Call for Submissions: 2024 Tradition Transformed

Orillia Museum of Art & History (OMAH)

Installation view of OMAH’s 2023 Tradition Transformed exhibition.

2024 Tradition Transformed

October 26, 2024 – January 18, 2025
Reception: October 26, 2024 | 1 – 3pm

Submission Deadline: August 16, 2024
Jury Results: The third week of September

Jurors:
Matt Coles: Director Algonquin Art Centre, Algonquin Park, ON; Owner and Curator Coles Art Market, Huntsville, ON; artist.
Tony Bianco: Artist. His work has been featured on over 100 coins produced by the Royal Canadian Mint.

Our vast and varied landscape is as unique and diverse as the Canadians who inhabit it. The beauty of our landscape can be a source of national pride, but our land is also going through many challenges such as climate change, land claims, and loss of natural habitats. Tradition Transformed asks the question, what does the Canadian landscape mean to you.

This annual juried exhibition was created in recognition of landscape artist and Group of Seven member, Franklin Carmichael, who was born in Orillia. Now in its 23rd year, this juried exhibition calls on artists from across the country to submit work that reimagines the Canadian landscape through the artist’s chosen medium, including but not limited to drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, media arts and mixed media.

Installation view of OMAH’s 2023 Tradition Transformed exhibition.

Entry Fee:
There is an application fee of $40 (plus HST) per submission. Artists can submit up to 3 times, $40 (plus HST) each submission, one image for each entry.

Prizes:
Jurors’ Prize – $1500
Kevin J. Batchelor Emerging Artist Award – $1000
New this year: The Norma Duggan Award – $250

Submission Information:
Submission info, including guidelines and the submission form can be found on our website.

Submission inquiries can be sent to Tanya Cunnington, Arts Programming Coordinator by email.

2023 Artists:
Lori Ryerson, Chloe Serenko, Krista Pain, Julie Cosgrove, Sonja Ng, Gayle Dempsey, Martha Klein Henrickson, Mike Callaghan, Kathy Melanson, Monique Martin, Nick Peterson, Claudia Mandler McKnight, Elayne Windsor, Diane Blunt, Lulu Galway, Taimi Poldmaa, Luci Dilkus, Ben Benedict, Frank Myers, Tuncel Mustafa, Samantha Vessios, Carole Milon, Lori Harrison, L. E. Glazer, Anita Granger, Hugh Alcock, Sheree-Lee Olson, Hafsa Murtaza, Tammy McClennan, Peter Fyfe, Emily Conlon, Heidi Leverty, Jennifer Lantz, Diana Hillman, Anton Pickard, Amy Thompson, Janine Wheeler, Peter Cheung, Douglas Stratford, Wendy Wingfelder, Margaret Wasiuta, John Notten, Janet Read, Rhoda Payne, Pauline Sutherland, Dani Madger and Gita Karklins.

Also at OMAH

Jeanette Luchese, Streaming and Dreaming in a Foreign Land of Pink and Baby Blue. Fresco: Earth pigments on lime plaster (Italian slaked lime and Carrara marble powder), Savon de Marseille and beeswax on wooden support, 48”x48”, 2024.

Jeanette Luchese
The Process Informs Me
Contemporary Abstract Frescoes

July 27 – October 19, 2024
Mulcahy Family Gallery

The Process Informs Me is an exhibition of contemporary frescoes. These frescoes were created using Italian slaked lime, marble plaster, and earth pigments, which parallel the traditional Italian fresco painting process. In creating these frescoes, Jeanette Luchese hopes to raise awareness to this ancient process through the contemporary lens of abstraction.

Immersed in abstraction, this body of work marks a departure from my usual painting practice into a new beginning inspired by historical Italian Frescoes. Every aspect of this exhibition speaks to capturing the joy within exploring an uncharted process. The Process Informs Me conveys transformation, identity, authenticity, and resilience while finding new footing and foundation in my life and art practice through my heritage and culture. – Jeanette Luchese

Jeanette Luchese is a First Generation Italian-Canadian settler, visual artist, educator, director and curator rooted in design arts, creating in the disciplines of drawing, painting, printmaking, painting, sculpture and sound. She is an honour graduate of the School of Design and Visual Art at Georgian College in Barrie and the Sheridan College School of Design in Oakville. Jeanette resides in Innisfil, ON.

For Information/Media Contact:
Tanya Cunnington Arts Programming Coordinator
705 326–2159 x109 | artscoordinator@orilliamuseum.org

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OMAH has been the hub of art, culture, and heritage in the heart of Orillia’s Arts District for over twenty-five years. Located in downtown Orillia, the clocktower of the Sir Samuel Steele Memorial Building is a beacon for the museum. OMAH’s mission is to provide inclusive space to engage community, inspire creativity and celebrate culture, by exploring art and history.

The Orillia Museum of Art & History respectfully acknowledges our presence on the traditional territory of the Anishnaabeg which includes the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Pottawatomi nations, collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy. We respect and observe the long and enduring presence of Indigenous Peoples – First Nations, Metis and Inuit – on this land. Their teachings and stewardship, culture and way of life have shaped our City’s unique identity.

Museum Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm | Suggested Admission is $5

The museum is fully accessible.

Acknowledgements

The Orillia Museum of Art & History gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of the Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario, the City of Orillia, and our community supporters and contributors.