WIAprojects

The Postcard Project is a research initiative to connect young students in a suburban middle school with contemporary, Canadian artists. The project invites all emerging and established professionals from across the country to participate in a simple postcard exchange. It will begin as each student chooses an artist/artwork they like from received images and creates a postcard in response. The student's artwork postcard is made and mailed and then the Canadian artist is invited to send a postcard back in response. Through this project, I intend to facilitate cooperative learning and collaboration through an authentic dialogue between young and practicing artists. The Postcard Project will bring Canadian artwork into the public school realm, and help educate youth on different styles, media, and themes that artists are exploring countrywide. How to Participate as a Practicing Artist: Send ONE image of your work, along with your name, full mailing address, and a short bi

Date: Feb 8th, 2012, 12-1.30pm  Location: CWSE, OISE/UT, 252 Bloor Street West, Rm 2-227 Free and all are welcome. The Silent Book: Crafting Memories from a Life with Cancer is a visual and textual collaborative autobiography project that addresses several complex and perplexing questions pertaining to living in the postcancer body. Women’s experiences of cancer cut across so many levels of subjective and objective reality that they can only be articulated in a fragmentary manner, through a bricolage of discontinuous narratives and mixed images.  For this session, Patterson & Karpinski will discuss both personal cancer experiences and their associated politics. We invite participants to join us in making collages from found printed text and images. Readings may include: cancer journals; emails from friends and doctors; quotations from famous cancer survivors; citations from the popular scientific and medical lore on cancer; and statistical data. The event will engage multip