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VAM's Creative Residency

@VAMCreative

@VisualArtsMiss's Creative Residents’ present friend of a friend is an online exhibition created by Visual Arts Mississauga

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Joined April 2020
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VAM's Creative Residency is accepting applications for our 2021-22 cohort! Deadline to apply August 29. bit.ly/3zcaDVp
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VAM's gallery is closed to the public but the art is up! Visitors of Riverwood Park can find this QR code on the VAM building to see the exhibition on their phone. Visit vamresidency.com for more information.
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" Participating in a residency in the city I call home had felt very natural and almost essential. I knew there was no greater place to start working than in my own backyard." Madelyn Rotella on working in VCR. Read the full interview at vamresidency.com
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“... I wanted to work with a community of artists in hopes of building up and branching out through the emerging and rising Mississauga arts scene.” Karim Machado-Aman on joining VAM's Creative Residency. Read the full interview at vamresidency.com
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" I think the opportunity was a good one to decentralize Toronto as the "place to be/make/show work" and demonstrate that back to my peers..." James Legaspi on making artwork in Peel. Read James' full interview at vamresidency.com
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"I saw the residency as an opportunity to meet new people and improve my artistic abilities. Nearing the end of the program, I can say this program was definitely needed.I've met so many people that has shaped my path going forward." - Breanne Jeethan. At vamresidency.com
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"The work I created during the residency was really a product of its time for me to relive and reflect familial bonds and relationships, which during quarantine revealed itself in a new light for me."-Amanda Kung. Read Amanda's interview @ vamresidency.com @VisualArtsMiss
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VCR is celebrating the end of their residency with a final online event hosted by the Open Gallery. Tomorrow at 12 pm! @VisualArtsMiss
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Madelyn Rotella is an emerging artist in Mississauga. About her work in friend of a friend,"Saccharine is a portal into a speculative world.This series of work is situated within a complex narrative,with paintings acting as avatars and gatekeepers to an interior cognitive world."
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Karim Machado-Aman is an oil painter in Mississauga. About his work in friend of a friend, "It's about displaying the stories of his subjects that he paints in a way that the audience may at the end understand but also come up with their own story..." at vamresidency.com
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