Community Identities: Learning and Projects
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Paola Poletto & Stacey Sproule
3:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Faculty of Art
Faculty of Art
Free
3:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Faculty of Art
Faculty of Art
Free
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Community Identities: Learning and Projects
- Tuesday, February 24, 3:15 – 4:30PM
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Art & Design Education Lab Projects presents Community Identities: Learning and Projects with Paola Poletto & Stacey Sproule.
Both explore how their practices as artists/designers speak to and engage with community, as they reflect on their unique sites as learners.
Paola Poletto is an Italian born multidisciplinary artist-curator and arts professional whose work is rooted in social practice and site-specificity, experiential design, and a methodology inspired by feminist, queer and Indigenous relational aesthetics. With over 25 years of exhibition experience, she builds her practice around an interest in multi-voiced creative narratives. Poletto is currently pursuing practice-based doctoral research in Media and Design Innovation and is teaching at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her project looks at what it means and feels like to be an artist/art worker in a museum today. Poletto is also the independent co-producer of art/lit projects including OOL (Office of Life), an imprint she started in 2019.
Stacey Sproule is a multi-disciplinary artist, tarot reader, and teacher. Her work includes performance, painting, drawing, florals, video, animation, audio, installation, textiles and ceramics. Her fascination is with the liminal, the ephemeral, and the magical. She holds a BFA from OCAD in Drawing and Painting, and has exhibited regionally across Ontario, since 2007, including Forest City Gallery in London, 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival in Toronto, and the Art Gallery of Mississauga. She has taught at Workman Arts, Stonegate Community Health, Toronto Public Library, Regina Public Library, The County Arts Lab and The Canadian War Museum. Stacey is also the Programs Director for the Prince Edward County Arts Council.
Note: Photo image is Paolo Poletto’s Walker Court III (2025) in MUSEUM IN WATER (ICED) January 27- April 15, 2026, 113Research, 5th floor 113 McCaul Street.
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