Final studio days and year-end show

I am writing amidst what has been quite a busy month for everyone and I in the Florence program. In the last few weeks we’ve been busy creating lots of art, writing about it, and preparing for our year-end show.

Studying in the Florence program has given us the great privilege of having 24-hour access to a studio so that we can make and share from our own and each other’s creative minds. I’d often work at the studio in the early mornings for this is when the studio was at its most quietest and so that I’m all charged up to work which has personally helped me to concentrate and work effectively. Yet, sometimes I would also work in the late afternoons till the late evenings, -these were the hours when the studio was at its busiest- because I enjoyed the encouragement and commentary about my work that I’d get from everyone around me, and just their presence alone brought me great motivation and energy to work just as effectively.

In the past week I’ve gathered a few pictures of us working at the studio as we dedicated long hours to finish our work for the end of term. Beginning from the top, Michelle Galletta, Vigneux, Cortney Stephenson, Melissa Espina,Iris Stunzi, Stephen Seguin, Miriam Johnson and Laura Fedynyszyn.


We spent most of this week transforming our studio into a gallery space… by clearing our stuff, painting the walls, and putting up our work to prepare for the final exhibition.

To launch our end of year show, on Friday April 4th we held a live internet conference between the OCAD campus in Florence and the OCAD campus in Toronto. We showed some of our work, talked a bit about it and also gave a tour of the studio. This was held at 10:00-11:00 am EST in room 287, 113 McCaul St. in Toronto. Here are a few photographs from our view of the broadcast; a photo of Mike Vigneux and Michelle Galletta speaking about their work, the view that we had on our monitor of our first term professor Peter Sramek and everyone, and also a picture of our second term professor Martha Ladly and our technician John Brown who made this work from our end. Peraurim Exhibit then commenced at the studio in Florence with an Opening Party at 6:00-9:00p.m. CEST and will continue through till Saturday April 5th from 1:00-6:00p.m. The show includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, video, installation, animation, printmaking and design… a collection of some of work we have created throughout the year.