It’s February already? Where did the time go? It felt like yesterday we were wrapping up the year, sharing all the wonderful memories we were able to make through our 2022 Impact Report. Yet today, we are almost a week into February celebrating Black Futures Month.…
Media Release: VIBE Arts Completes OTF Grow Grant for Arts Programming in Northern Ontario Communities
Sault Ste. Marie, ON (February 3, 2023): On Tuesday, MPP Ross Romano tuned in to VIBE Arts’s Woodland Drawing workshop led by artist Lucia Laford to congratulate the group on the work done using a $201,900 Grow grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) that was awarded in 2018.…
Online Woodland Drawing Workshop with Lucia Laford
January 31 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Learn to draw in the Woodland Arts style using materials you have at home!
Guided by Lucia Laford (Waawaaskone Qwe) artists of all ages and abilities are invited to learn how to draw in a Woodland Arts style.…
Press Release: Introducing VIBE Arts’ RBC Desire Lines: Women’s Work II Artists
VIBE Arts is pleased to introduce the second cohort of RBC Desire Lines: Women’s Work Artists.
You can see their work at The Gallery at Mason Studio until November 30, 2022. Learn more about this exhibition here. Their time in the program has culminated in a city-wide public exhibit.…
Converge
October 6, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – October 16, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Thursday, October 6, 6-9 PM
Online Artist Talk: Wednesday, October 12, 5-7 PM*
Gallery Hours:
Fri. October 7, 2022 – 11:00am 6:00pm
Sat.…
Nuit Blanche: The Parallax Path
October 1, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – October 2, 2022 @ 7:00 am
LaunchPAD Exhibition
September 1, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – October 3, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
5 artists will take over Whippersnapper Gallery for 5 days each. The pieces exhibited are a result of the artists time in the LaunchPAD program.
Maneesa Veeravel,
September 1-5
Split Home and Staggered Bones
Gallery hours: 12-2 PM, 4-6 PM
Content warning: suicide and intergenerational transmission of trauma
Womb waters distill beneath my eyes, welling and sinking, as it does on my motherless mother.
Press Release: VIBE Arts, in partnership with TO Live, presents NExT: The Future of Art Exhibition 3.0
“I felt a shift happen when I realized that I can utilize these resources to help me keep hustling towards my goals. My confidence is more so rooted in a plan now rather than wishful thinking. And that’s extremely powerful for me because I can take steps on my own journey to make things happen with the resources around me”
– NExT III Artist
March 8, 2022… VIBE Arts and TO Live present NExT: The Future of Art Exhibition 3.0, an online and in-person exhibition celebrating Black Futures, March 16 – 31, 2022. …
Happy Black Futures Month from Onika Powell, Artistic Director
Happy Black History/Futures Month!!!
The days seem like a blur as we all try to navigate living in a pandemic. As always, VIBE Arts is very fortunate that we are still able to continue our mission of beautifying our city whether it is by providing high-quality arts programming to those who don’t have access, art installations through our Year of Public Arts and Cultural Hotspot funding, or art created by our roster of artists from our various mentorship programs.…
Press Release: Introducing VIBE Arts’ RBC Desire Lines: Women’s Work Artists
January 17, 2022… VIBE Arts is excited to introduce RBC Desire Lines: Women’s Work and the program’s cohort of Artists.
RBC Desire Lines began in 2019 as a two-year art-in-mentorship program awarding young, emerging artists the opportunity to exhibit their work in subway stations across Toronto.…