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…
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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…
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…
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…
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….
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…