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While some things are opening up, we know a lot of you don’t feel quite ready to venture out for an art crawl just yet. Let us bring the art to you. The next First Friday art crawl will be Friday, July 2 and we will do a virtual walk-through of participating artists work right here on our social media channels.

FRIDAY, JUNE 4 • If you can’t come to our place, we’ll come to yours. This Friday, get your FF fix at home by tuning into livestreams by poet @millionjustin and singer-singer multi-instrumentalist @benj_rowland ! Justin Million on at 8, and Benj Rowland on at 9!

We couldn’t meet for May’s art crawl so we’re looking back wistfully on First Fridays of yore. Like these surrealistic collages by Hartley Stephenson shown at @unionstudioptbo .... minute details you’d miss at first glance like shards of mirror, tiny cut-outs, string...you name it. Arranged in a whole new way. Thanks to Union Studio for always showing local artists! This was a great show.

‘A snapshot of current events,’ mixed media on wood panel by Julie Francey @franceythings

Happy art crawl day! Some very, very, very cool things happening tonight. Joe Stable’s 70s artwork archive, a confession poetry booth, art objects in mini boxes, and more. So proud of the artists who spend days, weeks, months creating and then are so willing to share it with us. We are blessed to live in such a creative community, let’s “show up” (in many ways!) for artists and support them the best we can.

Sheldon Storey’s practice centres around a multidisciplinary approach to installation-based works. Primarily inclined to found materials and objects with a desirable focus on the familiar pull of familial objects to conjure subjective notions of home, experience, sexuality, mental health and relationships. Continuing a studio practice which integrates collecting both natural and found materials of curiosity to instill these ideas of wonder and observation of the peculiar body and its spaces. Toying with the connotations of masculinity and labour much of my current materiality centres around this implication of workforce and the blue collar. Raised in rural Ontario with parents of the trades Storey learned that hard work was sometimes the only work available and the objects and tools used allow for the patina of a hard day’s work to wear through—challenging such notions as gender, class, and sexuality.