works by 15 emerging artists, nominated by the artists showing in 30x30 pt.1, and our board and programming committee.

SATURDAY, September 28, 2013 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
at the LaSalle Vollmer Culture and Recreation Center
NINTH ANNUAL FAHRENHEIT FESTIVAL OF FIRE SCULPTURE




Photo Artcite/ Yanni Lu

We are back, with the LaSalle Kin Club to present our Ninth Fahrenheit Festival of Fire Sculpture.

The Fahrenheit Festival is a family-friendly, truly "spectacular" spectacle in the great outdoors -- And still is Canada’s only Fire Sculpting festival.

Fire sculpture harnesses the beauty of fire as a creative, performative act: the beauty of fire sculpture is not limited to the creation of a beautiful object, but is rather focused on how each unique sculpture burns.

Skilled fire artists are able to use a minimum of means to control and shape the fire, to choke oxygen in order to control tempo and pace, and to manipulate the burning pattern so that the fire sculpture doesn't resemble, or burn, like a bonfire. The big art "burn" is fleeting, kinetic and encompasses a singular moment that can never be precisely restaged. The lasting value of the unique art form of “Fire Sculpture” is literally created before the spectator's eyes: the final "art work" is only completed when the sculptures are set alight and witnessed by the crowd.

In 2002 Artcite hosted the inaugural "Fahrenheit". Our 2011 festival was attended by over 1800 guests, even after the threat of a rain-out!. Since 2006, Artcite Inc. and the Control.Burn Collective have held the Fahrenheit Festival of Fire Sculpture in partnership with the Town of LaSalle at the the Vollmer Culture & Recreation Complex.

For 2011, Fahrenheit returned after a hiatus to a significantly improved outdoor venue at the Vollmer Complex's Pond Park. Unfortunately a week of rain forced us to move to a smaller, dryer venue on a gravel lot, South of the Vollmer Center. Despite this move, the fire sculptures were all lit and enthusiastically watched by an enthusiastic crowd.

The FAHRENHEIT FESTIVAL OF FIRE SCULPTURE is presented in co-operation with the LaSalle Kin Club and Control.Burn Collective; a group of artists interested in employing fire in the creation of ephemeral works of art, and is co-sponsored by the Town of LaSalle Culture & Recreation Department and CJAM 99.1 FM.

Visit http://www.artcite.ca/fahrenheit\index.html for a history of the Fahrenheit Festival of Fire Sculpture.

Vist http://www.flickr.com/photos/artcite/sets/72157622496098008/ to see pictures from our 2009 Festival.



See our 2011 Archive at: http://www.artcite.ca/history/2011.html#fahrenheit2011



See highlights of the 2008 Fahrenheit Festival on Youtube




Images from our 2009 Fahrenheit Festival on Flickr - account can also be viewed HERE



See highlights of the 2009 Fahrenheit Festival on Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=602qC8rz52s


Past Fahrenheit Festivals on our web pages:

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2011.html#fahrenheit2011

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2009.html#fahrenheit2009

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2008.html#fahrenheit2008

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2006.html#fahrenheit2006 and http://www.artcite.ca/fahrenheit/2006/index.html

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2005.html#fahrenheit2005

http://www.artcite.ca/history/2004.html#fahrenheit2004 and http://www.artcite.ca/fahrenheit/2004/index.html

http://www.artcite.ca/fahrenheit/2003/index.html

http://www.artcite.ca/fahrenheit/2002/index.html



Artcite also acknowledges the additional support of its members and volunteers
and the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Windsor.

Artists wishing to propose a work for inclusion in our next event should address correspondance
through Artcite to the Control.Burn Collective - a semi-autonomous subcommittee of Artcite's programming committee.

December 1, 2013 DAY WITHOUT ART/ DWA
World AIDS Day & International DAY WITHOUT ART

This annual art vigil is honored by members of the arts and creative community.

Activities/ commemorations include: gallery closings; shroudings of public art; special art exhibitions; distribution of commemorative pins, handbills & posters; candlelight vigils; information campaigns; and charitable contributions.

Please watch this space for updates regarding the meeting of the 2013 DWA organizing comittee.

November 29 through December 21,
32nd ANNUAL DOIN’ THE LOUVRE Holiday FUN(d)raising®™ Exhibition

"ART HUNG FLOOR TO CEILING - JUST LIKE THE LOUVRE "
"ORIGINAL ART BY AREA ARTISTS - NOTHING OVER $99.99"
Show & sale runs from Friday November 29 - Saturday December 21, 2013

Special Christmas shopping hours: Tues - Sat, 12:00 noon - 6 pm -
closed SUNDAYS + MONDAYS+ MORNINGS)


Artcite's annual Christmas FUN(d)raising exhibition and sale which takes place every December! This annual event is not only important to Artcite as a fundraiser but is also an opportunity for many artists (some of whom have never previously shown their work) to exhibit and sell their works. It features an immense amount of artworks (!) by over many artists from the area, and-as always, many pieces are created specifically for this special exhibit by old and new Artcite members (and many non-members); as a rule, all work is priced under $99.99!

Watch this space around October for the official CALL to participate in DTL 2013!

Intake will TENTATIVELY run from November 15 - 23, 2013 so you have plenty of time!

General guidelines: 10 submissions, not too big, cheaper sells better, well made, ready to hang, won't fall apart and crash down and hurt other work.
If tiny, affixed to a display so that it is secure. Lots of details will be set by October, but it is always good to think ahead.

See past DTL archives in our history section for examples!

Info on DTL 2012 is at: http://www.artcite.ca/history/2012.html#dtl2012


See our FLICKR slide show of setup and Opening night Gala for DTL 2012!
also at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtl2011artcite/sets/72157628362091077


WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Here is a spot from Tom Lucier's DWBIA blog reporting on our 2010 sale:


Embedded video from Youtube courtesy of Tom Lucier/ DWBIA