Public Engagement Curation Empowering Communities
When: Wednesday, November 29, 12:00PM EST
Where: Zoom Webinar
This session will explore alternative models for collaboration between education and curatorial departments within institutions through an examination of various programming and curatorial initiatives that focus on public engagement. This approach considers how art organizations can re-articulate traditional hierarchical relationships between artists, cultural workers and audiences through the support of projects that entail research, production and presentation that are co-created with community partners. More specifically, this panel will focus on the role of the curator as an actor who is principally concerned with developing and nurturing sustainable relationships between the art organizations and its range of audiences, including artists. | Meet the Speakers: |  | | Moderator
Cheryl Sim, Managing Director and Curator, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art Cheryl Sim's work as both a manager and curator is greatly informed by artist-run ethos and learning from the margins, which put an emphasis on a holistic approach and being of service. Recent exhibitions include STAN DOUGLAS: Revealing Narratives and RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting. She has a PhD in the études et pratiques des arts program at the Université de Québec à Montréal. Photo credit: Guillaume Simoneau |   | | Speaker
Daniel Fiset, Adjunct Curator of Engagement, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art Daniel Fiset is a curator, educator, writer and art worker currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal
Fiset holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Université de Montréal; his thesis examined the porosity of amateur and professional photographic practices in digital architectures. His current research looks at the intersection of pedagogical and curatorial practices in Québec. He has been serving as Adjunct Curator of Engagement at the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art for 4 years. Photo credit: Tanha Gomes
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Nasrin Himada, Associate Curator, Academic Outreach and Community Engagement, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University Nasrin Himada's practice is heavily influenced by their long term friendships and by their many on-going collaborations with artists, filmmakers and poets. Nasrin’s recent project, For Many Returns, experiments with writing as an act dictated by love, and typifies their current curatorial interests, which foreground embodiment as method, desire as transformation, and liberation through many forms. Nasrin currently holds the position of Associate Curator, Academic Outreach and Community Engagement, at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University in Kingston (ON), Canada. Photo Credit: Kriss Li |  | | Speaker Deja Aaliyah Belardo, Assistant Curator - Visual Arts and Civic Programs, The Shed
Deja Aliyah Belardo is an artist and curator born and raised on St. Croix in the U.S Virgin Islands, and is living and working in New York City.
Their work centers non-traditional pathways into the art world and art making, with care and consideration for marginalized groups of people. They are a curator at The Shed who works with the Civic Program to create space for community and public engagement through a multi disciplinary approach. Photo credit: Ben Epstein |
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