As part of Workman Arts commitment towards engaging our community with professional and critical opportunities, this opportunity offers one of our members to investigate the progression of urgent curatorial themes in Toronto. Over the past ten years Toronto witnessed a proliferate curatorial practice addressing many topics, whether it is about migration, reconciliation, decolonialism or sustainability, these topics overlap and intersect in different ways. 

Cross-Pollination is a series of research based talks/panels focused on mapping the connections between different curatorial practices, with an aim to activate curatorial-archival material and build a sense of community that fosters our mental health as art workers/professionals. 

How the sociopolitical issues and demographics in Toronto contributed to this process of cross-pollination? How can we slow down, rewind and examine past exhibitions and projects that overlapped or intersected without notice? 

How curators and art workers/professionals cross-pollinate common topics as a way to support each other? 

In this inaugural edition of Cross-Pollination, Workman Arts’ member Casper Sutton-Fosman will lead the research and present a public talk/panel in conversation with WA visual arts manager Fatma Hendawy. 

This event is open to the public and doesn’t require registration. This is part of the Being Scene 2025 public program. 

Please contact info@workmanarts.com for accessibility requests/needs (Active Listening and ASL)

Please note that the program will take place in one of the gallery spaces (Room 8), making the artworks in that gallery space inaccessible for the duration of the program.