NEW THEMATIC RESIDENCY

Led by Lisa Cristinzo, “i made it through the wilderness” is a two-week visual arts residency on Mnisiing/Toronto Island for artists creating work about and within landscape and who wish to spend time contemplating what it means to be an artist at this point in our climate history.

We will be examining the importance of landscape art in the context of the deforestation of 85% of the world’s forests, uncontrollable wildfires, and catastrophic climate hazards that disproportionately affect the most vulnerable. In the geological era of Anthropocene, an era defined by humans’ extensive impact on the earth’s geologic makeup, how can humans deepen and balance the relationship between the material and energetic world? What if we held vital matter and its properties with the same rights and freedom, we all strive to have? And are artists the ones that are truly in the position to make ‘matter’ matter?

This residency is an attempt to collectively understand more deeply through the practice of art the vibrancy and agency of the world around us. Although the theme of the residency sounds somber, participants will be encouraged to access this knowledge through gratitude, play, and emergent experiences in co-authorship with the site and with each other. There will be a full program of guest artists, studio visits, studio time, time outside and fireside chats. This is a call for 8-10 painters and those who work in the expanded field of paint, such as sculpture, installation, performance, and site responsive work.

I made it through the wilderness
Somehow I made it through
Didn’t know how lost I was
Until I found you

– Madonna, Like a Virgin

For application details visit Artscape Gibraltar Point Website