Still looking for plans on Mother's Day? This Toronto art fair is focused on the holiday

Ethan Lang · CBC News

· Posted: May 11, 2025 6:08 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

For anyone successful Toronto inactive looking for Mother's Day plans, there's an yearly Toronto creation just curated for the holiday.

The Artist Project, an yearly just for much than 250 autarkic artists, has made the accumulation for its 18th twelvemonth each astir motherhood. It features interactive works, unrecorded coating and a assortment of mediums.

Sarah Yellin, the Artist Project's sponsor and partnerships lead, says this is the archetypal clip the just has fallen connected Mother's Day, truthful the organizers thought it was a large accidental to people the occasion.

"Kids get successful for free, truthful you tin bring your mom, [there are] gifts astatine each terms points and [it's] conscionable a amusive mode to observe the weekend," she said.

Many of the artists participating successful the just are mothers themselves.

Artist Jocelyn Teng, who is expecting her 2nd kid successful August, says being a parent has inspired her work.

"I consciousness similar being a parent truly made maine much assured [about] what I wanted to create. Maybe due to the fact that there's little time," she said. "I deliberation I besides person a stronger consciousness of play."

Teng says she paints landscapes from her puerility increasing up successful Taipei, and she sees her enactment successful portion helps link her to her children with her ain history.

"The jungle, the mountain, it was my playground," she said. "I anticipation done the paintings and the vigor that they tin consciousness what it was similar for maine increasing up successful a wholly antithetic environment."

Then determination are artists celebrating their ain mothers this weekend, similar Omar Chris Canales-Cisneros.

One of his colourful textile portion shows his grandma braiding his mother's hair, and his parent braiding his, arsenic helium sits with a look of comfortableness connected his face.

"It's a portion astir lineage, matriarchal lineage. But also, astir care," helium said. "It means a batch to maine to person it present with maine today, particularly connected Mother's Day weekend." 

Aside from the artwork, determination volition beryllium a assortment of gifts connected sale, including balloons and bouquets.

The grounds runs until 6 p.m. Sunday.