The City of Oshawa began collaborating with Durham College’s Community Collaborations Course in 2015. Over the past four years, student's work has been showcased in three murals located at Civic Square (located on Centre Street at City Hall), vinyl images affixed to the windows of the Arts Resource Centre, and in Alexandra Park adjacent to Lakeridge Health Oshawa as well as inside the hospital. For the 2019/2020 project, we will be choosing locations in our Community Centres and Oshawa Seniors Community Centres.
Rendezvous With Madness - Coal Mines and Tree Tops
2021, In-Site, Workman Arts, group exhibition
Chelsea Watson, Amplify Collective, Leena Raudvee, SZEPTY/WHISPERS: DIALOGUE, Dani Crosby, Ashley Bowa & Lesley Marshall, Saroja Ponnambalam & Rupali Morzaria
"The Rendezvous with Madness Festival is the first and largest arts and mental health festival in the world. Using art as the entry point to illuminate and investigate the realities and mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction, Rendezvous With Madness’ 2021 programming spotlights the human capacity for endurance in the face of great challenges. As community members are feeling the emotional effects of months of isolation, income precarity, and anxiety over what the future holds, the Rendezvous With Madness Festival offers a unique opportunity to come together in reflection and discussion."
Body Language
2019, Body Language, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, two artist exhibition
David Bobier, Dani Crosby
"Body language is comprised of all that is not said during a conversation. It is the intangible and subjective understanding of the expressions, gestures, intonations, temperaments, spatial configurations and feelings during an encounter with another that allow us to make sense of the experience. In much the same way, the works in this exhibition are about an intuitive understanding of another person’s experience and a desire for connection that exceeds the limits of language. Working collaboratively, Oshawa-based illustrator and artist Dani Crosby and London-based multi-media artist David Bobier each produced a new body of work that responds to personal stories of Durham residents.
Collected anonymously through an online survey, participants were prompted with questions intended to inspire personal reflection such as: “What challenges you most on a daily basis?” and “When you first meet people, what do you wish they understood about you that is not immediately noticeable?” The artists then selected twelve stories from the diverse group of participants to translate and represent in different ways through their work.
Together the works reframe personal stories into sensuous and participatory experiences, allowing for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the challenges and desires that exist just below the surface."
- Leila Timmins, Curator
Durham Reach
2017, Durham Reach, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, group exhibition
Ron Baird, Karolina Baker, Mike Berube, Ted Bieler, Meredith Bingham, Ilija Blanusa, William Caldwell, Susan Campbell, Maralynn Cherry, Laura A. Clayton, Tony Cooper, Darlene Cole, Grant Cole, Dani Crosby, Jay Dart, Jane Dixon, Callum Donovan, Mike Drolet, Rodney Dunn, Rowena Dykins, Jane Eccles, Ron Eccles, Edward Falkenberg, Garfield Ferguson, Jessica Field, Stephen Frank, Fly Freeman, David Gillespie, Gary Greenwood, Laura Hair, Toni Hamel, Linda Heffernan, J.R. Hunter, Reagan Kennedy, John Krasinsk, Ron Lambert, John Lander, Ruth Latimer, Gordon Law, Jeff Leech, Bill ( William) Lishman, Geordie Lishman, Audrey MacLean, Joaquin Manay, Jay McCarten, Lynne Mcilvride, Karen Buck McIntosh, Mary Ellen McQuay, Sean McQuay, Catherine Mills, Aleksi Moriarty, Jeff Morrison, Francis Muscat, Neil Newton, Dionne Powlenzuk, Linda Ward Selbie, Layne Sharpe, Paul Sloggett, Pete Smith, Diana Lopez Soto, Lotti Thomas, Judith Tinkl, Victor Tinkl, Wes Peel, Janice Taylor Prebble, Ruth Read, Heather Rigby, Ingrid Ruthig, Barry Smylie, Sally Thurlow, Todd Tremeer, Wendy Wallace, Sally Wildman, Olexander Wlasenko
"Durham Reach is the most comprehensive public exhibition of artists from the area to date and showcases the work of over 70 artists. Although not a complete representation of the diversity of art being produced in Durham Region, the project includes works evenly distributed between emerging, mid-career and senior artists in four distinct, yet complimentary exhibitions. Durham Reach looks to celebrate the region’s artists, past and present, and to look forward to a strong, vibrant, and continuing arts community. Curated by Linda Jansma and Sonya Jones."
- Linda Jansma and Sonya Jones, Curators