Syrus Marcus Ware is a Toronto-based artist and activist who is visiting the Westcoast for a residency at @UVicTransArchives at the University of Victoria, to do work and research with the largest archive of transgender history in the world
Date/Time: Nov 30 2017, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Vancouver, grunt gallery | Event calendar
Ware, a visual artist, activist, curator, and educator, will be holding an artist talk with us November 30, at 6 - 8 PM at @gruntgallery. Ware works in the mediums of painting, installation, and performance and will be speaking on his work centred around social justice and black activist culture. Come by the gallery then to help us inaugurate his stay in Vancouver!
Artist Biography: Syrus is a Vanier Scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator. Syrus uses painting, installation and
performance to explore social justice frameworks and black activist culture. He is a facilitator/designer at The
Banff Centre, and for 12 years was the Coordinator of the Art Gallery of Ontario Youth Program. Syrus is the
inaugural Daniel’s Spectrum Artist-in-Residence (2016/17) and is also a core-team member of #BlackLivesMatter- Toronto.
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