Modern Fuel’s Annual General Meeting will be taking place on Thursday May 31st at 7pm in the Main Gallery. All members are encouraged to attend and cast their votes towards the future of our lovely organization. Updates on last year’s programming, operations, and events will take place along with an update on our facility relocation campaign.

Free 30th Anniversary limited addition buttons will be given out to all members, along with a free gift package for the first 25 members through the door.

Open up
Interiors of Space and Mind
2007 Union Gallery Mini-works Silent Auction

The Union Gallery invites you to contribute to the 2007 Mini-Works Silent Auction fundraiser, which will be on display from October through November.

The theme this year is “interiors” and you are encouraged to creatively interpret it on an 8″x10″ canvas (available at the gallery). You might want to approach the topic from a psychological point of view (memory, dreams, imagination – whatever you might associate with the “interior” of the mind), a spatial point of view (significant places, architecture, public/personal interior spaces), or maybe you’ll want to explore the relationship between the mind and the different spaces it encounters.

Canvases can be picked up from the Union Gallery during its hours of operation:
Tues-Thurs 11:00am-5:00pm
Fri-Sat 11:00am-4:30pm.

Please note that the first submission deadline is August 1st – however, for students who are not in Kingston until the beginning of the school year, some canvases will be reserved until September. The number of canvases is limited, so they will be made available on a first come first serve basis.

Thank you for your support!

Morgan Wedderspoon
Summer Student Intern, BFA ‘09
5mjw@qlink.queensu.ca

Deer Tick is the songwriting project or band (depending on how you look at it) of John McCauley, a singer/songwriter based out of Providence, Rhode Island. Thanks to the help of Brendon “Viking Moses” Massei, McCauley has been ferociously zig-zagging across the United States, hitting all the sparsely attended basement shows, smoky bars, upscale joints, small to medium size festivals, and everything in between, since April of 2005. At 21 years of age, McCauley has worked very hard to get his homemade CD’s in players across the country, and has no plans to stop any time soon.

In addition to his own musical endeavors, McCauley has also collaborated with notable contemporary musicians such as Viking Moses, Jana Hunter, Nat Baldwin, and Jason Anderson.

Deer Tick is currently signed with Feow! Records out of Houston, TX. Deer Tick’s debut album “War Elephant” is due to be released in the summer of 2007.

Deertick on MySpace

Diego Perez on MySpace

With a hearty green thumbs-up for locally-sourced, alternative food solutions and an individualized approach to health care, Snider presents an exhibit concerned with agitating viewers on the underdeveloped standards of preventative health care, the marginalization of nutrition, and the phenomenal pop-culturalization and monopolization of food markets.  With rising continental awareness for the cause and effect of consumers on a global scale, there is also a growing demand for holistic, affordable and sustainable living solutions.  But within this current vogue of social reform, Snider sees a vague strangeness in navigating a route to health through a labyrinth of public services, cultivated fear of alternative (”unscientific”) methods, fad diets, and manufactured nutritional solutions; all of which threaten to overwhelm badly needed public discourse on the reevaluation of what it means to live well.  Miracle-Grow is an installation including animation and living sculpture.

Questions or media inquiries should be directed to Gjen Snider: (613) 549-6270, palinody@gmail.com

Reception: Friday, July 14, 7pm-9pm

With support from:

Free refreshments will be served!

Stories, tips, and discussion led Rebecca Anweiler, Visual Artist, and Sandra Jass, Media & Visual Artist and coordinator of this year’s Pride Art Show. After installing the show, we’ll talk about taking your career to the next level. Geared to visual artists, but open to all aspiring and emerging artists, writers, musicians, poets, etc. Pizza and juice will be served.

Wheelchair accessible.

This art show brings together the creative visual talents of our community, and is one of Kingston Pride’s longest running events. From artists just out of the closet to established professional artists, come support and enjoy the creative visual talent in our community.

To enter your art contact PrideArtsFest through info@kinstonpride.org

“Coming Out as an Artist” Round-Table: Wednesday June 13, 5:30 - 7:30 PM 

Opening Reception: Friday June 15, 7:30 – 9:30 PM

Wheelchair accessible.

Willing the Possible
Title-Planting Overdue Books
An Interactive Bookart Project by Paul Merredew and Rebecca Soudant

The Artel is excited to host a new interactive project by Artists Rebecca Soudant and Paul Merredew. Consisting of a series of hard cover books, each with its own fictional title, the exhibit challenges its audiences’ perceptions while asking them to reflect upon modern recurring issues. In order to do this, each book is embossed with such fictional titles as, Electric Cars Made Mandatory or One World Countries, Not 1st, 2nd or 3rd. The exhibit consists of approximately thirty books whose titles remind readers of what could be possible.

The interactive component of the exhibit allows the audience to write comments, based on the title of book selected, inside one or more of the blank pages which make up the interior of each book. In this way, the exhibit will transform with every new written addition. In order to facilitate this participation, which is integral to the overall understanding of the project, the space will contain a table with writing tools where people can sit and add their comments to the Bookart displayed.

“By creating titles that reflect an optimistic future, we have the hopes of supporting these prospects. Through this exhibit we are willing the possible, and encouraging viewers to reflect on these ideas- imagining what it may be like if they were true” state Soudant and Merredew. If politics is the art of the possible, then art can help remind us of the things that are possible, and inspire us to work towards them.

Reception on Saturday June 2nd, 7pm-9pm

a very imperfect rendering — an installation by Lisa Visser.

Free refreshments and performance art will be served. 

Eric Chenaux

Artist Website

Nich Worby

Nich Worby on Myspace