Friday, January 21 at 2 p.m.
Are you an emerging artist or designer and looking for opportunities to present your work?
This workshop led by Onsite Gallery Curator, Lisa Deanne Smith, will cover targeting your audience, different types of venues (non-profit, commercial, artist-run-centres, public galleries, museums, festivals, public art, DIY, etc.), how to apply and/or approach curators and a brief overview of contracts/funding.
This workshop is open to current OCAD University students and recent graduates.
Register here. Zoom link will be sent to registered participants before the workshop.
About the speaker:
Lisa Deanne Smith is engaged in a cultural practice that moves between mediums —curating, writing, art and administration — exploring issues of voice, experience, multispecies collaboration and power.
She holds the position of Curator at Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Smith has exhibited internationally including White Columns, The New Museum and Paula Cooper Gallery (New York), Mercer Union, Convenience, and Gallery 44 (Toronto), Eye Level (Halifax), Kunstlerhaus Sootborn (Hamburg) and in Manifestation internationale d’art de Québec (Quebec City).
She recently wrote about growing up with a queer father in Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ+ Parents, Demeter Press (May 1 2018)
Recent curatorial projects at Onsite Gallery, OCAD University include:
How will we be with you? (Jeremy Dutcher, nichola feldman-kiss, Levyi-Alexander Love, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Asha Srinivasan and Sara Fraker, Crip Times with Syrus Marcus Ware, Elder Whabagoon)
How to Breathe Forever (Mary Anne Barkhouse, Maryanne Casasanta, DaveandJenn, Li Xinmo, Qavavau Manumie, Pejvak (Rouzbeh Akhbari + Felix Kalmenson), Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Ningiukulu Teevee, Flora Weistche)
The Sunshine Eaters (Shary Boyle, Nick Cave, Robert Holmes, Jim Holyoak, Brian Jungen, Jessica Karuhanga, Alexandra Kehayoglou, Nina Leo and Moez Surani, Tony Matelli, Alanis Obomsawin, Ebony G. Patterson, Winnie Truong)
Cheryl Pope: Objects for Listening
Terreform One: Biological Urbanism
Ads for People: Selling Ethics in the Digital Age
I Wonder: Marian Bantjes.
About Onsite Gallery:
Onsite Gallery is OCAD University’s professional gallery and experimental curatorial platform for art, design and digital media. Serving the OCAD U community and the general public, Onsite Gallery aims to foster social and cultural transformations. Onsite is located at 199 Richmond St. W., Toronto. Click here to find information on upcoming exhibitions and programs.