Welcome to
ART@eBar
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VISUAL EXPRESSION LIVES HERE
ART@eBar features themed group art shows, selected solo shows, and special featured exhibitions - all curated by artist Eric Allen Montgomery, and rotating quarterly throughout the year. These take place at the eBar - part of Guelph's own famed and family-run Bookshelf and Bookshelf Cinema. Artists from all over Southern Ontario submit art that match the theme, and the results are a dynamic panorama of artists from all walks of life, with varying styles.
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Opening Nights information is on our events page, and we look forward to having you join us!
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ADDRESS
37 Quebec St, Guelph, ON N1H 2T1
Please see eBar website for hours.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING
Please note: Due to Covid19, the Ebar Art Show is currently closed.
The FurKids, FinFriends, and other Animal Associates show is available on the
ACE (Art Craft Excellence) creative services Facebook page if you would like to view it.
The re-opening of the Ebar will be announced as soon as a date is in place.
CURRENT SHOW:
FURKIDS, FINFRIENDS,
and other ANIMAL ASSOCIATES
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ONLINE ONLY
In a previous show we did Flights of Fancy - all creatures winged. Now we're doing a show for every fur else - the furry and fuzzy, scaly and crawly, hooved and submerged. Please join us online for the digital exhibition of Furkids! Come see the smug and grumpy cats, the wide-eyed grinning dogs, meerkats a go-go, raccoons making out like bandits, why should social media get all the adorable action?
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1505138059641109&type=3
UPCOMING:
Paths Less Travelled
Road Trips, Rambles, and other Personal Journeys
SHOW OPENS: TBA
Contents may include: Packing up an vintage Airstream, the family car, or hopping a Greyhound and hitting the road whether to see "sea to shining sea" or Route 66. Walking an ancient pilgrimage along mountain pathways of Nepal or the twists and turns of the Bruce trail. Making like a flaneur in your own home town, or meandering through your own neighbourhood, these are all aspects of the Paths Less Travelled.
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Artists: For submission details, CLICK HERE
JUST A SAMPLING...
ARTIST INFORMATION
WANT TO SHOW?
HERE'S HOW.
ART@eBar extends an invitation for artists working in any medium
– photography, paint, printmaking, encaustic, mixed media, low relief 3D –
to submit up to THREE **digital format** images of
artwork for jurying exploring the current theme.
All selected work must be READY TO HANG and original in design.
*Note: Art that is not READY TO HANG may not be accepted.
Prints (limited editions or open) are acceptable.
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Please be sure to include title, media, size, and your name and contact information in the body of the email.
CALL FOR ENTRY
Packing up the vintage Airstream, the family car, or hopping a Greyhound and hitting the road, whether to see "see to shining sea", cottage country, or Route 66.
Walking the ancient pilgrimage route of the Carmino de Santiago, trekking the mountain pathways of Nepal, or hiking the twists and turns of the Bruce Trail...
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These are all aspects of the Paths Less Travelled
Media: Any medium you desire, so long as it is ready-to-hang. 3D sculpture requiring shelf or floor space not accepted at this time.
Cost: $5 per accepted piece*
*Please note, the Paths Less Travelled will be the first with a new pricing structure. To streamline the process and make purchasing art less confusing, it will be $5 per accepted piece to enter the show, but there will be no consignment fee - any sales become solely between the buyer and the artist.
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Submission Deadline: Sunday June 7th
Submit up to 3 .jpegs or .gifs to art.at.ebar@gmail.com
Artists of accepted works will be informed of acceptance by TBA.
*Note - show posters are designed from show entries - early entry is encouraged!
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Artist Drop Off: TBA
Show Opening: TBA
Due to Covid19, we do not currently have set dates for the show, but will post it here as soon as it is feasible to do so.
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CALL FOR ENTRY
Mini Art Bars!
Fundraiser Challenge
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In support of the
Bookshelf and Bookshelf Cinema
we present:
ELEVATE GUELPH
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More about Elevator GoFundMe Campaign
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ART@Ebar Curator Eric Allen Montgomery extends an invitation to artists to create up to 3 *mini ART bars* that will be sold via his 1940's candy bar machine at ART@Ebar events, with proceeds going to the Bookshelf's efforts to help pay the new Elevator.
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Cost to participate: $5 per bar.
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Finished work will be considered a donation to the ELEVATE GUELPH project.
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Interested? Email Art.at.ebar@gmail.com
to reserve up to 3 art bars today!
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To Drop-off a Mini ART Bar, please bring it to the next Artist Drop Off for any of the above shows.
ARTISTS and CONTRIBUTORS
Artists:
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Eric Allen Montgomery -
Independent Curator of the ART@eBar shows, Artist
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Victoria Coates - Artist & Administrative
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Desirée Kern - Artist, Volunteer Web Admin
Janine Smith - Artist, Volunteer Datamancer
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