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Presents
March Talks | 2012

Jack Chambers: an Intimate Remembrance
Wednesday, March 7, 7-8:30
Jackman Hall
Members $20.50/Public $22.50/Students $17

Join Christopher Dewdney for an evening of insights into the work of Jack Chambers along with personal, often humorous, anecdotes from Dewdney's long familial acquaintance with the artist.

Christopher Dewdney has been writing art criticism for more than three decades. He is the author of four books of non-fiction as well as eleven books of poetry. His most recent non-fiction title is Soul of the World: Unlocking the Secrets of Time.

Dewdney teaches creative writing and poetics at the Glendon Campus of York University in Toronto.

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416 979 6608 ago.net/talks

Meet the Artist: Stephen Shore
Wednesday, March 21, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Jackman Hall
Members $20.50/Public $22.50/Students $17

Stephen Shore is an American photographer, known for his pioneering use of colour in art photography. His book Uncommon Places is a classic in the field. His acclaimed writings on The Nature of Photographs illuminate the many ways photographs impact on our perception.

Through examining the trajectory of the development of his work, he will explore a number of essential factors of the medium of photography. Shore has been recognized with many prestigious awards, and is a Director of Photography at Bard College, New York.

Generously supported by Penny Rubinoff

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416 979 6608 ago.net/talks

Also – coming in April:

Exceptional Minds: The Convergence of Art and Mental Illness in the 21st Century
Saturday, April 14, 10:00a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Baillie Court
Members $135 / Public $160 / Students $50

Some of the world's greatest artists have been mentally ill – painters like Patterson Ewen, Emily Carr, Adolf Wölfi, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Darger, William Kurelek, Vincent van Gogh, Lawren Harris and Tom Thomson; musicians including Mozart, Beethoven, Glenn Gould, Sinead O'Conner and Tchaikovsky; and writers like Virginia Woolfe, Sylvia Plath and Leo Tolstoy. This list is only a sample of the artistic greats from our history that drew some of their energy and inspiration from their illness.

Join practicing artists and theorists of culture and art as they explore the always timely question of how society as a whole benefits from artists with mental illness.

Presented in partnership with Workman Arts
www.ago.net/exceptional-minds

Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON M5T 1G4