Collaboration + Co-creation

As a community arts organizer and facilitator, and former Interim Executive Director of a community arts organization, I’ve conceptualized and coordinated a number of programs, projects and events in collaboration with inter-disciplinary artists/makers and cross-sectoral partners. Through this work, I’ve also been able to build meaningful relationships with artists of all ages, abilities, and disciplines within and outside of Thunder Bay.

I’ve provided coordination and administrative support to non-arts organizations embarking on new arts initiatives, and I’ve consulted with and supported other organizations, artists, and facilitators seeking to bring a trauma-informed and anti-oppressive lens to their work.

I’ve also been fortunate to be involved in these projects in a variety of capacities:

  • elemental unravelling, multidisciplinary juried exhibition by Mindful Makers Collective, curator/exhibition catalogue designer (2021)

  • Circulations: Navigating the Digital in Northern Ontario Media Arts, Media Arts Network of Ontario (MANO), conversation facilitator (2021)

  • The Comfort Project, multi-arts project with diverse communities by multidisciplinary artist Eleanor Albanese, workshop co-facilitator/puppeteer (2020-21)

  • Near and Far, inter-arts project with Eleanor Albanese, Zoe Gordon, ElizaBeth Hill, Tamara Rose by Mindful Makers Collective, collaborator/facilitator (2020)

  • NWO Community Arts Exchange, Jumblies Theatre, program coordinator (2019-20)

  • The Story of Our Stories: A Regional Community-Engaged Arts-Based Research Project, Thinking Rock Community Arts, steering committee member and participating community artist (2019-20)

  • Art of Resistance, Northwestern Ontario Women’s Centre, project co-developer/artistic director, (2019)

  • Honouring Our Stories, Northwestern Ontario Women’s Centre, project co-developer/steering committee member (2016-18)

  • UNCONSTRAINED: Comic Art by Five Emerging Artists, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, curator (2016)

Looking for a consultant or collaborator with intersecting experience in social work and community-engaged arts? Let’s talk!