Dynamic and contemporary, the works were given by 37 of the society's members. They include watercolours, oil and acrylic paintings, photographs and drawings representing a wide variety of subject matter and styles.

Above: A Harmony in Grey and Yellow, 1897 by Mary Augusta Hiester Reid, OSA. Oil on canvas, 34.3 x 90.2 centimetres. Government of Ontario Art Collection, Archives of Ontario 619739.

The OSA has a long and impressive history of encouraging, supporting and promoting the province’s visual arts community. Founded in Toronto in 1872 by seven artists, the society’s goal was to provide better public access to art and art education. Its first exhibition was held in 1873 and featured 252 works by 22 artists. More than 5,000 people attended the inaugural exhibition.

A strong link between the society and the provincial government was formed at the 1873 exhibition when the government made some of its first art purchases there. Well over 200 years later, works from the OSA are finding homes in the Government of Ontario Art Collection.

Gifted is curated by the Archives of Ontario’s Outreach Officer Stewart Boden, and runs until Oct. 12 in the Helen McClung Exhibit Area at the Archives of Ontario building on 91��ɫ's Keele campus.

Members of the 91��ɫ community are invited to view the exhibit. The Archives is open Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5pm, Tuesday and Thursday to 8pm, and Saturday, from 10am to 4pm.

For more information, visit the website.

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Violinist Jacques Israelievitch and pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, both professors in 91��ɫ’s Department of Music, offer an evening of repertoire as diverse and inspiring as the Canadian landscape.

The program features a selection of complex but lyrical 20th-century works by established Canadian composers. It includes Oskar Morawetz’s Duo ( 1961), James Rolfe’s Drop (1998), Gary Kulesha’s ...and dark time flowed by her like a river... (1993) and André Prévost’s Improvisation (1976).

Left: Jacques Israelievitch

The concert culminates with Raymond Luedeke’s monumental Fancies and Interludes VI (1988). The quick changes of metering in the piano parts are “rhythmically challenging” for a performer, Petrowska Quilico notes, but the artists revel in the work’s “lovely tonal colours” and how they contrast with sections of exciting primal rhythms.

An internationally known violinist, Israelievitch served as concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for two decades before joining the Music Department in 2008. He has appeared as chamber musician with such luminaries as Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman and Yo-Yo Ma. He performs regularly with the Naumburg Award-winning New Arts Trio and in the Israelievitch Duo with his son, percussionist Michael Israelievitch. His extensive discography includes the Juno-nominated Suite Hebraique with pianist John Greer and the first complete recording of Kreutzer's 42 Etudes for solo violin. An avid performer of contemporary music, Israelievitch has had works by Canadian composers R. Murray Schafer and Jeffrey Ryan commissioned for him by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The Toronto Musicians’ Association presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 in recognition of his distinguished contribution to the performing arts in Canada.

Right: Christina Petrowska Quilico

One of Canada’s foremost pianists and a multiple Juno nominee, Petrowska Quilico has appeared in solo recitals, chamber settings and with orchestras on four continents. Widely recognized as an innovative and adventurous artist, she is a longtime champion of contemporary and Canadian music, and has premiered more than 100 works by leading North American and European composers. Eminent Canadian composers she has collaborated with over the course of her stellar career include Ann Southam, Violet Archer, Glenn Buhr, Christos Hatzis, Alexina Louie, Larysa Kuzmenko and John Weinzweig. She was awarded the 2007 Friends of Canadian Music Award through the Canadian Music Centre and Canadian League of Composers in recognition of her dedication to Canadian contemporary classical music and her “unwavering support for Canada’s composing community.” In late 2011 she released her 26th CD, Tapestries, a collection of Canadian concerti. She has taught piano performance and musicology at 91��ɫ since 1987.

Tickets are $15, or $5 for students and seniors. For tickets, contact the Box Office at 416-736-5888.

The Israelievitch/Petrowska Quilico duo is the third of four performances in the Faculty Concert Series spotlighting faculty artists in the Department of Music at 91��ɫ. The final concert on Tuesday, Feb. 14, will feature improv pianist Casey Sokol with guest artist, pianist and 91��ɫ alumnus Andrew Craig.

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El Muro (The Wall): On Borders, Renewed Exclusions, and Other Nightmares of
In-security
Gilberto Rosas
Thursday, October 13
1:30 – 3:30 pm
764 91��ɫ Lanes

For more information about upcoming events please click the following link /yciss/news/CBSSS.html or email Chris Hendershot (hender@yorku.ca)

The Critical Border Studies Speaker Series is sponsored by the 91��ɫ Centre for International and Security Studies and the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost.

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