Art program

Our program is our way of supporting Toronto’s vibrant art scene and making creativity a part of the daily ritual.

Corktown featured artist

Esther Imm- Ostertag

Before, After and Always explores two faces of time: both as a healer and as athief. While the passage of days can flatten the sharpest edges of grief, it alsoquietly moves through our lives, reshaping our landscapes and claiming themoments that we are still living.Each work is hand-stitched, with every stitch an attempt to capture the fleetingfeel of the present before it transforms into the past. This series asks whethertime is actually on our side, inviting you to sit with what stays, what breaks, andwhat somehow manages to endure.

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Leslieville featured artist

Robert Farmer

I work with old maps, opening a dialogue between geography and memory where precision gives way to interpretation. In creating collages from these materials I transform tools of navigation into evocative visual landscapes. Faded coastlines, obsolete borders, and delicate typographic marks shift from instruction to texture, forming layered compositions.These collages suggest geography as something lived rather than fixed. The images feel both familiar and disorienting, inviting viewers to navigate by emotion instead of direction. Old maps become expressive terrains of memory, imagination, and time.

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Meet Our Curator

Craig D’Arville

is an active contributor to Canada’s visual arts community, with more than 25 years’ experience in communications and development roles at both non-profit organizations and in the private sector. Co-founder of the online art platform FFOTO.com, Craig also gives back through his volunteer work, which includes sitting on the board of directors for Gallery TPW, serving as a mentor on the BIPOC Photo Mentorship Program, and participating on the curatorial committee for Art With Heart, Casey House's annual fundraiser. Craig is a 2026 Mentor in Residence for photography BFA/MFA candidates at Emily Carr University.

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