RUMI GALLERIES - ONOMA Nov. 12 to 25 2011
Onoma by Sonja Hidas - Sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council 

55 Woodlawn Avenue, Mississauga, Ontario 
www.rumigalleries.com

TIAF Toronto International Art Fair - Oct. 28 to 31 2011
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre / Rumi Galleries
North Building, Exhibit Hall A & B, 255 Front Street West
www.tiafair.com

HOTBOX RIVERWOOD - October to December 2011
Tours available upon request

HotBox Riverwood mentorship project contributes to the development of professional artists with the creation of temporary outdoor sculpture exhibit that celebrates the Riverwood conservation area and public art in Mississauga. The public will have the opportunity to walk the trail within the natural setting of Riverwood Park and experience the works of art along its path. Regional artists Amanada-Oppedisano, Don Ian Dickson, Mark Prier, Roch Smith, Simon Black and Tom Dietrich have been selected to create natural site specific, temporary works within Riverwood Park.

HotBox Riverwood is located on the grounds of Riverwood Park, 4100 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga, ON.

Sopported by the Ontario Arts Council - Visual Arts Project

HOT BOX MISSISSAUGA - 2009 / 10

To create The Hot Box Mississauga Project, artist Sonja Hidas invited the community to recall the historic train derailment and subsequent evacuation of 240,000 Mississaugians on November 10, 1979. The idea was to engage others in the art-making process by incorporating their experiences into an installation. The result is an exhibition celebrating our 30 year anniversary of the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history.
The installation incorporates a diversity of media including painting, fibre-arts, sound, and performance that illustrate the strength and unity among residents of Mississauga. With an illuminating glimpse of the past, The Hot Box Mississauga Project also offers us hope and inspiration for the future.

Supported by the Ontario Arts Council - Mulit-Arts Project


LARGE ITEMS - STOLEN 2010

The Projects: PORT CREDIT - June 27 - July 25, 2010
141 Lakeshore Road East (at Hurontario St.)

Indeed, the fact that the peice has been 'disappeared' can be read as a telling metaphoe about the current state of public art in Mississauga. Sonja has been quite agile in her response, she has taped the police report of the theft on the premises and traced the contours of the missing appliances with chalk. Sonja's prompt and smart response leaves the exhibition with traces of the piece, a record of its vanishing. While the outcome is germane to the intent of her piece, it is nevertheless disconcerting that this form of censorship has happened (even if it was unintentional).
It is tempting to speculate what happened, was it the City encroaching on private property? Appliance scavengers? Art vigilantes or aficionados? Vandals favoring invisibility? Perhaps the mystery will come to light at some point or maybe we'll never find out what happened.
Will this event not only incite discussion but active lobbying for a greater presence of contemporary art in public spaces? We can only hope.

Christof Migone
Director/Curator, Blackwood Gallery University of Toronto - Mississauga


HOTBOX JOSHUA CREEK - 2010

The HotBox Joshua Creek project is a proffessional development program creating natural site specific outdoor sculpture. The outdoor exhibition opened July 11th, 2010 at Joshua Creek Arts & Heritage Centre - 1086 Burnhamthorpe Rd. East, Oakville, Ontario

Mentor; Reinhard Reitzenstein
Project Manager; S. Paul Fulton

2010 HotBox artists included; Rina Grosman,
Pat Hertzberg, Robin Hollingdrake,
Quan Steele and Grazyna Ziolkowski