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The Story of Project Home
What was I thinking?? It’s the year 2018, people are being ‘evicted’ every day, violence, exclusion, unemployment, mental health challenges on the rise, and rising costs. SKETCH must raise its funds to...
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Indigenous History Month isn’t limited to the month of June. Every day is a chance to take deeper dive into Indigenous History and the impacts of today as well as spread the word to others on how they...
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A Triumphant Transition: New Leadership for the next generation of SKETCH
Rudy Ruttimann I remember so clearly the day I walked into SKETCH for the first time in 1999. It was at 1087 Queen Street West in a small storefront studio. I was applying for a General Manager...
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Making With Place
Feature by Phyllis Novak, Artistic Director, SKETCH “More Public Art Please, More Walls where these Words can Live” – Susie Mensah, Invitation, 2020, mural and spoken word artist, and community...
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Summer Recipe: Vegan and Beef Burgers!
Summer is in full swing and what better way to enjoy these sunny, warmer days than with a nice, juicy burger! We have two patties recipes, one vegan and one with meat, for you to choose from. Feel free...
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NextUp!: How to Prepare the Arts and Culture Sector for a New Wave of Leadership
With many senior management staff in the Arts and Culture Sector nearing the age of retirement in addition to the calls for more diverse leadership following the 2020 Black Lives Matter action, the...
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Diabetes Advocate uses art to show the beautiful side of chronic illness
Diabetes is a common disease that we often talk about in society. Type 2 Diabetes that is. Conversations around Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) tend to be missing in the larger conversation. Even less when you...
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Street Voices launches their new Online Directory
Street Voices has been a part of the SKETCH family for a long time. Today, we celebrate the launch of their new online directory on StreetVoices.ca where you can find free and low-cost services and...
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Art as World-Building: In Conversation with Brian Jiang, creator of Linkedin...
Brian Jiang is an artist, illustrator and recent graduate from OCAD U. Their work centers around themes of identity, queerness and communal spaces. They were commissioned to create a mural for...
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Creating socially-engaged art in conversation with others: Interview with...
Lisa Myers is an independent curator, artist and educator with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. Based in Toronto and Port Severn, she is a member of Chimnissing, Beausoleil First...
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FORREC Champions Creative Community Building with SKETCH!
FORREC is an experience design company that transforms spaces into smarter, more productive and totally people-centered places to live, work and play. Based in Toronto’s Liberty Village, in their 30...
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Spotlight Scholarship Feature: Ashley T.
As a young, Black Biracial Woman with Type II Bipolar Disorder from Toronto, Ashley T. has coined herself as the “Bi-Fecta”. She is a multidisciplinary artist who creates within the realms of visual...
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SHOPIFY-SKETCH-ECII partnership connects artist-vendors to holiday shoppers
Deep into the second year of battling the pandemic, it’s evident we’ve seen a seismic shift to online shopping as public-space access ebbs and flows, and businesses shutter retail spaces to double down...
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Holiday Gift Guide Feature: Interview with Artist-Vendor Nyda Kwasowsky
Tell us about your company and the creations you’ll soon be featuring online. ‘Holding One Another’ aka HOA, is an attempt to sit with questions that resonate in my movement practice (as a dance...
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Holiday Gift Guide Feature: Interview with Artist-Vendor Ashley Beerdat
Artist Ashley Beerdat Tell us about yourself, your company and the creations you’ll soon be featuring online. I am a visual artist and arts facilitator, I primarily work in oil painting to construct...
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Top 10 Reflections in Leadership over 25 years!
SKETCH’s founding Directors Rudy Ruttimann and Phyllis Novak share their top 10 challenges and celebrations of running a community arts organization for the last 25 years. Our Studios at 180 Shaw...
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In Conversation: New Creative Director Julian Diego & Program Director Rose...
In 2010, SKETCH welcomed Rose Gutierrez in a new role, Program Director. Over the last 11 years, Rose has played a significant role in the design of our strategy and program development. She brought...
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Art as Comfort and Care: Interview with Artist Extraordinaire Xeynamay
Xeynamay Gezahegn is a content creator with multidisciplinary training in Film, Music, Writing and Performance. Gezahegn is a poet of many mediums hoping to tell the stories of the people she...
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Dreams, Visions and Hip Hop Healing through the Arts: Interview with Jermaine...
Published author, inspirational speaker, emcee, master facilitator and social entrepreneur. Jermaine Henry has worked in the philanthropic, mental health, youth-serving, arts, culture and social...
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2023 Winter Programs Delayed
We are devastated to announce that due to financial stresses, there has been a significant number of recent layoffs at SKETCH which have directly impacted our programming. As always, we are...
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