WIAprojects

  Yes, And… at 113Research, 5 th floor hallway, 113 McCaul Street, OCAD U  from April 14 to Sept 27, 2025.  Curators: Ali Brown & Grace MacDonald.  Artists:  Kiley Brennan, Ali Brown, Angie Li, Bella Melardi, Parker Marcotte Rojas, Anastasia Vavaroutsos-Moffat. As student artists and curators with disabilities we dream of environments where we can thrive in our practices celebrating the fullness of our identities without compromising our bodies and minds. Here we disrupt a limited perception of disability by highlighting the breadth of our experiences.   Yes, And… features work from OCAD U students from the Disability Community & Culture Group (DCCG), a space for students to explore and celebrate disability identity through participating in social activities, advocacy, and exhibition opportunities. Image is Stimming  by Kiley Brennan (drawing of expressive hands reaching and grappling)

  March 8th - May 9th, 2025 WINDOWBOX GALLERY @ Gallery 1313 Hollis McConkey’s embroidered work displays her commitment to anti-extractive values. This exhibit is Hollis' embroidered mediation on dermatillomania.  The incompleteness of the work is a bold testament to her refusal to let work contribute to worsening her experience of illness and welcomed by a curation perspective that prioritizes artist knowledge in production. The art space has become, as a body of activity that exalts human experience, a milieu that can accept this kind of refusal as valuable. Transformative Access means radically accepting fallibility and ongoing negotiation of labour expectations.

A desire for inclusion, understanding, and action (however seemingly insignificant) – especially given the recent political shifts here in North America – sparks this Terminalia “event”. Candace Wilkins (Picton) and Pam Patterson (Toronto)   have recently been enacting a tradition-of-hope. We will repeat this for Terminalia 2025 with a heightened anticipation and awareness. Each will walk from the town parking lot, or a thrift shop, the Giant Tiger, the bookstore, the grocery store, through (in February) snowy streets to sit together on the large grey welcoming couch in front of the fire at the Royal Hotel in Picton, Ontario, Canada.  There is an expectation for both of us of hope…  hope for a moment where we will be joyfully together, supported in who we are as individuals and in our potentials as colleagues and friends. We hope that we will engage and be potentially fulfilled in our ideas, concerns and study. We anticipate good coffee and a conversation that will energi...

113Research, OCAD University, 113 McCaul Street, 5th floor. Curated by Megh Dorward   the works in  constant     :     uncertainty  are lyric constructions & continue my inquiry into the inequity of suffering while articulating the complexity of lives across the categories of human & the more-than-human \ they also indicate the connections of a particular relationship \ in acknowledging the difficult & at times the unbearable my relationship with S provides solace & supports the questions of how to contend with grief \ with loss \ indifference & cruelty  Closing event  @  Tangled Arts +  Disability. Thursday April 10, 6PM, 401 Richmond Street, Suite 124. *Bring your own companion animal!   The idea for this event itself draws from the principles of creative access and conversational image description. Because not everyone will have seen the 113Research exhibit at OCAD, nancy will describe...

December 1st 2024, 5:45 PM, meeting at Gallery 1313 (courtyard) and moving to Parkdale Library Auditorium space (space and washrooms are accessible). Masks mandatory inside. Home to Heal, Sunshine Torme Johnson, 2023. Inkjet print on paper In the portal-like space of Gallery 1313’s Window Box Gallery, Sunshine Tormé Johnson’s holistic perspective and wealth of experience takes on the forms of critique, reflective celebration, and images of beyond-medical healing. Creating with a Housing First perspective compounded by personal experience, Sunshine’s work welcomes the viewer into the intimacies of working towards thriving in a disabled body mind within the land-based and infrastructural complexities of Tkaronto. Sunshine Torme Johnson (he/him) is a dynamic facilitator, artist, and community member. As a Black, disabled, gender-diverse and queer individual, he celebrates the uniqueness of his identity by embracing the fluidity that defines him through his art. Sunshine creates transform...

  Sept. 15 2024 to Jan. 15 2025 113Research, 113 McCaul Street, 5th floor Monday-Friday 10-6PM Opening Reception September 30 4.30-6 PM  Pam Patterson &  Mel Rapp "Ocular Occurrences" as exhibition, displays, in the vitrines, digital colour prints (that use eye scans, photographs, and topographical maps) overlayed with Amsler grids, designed to engage the viewer with how Patterson sees and processes images. What, she asks, is the disconnect between medical models and subjective experience? What can a body do to…? The seeming ineffectiveness of this exercise in locating sight is expressed in the accompanying video, Sites of Perception . Optician, designer and writer Mel Rapp exercises his theory of the intersection of observation, memory, and language by responding, in the vitrine, in writing to Patterson’s ironic images. In the two facing photos in the annex lounge, one sees closeup Patterson’s eye framed by one of Rapp’s iconic glassware designs. Here futility is...