Critique as Gift is a research project put into practice through a crit club in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is a collaboration with artist Katherine Diemert whom I met at NSCAD University while she was doing her MFA and I a Master in Art Education. Traditionally, to offer our work up for critique asks us […]
How do you invite new people into your life…in an ever complex world? (2025)
For my master’s thesis project in art education (2022-2025) I developed a study that explored the concept of hospitality and inviting. I did this by I inviting four participants into my home for three gatherings, each lasting five hours. The invitation to participate was extended to newcomers to Halifax, that is people who had recently […]
I collaborated with artist Katherine Diemert to develop a workshop titled Critique as Gift, which we first presented to our peers in education at the Canadian Society for Education through Art (CSEA) conference in Halifax in 2024. We also produced a publication to accompany the workshop, as seen in the photos. We plan to offer […]
Propositioning the Self with Experiments in Noticing (2024)
A workshop/project presented at Wonder’neath Art Society in Halifax, NS. In this workshop we gathered for a short experience on noticing. We did this by leaning mostly into the auditory sense. We listened to some environmental and other types of recordings, engaged in sonic meditations and in some slow and quiet activities. Participants were provided with […]
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 a hands-on workshop where I […]
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 of the gallery space and […]
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 led by Dr. Nicole Lee who studied […]
Research Notes was a monthly newsletter I started writing in April 2021 for about a year, with further occasional additions thereafter. I published my writing on the popular Substack platform. The newsletter served as a medium to share observations and research on loneliness and belonging from my position as an artist and second-generation Italian Canadian. […]
Fraser River Walks (October 2019 to March 2020, Vancouver) A project consisting of tiny Polaroids and a collection of found twigs and sticks that I routinely collected from daily walks along the Fraser River. These sticks were then brought into my home studio where I wrapped them in yarn. Behind the object and the collection […]
“How do we connect with place each time we move city or country?” Acts of Resilience was an instruction to myself to cultivate a feeling of control. It consisted of two sets of repetitive acts, act I: step outside into the woods, choose a stick/a fallen twig, saw off the ends to flatten them, bring […]
As a nomad during the formative years of my life, and later as an immigrant, a sense of cultural loss, and the search for a place to call home have been preoccupations that have persistently emerged in my work. In Noticing, I contemplated my interior landscape during a six-month period of a one-year experiment in […]
Trail of Hope juxtaposes my experience, my hope of finding a place to call home, of belonging, and the hope encountered through religious ‘advertisements.’ The work documents a cross-country road trip and move in 2019 from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, through the U.S., and ending in Vancouver, BC. This work captures the provinces and states […]
inter.action was a one-month project that utilized the gallery space to create a participatory, ephemeral yarn installation between the artist, Laura Bucci, and members of the public. This project occurred at Studio Lab Gallery in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in March 2019. This project was first staged in Vancouver, in the artist’s hometown, as a […]
I spent a fair amount of time in 2018 hand-stitching while contemplating questions about happiness–both when living in Vancouver, BC and Bucklaw, Nova Scotia. This endevour resulted in a number of textile panels that I decided to put out there in the world in a show titled Eudaimonia. About Eudaimonia Eudaimonia, an old Greek word, […]
Directions for the Mind was an event-exhibition presented under the guise of the Prohibitive Genus Collective. From September 5th to September 23rd, 2017 the gallery space was used for participatory, ephemeral yarn installations. Directions for the Mind was an exercise in creating art that provides an experience both through planned and chance encounters. A small […]
A study in community interactions is a self-published publication that captures the entirety, and the extension, of my intervention, performed for my initial project Cultivate a Spot. After producing the postcard series for Cultivate a Spot, many questions cropped up for me and much reflection ensued, which prompted me to continue the social experiment by […]
Cultivate a Spot consists of documented actions carried out in East Vancouver at the corner of Parker Street and Commercial Drive. After depositing food at an out-of-use telephone booth, I observed reactions of people walking by to the unexpected encounter. My intention was two-fold; to positively disrupt a passersby daily routine and to utilize the […]
Radio Lonely (an online broadcast–no longer available on the online platform) was a brief, experimental project where I interviewed/talked to shop keepers in the Commercial Drive area in Vancouver, Canada. I explored loneliness through the shopkeepers experience. Episode 1 – November 24 2015: I introduce the project (6:52) Episode 2 – November 26 2015: […]
True Connect was a free community service held on two occasions at two public venues; its purpose was to invite passers-by to write a note or letter to someone in their life and to have chats about social isolation/connection or whatever else people wanted to talk about. I had my typewriter, note paper and envelopes, […]
Health Information Bulletin: 2010HLS0035-000768 (2015)
I hijacked the government’s Information Bulletin to bring attention to loneliness as both an important health and social issue. I installed the first poster on the outside walls of a walk-in medical clinic. The poster might have been seen by health professionals going to work, patients going into the clinic, and people waiting for the […]
How can I, as an artist, intervene in the public sphere? How can I add my voice to an issue that matters to me? I have discovered that taking art to the streets or to social media platforms allows me to reach a broad audience and not one pre-selected, so to speak, by the art […]
My intention with #sthgotherthanaselfie was to tweak how I use Instagram to make it a more meaningful platform for sharing. This idea emerged in response to the overabundance of selfies and ‘beautiful life’ pictures on Instagram. I am also reacting to the proliferation of North American content—of course dependent on who you follow. Somehow on […]
In 2015, a very small selection of my art journal pages were published in the book A World of Artist Journal Pages curated by Dawn Devries Sokol. The book contains over 1000 art journal pages by 230 artists from 30 countries. This is an inspiring book that documents the power of art journaling by very […]
‘this is where i go’ was a mail art exhibition I curated and held at Britannia Art Gallery, in Vancouver, Canada, November 6-29, 2013. See all entries submitted at the Project Website: http://thisiswhereigomailart.wordpress.com The theme for this exhibition was this is where i go. A call for 4 by 6 inch original postcards was issued worldwide through […]
A craftivist project that offered a way of contributing my voice to an issue that effected me. The mere act of working on the project propelled me into further thought on the issue. My intention with this work was to get people to think about the minimum wage and how it effects them or people […]
