The Lost & Found, 420 Queen Street E, Toronto, ON (2026)

05/27/2026

🍾🌟Join us for our opening reception this Saturday 6-10pm! 🎊🧵

The Lost & Found will be open May 30 for the opening reception of material disobedience, Openwork’s exhibition! Grab some refreshments by and meet the amazing artists — Théo Bignon (), Molly JF Caldwell (), Lux Gow-Habrich (.sparkledust) and Hea R. Kim ().

Rhinestones, beads, crystals, embroidery, textiles, and ceramics have all been variously perceived as symbols of “excessive” cultures or lifestyles, an association that has served to reinforce creative hierarchies and trivialize marginalized identities. From sequined embroideries that immortalize gay cruising spots, tongue-in-cheek textiles exalting vilified reality stars, fantastical recreations of ancient Chinese accessories, and surreal ceramic creatures crusted in pom-poms and beads, material disobedience challenges the stigma of "excess" and translates it into creative inspiration and radically decadent possibilities. Curated by Madeline Collins ().

This exhibition and programming is a part of Openwork, an artist-led intitative by TLAF Collective () to encourage new voices, diversity, and critical engagement in the field of experimental craft and material-based practice. material disobedience is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. The panel discussion is hosted by Harbourfront Centre, and we would like to acknowledge the incredible support of artverb* ()

05/26/2026

🌟𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔 🌟𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 artist :

Molly JF Caldwell (she/her) is a Calgary-based artist, writer, and cultural worker whose practice is rooted in autoThéory, textiles, and material-based inquiry. A 2017 graduate of Alberta University of the Arts, she explores Japanese-Canadian identity, feminist craft traditions, and the politics of making through a multidisciplinary approach. Her work examines how textiles operate as both archives and sites of resistance, foregrounding slow-making methodologies and embodied knowledge. Caldwell was named to the 2025 Sobey Art Award longlist and has exhibited and published across the country, with recent projects at The Esker Foundation, The New Gallery, and Neutral Ground.

mollyjfcaldwell.com

𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚

🐇🌟🌷🪭 Opening May 30! 💐💫🧶🪡

Join us for a vivid showcase of boundary-pushing craft practices that reclaim and revel in what has been minimized as the frivolously feminine, the scandalously q***r, and the exotically ornamental!

𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚
Curated by Madeline Collins
with and .sparkledust

Free panel discussion with ASL interpretation: Saturday, May 30, 1-3pm, Studio Theatre rsvp link in bio
Exhibition Opening reception: Saturday, May 30, 6-10pm

05/24/2026

🩷🧶Not to be missed!🐇🩷

Join the artists and curator of 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 for a panel discussion on experimental craft, catharsis and reparative care!

Sat. May 30, 1-3pm, FREE with RSVP

Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre (235 Queens Quay W). ASL interpretation provided.

Register at the link in bio!

In this panel discussion, Théo Bignon , Molly JF Caldwell , Hea R. Kim , Lux Gow-Habrich .sparkledust, and curator Madeline Collins will consider craft as a liberatory tool for addressing social, economic, political and/or cultural harms, while also being deeply embedded in personal histories and self-expressions for q***r, femme, and racialized artists. The artists will discuss experimental craft’s ability to challenge traditional hierarchies (in both life and art) and as a means of repairing relations with trivialized or undervalued labour, knowledge, and ways of making. See you there!

Graciously supported by the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

05/22/2026

🌟𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔 🌟𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚🌟 artist .sparkledust:

Lux Gow-Habrich (星尘), an interdisciplinary artist and support worker, channels the intimate histories and rich material teachings of ceramics and textiles to create sculpture and installation art at the intersections of embodiment, identity, care practices, and processes of rupture and repair. Her interest in ritual, commemoration, and the body as archive weaves together diasporic experiences of loss and belonging to unearth unspoken legacies of disabled, q***r grief, and empowerment.

𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚

🐇🌟🌷🪭 Opening May 30! 💐💫🧶🪡

Join us for a vivid showcase of boundary-pushing craft practices that reclaim and revel in what has been minimized as the frivolously feminine, the scandalously q***r, and the exotically ornamental!

𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚
Curated by Madeline Collins
with and .sparkledust

Free panel discussion: Saturday, May 30, 1-3pm, Studio Theatre rsvp link in bio
Exhibition Opening reception: Saturday, May 30, 6-10pm

05/10/2026

✨🪡Workshop alert!🪡✨ Free, limited spots

𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 artist Théo Bignon is joining us in Toronto to host an embroidery and embellishment workshop, oriented around the possibilities of q***r place-making.

Friday, May 29, 4-7pm

Roozamoon Cafe - Workshop is full, add your name to the waitlist in bio!

Bignon’s practice of embroidering and beading meaningful locations in q***r life to mark the relationship between place and the crafting of q***r identity. Participants are encouraged to bring an image of or an object from a place that is important to them and their identity — this could be from spaces of friendship, found family, sexual liberation, emotional release, transition, and many more. Following a short discussion of his work, Bignon will lead participants through the process of sketching, embroidering, and beading a vignette onto a small circle of cloth as a way of reflecting on our everyday, unconscious place-making practices.

The Lost & Found (located just a few doors down) will be open for an exclusive preview of the exhibition, so you can see Bignon's works in person and get inspired to create your own.

Graciously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Council, and generously sponsored by .

05/08/2026

🍾🌟Join for our opening reception on Saturday May 30, 6-10pm! 🎊🧵

🔸The Lost & Found Project Space, 429 Queen St E, Toronto.

Come and celebrate with us, grab some refreshments and meet the amazing artists — Théo Bignon (), Molly JF Caldwell (), Lux Gow-Habrich (.sparkledust) and Hea R. Kim ().

Rhinestones, beads, crystals, embroidery, textiles, and ceramics have all been variously perceived as symbols of “excessive” cultures or lifestyles, an association that has served to reinforce creative hierarchies and trivialize marginalized identities. From sequined embroideries that immortalize gay cruising spots, tongue-in-cheek textiles exalting vilified reality stars, fantastical recreations of ancient Chinese accessories, and surreal ceramic creatures crusted in pom-poms and beads, material disobedience challenges the stigma of "excess" and translates it into creative inspiration and radically decadent possibilities. Curated by Madeline Collins ().

This exhibition and programming is a part of Openwork, an artist-led intitative by TLAF Collective () to encourage new voices, diversity, and critical engagement in the field of experimental craft and material-based practice. material disobedience is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. The panel discussion is hosted by Harbourfront Centre, Théo Bignon's workshop is hosted by , and we would like to acknowledge the incredible support of artverb* () 🤍🤍🤍

05/08/2026

Openwork and TLAF Collective are pleased to announce the results of our juried call for curators! 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝘀 proposed an exhibition featuring Théo Bignon , Molly JF Caldwell , Lux Gow-Habrich .sparkledust, and Hea R. Kim . 🦩🌷𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 opens May 30, 6-10 pm, and includes a panel discussion with all four artists at the Harbourfront Studio Theater (May 30, 1-3 pm, free with RSVP, link in bio) 🪷 🍄

𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝘀 is an emerging art writer, curator, and artist currently based in Tkarón:to/Toronto, Ontario. As a Black q***r scholar, her practices principally explore identity-making and world-building in Black diasporic theory, q***r-of-colour imaginaries, and the visioning of “worlds otherwise” amid crisis. Her publications include the podcast Unboxing the Canon and articles in Journal of Curatorial Studies, Senses & Society, Economía Creativa, and RACAR. Curatorially, she is interested in centering marginalized perspectives, and undoing high/low culture binaries — she is enticed by art that overwhelms, winks, and shocks. Madeline currently works as a research assistant at the Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora.

𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. The panel discussion is hosted by the Harbourfront Centre Craft & Design, and we would like to acknowledge the incredible support of artverb* .

04/10/2026

🐇🌟🌷🪭 Opening May 30! 💐💫🧶🪡

Join us for a vivid showcase of boundary-pushing craft practices that reclaim and revel in what has been minimized as the frivolously feminine, the scandalously q***r, and the exotically ornamental!

𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚
Curated by Madeline Collins

Free artist-led embroidery workshop: Friday, May 29, 4-7pm, rsvp link in bio
Free panel discussion: Saturday, May 30, 1-3pm, Studio Theatre rsvp link in bio
Exhibition Opening reception: Saturday, May 30, 6-10pm

Rhinestones, beads, crystals, embroidery, textiles, and ceramics have all been variously perceived as symbols of “excessive” cultures or lifestyles, an association that has served to reinforce creative hierarchies and trivialize marginalized identities. By centering these materials in their work, Théo Bignon (), Molly JF Caldwell (), Lux Gow-Habrich (.sparkledust) and Hea R. Kim () entwine visual and haptic pleasures with critical analyses of labour, gender, q***rness, and colonialism.

The Lost & Found Project Space
420 Queen St E, Toronto
May 30 - June 20, 2026

This exhibition and programming is a part of Openwork, an artist-led initiative by TLAF Collective to encourage new voices and critical engagement in the field of experimental craft and material-based practice. 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 is generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. The panel discussion is hosted by the Harbourfront Centre, and we would like to acknowledge the incredible support of artverb* .

08/01/2025

TLAF is very excited to be hosting this mentorship exhibition! Apply now to develop your ceramics practice with ✨

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FUSION is thrilled to launch a professional mentorship with Julie Moon for emerging and mid-career ceramic artists. This 8-session program in downtown Toronto focuses on form and surface decoration, and includes one-on-one feedback, group discussions, and a final group exhibition at The Lost & Found plus professional documentation of your work.

📍 Julie Moon’s Studio, Toronto
🗓 Starts Oct 18, 2025 (meets monthly)
🗂 Application Deadline: Sept 9 at 5 p.m.

If you’re ready to deepen your practice, grow in community, and refine your creative voice—this is for you.

FUSION is dedicated to supporting artists facing financial barriers, and is offering one bursary position to help make this program more accessible.

🔗 Get more info and APPLY via the link in 's bio!

🌜Julie Moon is a Toronto based ceramic artist. Her dedication to her practice is motivated by material and process. The universality and tactile qualities of working with clay offers a refreshing contrast to our screen-dominated lives. The surface of her sculpture and vessel works is a canvas for expressing individualism and diversity. Julie often draws from popular culture, using an accessible visual language that resonates with broad audiences. Her work pays homage to the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 70’s and 80’s, while embracing the inclusive spirit of the 1960’s and 70’s counterculture movement. Simultaneously, Julie’s admiration for the bold and clear aesthetics of modernism and post-modernism, is also very apparent.

07/11/2025

Call for Artists– Northbound: Songs of Sovereignty and

🌟Seeking Black and Indigenous artists from the North York (Toronto) community🌟 This opportunity is paid 🔥🔥🔥

🔜 Applications due Monday, July 14th, 2025

"Northbound is NYA’s signature exhibition program that supports the professional development of emerging artists while prioritizing new-generation, newcomer, and North York artists. In August 2025, in celebration of Emancipation Month, NYA will present Northbound alongside curators Muse & Museums, curatorial duo Shadio Hussein and Funmi Ajala, to curate Songs of Sovereignty. The exhibition will highlight Black and Indigenous artists in North York reflecting shared histories of resistance, resilience, and survival in the face of colonialism, systemic oppression, and cultural erasure."

Apply here: https://form.jotform.com/251744912181254

More information here: and

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The Lost & Found is proud to have hosted the first in person exhibition curated by 's Shadio Hussein and Funmi Ajala. Shoutout to both of you for your amazing work and continuing curatorial endeavours!

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