Welcome
The Creative Spirit Art Centre provides art education and studio space for people with disabilities. Feel free to browse our site and contact us on how you can become a member, make a donation or let us know if you're aware of an individual who could make use of our resources. Further information can be found at our contact page.
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., the gallery is closed during all statutory holidays, long weekends and for the month of August. For more info call 416.588.8801
We’ve gone sketchin’
Submitted by Michael on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 08:42
Creative Spirit Art Centre is closed for summer holidays and will resume our regular hours of operation on Tuesday September 7, 2010.
Have a safe and happy summer!
Join us this fall for the Creative Spirit Arts Festival happening October 21-23, 2010! This three-day event will feature presentations by organizations working in disability arts, an integrated art exhibition as well as music and dance performances with participants including: Creative Spirit East (Halifax, NS), Creative Works Studio (Toronto, ON), H’art Studio of Smiles (Kingston, ON), Roger Knox (Toronto, ON), Multi-Ethnic Association for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities (Montreal, QC), Odradek Dance Troupe (Toronto, ON), Achilla Orru (Toronto, ON), Picasso Pro (Toronto, ON), Propeller Dance (Ottawa, ON), Red Pepper Spectacle (Toronto, ON) and Alan Shain (Ottawa, ON).
Stay tuned to the website for more details or go here to fill out a registration form.
For more information please contact us at 416-588-8801 or email us at csac@creativespirit.on.ca
Works In Progress
Submitted by Michael on Tue, 07/06/2010 - 14:14
Every week at Creative Spirit we support a roster of new and emerging artists in our studio by offering them space, supplies and support. When given access to creative expression it's amazing what these individuals are capable of creating.
This month we're celebrating our studio artists with an exhibition showcasing their recent work. Works In Progress will be a chance for our studio artists to show off the fruit of their labour and let friends and family share in their artistic successes.
Please join us for the Opening Party this Saturday July 10th from 2:00 to 5:00 pm in the
Exhibiting artists include:
GABE ANDERSON DOROTHEA JAKOB GRAZIA MERIGIOLI
GILLES ARSENEAULT MARC ANDRE LABONTE MARTIN OWEN
GLENDA HIRD CATHARINE LITTLE SHIRLEY SINCLAIR
Land, marks.
Submitted by Michael on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 09:55
Watercolours of the Ontario Landscape by Robert J. Anderson
Ontario’s landscape has always captured artist Robert J. Anderson’s imagination. Despite years of separation, a love affair with Abstract Expressionism and adventures abroad, Anderson’s heart belongs to Ontario: the rocky shores, the naked trees of spring, and the solace of a northern lake at dawn.
Land, marks. is a collection of recent watercolour paintings of Anderson’s dearest subject. Delicately rendered scenes transport the viewer to the edge of Lake Superior and Georgian Bay, to the wilds of Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula. Iconic Ontario moments are captured by Anderson’s keen eye and precise hand: morning mist on frozen lakes, quiet winter mornings among pine trees and the dance of northern lights above a barren horizon.
OPENING RECEPTION
Please join us, with artist Robert J. Anderson, on Saturday June 5th from 2:00 – 5:00pm.
Cake
Submitted by Michael on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 13:38
Celebrating 18 years of Creative Spirit!
Creative Spirit Art Centre turns 18 this year! Since 1992 we have been empowering artists with disabilities through access to creative expression – and we couldn’t have done it without your support!
As a registered charity working in an often over-looked corner of the arts community we could not operate without the generous donations of art supplies, volunteer hours and monetary contributions of the community.
Please join us on Saturday May 8th from 2:00 – 5:00pm to help us celebrate 18 years of Creative Spirit with cake, live music and an exhibition of artwork by Creative Spirit artists past and present.
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