Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery Goodbye

Lowering the banner is gallery manager Emma Smith of LandfillDesigns

 This January we say goodbye to our gallery at 906 Queen St W! We had the ceremonial lowering of the Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery banner. Our year long pop-up gallery adventure has come to an end. It was such a wonderful experience. We loved being able to curate art shows, bring handmade crafts into a gallery environment, have so many of you involved in our shows! Thanks to all the artists, makers, vintage sellers, and amazing volunteers and everyone who came out to our Openings, shows, markets and workshops! Special thanks to our fabulous curators, workshop hosts and volunteers!  Thanks to Graven Feather for welcoming us for the year! 



We’ll have to see what 2018 brings us now... We're open to new adventures and welcome your input. Check out the About tab above, for a schedule of our 2018 events planned so far.

DINOVEMBER at the Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery

Fossil amonnite ring by Slashpile Designs

Join for the second weekend of DINOVEMBER at the Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery! Find a celebration of all things dinosaur - and in fact all extinct life of the Mesozoic - at the Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery, 906 Queen St W, from 12 to 6 this weekend or 10:30 to 2:30 on Tuesday.

Fine art: painting, printmaking and scupture; jewellery, housewares, cards and toys and some great gift ideas for dinosaur-lovers young and old! Here's a little peak at items in the show.

Terra Incognita by PaperParadigm

Dinosaur planters from
Sonic Bloom

Watercolour whimsical dinosaurs from Deirdre Wicks of Water in my Paint

Screenprinted T. rexes on paper and as stuffed animals by sunandstarsco

Dinosaur heart multimedia sculpture by the vexed muddler

Linocut dinosaurs and other Mesozoic creatures from minouette

Dinovember Art Show - Celebrating all things dinosaur!

COMING THIS NOVEMBER.... It's DINOVEMBER!

November 4 to 14, 2017: Opening November 4, 6 - 9 pm

Toronto Etsy Street Team gallery

906 Queen St W, Toronto

The Toronto Etsy Street Team gallery is hosting a group art celebrating all things dinosaurs!

This exhibition will feature art in all media and handcrafted items about everyone's favourite extinct behemoths*, the dinosaurs! For Dinovember we are seeking dinosaur items from imaginative artworks to scientific illustrations to handmade toys and other goods.

Other non-dinosaur Mesozoic creatures are also welcome! We love flying and marine reptiles, prehistoric fish and more.

*Diminuative dinosaurs are also welcome.


This is a juried show. We will be seeking completed ready to hang artworks and craft of all media.

Artists will be charged a hanging fee of $50. The Toronto Etsy Street Team will retain a 10% fee to cover any processing fees of any sales and then all proceeds of art sales will go directly to the artist. Artists set their own prices.

We especially encourage members of the Toronto Etsy Street Team to apply but the application is open to all artists and makers.

APPLY HERE! 

Deadline: October 1 

 

Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery Hours

We're taking a little break today and the gallery will be closed this afternoon, but you can catch the LOVE ALL BODIES show from 12:00 to 6:00 from Wednesday through Monday or 11:00 to 4:00 on Tuesday until the end of this month.

Details of work by (clockwise from top): Tara Holtom/Faunalia, Stephanie Venerus, Ron Caddigan & Amarina Norris, Ele Willoughby

Details of work by: Carly Whitmore (top) and Rron Maloku (bottom) and visitors at Opening

Love All Bodies Art Show at the Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery

Come join us this Saturday, August 19th, from 6:00 to 9:00 for the Opening of the Love All Bodies Show. This show celebrates all human bodies and features new work from artists in various media including drawing, photography, printmaking, multimedia, textile art, and bronze sculpture. Guest curator Rebecca Rose Vaughan writes, "This exhibition aims to bring together a diverse and inclusive representation of all bodies through intersectional, body positive, progressive, and political work. ALL bodies deserve space and positive representation. We aim to create space to represent people that are particularly subject to systems of oppression and discrimination because their bodies are different. We highly encourage all POC, genderqueer, female identifying, trans persons, those with disabilities and queer people, to submit. Let us create new conversations about what it means to love our bodies specifically in a society where most are taught not to."

EVENT PAGE: Love All Bodies Art Show Opening

Find works by:

Tara Holtom			Carly Whitmore
Lesia Miga			Yahn Nemirovsky
Rron Maloku			Amarina Norris & Ron Caddigan
Sharon Hafner			Stephanie Venerus
Rebecca Rose Vaughan			Ele Willoughby

3rd Annual Bees & {the Birds} Show at the Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery

We are very pleased to announce that team leader Christine Pensa of Art That Moves will once again be hosting her Bees {& the Birds} show at the TEST Gallery (Graven Feather Gallery) 906 Queen St. W., Toronto from JUNE 7th to JUNE 20th, 2017!

This year, as with previous shows, 10% of hanging fees go directly to fund the David Suzuki Foundation's bee program. New this year: as well as fine artists and 2D works, the call is open to craftspeople! Please see Art That Moves blog for details and to apply to the show!

LOVE YOUR BODY Show at the Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery

The Toronto Etsy Street Team gallery are curating an art and craft show on the theme of positive body image and embracing your own form!

August 4 - 20, 2017: Opening August 5, 6 - 9 pm

Toronto Etsy Street Team gallery

906 Queen St W, Toronto

The Toronto Etsy Street Team gallery is curating a group art and craft show, about the human form, positive body image and embracing your own form. The show is open to all media! We welcome submissions from artists who think of themselves more as handmakers and craftspeople including but not limitted to sewists, quilters, textile makers, toy makers, clothing designers, jewellery makers, ceramicists, potters, woodworkers, and more, as well as fine artists.


This is a juried show but we encourage you to apply!

Artists will be charged a hanging fee of $50. The Toronto Etsy Street Team will retain a 10% fee to cover any processing fees of any sales and then all proceeds of art sales will go directly to the artist.

This application is open to Toronto artists and handmakers, with preference given to members of the Toronto Etsy Street Team. We especially encourage our team members to apply!

The DEADLINE is May 30, 2017. THIS IS A HARD DEADLINE. Don't miss it. APPLY HERE!

WUNDERKAMMER: Cabinets of Curiosity Art Show at Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery

The Toronto Etsy Street Team gallery are curating a science art show inspired by the eccentric, encyclopedic, natural history collections gathered since the Renaissance.

Cabinets of Curiosities featured treasured zoological, botanical, anatomical, fossil and gem specimen. Art and craft work depicting these specimen, cabinets of curiosity and the wonder of natural history are sought. Artists are encouraged to consider how their art might be displayed in ways which allude to the wunderkammer.

Artists will be charged a hanging fee of $50. The Toronto Etsy Street Team will retain a 10% fee to cover any processing fees of any sales and then all proceeds of art sales will go directly to the artist.

This application is open to Toronto artists and handmakers, in all media, with preference given to members of the Toronto Etsy Street Team. We especially encourage our team members to apply!

READ MORE AND APPLY HERE.

Also, we're very excited to announce a series of planned art shows on our newly revamped Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery page. We will be opening up more applications soon.

Toronto Etsy Street Team Gallery

We had a great time showing off the space to our members, friends, family and the public this Saturday! Thank you to everyone who came out.

Missed your chance to see the space and learn more about opportunities for members to participate in art shows, pop up markets, lead or take workshop classes? Want to see the space and talk with TEST leaders about what you can do or pitch ideas? Stop by 906 Queen St W this Saturday, February 4 from 12-6!
 

A photo posted by Emma Smith (@landfilldesigns) on Jan 28, 2017 at 10:16am PST