Artist Project Opening Night Preview
Be the first to experience Artist Project 2025 at the Opening Night Preview, Thursday, May 8, 6–10 PM. This is your chance to meet the artists, discover and purchase incredible works before the weekend, and let your emotions come alive.
The energy will be electric—art, fashion, music, and performances come together in a one-night-only celebration where anything can happen. This year’s fair is all about making bold connections—with art, with artists, and with the emotions that move us.
FASHION SHOWS
Fashion Art Toronto will turn the market hallways into a runway with an over-the-top fashion show. Models will be dressed in designer pieces available for sale in the new F.A.T Boutique, new to the market this year.
L U N A R A, by Michelle Forcelledo-Wolff, is a conceptual fashion label that experiments with textile manipulation & unique silhouettes to produce unconventional apparel designs through deadstock materials.
Trash Panda Brass
Trash Panda Brass is a new and exciting voice in the Toronto brass band scene. They have appeared on the cover of the Whole Note magazine; performed at TD Jazz Fest, and Small World Festival; and recorded their first EP, all within the first year of conception. Their home however, will always be on the streets where they are “retooling the art of busking into a kind of amazing outdoor ambush” - The Whole Note
Trash Panda Brass will the performing at the Exterior Entrance from 6pm - 8pm.
LIVE DJ SETS
Guests will be encouraged to dance the night away with two DJ set experiences. Listed as presented in the image above, from left to right:
Rose Aura
Aura photography is a chance to pause, reflect and decipher your chakras. More than a photograph, these images are able to capture both the physical form and the mystical spectrum within us all.
Aura readings have been used throughout the ages as both a healing and learning practice. During the 1970s, aura photography became popularized thanks to the creation of the Aura Camera. Rose Aura proudly uses this highly specialized camera to bring film aura readings to Toronto. Our mission is to provide you with the best possible portrait and reading of your aura based on a high understanding of energy, the chakra system, and crystal healing.
Purchase your custom aura photograph and reading onsite during Opening Night.
Stan Olthuis Elemental, a performance featuring Mira la Vida
Elemental is a hip hop performance responding to Mira la Vida, Stan Olthuis’ imposing interactive sculpture. Its mesmerizing action nods to the fractal nature of the universe recreating itself. Surface images represent the Platonic elements of earth, water, fire, and air. Human interaction suggests our existential experience on this physical plane.
Olthuis is a Canadian visual artist whose work is driven by a curiosity about our relationship to the world around us. Reinterpreting persistent symbolisms such as sacred geometry, he explores spatial tension and interaction through abstract shapes and audience provocations. He employs diverse materials and fabrication techniques to create.
Dahae Song, Bridging Realms (Live Performance)
This live painting is a practice of presence—an unfolding in real time. Using acrylic on canvas, each brushstroke becomes a moment of translation, as the body moves as a vessel, giving form to felt energies.
In dialogue with the installation Bridging Realms, this performance traces the space between dissolution and becoming.
Dahae Song is a South Korean interdisciplinary artist based in Seoul and Toronto. A self-declared visual philosopher, Dahae uses various mediums to push and pull time, capturing evidence that we have not lost our intrinsic connection to nature.
Inna Gertsberg, Draw Me A Monster
Inna Gertsberg is a Toronto-based artist and illustrator. She was born and raised in the former USSR, where she studied fine art. Inna worked as an advertising art director for 25 years before going back to her first love, painting. Her ongoing project, Draw Me A Monster, has taken her around the world and given life to more than 2,000 monsters for people of all ages. DMAM is an interactive exercise, in which the audience member imagines a creature and gives Inna the description, from which Inna paints the creature as she sees it. This exercise requires creativity from both the "author" and the artist. The result is an expression of what two minds created together – one couldn't exist without the other.
Anna Bediones: Sneaker Drops
Anna Bediones' installation Sole Collections will feature special daily “Sneaker Drops."