Laura

Laura

The Pasta Project (2023-ongoing) currently takes the shape of one-off workshops delivered through different non-profit organizations, and in the future, hopefully, also in gallery spaces and other alternative venues. The workshop’s title changes according to how the organization best sees fit to title the workshop for their audience. This is…

Knife Skills in the Gallery, 2023 performed at The Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS Materials: People, tables, tablecloths, knives, kitchen towels, cutting boards, vegetables, etc. Knife Skills in the Gallery is a workshop (June 8, 2023, 12-1PM) but it is also a work that comments on the use and feel…

Dear Carrie ( 2022) was the result of a creative mapping project which began with the intention of following the directive given to me in a class during my Master of Art in Art Education program at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. The class was with Dr….

For a limited time I was available for Zoom dialogues. This was offered as pre-booked 1-1 Zoom sessions of 30 minutes long. Project start: March 2, 2022 Project end: May 2, 2022 My Dialogue Piece was inspired by artist Lee Lozano’s Dialogue Piece (1969) and was very, very loosely based…

November 2022: Research Notes is on hiatus except for when I can activate it for specific reasons. Dear Reader: I’m currently not writing much on Research Notes as I am enrolled in a Master of Art in Art Education program at NSCAD University in Halifax, NS. When it was running,…

the first line of some essays in Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (2020) by Olivia Laing (because my own writing isn’t going well): In the spring of 1982, a rumour started swilling around New York. (about Jean-Michel Basquiat) Art must derive from inspiration, Agnes Martin said, and yet for…

Charlotte Posenenske, German, 1930-1985. Charlotte Posenenske, German, 1930-1985. Charlotte Posenenske, German, 1930-1985. Posenenske concluded that art was inadequate as a tool to effect social change. Her choice of materials, form, and presentation was directly related to her interest in the rights of factory workers and their autonomy. Once she decided…

agnes martin (1912-2004), a STRONG and DETERMINED woman*… abstract, minimalist painter, contemporary of Jackson Pollock opposed the cult of personality but at the same time facilitated the same nearly became an Olympic swimmer training to be a teacher up until her 40s encountered art through the teacher training programs starts…

Linger outside Renzullo’s long enough and you’ll hear people chirping…“Hi Franco!”, “Bye Franco!” multiple times. There’s something different going on here and it rubs off on people…in a good way, a really good way. Having a place you can hang out, where you can go just about anytime, leave anytime,…

Danish researcher Meik Wiking, and founder of the world’s first Happiness Research Institute in Denmark, states in The Art of Making Memories (Penguin, 2019) that “If we have encoded and stored information or [sic] an event, we have the opportunity to recall or retrieve it. A memory is only a…

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