Cafka (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area)
141 Whitney Place, Studio 7 N2G 2X8 Kitchener, ON, Canada

Check it out! CAFKA's General Manager, Glodeane Brown of Culture Fancier, discusses the current state of the art scene in Kitchener with Sam Toman in The Community Edition.

Were you watching our Instagram over the last week? CAFKA.21 artist Alia Ali took over our Instagram. Thank you Alia for sharing your stories and your beautiful work. We're looking forward to presenting your work in Waterloo Region next year.

Well, Good evening- Here’s a little eye vibration for some reorientation Indigo Series Alia Ali (@studio.alia.ali) #instagrammer #instagramtakeover #artistoninstagram #indigo #blue #dots #stripes #eyes #vibration #reorient #orient #cafkabiennial #2021 #contemporaryart @rairorg

The awards are made to woman-identifying artists over the age of forty who have made significant contributions in their respective fields and who continue to make crucial work. The awards are unique in that they address midcareer artists, many of whom are often underrecognized.

ART/CRAFT Lot 18: Michelle Purchase, we keep secrets, 2020, monoprint, ed. 1/1, 79 x 64 cm (frame) To browse and bid: www.auctria.com/auction/ArtCraft2020 Miche...lle Purchase grew up in the forest in the Niagara Region of Ontario. She attended universities in Waterloo and Guelph where she studied geography, fine art, and landscape architecture. She has received awards and grants from the Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, and Toronto's Riverdale Art Walk. Her work has been exhibited at the Mackenzie Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Hamilton, and OCADU. Michelle is President of the Board of Directors of CAFKA. She currently lives in Kitchener, prints at Globe Studios, and teaches at the University of Guelph. She has never built a real treehouse. Join us online for ART/CRAFT 2020, the AGG’s signature fundraising auction, and bid on over 30 works by contemporary Canadian artists until Saturday, November 28, 8 pm EST.

BORDERLAND - The Miniatures, 2017-present pigment print on photo rag. 310gms., UV protective laminate, mounted on aluminum dibond with aluminum French cleat... Alia Ali @studio.alia.ali The term borderland is most commonly referred to as the crossroads where nations collide. It is a porous zone that diffuses outward from an artificially imposed human made punctuation called a border. Borders enact violence on the geography and identity of those living in borderlands. They are both imprints of power and scars of destruction. Borderlands, on the other hand, are the result of naturally occurring interactions among people and of nature trying to forge an existence in proximity to what is around them. In her photographic series, BORDERLAND, Alia Ali, re-examines these demarcated zones as territories of exploration drawing attention to them as transient physical spaces and a contemporary phenomenon from which the body of artwork is presented and the viewer is a participant. The characters in the portraits, called cludes, are wrapped in layers of fabric from eleven regions of the world that shield them from interrelating with anything beyond the material. Who is on the other side of the fabric questions the very nature of belonging and interrogates the binary of home and exile. Is the subject the one who imposes the standards, the decision maker, the ‘include’? Or the ‘exclude’? In the human act of processing our surroundings, we unconsciously categorize. We separate good from evil; familiar from unfamiliar; threat from safety; alien from native We, influenced by categorizations create these dichotomies ourselves. The theme of duality extends to questioning the moment in which the mysterious becomes apparent, freedom becomes restraint, and illusion becomes reality. #contemporaryart #contemporaryartcollectors #dubai #frankfurt #miniatures #aliaali #asia #africa #centralamerica #mexico #uzbekistan #vietnam #japan #india #indonesia #fabric #textile #marrakech #yemen #morocco #photography #borderland #installation #art #pattern # #exhibition #artist #westeast #eastwest #india

PODCAST // Instagram take-over by @studio.alia.ali Thank you @tylergreenbooks for the wonderful interview on The Modern Art Notes Podcast! Click the link in @studio.alia.ali ‘s bio to hear more about the exhibitions at the @neworleansmuseumofart and @bentonatpomona #podcast #aliaali #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #photography #photographylovers #futurism #textileart #collectors #artcollectors #museum @petersillem @galeriesiniya28 @fotorelevance @rairorg @sofaexpo @artsy @cafkabiennial @samaa.alhamdani @calarts @wellesleycollege @tribephotomag @gulfphotoplus @rebeccagracemcgrew @kapfohl @hanzo_e.g @allison.k.young

Call For Submissions The Elora Sculpture Project is a seasonal, outdoor exhibition running from May 1 to October 31. Sculptures will be installed throughout ...the downtown core of Elora and Fergus. The exhibition is open to all artists within Canada. The criteria for selecting the artworks include aesthetic appeal, quality, durability, innovation and originality. Deadline for submissions is January 16, 2021. For more information, visit our link: http://ow.ly/2YBJ50CorQG

Congratulations to the winners of the latest Arts Nova Scotia awards: Jordan Bennett won the $25,000 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Awards Found...ation Awardthe province's largest award for any work of art, in any medium. Afua Cooper won the $18,000 Portia White Prize, while Darcie (Ouiyaghasiak) Bernhardt and Andrea Tsang Jackson were also recognized.