Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre

OUT OF PRINT

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Saturday, May 4, 2013 to Saturday, June 15, 2013

In the exhibition Out of Print, Modern Fuel’s Artistic Director Kevin Rodgers explores the collection of print material in the Nan Yeomans Resource Library. Due to the diligent collecting of material by past board members and staff, the Resource Library has many unique and difficult to find items.

State of Flux Gallery

Charles Campbell: Transporter

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Saturday, May 4, 2013 to Saturday, June 15, 2013

In the exhibition Transporter, Charles Campbell looks at the contradictory forces of ‘attraction and repulsion’ that motivate human movements, as well as the notion of complicity and agency that act within it.

Main Gallery

UNIBROW

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Programming

Call for applications to Board of Directors

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Call for Submissions

We are currently looking for expressions of interest to join Modern Fuel’s Board of Directors (2 year term) as well as a student representative (1 year term). The student representative position is an important addition to the board structure, and its aim is to create better communication and help foster involvement of the Queen’s Arts community with Modern Fuel.

The role of board members is to provide stewardship, direction, and assistance to Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre in accordance with Modern Fuel’s mission and mandate.

Roles and Responsibility of Board Members:

+ All members of the Board of Directors must be members of Modern Fuel in good standing as per the Modern Fuel constitution.

+ Board members are elected by the members at the Annual General, and serve a two-year term. The Board, by majority vote, may fill vacancies thereon that occur between Annual General Meetings due to resignation or removal from office of elected directors. Board members cannot serve more than three consecutive terms.

Duties of Board Members:

+ Attending board meetings. They are currently held once a month. Board Members should read the material provided before each meeting (minutes, agenda), and pass on any items to be added to the agenda to the Administrative Director in a timely manner. According to the bylaws, board members who miss three consecutive board meetings shall be deemed to have resigned from office.

+ Board members are encouraged to sit on at least two committees. Committees include: Programming, Fundraising, Facility, Finance, Executive, Human Resources, Nominating, Media Arts Workspace, Outreach, Communications, and Membership/Volunteer.

+ Volunteering at least two events a year (openings, fundraisers, workshops, screenings) is also encouraged.

+ Attending the Annual General Meeting.

Board members are also encouraged to support MFARC by volunteering at least 2 BINGO shifts as part of our fundraising initiative.

Please email Kate Yüksel at kateyuksel@gmail.com with your letter of interest and CV by May 20^th. A nominations committee will review all applications. Only chosen applicants will be contacted.

Our AGM is scheduled for June 12 at 7pm in the Wilson Room, Central Library.

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15th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition: Call for Submissions

bronwyn — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:26:06 +0000

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Call for Submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Modern Fuel's 15th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition will be presented at Modern Fuel from 29 June – 10 August 2013. Opening reception 29 June at 7pm. Submission Deadline: 1 June, 2013. Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre invites artists to submit works produced in visual and time-based disciplines such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, video, installation, and sound for our annual juried members’ exhibition. We also welcome proposals for performances, interventions and live works for presentation at the opening reception, or according to a schedule throughout the run of the exhibition. The curatorial premise for this group exhibition is to reflect the wide-ranging practices of artists in the region and to provide a forum in which to compare patterns emerging in those practices from one year to the next. Note: According to our organizational mandate, Modern Fuel will pay a professional fee to all exhibiting artists.

This year’s guest curator, Yaël Filipovic will be selecting from the submissions received for the exhibition in accordance with Modern Fuel’s mandate to support contemporary Canadian art practices that are innovative, experimental, and from diverse communities. Filipovic currently works at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and holds an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto and a BA in Art History and Education from McGill University (Montreal). Her work combines her interest in research, art, activism and pedagogy. Past curatorial projects include Neighbour to Neighbour: Living Libraries (Foreman Art Gallery, 2011), ArtiFACTS of Belief (University of Toronto Art Centre, 2010), and Soliloquies: Reflections of Solitude (Two Rivers Gallery, 2008). Interested in the use of public space, her public interventions have taken place in both Toronto and Montreal. From May 2010 to August 2012, she was the Curator, Education and Cultural Action at the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec developing their Community Art Laboratory.

Submission Details: Please send the following in digital format via email: An Artist’s Statement (max one-page) and CV and images of one to three works for consideration. (The works must not have been previously shown in Modern Fuel’s Main Gallery or its State of Flux Gallery). Include an image list (with titles, dimensions, dates, and media). Please submit images of the work formatted to the following specifications: JPEG files only. Size must be 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high, and a 1 MB maximum. Images should be RGB, or grayscale colour mode files only (no CMYK). Number and title each file, and the number must appear before the title so that the order of the images will correspond to the image list, example: 001RedPainting.jpg. Do not submit images embedded in programs such as iphoto or Powerpoint.

If work is performance or video based, send a file or link to a file that is a maximum of 15 minutes. Time-based should be a media format that can be read by the following programs: Quicktime, RealOne Player, or are in the following formats: .mov .mp4 .avi. Include a separate documentation list (title, length, year, medium).

For more information on submissions please contact us.

To be considered for the exhibition, artists must be a member of Modern Fuel and reside within the region of Eastern Ontario served by the gallery. If you are not currently a member, please include a membership fee and form with your submission. Not a member? Click Here to Join Today!

Submission deadline: June 1, 2013. Email submissions to: info@modernfuel.org

Note: Submissions must be received on or before June 1, 2012

Image: Installation view of Through Thick and Thistle: the 14th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition.

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THE DJ WHO GAVE TOO MUCH INFORMATION

bronwyn — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:16:04 +0000

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Programming

INVITATION

bronwyn — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:31:50 +0000

Thursday, March 21, 2013

A joint membership project between Modern Fuel and the Union Gallery
March 21 | May 2013

1. We invite you be become a joint member of Modern Fuel and the Union Gallery, and participate in a unique exhibition
opportunity.

Other

Natasha Mazurka: The Centre Cannot Hold

bronwyn — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:31:04 +0000

Saturday, March 9, 2013 to Saturday, April 20, 2013

State of Flux Gallery

Cliff Eyland & Jeanne Randolph: Your Own Grad School

bronwyn — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:24:46 +0000

Saturday, March 9, 2013 to Saturday, April 20, 2013

Jeanne Randolph and Cliff Eyland will conduct a 4-day graduate school at Modern Fuel Gallery in which students, local artists and the public would participate. The project is called Your Own Grad School.

Main Gallery

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

bronwyn — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:12:55 +0000

Saturday, March 9, 2013 to Saturday, April 20, 2013

In the Main Gallery:
Cliff Eyland and Jeanne Randolph: YOUR OWN GRAD SCHOOL

Programming