During the Covid Epidemic programming at most schools was reduced or stopped. To provide a sense of the momentum and pace of the ESACA program while I was the department head, here is a selection of SOME of what we got up to with current and former students during the stretch from 2020-2022.

As a high school program, I am pretty certain that this run of programming is unmatched.

Etobicoke School of the Arts Contemporary Art Department Success During Covid 2020-2022

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020

Unwashed, Kunstverein Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany - Museum Exhibition

https://kunstverein-bayreuth.de/?p=766

https://www.mwg-bayreuth.de/Aktuelle_Mitteilungen/unwashed.html

 Students included in this European Museum Exhibition included:

Niya Gao

George Dales

Sarah Johnson 

Jayln Young 

Juliet Di Carlo

Jordan Clarke 

Erika Vytas

Tate Novak 

Christian Webster 

Evan Bulloch

Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak

Grace Qian

Stella Woods 

Shane Ackerley 

Lucy Hanna

Vivian Tran 

Ruby Davies

 

Meet Me In Between - Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA - Museum Exhibition

https://www.albrightknox.org/timelines/2020-ak-teens-future-curators-exhibition  

Students included in this American Museum Exhibition included (with the title of their included work):

Niya Gao (lead image) “A City of Individuals” 

Olivia Graham “Perceptions” 

Neltje Green “Laundromat” “

Keira Das “Callum” 

Skye O’Hearn-Smith “Not Quite Yet” 

Amnna Attia “Autobiography” 

Dessa Ely “House Keys”

Tate Novak “Reclamation #18”

Mathilda Stock “Untitled” 

Joy Wilson “Ophelia Series”

Vivian Tran “A Bed’s Width Apart” 

 

Liminal, The Six Hundred, Toronto, Canada - Exhibition and Published Magazine

https://www.blurb.ca/books/9912142-liminal-interstices-between-and-betwixt 

Students included:

Shane Ackerley (Cover) 

Esther Kim

Grace Qian

 

Arts Etobicoke Shifting Environs, Toronto, Canada - Exhibition

 Students included:

Chloe Baker

Jordan Clarke

Niya Gao

Vanessa Marshall

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021

Edition Toronto, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada 

 Students included:

Luca Soldovieri

Celeste Cares 

Andrea Chartrand 

Julianna Ham

Amnna Attia 

Dessa Ely

Maya Kachra

 

 

Show off - Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Alberta - University Exhibition and Awards

https://www.auarts.ca/degrees-and-programs/teen-programs/show-art-competition/showoff-art-competition-grade-12 

 Students included:

Award of Distinction - Dessa Ely "Best Friends"

Award of Excellence  - Violet Kumagai "Nostalgia"

Amelia Bidini-Taylor “Wood Carving Series” 

Andrew Conway  “Mom and Mom” 

Anika Poch-Mckee “Ron's Home-Cooked Meal”

Calla Solderholm “Geno”

Dessa Ely “Best Friends” 

Jane Forrest “Empty Highway”

Jessica Jiang “The Hidden” 

Lola White “Mended Sweater” 

Violet Kumagai "Nostalgia"

The Presence of Absence - Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo New York - American Museum Exhibition

https://www.albrightknox.org/timelines/2021-ak-teens-future-curators-exhibition 

  Students included:

Julia Yoo (lead image) “Perpetual Foreigner II”

Sadie Withers “New Years 2019” 

Abby Brock “Throw Up” 

Monet Parker  “I Made You A Cake” 

Lisa Doan “Hopelessness” 

Jessica Jiang “Liberation”

Jessica Jiang “Salvation”

Naomi Foster “Heritage”

Dessa Ely “Peoples Archives” 

Amnna Attia “Resilience Through Reconnection” 

Natalie Turcotte  “Adrift” 

 

Functions of Art - US Gallery Contemporary, Toronto, Canada https://www.usgallerycontemporary.com/  - Exhibition organized and curated by student Niya Gao

 Students included:

Abby Brock 

Amy Ai 

Andrew Conway 

Anna Evans-Cook 

Chloe Baker 

Chloe Stanford 

Christian Webster 

Dessa Ely 

Emma Bolden 

Evelyn Novak 

Georgia Dales 

George Tucker-Pieczonka 

Geri Hart 

Grace Qian 

Hana El-Sharabasy 

Hannah Durst 

Jane Forrest 

Jessica Jiang

Julia Yoo 

Kate Snider 

Margaux Wilkinson 

Maya Kachra 

Miguel Caba 

Parker Lily Tuson-Morse

Sarah Johnston 

Serena Mancuso 

Shane Ackerley 

Violet Kumagai 

Zoe Jarozsynski 

 

Through the Window - Arts Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario - Exhibition

https://www.artsetobicoke.com/projects/annual-juried-art-show/juried-art-show-2021/ 

Students included:

Amnna Attia “Resilience Through Reconnection” 

Hana El-Sharabasy “Bedroom” 

Jane Forrest “Empty Highway”

Jessica Jiang “The Unreachable”

Maya Kachra “Insignificance”

 

Pandemic Perspectives - Experiences Canada

​​https://experiencescanada.ca/all-exchanges/virtual-gallery/ 

 Students included:

Amnna Attia “Resilience Through Reconnection” 

Dessa Ely “Peoples Archives” 

Jane Forrest “Floating”

Jane Forrest “Empty Highway”

Jane Forrest “Breakthrough”

Maya Kachra “Disfigurement” 

 

Between Cultures - Online Exhibition 

https://www.betweenculturesart.com/gallery 

 Students included:

Dessa Ely “Grandparents” 

Julia Yoo “nobody taught us how to fix a leaky ceiling”, “Perpetual Foreigner” 

 

NFT Art Show, Jada Art Fair

https://mintable.app/Art/item/Empty-Highway-Empty-Highway-Oil-on-Canvas-December-2020-30-x-40-inches/jBQGt1dJXWqoTAG 

 Students included:

Jane Forrest “Empty Highway”, “Breakthrough” 

 

My Pandemic Story, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada  - Museum Exhibition

Jane Forrest “Schools are Closed” 

Jesse Miletin “Self Portrait”

 

Unlocked Project 

https://unlockedproject.ca/the-exhibit 

Gallery Award, Dessa Ely “The Child” 

Honourable Mention, Maya Kachra “Disfigurement” 

Honourable Mention, Jane Forrest “Best Friend” 

Scale, The Six Hundred, Toronto, Canada - Exhibition and Published Magazine

https://redbeansgroup.com/t6scale

 Students included:

Shane Ackerley

Amelia Bidini-Taylor

Amnna Attia

Chloe Baker

Jenny Chen

Niya Gao

Sophie LeBlanc

Violet Kumagi

 

Flash Forward Incubator Program, Magenta Foundation, Toronto, Canada - Exhibition and Published Catalogue

https://www.magentafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Magenta-FFI-2021_Catalogue.pdf 

 Students included:

Chloe Baker

Dessa Ely

Evelyn Novak

Francesca Leblanc

Jane Forrest

Julia Yoo

Juliana Perika

Maya Kachra

Noa De Gasperis Tedesco

Olivia Joseph

Simaiya Shirley

Viva Egoyan-Rokeby

 

Because I Am A Girl - Exhibition

 Students included:

Dessa Ely 

Anna Evans Cook 

Maya Kachra

 

Environmental Alterations, Loosen Art, Rome, Italy

 Student included:

Maya Kachra

 

Student Award Show, Ryerson Department of  Architectural Science, Toronto, Canada  - University Exhibition

Ryerson Department of  Architectural Science

https://dasxhibitions.ca/ 

Dessa Ely “Peoples Archives” 

  

T6.4 SCALE, Red Beans 

https://redbeansgroup.com/t6scaleartists/amna-attia

 Student included:

Amna Attia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022

Expressions of Identity, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto, Canada - Exhibition

 Students included:

Elliot Stockling 

Anna Evans-Cook

Indira de Cartier

Margaux Wilkinson 

Yanna Jaśkielewicz

Muffy Boode 

Emma Goldstein 

Sophia Greco 

Asha Montano

Bianca D’Angelo

ElenaJin 

Arya Raol 

Henna Ra 

Helena Robbins 

Lily Chen 

Miranda Hyatt Orme 

Lily Astrauskas

Kenyah Brown 

Tilly Blackett

Ava Tkaczuk 

Olivia Joseph 

Emine Adilak 

Mara Gibea 

Riley Martin

George Tucker-Pieczonka 

Tedd Beaudoin 

Maya Kactra 

Francesca LeBlanc

Charlotte Martin

Elena Jin

Maya Mates 

Danielle Furtado 

Miki Mitsui Hotz 

Madoc Fotheringham 

Annika Arizala 

Rowan White 

Asloan Jarozynski 

Ella Johannson 

Kristen Hodder 

Eamon Dunbar 

Maia Facitelli 

Emily Greene 

Holly Reid 

Ari Shin 

Jaime Huchez 

Lux Logan 

Greta Logtenberg 

Emma Bolden 

Leila Shahzamani- Griggs 

Nathaniel Yarmol-Matusiak 

Leigh Breithaupt 

Jojo komlos 

Leigha Collins 

Lily-Fay Mowbray 

Quincy Jackett 

Bella Bisci

 

Carmichael Canadian Landscape: Tradition Transformed, Orillia Museum, Orillia, Canada - Museum Exhibition

 Student included:

Jane Forrest “Empty Highway” 

 

AWARDS 2022

Gold Medal - Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA

 Students included:

Dessa Ely ( Art Portfolio) “Inpermanent Identity” 

Emma Goldstein (Painting) “The Distance Between Us”

Jane Forrest (Painting) “Building a Home” 

Autumn Shi (Painting) “Velvet”

Hana Wilson (Comic Art) “Dreaming at the Edge of the Universe” 

Thuy Nguyen (Painting) “Gathering Lost Connection” 

Zach Johnson (Painting) “Preserving Life”

Chloe Baker (Mixed Media) “Binary Orbit” 

 

Silver Key - Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA

 Students included:

Indira de Cartier (Painting) “Illuminate”

Jane Forrest (Short Story) “Togetherness” 

Ami Ai (Drawing & Illustration) “A Space Inside of Me” 

Ami Ai (Drawing & Illustration) “Corner 2”

Audrey Hansen (Painting) “3 Faces”

Audrey Hansen (Painting) “February 8th”

Riley Ho-Ruminski (Painting) “Wrath”

Jayden Cooper (Painting) “Fernie”

Ooma Cutter (Photography) “Give Me 3 More Hours” 

Sylvia Dai (Fashion) “Jumpsuit”

Anna Evans-Cook (Sculpture) “Be Still My Beating Heart; Eat Me Alive”

Teira Pickering (Panting) “40c”

Teira Pickering (Mixed Media) “let’s go underground” 

Autumn Shi (Sculpture) “Consume” 

 

Honorable Mention - Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA

 Students included:

Eamon Dunbar (Photography) 

Indira de Cartier (Painting)

Matty Conway (Drawing & Illustration) 

Matty Conway (Sculpture) 

 

 

AWARDS 2021 

Gold Medal - Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA

Kate Snider (digital art)

 

Silver Medal - Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA

Dessa Ely (Mixed media) 

Evelyn Novak (Mixed media) 

Miguel Caba (Painting) 

Chloe Baker (Photography) 

Monet Parker (Film)

Julia Yoo (Photography)  

 

Gold Key - Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA

Jane Forrest (Short Story) 

 

Silver Key - Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA

Jane Forrest (Painting) 

 

Honorable Mention - Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, NY NY USA

Lisa Doan (Painting) 

Jane Forrest (Painting)

 

TYP’s Mental Health Art Gallery - The Youth Project

https://www.instagram.com/p/COvRoplgQOO/?utm_medium=copy_link 

 Students included:

Maya Kachra - Finalist, TYP’s Mental Health Art Gallery, The Youth Project

Jane Forrest- Winner, TYP’s Mental Health Art Gallery, The Youth Project

 

OAEA Secondary Design Contest, Ontario Art Education Association Toronto ON

https://ontarioarteducationassociation.org/conference-events/student-art-contest-2021/ 

 Students included:

Winner Jane Forrest “Floating” 

Jane Forrest, Honourable Mention “Empty Highway”, “Breakthrough” 

 

Get to Know Art Contest, Wild Neighbours Society

https://www.gettoknow.ca/2021-winners-gallery 

 Students included:

Winner, Jane Forrest “Endangered”

 

Pandemic Perspectives, Experiences Canada 

 Students included:

Jane Forrest, Gallery Award, Ages 16 -19 https://experiencescanada.ca/all-exchanges/virtual-gallery/ 

 

GRAD EXHIBITIONS 2020

 Students included:

Margaux Smith - Night Drawing Weird Things, Toronto ON

Grace Qian - Coming Home Exhibition, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada

Grace Qian - Covid-19 Portrait Exhibition, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada

Grace Qian - Unwashed, Kunstverein Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Grace Qian - Liminal: Interstices Between and Betwixt, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, Canada 

Jaime Pattison - Crain Corporate Communications, Detroit  

Jaime Pattison -Fresh Looks, University Student Center Eastern Michigan University Gallery 

Isabella Vella - Under the Radar, 1444 Dupont Rail, Toronto, Canada 

Ingrid Repic - 2020 Festival of the Body, OCADU Great Hall, Toronto, Canada  

Dexter Barker-Glenn - Art Matters, Gallery LUZ, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

Juliet Di Carlo - 48 hour Film Festival, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture ; Dawson City, Yukon

Juliet Di Carlo - Photophobia Moving Image Festival, Art Gallery of Hamilton & Hamilton Artists Inc, Hamilton ON Canada

Juliet Di Carlo - Envision, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada

Noah Brown - Absent Friends, Birch Contemporary, Toronto, Canada 

Shane Ackerly - Liminal, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, Canada 

Isabella Vella - Under the Radar, 1444 Dupont Rail, Toronto 

 

GRAD EXHIBITIONS 2021

 Students included:

Juliet DiCarlo, Bank of Montreal First Art Regional Winner

Keiran Brenan Hinton, Art with Heart, Casey House, Toronto, ON, Canada

Sophia Oppel - being both opened up and flattened - University of Toronto 

https://www.visualstudies.net/projects/so.html 

Shane Ackerley - Close For Comfort, Artlab Gallery & Cohen Commons, London, Canada

https://www.uwo.ca/visarts/artlab/exhibition_archive/20202021.html#AJE19

Laura Hudspith - Passion & Pretense, Be Contemporary Gallery, Innisfil, Canada 

Keiran Brennan Hinton - Day Breaks, Night Falls, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany 

Keiran Brennan Hinton -Towards Sentimentality, Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, USA

Keiran Brennan Hinton - Art Toronto, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal, Canada and Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario Canada

Keiran Brennan Hinton - Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON

Margaux Smith - Earth to Sky, Van Der Plas Gallery, New York, New York, USA

Margaux Smith - Goethe Institute, Toronto, Canada

Margaux Smith - Fossil Record General Hardware, Toronto ON

Margaux Smith - Under the Radar, 1444 Dupont unit 10, Toronto ON

Parker Lily Tucson-Morse - SMFA Painting and Drawing Area Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Parker Lily Tuson-Morse - Expired by Perime, 337 Newbury Street, Boston

Parker Lily Tuson-Morse - SMFA Print Area Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Vivian Tran - Unrest, Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, United States 

Vivian Tran - Photo and Digital Media Area Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States  

Vivian Tran - Duct Tape,  School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States

Grace Qian - 60th Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto, Canada

Grace Qian - Finding Space Exhibition, SVA Galleries, New York, NY

Michelle Nguyen -Bau-Xi Gallery, Granville, Vancouver

Michelle Nguyen - Art Toronto with Bau-Xi Gallery

Juliet Di Carlo - Available Light Film Festival, Yukon Film Society, Whitehorse, Canada 

Varvara Nedilska - Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, Canada

Laura Hudspith moveObjects On, The Plumb Gallery, Toronto, Canada https://theplumb.ca/ 

Sophia Oppel moveObjects On, The Plumb Gallery, Toronto, Canada https://theplumb.ca/

Kendra Yee, Artifacts of the Horizon, Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Alondra Ruiz-Hernandez, MA Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, England 

Jaime Pattison, U245 Student Gallery, CCS, Detroit, Michigan  

Keiran Brennan-Hinton, Pop Up 2021, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada 

Michelle Nguyen, Water Feature, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 

Margaux Smith - The Blue Hour, General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada   

Toko Hosoya - Ain’t Fugazi, Mark Christopher Gallery, Toronto, Canada 

Nadiya Svirsky - Print Puse 30: NUPE, Union Galery, Kingston. Canada 

Varvara Nedilska - Cosmic Elixir,  Wow x Wow Art, Online Exhibition 

Ciar O’Mahony - Libations for Liberated Living, The Plumb, Toronto, Canada 

Dexter Barker-Glenn - Libations for Liberated Living, The Plumb, Toronto, Canada

Laura Hudspith - There are seams in purgatory, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio

 

 

PUBLICATIONS 2022

Ultraviolet Magazine https://www.ultravioletmag.com/look 

 Students included:

Arya Raol “Tears of the Physical”

Arya Raol “Fulfillment”

Arya Raol “Territorial”

Laken Harrisson “In the Eyes of the Beholder”

Sylvia Dai “Path Top”

Sylvia Dai “Blush Dress”

Sylvia Dai “Jumpsuit 13”

Anthony Valiulin “Untitled”

Anthony Valiulin “Portrait of the Artist as Pierrot”

Evelyn Novak “Wanda and Dessa, Transfer 1”

Evelyn Novak “Tate’s Bed” 

Evelyn Novak “333 Porch”

Jasmine Gibson “Prom Queen”

Jasmine Gibson “ A Beautiful Girl in a White Dress”

Mara Gibea “Prime Noapte”

Maya Kactra “The Stillness of Growth”

Maya Kactra “Disfigurement 01”

Maya Kactra “Disfigurement 02”

Aiya Fuller “Trust the Results” 

Aiya Fuller “Where are you REALLY from?” 

Chloe Stanford “DNA”

Autumn Shi “Bygone”

Margaux Wilkinson “Bicycle” 

Margaux Wilkinson “Sibling Park”

Asloan Jarosynski “Anatomy”

Jane Forrest “Goodnight House’

Jane Forrest “Evelyn”

Jane Forrest “Amnna” 

Jane Forrest “Best Friend 

Jane Forrest “Floating”

Ava Tkaczuk “Heritage”

Ava Tkaczuk “Leaf Girl”

Ariana Pickard “Please be Gentle”

Anna Evans- Cook “Be Still My Beating Heart” 

 

Tdot Woman Magazine Toronto, Canada https://tdotwomen.ca/about-2/ 

Julia Kochanski “More Than a Body” 

 

Chroma Art Magazine, Issue February 2022, Berlin, Germany

Jane Forrest

 

Inertia Teens, Issue Two, International

Jane Forrest

 

 

PUBLICATIONS 2021

Ultraviolet Magazine https://issuu.com/ultravioletmagazine/docs/ultravioletmagazine2021 

Students included:

Jane Forrest (Cover) “Empty Highway” 

Olivia Joseph “Between Two Gardens” 

Jessica Jiang “Salvation” 

Sadie Levine “Inner Demons” 

Maya Kachra “Bliss”

Dessa Ely “Best Friends” 

George Tucker-Pieczonka “Quiet”

Jessica Jiang (Back Cover) “Every Family” 

 

Original Magazine, London UK

Students included:

Dessa Ely https://www.originalmagazine.uk/home/dessa-ely 

Amnna Attia https://www.originalmagazine.uk/amnna-attia?rq=amnna%20 

Geri Hart https://www.originalmagazine.uk/geri-hart?rq=geri%20hart 

Mara Gibea

 

Asian American Arts Zine, #4 

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65443539/asian-american-arts-zine-volume-4 

Dessa Ely “Family and Identity” 

 

Zenerations Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India 

https://zenerationshyderabad.wordpress.com/about/ 

Students included:

Amnna Attia “Resilience Through Reconnection” 

Jane Forrest “Floating”, “Empty Highway”, “Best Friend” 

 

Growth Virtual Magazine

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fOMGlPZxsfxTXsfwyNm1EsnXt04mqu6u/view 

Students included:

 William Bastianon “Operation Clara” 

Evelyn Novak “My Room”, “Living Room”, “Tate’s Room” 

Jessica Jiang “Every Family”, “Magic!” 

Hana El-Sharabasy “Lana Jeans” 

Juliana Perika “Untitled” 

Dessa Ely “Best Friends”, “Child”, “Love”, “People Archives” 

Calla Solderholm “Algo”, “Hapho”, “The weight of Individual Being” 

Violet Kumagai “Pink and Purple Girl”, “Sketchbook Embroidery” 

Chloe Stanford 

Amy Ai “Childhood”, “Judgements” 

Viva Egoyan-Rokeby “Addiction”, “Love” “Noor” 

Maya Kachra “Tainted Clarity” 

Daria Khodabandehloo “serenity”, “SELF”, “rediscovery”

Sylvia Dai “Heritage”, “Untitled” 

Lola White 

 

Polemical Zine, Issue 16, Volume 1 “future” 

Anika Yvette Poch-Mckee

 

World Garden Magazine, Issue 1 

Anika Yvette Poch-Mckee

 

Work by student Maya Kachra appeared in the following Publications:

2021 Oyster River Pages, Issue #5

2021 The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Vol. 1, Issue #1

2021 The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Artist Feature in the Bagel Hole

2021 The Youth Magazine, Artist Feature

2021 Us Gallery Contemporary, Vol. 2

2021 Flash Forward Incubator, Still Life

2021 The Youth Project, Mental Health, Finalist

2021 Ultraviolet Magazine, Vol. 25

2021 Growth Magazine, BAM Collective, Vol. 1, Issue #1

2020 Us Gallery Contemporary, Vol. 1, Issue #1

 

The Trinity Review, Issue 133.2 - University Journal

Students included:

Andrew Conway

Vivian Tran

Anika Yvette Poch-Mckee

Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak

 

The Trinity Review, Issue 132.2  - University Journal

Jessica Jiang

Jordan Clarke

Juliet Di Carlo

Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak

Vanessa Marshall

The Trinity Review, Issue 132.1

Niya Gao

Vivian Tran

 

Trinity Review, Spring, Issue 132 - University Journal

Jessica Jiang

Jordan Clarke

Juliet Di Carlo

Michaela Yormol-Matusiak

Vanessa Marshall

 

The Trinity Review, Issue 131.2 - University Journal

Toko Hosoya

Sadie Phillipson

Vivian Tran

Christian Webster

Juliet Di Carlo

Vanessa Marshall

Denny Reynolds

Calla Soderholm

Grace Qian

Erika Verhagen

Niya Gao

 

A5 Magazine, London, UK

Abby Brock - February 2020 Edition (Portfolio #35) 

 

Toronto Public Library Young Voices 2020

Jessica Jiang

Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak

Niya Gao

Ashley Kim

 

Toronto Public Library Young Voices 2021

Josephine Komlos

Amnna Attia 

Jane Forrest 

 

Red Beans Group 

Amnna Attia 

 

Work by Jane Forrest Appeared in the following Publications:

2021     Ambre Magazine Issue One, Niagara Falls, Canada  https://issuu.com/ambremag/docs/issue_one_ambre_

2021     Perfumed Pages Magazine, Issue One https://issuu.com/perfumedpages/docs/mag

2021     Trick Magazine Collection, Toronto, Canada https://trickzine.com/2021/06/04/pandemic-anxiety-an-oil-painting-collection-x-jane-forrest

2021     Lit Space Magazine Collection, International http://litspacemagazine.blogspot.com/2021/07/oil-painting-best-friend-by-jane-forrest.html

2021     Young Voices Magazine (Back Cover), Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Canada 

2021     Ridgewood Zine Issue Five, Brooklyn, United States 

2021     Flash Forward Incubator Catalogue, Toronto, Canada 

2021     That Gray Zine Issue Seven, Texas, United States  

2021     Serpentine Zine, Volume Two, Missouri, United States

2021     From The Future Magazine, Issue Two, Paris, France

2021     Art In Between, Artist Highlight, Boston, United States 

2021     Us Gallery Functions of Art Volume Two, Toronto, Canada

2021     Our Generation Magazine Issue One, Louisiana, United States

2021     Fourall Magazine Issue Eight, London, United Kingdom

2021     Season Three Collective Zine, Issue Three, New York, United States

2021     Honeyfire Literary Magazine, Issue Five, Manchester, United Kingdom

2021     Aspects Of Magazine, Issue One,  Sheffield, United Kingdom

2021     BKK Unzine Issue Eleven, Bangkok, Thailand 

2021     Unlocked Project Artist Highlight, Montreal, Canada     

2021     Moonlight Magazine, Issue Three, International 

2021     Maythorn Magazine, Issue Two, Lahore, Pakistan 

2021     Moonlight Magazine, Issue Four, International

2021     Footprints on Jupiter Issue One, California, United States

2021     Zenerations Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India 

2021     Justice For Society Magazine, Issue Seven, Toronto, Canada

2021     Markham Teen Arts Council, Friday Feature, Markham, Canada 

2021     Young Revolution Magazine, Toronto, Canada 

 

OTHER NOTABLE ACTIVITIES

 

Work appearing in TV Series The Handmaid's Tale by:

Mara Gibea 

Kyah White 

 

Los Angeles Zoo Product Launch Design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tckF8Afe96s 

Naomi Foster

 

Work Displayed in Times Square, New York 

 Students included:

Sarah Kieley 

Callen Schaub

Daniel Russen-Steele

 

GRAD PUBLICATIONS

Keiran Brennan Hinton, Sharp Magazine 

https://sharpmagazine.com/2021/06/30/keiran-brennan-hinton-on-painting-everyday-spaces-and-the-role-of-sentimentality-in-art/ 

Keiran Brennan Hinton, Forbes Magazine 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/briennewalsh/2021/06/23/in-keiran-brennan-hintons-paintings-home-becomes-self-portraiture/?sh=76cdbeed44b6 

Keiran Brennan Hinton, Le Monde Newspaper

https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!5770923

Margaux Smith “Homes” Spacing Magazine, Summer 2021 Issue 57

http://spacing.ca/magazine/ 

Michelle Nguyen - Interview in Public Parking

http://thisispublicparking.com/

Andre Ethier, Flood Magazine

https://floodmagazine.com/88903/in-conversation-andre-ethier-and-ian-oneil/

Stefanie Cristello - Without the Swan: On Mamma Andersson & Tal R, Chart Art Fair, Copenhagen Denmark  

Reed Hollett - The Kickback 

Stefanie Cristello - Speaking in Tongues: Lap-See Lam, CHART Art Fair Journal 

 

ARTCON – July 2021 - Online Conference

Ruby Roberson - How Art Impacts Daily Life 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=1v7mGPcVACQ&list=PLWZmFC5UHIQH3X7u-Uyk1jTaHe-0yZ353&index=5  

William Bastianon - The Value of Research In Creative Practice 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G-B9_nTZIY&list=PLWZmFC5UHIQH3X7u-Uyk1jTaHe-0yZ353&index=6 

Cole Canning & Kate Snider - Intro to Character Design 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiMPrDP3tAY&list=PLWZmFC5UHIQH3X7u-Uyk1jTaHe-0yZ353&index=3 

Amnna Attia, Sasha Steiner, Emma Bolden, William Bastianon - Apply to ESACA 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1-7wk4KEQ&t=2s 

Jane Forrest, Ava Tkaczuk, Dessa Ely, Evelyn Novak - Staying Creative During Quarantine 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXt4F962-v4&list=PLWZmFC5UHIQH3X7u-Uyk1jTaHe-0yZ353&index=4 

Abby Brock - Writing And Its Relation To Art Making 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpY7KejNbN8&list=PLWZmFC5UHIQH3X7u-Uyk1jTaHe-0yZ353&index=8 

Rivka Mitchell - The Importance of Arts In Diverse Fields 

Panelists include Taima Humbert, Olivia Kerr, Hana Brath, Adam Badzynski, Shane Ackerley, Jordan Clarke, Stella Woods and Dorina Sim

Luca Soldovieri - Positive Value Of Community In Art and Life 

Panelists include artists Parker Lily Tuson-Morse, Vivian Tran, Sophia Oppel, Sadie Philipson, Claire Calderwood, Spencer Julien, Juliet DiCarlo and Dexter Barker Glenn 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPIYxgsMp2Q&list=PLWZmFC5UHIQH3X7u-Uyk1jTaHe-0yZ353 

Stefanie Cristello, Amnna Attia, Dessa Ely - A Talk With Stephanie Cristello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atzv7_TPqLs 

Brendan Fernandes, Stefanie Cristello - Stefanie Cristello and Brendan Fernandes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brTgOc7kms0&list=PLWZmFC5UHIQH3X7u-Uyk1jTaHe-0yZ353&index=7 

Sasha Suda, Hana El-Sharabasy, Isabella Delius, Andrew Conway - An Interview with Sasha Suda 

 

CURATORIAL TALKS 

Stephanie Cristello - Theodora Allen’s “Saturnine” A Conversation With Curator Stephanie Cristello, Flaunt Magazine 

Stephanie Cristello - Alternate Assembly , Featuring Sean Raspet, Hurong Ngo, Elizabeth Henaff 

Dessa Ely - Artery Toronto On The Rise Speaker, Artery, Online on Bramble

 

GRAD AWARDS 

Shane Ackerly - The Western University Scholarship of Distinction 

Shane Ackerly - Western University Faculty 

Vivian Tran - Painting and Drawing Department Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States 

Vivian Tran - Tufts University Community Prize, 1st Place, Boston, United States 

Grace Qian - Third Place, 2021 Inaugural Juried Art Show, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada 

Varvara Nedilska - Artist Residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point 

Daniel Roher- Winner, Audience Award: U.S. Documentary, Sundance Film Festival 

Daniel Roher- Winner, Festival Favorite Award, Sundance Film Festival 

 

CURATION 

Dessa Ely Flow State, Arts Etobicoke, Toronto, Canada

Amnna Attia - The Presence of Absence - Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York

Abby Brock - Because I am a Girl - Etobicoke School of the Arts, Toronto, Canada 

Chloe Stanford - Systems of Collisions, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto, Canada 

Jane Forrest - Expressions of Identity, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto, Canada

 

 SCHOLARSHIPS 

2020 Graduating class secured approximately $13 million dollars in initial post-secondary school scholarship offers

2020 - 2021 School Year

2021 Graduating class secured approximately $30 million dollars in initial post-secondary school scholarship offers - new record for Portfolio Day