Deeply rooted in a socially engaged ethos, Hiba Abdallah’s work examines and responds to issues directly experienced in diverse communities. Her practice aims to re-imagine the cities and places that we encounter by using locality, civic narratives and political structures as tools for fostering collective agency. She has created work across media – from public interventions to community projects, gallery exhibitions, civic think-tanks, and publications.
Summer 2020
Will Kwan is a Hong Kong-born, Toronto-based artist and educator. In 2018, he completed a half-kilometre long public mural along Toronto’s lower Don River valley for Evergreen’s public art program.
Summer 2020
Nicole “Nico” Taylor is the Executive Director of Governance & Communications for the BSAM Canada Institute. Nicole is a writer, scholar, dancer, cosplayer and activist who uses feminism and critical race theory to dissect social constructions surrounding race and representation, especially as they pertain to how we make sense of the images that surround us.
Summer 2020
Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Nation ancestor artists. Throughout his artistic practice, Morin investigates the impact zones that occur when Indigenous practices collide with Western-settler colonialism.