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Andrea Fatona
Andrea Fatona is a Canadian independent curator and scholar. She is an associate professor at OCAD University, where her areas of expertise includes black, contemporary art and curatorial studies. Early life In 2011, Fatona received her PhD from the University of Toronto (OISE). Titled "Where Outreach Meets Outrage: Racial Equity policy formation at the Canada Council for the Arts (1989-1999)", her dissertation examined policy and practice regarding the racial equity at the Canada Council, Canada Council for the Arts. Fatona was a member of the Canada Council Equity advisory committee for the Visual Arts section between 2003 and 2005. Career Fatona held curatorial positions at Artspeak in Vancouver, the Ottawa Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ottawa, Artspace Peterborough, and Video In (Vancouver). She curated a show of the work of Winsom, a Belize-based Canadian and Maroon artist, at the gallery. Her research contributed to the Hogan's Alley, Vancouver memorial project that memo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curator
A curator (from , meaning 'to take care') is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular institution and its mission. The term "curator" may designate the head of any given division, not limited to museums. Curator roles include "community curators", "literary curators", " digital curators", and " biocurators". Collections curator A "collections curator", a "museum curator", or a "keeper" of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library, or archive) is a content specialist charged with an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material including historical artifacts. A collections curator's concern necessarily involves tangible objects of some sort—artwork, collectibles, historic items, or scientific collections. In smaller organizations, a curator may have sole r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Pien
Ed Pien (born February 23, 1958) is a Canadian contemporary artist, known for his drawings and large-scale drawing-based installations inspired by multiple sources (Inuit as well as European and Chinese) and traditions, printmaking, paper cuts and video and photography. Life Pien was born in 1958 in Taipei, Taiwan, emigrating to Canada at the age of 11 with his family. At a young age, he began to draw and feels drawing propels everything he does. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Western Ontario (1982) and a Master of Fine Arts from York University (1984). Pien lives and works in Toronto, where he was a professor in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. He has also been an Artist-in-Residence, Painting and Drawing, Studio Arts at Concordia University, Montreal. Career Pien`s practice is drawing-based. For his cut-outs, he uses an X-Acto knife as his drawing tool and traditional Japanese paper, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charmaine Nelson
Charmaine Andrea Nelson (born 1971) is a Canadian art historian, educator, author, and independent curator. Nelson was a full professor of art history at McGill University until June 2020 when she joined NSCAD University to develop the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery. She is the first tenured Black professor of art history in Canada. Nelson's research interests include the visual culture of slavery, race and representation, Black Canadian studies and African Canadian history as well as critical theory, post-colonial studies, Black feminist scholarship, Transatlantic Slavery Studies, and Black Diaspora Studies. In addition to teaching and publishing in these research areas, Nelson has curated exhibitions, including at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Education * BFA Art History 1994, Concordia University * MFA Art History 1995, Concordia University * PhD Art Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Space Gallery
A Space is a Canadian artist-run centre located in Toronto, Ontario Background The gallery originated as the Nightingale Arts Council in 1970, and was founded in 1971. The name ''A Space Gallery'' was first used when the gallery established itself at 85 St. Nicholas Street. The first exhibition ''Concept 70'' was organized by Robert Bowers and Chris Youngs and included works by Ian Carr-Harris, Stephen Cruise, John McEwen, Dennis Oppenheim and General Idea. It focuses on political and social art work, such as the 2015 ''Detention'' exhibition. A Space Gallery receives funding from the Ontario Arts Council. See also * List of museums in Toronto There are a variety of different museums in Toronto. Types of museums located in Toronto include agricultural museums, art museums, fashion museums, food museums, history museums (including historic houses and living museums), List of military mus ... References External links A Space website{{Authority control Art museums and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fung
Richard Fung (born 1954) is a video artist, writer, public intellectual and theorist who currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and is openly gay. Fung was a professor at OCAD University. He earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, and received a Master of Education in sociology and cultural studies at the University of Toronto. Fung's work in video explores the role of Asian men in gay pornography, while addressing the intersections between colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, and AIDS. Many of his works have been presented at venues in Canada and the United States. Fung is an activist and founded the Toronto-based organization Gay Asians of Toronto in 1980. In 2019, he was presented the Bonham Centre Award from the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, for his contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification. Early life and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Cozier
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Yukon Arts Centre
The Yukon Arts Centre (YAC) an arts centre and art gallery, gallery located in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The art centre opened in May 1992 and contains a 428-seat theatre, and a used to hosts arts performances and exhibitions. The arts centre permanent collection of visual art includes over 100 works from artists throughout northern Canada. History Prior to the completion of the Yukon Arts Centre, musical and theatre performances in Whitehorse were typically conducted in borrowed spaces and venues; including the local courthouse, and in the gym of F. H. Collins Secondary School. In 1980 the Arts Canada North Society was established to advocate to the government of Canada, federal, Government of Yukon, territorial and municipal governments for an arts centre in Whitehorse. After nearly a decade of lobbying, all three levels of government provided million for the purposes of establishing a new arts venue. Two locations were initially proposed for the arts centre, along the river ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery
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The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery is a public art gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest public art gallery in the Regional Municipality of Durham, of which Oshawa is a part. The gallery houses a significant collection of Canadian contemporary and modern artwork. Housed in a building designed by noted Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, the collection focuses on works by Painters Eleven, who were founded in the Oshawa studio of Painters Eleven member Alexandra Luke. History Oshawa designer William Caldwell organized a group of artists to establish a commercial gallery space on Simcoe Street North, in Oshawa. Shortly thereafter, Ewart McLaughlin and his wife (known as Alexandra Luke, a member of Painters Eleven) offered financial support and a significant collection of works to help create the foundation of a public gallery for the city. The gallery was incorporated with the name of Ewart's grandfather, Robert McLaughlin, founder of the McLaughlin Carriage Company. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Fernandes (artist)
Michael Fernandes (born in 1944) is a Canadian experimental artist and art educator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His work uses familiar, even banal materials to ask the viewer to confront the boundary between daily life and art. Early life Fernandes was born in Trinidad. He emigrated to Canada to study at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in the 1963. By 1973, Fernandes moved to Halifax to teach at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Career Initially a painter, Fernandes turned to installation and multimedia to create situations that actively solicit participation from the viewer. Fernandes' texts and interventions explore this intersection of private life with public space. Fluxus suggested that everyday life should not be excluded from art. It encouraged a direct approach to creating work using the minimum amount of means required. Fernandes extends this approach to use everyday objects and experiences to provoke the viewer to make connections between the installati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Cozier
Cristopher Cozier (born 1959, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a multidisciplinary, contemporary artist and cultural critic based in Trinidad. He left Trinidad to study in the United States in 1983, and has been exhibiting in and outside of the Caribbean since. Cozier is the co-director of Alice Yard, an arts initiative in Trinidad and Tobago. Early life and education Cristopher Cozier grew up in Port of Spain, where he lives and works. Cozier studied painting at the Royal Victoria Institute with M. P. Alladin. He studied graphic design at the John S. Donaldson Technical Institute. In 1983, he relocated to the United States to earn his BFA in painting from the painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Soon after, he acquired an MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Jersey. In 1988, Cristopher Cozier returned to Trinidad and Tobago. Work Cristopher Cozier works with drawing, prints, sculpture, video, and installation t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maud Sulter
Maud Sulter (19 September 1960 – 27 February 2008) was a Scottish contemporary fine artist, photographer, writer, educator, feminist, cultural historian, and curator of Ghanaian heritage. She began her career as a writer and poet, becoming a visual artist not long afterwards. By the end of 1985 she had shown her artwork in three exhibitions and her first collection of poetry had been published. Sulter was known for her collaborations with other Black feminist scholars and activists, capturing the lives of Black people in Europe. She was a champion of the African-American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, and was fascinated by the Haitian-born French performer Jeanne Duval. Early life and education Born on 19 September 1960 in Glasgow, Scotland, to a Scottish mother and a Ghanaian father,Margaret Busby (ed.), "Maud Sulter", ''Daughters of Africa'', London: Vintage, 1993, p. 921. Maud Sulter attained a master's degree in Photographic Studies [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
