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Enriched Bread Artist 32nd Annual Open Studio
Contemporary Art Produced in Ottawa
INSIDE – this historic building, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, we are opening our doors to you. EBA continues to bring you contemporary art activity through our annual Open Studio. Our artists also exhibit to local, national, and international audiences throughout the year.
INSIDE – you can visit 21 active artists engaged in critical research and on-going artistic explorations in their studios housed over two floors. Our Annual Open Studio offers an opportunity for the community at large to engage with our members and to discuss individual art practices, take part in tours, activities, presentations, or to simply enjoy the creative environment of the EBA studios in our 1920’s era building.
INSIDE – EBA has a longstanding history of dedication to the visual arts which would not be possible without the resiliency of its artists from over the years and the continued support from the people of Ottawa. If you want to see more, look for us at Doors Open in 2025, and through other events on our website. If you want to be on the inside yourself, apply for a space of your own.
There are multiple ways for the community to engage with us as EBA continues into its 32nd year of contemporary art practice.
Opening Night
Thursday, October 17, 2024 (6:00 – 9:00 pm)
The exhibition continues:
Saturdays, October 19 and 26, 2024 (11:00 am – 5:00 pm)
Sundays, October 20 and 27, 2024 (11:00 am – 5:00 pm)
Location: 951 Gladstone Avenue (1st and 2nd floors), Ottawa
Admission is Free. Access to the inside of our building is limited to stairs. There are no ramps, lifts, or elevators.
Participating Artists:
Sarah Anderson, Julie Baribeau, Sandra Gregson, Sayward Johnson, Gayle Kells, Clara Kim, Karina Kraenzle, Jennifer Macklem, Natasha Mazurka, Juliana McDonald, Valerie P. Noftle, Christos Pantieras, Bozica Radjenovic, Colette Gréco-Riddle, Daniel Sharp, Cindy Stelmackowich, Svetlana Swinimer, Tavi Weisz, Joyce Westrop, Yvonne Wiegers, and Katherine Zarull
Special Open Studio Events
Language, Image, Text
Artist Talks and Panel Discussion
Saturday, October 26
Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm
951 Gladstone Avenue, First Floor
Words and languages have appeared for decades in visual art to construct new meanings and new pictorial representations. Sometimes words can question the relationship between texts and images. Language can either replace an image or can point to the slippage between representation and reality. Contemporary artists have used words for social critique, political activism, personal narratives and unique and bold design effects.
Join us for a series of artist talks by acclaimed Ottawa artists who are using words and language to disrupt, comment, inject humour, critique, share, and communicate. Using a wide range of materials in their work (textiles, glass, paper, cement, metals, neon lighting, etc.), they create compelling gallery installations, book works, sculptures, jewellery, clothing, and large-scale art commissions.
Artists include:
Joi Arcand
Greta Grip
Lesia Maruschak
Christos Pantieras
Our Building Celebrates its 100th Anniversary!
In addition to EBA recently celebrating over three decades of creativity at 951 Gladstone Avenue, the Standard Bread Company laid the foundation here for its new bakery in 1924 during the ‘Roaring 20s’. It was conceived as a modern industrial enterprise and arrived as an efficient food factory where bread was made and delivered across the city and beyond by horse and wagon.
Announcements in The Ottawa Citizen during the mid 1920s offered tours to people eager to see the modern plant in operation.
We proudly are keeping up that tradition by opening the doors and offering tours during the annual Open House. Come on by to inspect a different type of creativity going on and see the production of our artists!
Tours include a brief history of the building and its architectural significance, a walk-through of the collective exhibition in the gallery space and visiting a few of the artist studios.
Saturday October 19th at 11:30 am
Sunday October 20th at 11:30 am (Special Family Tour with focus on engaging all ages of children)
Sunday October 20th at 2:00 pm
Sunday October 27th at 11:30 am
