Augmented Reality education connects pixels to paper and allows participants to explore emerging media technology, wherever they live, learn and play!
Never Gallery Ready has partnered with the Google Arts and Culture Institute to showcase artworks made by participants since 2007
A podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.
The GIF is being adopted by artists as an art form distinct from those of animation, video, film and photography. And the smart-phone is priming the eye for this new relationship with images.
thumbnail GIF: Gerardo Juarez
Works of collage that use visual metaphor and puns; reflect lived-experiences; express individuality and share stories of personal growth and vision.
GIFs are a burgeoning art form and pop culture communication tool ubiquitous in contemporary life. They also provide unique opportunities for exploring visual and media literacy.
A few of my favorite notes from my archives of student feedback.
Media are reflections of culture. Like the gears inside a machine, culture drives the meaning of messages we see reflected in media. Culture jamming is to throw a wrench into those gears...
Participants produce and install works that disrupt and highlight our relationship with space and invite audiences to interact with familiar places in new ways.
As an Artist in the Library in the Fall of 2016, I had the pleasure of working with Cedarbrae Library’s Scarborough community members to explore the power of map-making as a communication tool.
These 5 docs offer a great overview of many key concepts of media literacy. Use them to spark debate or inspire a media project in the classroom!
Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock? is a delightful little documentary that exposes the pompous nature of the art world, how it prices art works and constructs value.
Peruvian collage artist Kike Congrains has created his own world of fables and fantasy called Canson City.
How a request for proposals from Theatre Direct helped set Never Gallery Ready in motion and inspired my career as a community-engaged artist.
Never Gallery Ready (NgR) delivers multidisciplinary arts workshops and projects that use collage concepts, culture jamming tactics, sound art, site-specific installation, independent and new media production to explore the politics of our interactions with images, objects, sounds and site. Learn more.
Never Gallery Ready wins the Mayor’s Award/ Toronto Arts Foundation’s Arts for Youth Prize