URBAN INFILL-ART IN THE CORE 10
Re-discover The Waterfront District in this downtown wide Nuit Blanche like event Saturday April 9, 7-11 PM Featuring: Visual + New Media Art, Performance, Music, Dance, Film, Food, Fashion and Wearable Art-A multi-sensory experience of art and unparalleled live performances… over 1,500 attended last year! Experience Thunder Bay transformed, by more than 350 multidisciplinary regional, national & International artists at 24 downtown locations! You never know what you’ll see downtown ... Performative Tour Guides will show you the way! Start at Definitely Superior Art Gallery and pick up your Art Map. 250 Park Ave.
GALA OPENING RECEPTION: SAT.APRIL 9, 7-11PM All Ages-FEATURES:
Arty Lounge After Party, 11pm-2am (19+)
A Gala Downtown Wide Opening Reception YOU ARE ALL INVITED! - exclusive features - OF A MUST SEE ONE TIME ONLY EXPERIENCE:
Window Performances-See original Wearable Art creations by 15 incredible artists activating downtown windows...ooh lala!, World Dance Centre, Music with 8 live bands & DJ's, Drag Queen Performances, Fire+Glow Spinning in the streets and New Media Performances, Film Screenings, Massive Video Projections, Performance Art, and Visual Art by more than 350 artists. Refreshments, Catering by Sushi Bowl, Sweet Escape Cake Cafe & Bakery & Sweet North Bakery and more!! You never know what you'll see downtown.
Featuring:
> Critically-acclaimed international art at Definitely Superior Art Gallery: Amalie Atkins-Three Minute Miracle Film Installation -International , Michael Belmore-Installation+Drawing-International , Dr. Chauduri International Art Collection-32 Acclaimed Artists
>Visiting Artist Talk: Michael Belmore (DefSup/ 7:30pm)
+In the Downtown, Discover ...
> 4 empty downtown retail spaces will be converted into new exhibition arts/cultural performance spaces featuring live music/incredible appetizers and lots of art...here we treat you right!
Featuring works by: L.U Visual Art Students, DefSup Members, Die Active/Neechee Studio/Invisible Ink (New Generation Art Collectives), Confederation College Film Student Works, Bay Street Film Festival, Independent Film Works- Michelle Derosier & more, Multi-Media Projections and Art Performances.
Commercial Galleries/Spaces: Ahnisnabae Art Gallery, Chenier Fine Arts, Local Colour Art Gallery, Gallery 33/Painted Turtle, Sweet North Bakery, Espresso Joya, Flashback Photo (free Social Media Portraits just for you!). The Walleye, Perfect Fit Lingerie, Superior Vapes, Hide 5 Leather, Lucy Nova and Artist Studios in the Ruttan & Tomlinson BLK- Satellite Studio Artist Collective, Sam Shahsahabi.- Definitely Superior Art Gallery Members
►Gala Opening Performances/Features- Sat. April 9th, 7-11pm:
>Visiting Artist Talk by Michael Belmore at 7:30pm @ DefSup. First tours of the evening, leave the gallery shortly thereafter. You can join or leave a tour anytime during the Opening.
>Wearable Art Window Performances at: Hill City Comics, Ahnisnabae Art Gallery, Mars.Clothing, The Loop and the McKitrick-Callon Bldg.
>Flamenco & Bhangra (East Indian) dance by World Dance Centre, fringe theatre/music by ShamanZen by Elliott Doxtater-Wynn, persian-themed art+window performance by Betty Carpick, film screenings, video projections, street art, catered refreshments by Sweet Escape Cake Cafe & Bakery, Sushi Bowl, The Sweet North Bakery & more!
>Live music by:
- Jean-Paul De Roover (multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter/electro-acoustic),
- Camden Blues (avant garde post-bop blues/punk rock),
- Robin Ranger & Friends (jazz),
- Amanda Soderholm (singer-songwriter),
- Visions of Doyle (forest rock/psychedelic/shoegaze/indie-post-post rock garage),
- Doran (dj) w/ video mapping projections by Illuminate.
►19+ After-Party Performances*- Sat. April 9th, starting at 11pm-(order of appearance):
- hip-hop dance by Jessie Kajorinne,
- drag performance by Paloma Marquez,
-street performances- fire & glow spinning by Dee Marie & The Kidd,
- DJ Sownd (aka Peter David Wragg/experimental electronica),
- BLVCKSHEEP (DJ-trap/base/electro house-opened for A Tribe Called Red- http://www.blvcksheep.com/ )
*ID required; After-Party Location listed in Art Map- pickup at DefSup 7-11pm.
For more INFO about the above features of the Urban Infill exhibition, please visit: http://www.definitelysuperior.com/exhibitions/current/
> Catered Refreshments by Sushi Bowl, Sweet North Bakery + Sweet Sweet Escape Cake Cafe & Bakery.
Thunder Bay’s Premiere Art-Music-Performance Event starts Sat. April 9th @ 7PM - Stay tuned for schedule updates.
Exclusive Performance Features only at the Opening on Sat. April 9th, 7-11pm.
Special Location Exhibitions (visual/media arts) also run:
Sun. April 10th - Tues. April 12th, 12-6pm.
Urban Infill-Art In The Core 10; the next evolution of creative possibilities. Revitalizing our downtown northcore Waterfront District by capitalizing on assets of art & culture-linking and reinforcing connections through accessible empty spaces and existing arts & commercial business/social spaces. The projects comprised of multi-disciplinary & new media/multi-arts by 350+National, International & Regional artists. Go out and explore urban art safari style, and check out all the exclusive shops and restaurants and live music bar venues downtown before /after and during Urban Infill Art In The Core...you are the explorers...now explore!
FOR MORE INFO GO TO WWW.DEFINITELYSUPERIOR.COM or go to our FACEBOOK PAGE

Definitely Superior Art Gallery Presents,
3 New Exhibitions+Musical Performance
Gala Opening Reception, Friday February 13, 7-10pm
Featuring the works of 3 amazing internationally known artists, artist talks, and debut music performance of Nancy Pants from Montreal -, and delectable catering from Sushi Bowl and Sweet Escape Cake Cafe & Bakery. Come get dancy with Nancy Pants! All ages welcome, all by donation.
Carly Waito-Microgeographica-
Dagmara Genda-Panorama/Corrupted Animals-
Julia Pott-Short Animated Films-
Nancy Pants-[Montreal
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CARLY WAITO
Microgeographica
13th Feb 2015 - 14th Mar 2015
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national/international-painting/film installation
Microgeographica is a solo exhibition of new works by Toronto-based artist Carly Waito (born in Manitouwadge and raised in Thunder Bay). Through detail-rich oil paintings, graphite illustrations and a projected video work, Microgeographica showcases Waito’s ongoing series exploring the unique beauty of precious mineral specimens. As a painter, Waito pursues her inspiration, with a focus towards geology, geometry, light, and a sense of wonder and curiosity. These themes are uniquely encompassed by the tiny mineral specimens which have become her particular obsession. With each finely detailed oil painting, Waito focuses the eye on a specimen’s particular qualities, showing the beauty and magic that is present even in nature’s smallest parts, if one looks closely enough and with a curious mind. Waito has exhibited nationally/internationally and her work is held in private collections in Europe, Australia and North America. Waito has been featured in several major publications and is a recipient of grants from the Ontario Arts Council. Join us for the Gala Opening Reception Fri. Feb.13 @7-10pm featuring a ferocity of art with 3 new exhibitions and special one night only musical performance by Nancy Pants of Montreal- Lots of catered and cool winter refreshments, artist talks and more! Shows run until March 14.
Gallery 2
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DAGMARA GENDA
Panorama/ Corrupted Animals
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national/international-drawing/painting/installatio
Internationally known visual/installation artist, Dagmara Genda’s presentation of an immersive and chaotic nature infused exhibition is comprised of architectural installation, drawing and collage that addresses cliches of the Canadian landscape.
Dagmara Genda’s work recombines forms to propose new ways of seeing the old. She is interested in dichotomies, such as nature and culture, and chaos and order, which she subsequently attempts to dislodge by rearranging found images into new constructions. In each of her works, she questions how we come to identify something as what it is, and explores its many potential permutations. Genda, graduated with an MA from the London Consortium, Birkbeck University of London, and an MFA from Western University. Genda, is a recipient of many creation grants/ awards/commissions, was recently awarded the Canada Council’s International Residencies grant to London England and has shown extensively nationally/internationally throughout Canada and the United States. It should be mentioned that this particular series is in fact inspired by Genda's childhood experiences in Thunder Bay where she lived for five years after immigrating from Poland. Shows run until March 14.
Gallery 1
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JULIA POTT
Short Animated Films
13th Feb 2015 - 14th Mar 2015
international-animation/illustration
British Animator/Illustrator Julia Pott has become a staple of film festivals over the past several years, garnering critical acclaim and awards for her short animated films. Pott’s films are an anthropomorphic reimagining of life, using strange imagined animal like characters rendered in her disarming/inventive illustration style which carries her unique voice to actually make you feel, her stories often funny and sometimes painful search for something intimate and real. Pott’s films include stops at Sundance, Animaest Zagreb, SXSW, The Holland Animation Film Festival and many other international festivals. Pott’s now lives in Brooklyn, NY and is working at Hornet. She graduated from Kingston University UK and has an MA in animation from the Royal College of Art London England. Pott’s was named as one of the top three animators to watch for in 2013 by Creative Review. Shows run until March 14.
Gallery 3
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NANCY PANTS
Live Music, Montreal
13th Feb 2015-7-10PM
Montreal’s Nancy Pants are set to unleash their debut full-length album ‘Total Nancy Pants’ on Thunder Bay! Friday Feb 13 at Defsup, for one night only, and you’re invited. Calling themselves a “dirty pop band,” Nancy Pants reintroduces a few familiar Can-con faces with Ohara Hale (Mori, Ohara), Adam Waito (formerly of Thunder Bay-you know him-Adam & the Amethysts, Silverkeys, Miracle Fortress) and Jeremy MacCuish (Parlovr, Nanimal, Smokes) comprising the lineup. Formed en route to an indie comic book convention, the trio recorded a five-song demo after just one band practice. Now, their repertoire has grown into the 11-song collection that is Total Nancy Pants. A recent press release describes their sound as “teenage ’60s garage pop and weird ’90s punk,” which pretty much nails it and Exclaim magazine says “this marks an assured and enchanting debut for this Montreal trio, and cements them as yet another Montreal band to look out for! So come out and get dancy with Nancy Pants as the best part of Montreal visits the gallery for an event within an event filled with 3 new exhibitions of art/music/talks and catered and cool refreshments.

DefSup Presents,
3 new exhibitions
Gala Opening Reception, Fri Sept 26, 7-10pm
Featuring artist talks, jazz music by Robin Ranger, and refreshments including delectable catering from Sushi Bowl and Sweet Escape Cake Cafe & Bakery. All ages welcome, all by donation.
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MAVOURNEEN TRAINOR- CHAMBERS
Digital Art Series
Chambers – Twenty-seven cement rooms are used metaphorically as blank slates that form the canvas for this body of work. Trainor has filled these rooms with images inviting the viewer to contemplate expressions of female identity and ageing. She encapsulates the space with her imagination to create playful dream states, hallucinogenic and nightmarish scenes to serve as vehicles that express burdens of choice and states of mind from grief and anxiety to tranquil silence and humour. Digital art has allowed her to transpose iconic images from art history to enrich symbolism. References to fairytales, folklore, literature and poetry also cultivate dialogue involving the viewer to deconstruct content. Mavourneen Trainor-Bruzzese (HBFA Queens University) born in Mexico is a Thunder Bay based artist and full time faculty professor at Lakehead University and has exhibited internationally: Mexico City, Mexico; Lima, Peru; Caracas, Venezuela; Great Britain; Kee Lung, Taiwan and throughout Canada. Join us for the Gala Opening Reception featuring Art, Music, Artist Talk and two coinciding shows, catered refreshments and more!
Gallery 1
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PAULA THIESSEN- PEEPS SHOW
Photography Series
Paula Thiessen is an accomplished writer, editor, researcher and photographer, in this series of black and white photographs, a body of work that spans decades, Thiessen endeavours to show her "peeps" as they have never been represented before. Thiessen is attracted to photographing people, as they offer her a greater margin for chance and opens an unexplored world, a place of curious self-expression, but also a world of new relationships, and most importantly new stories. As Sontag states:”o photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves.” And in her view, if photography is illicit in this way, then the gallery-goer is also implicated, for looking at photos of people one doesn't know, recalls the pleasurable voyeurism of the peep show. Paula Thiessen (MA-Lakehead University-English) accredited photographer, designer, writer and researcher contributing to: This Magazine, The New Quarterly, as well chief researcher for Naomi Klein, Mark Kingwell, Bruce Mau Design.
Gallery 2
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DUNCAN WELLER- LARA WOOD BOOK PROJECT
Painting Series
Duncan Weller is an accomplished writer, illustrator, filmmaker, photographer and painter, and currently completing a young adult novel titled Lara Wood. Weller has won two of Canada’s top awards, the Governor General's Award and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award. Weller has a varied portfolio of work, of non-objective and abstract works, surrealism, sci-fi, photo-realism, expressionism, oversized cartooning, and allegorical works. In this latest exhibition of paintings, Weller takes on a more human approach with his portraited figure works, similar to that of Varley or Christina Sealey, and found a voice with themes that required adherence to allegorical works, resulting in a consistent aesthetic journey. Duncan has secured several grants from the Ontario Arts Council to continue work on his paintings, animation, and books which have an international audience and distribution.
Gallery 3
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Shows run until October 25, 2014