Image: The Robots, Georgia Whist, 2021.
Workman Arts is pleased to announce the 22nd annual Being Scene, an exhibition series celebrating over 40 artists exhibiting in three different venues across the city. This year’s Being Scene features a juried exhibition and a guest curated exhibition titled Un/Common Threads, opening on April 4, 2023!
Being Scene runs April 4 – May 12, 2023; Un/Common Threads at Tangled Art + Disability Vitrines & Workman Arts Offsite from April 4 – 27, the annual Juried show at Artscape Daniels Spectrum from April 20 – May 12.
Curated by multimedia artist and curator Kat Singer, Un/Common Threads presents a constellation of works by Mad and neurodivergent artists that troubles the dichotomy of mental health and mental wellness. These intimate textile artworks weave complex narratives of recovery, resilience, and restoration; illustrating how pain and joy, celebration and mourning, acceptance and change, are inextricably intertwined. Works in the exhibition are meant to be touched, providing audiences with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the tactility of the medium. In line with Kat’s previous curatorial projects, Un/Common Threads furthers a vision of a future where difference is no longer feared or pathologized, but welcomed and desired.
Un/Common Threads presents the work of artists Brandon Wullf, Khadija Aziz, Paulina Wiszowata, Kingi Carpenter (Peach Berserk), Catherine Heard, Apanaki Temitayo, Estée Klar and Adam Wolfond.
The Being Scene annual Juried Exhibition will present over 30 artists in the First Floor Hallway Gallery of the Artscape Daniels Spectrum Building and features artists that utilize innovative material approaches to give shape to compelling ideas and intimate narratives from diverse life experiences. This year’s esteemed jurors include Apanaki Temitayo (Workman Arts Members Advisory Council), Max Ferguson (Curator in Residence at Tangled Art + Disability), and Robert Colgate (Poet in Residence at Tangled Art + Disability).
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UN/COMMON THREADS
CURATED BY KAT SINGER
FEATURING A CONSTELLATION OF TEXTILE WORKS HIGHLIGHTING THE COMPLEXITY AND DIVERSITY OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Special thanks to the Toronto friends of the visual arts for supporting Being Scene.
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