Never Gallery Ready wins the Mayor’s Award/ Toronto Arts Foundation’s Arts for Youth Prize
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Augmented Reality education connects pixels to paper and allows participants to explore emerging media technology, wherever they live, learn and play!
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Never Gallery Ready has partnered with the Google Arts and Culture Institute to showcase artworks made by participants since 2007
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A podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.
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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
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Works of collage that use visual metaphor and puns; reflect lived-experiences; express individuality and share stories of personal growth and vision.
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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.
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A few of my favorite notes from my archives of student feedback.
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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...
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Exploring how information is transmitted through sound(s), participants perform sound stories, pair sounds with words and/or images and create sound installations.
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Participants produce and install works that disrupt and highlight our relationship with space and invite audiences to interact with familiar places in new ways.
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Participants create zines, discuss the role of independent media and explore the joys of self-publishing.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Peruvian collage artist Kike Congrains has created his own world of fables and fantasy called Canson City.
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How a request for proposals from Theatre Direct helped set Never Gallery Ready in motion and inspired my career as a community-engaged artist.
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