Join Kendra Yee, jes sachse, Jessica Thalmann from @_thetimebeing as they discuss how artists can leverage their social media presence to make connections, cultivate an audience and generate opportunities for their work. Attendees will also learn about social media accessibility guidelines and art commission scams.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 | 12noon – 1:30pm ET
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Kendra Yee (b. 1995, Tkaronto/ Toronto) is an arts practitioner that seeks to materialize the truths and fictions of memory. Yee pulls tales from; personal stories, lived experience and collective narratives to develop site-specific installations that carve alternative archives. Yee has programmed and exhibited with: The Art Gallery of Ontario, MOCCA, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, The Art Gallery of Burlington, OCAD U, Art Metropole, Xpace Cultural Centre, Patel Brown Gallery, Gallery 44, The Letter Bet, Art Toronto, and The Artist Project. They are currently preparing for a solo-exhibition for spring 2022, taking place at Heavy Manners, Los Angeles.
jes sachse is a Toronto-based performer, artist and curator obsessed with disability culture & the age of the internet. Living across the blurred lines of autism, genetic disability, gender fluidity and madness, they are currently working on their first illustrated novel, Gutter, which will portray these dilemmas through a multi-modal narrative form, reflecting at once on both a crip navigation of contemporary culture, and the permeation of traumas in spaces of invisibilized violence.
The Time Being is an ongoing digital collaboration between lens-based artists in Canada. Formed in 2020, The Time Being was initiated by Eva Kolcze and Jessica Thalmann. The project began as a means to collaborate during the COVID-19 pandemic, with attention paid towards the sites, spaces, and environments visited and inhabited during time in isolation. However, the breadth and depth of the project has been extended by collaborating with eight other artists with the support of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the CBC. Each ruminate on the continued experience of instability; including, lockdowns and stay-at-home orders while ultimately, reflecting on the ways life has changed since the pandemic began. In 2021, 'The Time Being' was exhibited as a video installation & digital project at Angell Gallery, curated by Noah Gano. The current iteration of the project which encompasses newly commissioned photographs and videos from eight artists & a series of podcast interviews.
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The Cultural Community Expo brings together the people and places that make up Toronto’s art and cultural sector. Through a series of panels and info-sessions with professional guests, art studios, cultural organizations and production centres, the Cultural Community Expo highlights potential career paths and presentation venues for emerging artists. Participants come away with a better understanding of how to make a living and sustain their art practice once they leave school.
March 23 - 25 | Online
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