Sabbatical Presentations - Shannon Gerard & b.h. Yael

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A Hybrid Event: Sabbatical Presentations by Two Faculty Members
Shannon Gerard | Printmaking & Publication
b.h. Yael | Integrated Media

230 Richmond St. W RHB 322
1:30 - 3 p.m.
Faculty of Art
Faculty of Art
Free
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230 Richmond St. W RHB 322
1:30 - 3 p.m.
Faculty of Art
Faculty of Art
Free
Add to Calendar
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Faculty of Art

 

Sabbatical Presentations

 

  • Thursday, March 5, 2026, 1:30 to 3:00 pm
  • 230 Richmond St., W, Room 322
  • Hybrid Presentation
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Sabbatical presentation of Shannon Gerard

Shannon Gerard presents:

Plant Parenthood

 

 

What do farming and printmaking have in common? The shared political imperative of public participation. Most organic farmers I know are activ­ists—trapped in a capitalist system while striving to build healthy networks of ecological care, viable futures and equitable access to land. Printmakers are likewise scrappy—taking hold of machines built for industry and mass communi­cation and subverting them for art. Self-publishing in particular is intimately tied to liberation movements, in which dissemination is a matter of personal survival. Plant Parenthood is a farm, a publishing house and a classroom with an emphasis on radical seed saving, cooperative programming, regional adaptation of diasporic food and social justice.

Presentation of b.h. Yael

 

b.h. Yael presents: 

Split Ends: unanswered questions 

 

 

Besides gratefulness for the time afforded through this half sabbatical, I was divided between institutional responsibilities and three very disparate projects. These wrapped up through distribution, representational summary, and rewrite: a video letter, a photographic and installation hair project, and a family memoire. Some to completion, some to anxious irresolve. Each remains in question...


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