Ontario Society of Artists

Honorary Patron: The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

President: Germinio Pio Politi

Founded in 1872, the Ontario Society of Artists is Canada's longest continuing art society. We are a professional association for visual artists living and working across the Province. Our mandate is to foster and promote the visual arts through exhibitions, publications and arts advocacy. Each year we present exhibitions of works by members, and a juried art exhibition open to all artists working in two and three dimensional media.

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Members' Exhibitions in August 2010

Steven Galvanek participates in the Seguin Art Tour in Parry Sound, August 1.

Helen Pravda is part of "Insights 2010", the 31st juried exhibition at the Wellington County Museum and Archives, until September 8.

Marianne Reim is part of “Das Buch XXIII” until June 2011, at the Kiwi Sculpture Garden, Perth, Ontario.

Reim also is part of “Family Unity is the Unity of the World” exhibition which opens in Khanty-Mansisk Russia in August and will travel throughout Russia until 2013.

Lynn Bishop, Carmel Brennan, Lillian Michiko Blakey, Wynn Walters, Lynda Cunningham, Gerd Untermann, Lynne McIlvride Evans, Edward Falkenberg and Francis Muscat take part in the Uxbridge Artist Collective show, "Works from Heart, Mind and Hand: Uxbridge Studio Tour Artists On Tour” to August 22 at the Magic Door Studio and Gallery, Sunderland. Show catalogue is available for $10 at Blue Heron Books in Uxbridge or email Carmel Brennan

Ona Alisauskas has been selected to exhibit in “Reflections”, a members-only juried exhibition celebrating the 85th anniversary of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, at the Roberts Gallery, to August 4.

The exhibition features watercolours by present and past members of the CSPWC including Dorothy McCarthy, David Milne, and A.J. Casson.

Alan Stein participates in the Festival of the Sound, Parry Sound, as part of the "Impressions of Massasauga Provincial Park" annual exhibition. Along with Susan Gold, Sara Tyson, and Alicia Tyson, his work will be projected on stage during a live performance of Gene DiNovi's "Scandinavian Suite #1", August 1, 2:30 pm. Please contact the Festival of the Sound for more information

Sam Paonessa exhibits in the "Hallmark Canada Fine Art Collection" exhibition, to October 18 at the Riverbrink Museum in Kingston. Some other OSA artists represented are Franklin Arbuckle, Fred Brigden, Fred Haines, Frans Johnston, George Boyer, and R. York Wilson.

Alice Teichert participates in "s'pos)in( ", a multi-disciplinary performance involving Art, Jazz, Dance, Image, and Light on August 14, 8 p.m. at the Regent Theatre in Picton, Ontario.

Members Newsletter

Download April 2010 newsletter.

Awards

The Ethel Raicus Award 2009

Ethel Raicus, OSA, was an artist and a writer who left a legacy to the Society to fund an annual award to a student of her alma mater, Central Technical School in Toronto. This year's award is presented to Monica Plant for her drawing "Orbis".

The Cleeve Horne Award

Cleeve Horne, OC, RCA, OSA, was President from 1942-52, and remained an active and involved member until close to his death in 1998. As a distinguished portrait artist, he was commissioned to paint the official portraits of several of our Prime Ministers and Lieutenant-Governors. His paintings and sculptures are prized by many collectors. He left a bequest to the OSA which funds a biennial award to a public gallery in Ontario for the purchase of a work by an emerging artist. Since its inception, the award has been made to the Varley Gallery, the Tom Thomson Gallery, the Woodstock Art Gallery, and is being given this year to Gallery Stratford.

The Archive Project

Looking for information about an artist?

The OSA has created this online archive from the records of the society. The archive includes an historical database of all the Society's exhibition catalogues dating back more than 100 years. The archive also contains the OSA's chronology starting with the OSA founding in 1872 and containing photographs, documentation and the annual reports. This chronology not only features the history of the OSA it also provides insight into the early history of the arts in Ontario and in the broader context of Canada. View the Archives

Member Profiles

OSA members now have the opportunity to have a selected Curriculum Vitae and a sample image of their art work on the Web site. The member profiles may be viewed by clicking on "Member" in the top menu and selecting an artist's name. Where members have an additional Web site the links are provided next to their name.

Members may add or update information through the internet. If you would like to do this, please request information by email.

The mailing address for the Ontario Society of Artists is 1444 Queen Street East, Room 101, Toronto Ontario M4L 1E1

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