Art Mentorship Society of Alberta

12/05/2025

Consider donating to AMSA this holiday season we need your help’s to see a future with AMSA in it! 🩷🩷

12/05/2025

Consider giving to a program that has a direct impact in the Edmonton arts community! We so appreciate all your support have a happy holiday season. Love, AMSA 🩷

04/11/2025

📣 Your weekly roundup of new opportunities in the arts is here! Find jobs, calls for submissions, and RFQs at Akimbo.ca 📣

💻 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Administrative Director @ Native Women in the Arts, Toronto (Deadline: Open until filled)

Chief of Learning & Public Programs @ Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Deadline: Open until filled)

🎨 ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES

[NEW] Call for Submissions: Ontario Biennial Juried Exhibition 2025 @ Thames Art Gallery (Deadline: August 17, 2025)

[NEW] Call for Applications: Art & Science Residency @ Bonne Bay Aquarium and Research Station (Deadline: May 1, 2025)

[NEW] Request for Qualifications: Element Park Mosaic Project @ City of St. Albert (Deadline: May 8, 2025)

[NEW] Call for Expressions of Interest: Level UP! Initiative 2025-2026 @ Balancing Act Canada, Toronto (Deadline: April 18, 2025)

[NEW] Request for Expressions of Interest: Outdoor Wall Vinyl Artwork 2025 @ Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts (Deadline: May 1, 2025)

[NEW] Call for Submissions: Perspectives @ Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (Deadline: May 1, 2025)

Call for Submissions: Pleasure Dome, Toronto (Deadline: April 15, 2025)

Call for Applications: City of Toronto Artist in Residence Program 2025-2026 (Deadline: May 28, 2025)

Call for Submissions: 151st Annual Open Juried Exhibition @ Ontario Society of Artists, Toronto (Deadline, May 14, 2025)

Call to Manitoba Emerging Artists: Public Art for Railside at The Forks @ STEPS Public Art & The Forks Foundation, Winnipeg (Deadline: May 4, 2025)

Call for Applications: Artist and Writer Residency @ Caetani Centre, Vernon (Applications are ongoing)

Find details about these opportunities and many more at Akimbo.ca.

📸 Image description: An orange graphic featuring a megaphone, with bold text promoting career opportunities and calls for artists from Akimbo.

04/11/2025

AMSA is CLOSED for Summer. https://mailchi.mp/artmentorshipab/amsa-classes-are-closed

Please visit our community member Vee Daigle's exhibition at Jasper Place Library is on view until May 30. The community celebrates and commends their strength and persistence at their craft. Thank you to Vee for bringing us along on their journey. We wish Vee all the best in their endeavours in the future. Contact Vee for purchase or inquiries by messaging them on Vee Nica
Images; Daigle, Vee (2025) Installation view, paintings on canvas.

04/02/2025

Tricia Hersey, AKA the Nap Bishop: "Rest is a form of resistance"
Image by Charlie Watts

https://mailchi.mp/artmentorshipab/2april2025

04/02/2025

Huge congratulations to the winners of our March Art Challenge! Thank you to Marcia Penner , Shirley Charlton and Sherien Loo for collaborating in this art game known as Cadavre exquis invented by surrealist artists and recreated here by regulars of the Virtual Art Mentorship drop in group. Voilá!

04/02/2025

In case you hadn't heard, our classes are on Spring Break this week to take a little time to rest and recover. Join us back in the studio at the regular times next week.
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03/26/2025

“Take the I out of illness, add WE, and you have wellness.” – Charles Roppel
https://mailchi.mp/artmentorshipab/19march2025-13876280

03/20/2025

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. – Yoko Ono
https://mailchi.mp/artmentorshipab/19march2025

03/12/2025

Spring, ahead! https://mailchi.mp/artmentorshipab/3march2025-13875835

03/04/2025

"Revolution is not a one time event." — audre lorde

Congratulation to Shirley Charlton, the winner of the February Art Challenge!

Image caption: Freedom by Shirley Charlton (2025) is a graphite sketch picturing a pair of hands in broken shackles with a white dove flying through the center.

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The Boyle Street Community Services (BSCS) Artist-in-Residence opportunity welcomes artists working across all disciplines, including but not limited to visual arts, literary arts, performance, and traditional and contemporary Indigenous practices. The residency encourages proposals that centre cult...

02/26/2025

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare" – Audre Lorde - https://mailchi.mp/artmentorshipab/25feb2025