Artway Invitational - Past Exhibits

Passionate about photography and building community, Connie Munson’s Studio By Design is hosting the Looking Back, Looking Forward exhibit as a teaser showcase for the 3rd annual May exhibit, FORMS, FACES & SPACES, figuratively speaking! 

Enjoy work from some of the winners, featured photographers and artists, and community sponsors from the 2022 and 2023 May exhibits, PLUS, a sneak peek at pieces submitted for the 2024 exhibit.

The annual exhibit in May 2024 is at registered satellite sites in the hills of Caledon and Halton as part of the prestigious CONTACT Festival, the world’s largest photography event, and now in its 28th year. studiobydesign.ca

Born in Lebanon in 1954. A mechanical engineer by profession with a hobby for drawing, painting and sculpture.  He draws and paints in various media such as pencil, pastel, watercolor and oil. The subjects are mainly portraits and landscape. Few works of clay and wood sculpture as well as computer sculpture have been produced by him. Ghazi also does story illustration.

Fine art education in Canada: First year Studio Art at Concordia University, one Summer School of animation at Sheridan College.

He has participated in several collective shows in Cyprus and Canada. He sold his paintings in Cyprus, Canada and internationally. He is a member of Artists in Canada, CSPWC (Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor), Mississauga Watercolor Society, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga Arts Council.

www.ghazitoutounji.com

Stephanie enjoys working in a variety of media, including pencil, coloured pencil, acrylics, watercolours, printmaking, mixed media, and digital art.  In addition to creating works of realism and fanciful illustrations, She likes to create art that straddles the worlds of digital design and traditional media.  This collection of animal themed artwork represents Stephanie’s varied, lighthearted, work.

Stephanie attended Visual Arts Brampton in her teens, earning two youth awards.  After graduating with distinction from the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Studio Art and Art History, she returned to VAB as an adult member, board member, instructor, and session facilitator with a passion to encourage creativity in others.  Stephanie has exhibited artwork in the Zavitz Gallery at the UofG, Brampton’s Rose Theatre & City Hall, Artway Gallery, The Ontario Legislature, and the Canadian National Exhibition. 

Artwork from Visual Arts Brampton members, featuring: Aditi Sangwan, Chris McGlynn, Colleen Dee, Erin Hansen, Helen Duplassie, Hye Jung, M. B. Dlubak, Mary Jones, Maureen McLellan, Merlene Boyce, Priyanka Singh & Stephanie Czolij.

Connie Munson’s Studio By Design is host of the annual themed exhibit, FORMS, FACES & SPACES, figuratively speaking! It hung in May 2023 at two approved satellite sites with the Scotiabank CONTACT Festival, the largest photography event in the world.

Behind the scenes with ... THIS CONTACT! is a three month bonus tour of the winners’ pieces, a selection of ecmunson’s candid portraiture from her analogue collection, and the back stories on community supporters for the May show.

Munson is active in several arts organizations, a passionate photographer with a recent solo show at the Millcroft Inn & Spa, a co-gallerist with pop-up galleries, and co-organizer of The ARTISTS Festival in 2018.

Showing regularly in southern Ontario galleries, her work also hangs in clinics, offices, libraries, and the Dufferin Board of Trade. Most notable are two pieces which recently hung in the juried shows at the Ontario Legislative Assembly, and placing third with her piece, Tangled Reflections, in a show at the McMichael Gallery. studiobydesign.ca