Our last week has arrived! Now that we are wrapping up this project, our first crowd sourced art exhibition, we are starting to review the successes and drawbacks. Please be sure to leave a comment on this post with your ideas for how we could improve this process. We'd like to try it again and shake it up, make it even more fun and interactive. We have enjoyed interacting with you and we encourage you to come to the gallery and see the results of your decision making.

The Community Curates exhibition will be hung from 23 September, 2011 to 11 March, 2012. We'll celebrate the exhibition and show you how to leave comments on it using your smartphone at our First Fridays event on Friday 7 October 2011.

Thank you for your help and we hope you've enjoyed the process!

Community Curates Week 10

Buffalo prints won't you come out tonight  c. 1973

lithograph on paper

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Urquhart, 1978

Drawing from Life, Provincetown  c. 1948-1950

charcoal on paper

Gift of the estate of Isabel McLaughlin, 2003

Lattice  1954

watercolour, gouache and pastel on paper

Donated by the Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1988; gift of M. F. Feheley

Winter Sea  1973

lithograph on paper

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest and Rivette Herzig, 1993

Lady Beside Lilypond  n.d.

oil on paper, laid down

Gift of Rita M. Pretty in memory of husband Harry A. Pretty, 1984

Welcome to the inaugural week of our Community Curates project! In order to curate an exhibition that will be on from 23 September, 2011 to 11 March, 2012, we need your help!

The RMG permanent collection includes over 1300 works on paper that are stored in our vault in solander boxes to maintain their condition. Works on paper especially are susceptible to damage from light and as a result they aren’t as often shown in our gallery spaces. We wanted to share some of these hidden gems and have our visitors decide which ones will be shown.

Here is our first week’s selection of images. You are able to vote for your favourite and the top 2 selected will be hung in the gallery space. Stay tuned each week as 5 new selections are posted for your votes!

What will the community curate from our collection? We are looking forward to finding out!

Week 1:

1. Isabel McLaughlin (Canadian, 1903-2002)
Untitled  n.d.
watercolour over graphite on paper
Gift of the estate of Isabel McLaughlin, 2003

2. John Lander (Canadian, 1951 - 1992)
At Chanteclair  1973
serigraph on paper
Purchase, 1976 

3. John Street (Canadian, b. 1942)
Untitled  1971
serigraph on paper
Purchase, 1973

4. William Blair Bruce (Canadian, 1859 - 1906)
Looking Towards Le Havre  1885
oil on paper
Purchased with the assistance of the Government of Canada through the Cultural Property Export and Import Act, 1986

5. Alan Flint (Canadian, b. 1958)
Lost  1995
woodcut on paper, A/P
Gift of Ihor Holubizky, 1998

VOTING ON WEEK 1 NOW CLOSED