Meet & Greet with CARFAC Ontario

Meet & Greet with CARFAC Ontario

Date & Time: Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 1:00-3:00 PM ET

Location: CEAD, 115 McCaul St, 3rd Floor

Deadline: Friday, March 7, 2025 (11:59 PM)

RSVP:https://forms.office.com/r/3nJms8PFke 

Join OCAD University’s Indigenous Student Centre and the RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers for a meet and greet with CARFAC Ontario. CARFAC Ontario is the association of visual and media artists in Ontario. Come and learn about CARFAC Ontario from the artistic director, Flora Shum, and how CARFAC advocates for artist rights, provides one-on-one support, and creates resources to help guide, inspire, promote opportunity, and contribute to empowering artistic endeavours.

There will be a mini-presentation followed by a Q&A in which students are encouraged to bring and share their questions, experiences, challenges, and successes with their peers and the facilitator. We aim to have a relaxed space and open discussion to explore the ins and outs of developing an artist’s career, and share resources and opportunities with attendees.

Refreshments will be served. Free to attend 

BIOS

Canadian Artists' Representation/le front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) Ontario is the association of visual and media artists in Ontario. Our vision is for vibrant, equitable, and sustainable communities in which we as artists are properly recognized for the role we play. As a Provincial Arts Service Organization, CARFAC Ontario serves and responds to the needs of our members, and visual artists across the province.

CARFAC Ontario is a regional affiliate under the umbrella of CARFAC National. Additional services, programs and projects are carried out by the individual affiliate organizations. By joining your provincial affiliate organization, you receive automatic membership in CARFAC National.

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Flora Shum is a Hong Kong born-Tkaronto/Toronto based artist, educator, and cultural worker. She co-directs Paperhouse Studio (c.2013), where she carries forward the vision for paper as the medium, and leads arts-based programming for underserved communities. She is also a member of duo collective—AURA, Artistic Director of CARFAC Ontario—the association of visual and media artists in Ontario, and is a member of Toronto Arts Council’s Creative Communities Committee. Her artistic practice is experimental and collaborative by nature, with roots in papermaking, printmaking, and book arts, extending to found objects, sculpture, and installation. She has exhibited locally and internationally, including Toronto (ON), Whistler (BC), New York (NY), and Hong Kong.

She also has project management and facilitation experience of over 10 years, and has worked with many notable organizations such as Harbourfront Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto Public Library, Toronto Biennial of Art, Textile Museum, Central Technical School (Toronto, ON.),

Peter Pitseolak School (Kinngait, NU.), Attagoyuk Ilisavik (Pangnirtung, NU.), and Mozilla Foundation with YWCA Toronto and Youth Empowering Parents.

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