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Former journalist, current artist and “political dream doctor”. Register for my moving image course 👇🏼

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POTTERY, MUSIC & COFFEE ☕️⁠
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We’re opening up the space for a day of handmade pottery, local vendors, music, and coffee.⁠
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Come browse the tables, meet some local makers, grab a coffee, and stick around for the music.⁠
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See you at the space.⁠
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#rhythmtoronto #torontopottery #torontomarket #torontoevents #torontocreatives⁠

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Fresh out of the kiln ✨🏺

A look at all the amazing vases we unloaded this week at Pottery Lab! Each one is a beautiful reflection of our artisan members’ creativity, skill, and unique style.

And those glazes… 😍 They bring so much character, depth, and personality to every piece.

We’re so lucky to have such talented makers in our studio! 🤍

#potterylabtoronto #TorontoPottery #CeramicVases #PotteryToronto #potterystudiolife

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Thank you to our dear brothers and sisters in Tkaronto.
Too many to name so they are all tagged.
Community is Queen.
@shababintl massive.
Thank you @kotn for sharing space.
To all my draxes and draxettes.
See you in July.
❤️🦅

1. Wrecks n Effex
2. Le Six
3. Halla and Ni3ma
4. DraxShake
5. Eugene Drax
6. Check out the W
7. Iraq See The World
8. Tom and Jerry
9. No Sleep in Paradise
10. Sister
11. Switch the R with the i
12. Gang tat
13. Baby
14. DJ Mayood
15. A Few Good Men
16. Wu Tang
17. All 4 Love
18. TeeTee

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Sculptures that we’re eyeing right now ⚡️

Partial’s selection of sculptural and three-dimensional works highlights artists who are redefining contemporary practice through form, materiality, and spatial engagement.

🔗Explore distinctive works that challenge convention, enrich interiors, and reflect the evolving landscape of contemporary art by visiting https://www.partial.gallery/browse?type=185

🖼️ Artworks featured (all available on Partial):

“Surveillance (2026)” by Hala Alsalman, Stoneware clay, glaze, leather, 13" x 17".

“The Fish” by Marc Thivierge, Confettis on plywood, 88” x 47”.

“Tango Dancer” by Morris Wazney, Bronze, 5” x 8” x 4”.

“Oculonoxis” by Carmen Mahave, Silicone, Pigment, Foam, Hair, Glass, Steel, Wood, 10” x 10” x 6”.

“A Taste of Freedom” by Dan Nuttall, glazed ceramic sculpture, 5” x 7” x 3.5”.

“Keep Calm and” by Gerry Ruecker, mixed media sculpture, 42” x 32” x 4”.

“Free spirit Golden eye” by Assaad Elsibai, Fiberglass, Acrylic paint , Epoxy Resin coating ,glass base, 4.5” x 17.5”.

“Antiquated Notions” by Lizz Aston, Paper, free motion embroidery, thread, burn-out, 15” x 15” x 2”.

“Dream Piece A1” by Kyle Yip, Acrylic on acrylic, 36” x 48” x 9.7”.

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🖼️OCAD University Artist Showcase and @partial.gallery present 2026 featured artist Hala Alsalman!

⭐Hala is an interdisciplinary artist with a strong background in journalism, which informs her research-creation practice. Through ceramics, video and collage, her work investigates political power, gender relations and history-making. She graduated with an SSHRC-funded MFA from OCAD University in 2024 with a thesis that explores Iraq's future through dreaming and Mesopotamian ontology. @halalsalman

🌐Website: https://www.halaalsalman.com

🏷️Find this artist and many more at @partial.gallery where you can buy and rent artworks directly from OCADU artists and alumni working in painting, illustration, photography, printmaking and much more.

Visit ocadu.ca/buyart to view the full artist showcase (LINK IN BIO).

#OCADUCEAD #ocaducead #OCADU #ocadu #ocaduniversity #creativeindustry #newgenerationartist #emergingartists #artist #artgallery

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Earth, Body, Thread just closed it's door and we thank you for your numerous visits!!! This connection of three artists-Hala, Omar & Spencer curated by @zena.nahas was a remarkable experience!

📷: @kinlonma

#contemporaryarttoronto #torontoartgallery #meetarttoronto #cafeandgallerytoronto

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April was filled with full circles
11 months since I pulled purples
First class Raps, class was a wrap
I made a decision last night I won’t die for it
Just to show the city you don’t have to lie for it
Family and friends and books to read
Between the lines you shook indeed
My enemies no friend to me no end to peace or pretend to be a kin to me you’ll sin and see
I am who you wish you finna be
Too realistic to be the fakest
Birthday season to where the cake is
I wanna take it as far as I can take it.
TBA(A) TBA(A) OUT NOW IN THE MATRIX

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Clay, community, and good vibes only 🤍
Pottery Lab is your space to create, have fun, and connect — all ages welcome 🏺✨

Come get a little messy with us 😌

#PotteryStudio #TorontoThingsToDo #CreativeLife #torontolife #kingstreet

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Looking for art from emerging and early-career artists? Check out some of the most recent additions to our OCAD U showcase, spotlighting both current @ocaduniversity students and recent graduates. 👉

⁠🖼️ Artworks featured:

“गर्भा Garbhā (Dance of Creation)” by Vishwa Patel, Poster colour on watercolour paper, 24” x 36” x 0.5”.

“Spy Bird” by Marrium Naeem, Charcoal, ink, chalk, oil, acrylic, gesso, and computer parts on tufbak and textile, 29” x 31”

“They Stole Our Eyes (Baghdad)” by Hala Alsalman, Photography, digital collage, 18” x 24”.

#ocadushowcase #ocaduniversity #emergingart #buyartonline

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Here are a few images of ʟ'ᴀɪʀ ᴇꜱᴛ ʟᴏᴜʀᴅ, now on view at @artwindsoressex !

This group exhibition curated by Cassandra Lesage Fongué approaches the storm not as a distant natural phenomenon, but as an immersive system — slow, certain, already at work. L’air est lourd invites us to consider the storm as a potent metaphor for the transformations that envelop us.

I'm so pleased to see my works find a home alongside those of such thoughtful artists – Hala Alsalman, Katherine Takpannie and Lisa Hirmer.
Effusive thanks to the wonderful team at Art Windsor-Essex and to BRAVO for this initiative, and to those who made it to the opening ! The exhibition continues until June 28, 2026.

Photo : AWE / Frank Piccolo

artwindsoressex.ca/exhibitions/lair-est-lourd/

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EARTH BODY THREAD
March 27th - May 5th

Hala Alsalman @halalsalman
Omar Tarek zayed @omar.t.zayed
Spencer Ginn @spencerginn

Art direction: Zeina Nahas @_______fragments

This exhibition gathers the work of Hala Alsalman, Omar Tarek Zayed, and Spencer Ginn around forms that feel older than any single history: vessels, fragments of bodies, patterned cloth, repeated marks. These recurring images gesture toward the sublime,
where the familiar slips into something vaster and harder to name. Here, clay, textile, and form do not simply cite Mesopotamian, North African, or Greco-Roman sources; they also blur timelines and mingle as ritual objects put together from an otherworldly archeological dig.

Alsalman’s clay forms, Zayed’s hand-dyed textiles, and Ginn’s ceramic vessels each approach matter as a carrier of memory and belief, but also as an active, almost sentient presence in the room. Taken together, the works suggest that what we call “the past” is
not fixed behind us; it moves through symbols, gestures, and materials that return again and again,
pressing against the limits of what can be contained or understood. The gallery becomes less an archive
than a quiet sanctuary, where viewers can encounter these works not as spectacle, but as a slow, inward recognition—a sense that these archetypal forms also inhabit their own inner worlds.

#artgallerytoronto #contemporaryart #cafeandarttoronto #torontomustvisit #torontohighlights

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the forms of light @coffeebyjoy

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