The AGM and VAM present VAM38: The 38th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts Featuring Up-and-coming Artists

Visual Arts Mississauga 37th Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts Winner, 2015:

Susan Clark, Transitional Shelters, 2014, Oil on Panel.

Image courtesy of the artist. Private Collection of Robert Tattersall.

MISSISSAUGA - Since 1987 the Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) has hosted this annual exhibition celebrating collaboration with Visual Arts Mississauga (VAM) at Riverwood. VAM is a not-for-profit charitable organization with a mission to enrich community life by fostering an appreciation of the arts through active involvement in a variety of creative experiences. This annual collaboration with VAM is among the many ways by which the AGM activates its mandate to "bring art to the community and the community to art." as well as the Gallery's mission to Engage. Think. Inspire.

 

The VAM call for entry is one of the region's most anticipated visual arts events, and this exhibition is an opportunity for art enthusiasts to survey and purchase a broad spectrum of work by artists who range from graduating students to senior members of the visual arts community.  This year the jury reviewed 173 submissions from artists all across Ontario, and selected 31 finalists.

Please join us for an opening reception and announcement of awards on Thursday, January 14 at 6 pm. Voting for the People's Choice Award will take place throughout the duration of the exhibition, and a juror's talk will be held on Sunday, January 24 at 1 pm.

The 2016 Jurors

Stuart Keeler, a cultural producer with broad international experience in curating, programming, writing about and commissioning contemporary artists, public art and socially based interventions in the public realm; Lila Lewis Irving, a well-known abstract painter who believes that spontaneity is the root of invention for an artist; and Camille Turner, a media/performance artist and educator whose interventions, installations and public engagements have been presented throughout Canada and internationally.

FINALISTS   Grazyna Adamska-Jarecka Peter Adamson Thelma Amos Jane Austin Jorge Luis Ballart Quratulain Butt Antonio  Caballero Clement Cheng Susan Clark Rachael Dodgeson Teri Donovan Irit Epstein Anita Granger Hannelore Hager Frances Hahn Florin Hategan Mieke Herman Inge Kjeldgaard Hyeran Lee Eva Lewarne Kaitlin Mason Eileen Menzel Daina Puteris Fernando Resende Susan Ross Margaret Stawicki Quan Steele Nahed Mansour Tajik Dragica Vidakovic Marnie White Janice Ykema

AWARDS   First place- $1000 value Second place- $ 500 value Third place -$ 300 value Honorable mention- $100 gift card   Awards sponsored by Curry's and Visual Arts Mississauga at Riverwood.

ABOUT VISUAL ARTS MISSISSAUGA (VAM) AT RIVERWOOD   VAM is a not-for-profit charitable organization with a mission to enrich community life by fostering an appreciation of the arts through active involvement in a variety of creative experiences. VAM is located in Riverwood, 150 acres of urban wilderness located off Burnhamthorpe Road West at the Credit River. VAM gratefully acknowledges funding support from the City of Mississauga's Culture Division, Community Foundation of Mississauga, Curry's Artists' Materials, DeSerres, and VAM's many individual supporters, students and its membership.

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