Big shout out to the artists, organizers, and community behind Amazing Moss Park participating in the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair online fair! 🎨✨
From the heart of Toronto’s Moss Park neighbourhood, 183 Gallery continues to support emerging and mid-career artists sharing powerful stories through painting, photography, sculpture, poetry, and multimedia works.
Congrats to Eric Fong, Andy Lee, Alan McKee, Michael Murton, Bill Odwori, Ryan O'Neil, Carol Mark
We’re proud to see our artists represented in one of Canada’s leading art fairs and invite everyone to explore the incredible talent online. Support local artists, discover new voices, and celebrate Toronto’s creative communities.
👏 Huge congratulations to all participating artists and thank you to everyone supporting independent art and culture.
#TorontoOutdoorArtFair #TOAF #AmazingMossPark #183Gallery #TorontoArt #SupportLocalArtists #TorontoArtists #MossPark #ContemporaryArt #CommunityArt #TorontoCulture #ArtExhibition #CanadianArtists #HiddenToronto #TorontoEvents #ArtCollector #ArtLovers #PublicArt #EmergingArtists #CreativeCommunity
SAT MAY 30th Step into the hidden history of one of Toronto’s oldest streets. 👣✨
GO TO BIO CHK WEBSITE TO TAKE TO LINK
Join Toronto's First Post Office in partnership with 183 Gallery Amazing Moss Park for a new guided walking tour exploring the history, architecture, and untold stories of Queen Street East in Old Town Toronto.
Beginning at Toronto’s First Post Office with the fabulous Rebecca Rizzo this curated walk will uncover how the street evolved through historic events, changing architecture, and the businesses that shaped the neighbourhood over generations.
The tour concludes at 183 Gallery Amazing Moss Park where guests can experience the 2026 CONTACT Photography Festival while enjoying Single Estate English Tea & cookies. ☕📸
✨ Limited spots available
✨ Two tour times available
✨ Pre-registration required
✨ Proceeds support Toronto’s First Post Office
Discover the city beneath the surface.
Tag someone who loves Toronto history, architecture, art, and hidden gems.
Invite A Friend To Support Local History & Small Businesses
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Contact Photography Architectural Heirloom: Sensory Journey- explore architecture landmarks that evoke memories of place and time. Celebrate Carousel Bakery and the retirement with Robert and Maurice Biacolin. The Peameal Bacon sandwich named the sandwich of Toronto started at Carousel Bakery. We explore Imperial Pub 100 + years to students and those who have memories of place.
Check bio link to 183 Gallery for information.
Also lens based photo walks to support Food Bank with Andy Lee and Brad Smith. Historical Walk with Rebecca Rizzo to support Toronto’s First Post Office.
Come celebrate!
#contactphotography #183gallery #amazingmosspark #torontofirstpostoffice
Doors Open is coming and so is our show - Architectural Heirlooms at 183 Gallery as part of Contact 2026. Includes photo and walking tours along historic Queen St E. Link to 183 Gallery in bio.
Urban Document Photography Walking Tour — Toronto
Sunday, May 24 | 1–3 p.m.
Learn how to see the city differently and capture real moments through street photography. Led by photographer and writer Andy Lee, MFA (@realandylee ), this guided photo walk is perfect for anyone looking to improve their eye, storytelling and confidence shooting in public.
📍 Departs from @183gallery (183 Queen St. E)
🎟 Limited spots available
📷 Part of CONTACT Photography Festival (@contactphoto )
RSVP at amazingmosspark.ca or link in bio
#streetphotographytoronto #streetphotography #documentaryphotography #contactphoto #exploretoronto
Thank you to the Moss Park Coalition/David Anderson as they identified a need 2 years ago and asked if I could assist in formulating an art initiative.
It was announced today-we are planning a workshop to help with application please message and I will update .
SHARE BECAUSE WE WANT TO SUPPORT LOCAL
🎨 ONTARIO LINE COMMUNITY ART PILOT 🎨
Call for Artists Now Open
Transform Toronto’s transit landscape with your art.
In partnership with Ontario Transit Group and STEPS Public Art, this pilot will animate construction hoarding across four key sites:
King West • Chinatown • Moss Park • Distillery District
Who Can Apply
Professional Toronto-based artists with a connection to one of the featured communities.
What’s Offered
💰 Up to 4 awards of $5,000 CAD
Key Date
📅 Deadline: June 15, 2026
Installation
Selected works will be installed Fall 2026
Apply + Details
🔗 /project/call-for-artist-metrolinx-and-ontario-transit-group/
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Help shape the visual identity of Toronto’s future transit—
and share this with artists in your community.
#TorontoArtists #PublicArt #OntarioLine #CallForArtists #ArtOpportunity #MossPark #QueenWest #DistilleryDistrict #ChinatownTO
Fav neighbourhood diner gone with last day May 9, 2026 at 2 pm at 219 King St EAST. Going to miss the Patrician Grill . Familiar spots in TO disappearing that defined Toronto with character and history since 1950s and owned by Papas family since 1967.
Food brings back so many memories @thepatriciangrill
Wishing Chris, Terry and the staff well. I hope Terry picks up his paint brushes as he also is an abstract painter having exhibited in a group show at @183gallery celebrating local artists.
#toronto #torontoblogger #dinerfood #dinertoronto #patriciangrill #toronto #torontohistory
Jane's Walk Toronto
Thank you Ahsen Bhatti for leading tour on Moss Park and dropping in to see 183 Gallery at 183 Queen St E presenting exhibiting The Drama of The Soul presented by THEOPOLIS.CA
FOLLOW @183gallery UPDATE ON EVENTS
🚶♀️ What it is
A city-wide festival of free, community-led walking tours inspired by urban thinker Jane Jacobs. It happens every year on the first weekend of May around her birthday.
🌆 The vibe
Casual, social, and interactive
More like a “walking conversation” about neighborhoods
Focus on local stories, hidden spots, culture, and city issues
“A great spring ritual in Toronto.”
🧠 What people learn / talk about
Urban design (e.g., sidewalks, transit, public space)
Local history + untold neighborhood stories
Community activism and city planning ideas
Personal experiences tied to places
🗺️ Scale in Toronto
Dozens (often 100+) of walks across the city in one weekend
Each walk has a different theme (food, history, equity, nature, etc.)
Led by locals, not professionals
💬 Why people go
Discover parts of Toronto you’d normally miss
Meet people and feel connected to the city
Experience the city at street level, the way Jacobs advocated
#janeswalk #amazingmosspark #mosspark #183Gallery
The Architecture of Grass, digital and medium format photography
The Architecture of Grass by Alan McKee was inspired by looking at and thinking about how much of our world depends on this simple plant that we all take for granted. Our animals depend on it, our ecology is intertwined with it; so simple yet so essential to all we do and are. Yet, I had to show it so it would not be taken for granted would not seem ordinary. So I combined a man-made substance, metal, with the grass in a way that shows our interconnection with this plant so ordinary that it is often not even seen. Yet it is almost like the spirit of our physical world. It is a life lesson about how we are so often supported by ordinary things we hardly notice.
Grass represents the fact that every idea, every creation, every word that comes essentially from the energy that resides in us and never dies.
#ecology #manversusnature #philosophyofnature #Emerson #digitalphotography #alanmckee #digitalphotography #embracingradiance
As an artist, how do you market your art?
For centuries, the Mona Lisa was just another admired Renaissance portrait—respected, but not world-famous. That changed in 1911 when the painting was stolen from the Louvre. For two years, it vanished—rumored, mythologized, even hidden under a bed by the thief.
When it was finally recovered, the story had already captured global attention. The return wasn’t quiet—it became a media spectacle. The painting toured internationally, including the United States, drawing massive crowds.
From there, Mona Lisa transformed into a cultural icon. Reproduced in advertisements, referenced in pop culture, and immortalized in songs like “Mona Lisa” and “Mona Lisa Smile,” her image became endlessly marketable.
Fame didn’t just come from art history—it came from storytelling, media, and mass exposure.
Sometimes, it’s not just the masterpiece…
it’s the narrative that makes it legendary.
#ArtHistory #MonaLisa #ArtMarketing #CulturalIcon #Louvre #ArtStory
Step back into time at Toronto’s First Post Office…..loving the CB opportunity to celebrate heritage. Join tour for Historical Queen St East as part of 2026 CONTACT Photography @183 Gallery. Explore on May 30 th two time schedules with Rebecca Rizzo.
#historicaltoronto #183gallery #historicalwalkingtour #walkingtourtoronto
“Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” — the groundbreaking 1971 essay by Linda Nochlin — still feels urgent today. Nochlin challenged the myth of “greatness” and exposed how women were excluded from education, institutions, galleries, and art history itself.
More than 50 years later, the question has evolved: how many extraordinary women artists were overlooked, under-collected, or written out of the canon?
Artists like Marjorie McKee remind us that powerful contributions have always existed — they were simply not given equal visibility.
Marjorie McKee had the last two shows at Peggy Gugghenheim's as well as being part of one of the first exhibits that featured only women, women who Peggy considered to be among the best and most innovative painters of the era.
The task now is not just to ask the question, but to rewrite the narrative, expand collections, and celebrate the artists history ignored.
Comment below-
Have you heard of Marjorie McKee?
Or are you a a woman artist looking to find your place in the art world?
#WomenArtists #LindaNochlin #ArtHistory #FeministArt #AbstractExpressionism #WomenInArt #ContemporaryArt #MuseumCulture #ArtCurator #hiddenfigures
