WIAprojects

Jan. 9, 2017 to April 28, 2017 IRIS at 20 Opening : Monday January 16, 5.30-7.30   Panel: 6.30-7.30 CWSE Hallway Gallery 252 Bloor Street West, 2nd Floor Toronto, ON Exhibition Dates: Jan. 9 2017 to April 28 2017 Open days & evenings: free & accessible Over many years of International Women’s Day (IWD) celebrations, the IRIS Group has mounted a series of Women In . . . projects and events that involved the collection of donated objects, images and writings invested with personal or symbolic meaning. These intimate donations represent a culture of gracious sharing among women. The items now form an IRIS archive, which is part of an extensive dialogue concerning women’s issues. Each IRIS member has chosen an item and partnered it  with new artwork, retaining, expanding or reinterpreting the original story that accompanied the donation.  IRIS at 20  was first exhibited at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, in celebration of the group’s 20th anniversar

Nazanin's stunning and evocative exhibition on critical and personal perspectives around breast cancer survivourship opens Sept 12! Nazanin Khani has recently graduated from OCAD University in Sculpture-Installation. In her art she gets inspiration from the world through language, communication, and different sorts of knowledge one may acquire throughout her life. Her works are expressive, inviting the viewer to immerse into a space of speculation. She relies on our desires for beauty, poetics, ecstasy and seduction. She bends, twists, scrapes, reforms, cuts, performs, records, and edits her materials to represent her dreams, memories, imagination, personal experiences, and social/cultural concerns from a critical point of view. 

 Feminist arts-informed community-based action research!  Candace Wilkins  is our arts informed research resident at WIAprojects this coming year April 2016-17. She has posted a gofundme campaign to raise funds for an arts informed community based  initiative focused in  Belleville, updates and information on her project are below. We look forward to her continuing work with us this coming year!   Candace's Project:  NEXTDOOR is an inclusive arts-based group in  downtown  Belleville,  Ontario  that promotes   c reativity,  poetry,  the p ractice  of  loving  kindness  meditation,  non-­judgment  and  compassion . The goal of NEXTDOOR is to support  mental health by creating a safe space where individuals can come together on a weekly basis.  This program is accessible with no cost to the participants. This  group  is  for  those  aged  18+ NEXTDOOR ART + GROUP + YOU Monday  Nights  6:00-­‐7:30pm For  more  information  and  to  register  please  e

May 02 – July 1st, 2016 Opening: May 02, 5.30 - 6.30pm Informal Discussion with Artist: 6pm CWSE Hallway Gallery 2nd Floor, OISE 252 Bloor Street West (Bloor & St George) Images by Joanna Black Winnipeg artist/researcher Joanna Black explores prejudice in academia in   Sex/ism: ECHoes & ‘ReVERBS’  @  Ivory Towers .  The abundance of articles and reports about longstanding persistent sexist problems in our universities informed the content of this work. For this exhibition in particular, attention has been given to the University of Toronto (U of T). Sexism at U of T was established in the university’s founding year, 1850. Its illustrious professor and president John McCaul firmly exclaimed at the time that the university doors would never be open to women in his day! (Canadian Encyclopedia, 2016). Even though the doors have been opened – and indeed during his day no less! – today’s glass ceiling remains intact: existent sexist attitudes are prevale

Come check out some amazing designers speak about the historical and contemporary graphic design from the Women's Movement in Toronto! About the panelists: Frieda Forman: Frieda Forman established the Women's Educational Resources Centre at OISE and has worked with the CWSE for nearly twenty-five years. Frieda's central research and writing interests have focused on the various manifestations of feminism and the women’s movement. Sarah Dugan: Sarah Dugan is a queer aspiring art director, practicing graphic designer, and intersectional activist. She completed her Bachelor of Design at Alberta College of Art + Design in 2012, and is nearing the completion of her Master of Design from York University. Sarah’s work explores the role of graphic design as an agent for social change. Suzanne Stein: Suzanne is a Foresight Analyst, Mentor, and Educator. She is the Lab Director of DMRII’s Super Ordinary and a member of OCAD U’s Digital Futures Office (established in 2009)

What’s our story that needs to be told, or be heard?  For centuries we, the people of African Descent and our ancestors, have been listening to and enduring the traumatic stereotypes, misrepresentations and misappropriations of our histories. This International Women’s Day Forum encourages our fellow women of African Descent to come together to share our stories and experiences through our traditional forms of expressions, styles and production in the fine arts, orally (literature and spoken word), dance and music.  The CWSE is co-sponsoring this event with WIAprojects' Associate  Director,  writer, artist and women's activist, Mary Wright.   For further information on this event, please see the poster below or contact the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE) at:  cwse@utoronto.ca  or telephone 416-978-2080 or 416-769-4397.