Re-Imagining Through Art

Join Onsite Gallery for a thought-provoking virtual panel featuring Peter Scott, Kwasi Bugyei and Emmanuel Osahor as they discuss how their creative practices, research, and artistic production engage with the re-constructing of histories, the re-building of legacies, and the re-imagining of Afro/Black/Indigenous futurities. Through diverse artistic mediums—including photography, painting, textiles, and film—the discussion will explore how these practices challenge dominant narratives, center lived experience and ancestral knowledge, and open space for new ways of understanding the past, present, and future.

Stay involved with a live Q&A session, moderated by Onsite Gallery’s Programs & Community Coordinator, Susan Jama. Don't miss this opportunity to engage with the panelists at the intersection of re-imagining histories through creative expression. 

Virtual via YouTube

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About the Panelists

Peter Scott, BFA, MDes, is a lecturer at OCAD University. His background includes executive education training at MIT Sloan School Entrepreneurship Program (U.S.), Wharton School of Business (U.S.), INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Program (France), and the University of Toronto Rotman School (Canada). He is a co-founder of a social enterprise that provides entrepreneurial skills training for individuals and communities. Peter’s research areas include creative entrepreneurship, social finance, social innovation, and movement through dance concepts. He is currently exploring alternative ways of teaching and learning in a workshop titled “walk and talk and tea” as a way of reconnecting with regenerating knowledge practices to bring into the classroom space. How might we tell stories with our bodies, our voices and pause for fulfilment or purpose? What rhythms might we follow when we walk, talk and drink tea or whisky? These questions help to guide Peter’s values and creative business practice.

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Kwasi Bugyei is a Toronto-based creative technologist, TouchDesigner developer and creative coder. A Hxouse Tenant and hxouse Labs Facilitator, Kwasi conducts educational workshops based on digital design philosophy and immersive experience "working with multiple mediums and form factors has presented me with many opportunities to assist and consult in productions ranging from interactive installation and app development to education, film and wearable technology." Kwasi is currently bridging his disciplines for future work.

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Emmanuel Osahor is an Artist currently based in Toronto, Ontario. He is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the University of Toronto. His practice engages with beauty as a necessity for survival, and a precursor to thriving. Through a rigorously playful inquiry into materials and image making processes, his works depict garden spaces as complicated sanctuaries within which manifestations of beauty and care are present. His work has been presented in multiple solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally and can be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Guelph, Art Gallery of Alberta, Art Bank of Canada, and the National Gallery of Canada.

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About the Moderator

Susan Jama is an art worker with over 6 years of experience leading community engagement and public arts programming with strong grassroots experience. She is the Programs and Community Coordinator at Onsite Gallery. Susan has worked with various institutions that approach heritage in a community-minded manner including Toronto Ward Museum (TWM) and Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue Gallery & Cultural Centre (BAND). She graduated with a Masters of Museum Studies from University of Toronto and completed her Bachelor in Psychology & History at York University. She currently serves on the Museum Education Roundtable board as co-treasurer.