KIDSCRAWL
Friday, September 14, 2012, 11am – 2pm
A Supercrawl Fieldtrip! Participating galleries and arts institutions will open their doors and offer special programming to Elementary and Middle School classes on the afternoon of Friday September 14th. Students registered for this program will have an exclusive opportunity to preview work by local and international visual artists and explore exciting cultural spaces. HOVER OVER THE NUMBERS ON THE MAP TO LEARN ABOUT PROGRAMMING AT EACH VENUE.
Please note, Registration for 2012 is closed. To participate in 2013 please contact HCA Education Coordinator Victoria Long-Wincza at 905-528-4020 or asquareinthecity@hotmail.com.
For more information on participating in future KIDSCRAWLs, please see our KIDSCRAWL Primer
Participating Galleries and Local Organizations
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you me Gallery 330 James Street N |
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The Factory Media Centre 228 James Street N |
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b contemporary 226 James Street N |
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Mixed Media 154 James Street N |
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Art Gallery of Hamilton Design Annex 118 James Street N |
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CBC Hamilton 118 James Street N |
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Focus Gallery 66 James Street N |
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Tourism Hamilton Lister Block – 28 James Street N |
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Hamilton Public Library 55 York Boulevard |
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Hamilton Farmers Market 55 York Boulevard |
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Hamilton Artists Inc 155 James Street N |
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Centre [3] for Print &
Media Arts 173 James Street N |
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Mulberry Street Cafe 193 James Street N |
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Workers Arts and Heritage Centre 51 Stuart Street |
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School Bus Drop-off/Pick-up Points Murray Street in front of Liuna Station or York Street in front of Hamilton Public Library |
Recommended Route
Workers Arts and Heritage Centre | 51 Stuart Street
Broken City Lab
AS OF 2012 WE ARE ALIVE AND WELL: FOUR YEARS IN WINDSOR AND BEYOND
Main Space
THE THREAD WINDS INTO THE PAST: THE LIFE AND WORK OF LEONARD HUTCHINSON
Community Gallery
Activity: "Punching the Clock: Working in Canadian Factories" (bi-lingual) is an interactive, permanent exhibition.
you me Gallery | 330 James Street N
THE OCCASSIONAL ANNUAL WHIRLIGIG SHOW: inspired, conspired, motional & emotional
A group show of inspiring kinetic sculpture - Ideal for young (or young at heart) audiences.
Note: Due to the nature of the kinetic sculpture exhibition, be prepared to carefully wind through the space in a single file
The Factory Media Centre | 228 James Street N
ARTASIA at Factory Media Centre presents: CITY VOICES
Amy McIntosh , Aaron Hutchinson, Andrew O'Connor
Culture for Kids in the Arts’ 2010/2011 ARTASIA project explored children’s ideas about neighbourhood transformation. Building on these voices and visions, City Voices is an artistic investigation of this theme of city building through listening, using interviews, sound, and video of a city in flux.
This exhibition was envisioned as a platform for recent post secondary school graduates to collaborate and gain real-world curatorial experience to further develop their career in the arts.
Activity: CITY VOICES is multimedia installation that consists of multiple projections and an atmospheric soundscape. The stimulating sonic and visual space created will invite a participatory audience to interact with the piece through means of a touch screen iPad.
b contemporary | 226 James Street N
Judy Singer
RECENT PAINTINGS
Exhibition of abstract paintings
Mulberry Street Cafe | 193 James Street N
Exhibition by Dave Hind (www.davehind.com)
Dave Hind is an artist, musician, and metal worker of functional objects.
He was born in Hamilton and now lives in Brantford, Ontario. His artistic
practice is grounded in the reclamation of material. The interaction with
industrial and natural recur in the materials, processes, and images he
uses and explores.
Centre [3] for Print & Media Arts | 173 James Street N
Louise Noguchi, June Pak (www.louisenoguchi.com | junepak.ca)
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
Curated by: Sally Frater
Featuring collaborative and solo works in video and text, the exhibition
is an exploration of the liminal space that exists between the filmic realm
and the real.
Activity: Guided program led by Centre 3 Arts Education Team featuring a hands on printmaking component.
Hamilton Artists Inc | 155 James Street N
Steven Laurie (www.stevenlaurie.com)
Jacked!
Steven Laurie's sculptural work consists of reconstituted car parts which can be activated to emit exhaust and industrial noise. These works contain visual references to blue-collar trades, masculinity, pastime activity, consumerism, and horseplay. The act of burning rubber is reinvented as artistic gesture and imprint on James St North. Laurie's art employs traditions of performance art, kinetic sculpture and mark-making to consider how actions/processes such as burning rubber, engine revving, and stereo thumping can be seen as communicating a sense of subcultural kinship and territoriality.
Artist bio: Steven Laurie is a visual artist from Oshawa ON who is now based in Toronto ON. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Station Gallery, Whitby, ON. His work has been featured at the Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, for MOCCA 900 at the Toronto International Art Fair, and in the exhibition Speed Demon at Museum London.
Erika and Peter Reisenberger
Bryce Kanbara
FLYERS
Flyers, part of Qualia, or The Feel of Steel curated by Ingrid Mayrhofer for centre 3 is now installed on the wall of Hamilton Artists Inc. at James St. N and Cannon St.
Activity: Hamilton Artists’ Inc. Programming Director, Irene Loughlin, will be present to answer questions about the exhibitions.
Mixed Media | 154 James Street N
Something for teachers and something for students. As you pass by Mixed Media on the corner of Cannon Street and James North, a table out front provides Kidscrawl participants with a take home handout. For teachers: information about Art Supply Education packages. For students: graphic design colouring sheet.
Note: Kidscrawl participants are welcome to stop by this location enroute to scheduled visits - no pre-registration is required.
Art Gallery of Hamilton Design Annex | 118 James Street N
EN MASSE (www.enmasse.info)
EN MASSE @ AGH DESIGN ANNEX
EN MASSE, a collaborative drawing group based in Montreal, will be creating a new series of pieces for the Design Annex interior. Incorporating elements of illustration, alternative comics and graffiti with “high brow” art, their imagery explodes with energy.
Under the direction of Jason Botkin, Rupert Bottenberg, and Fred Caron, EN MASSE is an ongoing series of artistic conversations of a sort, a non-linear dialogue connecting many artists through the creation of large-scale collaborative black and white murals and other works. Their work can also be seen in an outdoor mural commissioned for Supercrawl.
CBC Hamilton | 118 James Street N
CBC launched its long-awaited digital news service in Hamilton this May. CBC.ca/Hamilton provides an in-depth, community-focused experience for Hamilton residents, from local news, traffic alerts and weather to things to do and conversations with the community about the issues that matter to them. allowing a peek inside a contemporary newsroom.
Activity: The doors of CBC Hamilton's headquarters will be open to Kidscrawlers, offering them a guided tour of the CBC Hamilton Office and showing them the ropes of digital news media production. Approximately 5-10 students per class will have the opportunity to participate in a speakers corner video interview based on the question "What do you love about Hamilton?" which links to larger themes in HCA's Family and Cultural Events @ Supercrawl programming.
PLEASE NOTE: To participate in the Speaker's Corner Activity, students will require photo release permission. All students can participate in the studio tour and watch their classmates participate in Speakers Corner.
Hamilton Public Library | 55 York Boulevard
Gallery on 4
Svava Thordis Juliusson (www.svavathordisjuliusson.com)
Excerpts from SNJóFLóð/RéTTIR (AVALANCE/CORRAL)
Mixed Plastic and polypropylene installation
The activity of tying one cable tie to another is at the core of this project, and the reward is in finding suggestions of real and imagined environments. An avalanche transforms a landscape into a chaotic and abstracted version of a particular place; a corral contains, encompasses, and encloses.
Jackson Square Lobby
WAR OF 1812
Activity: Guided tour of one of two Library exhibitions.
Hamilton Farmer's Market | 35 York Boulevard
Experience a living tradition at the Hamilton Farmers’ Market. Since 1837 the Market has connected people to local farmers and international food vendors in the heart of the city. The Hamilton Farmers’ Market is fully accessible.
Activity: Visit three stations during your self guided tour: the Market’s Community Space, Community Kitchen and West Entrance (site of the Conrad Furey Installation). At each stop a market staff person will welcome your class and share brief stories and facts about the history, culture and community of the market. Talks begin at the toll of the Charging Horsemen Clock (every 15 minutes starting on the hour 11am, 11:15am, 11:30am, 11:45am… 1:45pm).
Focus Gallery | 66 James Street N
CURATOR'S CHOICE
Group show of gallery artists
Tourism Hamilton | Lister Block | 28 James Street N
ARTASIA and local secondary school students
Education Challenge Exhibition (2012)
In Lister Block Corridor
Building on Culture for Kids in the Arts' celebrated 2011 ARTASIA Street Corners Project, secondary school visual art students were invited to create work that responds to the question, How would you change your neighbourhood, city, country and world?
Tourism Hamilton staff look forward to welcoming Kidscrawlers at the brand new visitors centre on the ground floor of the iconic Lister Block building.