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June 2008
This spring marks not only the first anniversary of Collection X, but also another new beginning. The team at Collection X are excited to introduce a new format for our e-newsletter. Each issue will feature new content, special projects, interesting user profiles and calls for submissions. Collection X aims to bring you the latest from the site and connect you with our online community. This month Collection X features recent projects that highlight personal epiphanies.
Small Steps Can Inspire Massive Change by Anne Fitzpatrick
This spring the first ever Toronto Community Development Institute was held "to create new and inclusive spaces for discussion, reflection, analysis and exchange with people who are doing hands-on community development work in our city." For two days ArtsAccess hosted a button-making table for participants to document and proclaim the "aha!" moments they have experienced. Many of these buttons reflect their history as a tool of political activism. They were created using everything participants had on hand: text, collage, magazine images, adbusting and original conference notes. When browsing the exhibition, click on the images to read the stories accompanying them.
Photo credit: www.freeimages.co.uk
Killing Me Softly: Seeing Ourselves is an online exhibition of pop culture imagery that provides a link between individuals and their understanding of their sexual identity. Each contributor has identified the first time they were provoked into a greater self-awareness. Whether it was a blow to the gut or an "aha" moment, these images acted as mirrors in which contributors saw their non-straight selves reflected for the first time. Like the Roberta Flack song referenced in the exhibition's title, seeing one's inner desires reflected in another's art can be unsettling and exhilarating at the same time.
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Havana II by James Huctwith, 2006
Self-described as a "pictorialist of dubious merit and aesthetic obsolitist," James Huctwith spends his time "spreading coloured pigments suspended in linseed oil around on canvas while juggling notions of history, theory, identity and bankruptcy." He employs classical figurative painting techniques to contemporary queer erotic subject matter. See his paintings on Collection X.
Take a Moment for Play... by Malaphi
Have you shouted, "Eureka"? Seen the big picture? If you have, what was your "aha!" moment? Create an image illustrating a moment of awareness and share it on Collection X.
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