Propeller's 20th Anniversary Show

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Imagine you were an art student in the 1990's, just graduated from what was then the Ontario College of Art.  Eager to get started on your career you were faced with desperately few opportunities to show your work. 

Not to be denied, in 1996 a group of confident young grads decided to take matters into their own hands and organized an independent show. Buoyed by their success, they founded their own artist-run gallery -- Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts — at first on Spadina and later in what was then the 'hinterlands' of Queen West.

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