The Lyceum Gallery, Toronto, ON Videos

Lyceum Day: The science of photography. We situated our recent studies in the science of ion exchange and chemical reactions in the story of the history of photography from daguerreotype to flash photography. In our lab, we recreated Bunsen and Roscoe’s magnesium flash studies from 1859. #exothermic#drawswows#lightingthedarkness#orchardlycem#montessori

Opens tonight! Quincy Raby You Will See Such Pretty Things November 4th from 6-8pm Join us tonight as we delve into a world of divination and memory. Fortunes told and cocktails poured from 6-8 pm.

Opening tonight from 6-8 pm! Laura Jane Petelko Ma The Lyceum Gallery 969 Queen St W Ma…a pause in time, an interval or emptiness in space. Ma is the fundamental time and space from which life needs to grow. #contemporaryphotography#nationalballetofcanada#ma#portraiture

Melanie Gordon’s viewing room is now up on The Lyceum Gallery’s website (link in bio). Melanie’s viewing room expands the narrative behind Gathering Stars with walk throughs, interviews with Lyceum students and the compelling story of the three dresses she made to signify healing. #portraitphotography#womenbehindthelens#canadianart#artschool

Coming to The Lyceum Gallery in June...Melanie Gordon’s Gathering Stars Gathering Stars is an autobiographical photographic series that explores themes of resilience, fragility and mortality through the experience of mothering through healing. “It was the first day of spring and winter. I gathered you up quickly, paint still wet on our fingers, and placed you in the stroller. Through the doors my ears heard the singing of birds and my skin felt the cool, slow air of March. I pushed you up the gravelly sidewalk and tears began to fall, my diagnosis reverberating in my body. Life and death found each other in my breast like two repelling Norths.”

Small Victories April 8-28 Lyceum Gallery Using wool blanket remnants, embroidery thread, roving and found object embellishments, Lyceum students are a creating a community quilt installation in the gallery, beginning this week. Community members are invited to pick up a kit to create their own square. Beginning this Thursday, kits are available for pickup at the door each day from 12-4. Take one home to make your own then drop it off in the mailbox at the front of the building at 969 Queen St W. Our students to seam your story together with ours throughout the month of April. Each square represents a humble beginning that becomes a small triumph of individual will, a push through the inertia or a stake against uncertainty. Every day is an evolution, a change for activation or a call to repond to or change the circumstances we find ourselves in. With a dedication to hope and renewal, we are making a future out of the pieces from the past, reconfigured with experience acknowleged, bound together by purpose and community. Through the commitment to an act of creation or expression, we lay claim to tomorrow. We invite and encourage you to come by the windows to watch the project evolve. “The great victory, which appears so simple