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To acknowledge how a vibrant arts and culture community leads to personal and economic growth for all, TD Wealth - Thor Wealth Management Group is working with Quest Art to sponsor three prestigious art prizes for our 2020 annual juried exhibition, with a focus on the environment. Artists will be asked to create submissions that reflect the material and ecological consequences of what the role of the artist is, and can be, in this new age of the “Anthropocene”, a recently proposed term indicating that we have entered a new geologic era in which human impact on the planet measures at the scale of the geologic. We will be challenging artists as to how they can respond to this unprecedented moment of ecological crisis.
A national open call to Canadian artists, this investment in the arts helps to ensure rural or remote communities have access to high quality programming through exposure to some of Canada’s best works of art. The exhibition will be presented online. All media/approaches are welcome.
Entry fee per submission: Members $30, Non- Members $35
Submissions can be made online by pressing the BLUE register button above.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
1. Decide how many works you would would like to submit
Members: 1 work = $30, 2 works $60, 3 works $90 (Canadian Dollars)
Non-Members: 1 work = $35, 2 works $70, 3 works $105 (Canadian Dollars)
2. Fill out the necessary information requested below
3. Type in the total amount required for your number of submissions and enter your credit card information
4. Create your account
Online Exhibition: January 10th to March 21st 2021
Submission Deadline: Monday November 30th at 11;59pm
Jury Results: December 15th 2020
For more information or assistance contact Executive Director Virginia Eichhorn Virginia@questart.ca
Click Here to help you with the submission process and scroll below to read about our TD THOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT jurors
Pamela Edmonds: Senior Curator, McMaster Museum of Art
Originally from Montreal, Edmonds holds a BFA in studio art/art history and an MA in art history from Concordia University. She began her curatorial career in Halifax beginning in the late 1990s, holding programming positions at the Anna Leonowens Gallery (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University and the Centre for Arts Tapes to name a few. She has also held curatorial positions at A Space Gallery, Toronto, the Art Gallery of Peterborough, and most recently at the Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, Ontario where she served as the Curator/Director. Edmonds has been an advocate for inclusive curatorial practices and cultural equity throughout her career, which is evidenced by her work with numerous collectives and grassroots organizations including Third Space Art Projects, a curatorial collective focused on program development from a intercultural perspective, and most recently with the We Curate, We Critique Collective, a mentorship and networking initiative for Black Canadian writers and curators. Besides authoring numerous exhibition publications, her writing has appeared in Canadian Art, Prefix Photo, Arts Atlantic, M,I,C,E, magazine, RACAR (revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review), and she currently serves on the Editorial Advisory for C Magazine.
John Hartman: Artist
John Hartman is one of Canada’s preeminent painters, known for his gestural and impasto depictions of some of the country’s most iconic landscapes. In his early pastels, etchings and paintings, Hartman seamlessly intertwined stories and place, depicting personal and more generally-known narratives in his skies. While narrative elements still occasionally appear in his work, Hartman’s most recent series, The Great Divide Traverse and Canadian Authors, focus on place as experienced by specific individuals who have captivated Hartman with their encounters. Hartman paints their portraits, larger than life, above the landscapes they describe. Hartman was born in Midland, Ontario in 1950. He has exhibited extensively in Canada as well as in New York, New Orleans and London, England. His work was the subject of two widely acclaimed travelling museum exhibitions, CITIES (2007-2010) and Big North (1999-2001). In 2008, Hartman’s drypoint etchings were shown alongside those by David Milne in the exhibition, Invention and Revival at the Carleton University Art Gallery. Collections include the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax.
Earl Miller: Critic and Curator
Earl Miller is an independent curator and art writer based in Toronto. He has curated exhibitions across Canada in public galleries and institutions such as the Doris McCarthy Gallery, the Yukon Art Centre, the Tree Museum, and the Art Gallery of York University. He has written catalogue essays for galleries and institutions including the National Museum of Romania, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and Le Crédac: Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Ivry. His essays have also appeared in books, and he has contributed to numerous visual arts periodicals including Art in America, Canadian Art, and Flash Art. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, through which he presented a paper at AICA-Korea’s 2014 AICA International Congress in Seoul, South Korea, in 2014.
