Ed: The Silent Killer
Lauren Izso-Toronto: “I’d like to acknowledge ‘Ed’ as a silent killer,” said Jim Cerswell into the microphone, as he wondered what he could have done differently. Cerswell stood before the podium Friday morning, and spoke to the attendees of the 10th annual Sheena’s Place Awareness Breakfast, about losing his little girl to every parent’s worst [...]
Canadian Artist, David Blackwood, Takes Nature Seriously at the AGO
Lauren Izso-Toronto: Nature isn’t always sunshine and daisies. Renowned Canadian artist, David Blackwood, explores a slightly darker and colder natural world in his retrospective art collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Appropriately named “Black Ice,” his collection includes depictions of the harsh Newfoundland winters, as he remembers them growing up, and those who endured [...]
Where the Art is…
Care to come up to my room? Lauren Izso-Toronto: Creepy, maybe, but that’s what 44 of Toronto’s up-and-coming artists and designers were inviting people to do, during their stay on the 2nd floor of the Gladstone Hotel this weekend. Even freezing cold temperatures didn’t stop people from venturing to 1214 Queen Street West to see [...]
