Open Studio

10/06/2026

❗Please note that, unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, tonight’s event with Özge Dîlan Arslan has been rescheduled to Wednesday, October 21 at 6pm. Thank you for your understanding.❗

🎤 Reading and Artist Talk: Tracing What the Sea Alters with Özge Dîlan Arslan
🗓️ Rescheduled: Wednesday, October 21
⏰ 6pm at Open Studio, Suite 104, 401 Richmond St. West
🎟️ FREE. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/reading-and-artist-talk-tracing-what-the-sea-alters-with-ozge-dilan-arslan-tickets-1999399927004

Join Özge Dîlan Arslan for a reading from the publication accompanying her exhibition, followed by a conversation about its development.

Through writing, visual research, and inscription, the book approaches the Aegean as a living archive, bringing together histories of passage and submersion with the sea's ongoing ecological present.

10/04/2026

✨🌙 2026 NUIT BLANCHE tonight! ✨🌙 October 3, 7pm–7am!

Come by Open Studio, Suite 104 St. West to see our Shop Window installation by Jules Dufresne, 15 minutes of your time.

What is lost in mindless scrolling?

Through screenprinting, photography, and digital traces, Jules Dufresne explores the relationship between online consumption and lived experience, bringing the digital screen and physical world into direct contact.

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10/03/2026

✨2026 Nuit Blanche Toronto is tonight, October 3, 7pm-7am! ✨ Come by Open Studio, Suite 104 at 401 Richmond Street West to see our Shop Window installation by Jules Dufresne, ‘15 minutes of your time’.

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Installation text:

What is lost in mindless scrolling?

To explore this question, Jules Dufresne recorded the timestamps of 15 minutes of Instagram scrolling, then took a 15-minute walk, photographing what they encountered at those same moments. Through screenprinting, these digital traces are layered over photographs of the physical world, bringing online consumption into direct contact with lived experience.

The work examines how constant connectivity reshapes attention, drawing focus away from the subtle details of everyday life and making moments of stillness increasingly difficult to inhabit. Installed as dozens of vertical scrolls, the prints unfold from top to bottom, echoing the endless motion of the screen.

The digital screen and the physical world overlap, creating a space where attention moves between two realities, much like the unconscious gesture of scrolling itself.

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Jules Dufresne (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist originally from the unceded territory of Nitaskinan, Québec, currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design at OCAD University. Working across analog photography, screenprinting, performance, and poetry, their practice explores self-construction in relation to new media and digital culture through an auto-ethnographic lens. They have presented their work at the RIPA -rencontre interuniversitaire de performance actuelle- (Montréal, QC), at Le Lieu, Centre en Art Actuel (Québec City, QC), and at Xpace Cultural Centre (Toronto, ON).

10/01/2026

In case you missed it, last week we hosted a free hands-on screenprinting demo at Open Studio as part of Ontario Culture Days.

Visitors had the chance to create their own screenprint inspired by Claudine Crangle’s current vitrine installation, ‘Building Blocks’. The ingenious scored-cube design for the activity was created by our Studio & Education Manager, Pudy Tong, who also led the demonstration. Claudine joined us as well, sharing additional insight into her installation and process.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to take part in this free public event! Our next programming event is our Shop Window Installation for Nuit Blanche 2026, featuring ‘15 minutes of your time’ by Jules Dufresne ✨

Stop by Open Studio, Suite 104, 401 Richmond Street West 📍 on October 3, from 7pm to 7am 🌙 to see the installation in person and take a moment to think about our scrolling habits 🤔. More photos to come!

09/25/2026

👋 Come visit us tomorrow for our Ontario Culture Days programming!

On Saturday, September 26, from 12pm to 5pm we’ll be offering a free, drop-in, hands-on printmaking activity inspired by Claudine Crangle’s Vitrine installation, Building Blocks. Visitors will be guided through the screenprinting process to create their own paper object. No registration is required. See you there!

09/24/2026

We’re taking part in Canadian Art Hop (Canadian Art Hop), presented by the Art Dealers Association of Canada Art Dealers Association of Canada, taking place September 24–27.

We’ll be open during our regular hours from September 24–26. Stop by Open Studio to see our current exhibitions, and explore the galleries, studios, and cultural spaces throughout 401 Richmond Street West.

We’re also participating in Ontario Culture Days. On Saturday, September 26, join us for a free, drop-in hands-on printmaking activity inspired by Claudine Crangle’s Vitrine installation, Building Blocks. Participants will be guided through the screenprinting process to create their own paper object.

Come visit us and explore what’s happening at 401 Richmond.

Thursday–Friday: 11am–5pm
Saturday: 12pm–5pm

MAIN GALLERY
My Memory Echoes in You
Dana Tosic

PROJECT SPACE
Tracing What the Sea Alters
Özge Dîlan Arslan

VITRINE
Building Blocks
Claudine Crangle

VITRINE
Woven Topographies
Elizabeth D’Agostino

09/22/2026

So cool 😎 A recent addition to the Open Studio community, Zach Foster has brought this awesome screenprinting carousel to the studio!

The machine allows you to print directly onto flat textiles, with multiple screens mounted around a rotating carousel. As a shared studio resource, it’s now available for Open Studio members to use, opening up new possibilities for printing on textiles. 🧵

We’re thrilled to have this new addition to the studio and excited to see what everyone creates with it! ✨

09/16/2026

Come visit Open Studio to experience the immersive Main Gallery exhibition, ‘My Memory Echoes in You’ by Dana Tosic (Dana Tosic). 🌹

‘My Memory Echoes in You’ transforms a family archive of photographs, slides, and fading images into an installation exploring memory, place, and intergenerational histories. Using remembered landscapes and fragments of personal history, the work considers how memories are carried, transformed, and echoed across time.

Read more here: https://openstudio.ca/exhibition/my-memory-echoes-in-you/

09/14/2026

Open Studio is Hiring! Applications for the Executive Director position are due Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 5pm ET.

Open Studio is a creative space that inspires, supports and celebrates printmaking. We are an open-access printmaking studio with two galleries, providing an

09/10/2026

Opening reception tomorrow, Friday, September 11, 6-8 pm! Four exciting exhibitions are opening. Here’s a sneak peek of the work by Özge Dîlan Arslan. Arslan uses a mixture of materials, including patchworked linen, gel transfers, and screenprinted elements, to create pieces that explore the dispersed nature of an archipelago. Fragmentation and repetition shift the surface between pattern and interruption. This maritime world bears the accumulated imprint of layered histories of movement, exchange, and submersion. See this work and more by our other artists tomorrow.

📍Open Studio, Suite 104 at 401 Richmond Street West.

MAIN GALLERY
My Memory Echoes in You
Dana Tosic

PROJECT SPACE
Tracing What the Sea Alters
Özge Dîlan Arslan

VITRINE
Building Blocks
Claudine Crangle

VITRINE
Woven Topographies
Elizabeth D’Agostino