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Stephen Cruise

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Stephen Cruise
Stephen Cruise was born in Montréal, Québec, and currently lives and works in Willowdale, Ontario. After attending the Ontario College of Art from 1967 to ’70, he was a founding member of A Space Gallery, Toronto, one of Canada’s earliest artist-run/alternative galleries, from 1970 to ’74. He has exhibited both locally, nationally, and internationally and participated in the Biennale Barro de Amèrica in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1992, 1995, and 1998. His artworks are in the public collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa.    

Some select public art commissions include: Shaping Residency, 2019, Kitchener, Ontario; Memorial Address, 2013, Fredericton, New Brunswick; Gathering of a Same Time,  2011, Metro Place, Toronto, Ontario; Familia, 2011, H.E. Kennedy Park, Port Credit, Ontario; Indigena Domain, 2008, Civic Centre, Cambridge;Vessel, 2002, Manulife Rec. Centre, Waterloo, Ontario; After/Before, 2002, Don Mills Station, Sheppard Subway, Toronto; Bell Measure, 1999, Odette Sculpture Park, Windsor; StoneWay, 1999, Baycrest Centre, Toronto; One Hundred Links – One Chain, 1998, Gibson Park, Toronto; Places in a Book (6 chapters), 1997, Spadina LRT, Pole Colonnade, Toronto, (Sussex to Wilcocks St.).
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P
lease visit Stephen's website for more information.

Earth Day 2021: Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth

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barque, digital print 19" x 13" 2018-2021
Stephen Cruise, barque, ​2018-2021
 
Handmade tribute to one cherished. 
Dream the creation and moment dearly planted.
Now stranded having been witness to change at sea.
Once with sail and now forsaken
 
Location:
Cristobal de Colon Cemetery, La Habana, Cuba.

US Elections 2020: Hiding in Plain Sight ​

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Coat of Arms, Collage, 2020
Since 2017 have produced a number of collage prints ‘under the influence’ of the 45th president of the US in large part, centered on his presence and the White House residence.  Begun in May of this year, Coat of Arms, is a structured as a triptych, which combined a desire to include the facade of the White House book-ended by 2 panels - splashed pink Toronto monuments and the yellow signature of Black Lives Matter.  Last elements fell as leaves - of greens and sand traps which have become an almost weekly recognition of his existence. The collage of Coat of Arms involves an accumulation, a moving away from an even page and becoming that of the assemblage of form rising from the array.

Other art works

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"gathering of a same time", 2011, proposal for public art
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"Rooster", 2017; collage
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"Year of Rooster", 2017, collage
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"Year of a Rooster", 2017, collage


EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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