Insite Exhibition Tour with Spencer Harrison
Please join us for an Insite Exhibition Tour with Spencer Harrison, artist, activist, and educator who works with gender and sexuality minority youth to discover and build resiliencies.
Wednesday, March 26, 6:30 p.m. FREE
Spencer J. Harrison is an Artist, Activist, and Educator who works with gender and sexuality minority youth to discover and build resiliencies. He relocated his studio to Georges Vanier Secondary School and became that schools artist in residence, inspiring community advocacy among students at the high school as well as the post-secondary level. Not only is Harrison the first artist-in-residence at a Canadian high school, but he is also one of the first Canadians to paint his dissertation. Drawing from intensely personal subject matter such as childhood photographs, the works intent is to be a reflection on gay and lesbian history, told through Harrisons own experience growing up gay in rural Ontario. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the University of Torontos Centre for Arts-Informed Research and he is a sessional instructor in OCADs Faculty of Liberal Studies.
ONSITE [AT] OCAD U
230 Richmond Street West Street level
Generations of Queer
Robert Flack/ John Greyson/ Elisha Lim/ Kiley May
March 12 to June 28, 2014
Curated by Lisa Deanne Smith
Generations of Queer is an exhibition centred on storytelling, creating a dialogue between the works of two senior artists and two younger artists who have come into queer discourses as beneficiaries of the activism of their predecessors.
[Bios]
Robert Flack 1957-1993 was bron in Guelph, ON, and moved to Toronto to study at York University BFA 1980. He began employment at Art Metropole in 1980 and assisted on General Idea projects. From 1981 his work was shown nationally and then internationally. Public collections include the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photograph. Paul Petro Contemporary Art represents the Estate of Robert Flack. www.paulpetro.com
John Greyson is a Toronto based film and video maker who has been politically active in the Toronto queer community for the past 33 years. With short videos and feature films he explores topics ranging from anti-censorship battles, AIDS discrimination, same sex marriage, militarism, the tar sands, Israelie apartheid and the fight for AIDS treatment drugs in Africa and the world. He is recognized for his documentary interviews, historical narratives, opera, found footage and camp. His work reflects many of the legal and politically struggles for queers in the 1980s as well as world politics with a strong queer voice.
Elisha Lim exhibits illustrations and animated shorts internationally, and has advocated against transphobia and racism on United Nations panels and as a director of Montreal's first Racialized Pride Week. Their comic strops Favourite Dating Tales, Sissy, The Illustrated Gentleman and 100 Butches are acclaimed by Autostraddle, Bitch Magazine and New York Times bestselling author Alison Bechdel, and their debut graphic novel 100 Crushes will be published in June 2014 by Koyama Press and launched at Onsite [at] OCAD U. www.elishalim.com
Kiley May is a young Mohawk storyteller, artist, creator and shaman. Kiley is also a two-spirit, trans, queer and genderqueer human being. Their gender pronouns are they/their/them. They work in film, photography, writing, journalism, fashion, dance and performance art.
Lisa Deanne Smith is engaged in a cultural practice that moves between mediums - art, curating, writing and community events - exploring issues of voice, experience and power. She has exhibited internationally including White Columns, The New Museum and Mercer Union. Currently, she is Acting Curator at Onsite [at] OCAD University. Recent curatorial projects include Biological Urbanism: Terreform ONE; No Dull Affairs; Karen Lofgren, Vanessa Maltese and Jillian McDonald; and I Wonder: Marian Bantjes.
The blog:
The Pride Chronicles http://blog.ocad.ca/wordpress/thepridechronicles/
The Queer Pride Chronicles is a forum for LGBTTIQQ2SA communities to add thoughtful content to Pride.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer/Questioning, 2 Spirited, Allies
Share your story, pictures and/or videos here!
Possible topics to get you writing:
What is Pride?
What was the first Pride celebration you attended?
What is your coming out story?
Have you had a romance, fling or crush that developed at a Pride celebration?
How has queer changed for you over the past 40 years?
What have you learned from a queer family member or close friend?
Why are you proud?
Our stories are important, they are full of power. Please tell us yours!
http://blog.ocad.ca/wordpress/thepridechronicles/
and/or
https://www.facebook.com/ThePrideChronicles
Please visit our facebook page and/or website for a full listing of educational events and workshops!
Onsite [at] OCAD University
230 Richmond Street West, Toronto ON
416-977-6000 ext.265
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Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.
Free and Open to the General Public.
MORE FREE EVENTS:
Wednesday, April 2, 6:30 P.M.: Insite Exhibition Tour with Paul Petro
Wednesday, April 30, 6:30 P.M.: Insite Exhibition Tour with Richard Fung
Wednesday, May 14, 6:30 P.M.: Insite Exhibition Tour with Wendy Coburn
Wednesday, May 28, 6:30 p.m.: Insite Exhibition Tour with Andrea Fatona, Assistant Professor, OCAD U
Wednesday, June 11, 7 P.M.: The Queer Pride Chronicles Story Slam
Sunday, June 15, 2 to 5 P.M.: Elisha Lim launches their debut graphic novel, 100 Crushes, published by Koyama Press
Monday, June 23, 7 P.M.: Clocked, Don Pyle and Martin Sorrondeguy look at queer content in their punk photographs
Wednesday, June 25, 8 P.M.: DUORAMA, a performance by Paul Couillard Ed Johnson co-presented by Fado Performance Art Centre
