This one-day summit will explore art as a catalyst for sparking community imagination around belonging, trust, and social resiliency in urban centres.
Date/Time: Oct 22 2016, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Vancouver, Museum of VancouverCost: Free
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Some of Vancouver’s most dynamic artists and designers will share their ideas, projects, and initiatives in a series of rapid-fire presentations. Audience members will then take the lead in imagining how the arts can be used in interactive ways to advance these themes across Metro Vancouver through a series of workshops facilitated by the presenters. The summit will wrap up with a peer-to-peer granting session, where some of those solutions and interventions could potentially be funded up to $1500. The summit will help to share big imaginations and best practices for using art as a catalyst for making change in our communities.
Participants
Corey Bulpitt
Taakeit Aaya or "Gifted Carver" Haida of the Naikun Raven clan was born in Prince Rupert BC in 1978. He is a great-great grandson of the famed Charles Edenshaw and Louis Collison. Corey graduated from the Langley Fine Arts School in 1996. In 2001 he apprenticed under Master Carver Christian White for three years, learning design and wood carving in Haida Gwaii. He is an avid painter, jeweler, wood and argillite carver who enjoys exploring different mediums such as spray paint which he has used to create large-scale paintings involving urban youth in Vancouver.
Alex Grünenfelder
Alex Grünenfelder is an artist and designer based in Vancouver. Grünenfelder’s art practice spans several media including sculpture, audio, video and ‘air tasting’. His work has been exhibited recently as part of Showroom at Centre A and Cube Living at 221A in Vancouver. He is the co-founder of Green Building Audio Tours, a production enterprise that creates audio tours for green buildings and a co-founder of the Vancouver Design Nerds Society - an organization dedicated to facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration between designers, artists and the general public. He completed a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Art History, Fine Art (1997) at McGill University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1999).
Zoe Kreye
Zoe Kreye creates inter-disciplinary art projects that explore transformation, collective experience and negotiations of public. Her work looks to engage the public in relations and aesthetics, with the goal of building inclusive, bottom-up associations that have the potential to be small catalysts for change within dominant social systems. Often looking outside the realm of art, her projects take the form of workshops, rituals, clubs, dialogues and journeys. Her focus encourages people towards self-reflection and a deeper engagement with themselves and society. Recent projects include Our Missing Body (Western Front, KAG), FutureLoss (grunt gallery), Unlearning Practices (Goethe Satellite Vancouver,
Carmen Papalia
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1981, Carmen Papalia is a Social Practice artist who makes participatory projects on the topic of access as it relates to public space, the Art institution and visual culture. His work has been featured as part of exhibitions and programming at: The Whitney Museum of American Art, the L.A Craft and Folk Art Museum, the Grand Central Art Center, the Canter Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, the Portland Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art and the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2011, he was awarded a residency at Mildred’s Lane, where he developed a site-specific rendition of the Blind Field Shuttle that traversed the sonically stunning natural landscapes of Beach Lake, Pennsylvania. In 2012, he served as the Mellon Tri-College Creative Resident and offered a series of improvisational Blind Field Shuttle walks for students and staff at Haverford and Bryn Mawr College.
Holly Schmidt
Holly Schmidt is a Vancouver artist with a research-based practice that engages processes of collaborative research and informal pedagogy. Moving across disciplinary boundaries, she explores the relationships between practices of making, knowledge creation and the formation of temporary communities. Her recent exhibitions and residency projects include Pollen Index at the Charles H. Scott Gallery (2016), Till with the Santa Fe Art Institute Food Justice Residency (2014/15), Mess Hall as part of the residency Society Is A Workshop at the Banff Centre (2013), Moveable Feast at the Burnaby Art Gallery (2012), and Grow with Other Sights for Artists’ Projects (2011). She is adjunct faculty at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and the Assistant Curator, Learning at the Contemporary Art Gallery. http://hollyschmidt.ca/
Ayotzi 68
AYOTZI 68 is a collective of artists and activists that focuses on artistic creation, popular education and supporting the food sovereignty movement. The name of the collective emerges from the social movement that intensified after the Mexican army forcibly disappeared 43 students from the Isidro Burgos Teacher’s College in Ayotzinapa, Mexico in September 2014. AYOTZI 68 also collects the histories of the global student movements of 1968, for instance when thousands of students were killed by the Mexican army in Tlatelolco. These events, in turn, are directly linked to the indigenous Zapatista struggle and a global indigenous resistance. One of the objectives of the collective is to advance artistic creation and education through anti-capitalist practices, linking indigenous resistance and anti-colonial struggles happening simultaneously around the world.
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