For a video of I Am Here (2021) at the Red Head Gallery click here.
LOIS SCHKLAR
Lois Schklar's work has been shown in exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States. Sculptures from her laminated burlap series, Collective Memories are in the Racine Art Museum, the Bronfman Collection, Claridge Investments, Idea Exchange Art Gallery and The Key Corporation.
Schklar has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council, Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council. In 2013, she was awarded an OAC Multi/Integrated Arts Project Grant for Collected Memories, an installation with a professional dancer, musician and lighting designer. Prototypes (2019), an exploration of sound, narrative, light and audience participation, was made possible through the Canada Council’s Explore and Create Grant (2018) and the Ontario Arts Council’s Exhibition Assistance Grant (2019).
Schklar’s Timelines, was selected for a Juror’s award at DesignTO (2019). Timelines 2 and Lies My Teacher Told Me were accepted into the prestigious Cambridge Art Galleries Fibreworks (2018 and 2020 respectively). Timelines 3 (2018)was shown in Excellence in Fibers at the San Jose Museum, California. In 2021, Schklar was chosen from over 500 applications to create artwork for a room in the newly renovated Gladstone House, Toronto.
In 2021, Schklar received two OAC Exhibition Assistance Grants for I Am Here, a solo exhibition at Red Head Gallery
Currently, Lois is a member of the Red Head Gallery.
Red Head Creative Series participation here.
For more information visit: www.loisschklar.com
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