The 4th Annual Gladstone Grow Op returns April 21-24.

This four-day festival will transform the Gladstone Hotel’s second floor with 30+ immersive installations that take on urbanism, environmental sustainability, landscape design, and contemporary art. The exhibit will include evening events as well as both on and off-site participatory events.

This year, the Daniels Faculty is proud to provide support for the art, architecture, and design collective NomadicVisionStudio, founded by Daniels Faculty masters students Claire Kurtin, Nadia Pulez, and Ramin Yamin. Their installation, Hypha, explores “the relationship between nature and urbanity through those places that they undesirably intersect.” The project is inspired by “the form of fungi and mould” and promises to challenge our “assumptions about the interdependency between architecture and the environment.”

Exhibition Hours:

April 21: 11am - 8pm
April 22: 11am - 10pm
April 23: 11am - 10pm
April 23: 10am - 5pm

Events:

Wednesday, April 20: Gow Op Talks 8:00 - 10:00pm
Thursday, April 21: Grow Op’s Alternative Food + Drink Show 6:00 - 1:00pm
Friday, April 22: Opening reception 7:00 - 10:00pm (After party 10:00pm - late)
Saturday, April 23: Offisite Installation by Robert Cram + After Party, OCADU Gallery, 7-10pm
Sunday, April 24: Gladstone Flea Goes Green, Melody Bar, 10:00am - 4:00pm

Daniels Faculty alumni also participating in the Gladstone Grow up include Rui Felix (MLA 2015) and Victoria Taylor (MLA 2008), the curator of last year’s festival.

For more information, visit the Gladstone Hotel’s website or the Facebook page for the event.

Follow NomadicVisionStudio on instagram @nomadicvisionstudio