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Building Together (If I could do just one near perfect thing I’d be happy)

Building Together (If I could do just one near perfect thing I’d be happy)

March 15 – 28, 2010
Toronto Free Gallery (back space), 1277 Bloor Street West

Curated by Amber Landgraff
For more information contact: amber.landgraff@gmail.com

Please join us for an artist talk with Zach Springer on Saturday, March 20 from 4 – 6 pm where he will be discussing his ongoing Build Something Together project.

Building Together (If I could do just one near perfect thing I’d be happy), an artist residency featuring Zach Springer’s Build Something Together project, invites participants to take advantage of Zach’s skills as a handy man in order to learn how to build something.  Projects range from building bookshelves, end tables, chairs, audio speakers, a dancing rubber band machine, making a 5 year plan, dress patterns, a bicycle, a quilt, learning to screen print quilt, and website design. The goal of Building Together is to not only build an object, but to also be able to share the new skills that you’ve learned with others.  It’s about choosing to learn something that you don’t know how to do, but would like to know how to do.  It’s also about building a community of people through a shared interest in learning and building things together.

Participating Artists:

Shara Mohamed
Sam Silversides
Karen Darricades
Martin Zeilinger
Suzanne Morrissette
Gina Alderman
Philip Harrison
Aislinn Thomas
Amber Bond

Zach Springer is a currently working towards his Master’s degree in Fine Art at Portland State University. He has been offering his services to people for about four years now, through word of mouth and also through his website buildsomethingtogether.com.  He finds that people are much happier in their surroundings if they have taken the time to build it themselves, and he knows a lot of people just don’t have the time or the skills to build much of anything so that is why he shares his time and skills.

Amber Landgraff is completing her MFA in criticism and curatorial practice at the Ontario College of Art & Design.  She is interested in exploring the creative possibilities of the conjunction “and” between curatorial, artistic, and pedagogical practices. Building Together (If I could do just one near perfect thing I’d be happy) is the result of her research into shared teaching and learning as a way of building community.